In this day and age it surprises me that any corporation is switching from a UNIX to w2k. I've seen and heard of a lot of companies trashing their windows servers to replace them with Linux machines running the same services. Tell them you'll use Star Office but all of the Word documents they send you have to be in Word 98 format.:)
UNIX is a type of OS. FreeBSD is an OS. RedHat Linux is an OS. Debian GNU Linux is an OS. Linux is a kernel. I think an OS needs more than drivers and hardware support to be considered an operating system. If it boots and sits there it's not an operating system. You need file managers, securities, software that can manipulate a kernel for it to be an OS. An OS is also a gateway to the machine.
I think both GNOME and KDE should be raped and amalgamated (sp?) into one Desktop in order to create a standard desktop to attract point and drool users to the Linux world. Then we can have secrataries using KWord and Gnumeric on their desktops. Of course, I'll still be using Enlightenment when this happens, but hey, what's a guy to do?
GNOME has a lot of neat features: highly configurable, good DnD, nicer icons, better window manager (in either Enlightenments or Sawfish's case) and a heck of a lot more usability. So what if it's not stable, it's really well conceived. But then again...
KDE has a lot of neat features too: tons of apps, it actually has an office suite (although parts of it are kinda iffy sometimes), it has attempted to be a "configure everything here" kinda thing like an operating system we'll not mention, and generally is stable. KDE is also a lot more friendly to those making their way from other pastures. Ya QT is ugly, but what can ya do?:)
I'm not really a big fan of either GNOME or KDE, but I don't think either of them should be chosen for the desktop standard on Linux. We should take the best part of all words and toss it together. The only request I'd make is to abandon QT and us GTK+, due to my aforementioned opinion. It's Blackbox, WindowMaker or Enlightenment for me. No damn panels I *need* to have to operate well, no huge overhead, and I don't have to RPM (or compile) a ton of crap to have it on my system.
I think I've used up more space than I should have.:) Have a good day.
Making software Open Source is always a great idea due to feedback, helpful developers, your way of saying "You can *see* that it's not a bad product" and a bunch of other stuff I could mention but it's Friday so I'll hold off.
As to when it would be a good idea to open source it, I would think waiting until it reaches a comparable state with competing products would be the best time. Releasing the source code for a product that couldn't match a competing product just seems like a waste because no one would want the source code anyway, and would probably make you look like you were on the Open Source bandwagon.
I think the best time is when there is enough interest in it from parties who could use the "other guy's" product in your own. But that's my personal opinion. I suppose it also depends on the code. Look at Enlightenment for example. Their version number (although I would say a little off) implies that the wm itself has a long way to go yet, but E is a great wm. I would say it's not a certain stage in development, but a certain stage in the maturity of the project.
After RedHat what kind of comparison is TurboLinux and Mission Critical Linux? What ever happened to Slackware and Debian? This guy should grow up. I do have one good thing to say about Windows 2000 though, Diablo II is a great game. That's about the high point of the OS.:)
In Ottawa (not that many people who read these articles probably care) you can see the big gold Corel building from the Queensway at 5pm from the Carling Parking Lot (rush hour) on your way generally anywhere. Now I've used MS Office and it's not bad; however, what it holds over WordPerfect is indeed a paperclip or Einstein.
WordPerfect Suite is great. It does everything most people would ever use a word processor for, and I use it regularily. They should focus on this. PhotoPaint is neat, but Adobe PhotoShop is practically and industry standard, they should give up on that. Corel has demonstrated that they can produce Linux software (albeit QT based) and should *really* focus on that. I don't know if making their own distribution was a great idea, but the linux version of WordPerfect wasn't that bad.
Instead of working on a Desktop for Linux, I think they should work on Desktop products. Create the office suite for Linux, support the three most used widget sets (QT, Notif, GTK) and make their money selling office software on Linux or even all UNIX platforms. We have to pay for this software now, they can make money off it in the future.
I just think they tried to do too much at once.
