Just FYI - Gentoo has supported Enigmail for a fair while now - since Mozilla-1.1 came out. The ebuild is masked, but all you have to do is unmask it, type 'emerge mozilla' and in a few hours you have Mozilla-1.1 compiled with Enigmail support. Sweeeeeeeeeet!
I think most companies can handle StarOffice / OpenOffice(.org) and Linux's desktops. The thing holding back our place of work is the lack of anything which comes close to M$ Access / VB. Kylix is slow, buggy, runs under wine and forces you to use Object Pascal (oh BABY!) or C++. Rekall looks interesting if basic. But honestly, most small to medium size businesses want to code in VB or something very similar. Where are our database front-ends?
Sony have been in the poo with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) a number of times now. They add 'regioning' to their Playstation 2 games, so you can't play games from different regions on the 1 playstation. They are a member of the DVD cartel who are forcing the same regioning on DVD consumers. They are trying to sue people for buying AND selling Playstation MOD chips. They are the most expensive brand, but lack the quality to justify the premium. Go with a more consumer-friendly company. They aren't hard to find...
I want to see what features of Palladium have been implemented, since AMD have declared their support for it. Will the first series of Opteron prevent me from downloading mp3s, or will that be an optional extra / firmware upgrade? Of course I expect users will be able to 'opt-out' of these new features for the next year or so, until the US government, in their infinite wisdom, decide that opt-out is no longer an option, and that there will only be one licensed implementation... the one that comes with a licensed copy of the M$'s latest and greatest.
Not really. They docs they gave were sparse and contradictory. They only gave docs under a strict NDA agreement with a chicken-and-egg test for who gets access to them which filters most people out. They are not allowing people to develop support for TV-out or Hyper-Z or a lot of other features. Hyper-Z I can understand, but TV-out? Come on... Don't tell me I have to go back to nVidia just for TV-out.
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We'll take advantage of Linux Losers' programming ability now (We could sure use all the help we can get there). And then we'll turn around and dictate the conditions under which these 'customers' can use their computers and provide a big-brother service to keep the ol' boys in the white house happy. It makes no difference to us that
Palladium will destroy Linux and Open Source software. There's more money in it for us if they have to upgrade every 18 months to an ever-more-inefficient Microsoft Piece of Shit.
Come on, people, really. Don't support AMD. They are not the noble David against the nasty Goliath. They are just as much a nasty Goliath themself, except for the fact that they don't have much market share... But they sure are acting like they do. If AMD and Intel keep pushing their 'Trusted Computing' wheelbarrow, I swear I will buy an underpowered Transmetta or even a fucking Macintosh just to avoid Palladium.
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$15? OK. I was under the impression that it was going to be something like $AUS100 (I'm Australian). And I just bought a 109cm rear projection TV, so the budget is tight, but if it's $US15 then I'll go it today.
I had been mucking with the main wine tree after reading in the Wine Weeky News that people were getting WarCraft III working under wine, but I have only been able to install and start the menu screen, which comes up MINIMIZED. Damn!
But now WineX supports my 2 favourite games: Black & White and Warcraft III I can uninstall Windows 2k!
I already have MS Word & Excel installed into a no-windows wine installation which works very well.
Man, wine is starting to get really freaking good! I just wish the Wine developers and Codeweavers could get along & share code more freely with Transgaming, but they have some differing ideas about licensing. Oh well. I'm gonna save up and get that WineX. BABY!
We (I) upgraded to MySQL-4.0.1 when it came out (after a little testing at home). I upgraded to MySQL-4.0.2 about 2 weeks ago. We have about 5 databases with 10 tables in each which have between 1,000 and 100,000 records per table. We have about 30 users connected to the MySQL server from an Access 2002 front-end. I have been moving stuff from SQL Server 7 as it bogs down. MySQL-4 seems to handle multiple connections better than SQL Server - update queries that used to timeout (and crash Access) when in SQL Server now run effortlessly.
By the way, our little MySQL beast is an AMD K6-2 500 with 256MB, and is also running an IMAP server for about 50 mailboxes. Oh - and don't forget VNC;)
The ONLY problems I have had have been with the MyISAM table handler with large tables & multiple users. I was getting locks and time-outs, so I upgraded them to InnoDB, and have had no other problems since.
I have also started using transactions (which InnoDB supports). Seems to work perfectly for me. Admittedly, I'm not doing anything major, but any... no problems for me.
Foreign Keys are also supported by InnoDB. Works well. MySQL-4.0.2 just made foreign key constraints survive an alter table command (4.0.1 used to dump the constraint).
