But have you read the latest Mac (OS X) review on slashdot? The reviewer had a box with two 2 GHz CPUs, a Radeon 9600 (which he called _slow_!!!) and complained that it was sluggish using all the graphical enhancements. I'm running KDE 3.3, Thunderbird, Firefox and OpenOffice on a 1.4 GHz Centrino with a Radeon 7500 (16 MB) and I'm totally happy with it.
Linux is small and lean. And you can use top-notch apps if you like. The only advantage of OS X in that review was the way OS X lets the user switch between apps: hitting a special key resized, relocated and zoomed all open windows such that you can see and select them immediately and side by side. THAT is probably the only task I would really want to have under Linux/KDE.
Everything else is a waste of cpu power. Und such will be Longhorn. Of course, if you are a designer, it is always good to show your clients such useless but impressive stuff.
I like it much more than other futuristic movies mainly because of the following reasons:
1.) The actors are great. They are real personalities (well, except for Riker, Troy,... and Tasha Yar left the crew much too early) with sometimes a very traditional background (Picard).
2.) The Star Trek universe at least _tries_ to be somewhat consistent. The creators do not try to paint a dumb-headed total-war or total-peace picture.
But there are downpoints:
1.) DS9 had far too many "holiday episodes" -- episodes in which only social interactions take place, nearly like a damn soap. GET RID OF THAT SHIT! Of course, the other series had quite a few of these, too.
2.) These guys can beam living biological creatures. But they still suffer from deseases and they still have a limited lifespan! That is ridiculous.
3.) Clingons have stealth shields. How can a primitive race like them invent ANYTHING? Do their scientists seek their heroic battles among formulas??? Well, science is actually quite a dirty battle, but I doubt Clingons look at it the same way *g*.
4.) If the BORG do not invent something themselves, how the hell are they doing any better than their enemies? Just taking the knowledge isn't enough to combine all the inventions of all the different species. These inventions would never fit together. And how the hell can they adopt to randomly changing field configurations? I mean, random is random. You just cannot predict or compute it. That is plane bullshit.
In general, I think since Voyager the Star Trek series are getting better. DS9 was (except its end) the very low of all ST productions. I propose to just let Star Trek get more "realistic". Don't let humans to be the only appreciable species. Give them eternal life. Take in some aspects from Babylon 5.
...they will make it installable under alternative locations like '/opt'. Gnome 2.6.x always tries to write files to/etc although using the/opt prefix... do they ever test their distributions before going public??
KDE is MUCH better in that respect. Their konstruct tool is just great and installs by default into a directory under the user's home. I'm running it on an old distribution like redhat 9 where no KDE 3.2.x RPMs are available.
... is much better because it nicely fits into the KDE environment and is reliably running in the background to watch your schedule.
It also supports storing the calendar file on an IMAP account and up/downloading to an URL.
KDE is constantly improving and it is now much better than the MS Windows desktop: upon logout, it saves your whole KDE desktop settings including your browser windows (reload the URLs upen next login) and it even remembers the position where have have stopped editing a text file!
The only thing I'm missing: the text editor does not support global bookmarks.
Hmmm. It weren't the Tux people that forced me to switch my OS. It was the Microsoft-BORG that did Because they failed to adapt themselves quickly enough, thus providing a safe harbor for all sorts of digital pestilential bacteria on my box.
Now tell me one thing: how will they gonna merge a complete relational database with the overly complex NTFS file system if they cannot even fix critical bugs in their internet explorer product within some reasonable time frame? I guess Microsoft desperately seeks reasons as to why customers should stick to Windows. Hopefully, they will fail at that attempt.
I don't like communism. But when putting open source in relation to communism, something goes wrong very badly. Communism is not liked because communist people usually have no free speech and are working 'as friends' because the are FORCED to do so. In practice, that is totally contrary to open source. Nobody is gonna arrest, torture or kill you if you stick to proprietary licenses.
The _theoretical_ idea of communism is something that cannot be avoided -- and the internet proved to provide a cheap way to let some sort of e-communism emerge, the first communism that has been set up by the free will of the masses.
Many IT personnel speak of free hardware and software rental licenses. But we already have free software -- enough for at least 95% of all imaginable uses. In the end, everything will be free because some day we will have automated ourselves out of the production business. Open source is the natural way to go on. We cannot stick to reprogram and resell text editors until our electronic desktop calendars show the year 10.000.
