You bet it's hard to compile GNOME on non-RedHat distributions. I attempted to compile 1.0.1 on my SuSE 5.3 box, and it was all too complicated, and then the result was all too buggy. Anyway, since when do Linux applications put locale data in/usr/lib/locale, instead of/usr/share/locale? That was the most annoying "feature".
You got a new box to handle an increase in traffic, and you're gonna start using the extra CPU time for this custom/. stuff? Geez, no wonder computers today feel as fast as they did years ago, the "creeping featurism" syndrome attacks all of us equally....
Just imagine being able to see that you're going at 95mph without ever taking your eyes off the road, while at the same time having an X window in front of your eyes displaying the video captured with the bttv driver showing what seems to be a state trooper right behind you...
yet another reason why the government shouldn't stick its nose on technology, or why RMS should run for president (Linus can't, as you probably know already).:o)
Ya ya ya, whatever... if it's for integrated hardware, I have a p5/100 with SCSI and Ethernet on the planarboard, along with both PCI and EISA. And it feels just as fast as the p5/233MMX I have on my desk at work (which runs NT - *shudder*).
Besides, who's comparing home-built machines to workstations here? Most Macs don't fit my definition of "workstation".
Hell, no, not SCSI for internod communication. Not even Ultra2. Yes, it's considerably faster than Ethernet in data transfer rates, but (a) you can't put a switch on a SCSI bus to avoid having a node wait for another one to finish sending data to start transmitting; (b) a device in a SCSI bus can't arbitrarily send data to another device in the chain; (3) you're limited to up to 16 devices in the bus (I'm not sure about whether recent developments change that limitation, though). It would take a fugly hack to make it suitable for the job. Fibre Channel and FireWire could be better choices, but I don't know jack about them, so no further comments.
Before you keep posting messages about how unfair the comparison was, if you read the article again, you'll notice that the point they want to convey is not how fast the Linux cluster was compared to the Cray, but instead how easy and inexpensive it was to set it up and get running, using just a few x86 boxes (I admit that Netfinities aren't exactly what I think about when I hear the word "cheap") and software that can be acquired for free. Damn, they got the software from Barnes & Noble! How much easier than that can it get?
Ok, now... No, no, no, KDE doesn't "intercept" Xt, Xview or Athena widgets the way you describe (i.e., Athena widgets will be displayed, instead of the KDE ones). What KDE does instead is apply the colour resources for those widget sets to those you have set for KDE. It also works for Motif apps (change the colours in KDE and Netscape shows the results). Non-KDE apps have to be restarted to display the changes, though. But it helps a lot in giving your desktop a consistent look. BTW, I recommend that if you use any Xaw-based apps, replace it with Xaw3D or Xaw95, as it will look much better.
AFAIK, you'd have to disable VGA compatibility in one of the cards, otherwise you'd have two devices trying to put their BIOS code somewhere in 0xC:8000. Matrox cards have a switch that does exactly that, so that you can install one of those with another video card (or another Matrox card, for multi-head support with only one driver). the video driver won't care about the VGA BIOS, and just use the card directly.
You could as well use GtkV, a port of the V toolkit, whose author uses to teach C++ programming, and is supposedly extremely easy to use. I saw an announcement for it on Freshmeat today, so go check it out.
Cool-Creative helped bring PC sound out of the pre-Stone Age-the more the merrier.
AFAIK, what gave Creative's initial boost was the SoundBlaster, an AdLib with an 8-bit DAC attached to it. Which looks very suspiciously like a bastardisation technique (unles they actually had a licence).
What "taskbar"? You mean, the Launchpad introduced in v3.0? That was more like FvwmButtons or Goodstuff, not a taskbar like WarpCentre (or whatever it is called) in v4.0, which obviously came After Win95.
What we need from OS/2 is the Workplace Shell, though.:o)
The attack sounds much like SYN flood DoS attack that was plugged in 2.0.thirtysomething (35, I guess).
This, and what someone said about ZD having 2.2.0 *now*, make me think we're running time machines on our desks (we're predicting the future, it seems)...
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You bet it's hard to compile GNOME on non-RedHat distributions. I attempted to compile 1.0.1 on my SuSE 5.3 box, and it was all too complicated, and then the result was all too buggy. Anyway, since when do Linux applications put locale data in /usr/lib/locale, instead of /usr/share/locale? That was the most annoying "feature".
now that /. runs on a much faster machine, why not add a module that runs every article through 'ispell'? 'Definately' gets old very quick.
^D
How long would they take to write a bible?
^D
Yeah. And that programmer probably prefers to drive the rusty Rambler that VisualBasic is... :o)
^D
The site has reached its hard transfer limit, or so the error says. Hhmmm, some new symptom of the Slashdot Effect? Someone set up a mirror, puh-leez!