Working right down the road (at Trytel Internet) from Corel gets you thinking a lot about them.:)
I think perhaps the authorities in Norway didn't want an international incident involving very large, very powerful American companies and just decided to take the kid right away. I think it's scary to be honest.
I think in order for this to have really been a fair challenge both systems should have been running the same services, maybe different daemons where possible, but the same services nonetheless. The scripting language for both web servers should have also been the same, something embedded so that neither could be blamed, and the scripts equally the same. They were supposed to test the operating systems against security attacks, not a cgi script. If the same script were running on the NT box, it could have been just as easily hacked.
Personally being a Linux user I think it's a cheap shot to give someone cash for hacking a CGI script, when someone should be given cash for hacking the machine itself and doing something bad to it. Perhaps Red Hat (only as an example, any distro would do) and MS should go head to head in a fair and square competition by leaving a machine with equal hardware capability, configured to the max by engineers from both companies, in a neutral person's care in order to watch over them. Then let the world try and hack them. That will satisfy me.
The only real problem with that is this: People who have PCs to get MP3s probably have an MP3 player handy to listen to them on their PC. In order to use this PSX extension they'd also have to buy a burner to burn their CDs with. So after about $250.00 they can go ahead and listen to MP3s on their Playstation while I play FFVII and listen to them with GQMPEG.:)
Mylar sails is probably the closest that we'll come in the next 15 years to interstellar space travel if you want to be realistic. Unless we somehow find a way to fold space we're not going very far in the near future. The fact that they are trying to take advantage of the solar system's natural gravitational forces to send anything somewhere is creative. What I'd like to know is how much space is between Sol and Alpha Centauri? If the space between those two stars is great then will they really be able to rely on deep space forces to propel them into the closest solar system to Sol?
To be honest, I think a manned "cruise" to anywhere beyond Pluto would be idiocy at this point. We should really take a good study at our own solar system first hand before we try to run off to the next to see what's there. Everyone's eager to meet E.T.
See, I'll tell you why you're an idiot. It's not the apps that lock us into Linux, it's the STABILITY among other things. Windows is a great OS if you're content to point and drool all day.
I don't think we need a book about The GIMP, we just need a larger feature library. The ability to create shapes is almost a necessity sometimes, and that guy up there was right, drawing a straight line does become nearly impossible. The way *I* draw a straight line, for lack of a tool to do so (or circles for that matter) is create text filled with underscores about 25 point (depending on the thickness you want) and then place or transform it as you see fit.
I think the guys doing the GIMP should think about building from the basics up rather than competing with the kickass tools first. Who the hell really needs to do a fractal trace?
I don't really care what other people call the space on my hard drive, as long as I get what I paid for. I bought a 2.1 gig drive with my computer, and two OS's say it's 1.8. I'm sorry, I don't have that much swap space.:)
I really should say that the movie was quite excellent before I start here. It stayed pretty true to the occult in how it dealt with The Blair Witch. I'm not going to spoil anything for anyone, but it was really quite a fascinating story, and the way they portrayed it was really well done. I like the idea of having the actors film the movie. I heard the writers left bundles in the woods for the actors to pick up each day for instructions, so they actually hiked through the woods throughout parts of the filming, which led to the actors being genuinely frightened during the making of the movie.
The actors themselves gave a performance worthy of award in my opinion. Those who haven't seen it yet should see it and allow themselves to get into it. People who sit in the theatre and shrug it off are robbing themselves of a good experience. I hope this really opens up people to the occult community in certain ways, making people more aware of the myths that surround us and how beautiful and mystifying they really are. See the movie.:)
Are you on crack, or is it just me? PHP lets you *not* maintain a page as it's dynamic. I have several pages that are totally dynamically generated with php3 and a database. I go to a form, I enter text, it's updated, happy me. Pure HTML is great and all, but if the page is to change, php it.