What else can I say? I've been very happy with MySQL-4.0.x. Certainly no crashes or anything unexpected. And the --log-update startup option gives you a nice running backup anyway...
I would upgrade. I think the 'alpha' versioning is being too modest.
Unfortunately I have had the same experience. My NVidia cards (TNT and TNT2) used to crash ALL THE TIME under xfree86 (3.3.x and 4.x.x) so I finally thought "Enough of this shit" and bought myself a Radeon, and I haven't looked back since. The drivers are very fast (I used to play Quake 3 and Tribes 2 fine on my Athlon 500 (now I have Athlon 1600XP) and it's nice to watch the DRI drivers mature and get faster & more feature complete.
Why support AMD when they take advantage of open-source developers to get their product supported while at the same time embed Paladium / DRM garbage in their products which will be used by Microsoft to extinguish Linux? I will certainly only buy another AMD processor if I hear they are dropping this ridiculous 'feature'.
It's about time WorldCon (current spelling intended) crashed and burned. They're service is the worst I have dealt with. They openly support spammers, saying they are 'legitimate business users'. And they have no morals. Typical western-style corporation. Crash & Burn, baby!
We don't need apps. We have them already. What we need is for Wine to mature so those apps run. Apps like OpenOffice are the way of the future, but not ready for the mainstream market yet. We need a bridge that will allow people to move to Linux and use their current apps. It's completely infeasible to take the desktop market any other way. We can't hope to mirror all the windows apps with native Linux versions, and if we try, we are just waisting our resources. Get Wine working WELL. Buy Crossover Office. It currently works with Word & Excel 2000 almost perfectly. Wine is the only bridge that will work. As for Enlightenment and Rasterman's comments that the desktop is dead... I think that Rasterman is bitter because he was getting paid to work on E-17 and that made things very comfortable. But him (and the XFree86-DRI team, and many others) were laid off, and he had to find a real job. As soon as this happened, E-17 development ground to an almighty halt (and it was actually going somewhere before this) and he started working on EVAS-2 which was more for his new employer than for E-17. If Rasterman hadn't been paid for E-17 work initially, I think he would still be coding for it, but to him - after being laid off, the Linux desktop is dead. And so is E-17 development. I still use E-16 (cvs) and it does everything I need to, and does it better than Gnome and KDE currently do. They still get in the way too much. I don't see E-17 being finished this year, or next year...
What's up with Wine? Crossover Office is coming along very nicely. Why not throw a few million dollars at Codeweavers to bring Crossover Office up to Office XP compatibility? That's what I'd do anyway...
With AMD's announcement that they will be supporting the DRM push by building in DRM features into CPUs / motherboards, I wonder how long can the Linux community tolerate (and contribute to) their AMD Hammer architecture. Surely these hardware embedded cyber-cops will require closed-source, patented drivers and will dissolve the usefullness of the GPL and Linux. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/25905.html > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25891.html& gt; Isn't it time to do something about this now? Do we really trust AMD to do the right thing, or will they take advantage of Open Source developers right until the last nail is hammered into our coffin and then run all the way to the bank? HINT: AMD is an American for-profit corporation.
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The only problem I see with this argument is the legal aspect. All governments want more spying powers. This is especially true of the American government and their war on everything which is not in their economic interest. The organisations lobying for DRM have a lot of money, and the inclination to use it to get their way; the RIAA & MPAA, Disney, Microsoft - these are the people making laws. Do you think that the government sees any merit in allowing teenagers to download and rip music instead of paying for it like the western economy requires? And do you think that anyone in government understands the technical merits or failings of a hardware-enforced, legally required DRM? Or that they care? In their eyes, there is only one way forward. Computers are not for entertainment - they are for making a few people a lot of money. The internet is there to connect those computers for the same purpose. DRM is coming, and if people don't like it, they will have to move fast because with AMD and Intel promising support, there isn't much stopping DRM legislation - apart from some teenagers and some commie-hippy protestor types. So get ready to wear the mark of the beast...
I've been using Gentoo for 3 months now (and Slackware for 3 years before that). I am VERY satisfied with Gentoo. It is very predictable, very easy to configure, and incredibly fast (curtousy of the ease of recompiling pretty much everything). Of course I will be 'emerge rsync'ing now, but I'm REALLY waiting for Gentoo 2.0 where they will move to gcc-3.1 (or maybe 3.2) as the default compiler. I have tested Gentoo 1.1a with gcc-3.1 and 99% of stuff compiled, but it was the 1% that didn't that ended up screwing things up. But anyway Gentoo is a great distro which stays very up-to-date and is maturing quite nicely. Long live the compiler!
