Re:KDE is just a Windowsalike
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KDE Wins 3 awards
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What's funny is some of the KDE/Kmail advocates were ragging on Evolution yesterday because it looks like Outlook, yet KDE itself looks like the spitting image of Windows..
You should be using vi to read your mail, and you can telnet to your mail server to send replies. It'll make you feel like a real hacker, and then you can tell people who use pine and mutt that their email client is bloated!
Miguel, thanks for the great software! All the work you guys do for Gnome is really appreciated.
What's up with all these people trashing an email cient which fills an empy niche? They want 100 text-based email clients with minimal features, but scream the minute someone wants to give the community ONE email client with the feature set of Outlook.
I guess some people are just selfish and want more software to be designed their liking, regardless of others who want it.
Who are you to say what "the people" want. Personally I like Mozilla, I'm all for the way they've done things, and I'm thankful that we have such an excellent open browser that runs on MacOS, Windows, and Unix.
Re:He SHOULD care about the competition...
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Torvalds Tells All
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They are only in war in ones mind.
Try 'racing' someone at the park who is casually strolling around for the pleasure of it. Then you will understand why there is no war.
How can you say a toolkit is blocky when it's themeable?? Don't you mean that the themes you have been using are blocky?
Try the Eazel and Eazel-blue themes for GTK. I'd post links to screenshots, but t.o is down. They are great themes.
One advantage of GTK over QT that I never hear people talking about is eventually you will be able to port your GTK apps to Windows (I know it's sorta here now, but it's supposed to get better), and your program is still 'free'. From what I understand, if you want to port your QT application over to Windows, you have licensing to pay for. Am I correct on this? Doesn't QT cost you money if you want to compile under Windows?
The whole fileplanet situation wouldn't be so evil if they smacked you in the face with their intentions right at the beginning. Instead they wait till you ALMOST get the file you want to let you know you can't get this file UNLESS you register, which I think costs money now.
I acutally broke down and created an account, but I STILL couldn't download some files form them.
Why don't they just require a logon when you go to their homepage, and save my the effort of finding out that I can't download a single file, b/c I haven't paid them money.
Wrong. When you download Linux, the code is yours to keep, sell, whatever, for as long as you live. Linus could change the license of Linux, but that doesn't affect the code you have. It is "free".
This poll from excite shows that most people are not willing to give up any freedoms to combat terrorism (save freedom of travel which is more of a convenience than a freedom.)
That being said, I'm sure after reading an objective article on this backdoor idea most people will disagree with the it.
On a 386, that game ran like doodoo unless you have smartdrive loaded. If you have smartdrive loaded (which took a big chunk of system memory) then you had to make sure you had enough memory to load your mouse driver (which could be 9k or greater.)
IIRC, you couldn't load anything into high memory (b/c voodoo didn't work with emm386).
When an original author writes an original piece of code, said author gets to choose a license for that code.
That's the key point. The author has complete freedom of choice when it comes to a license. If the author doesn't care what is done with his work, then he may just realease to to the public domain. If he wants to ensure that his work is only used for the bettering of nerd-kind, then he can choose the GPL.
If a 3rd party wants to save some money and use the author's code, then it is up to them to make sure they abide by the terms of the license.
Re:Kudos to Slashdot and the Slashteam
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Handling the Loads
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It's really touching, that the so many people are showing their support.
The gestures you all make are noticed, and they are much appreciated.
What he is saying is if the Afghan govt. doesn't know where bin Laden is, then how in the hell did they take away his communication equipment? They do know where he is.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but didn't Skylarov come to the US on his own? I'm not arguing whether his software was right or wrong, but there is a difference between our country arresting someone in their own country for a law they broke there, and arresting someone in our country for a law they broke here.
I think the DMCA is crap just like the rest of us, but he did come to the US and apparently he did give copies of his software out here (which is why they could arrest him.)
This excite poll is asking what people would be willing to give up for protection of terrorism..
56% would not be willing to give up ANY freedoms, while 18% would be willing to give up freedom of travel (which means taveling will be more difficult due to security precautions.)
Apparently 74% of 4000+ people who voted would not be willing to give up any real freedoms (like speech and privacy) for the sake of safety.
Maybe you have better sources, but I don't see how you can say the American people will just hand over their freedoms.
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What's funny is some of the KDE/Kmail advocates were ragging on Evolution yesterday because it looks like Outlook, yet KDE itself looks like the spitting image of Windows..
Actually, I have been using Evo for 4 or so months, and I have never had an NFS issue.
My client is RH7.X, and my server is as well.
You're using an email client?
What a waste of disk space!
You should be using vi to read your mail, and you can telnet to your mail server to send replies. It'll make you feel like a real hacker, and then you can tell people who use pine and mutt that their email client is bloated!
It must suck for you to not have a woman..
What's this FreeSBD you speak off?
