Yeah, but it also features the worst UI I have ever seen. Avant can be cleaned up by deleting a whole bunch of useless buttons from their toolbars, but you still have to put up iwth the mish mash or preference panels. Firefox is much cleaner and simpler to use.
It seems that they have become so desperate in the past year ago, they don't know who there friends are. Linux is a threat to them in the low end server market, but they need Linux to keep them competitive on the PC platform.
If they think PC Solaris has any kind of chance competing with MS, Linux, FreeBSD they are dreaming. the quality and range of drivers for the PC version of Soloaris is abismal. And it nothing in the way of features that can't be had on Open Source OSs, or cheaper commercial OSs either.
I would love to see CCM for X
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the only major problem with x.org I see at the moment is they are adding mostly eye-candy extensions, but things like screen and printer matching are the practical features missing in Windows that could attract a lot of Desktop Publishing and graphics apps to Linux. I think the composite extension is cool, but I would love to see more usefull stuff added.
In Windsor Ontario, where I live, the city libraries all use a thin client system of windows 2000 terminal services. I used to work there serveral years ago, but haven't been in contact for some time. the system does seem to work well tho'.
Terminal services are well suited to this type of setup since the uses don't have a heavy need for multimedia at the computer stations, and replacing broken or, outdated machines is a simple matter or swapping hardware.
You could consider using X or VNC with unix on these type of machines also, since it would further reduce licensing costs, an Unix/Linux has all the software needed for the library users.
(The Windsor Public Library uses a web based search catalog, and simple database search for out of town, and archived material)
I would be best if installing a kernel was as simple as installing most Linux software.
I would like to see some type of system that detected all the hardware in my system, and built the matching drivers and standard kernel modules for a desktop or server system.
The user should need to change as few options as possible.
I doubt verry much that Apple intends to release OSX for PC computers anytime soon, but I do see how moving to PC compatible mainboard/CPU could make Macs much more price price/performance competitive with traditional PCs.
I Think Codeweaver really are the one small company that could propell linux onto the desktop. They have found a great way to to make money, (hey I want it), while at the same time contributing to open source software, and making Linux more and more viable on the desktop all the time.
As I underdtand it, the license requires you to maintain backward compatible format, so as long as you don't make changes that prevent the playback or creation of content that is unplayable in other versions of the software you can make changes.
This means that changes you make must only improve the quality of encoding, or playback with things like image filters, or by creating extra streams that can be ignored by the other players.
Wine is an runtime layer for win32 applications, it won't work on non-x86 platforms be cause they don't process x86 software. It would be possible to get it working if wine had some type of x86 cpu emulator, but there isn't one.
This is why we have the principal of academic
freedom, if it becomes regulated that
researchers have to give over their work to
whoever pays for the work to be done, then the
researcher becomes little more than paid
employees of funder.
Good research needs to done by people who have
as little vested interest it the outcome of the
research as possible (not the quality of the
research, but the actual results it produces).
University researchers need to have the freedom
to license their work as they see fit, but they
also have a moral responsibility to serve both
the public and private interests who fund their
work.
In my opinion researches should be allowed to
decide how they license their work, but should
take that power very seriously and to be as open
as possible. Research work that has been paid
for by the public should be put into the public
domain, and work that was paid for by private
companies should be placed under a
non-discriminatory license that guarantees some
usefull degree of access by all.
It's my understanding that 2gb limit was never ext2 related, and was a limitation of the 2.2 vfs.
And no you can make files as big as you want with both ext2 and ext3 with kernel 2.4.
Ext3 is a decent filesystem that offers solid reliabitily,performance, and feature set. XFS may be a better option in the long run, but right now ext3 is the best filesystem for linux.
The graphics are quite nice, but it seems to me all of these "revolutiony" features were done first with tribes 2, and improved on in Tribes 2 (and runs extremely well on Linux).
I think we bad mouth Microsoft more for stealing someone's elses idea and marketing it as "Microsoft inovation".
Linux has always been a Unix ripoff, and KDE and Gnome have always been windows rippoffs, but we don't go around prepending that we invented all this stuff.
What we do trumpet is that our platform is free, and not ruled by a big monopolistic corparation, and that our software provides it's users with more freedom to do what they want with it.
If you install an X server on it, or if you use command line programs you can get alot of Linux/Unix based software to run on OS X. OS X is based on the Mach open source kernel, and various BSD command Line tools, and supports most standard Unix api's so that it is possible to get much of the software made for Linux/unix machines to run (with some trouble, and some poking and proding I'm told)
Re:Convienently ignores the cost of training.
