" and read the first 3 Harry Potter books on my next 3 flights (I'm saving the 4th book for next time I fly;)
I wonder if Taco has seen the size of the 4th book? All I can say is I hope its a very long flight. Rumours are that the 5th book come complete with a wheel barrow and the 6th with a shopping cart.
I was very tempted by an Asus a while back but I needed a laptop for a new position and I couldn't get an Asus in time however, my brother did purchase one and is very happy with it. They seem to be one of the easier laptops to upgrade also but he has had to get it repair once as it wouldn't boot, no reason for the failure but was returned repaired under warrenty in less than 2 weeks.
The only thing that I would worry about personally is the savage video card, I would *personally* be looking for a Geforce 2go based laptop or wait until the new NVidia mobile chipset has found its way in to a notebook. This could take a while and also depends on your needs, I fly model helicopters and like to use a PC based sim while on the road to practice so the more polygon pushing power a laptop has the better.
SVG icons are a supported format for QT 3 which will of course be the toolkit for KDE 3. Expect support early next year. I have no idea what tackat is planning on the icon front and while I'm on the subject, tackat is almost the only person working on icons and 99.9% of the icons in KDE are his, its not too shabby for one guys work! I personally like the icons in KDE but you opinion is is respected.
Sounds like you have some good ideas, if you feel like helping out please do.
The KDE print system requires and underlying print systems such as CUPS for example to work well. In fact CUPS is the recommended sub-system to use with KDE print.
So, to say it's better doesn't make a lot of sense.
I agree with you regarding the the fact that KDE well may never make it on to the commercial unixes as a shipping package. Just want to clarify why slightly:
If Gnome is used, commercial companies can develop closed source apps that use Gnomes libs without paying a thing to anyone for using the functions in said libs.
As it currently stands with KDE any closed source for profit software that wishes to use desktop functions needs to link again against QT, which the closed source company must pay a license to trolltech.
It makes more sense for Sun to go with gnome for 3rd party developer support.
Alas you just don't know Mosfet, the parent post is 100% spot on.. Mosfet needs some professional help, seriously (unfortunatly he can't afford it).
This is kinda ironic as after he had a 3 year old like tantrum (if I can do exactly what I want at the expense of all the other developers involved in KDE I'm taking my ball home) and left KDE, he posted on his web page something like "neer neer, I have another paying job to continue working on KDE anyway". Now it turns out that he didn't even get paid for it.
My guess is that you'll see a few posts that aren't so kind to Mosfet. Remember this is just one side of the story, what happened while he was at Future Tech and knowing his attitude he sure pissed off a few people.
"If the free software community wants to make a good impression on the business world (and it may"
This pisses me off as well, I've heard this crap too many times in the last year, I code for fun and knowledge not for the Business world. My ultimate dream is *NOT* to provide no price software to corporates although every fucking IT "jounalist" seems to think that's all the free software community lives for.
Your comment is totally uninformed; MS licenced Trumpet Winsock for Win95. These are the kind of uninformed comments generally get modded up though, at least I should be thankful that your's (so far hasn't been).
BTW, did you know that XP Pro has native.zip file support... Dunno where it came from although it looks a lot like zip folders. There goes Winzip's business model.
This is wonderful news, I've just canceled 57 Toshiba Satellite 4600 Pros because of this as they contain CyberbladeXPs.
Two reasons for this, 1, I don't like companies that don't support my choice of OS, it limits my choice as a consumer and possibly my companies future IT stratergy. 2, I perfer Dells anyway but as most of the company is on Toshiba laptops it made sense to stay with tosh until a good reason to change came alone.
I really wonder why they have done this, maybe it's Xig making deals again (no good Xfree86 support means people stuck Tridents have to buy the Xig sever)?? Thanks again Trident, my new Dell laptop will have a Geforce2go.
Maybe somone would like to take the time to explain the legend behind this? I think I heard about some coffee pot that was on the net in the eraly days and you could finger(??) it to get the temperature?
Wasn't there something else like this with a coke machine also? Or am I complete off track.
Not reallt SAs but this might translate across well. I've had the pleasure(??) of interviewing a lot of Cisco guys in the past and I found the *only* real way to find the good guys from the bad was to get them to do what they said they could. This involved a lab test, 4 routers and a sheet of paper with a list of things that needed to be in the network, not catchout tricks like the CCIE lab or anything complicated, just the basics- configure ospf for a few areas etc...
What really shocked me is that this worked a little too well and it was hard to find the number of required staff. It also showed the CCNP certifaction for what it is; abosolutly worthless.
The people I ended up employing are real gems, they work well together as they all have a good level of technical knowledge, I think one thing that distracts teams moe than anything is the fact that a lot of uncompitent people get employed this distraction doesn't exist here.
As they say the proof of the pudding is in the eating, so let your candidates make some pudding for you.
I currently use Linux from Scratch at home but always use and recommend Mandrake to people at work. Given as your comment above didn't come across as a troll I thought I'd have a look at Suse.