I suggest to stop talking about capitalism and communism. What we really mean is freedom. But the quality of slashdot postings are really getting too worse. Why do I have to read about some professor trying to copy chunks of sound out of his mp3 recordings? That's disgusting.
Please let us rate the story posters! *eg*
Hmmm... why not sort stories on slashdot's top page according to the ratings of the posters instead of letting the guys at slashdot do the selection? Remove that censorship! I want to apply my own preferences and ratings! Thanks.:-)
...with other solutions. Use Thunderbird for eMail and KDE's KOrganizer.
Ever tried to download a few hundred msgs with the email client of Ximian? It looks like they are using an O(n^2) algorithm to do that! It took terribly long on a 2,1 GHz Athlon XP machine...
The overall impression was just bad. I won't come back to it. KDE+Mozilla rulez! Everything is working fine with that. I can even pull small updates to Thunderbird and Firefox (from 0.x to 0.x.3) directly from the source repository without having to download the whole binaries and then apply my own patches before compiling.
First of all, there is no variance value available for the given results. They may just be random and totally meaningless numbers -- even if assuming the method of measurement is useful.
Second, MSN's userbase may be more international than those of Mac related sites. So it is possible that there are a lot more foreign English speakers on MSN. (And Slashdot!)
Third, if you live in the USA, it is quite bovious that someone who can afford a Mac, may more likely afford good education.
... this isn't the right place to ask, but how about integrating Project Gutenberg with Wikipedia? Wouldn't it be great to have hyperlinked online books?:-))
... the patent does not show anything related to an invention. It is just a simple form of organizing task bar buttons.
Hell, on monday I'm going to get a patent for parking backwards into a parking lot. But wait, why not getting a patent for the complicated process of 'parking a vehicle' at all? I could describe it as an unbelievably efficient way to reduce maintenance costs for my car -- compared against those who are still employing drivers to keep their cars on track while shopping!
By the way: I HATE grouping task bar buttons. It makes them totally inaccessible. I should be gratious for not being forced to switch it off any more. *eg*
Distribute the standard mail apps with gpg compiled in by default and let each user either import or create a key upon account information setup.
Then, when reading mails, there should be two buttons: trust or untrust sender if the message has been signed. When clicking "trust", a message dialog pops up and informs the user how he can do that, eg. not to trust keys just because he had an email conversion with the sender for some time, but rather make a phone call or exchange keys via secure ways.
I wonder if there is any downside -- except that the OSS community should persuade the user somehow to create and trust keys.
I agree. We should also have a configuration abstraction layer standard for configuring system services and firewalls. Software updates should be possible without reconfiguration.
... application policies. Example: set a maximum security policy for each app and, if the app tries to break it, let the user decide what to do. Example: web browser. Tries to connect to the web: user selects to always allow that or to enter more specific rules. Tries to read from disk other files than those which are its own: user selects what to do. You could restrict browser access to a download directory. No viruses may get in and no browser bug may generate a security hole.
A bit like Symantec's firewall (as far as I can remember, but not limited to network access).
I should also be able to set up a special security directory where I store secret information. Any app access files in that directory, will, during their session, not be allowed to write any data or access the network or other data ports.
Just let each app run under its own policy. That would make Linux even more insensitive in regard to viruses and other malicious things like backdoors.
As far as I know SELinux is some sort of that. But as far as I know there are nice user interfaces missing that allow to interactively (and on demand) change the policies.
Additionally, website visitors can given a special word they have to put into the subject line if they want to send one an email. Some sort of pass code. Pretty effective.
... set up a sender verification blocker? Just send back emails coming from unknown senders and let them verify that their accounts actually exist, and, maybe, that they are humans.
I find it pretty poor that no standard mail app supports such a thing.
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But have you read the latest Mac (OS X) review on slashdot? The reviewer had a box with two 2 GHz CPUs, a Radeon 9600 (which he called _slow_!!!) and complained that it was sluggish using all the graphical enhancements. I'm running KDE 3.3, Thunderbird, Firefox and OpenOffice on a 1.4 GHz Centrino with a Radeon 7500 (16 MB) and I'm totally happy with it.