The Linux community is a community because it choses to be. We all hop out on the net at 12pm after the evening news is over and fetch the latest tarball for this and that and happily compile some new software we've been watching the development of for a while now then happily go to bed. In the morning we tell our friends on IRC (or wherever) about this new tidbit. That creates community. We could choose to keep to ourselves, close all our source code, and hide in a ditch, but then none of us would benefit. So we choose to be a community. The Linux community could try and fall apart, but we'd all lose too much and just rally together again. It's better this way, and nothing can tear the community apart. (except maybe distro wars:)
Well, where the hell do you truly begin? Consider the actual list of things your brain stores and all the permutations of the subsequent things and itemize it, categorize it, and try and make it easily accessible with an operating system that on the majority never *truly* crashes.
Here is your list: - Talents (acting, leadership, etc.) - Skills (driving, using tools, etc.) - Knowledge (literature, languages, computers, law, science, etc.) - Experiences (learning not to touch a hot stove, learning to walk in a straight line) - Personality (your way of expression, your body language - Sub-Conscious Action (those things that are completely natural like breathing when out of breath, fleeing from danger, most instincts) - Emotion (how we handle emotions, when certain emotions occur, and how we emote) - Abstract Thinking (all the thoughts that we get that never truly make sense but are stored for later use if ever) - Environmental Knowledge (ever walk into your apartment and know where everything is in the dark?) - Personal Knowledge (what we know about the people we are) - Survival (how we know what is inherently dangerous, often just incredible intuition that not many people give recognition to) - The Others (everything else that I didn't put here that could go on and on infinitely)
If you consider everything you do from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to bed you'll end up realizing every day you'll recall something you learned quite some time ago and you'll remember the situation in which you learned it. That's all stored in the brain. Imagine billions of text files all cross-referenced, indexed, categorized, programmed, filtered, and itemized using an operating system that can judge, understand, connect, regrow new information, deduce, comprehend and extrapolate. I would estimate the human brain has a storage capacity the likes of which we don't currently have numbers to describe. Just something for you to think about. We store more information in our brain than we realize, and we use it every day seamlessly, so we take it for granted that it's stored.
So let your brain think about all that, have a Coke, and go insane.:)
Any software, whatsoever in my opinion, should be free. I can see how a corporation wouldn't want their source out due to loss in revenue (probably in most cases) but the effect of having it exposed to the world and having several people improving, updating, modifying, changing or manipulating it provides much more power than a single static non-changing group who will eventually focus in one place and never stray.
What we're talking about is the software we use in order to run our computers, networks, in order to communicate, delegate, compute, learn, broadcast, etc. You can't put a price on the power it could all have if it was all free. Big companies should not sell their software, they should give it away. The support they provide to it, the technical know-how, that you could sell. But the utility itself not so in my opinion, not unless it was created for commercial uses.
Wouldn't everyone be upset if you had to pay money just to be able to do "ps auxw | grep httpd" ? That would annoy me too believe me. You'd be paying for "ps" and for "grep". We created something that aids our lives, computers. It's the same as a toaster, but not everyone sees it that way. Anyhow, I've gone on a bit of a rant. Open Source the world, and leave the people in the closet to their deeds.
I work at a printing company, and some of the packaging we have to do is done with wooden crates lined with a kind of aluminum foil where one side is, likely enough, aluminum foil, and the other side looks more like utility paper, or packing paper. The machinists in the building actually use the same foil to prevent an EM field, which causes nausea when working with the two pieces of equipment we do have that are highly electric. They were given this hint by some other printing company in Britain who uses the same devices.
I'm not sure where you can purchase it exactly but with a little poking around I'm sure you could find it. One side looks like normal aluminum foil (a little higher gauge however) and the other like a brown paper bag. If you try it, lemme know if it works, I might just comission a computer that doubles as an endtable.:)
I *converted* to Linux about a month ago, or a month and a half, I don't remember. I used to run Win95. I have to say, really, scrap Windows, embrace the Penguin completely. Sound good? Great! Haf fun.:)
Well, at the very least, it's not M$ that is deciding to develop software for Linux. Maybe they should be told that everyone should stay in their own little neighbourhood.:)
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In this day and age it surprises me that any corporation is switching from a UNIX to w2k. I've seen and heard of a lot of companies trashing their windows servers to replace them with Linux machines running the same services. Tell them you'll use Star Office but all of the Word documents they send you have to be in Word 98 format. :)
UNIX is a type of OS. FreeBSD is an OS. RedHat Linux is an OS. Debian GNU Linux is an OS. Linux is a kernel. I think an OS needs more than drivers and hardware support to be considered an operating system. If it boots and sits there it's not an operating system. You need file managers, securities, software that can manipulate a kernel for it to be an OS. An OS is also a gateway to the machine.
