It's not as if he was out to evaluate all the options and found out "Heh, wow! GNOME is the best." It's really a promotion piece for GNOME. It's a "free software is petter than propriatary" article. KDE dosn't fit into the author's idea of free.
Yes, I did read before posting, but it appears that I only got the first three paragraphs in my browser when I first visited. Thanks to all the replies, I realized that there was more to see than what I had gotten at first. I appreciate the people who posted the URL to the referenced paper. Based on my perception of biases on the part of the authors, I will continue to be agnostic on the issue of Qwerty vs. Dvorak.
A:Politics. The first clue was on the first page where the author talks about his Red Hat 5.2 GNU/Linux system. He actually does mention KDE on the next to last page and says he avoided it because of the original licensing scheme.
Thank you for the reference. An examination of some of the other articles at the site indicate that this group believes that the current MS dominance in the business application market is due to superior products. It seems as if they have an agenda which colors my evaluation of their analysis of keyboard standards.
Too bad the article just asserts that it has been disproven rather then referring to some source. I would have to accept this on the authority of The Economist which is not a usual source for technical information. If anyone has any other links, I'd be interested.
Search/. for GUID to find some links. Briefly, it stands for Globally Unique Identifier. It was recently disclosed that MS Office creates a number incorporating the Ethernet MAC address on the machine and saves the resulting GUID in the registry and in any documents created by that copy. The real problem was that the registration process sends the GUID to Micros~1 who has been saving the data.
To protest against American Capitalists who promote euro-centric standards of beauty to the detriment of indiginous women worldwide. Oh, yeah, and to get free p0rn.
It's not even an issue of what they are counting and whether they are skewed. The big news here is that someone with credibility in PHB circles recognizes this trend. This is good news and bad news.
The good news is that hardware manufacturers and software houses who are trying to estimate the future market for their products will now have to take Linux into consideration. Someday some hardware manufacturers are going to announce Linux drivers for their equpitment just because it will be a significant market segment. MS now gets a free ride because manufacturers write drivers for their OS. How will this community react when and if drivers are made available by manufacturers? How will this community react if they're binary-only?
The bad news is that it now sets an expectation for future growth and a high one at that. Most of you remember the lambasting that NT got in the IT press when the actual sales came in well below analysts forcasts. Linux could grow at 20% per year, but be portrayed as a "failure" because it didn't grow at 25%. All the coders working on the kernel, the user interfaces and the application programs have their work cut out for them.
You can only voluntarily give up something you KNOW you have... the unknown data attached to it without your consent by a 3rd party should not fall under these same rules.
I'd like to say that you are correct, but (for ill or good) legal rulings hold otherwise. The FBI has taken saliva samples from a coffee cup that they gave to someone who was being interrogated and had those samples admitted as evidence. Surely the perp didn't know that they could do that. It follows the same legal theory that having voluntarially given up something places it out of the realm of illegal search and seizure. Unfortunate but true.
I'm not sure if use of such GUID's would hold up in court since it is private information gathered by an illegal search. The user did not give permission for his unique ID to be attached to his.doc file. The app (Word) had no just cause to attach this ID either so it's similar to having the feds tap your phone without a warrant.
That's not a good analogy. It's not an illegal search if someone looks in a document that you created and distributed for a GUID. Just as it's not a problem for the Gov't to take fingerprints off a letter that you sent or DNA samples from the saliva you used to lick a stamp or an emvelope shut. Once you voluntarially give something up, it's fair game for the man.
Perhaps a real issue in a court would be how easy is it to forge a GUID so that it looks like the document came from someone else.
I didn't say that I had no GNU content. X/startx is not GNU software despite the claims here. I don't have either gnome or Afterstep installed. I do have GCC and the GIMP installed which you didn't mention. With the exception of GCC and the GIMP, I don't use the packages that GNU has put the most work into.
o Put it in the man page. I have yet to find a gnu utility that was self-explanatory on the command line.:)
Unfortunately, GNU dislikes man for some reason. Many of their man pages refer the user to info documentation which is supposedly more up to date or complete. I don't know because I have never installed info.
On the Linux vs. GNU/Linux issue, I don't use bash, I use pdksh. I don't use EMACS, I use VIM. I use lprNG instead of whatever lpr Linux distributions include. In short, there ain't a whole lot of GNU utilities in my Linux box.
However: I really think the default should be -1 instead of 0, i.e., show everything unless a user opts to have it filtered. This is especially important since (I assume) people who don't log in are not able to set preferences, meaning there's no way for them to get around the filterin
I disagree. J. Random Surfer who wanders in does not want to be exposed to a lot of the lame stuff that gets a -1. It makes this place look like a bathroom wall. If he decides to stay around for even a short time, he'll find the switch to see all of the posts.
Furthermore, even if you don't log in, you can set the comments to display more or less thanks to the neat new controls after the story. But why don't you just log in and set the cookies? You can always log out if you want to post anonymously.
With the new code, Rob has given everyone a great deal of new control over what they see on/. Use it.
