As a former Windows "power user" who ditched the Explorer desktop altogether for Litestep before getting the hang of linux, neither Gnome nor KDE is really all that customizable. They're both based on an Explorer-style desktop background and bars that you can add various modules to - and if you're not OK with that basic paradigm you're screwed. Many options simply aren't there, particularly in Gnome: There's no way to turn off the minimize "trails" in Metacity, for instance. Gnome doesn't even come with a quick launch; you have to get quick-lounge-applet specifically. Editing the menus in both KDE and gnome is a distro-dependent and, in all distros i've tried, highly broken process. Though I hardly use the menu anyway given the choice between that, quicklounge, and command prompt. (To its credit, KDE comes with KMenuEdit which theoretically would do that if most distros didn't break it for KDE/gnome unification.) But basically these are small complaints - I use Gnome pretty happily these days. It feels faster than KDE and I just tend to like GTK widget themes better than QT ones for some reason. Some little things make a big difference, like a working QuickLounge so all your buttons don't have to be huge, some small buttons for xmms -r, -t, -s, -f, a cpu monitor, and a notification area that some apps are starting to actually make use of. It's not litestep; in a few areas it's even behind Explorer, but it's generally very tolerable even for a so-called power user.
I'm sure it'll be implemented in open source and be just as easy to get as libdvdcss, but no media format lives or dies on OSS compatibility. There are simply too few people running alternative OSes to make a difference in sales.
Dual-booting might not be done for the main Linux demographic (servers), but it's a big deal for desktop users to be able to dual boot and at least read all their partitions under all OSes. For this reason I use ext3 and, unfortunately, fat32 for storage partitions. I don't care so much about the performance of fat32 but I definitely miss having per-file user/group/world permissions on those filesystems when I'm in linux. I would love to see more advanced filesystems that are read-write under linux and windows both. There are ok ext2 drivers for Windows but I don't know that they're stable enough for write access, plus they don't support journaling.
Just cause you're not running a particular distribution doesn't mean you can't use a distro's kernel patch. Besides, what stability issues are you encountering with the 2.6 kernels? While I'm not doing anything mission-critical on my personal box, I haven't had any kernel problems in the 2.6 series that I've been able to identify.
x0rfbserver hasn't been updated in forever. Use X11VNC to export your local X display. I spent forever looking for x0rfb updates before I found that. It's much more stable, faster, and has better compression options.
I found Everything And More a good bit easier than GEB; maybe it's just shorter, but I think it's also a bit less ambitious in what it tries to cover. I'd definitely recommend EAM to someone who was interested enough to try to read GEB.
err. I kinda think the opposite is more true; I treat my computer more as a toy and I'm fine with having to mess around with it before it works, so I use linux. On the other hand, if I wanted things like printing to work easily I'd probably use windows.
The FSF doesn't get to decide about this though. There's no question about relicensing GPLed software as ASL2 (you can't); it's vice versa, and if the Apache people say you can relicense their software as GPL then you can.
Gee, I wonder if there's an incentive to keep the pork barrel full?
The report wasn't saying that the Bush administration doesn't fund scientists, but that it doesn't pay attention to their findings when it's politically inconvenient.
So, are you using the original BSD license including the advertising clause? The U of California doesn't even use that anymore; it seems as though the only reason to use that as opposed to the modified/GPL-compatible BSD license is if you specifically don't want your code to be GPLable.
It doesn't take a lot for a free-software license to be GPL compatible; this is one reason why the GPL is such a common license. If you're using a free-software license that isn't GPL compatible it's likely that the GPL incompatibility will cause more headaches than whatever you'd be giving up in your license in order to make it compatible.
If you BSD-license it to them (possibly with a charge), they can then BSD-license it to others (also possibly with a charge) without going through you. You'd want a more restrictive license than BSD. Ideally they'd only be licensed to redistribute the binaries under a EULA of their choice and (if they so choose) the sources under the GPL.
Assuming you're right, then why the hell would they want to indemnify their subscribers so they won't buy licenses? Call me naive but I don't think Novell has that kind of control over SCO.
Do the minion.de stuff the other comment mentioned, and make sure you aren't running in framebuffer mode with rivafb (best is to disable it when building the kernel.) That one bit me for a while by locking my display with funny lines and dots on the screen whenever I left X.
