I was interested in your comment about separating structure from appearance in WP formats. I was involved in defining such an ISO standard called ODA (ISO 8613). This was about the time SGML was going through the same standards route. ODA was based on just this idea but it was very difficult to get people to accept that that's what's needed. Never mind it will come.
Why not meet the Mindcraft challenge with our own Linux Community Challenge. Why not devise a benchmark, set up 'well tuned' NT and Linux boxes and publish the results. I'd hope the Linux/OpenSource Community can devise and run an honest bechmark.
Doesn't this article say Jay Jacobs were quoted $700 per site for SCO/NT but $50 per site for Linux licences? Surely they only need 1 Redhat licence at $50 for all their 125 stores.
The Stephenson Essay is _way_ beyond interesting.
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I too can only say "an amazing read". Brilliant, captivating. Why didn't he supply his email address, I'd like to thank him.
I've tried Star Office under KDE 1.0 and it was, interesting. It's got some very bad points like how long it takes to load and terrible font rendering. Star's biggest problem is it won't run under KDE 1.1, it just hangs despite a bug fix suggested by the KDE guys (who say the problem is in Star's court).
So that's why many X apps hang! I've noticed this on Netscape and recently on Filerunner and others. In all cases if the comms takes some time, which it can over a modem link, the whole app will hang. It gives rise to the nasty behaviour that when you switch back from another screen the original app window is blank! Yuk!
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I saw one of these working in a TV store, it's stunning! £12K is a lot though for a TV screen.
I was interested in your comment about separating structure from appearance in WP formats. I was involved in defining such an ISO standard called ODA (ISO 8613). This was about the time SGML was going through the same standards route. ODA was based on just this idea but it was very difficult to get people to accept that that's what's needed. Never mind it will come.
Why not meet the Mindcraft challenge with our own Linux Community Challenge. Why not devise a benchmark, set up 'well tuned' NT and Linux boxes and publish the results. I'd hope the Linux/OpenSource Community can devise and run an honest bechmark.
Doesn't this article say Jay Jacobs were quoted $700 per site for SCO/NT but $50 per site for Linux licences? Surely they only need 1 Redhat licence at $50 for all their 125 stores.
I too can only say "an amazing read". Brilliant, captivating. Why didn't he supply his email address, I'd like to thank him.
I've tried Star Office under KDE 1.0 and it was, interesting. It's got some very bad points like how long it takes to load and terrible font rendering. Star's biggest problem is it won't run under KDE 1.1, it just hangs despite a bug fix suggested by the KDE guys (who say the problem is in Star's court).
So that's why many X apps hang! I've noticed this on Netscape and recently on Filerunner and others. In all cases if the comms takes some time, which it can over a modem link, the whole app will hang. It gives rise to the nasty behaviour that when you switch back from another screen the original app window is blank! Yuk!