I think both GNOME and KDE should be raped and amalgamated (sp?) into one Desktop in order to create a standard desktop to attract point and drool users to the Linux world. Then we can have secrataries using KWord and Gnumeric on their desktops. Of course, I'll still be using Enlightenment when this happens, but hey, what's a guy to do?
:)
:) Have a good day.
GNOME has a lot of neat features: highly configurable, good DnD, nicer icons, better window manager (in either Enlightenments or Sawfish's case) and a heck of a lot more usability. So what if it's not stable, it's really well conceived. But then again...
KDE has a lot of neat features too: tons of apps, it actually has an office suite (although parts of it are kinda iffy sometimes), it has attempted to be a "configure everything here" kinda thing like an operating system we'll not mention, and generally is stable. KDE is also a lot more friendly to those making their way from other pastures. Ya QT is ugly, but what can ya do?
I'm not really a big fan of either GNOME or KDE, but I don't think either of them should be chosen for the desktop standard on Linux. We should take the best part of all words and toss it together. The only request I'd make is to abandon QT and us GTK+, due to my aforementioned opinion. It's Blackbox, WindowMaker or Enlightenment for me. No damn panels I *need* to have to operate well, no huge overhead, and I don't have to RPM (or compile) a ton of crap to have it on my system.
I think I've used up more space than I should have.
Making software Open Source is always a great idea due to feedback, helpful developers, your way of saying "You can *see* that it's not a bad product" and a bunch of other stuff I could mention but it's Friday so I'll hold off.
As to when it would be a good idea to open source it, I would think waiting until it reaches a comparable state with competing products would be the best time. Releasing the source code for a product that couldn't match a competing product just seems like a waste because no one would want the source code anyway, and would probably make you look like you were on the Open Source bandwagon.
I think the best time is when there is enough interest in it from parties who could use the "other guy's" product in your own. But that's my personal opinion. I suppose it also depends on the code. Look at Enlightenment for example. Their version number (although I would say a little off) implies that the wm itself has a long way to go yet, but E is a great wm. I would say it's not a certain stage in development, but a certain stage in the maturity of the project.
After RedHat what kind of comparison is TurboLinux and Mission Critical Linux? What ever happened to Slackware and Debian? This guy should grow up. I do have one good thing to say about Windows 2000 though, Diablo II is a great game. That's about the high point of the OS. :)
In Ottawa (not that many people who read these articles probably care) you can see the big gold Corel building from the Queensway at 5pm from the Carling Parking Lot (rush hour) on your way generally anywhere. Now I've used MS Office and it's not bad; however, what it holds over WordPerfect is indeed a paperclip or Einstein.
:)
WordPerfect Suite is great. It does everything most people would ever use a word processor for, and I use it regularily. They should focus on this. PhotoPaint is neat, but Adobe PhotoShop is practically and industry standard, they should give up on that. Corel has demonstrated that they can produce Linux software (albeit QT based) and should *really* focus on that. I don't know if making their own distribution was a great idea, but the linux version of WordPerfect wasn't that bad.
Instead of working on a Desktop for Linux, I think they should work on Desktop products. Create the office suite for Linux, support the three most used widget sets (QT, Notif, GTK) and make their money selling office software on Linux or even all UNIX platforms. We have to pay for this software now, they can make money off it in the future.
I just think they tried to do too much at once.
Working right down the road (at Trytel Internet) from Corel gets you thinking a lot about them.