Libraries are the *only* reason to get a new distro. Installing new libs is just a friggin pain in the ass. I haven't bought a dist since RH 4.2. I'm satisfied with glibc5 and kernel 2.0.36 and the few extra packages that I compiled from sources for now. Soon I will buy a new dist with 2.2.x and glibc6 -- I haven't decided which one, but it probably won't be this distribution. I just don't have the time to recompile every package on my machine. Dists are worth a few bucks to me every few years.
The incompatibilities in the early 80s were hardware incompatabilities, not software incompatabilities. Top applications vendors wrote specifically for the IBM HW platform bypassing the slow DOS/BIOS services for display. That was the death knell of DOS machines like the DEC Rainbow which had MS-DOS but not the register level compatability that the later IBM clone market had.
We're in a similar situation with sound cards now. "SB Compatable" cards have a software interface that makes them look like SBs to applications programs using Win APIs. We need kernel drivers that speak to the hardware, not Windows-specific software compatability layers.
What does this have to do with Red Hat? They currently give back to the community as much as they take out. I've used Slackware and Red Hat. My next distro will probably be a different one. There will always be a more open market for Linux just because we don't have little proprietary bits that tie anyone into just one ditribution.
Coming out with an Office for Linux would give more legitamacy to Linux than MS is willing to grant. MS is stuck in the same place that IBM was when they announced the PS/2. In order to protect their investment in and cash flow from big iron, they tried to tie their customers into a proprietary bus. The market abandoned them in droves.
MS is also addicted to its Office and Windows upgrade cashflows. MS is trying to pull the users along, but there is a lot of resistance. Because they have to protect their current cash cow, they can't do a thing that would offer the least bit of recognition to Linux unless it's part of a deal with the DoJ.
MS is doomed. Once their revenue peaks, watch the stock drop like a stone.
No, they haven't announced anything. A company the size of MS can keep its options open by researching a port with out making a decision to do anything.
Expect to see an extended FUD campaign about a port to Linux. At one point they'll probably try to say that Linux isn't robust enough for Office.
If the kernel weren't changed but there were required binary only modules or libraries, you would never see the code. MS lawyers would find their way around the GPL.
...that MS could ever bundle Office with the OS. Just look at how much trouble they're getting in for bundling IE with the OS. Unless the DOJ loses the AT case. But I can't see that happening.
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It's not as if he was out to evaluate all the options and found out "Heh, wow! GNOME is the best." It's really a promotion piece for GNOME. It's a "free software is petter than propriatary" article. KDE dosn't fit into the author's idea of free.
Yes, I did read before posting, but it appears that I only got the first three paragraphs in my browser when I first visited. Thanks to all the replies, I realized that there was more to see than what I had gotten at first. I appreciate the people who posted the URL to the referenced paper. Based on my perception of biases on the part of the authors, I will continue to be agnostic on the issue of Qwerty vs. Dvorak.
A:Politics. The first clue was on the first page where the author talks about his Red Hat 5.2 GNU/Linux system. He actually does mention KDE on the next to last page and says he avoided it because of the original licensing scheme.
Thank you for the reference. An examination of some of the other articles at the site indicate that this group believes that the current MS dominance in the business application market is due to superior products. It seems as if they have an agenda which colors my evaluation of their analysis of keyboard standards.
Too bad the article just asserts that it has been disproven rather then referring to some source. I would have to accept this on the authority of The Economist which is not a usual source for technical information. If anyone has any other links, I'd be interested.
Search /. for GUID to find some links. Briefly, it stands for Globally Unique Identifier. It was recently disclosed that MS Office creates a number incorporating the Ethernet MAC address on the machine and saves the resulting GUID in the registry and in any documents created by that copy. The real problem was that the registration process sends the GUID to Micros~1 who has been saving the data.
I've got Netscape set to ask before setting cookies. I've been seeing some odd ones from /. tonight.
Nice guess at my salary, Rob.
Why would you want to crack a porn site?
To protest against American Capitalists who promote euro-centric standards of beauty to the detriment of indiginous women worldwide. Oh, yeah, and to get free p0rn.
Awesome! Just imagine playing Quake on a Beowolf cluster of these things while cracking into whitehouse.com.
It's not even an issue of what they are counting and whether they are skewed. The big news here is that someone with credibility in PHB circles recognizes this trend. This is good news and bad news.
The good news is that hardware manufacturers and software houses who are trying to estimate the future market for their products will now have to take Linux into consideration. Someday some hardware manufacturers are going to announce Linux drivers for their equpitment just because it will be a significant market segment. MS now gets a free ride because manufacturers write drivers for their OS. How will this community react when and if drivers are made available by manufacturers? How will this community react if they're binary-only?
The bad news is that it now sets an expectation for future growth and a high one at that. Most of you remember the lambasting that NT got in the IT press when the actual sales came in well below analysts forcasts. Linux could grow at 20% per year, but be portrayed as a "failure" because it didn't grow at 25%. All the coders working on the kernel, the user interfaces and the application programs have their work cut out for them.
You can only voluntarily give up something you KNOW you have ... the unknown data attached to it without your consent by a 3rd party should not fall under these same rules.