I though all silent-but-deadlies were free.
Miguel, thanks for the great software! All the work you guys do for Gnome is really appreciated.
What's up with all these people trashing an email cient which fills an empy niche? They want 100 text-based email clients with minimal features, but scream the minute someone wants to give the community ONE email client with the feature set of Outlook.
I guess some people are just selfish and want more software to be designed their liking, regardless of others who want it.
Thanks again!
Who are you to say what "the people" want. Personally I like Mozilla, I'm all for the way they've done things, and I'm thankful that we have such an excellent open browser that runs on MacOS, Windows, and Unix.
They are only in war in ones mind.
Try 'racing' someone at the park who is casually strolling around for the pleasure of it. Then you will understand why there is no war.
How can you say a toolkit is blocky when it's themeable?? Don't you mean that the themes you have been using are blocky?
Try the Eazel and Eazel-blue themes for GTK. I'd post links to screenshots, but t.o is down. They are great themes.
One advantage of GTK over QT that I never hear people talking about is eventually you will be able to port your GTK apps to Windows (I know it's sorta here now, but it's supposed to get better), and your program is still 'free'. From what I understand, if you want to port your QT application over to Windows, you have licensing to pay for. Am I correct on this? Doesn't QT cost you money if you want to compile under Windows?
Never respect anyone with a sig that belittles people for their not-so-low Slashdot ID.
The whole fileplanet situation wouldn't be so evil if they smacked you in the face with their intentions right at the beginning. Instead they wait till you ALMOST get the file you want to let you know you can't get this file UNLESS you register, which I think costs money now.
I acutally broke down and created an account, but I STILL couldn't download some files form them.
Fileplanet sucks. I hate them with a passion.
Why don't they just require a logon when you go to their homepage, and save my the effort of finding out that I can't download a single file, b/c I haven't paid them money.
Nice sig.
That reminds me of football players in high school kicking nerds asses just b/c they were physically superior to them, just because they could.
How's it feel to be one of them?
Wrong. When you download Linux, the code is yours to keep, sell, whatever, for as long as you live. Linus could change the license of Linux, but that doesn't affect the code you have. It is "free".
Maybe we'll start seeing Linux virii when Norton starts making Norton AV for Linux.
Abiword doesn't handle .doc forms, at all. Until it does that I have to use StarOffice or run Word under wine.
This poll from excite shows that most people are not willing to give up any freedoms to combat terrorism (save freedom of travel which is more of a convenience than a freedom.)
That being said, I'm sure after reading an objective article on this backdoor idea most people will disagree with the it.
Good god what a nightmare that was.
On a 386, that game ran like doodoo unless you have smartdrive loaded. If you have smartdrive loaded (which took a big chunk of system memory) then you had to make sure you had enough memory to load your mouse driver (which could be 9k or greater.)
IIRC, you couldn't load anything into high memory (b/c voodoo didn't work with emm386).
The good ole days.
Ahh, you are referring to Ambrosia!
That aspect of the game (the whirlpool and the strange new exotic land filled with really hard mosters) was a really cool experience.
Ultima 3 was a pure fantasy game. One day i'll get off my arse and get moving on my plan to create an Ultima3-like game
You misunderstand the way software licenses work.
When an original author writes an original piece of code, said author gets to choose a license for that code.
That's the key point. The author has complete freedom of choice when it comes to a license. If the author doesn't care what is done with his work, then he may just realease to to the public domain. If he wants to ensure that his work is only used for the bettering of nerd-kind, then he can choose the GPL.
If a 3rd party wants to save some money and use the author's code, then it is up to them to make sure they abide by the terms of the license.
It's really touching, that the so many people are showing their support.
The gestures you all make are noticed, and they are much appreciated.
You missed his point.
What he is saying is if the Afghan govt. doesn't know where bin Laden is, then how in the hell did they take away his communication equipment? They do know where he is.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but didn't Skylarov come to the US on his own? I'm not arguing whether his software was right or wrong, but there is a difference between our country arresting someone in their own country for a law they broke there, and arresting someone in our country for a law they broke here.
I think the DMCA is crap just like the rest of us, but he did come to the US and apparently he did give copies of his software out here (which is why they could arrest him.)
The reason all this is silly is because they are confusing the implementation of a protocol with the spec for a protocol.
Once someone with a handle on this makes it known, our senators will realize it's not going to help.
Email your senator and tell let them know. That's what they're there for.
This excite poll is asking what people would be willing to give up for protection of terrorism..
56% would not be willing to give up ANY freedoms, while 18% would be willing to give up freedom of travel (which means taveling will be more difficult due to security precautions.)
Apparently 74% of 4000+ people who voted would not be willing to give up any real freedoms (like speech and privacy) for the sake of safety.
Maybe you have better sources, but I don't see how you can say the American people will just hand over their freedoms.