As far as I know, it's not. But getting the Bluecurve theme is not so hard. Go to your local RedHat-mirror and get the redhat-artwork source-RPM. Use MC or a program like Alien to extract the tar.gz out of it. Untar that to a directory. Go to the directory that contains the theme you wish to compile (i.e. KDE or Gnome2 version). Edit the makefile by hand to specifiy the directories that have the necessary libraries (this is not so hard as it seems - I tried the./configure script on a Debian Woody-box, and that didn't work. Some of the dirs looked to have been 'hard-coded' in one of the scripts). Now type make and, as root, make install.
That's all there's to it. It might seem a little bit complicated, but it's not, really. And besides, what's wrong with doing a little bit of work for a very nice (Debian) desktop?
I have mplayer installed but it only knows about mpeg and avi.
Mplayer plays this little movie perfectly, and plays a hell of a lot more than just avi's and mpegs. See mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs.html for more info.
Isn't this supposed to be unecessary? Isn't GNU/Linux supposed to be upgradable just where needed? What am I faling to understand here.
You can still always upgrade manually if you want. The fact is that RedHat wants to include KDE3 in their distribution, and KDE3 breaks binarycompatibility with previous versions. It's RedHat policy to only make changes like that in a new release of their distro.
And installing/upgrading something like KDE (or any other big softwarepackage) with a RPM-based distro can be hell. It's just more convenient to let RedHat do it for you.
1. The language is going to be broad. Face it. Jus about anything will qualify because as soon as the precedent is set, everybody will be clamoring to have their pet peeve branded as hate speech. Someone makes a joke like: "How do you make a dog go meow? You run it quickly over a circular saw," and it will be branded as hateful to animals and animal lovers.
No, the language is not going to be broad. Don't forget Europe totally lacks something as America's claimculture. Almost every European country already has anti-hatespeech laws. Does that mean we live in a totalitarian society? Does that mean we don't have free speech? No, of course not. There are certain restrictions to free speech, but they only include calls for violence and purely racist remarks. I don't really mind not hearing these, though I understand the reasons many Americans would. Just don't forget Europe is much more liberal (in the leftish-politics sense) than the USA is - political correctness is widespread, too 'extreme' voices will be automatically shut by social pressure.
Anti-globalization protesters (which I am not a part of and to some extent find some disquieting parallels with Naziis m in their beliefs)
Can you be a bit more elaborative on this?
3. Has anyone stopped to think what the response of the hatemongers will be? They'll PGP encrypt everything. They'll use steganography. You know what this means? After these laws fail, the governments will blame it on the availability of encryption. So watch it become a crime to possess any encryption technology in Europe, because only terrorists and hatemongers use PGP, SSH, and FreeNet. Watch Linux be branded an accomplice to hate because hate groups use Apache on Linux to run their web sites.
If these people will communicate with the use of encryption, their opinions will not be publicized, and therefore nobody would know about it. Including the governments, who will say that their laws have worked: "Have you heard any hatespeech lately on the internet? No? Well, then it's about time you civilians start thanking us!" And in the meantime all the racists start grouping underground and... who knows what will happen then?
Never underestimate the shortsightedness of politicians (and I don't think Europe differs from the USA in that perspective).
What is relevant, is the severity of the securityholes and the time it takes before the producer of the app in question puts patches out and how soon these get installed by the sysadmins. The latter seems to be the biggest problem anyway.
...should read Jorge Volpi's In search of Klingsor - it's a truly great novel by this young Mexican author. I don't know if it has been translated in English yet - the Spanish title is En busca Klingsor. The book is about a young intelligence officer named Francis Bacon (!) who's sent to post-war Germany to investigate the German's atomicbomb program and the mysterious lead scientist behind it named Klingsor. The meeting between Bohr and Heisenberg is in it too.
It's really a fascinating book and I'd recommend it to everyone interested in either physics, nazi's, WWII or conspiracies.
Though I didn't really notice any big differences in WM 0.80.0, it's still good to see that development on this project is still going on. I've tried KDE and Gnome, and kinda liked them both, except for two things: speed and lightness. I'm now all the way back to WindowMaker, and runs brilliantly on my AMD380. My PC know feels faster than ever. For example, if a friend of mine tries to surf the net, rip a CD to mp3 s and plays music with Winamp on his 1GHz WinME machine, the responsiveness of the computer drops dramatically. On my machine, I can do the same things without a hassle, music never skips, etc.
The only thing I miss when running WM, is a decent filemanager. For diskoperations, etc. I'm happily running MC in a terminal, but when I want to browse through a CD and open up photo's or mp3's "on the fly" I'm rather stuck. Konqueror and Nautilus are too heavy for me. Has anyone got a lighter alternative?
This attitude is what is keep Linux out of the maistream.
Linux is stable and fast(compared with MSanything).
developers need to relize that most people with computers do not know how to compile, don't want to learn, they want it to work.