I think perhaps the authorities in Norway didn't want an international incident involving very large, very powerful American companies and just decided to take the kid right away. I think it's scary to be honest.
I think in order for this to have really been a fair challenge both systems should have been running the same services, maybe different daemons where possible, but the same services nonetheless. The scripting language for both web servers should have also been the same, something embedded so that neither could be blamed, and the scripts equally the same. They were supposed to test the operating systems against security attacks, not a cgi script. If the same script were running on the NT box, it could have been just as easily hacked.
Personally being a Linux user I think it's a cheap shot to give someone cash for hacking a CGI script, when someone should be given cash for hacking the machine itself and doing something bad to it. Perhaps Red Hat (only as an example, any distro would do) and MS should go head to head in a fair and square competition by leaving a machine with equal hardware capability, configured to the max by engineers from both companies, in a neutral person's care in order to watch over them. Then let the world try and hack them. That will satisfy me.
The only real problem with that is this: People who have PCs to get MP3s probably have an MP3 player handy to listen to them on their PC. In order to use this PSX extension they'd also have to buy a burner to burn their CDs with. So after about $250.00 they can go ahead and listen to MP3s on their Playstation while I play FFVII and listen to them with GQMPEG. :)
Mylar sails is probably the closest that we'll come in the next 15 years to interstellar space travel if you want to be realistic. Unless we somehow find a way to fold space we're not going very far in the near future. The fact that they are trying to take advantage of the solar system's natural gravitational forces to send anything somewhere is creative. What I'd like to know is how much space is between Sol and Alpha Centauri? If the space between those two stars is great then will they really be able to rely on deep space forces to propel them into the closest solar system to Sol?
To be honest, I think a manned "cruise" to anywhere beyond Pluto would be idiocy at this point. We should really take a good study at our own solar system first hand before we try to run off to the next to see what's there. Everyone's eager to meet E.T.
See, I'll tell you why you're an idiot. It's not the apps that lock us into Linux, it's the STABILITY among other things. Windows is a great OS if you're content to point and drool all day.
I don't think we need a book about The GIMP, we just need a larger feature library. The ability to create shapes is almost a necessity sometimes, and that guy up there was right, drawing a straight line does become nearly impossible. The way *I* draw a straight line, for lack of a tool to do so (or circles for that matter) is create text filled with underscores about 25 point (depending on the thickness you want) and then place or transform it as you see fit.
I think the guys doing the GIMP should think about building from the basics up rather than competing with the kickass tools first. Who the hell really needs to do a fractal trace?
I don't really care what other people call the space on my hard drive, as long as I get what I paid for. I bought a 2.1 gig drive with my computer, and two OS's say it's 1.8. I'm sorry, I don't have that much swap space. :)
I really should say that the movie was quite excellent before I start here. It stayed pretty true to the occult in how it dealt with The Blair Witch. I'm not going to spoil anything for anyone, but it was really quite a fascinating story, and the way they portrayed it was really well done. I like the idea of having the actors film the movie. I heard the writers left bundles in the woods for the actors to pick up each day for instructions, so they actually hiked through the woods throughout parts of the filming, which led to the actors being genuinely frightened during the making of the movie.
:)
The actors themselves gave a performance worthy of award in my opinion. Those who haven't seen it yet should see it and allow themselves to get into it. People who sit in the theatre and shrug it off are robbing themselves of a good experience. I hope this really opens up people to the occult community in certain ways, making people more aware of the myths that surround us and how beautiful and mystifying they really are. See the movie.
Are you on crack, or is it just me? PHP lets you *not* maintain a page as it's dynamic. I have several pages that are totally dynamically generated with php3 and a database. I go to a form, I enter text, it's updated, happy me. Pure HTML is great and all, but if the page is to change, php it.