I would say the reason this trial (and any trial for that matter) is taking so long is because of lawyers. It's not as simple as people sitting around and having a high-level conversation on the merits of one point or another. Communication in the western legal system is very 1-way. Each party has a very specific period to say very specific things. The other party may offer limited response during this period. The legal system is crafted to make it extremely difficult to get your point across in a matter that 'pleases the court' unless you're a lawyer. Once this system is in place, it is up to the lawyers how long the case goes on for. Now how long do they want it to go on for? As long as friggin possible! In this case in particular, I also assume that there is some serious 'incentive' for the court to find in Micro$oft's favour. I wouldn't be surprised if the outcome had already been decided and everyone's just 'going through the motions' now. After all, the justice department did switch sides...
If Apple dies, there will be even more anti-trust shit for them to deal with. And M$ know that Apple isn't real competition, so why not help them stay afloat, to make it look like there is some competition. And maybe while everyone's applauding their decency, they can get some more DRM garbage through a back door to shut Linux out of their big fat market...
I was trying to get the onboard via8233 sound chip to work, and not getting anywhere. I emailed Epox tech support, and someone emailed back in about 4 hours with ALSA drivers attached and instructions on how to compile and configure. Crank ON! Admittedly, the sound chip appears to suck anyway (mp3s are fine, but sound in Tribes 2 is horrible - on my Athlon 1600XP). But you have to congratulate their tech support for jumping in with the ALSA drivers. I was expecting to be told to use the kernel drivers (which don't work) and seek support in newsgroups...
A UK dictionary is already done. Check the OO site for details. It's a pitty they don't include it in the main download, as most people (myself included until recently) don't realise it's out there...
We were using the StarOffice 6-beta release, but when I heard of the 31-3-02 timebomb in it, we moved to OpenOffice 641C. Of course now there is a patch to extend StarOffice, but we won't be needing it. The 641 build is quite stable and complete. Oh - except for that Australian dictionary. Maybe I should go make one... I'm looking forward to the proposed changes to the toolbars (look under the 'Todo' section on their site). Looks very nice. Maybe it will come with a performance improvement too. Hint, hint!!!
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Just FYI - Gentoo has supported Enigmail for a fair while now - since Mozilla-1.1 came out. The ebuild is masked, but all you have to do is unmask it, type 'emerge mozilla' and in a few hours you have Mozilla-1.1 compiled with Enigmail support.
Sweeeeeeeeeet!
I think most companies can handle StarOffice / OpenOffice(.org) and Linux's desktops. The thing holding back our place of work is the lack of anything which comes close to M$ Access / VB.
Kylix is slow, buggy, runs under wine and forces you to use Object Pascal (oh BABY!) or C++. Rekall looks interesting if basic. But honestly, most small to medium size businesses want to code in VB or something very similar.
Where are our database front-ends?
Sony have been in the poo with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) a number of times now.
They add 'regioning' to their Playstation 2 games, so you can't play games from different regions on the 1 playstation. They are a member of the DVD cartel who are forcing the same regioning on DVD consumers.
They are trying to sue people for buying AND selling Playstation MOD chips.
They are the most expensive brand, but lack the quality to justify the premium.
Go with a more consumer-friendly company. They aren't hard to find...
I want to see what features of Palladium have been implemented, since AMD have declared their support for it. ... the one that comes with a licensed copy of the M$'s latest and greatest.
Will the first series of Opteron prevent me from downloading mp3s, or will that be an optional extra / firmware upgrade?
Of course I expect users will be able to 'opt-out' of these new features for the next year or so, until the US government, in their infinite wisdom, decide that opt-out is no longer an option, and that there will only be one licensed implementation
Not really.
They docs they gave were sparse and contradictory. They only gave docs under a strict NDA agreement with a chicken-and-egg test for who gets access to them which filters most people out.
They are not allowing people to develop support for TV-out or Hyper-Z or a lot of other features. Hyper-Z I can understand, but TV-out? Come on... Don't tell me I have to go back to nVidia just for TV-out.
Go to http://www.overture.com and search for 'bulk email'. Then click on each of the links. Do this once every day. The amount this will cost each spammer is displayed on the search results page.
Here's what AMD is really thinking
Come on, people, really. Don't support AMD. They are not the noble David against the nasty Goliath. They are just as much a nasty Goliath themself, except for the fact that they don't have much market share... But they sure are acting like they do. If AMD and Intel keep pushing their 'Trusted Computing' wheelbarrow, I swear I will buy an underpowered Transmetta or even a fucking Macintosh just to avoid Palladium.