I'd like to say that you are correct, but (for ill or good) legal rulings hold otherwise. The FBI has taken saliva samples from a coffee cup that they gave to someone who was being interrogated and had those samples admitted as evidence. Surely the perp didn't know that they could do that. It follows the same legal theory that having voluntarially given up something places it out of the realm of illegal search and seizure. Unfortunate but true.
I'm not sure if use of such GUID's would hold up in court since it is private information gathered by an illegal search. The user did not give permission for his unique ID to be attached to his .doc file. The app (Word) had no just cause to attach this ID either so it's similar to having the feds tap your phone without a warrant.
That's not a good analogy. It's not an illegal search if someone looks in a document that you created and distributed for a GUID. Just as it's not a problem for the Gov't to take fingerprints off a letter that you sent or DNA samples from the saliva you used to lick a stamp or an emvelope shut. Once you voluntarially give something up, it's fair game for the man.
Perhaps a real issue in a court would be how easy is it to forge a GUID so that it looks like the document came from someone else.
I didn't say that I had no GNU content. X/startx is not GNU software despite the claims here. I don't have either gnome or Afterstep installed. I do have GCC and the GIMP installed which you didn't mention. With the exception of GCC and the GIMP, I don't use the packages that GNU has put the most work into.
But, of course, Linus has not called the system GNU/Linux. The GNU folks have.
o Put it in the man page. I have yet to find a gnu utility that was self-explanatory on the command line. :)
Unfortunately, GNU dislikes man for some reason. Many of their man pages refer the user to info documentation which is supposedly more up to date or complete. I don't know because I have never installed info.
On the Linux vs. GNU/Linux issue, I don't use bash, I use pdksh. I don't use EMACS, I use VIM. I use lprNG instead of whatever lpr Linux distributions include. In short, there ain't a whole lot of GNU utilities in my Linux box.
However: I really think the default should be -1 instead of 0, i.e., show everything unless a user opts to have it filtered. This is especially important since (I assume) people who don't log in are not able to set preferences, meaning there's no way for them to get around the filterin
/. Use it.
I disagree. J. Random Surfer who wanders in does not want to be exposed to a lot of the lame stuff that gets a -1. It makes this place look like a bathroom wall. If he decides to stay around for even a short time, he'll find the switch to see all of the posts.
Furthermore, even if you don't log in, you can set the comments to display more or less thanks to the neat new controls after the story. But why don't you just log in and set the cookies? You can always log out if you want to post anonymously.
With the new code, Rob has given everyone a great deal of new control over what they see on
In case you didn't know. Alan Smithee is a pseudonym that directors use when they don't want their name associated with the final product.
Libraries are the *only* reason to get a new distro. Installing new libs is just a friggin pain in the ass. I haven't bought a dist since RH 4.2. I'm satisfied with glibc5 and kernel 2.0.36 and the few extra packages that I compiled from sources for now. Soon I will buy a new dist with 2.2.x and glibc6 -- I haven't decided which one, but it probably won't be this distribution. I just don't have the time to recompile every package on my machine. Dists are worth a few bucks to me every few years.
The incompatibilities in the early 80s were hardware incompatabilities, not software incompatabilities. Top applications vendors wrote specifically for the IBM HW platform bypassing the slow DOS/BIOS services for display. That was the death knell of DOS machines like the DEC Rainbow which had MS-DOS but not the register level compatability that the later IBM clone market had.
We're in a similar situation with sound cards now. "SB Compatable" cards have a software interface that makes them look like SBs to applications programs using Win APIs. We need kernel drivers that speak to the hardware, not Windows-specific software compatability layers.
What does this have to do with Red Hat? They currently give back to the community as much as they take out. I've used Slackware and Red Hat. My next distro will probably be a different one. There will always be a more open market for Linux just because we don't have little proprietary bits that tie anyone into just one ditribution.
Coming out with an Office for Linux would give more legitamacy to Linux than MS is willing to grant. MS is stuck in the same place that IBM was when they announced the PS/2. In order to protect their investment in and cash flow from big iron, they tried to tie their customers into a proprietary bus. The market abandoned them in droves.
MS is also addicted to its Office and Windows upgrade cashflows. MS is trying to pull the users along, but there is a lot of resistance. Because they have to protect their current cash cow, they can't do a thing that would offer the least bit of recognition to Linux unless it's part of a deal with the DoJ.
MS is doomed. Once their revenue peaks, watch the stock drop like a stone.
I knew you could.
No, they haven't announced anything. A company the size of MS can keep its options open by researching a port with out making a decision to do anything.
Expect to see an extended FUD campaign about a port to Linux. At one point they'll probably try to say that Linux isn't robust enough for Office.
If the kernel weren't changed but there were required binary only modules or libraries, you would never see the code. MS lawyers would find their way around the GPL.
...that MS could ever bundle Office with the OS. Just look at how much trouble they're getting in for bundling IE with the OS. Unless the DOJ loses the AT case. But I can't see that happening.
ACs get a default score of 0. Logins get a default score of 1. The moderators can decrease the score to -1 to hide flames and pointless posts. I presume that the moderators can increase a score, but I haven't seen an example of it in practice.