The Linux community is a community because it choses to be. We all hop out on the net at 12pm after the evening news is over and fetch the latest tarball for this and that and happily compile some new software we've been watching the development of for a while now then happily go to bed. In the morning we tell our friends on IRC (or wherever) about this new tidbit. That creates community. We could choose to keep to ourselves, close all our source code, and hide in a ditch, but then none of us would benefit. So we choose to be a community. The Linux community could try and fall apart, but we'd all lose too much and just rally together again. It's better this way, and nothing can tear the community apart. (except maybe distro wars :)
Well, where the hell do you truly begin? Consider the actual list of things your brain stores and all the permutations of the subsequent things and itemize it, categorize it, and try and make it easily accessible with an operating system that on the majority never *truly* crashes.
:)
Here is your list:
- Talents (acting, leadership, etc.)
- Skills (driving, using tools, etc.)
- Knowledge (literature, languages, computers,
law, science, etc.)
- Experiences (learning not to touch a hot stove,
learning to walk in a straight line)
- Personality (your way of expression, your body
language
- Sub-Conscious Action (those things that are
completely natural like breathing when out of
breath, fleeing from danger, most instincts)
- Emotion (how we handle emotions, when certain
emotions occur, and how we emote)
- Abstract Thinking (all the thoughts that we get
that never truly make sense but are stored for
later use if ever)
- Environmental Knowledge (ever walk into your
apartment and know where everything is in the
dark?)
- Personal Knowledge (what we know about the
people we are)
- Survival (how we know what is inherently
dangerous, often just incredible intuition that
not many people give recognition to)
- The Others (everything else that I didn't
put here that could go on and on infinitely)
If you consider everything you do from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to bed you'll end up realizing every day you'll recall something you learned quite some time ago and you'll remember the situation in which you learned it. That's all stored in the brain. Imagine billions of text files all cross-referenced, indexed, categorized, programmed, filtered, and itemized using an operating system that can judge, understand, connect, regrow new information, deduce, comprehend and extrapolate. I would estimate the human brain has a storage capacity the likes of which we don't currently have numbers to describe.
Just something for you to think about. We store more information in our brain than we realize, and we use it every day seamlessly, so we take it for granted that it's stored.
So let your brain think about all that, have a Coke, and go insane.
Any software, whatsoever in my opinion, should be free. I can see how a corporation wouldn't want their source out due to loss in revenue (probably in most cases) but the effect of having it exposed to the world and having several people improving, updating, modifying, changing or manipulating it provides much more power than a single static non-changing group who will eventually focus in one place and never stray.
What we're talking about is the software we use in order to run our computers, networks, in order to communicate, delegate, compute, learn, broadcast, etc. You can't put a price on the power it could all have if it was all free. Big companies should not sell their software, they should give it away. The support they provide to it, the technical know-how, that you could sell. But the utility itself not so in my opinion, not unless it was created for commercial uses.
Wouldn't everyone be upset if you had to pay money just to be able to do "ps auxw | grep httpd" ? That would annoy me too believe me. You'd be paying for "ps" and for "grep". We created something that aids our lives, computers. It's the same as a toaster, but not everyone sees it that way. Anyhow, I've gone on a bit of a rant. Open Source the world, and leave the people in the closet to their deeds.
Besides the cash and having them displayed, would we get one of the t-shirts too? :)
I work at a printing company, and some of the packaging we have to do is done with wooden crates lined with a kind of aluminum foil where one side is, likely enough, aluminum foil, and the other side looks more like utility paper, or packing paper. The machinists in the building actually use the same foil to prevent an EM field, which causes nausea when working with the two pieces of equipment we do have that are highly electric. They were given this hint by some other printing company in Britain who uses the same devices.
:)
I'm not sure where you can purchase it exactly but with a little poking around I'm sure you could find it. One side looks like normal aluminum foil (a little higher gauge however) and the other like a brown paper bag. If you try it, lemme know if it works, I might just comission a computer that doubles as an endtable.
I *converted* to Linux about a month ago, or a month and a half, I don't remember. I used to run Win95. I have to say, really, scrap Windows, embrace the Penguin completely. Sound good? Great! Haf fun. :)
Well, at the very least, it's not M$ that is deciding to develop software for Linux. Maybe they should be told that everyone should stay in their own little neighbourhood. :)