First of all, it's probably not the goal of the MPlayer developers to get Linux into the mainstream. They want to make a good videoplayer for Linux etc. and they're getting along nicely. The product is now at 0.6, so who know's what's going to be in the 'real' release?
The nice thing about Linux is it's diversity in all possible ways. There certainly are people working on products that will get Linux more into the mainstream (like Mandrake), but why should every developer commit himself to that same goal?
In the end, what people really want is a working computer. IMO, that's best achieved by concentrating on making a product work (i.e. for MPlayer playing video fast and stable) first, before focusing on installers, etc.
If the way of installing MPlayer is too difficult for a novice (which it probably is), he/she shouldn't use it, if he/she is unwilling to learn. There are alternatives, that do provide binaries, like XINE.
I do see your point about getting new users to switch to Linux, and how the attitude of a part of the community's not helping that, but hey, don't forget: it's FREE! If developers want their product to be easy to use for novices, they'll make it that way. It's not their responsibility to make Linux as a whole more mainstream - it's nobody's. If a group or company like Mandrake or Ximian take up this task, it's up to them to create a marketshare for their product, not to the community as a whole.
RTFM! They don't distribute binaries, because the software relies heavily on compile-time optimizations for specific hardware. Is that really necessary? Yes, it is. Playing a Divx-movie with XINE, for example, is a bitch compared to MPlayer on my computer. And besides, how hard is it to type configure && make && make install? If you're running a Unix-based system this really shouldn't be an issue to you - even if you're "lazy". It is? Spare yourself, run Windows. Easy installing, good multimedia support, etc. right out of the box. Just download a codec - and take a couple of bugs in the OS for granted. That's what most "lazy" computer users do anyway.
Are there any other major reasons for using Galeon that I am missing?
It isn't much faster anymore.
It is, at least on my AMD380 with 192MB RAM. Galeon starts up within seconds, whereas Mozilla takes at least 10. Also, Galeon is much more responsive with opening new tabs, etc. For me personally, Galeon has been more stable and feels more solid than than any of the Mozilla-releases.
Just use the mp3 hardware that's available - sound quality's pretty much the same. Ogg will never be more than a sympathetic open-source project, because it hasn't got much more to offer than mp3. MP3 is currently widely accepted and used, and hardware co's will keep sticking to it - except for a couple of geeks, there'll never be a market for Ogg-hardware.
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Is Bluecurve on Freshmeat's themes section yet?
./configure script on a Debian Woody-box, and that didn't work. Some of the dirs looked to have been 'hard-coded' in one of the scripts). Now type make and, as root, make install.
As far as I know, it's not. But getting the Bluecurve theme is not so hard. Go to your local RedHat-mirror and get the redhat-artwork source-RPM. Use MC or a program like Alien to extract the tar.gz out of it. Untar that to a directory. Go to the directory that contains the theme you wish to compile (i.e. KDE or Gnome2 version). Edit the makefile by hand to specifiy the directories that have the necessary libraries (this is not so hard as it seems - I tried the
That's all there's to it. It might seem a little bit complicated, but it's not, really. And besides, what's wrong with doing a little bit of work for a very nice (Debian) desktop?
I have mplayer installed but it only knows about mpeg and avi. Mplayer plays this little movie perfectly, and plays a hell of a lot more than just avi's and mpegs. See mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs.html for more info.
Isn't this supposed to be unecessary? Isn't GNU/Linux supposed to be upgradable just where needed? What am I faling to understand here.
You can still always upgrade manually if you want. The fact is that RedHat wants to include KDE3 in their distribution, and KDE3 breaks binarycompatibility with previous versions. It's RedHat policy to only make changes like that in a new release of their distro.
And installing/upgrading something like KDE (or any other big softwarepackage) with a RPM-based distro can be hell. It's just more convenient to let RedHat do it for you.
How is it possible that after years and years of pranks on April 1st people still get fooled?
Are people really so dumb or is Hemos so smart?
The article was posted five minutes ago, and they already cleared the servers!
1. The language is going to be broad. Face it. Jus about anything will qualify because as soon as the precedent is set, everybody will be clamoring to have their pet peeve branded as hate speech. Someone makes a joke like: "How do you make a dog go meow? You run it quickly over a circular saw," and it will be branded as hateful to animals and animal lovers.
No, the language is not going to be broad. Don't forget Europe totally lacks something as America's claimculture. Almost every European country already has anti-hatespeech laws. Does that mean we live in a totalitarian society? Does that mean we don't have free speech? No, of course not. There are certain restrictions to free speech, but they only include calls for violence and purely racist remarks. I don't really mind not hearing these, though I understand the reasons many Americans would. Just don't forget Europe is much more liberal (in the leftish-politics sense) than the USA is - political correctness is widespread, too 'extreme' voices will be automatically shut by social pressure.
Anti-globalization protesters (which I am not a part of and to some extent find some disquieting parallels with Naziis m in their beliefs)
Can you be a bit more elaborative on this?
