Given that I am not a G**** developer, I guess it couldn't be my foot. Unless one of them is a freak who has been using hidden cameras to spy on me. Maybe that bill isn't so bad after all.
Huh I don't understand how someone can be offended by an icon not looking "nice" to him. Nor do I understand how one letter can be more offensive than any other.
That being said, seeing a foot on my desktop makes me think that something stinks.
Perhaps this guy shouldn't be bashing the main platform that his company's software runs on anyways. Better yet, maybe he should do something about it instead of complaining.
Still binary compatible.... and....
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still a monolith!
While X has some nice features which are still not found anywhere else, maybe it's time for a change.
It seems to me that if viruses are illegal to post then her company gains quite the strategic advantage. Open source virus scanners, for instance, would be very difficult to write since the authors would not be able to get copies of the viruses legally. However her company would be "professional" and of course every major company who gets a virus sends the goods to Symantec for analysis. Hmmm.
"Sarah Gordon is senior research fellow at Symantec Security Response, and technical director of the European Institute for Computer Antivirus research."
A quote from her personal web page: " Are you (or were you?) a hacker?
The simple answer is "no". Hacking is illegal "
MS Windows should be illegal before a virus is. Distributing a virus with malicious intent should definitely be illegal. Posting the code on a website should not.
In the US, owning a gun is legal. Putting it on your shelf at home is legal. Showing it to your friends is legal. Putting it in a museum is legal. Transporting it is legal. Shooting someone is not.
Here's a great example of the benefit of kword. Launch kword and then run "dcop". You will see kword-xxxxx processes listed. You can then see all the documents in each of those processes.
There are many functions available for communicating with a kword document that is open. Something missing? File a wishlist or contact the mailing list. I'm sure it's easy to add.
Graphically, you can do this with the "kdcop" tool too.
KOffice is a set of components, not a monolith. KDE uses a component based development model. Thus each of these "applications", kword, kspread, kpresenter, etc, are kparts. You can work on one and never even see the source for the rest. They are just released together as a bundle by the KDE project.
I don't think you understand the magnitude of this project. It is huge, and very complicated. It takes a very long time just to reverse engineer other file formats and build filters.
There is no way that 4-6 people working in their spare time can complete a project like this. Read the source code and you'll begin to get a real feel for the magnitude of things.
KDE1 was not even close to binary compatible with KDE2. Anyways, KDE3 broken binary compatibility because Qt broke it with Qt3 so it was a good opportunity. The transition shouldn't take too long before you have all KDE 3.0 applications though. Don't worry, it won't be that painful.
Part of the job of the beta is to get people porting their apps to KDE3 too.
Just make sure you keep KDE2 libraries around and your old KDE2 apps will still work. They just won't directly interoperate with KDE3 apps. For instance, you can't embed old modules/plugins into new applications.
The suse packages have a few minor installation conflicts. Make sure you have the prereqs installed and just --force and it will work. They use a separate.kde dir (.kde3-testing) so that you don't lose your old kde2 environment. However they don't migrate up your old settings. You can do this by copying the.kde2/share/config and.kde2/share/apps directories into.kde3-testing/share before your launch kde after you update. kconf_update will migrate your settings forward.
I was unable to get the lisa package or kdevelop to install due to dependency problems, and I didn't try. Make sure you install the mesaglut-devel package. It's needed.
The packages install into/opt/kde3 and you have to log in with the kde3 session entry in kdm if you use that.
Known bugs so far:
- Browser identification doesn't always work correctly.
- Greek keyboard setting is giving me Russian characters instead for some reason. (this may or may not be a bug)
Very true. However KDE really needs developers, quite badly in the case of KOffice. It is quite a small core of developers who do most of the work on KDE. Incredible...
I tried contacting CIRA and I got no response. However my brother knows someone at CIRA so if I continue to have problems, then I will contact him. You see, the "CEO" of their company, Rob Hall, owns something like 4 Canadian registrars and has much influence here. I think it's probably hard to fight him through.ca infrastructure.
I tried emailing him directly but he ignored my email I think.
That's not a monopoly. That means they are the supplier of the services. everyone can profit off them, and quite honestly, as I said, they are much more honest and reliable than half the other registrars out there, so I wouldn't really care if they were a monopoly (or at least part of an oligopolism of some sort).