I have to say as a KDE user, I'm shocked! Suse certainly packages KDE well and everything is intergraded in to the control panel perfectly, much impressed. I never knew there was a distro that pays even more attention to the desktop than Mandrake.
One of the main things that has stopped me buying an Ipaq is the fact that they can only handle one key press at a time. This of course makes it less than ideal for games without using an on screen keyboard which takes up screen space.
Let's hope, nay pray the Toshiba doesn't also have the design flaw then this seems like my perfect pocket PC.
There is one thing that isn't to clear in the press releases: As Wine is i386 only, the support for activeX is of course only available for KDE running on Intel I386 architechture.
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I wonder if Taco has seen the size of the 4th book? All I can say is I hope its a very long flight. Rumours are that the 5th book come complete with a wheel barrow and the 6th with a shopping cart.
The only thing that I would worry about personally is the savage video card, I would *personally* be looking for a Geforce 2go based laptop or wait until the new NVidia mobile chipset has found its way in to a notebook. This could take a while and also depends on your needs, I fly model helicopters and like to use a PC based sim while on the road to practice so the more polygon pushing power a laptop has the better.
I was going to post the exact same thing, lens flares don't make any sense in a FPS. First camera man shooter maybe...
The xbox is launched in the US in 6 days time.
SVG icons are a supported format for QT 3 which will of course be the toolkit for KDE 3. Expect support early next year. I have no idea what tackat is planning on the icon front and while I'm on the subject, tackat is almost the only person working on icons and 99.9% of the icons in KDE are his, its not too shabby for one guys work! I personally like the icons in KDE but you opinion is is respected.
Sounds like you have some good ideas, if you feel like helping out please do.
So, to say it's better doesn't make a lot of sense.
I agree with you regarding the the fact that KDE well may never make it on to the commercial unixes as a shipping package. Just want to clarify why slightly:
If Gnome is used, commercial companies can develop closed source apps that use Gnomes libs without paying a thing to anyone for using the functions in said libs.
As it currently stands with KDE any closed source for profit software that wishes to use desktop functions needs to link again against QT, which the closed source company must pay a license to trolltech.
It makes more sense for Sun to go with gnome for 3rd party developer support.
This is kinda ironic as after he had a 3 year old like tantrum (if I can do exactly what I want at the expense of all the other developers involved in KDE I'm taking my ball home) and left KDE, he posted on his web page something like "neer neer, I have another paying job to continue working on KDE anyway". Now it turns out that he didn't even get paid for it.
My guess is that you'll see a few posts that aren't so kind to Mosfet. Remember this is just one side of the story, what happened while he was at Future Tech and knowing his attitude he sure pissed off a few people.
Looks fine, Bassam would be proud :-)
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This pisses me off as well, I've heard this crap too many times in the last year, I code for fun and knowledge not for the Business world. My ultimate dream is *NOT* to provide no price software to corporates although every fucking IT "jounalist" seems to think that's all the free software community lives for.
Sorry bad day, better now.
BTW, did you know that XP Pro has native
Exactly, I've seen the same thing a few times now but how do we change it?
Wheres my clue stick... ah here it is, SMACK SMACK.
Dcop is used for inter-process comms with in KDE and its not based on M$ COM.
Two reasons for this, 1, I don't like companies that don't support my choice of OS, it limits my choice as a consumer and possibly my companies future IT stratergy. 2, I perfer Dells anyway but as most of the company is on Toshiba laptops it made sense to stay with tosh until a good reason to change came alone.
I really wonder why they have done this, maybe it's Xig making deals again (no good Xfree86 support means people stuck Tridents have to buy the Xig sever)?? Thanks again Trident, my new Dell laptop will have a Geforce2go.
Wasn't there something else like this with a coke machine also? Or am I complete off track.
What really shocked me is that this worked a little too well and it was hard to find the number of required staff. It also showed the CCNP certifaction for what it is; abosolutly worthless.
The people I ended up employing are real gems, they work well together as they all have a good level of technical knowledge, I think one thing that distracts teams moe than anything is the fact that a lot of uncompitent people get employed this distraction doesn't exist here.
As they say the proof of the pudding is in the eating, so let your candidates make some pudding for you.
Nice OS but there is one issue, driver support. It's bad enough getting hardware companies to support Linux!
I have to say as a KDE user, I'm shocked! Suse certainly packages KDE well and everything is intergraded in to the control panel perfectly, much impressed. I never knew there was a distro that pays even more attention to the desktop than Mandrake.
Might help if you normalise the wav files before encoding.
The official Toshiba press release for the device.
Also the new Toshiba site for the genio-e unfortunatly in Japanesse only for now.
Let's hope, nay pray the Toshiba doesn't also have the design flaw then this seems like my perfect pocket PC.
Does Michael maybe mean sarcastic?
The article this is in reply to needs to be modded up for one simple reason: the link about Coca-Cola.
It takes a while to read but is extremely well written and more than a little interesting. Anyway, to save your mouse a little, you can read it here.
Has this story been summited to /. yet and if so was it approved?
There is one thing that isn't to clear in the press releases: As Wine is i386 only, the support for activeX is of course only available for KDE running on Intel I386 architechture.