The GIMP's bunches of floating windows is mostly ok with me, but I wish it didn't play so much havoc with my taskbar. In 1.2 the main toolbox, dialogs, and each image all got their own entries in the task list which meant not only my taskbar got cluttered but if I ever switched to a different application I'd have to bring each window to the front individually. It's gotten somewhat better in 1.3 (most of the dialogs seem either to come up in the main toolbox or be tied to the individual image); the only thing I'd still like would be if bringing one of the pictures to the front would bring the toolbox to the front as well. I'm also not sure I wouldn't prefer having just one taskbar entry to bring all windows forward in MDI style; it would help when cut-&-pasting between lots of different images.
You could still install a different Gentoo on the harddrive. Rig it to say "Boot from CD..." at bootup, set the BIOS to boot from the harddrive first, and rig the voting program to favor your party. Though if they printed out ballots as well you'd have a pretty hard time pulling it off.
heh, whodathunk, but you made it too hard. If you put Linus Torvalds in directly, you get:
Linus Torvalds was in Revolution OS (2001) with Susan Egan Susan Egan was in Hercules (1997) with Keith (I) David Keith (I) David was in Novocaine (2001) with Kevin Bacon
Why not have several do-not-call lists specific to commercial, non-profit, survey, political.... ? No discrimination, and people have even finer control over who can cold-call them.
My reading of the article wasn't that these 400 people gained an average of 10% on top of their existing wealth, but that the 400 richest this year are that much richer than the 400 richest last year. Probably you'd expect a lot of them to be the same people, with people near the top of the list only dropping off due to death and some of the people on the bottom switching in and out, and I'd think this would tend to push the total increase down from what you'd expect an individual to earn.
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As a former Windows "power user" who ditched the Explorer desktop altogether for Litestep before getting the hang of linux, neither Gnome nor KDE is really all that customizable. They're both based on an Explorer-style desktop background and bars that you can add various modules to - and if you're not OK with that basic paradigm you're screwed. Many options simply aren't there, particularly in Gnome: There's no way to turn off the minimize "trails" in Metacity, for instance. Gnome doesn't even come with a quick launch; you have to get quick-lounge-applet specifically. Editing the menus in both KDE and gnome is a distro-dependent and, in all distros i've tried, highly broken process. Though I hardly use the menu anyway given the choice between that, quicklounge, and command prompt. (To its credit, KDE comes with KMenuEdit which theoretically would do that if most distros didn't break it for KDE/gnome unification.) But basically these are small complaints - I use Gnome pretty happily these days. It feels faster than KDE and I just tend to like GTK widget themes better than QT ones for some reason. Some little things make a big difference, like a working QuickLounge so all your buttons don't have to be huge, some small buttons for xmms -r, -t, -s, -f, a cpu monitor, and a notification area that some apps are starting to actually make use of. It's not litestep; in a few areas it's even behind Explorer, but it's generally very tolerable even for a so-called power user.
I'm sure it'll be implemented in open source and be just as easy to get as libdvdcss, but no media format lives or dies on OSS compatibility. There are simply too few people running alternative OSes to make a difference in sales.
you got me wrong, i'm saying it's not defacement if it washes off with a hose.
If you own storefront property in NYC, either you hose your sidewalk regularly or your sidewalk looks pretty grim anyway.
Did you read the article? Or even the summary?
We're talking less defacement than walking in muddy shoes.
Dual-booting might not be done for the main Linux demographic (servers), but it's a big deal for desktop users to be able to dual boot and at least read all their partitions under all OSes. For this reason I use ext3 and, unfortunately, fat32 for storage partitions. I don't care so much about the performance of fat32 but I definitely miss having per-file user/group/world permissions on those filesystems when I'm in linux. I would love to see more advanced filesystems that are read-write under linux and windows both. There are ok ext2 drivers for Windows but I don't know that they're stable enough for write access, plus they don't support journaling.