They record your CC# when your purchase a domain. Then if you show interest in purchasing another (in my case, the exact same domain!!), they automatically bill your CC# without asking you first. Then they don't give a refund, even though in my case they provided me with no product. I fought with them, the BBB, and then Visa and Visa reverted the charge. Now they're threatening to send collection agency goons after me for 4x the original charge. Hmmmm...
Game companies are constantly hurt by piracy. Very few people will pay for games if they don't have to. That's why game companies prefer the consoles. Much easier to control piracy.
It's too bad too. Games are worth paying for in many cases, and with companies that let you try-before-you-buy, I don't see a reason not to buy if the game is good.
I am dealing with these jerks right now. They store your credit card without telling you and insta-charge it if you show interest in any domain. They also charge you for a domain even if the registration fails.
Sometimes the cheap choice isn't the best. Actually I must admit that I've never had any big problem with NSI other than the fact that they promised me a t-shirt if I renewed for 2 or more years and never sent it. (and didn't respond to my email asking why they didn't send it)
How else do you fix your Windows box when it crashes? You load up Linux, go to the MS website and download a plethora of patches to get it running again.
IBM has a policy of encouraging it's employees to earn as many patents as possible. It's a source of promotion at IBM, in fact. It gives the company something to put on the quarterly report. That's not to say that they're useful patents though, and I can't recall IBM ever trying to enforce any of their "weak" patents in the past 10 years. I don't think they'll start now. And I really don't think they'll come after Linux programmers for this given the direction of the company right now.
This is most likely due to a graphics driver problem in X. This was known to be a big problem with a specific NVidia card on SuSE previously.
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Thanks to the modular design of KDE, adding new features doesn't bloat it in any way unless you actually use those features. If you use those features, then of course you have to allocate resources too them.
KDE doesn't start up features unless you actually want to use them, and this is definitely a good thing.
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Given that I am not a G**** developer, I guess it couldn't be my foot. Unless one of them is a freak who has been using hidden cameras to spy on me. Maybe that bill isn't so bad after all.
Damned freaky computer programmers!!
Well we think he's ugly!
Huh I don't understand how someone can be offended by an icon not looking "nice" to him. Nor do I understand how one letter can be more offensive than any other.
That being said, seeing a foot on my desktop makes me think that something stinks.
Perhaps this guy shouldn't be bashing the main platform that his company's software runs on anyways. Better yet, maybe he should do something about it instead of complaining.
still a monolith!
While X has some nice features which are still not found anywhere else, maybe it's time for a change.
It seems to me that if viruses are illegal to post then her company gains quite the strategic advantage. Open source virus scanners, for instance, would be very difficult to write since the authors would not be able to get copies of the viruses legally. However her company would be "professional" and of course every major company who gets a virus sends the goods to Symantec for analysis. Hmmm.
"Sarah Gordon is senior research fellow at Symantec Security Response, and technical director of the European Institute for Computer Antivirus research."
A quote from her personal web page:
"
Are you (or were you?) a hacker?
The simple answer is "no". Hacking is illegal
"
MS Windows should be illegal before a virus is. Distributing a virus with malicious intent should definitely be illegal. Posting the code on a website should not.
In the US, owning a gun is legal. Putting it on your shelf at home is legal. Showing it to your friends is legal. Putting it in a museum is legal. Transporting it is legal. Shooting someone is not.
Here's a great example of the benefit of kword. Launch kword and then run "dcop". You will see kword-xxxxx processes listed. You can then see all the documents in each of those processes.
There are many functions available for communicating with a kword document that is open. Something missing? File a wishlist or contact the mailing list. I'm sure it's easy to add.
Graphically, you can do this with the "kdcop" tool too.
KOffice is a set of components, not a monolith. KDE uses a component based development model. Thus each of these "applications", kword, kspread, kpresenter, etc, are kparts. You can work on one and never even see the source for the rest. They are just released together as a bundle by the KDE project.
I don't think you understand the magnitude of this project. It is huge, and very complicated. It takes a very long time just to reverse engineer other file formats and build filters.
There is no way that 4-6 people working in their spare time can complete a project like this. Read the source code and you'll begin to get a real feel for the magnitude of things.
Yes all that functionality is available and working in KDE3, including in the just-release beta2.