Go to http://www.overture.com.
Search for 'bulk email'.
Click on every link which comes up.
The amount each click costs the spammers is displayed in US dollars on the search results page.
Do this every day. I recommend NOT accepting any cookies from Overture or any of their customers, as sooner or later they will figure out what we are doing and this approach will be thwarted.
$15? OK. I was under the impression that it was going to be something like $AUS100 (I'm Australian).
And I just bought a 109cm rear projection TV, so the budget is tight, but if it's $US15 then I'll go it today.
Office 2000.
Word & Excel are perfect.
Access wants IE, which I haven't been able to install yet...
I had been mucking with the main wine tree after reading in the Wine Weeky News that people were getting WarCraft III working under wine, but I have only been able to install and start the menu screen, which comes up MINIMIZED. Damn!
But now WineX supports my 2 favourite games: Black & White and Warcraft III I can uninstall Windows 2k!
I already have MS Word & Excel installed into a no-windows wine installation which works very well.
Man, wine is starting to get really freaking good! I just wish the Wine developers and Codeweavers could get along & share code more freely with Transgaming, but they have some differing ideas about licensing. Oh well. I'm gonna save up and get that WineX. BABY!
We (I) upgraded to MySQL-4.0.1 when it came out (after a little testing at home).
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... no problems for me.
I upgraded to MySQL-4.0.2 about 2 weeks ago.
We have about 5 databases with 10 tables in each which have between 1,000 and 100,000 records per table. We have about 30 users connected to the MySQL server from an Access 2002 front-end. I have been moving stuff from SQL Server 7 as it bogs down. MySQL-4 seems to handle multiple connections better than SQL Server - update queries that used to timeout (and crash Access) when in SQL Server now run effortlessly.
By the way, our little MySQL beast is an AMD K6-2 500 with 256MB, and is also running an IMAP server for about 50 mailboxes. Oh - and don't forget VNC
The ONLY problems I have had have been with the MyISAM table handler with large tables & multiple users. I was getting locks and time-outs, so I upgraded them to InnoDB, and have had no other problems since.
I have also started using transactions (which InnoDB supports). Seems to work perfectly for me. Admittedly, I'm not doing anything major, but any
Foreign Keys are also supported by InnoDB. Works well. MySQL-4.0.2 just made foreign key constraints survive an alter table command (4.0.1 used to dump the constraint).
What else can I say? I've been very happy with MySQL-4.0.x. Certainly no crashes or anything unexpected. And the --log-update startup option gives you a nice running backup anyway...
I would upgrade. I think the 'alpha' versioning is being too modest.
Unfortunately I have had the same experience.
My NVidia cards (TNT and TNT2) used to crash ALL THE TIME under xfree86 (3.3.x and 4.x.x) so I finally thought "Enough of this shit" and bought myself a Radeon, and I haven't looked back since. The drivers are very fast (I used to play Quake 3 and Tribes 2 fine on my Athlon 500 (now I have Athlon 1600XP) and it's nice to watch the DRI drivers mature and get faster & more feature complete.
Why support AMD when they take advantage of open-source developers to get their product supported while at the same time embed Paladium / DRM garbage in their products which will be used by Microsoft to extinguish Linux?
I will certainly only buy another AMD processor if I hear they are dropping this ridiculous 'feature'.
It's about time WorldCon (current spelling intended) crashed and burned.
They're service is the worst I have dealt with.
They openly support spammers, saying they are 'legitimate business users'.
And they have no morals. Typical western-style corporation.
Crash & Burn, baby!
We don't need apps. We have them already. What we need is for Wine to mature so those apps run. Apps like OpenOffice are the way of the future, but not ready for the mainstream market yet. We need a bridge that will allow people to move to Linux and use their current apps. It's completely infeasible to take the desktop market any other way. We can't hope to mirror all the windows apps with native Linux versions, and if we try, we are just waisting our resources.
Get Wine working WELL. Buy Crossover Office. It currently works with Word & Excel 2000 almost perfectly. Wine is the only bridge that will work.
As for Enlightenment and Rasterman's comments that the desktop is dead...
I think that Rasterman is bitter because he was getting paid to work on E-17 and that made things very comfortable. But him (and the XFree86-DRI team, and many others) were laid off, and he had to find a real job. As soon as this happened, E-17 development ground to an almighty halt (and it was actually going somewhere before this) and he started working on EVAS-2 which was more for his new employer than for E-17. If Rasterman hadn't been paid for E-17 work initially, I think he would still be coding for it, but to him - after being laid off, the Linux desktop is dead. And so is E-17 development.