^D
You got a new box to handle an increase in traffic, and you're gonna start using the extra CPU time for this custom /. stuff? Geez, no wonder computers today feel as fast as they did years ago, the "creeping featurism" syndrome attacks all of us equally....
Just imagine being able to see that you're going at 95mph without ever taking your eyes off the road, while at the same time having an X window in front of your eyes displaying the video captured with the bttv driver showing what seems to be a state trooper right behind you...
Oh my, I guess it was too bad an experience...
^D
and he probably thinks AOL bisks are kewl too.
:o)
yet another reason why the government shouldn't stick its nose on technology, or why RMS should run for president (Linus can't, as you probably know already).
^D
Ya ya ya, whatever... if it's for integrated hardware, I have a p5/100 with SCSI and Ethernet on the planarboard, along with both PCI and EISA. And it feels just as fast as the p5/233MMX I have on my desk at work (which runs NT - *shudder*).
Besides, who's comparing home-built machines to workstations here? Most Macs don't fit my definition of "workstation".
Not yet for Linux, but wait for SGI to come up with some ccNUMA stuff in the not-so-distant future... or so it seems to be.
Hell, no, not SCSI for internod communication. Not even Ultra2. Yes, it's considerably faster than Ethernet in data transfer rates, but (a) you can't put a switch on a SCSI bus to avoid having a node wait for another one to finish sending data to start transmitting; (b) a device in a SCSI bus can't arbitrarily send data to another device in the chain; (3) you're limited to up to 16 devices in the bus (I'm not sure about whether recent developments change that limitation, though). It would take a fugly hack to make it suitable for the job. Fibre Channel and FireWire could be better choices, but I don't know jack about them, so no further comments.
Before you keep posting messages about how unfair the comparison was, if you read the article again, you'll notice that the point they want to convey is not how fast the Linux cluster was compared to the Cray, but instead how easy and inexpensive it was to set it up and get running, using just a few x86 boxes (I admit that Netfinities aren't exactly what I think about when I hear the word "cheap") and software that can be acquired for free. Damn, they got the software from Barnes & Noble! How much easier than that can it get?
Compile it from the SRPMs. And no, it ain't a PITA to do that (compared to GNOME).
Let me recover from the laughter first...
Ok, now... No, no, no, KDE doesn't "intercept" Xt, Xview or Athena widgets the way you describe (i.e., Athena widgets will be displayed, instead of the KDE ones). What KDE does instead is apply the colour resources for those widget sets to those you have set for KDE. It also works for Motif apps (change the colours in KDE and Netscape shows the results). Non-KDE apps have to be restarted to display the changes, though. But it helps a lot in giving your desktop a consistent look. BTW, I recommend that if you use any Xaw-based apps, replace it with Xaw3D or Xaw95, as it will look much better.
AFAIK, you'd have to disable VGA compatibility in one of the cards, otherwise you'd have two devices trying to put their BIOS code somewhere in 0xC:8000. Matrox cards have a switch that does exactly that, so that you can install one of those with another video card (or another Matrox card, for multi-head support with only one driver). the video driver won't care about the VGA BIOS, and just use the card directly.
You could as well use GtkV, a port of the V toolkit, whose author uses to teach C++ programming, and is supposedly extremely easy to use. I saw an announcement for it on Freshmeat today, so go check it out.
Cool-Creative helped bring PC sound out of the pre-Stone Age-the more the merrier.
AFAIK, what gave Creative's initial boost was the SoundBlaster, an AdLib with an 8-bit DAC attached to it. Which looks very suspiciously like a bastardisation technique (unles they actually had a licence).
Heh... with friends like those, who needs enemies?
^D
Could I have the Netfinity, if you don't mind? :op
I don't believe that Linux has heavy support for TWAIN (the protocol used for scanners, digital cameras, etc),
Gee, and I thought TWAIN was a software interface, á la SANE... gotta check my "Scanners for Dummies" book!
In April did they say? Well, then, I assume 6.0 is gonna be a joke bug-wise, and people should wait 'til 6.1 or 6.2 for the serious stuff... :op
What "taskbar"? You mean, the Launchpad introduced in v3.0? That was more like FvwmButtons or Goodstuff, not a taskbar like WarpCentre (or whatever it is called) in v4.0, which obviously came After Win95.
:o)
What we need from OS/2 is the Workplace Shell, though.
Actually, the .xsession would look something like this:
#!/bin/sh
xterm &
kbgndwm &
krootwm &
exec kwm
I'll let you figure out what the extra wm's do (hint: kpanel doesn't do the root menus).
"Jesse Berst's AnchorDesk: Your source for tech ignorance"...
^D
The attack sounds much like SYN flood DoS attack that was plugged in 2.0.thirtysomething (35, I guess).
This, and what someone said about ZD having 2.2.0 *now*, make me think we're running time machines on our desks (we're predicting the future, it seems)...
^D