3. Has anyone stopped to think what the response of the hatemongers will be? They'll PGP encrypt everything. They'll use steganography. You know what this means? After these laws fail, the governments will blame it on the availability of encryption. So watch it become a crime to possess any encryption technology in Europe, because only terrorists and hatemongers use PGP, SSH, and FreeNet. Watch Linux be branded an accomplice to hate because hate groups use Apache on Linux to run their web sites.
If these people will communicate with the use of encryption, their opinions will not be publicized, and therefore nobody would know about it. Including the governments, who will say that their laws have worked: "Have you heard any hatespeech lately on the internet? No? Well, then it's about time you civilians start thanking us!"
And in the meantime all the racists start grouping underground and... who knows what will happen then?
Never underestimate the shortsightedness of politicians (and I don't think Europe differs from the USA in that perspective).
What is relevant, is the severity of the securityholes and the time it takes before the producer of the app in question puts patches out and how soon these get installed by the sysadmins. The latter seems to be the biggest problem anyway.
...should read Jorge Volpi's In search of Klingsor - it's a truly great novel by this young Mexican author. I don't know if it has been translated in English yet - the Spanish title is En busca Klingsor. The book is about a young intelligence officer named Francis Bacon (!) who's sent to post-war Germany to investigate the German's atomicbomb program and the mysterious lead scientist behind it named Klingsor. The meeting between Bohr and Heisenberg is in it too.
It's really a fascinating book and I'd recommend it to everyone interested in either physics, nazi's, WWII or conspiracies.
Though I didn't really notice any big differences in WM 0.80.0, it's still good to see that development on this project is still going on. I've tried KDE and Gnome, and kinda liked them both, except for two things: speed and lightness. I'm now all the way back to WindowMaker, and runs brilliantly on my AMD380. My PC know feels faster than ever. For example, if a friend of mine tries to surf the net, rip a CD to mp3 s and plays music with Winamp on his 1GHz WinME machine, the responsiveness of the computer drops dramatically. On my machine, I can do the same things without a hassle, music never skips, etc.
The only thing I miss when running WM, is a decent filemanager. For diskoperations, etc. I'm happily running MC in a terminal, but when I want to browse through a CD and open up photo's or mp3's "on the fly" I'm rather stuck. Konqueror and Nautilus are too heavy for me. Has anyone got a lighter alternative?
This attitude is what is keep Linux out of the maistream.
Linux is stable and fast(compared with MSanything).
developers need to relize that most people with computers do not know how to compile, don't want to learn, they want it to work.
First of all, it's probably not the goal of the MPlayer developers to get Linux into the mainstream. They want to make a good videoplayer for Linux etc. and they're getting along nicely. The product is now at 0.6, so who know's what's going to be in the 'real' release?
The nice thing about Linux is it's diversity in all possible ways. There certainly are people working on products that will get Linux more into the mainstream (like Mandrake), but why should every developer commit himself to that same goal?
In the end, what people really want is a working computer. IMO, that's best achieved by concentrating on making a product work (i.e. for MPlayer playing video fast and stable) first, before focusing on installers, etc.
If the way of installing MPlayer is too difficult for a novice (which it probably is), he/she shouldn't use it, if he/she is unwilling to learn. There are alternatives, that do provide binaries, like XINE.
I do see your point about getting new users to switch to Linux, and how the attitude of a part of the community's not helping that, but hey, don't forget: it's FREE! If developers want their product to be easy to use for novices, they'll make it that way. It's not their responsibility to make Linux as a whole more mainstream - it's nobody's. If a group or company like Mandrake or Ximian take up this task, it's up to them to create a marketshare for their product, not to the community as a whole.
RTFM! They don't distribute binaries, because the software relies heavily on compile-time optimizations for specific hardware. Is that really necessary? Yes, it is. Playing a Divx-movie with XINE, for example, is a bitch compared to MPlayer on my computer. And besides, how hard is it to type configure && make && make install? If you're running a Unix-based system this really shouldn't be an issue to you - even if you're "lazy". It is? Spare yourself, run Windows. Easy installing, good multimedia support, etc. right out of the box. Just download a codec - and take a couple of bugs in the OS for granted. That's what most "lazy" computer users do anyway.
Are there any other major reasons for using Galeon that I am missing?
It isn't much faster anymore.
It is, at least on my AMD380 with 192MB RAM. Galeon starts up within seconds, whereas Mozilla takes at least 10. Also, Galeon is much more responsive with opening new tabs, etc. For me personally, Galeon has been more stable and feels more solid than than any of the Mozilla-releases.
Just use the mp3 hardware that's available - sound quality's pretty much the same. Ogg will never be more than a sympathetic open-source project, because it hasn't got much more to offer than mp3. MP3 is currently widely accepted and used, and hardware co's will keep sticking to it - except for a couple of geeks, there'll never be a market for Ogg-hardware.