I still use E-16 (cvs) and it does everything I need to, and does it better than Gnome and KDE currently do. They still get in the way too much. I don't see E-17 being finished this year, or next year...
What's up with Wine?
Crossover Office is coming along very nicely.
Why not throw a few million dollars at Codeweavers to bring Crossover Office up to Office XP compatibility? That's what I'd do anyway...
With AMD's announcement that they will be supporting the DRM push by building in DRM features into CPUs / motherboards, I wonder how long can the Linux community tolerate (and contribute to) their AMD Hammer architecture.l > & gt;
Surely these hardware embedded cyber-cops will require closed-source, patented drivers and will dissolve the usefullness of the GPL and Linux.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/25905.htm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25891.html
Isn't it time to do something about this now?
Do we really trust AMD to do the right thing, or will they take advantage of Open Source developers right until the last nail is hammered into our coffin and then run all the way to the bank?
HINT: AMD is an American for-profit corporation.
The only problem I see with this argument is the legal aspect. All governments want more spying powers. This is especially true of the American government and their war on everything which is not in their economic interest. The organisations lobying for DRM have a lot of money, and the inclination to use it to get their way; the RIAA & MPAA, Disney, Microsoft - these are the people making laws. Do you think that the government sees any merit in allowing teenagers to download and rip music instead of paying for it like the western economy requires? And do you think that anyone in government understands the technical merits or failings of a hardware-enforced, legally required DRM? Or that they care? In their eyes, there is only one way forward. Computers are not for entertainment - they are for making a few people a lot of money. The internet is there to connect those computers for the same purpose.
DRM is coming, and if people don't like it, they will have to move fast because with AMD and Intel promising support, there isn't much stopping DRM legislation - apart from some teenagers and some commie-hippy protestor types.
So get ready to wear the mark of the beast...
I've been using Gentoo for 3 months now (and Slackware for 3 years before that). I am VERY satisfied with Gentoo. It is very predictable, very easy to configure, and incredibly fast (curtousy of the ease of recompiling pretty much everything). Of course I will be 'emerge rsync'ing now, but I'm REALLY waiting for Gentoo 2.0 where they will move to gcc-3.1 (or maybe 3.2) as the default compiler. I have tested Gentoo 1.1a with gcc-3.1 and 99% of stuff compiled, but it was the 1% that didn't that ended up screwing things up. But anyway Gentoo is a great distro which stays very up-to-date and is maturing quite nicely.
Long live the compiler!
I would say the reason this trial (and any trial for that matter) is taking so long is because of lawyers.
It's not as simple as people sitting around and having a high-level conversation on the merits of one point or another.
Communication in the western legal system is very 1-way. Each party has a very specific period to say very specific things. The other party may offer limited response during this period. The legal system is crafted to make it extremely difficult to get your point across in a matter that 'pleases the court' unless you're a lawyer.
Once this system is in place, it is up to the lawyers how long the case goes on for. Now how long do they want it to go on for? As long as friggin possible!
In this case in particular, I also assume that there is some serious 'incentive' for the court to find in Micro$oft's favour. I wouldn't be surprised if the outcome had already been decided and everyone's just 'going through the motions' now. After all, the justice department did switch sides...
If Apple dies, there will be even more anti-trust shit for them to deal with. And M$ know that Apple isn't real competition, so why not help them stay afloat, to make it look like there is some competition. And maybe while everyone's applauding their decency, they can get some more DRM garbage through a back door to shut Linux out of their big fat market...
I was trying to get the onboard via8233 sound chip to work, and not getting anywhere.
I emailed Epox tech support, and someone emailed back in about 4 hours with ALSA drivers attached and instructions on how to compile and configure. Crank ON!
Admittedly, the sound chip appears to suck anyway (mp3s are fine, but sound in Tribes 2 is horrible - on my Athlon 1600XP). But you have to congratulate their tech support for jumping in with the ALSA drivers. I was expecting to be told to use the kernel drivers (which don't work) and seek support in newsgroups...
A UK dictionary is already done. Check the OO site for details. It's a pitty they don't include it in the main download, as most people (myself included until recently) don't realise it's out there...
We were using the StarOffice 6-beta release, but when I heard of the 31-3-02 timebomb in it, we moved to OpenOffice 641C. Of course now there is a patch to extend StarOffice, but we won't be needing it.
The 641 build is quite stable and complete. Oh - except for that Australian dictionary. Maybe I should go make one...
I'm looking forward to the proposed changes to the toolbars (look under the 'Todo' section on their site). Looks very nice. Maybe it will come with a performance improvement too. Hint, hint!!!