Just cause you're not running a particular distribution doesn't mean you can't use a distro's kernel patch. Besides, what stability issues are you encountering with the 2.6 kernels? While I'm not doing anything mission-critical on my personal box, I haven't had any kernel problems in the 2.6 series that I've been able to identify.
x0rfbserver hasn't been updated in forever. Use X11VNC to export your local X display. I spent forever looking for x0rfb updates before I found that. It's much more stable, faster, and has better compression options.
I found Everything And More a good bit easier than GEB; maybe it's just shorter, but I think it's also a bit less ambitious in what it tries to cover. I'd definitely recommend EAM to someone who was interested enough to try to read GEB.
err. I kinda think the opposite is more true; I treat my computer more as a toy and I'm fine with having to mess around with it before it works, so I use linux. On the other hand, if I wanted things like printing to work easily I'd probably use windows.
XFree (no number attached) works and gives xfree86.org as its first result....wtf
The FSF doesn't get to decide about this though. There's no question about relicensing GPLed software as ASL2 (you can't); it's vice versa, and if the Apache people say you can relicense their software as GPL then you can.
Gee, I wonder if there's an incentive to keep the pork barrel full?
The report wasn't saying that the Bush administration doesn't fund scientists, but that it doesn't pay attention to their findings when it's politically inconvenient.
the article says they'd been working on the report for a year or more.
So, are you using the original BSD license including the advertising clause? The U of California doesn't even use that anymore; it seems as though the only reason to use that as opposed to the modified/GPL-compatible BSD license is if you specifically don't want your code to be GPLable.
It doesn't take a lot for a free-software license to be GPL compatible; this is one reason why the GPL is such a common license. If you're using a free-software license that isn't GPL compatible it's likely that the GPL incompatibility will cause more headaches than whatever you'd be giving up in your license in order to make it compatible.
Doesn't it prevent others from patenting the same thing?
Besides it's not you'll lose any quality if you need to turn some of your shn's into flac files. should be pretty fast too.
If you BSD-license it to them (possibly with a charge), they can then BSD-license it to others (also possibly with a charge) without going through you. You'd want a more restrictive license than BSD. Ideally they'd only be licensed to redistribute the binaries under a EULA of their choice and (if they so choose) the sources under the GPL.
Assuming you're right, then why the hell would they want to indemnify their subscribers so they won't buy licenses? Call me naive but I don't think Novell has that kind of control over SCO.
Do the minion.de stuff the other comment mentioned, and make sure you aren't running in framebuffer mode with rivafb (best is to disable it when building the kernel.) That one bit me for a while by locking my display with funny lines and dots on the screen whenever I left X.
The GIMP's bunches of floating windows is mostly ok with me, but I wish it didn't play so much havoc with my taskbar. In 1.2 the main toolbox, dialogs, and each image all got their own entries in the task list which meant not only my taskbar got cluttered but if I ever switched to a different application I'd have to bring each window to the front individually. It's gotten somewhat better in 1.3 (most of the dialogs seem either to come up in the main toolbox or be tied to the individual image); the only thing I'd still like would be if bringing one of the pictures to the front would bring the toolbox to the front as well. I'm also not sure I wouldn't prefer having just one taskbar entry to bring all windows forward in MDI style; it would help when cut-&-pasting between lots of different images.
You could still install a different Gentoo on the harddrive. Rig it to say "Boot from CD..." at bootup, set the BIOS to boot from the harddrive first, and rig the voting program to favor your party. Though if they printed out ballots as well you'd have a pretty hard time pulling it off.
heh, whodathunk, but you made it too hard. If you put Linus Torvalds in directly, you get:
Linus Torvalds was in Revolution OS (2001) with Susan Egan
Susan Egan was in Hercules (1997) with Keith (I) David
Keith (I) David was in Novocaine (2001) with Kevin Bacon
both end in novocaine... god, what a crap movie.
Why not have several do-not-call lists specific to commercial, non-profit, survey, political.... ? No discrimination, and people have even finer control over who can cold-call them.
My reading of the article wasn't that these 400 people gained an average of 10% on top of their existing wealth, but that the 400 richest this year are that much richer than the 400 richest last year. Probably you'd expect a lot of them to be the same people, with people near the top of the list only dropping off due to death and some of the people on the bottom switching in and out, and I'd think this would tend to push the total increase down from what you'd expect an individual to earn.