Linux is small and lean. And you can use top-notch apps if you like. The only advantage of OS X in that review was the way OS X lets the user switch between apps: hitting a special key resized, relocated and zoomed all open windows such that you can see and select them immediately and side by side. THAT is probably the only task I would really want to have under Linux/KDE.
Everything else is a waste of cpu power. Und such will be Longhorn. Of course, if you are a designer, it is always good to show your clients such useless but impressive stuff.
I like it much more than other futuristic movies mainly because of the following reasons:
... and Tasha Yar left the crew much too early) with sometimes a very traditional background (Picard).
1.) The actors are great. They are real personalities (well, except for Riker, Troy,
2.) The Star Trek universe at least _tries_ to be somewhat consistent. The creators do not try to paint a dumb-headed total-war or total-peace picture.
But there are downpoints:
1.) DS9 had far too many "holiday episodes" -- episodes in which only social interactions take place, nearly like a damn soap. GET RID OF THAT SHIT! Of course, the other series had quite a few of these, too.
2.) These guys can beam living biological creatures. But they still suffer from deseases and they still have a limited lifespan! That is ridiculous.
3.) Clingons have stealth shields. How can a primitive race like them invent ANYTHING? Do their scientists seek their heroic battles among formulas??? Well, science is actually quite a dirty battle, but I doubt Clingons look at it the same way *g*.
4.) If the BORG do not invent something themselves, how the hell are they doing any better than their enemies? Just taking the knowledge isn't enough to combine all the inventions of all the different species. These inventions would never fit together. And how the hell can they adopt to randomly changing field configurations? I mean, random is random. You just cannot predict or compute it. That is plane bullshit.
In general, I think since Voyager the Star Trek series are getting better. DS9 was (except its end) the very low of all ST productions. I propose to just let Star Trek get more "realistic". Don't let humans to be the only appreciable species. Give them eternal life. Take in some aspects from Babylon 5.
...they will make it installable under alternative locations like '/opt'. Gnome 2.6.x always tries to write files to /etc although using the /opt prefix... do they ever test their distributions before going public??
KDE is MUCH better in that respect. Their konstruct tool is just great and installs by default into a directory under the user's home. I'm running it on an old distribution like redhat 9 where no KDE 3.2.x RPMs are available.
... where do I buy the nx5000/Linux combination in Europe??? Not even their own website contains such a deal!
... is much better because it nicely fits into the KDE environment and is reliably running in the background to watch your schedule.
It also supports storing the calendar file on an IMAP account and up/downloading to an URL.
KDE is constantly improving and it is now much better than the MS Windows desktop: upon logout, it saves your whole KDE desktop settings including your browser windows (reload the URLs upen next login) and it even remembers the position where have have stopped editing a text file!
The only thing I'm missing: the text editor does not support global bookmarks.
Look at the features of their upcoming 8.0.0 release.
Hmmm. It weren't the Tux people that forced me to switch my OS. It was the Microsoft-BORG that did Because they failed to adapt themselves quickly enough, thus providing a safe harbor for all sorts of digital pestilential bacteria on my box.
Now tell me one thing: how will they gonna merge a complete relational database with the overly complex NTFS file system if they cannot even fix critical bugs in their internet explorer product within some reasonable time frame? I guess Microsoft desperately seeks reasons as to why customers should stick to Windows. Hopefully, they will fail at that attempt.
I don't like communism. But when putting open source in relation to communism, something goes wrong very badly. Communism is not liked because communist people usually have no free speech and are working 'as friends' because the are FORCED to do so. In practice, that is totally contrary to open source. Nobody is gonna arrest, torture or kill you if you stick to proprietary licenses.
:-)
The _theoretical_ idea of communism is something that cannot be avoided -- and the internet proved to provide a cheap way to let some sort of e-communism emerge, the first communism that has been set up by the free will of the masses.
Many IT personnel speak of free hardware and software rental licenses. But we already have free software -- enough for at least 95% of all imaginable uses. In the end, everything will be free because some day we will have automated ourselves out of the production business. Open source is the natural way to go on. We cannot stick to reprogram and resell text editors until our electronic desktop calendars show the year 10.000.
I suggest to stop talking about capitalism and communism. What we really mean is freedom. But the quality of slashdot postings are really getting too worse. Why do I have to read about some professor trying to copy chunks of sound out of his mp3 recordings? That's disgusting.