KDE1 was not even close to binary compatible with KDE2. Anyways, KDE3 broken binary compatibility because Qt broke it with Qt3 so it was a good opportunity. The transition shouldn't take too long before you have all KDE 3.0 applications though. Don't worry, it won't be that painful.
Part of the job of the beta is to get people porting their apps to KDE3 too.
Just make sure you keep KDE2 libraries around and your old KDE2 apps will still work. They just won't directly interoperate with KDE3 apps. For instance, you can't embed old modules/plugins into new applications.
The suse packages have a few minor installation conflicts. Make sure you have the prereqs installed and just --force and it will work. They use a separate .kde dir (.kde3-testing) so that you don't lose your old kde2 environment. However they don't migrate up your old settings. You can do this by copying the .kde2/share/config and .kde2/share/apps directories into .kde3-testing/share before your launch kde after you update. kconf_update will migrate your settings forward.
/opt/kde3 and you have to log in with the kde3 session entry in kdm if you use that.
I was unable to get the lisa package or kdevelop to install due to dependency problems, and I didn't try. Make sure you install the mesaglut-devel package. It's needed.
The packages install into
Known bugs so far:
- Browser identification doesn't always work correctly.
- Greek keyboard setting is giving me Russian characters instead for some reason. (this may or may not be a bug)
Very true. However KDE really needs developers, quite badly in the case of KOffice. It is quite a small core of developers who do most of the work on KDE. Incredible...
I tried contacting CIRA and I got no response. However my brother knows someone at CIRA so if I continue to have problems, then I will contact him. You see, the "CEO" of their company, Rob Hall, owns something like 4 Canadian registrars and has much influence here. I think it's probably hard to fight him through .ca infrastructure.
I tried emailing him directly but he ignored my email I think.
That's not a monopoly. That means they are the supplier of the services. everyone can profit off them, and quite honestly, as I said, they are much more honest and reliable than half the other registrars out there, so I wouldn't really care if they were a monopoly (or at least part of an oligopolism of some sort).
They record your CC# when your purchase a domain. Then if you show interest in purchasing another (in my case, the exact same domain!!), they automatically bill your CC# without asking you first. Then they don't give a refund, even though in my case they provided me with no product. I fought with them, the BBB, and then Visa and Visa reverted the charge. Now they're threatening to send collection agency goons after me for 4x the original charge. Hmmmm...
A) they are so not a monopoly... not by any stretch of the imagination.
B) They haven't screwed me over yet, unlike certain other registrars with the tokens "domains" "at" "cost" and "ca" in their domain address.
Game companies are constantly hurt by piracy. Very few people will pay for games if they don't have to. That's why game companies prefer the consoles. Much easier to control piracy.
It's too bad too. Games are worth paying for in many cases, and with companies that let you try-before-you-buy, I don't see a reason not to buy if the game is good.
Yeah the taxes aren't too high when you're a student at Trent, but they sure get high once you start making $100K/year ($62K USD).
LeVar was on Reading Rainbow, after all....
Yeah I had a password problem with my domains from internic.ca when they bought them/merged with them too.
I am dealing with these jerks right now. They store your credit card without telling you and insta-charge it if you show interest in any domain. They also charge you for a domain even if the registration fails.
Sometimes the cheap choice isn't the best. Actually I must admit that I've never had any big problem with NSI other than the fact that they promised me a t-shirt if I renewed for 2 or more years and never sent it. (and didn't respond to my email asking why they didn't send it)
How else do you fix your Windows box when it crashes? You load up Linux, go to the MS website and download a plethora of patches to get it running again.
IBM has a policy of encouraging it's employees to earn as many patents as possible. It's a source of promotion at IBM, in fact. It gives the company something to put on the quarterly report. That's not to say that they're useful patents though, and I can't recall IBM ever trying to enforce any of their "weak" patents in the past 10 years. I don't think they'll start now. And I really don't think they'll come after Linux programmers for this given the direction of the company right now.
This is most likely due to a graphics driver problem in X. This was known to be a big problem with a specific NVidia card on SuSE previously.
Thanks to the modular design of KDE, adding new features doesn't bloat it in any way unless you actually use those features. If you use those features, then of course you have to allocate resources too them.
KDE doesn't start up features unless you actually want to use them, and this is definitely a good thing.