Please let us rate the story posters! *eg*
Hmmm... why not sort stories on slashdot's top page according to the ratings of the posters instead of letting the guys at slashdot do the selection? Remove that censorship! I want to apply my own preferences and ratings! Thanks.
The open source community has large source code repositories at hand which can be dated due to releases of Linux distributions etc.
Can't we use these to sue the big players and convert the whole patent thing to their own disadvantage?
...with other solutions. Use Thunderbird for eMail and KDE's KOrganizer.
Ever tried to download a few hundred msgs with the email client of Ximian? It looks like they are using an O(n^2) algorithm to do that! It took terribly long on a 2,1 GHz Athlon XP machine...
The overall impression was just bad. I won't come back to it. KDE+Mozilla rulez! Everything is working fine with that. I can even pull small updates to Thunderbird and Firefox (from 0.x to 0.x.3) directly from the source repository without having to download the whole binaries and then apply my own patches before compiling.
Why don't these guys learn to implement their business client apps in Java? Or at least in a portable fashion?
First of all, there is no variance value available for the given results. They may just be random and totally meaningless numbers -- even if assuming the method of measurement is useful.
Second, MSN's userbase may be more international than those of Mac related sites. So it is possible that there are a lot more foreign English speakers on MSN. (And Slashdot!)
Third, if you live in the USA, it is quite bovious that someone who can afford a Mac, may more likely afford good education.
... this isn't the right place to ask, but how about integrating Project Gutenberg with Wikipedia? Wouldn't it be great to have hyperlinked online books? :-))
... that many of the scammers are living and operating in the UK. You have to know that UK's citizens do not need to have id papers or any such stuff.
But the NFS solution is better: it allows you to run your desktop on multiple computers at once
KDE can save your sessions.
Many universities and companies run computers from NFS servers.
That's about the same.
... the patent does not show anything related to an invention. It is just a simple form of organizing task bar buttons.
Hell, on monday I'm going to get a patent for parking backwards into a parking lot. But wait, why not getting a patent for the complicated process of 'parking a vehicle' at all? I could describe it as an unbelievably efficient way to reduce maintenance costs for my car -- compared against those who are still employing drivers to keep their cars on track while shopping!
By the way: I HATE grouping task bar buttons. It makes them totally inaccessible. I should be gratious for not being forced to switch it off any more. *eg*
Why not set up trust networks a la gpg?
Distribute the standard mail apps with gpg compiled in by default and let each user either import or create a key upon account information setup.
Then, when reading mails, there should be two buttons: trust or untrust sender if the message has been signed. When clicking "trust", a message dialog pops up and informs the user how he can do that, eg. not to trust keys just because he had an email conversion with the sender for some time, but rather make a phone call or exchange keys via secure ways.
I wonder if there is any downside -- except that the OSS community should persuade the user somehow to create and trust keys.
I agree. We should also have a configuration abstraction layer standard for configuring system services and firewalls. Software updates should be possible without reconfiguration.
... application policies. Example: set a maximum security policy for each app and, if the app tries to break it, let the user decide what to do. Example: web browser. Tries to connect to the web: user selects to always allow that or to enter more specific rules. Tries to read from disk other files than those which are its own: user selects what to do. You could restrict browser access to a download directory. No viruses may get in and no browser bug may generate a security hole.
A bit like Symantec's firewall (as far as I can remember, but not limited to network access).
I should also be able to set up a special security directory where I store secret information. Any app access files in that directory, will, during their session, not be allowed to write any data or access the network or other data ports.
Just let each app run under its own policy. That would make Linux even more insensitive in regard to viruses and other malicious things like backdoors.
As far as I know SELinux is some sort of that. But as far as I know there are nice user interfaces missing that allow to interactively (and on demand) change the policies.
Additionally, website visitors can given a special word they have to put into the subject line if they want to send one an email. Some sort of pass code. Pretty effective.
And, additionally, we could set up a central white list for senders that are known to be non-spam, eg. mailing lists etc.
... set up a sender verification blocker? Just send back emails coming from unknown senders and let them verify that their accounts actually exist, and, maybe, that they are humans.
I find it pretty poor that no standard mail app supports such a thing.
Cannot even login to the service on RedHat 9. Memory access fault.
The FreeWorld site states that You need broadband. In that hindsight Skype is MUCH better.
Some day all those services will be connected anyway.