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How much lost productivity do you get when you retrain people for Office XP, and Windows XP? I suspect it's about the same as the costs to move to Star Office and KDE.
Hiding messages in pictures or sound files does sound like a good way to beat any carnivore or e-mail survaillance systems. But are there any good stego client software that can be plugged into common email applications? IF worst comes to worst this could be the only way to have true secure email in the future.
Carnivore is not that complex a peice of software, all you need is encription program that can fool carnivore into letting it pass as regular encrypted email.
Anybody could simply encrypt their messages with back-dorr free crypto and simply wrap it into another layer of back-doored encryption.
That brings up a good point, why is mozilla creating an application framework when Gnome and KDE are already doing so, Mozilla is not the first, KDE had an web browser/file manager in KDE 1.
Mozilla is internet application suite, when all anybody wanted from them was a decent browser.
An improvement on the settings above is to use set up only fonts that look best without aa.
As an example:
match
any family = "Times New Roman"
weight = medium
any size > 7
any size 14
edit
antialias = false;
causes on times new roman to only be anti-aliased
above and below 7 and 14 points. In my experience all sans-serif fonts look best with aa at all sizes, while some serif fonts look better without aa when unbolded.
Repeat the setting above for each font where you only want aa at certain sizes.
go to http://dot.kde.org/989808269/ for more info.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, but it also features the worst UI I have ever seen. Avant can be cleaned up by deleting a whole bunch of useless buttons from their toolbars, but you still have to put up iwth the mish mash or preference panels. Firefox is much cleaner and simpler to use.
It seems that they have become so desperate in the past year ago, they don't know who there friends are.
Linux is a threat to them in the low end server market, but they need Linux to keep them competitive on the PC platform.
If they think PC Solaris has any kind of chance competing with MS, Linux, FreeBSD they are dreaming. the quality and range of drivers for the PC version of Soloaris is abismal. And it nothing in the way of features that can't be had on Open Source OSs, or cheaper commercial OSs either.
the only major problem with x.org I see at the moment is they are adding mostly eye-candy extensions, but things like screen and printer matching are the practical features missing in Windows that could attract a lot of Desktop Publishing and graphics apps to Linux. I think the composite extension is cool, but I would love to see more usefull stuff added.
In Windsor Ontario, where I live, the city libraries all use a thin client system of windows 2000 terminal services. I used to work there serveral years ago, but haven't been in contact for some time. the system does seem to work well tho'.
Terminal services are well suited to this type of setup since the uses don't have a heavy need for multimedia at the computer stations, and replacing broken or, outdated machines is a simple matter or swapping hardware.
You could consider using X or VNC with unix on these type of machines also, since it would further reduce licensing costs, an Unix/Linux has all the software needed for the library users.
(The Windsor Public Library uses a web based search catalog, and simple database search for out of town, and archived material)
I would be best if installing a kernel was as simple
as installing most Linux software.
I would like to see some type of system that detected
all the hardware in my system, and built the matching
drivers and standard kernel modules for a desktop
or server system.
The user should need to change as few options as
possible.
I doubt verry much that Apple intends to release OSX for
PC computers anytime soon, but I do see how moving to PC
compatible mainboard/CPU could make Macs much more price
price/performance competitive with traditional PCs.
I think your talking about tux2, thttpd is not the same thing.
I Think Codeweaver really are the one small company that could propell linux onto the desktop.
They have found a great way to to make money, (hey I want it), while at the same time contributing to open source software, and making Linux more and more viable on the desktop all the time.
I think the best way to get the best of both small
elegant PC's as well as expansion and power is to
seperate the computer from the access point.
I want a beefy case that I can stuff in a closet,
and and a seperate terminal with the cdrom speakers
built in ala iMac, but smaller and lighter.
As I underdtand it, the license requires you to maintain backward compatible format, so as long as you don't make changes that prevent the playback or creation of content that is unplayable in other versions of the software you can make changes.
This means that changes you make must only improve the quality of encoding, or playback with things like image filters, or by creating extra streams that can be ignored by the other players.
Wine is an runtime layer for win32 applications, it won't work on non-x86 platforms be cause they don't process x86 software. It would be possible to get it working if wine had some type of x86 cpu emulator, but there isn't one.
This is why we have the principal of academic
freedom, if it becomes regulated that
researchers have to give over their work to
whoever pays for the work to be done, then the
researcher becomes little more than paid
employees of funder.
Good research needs to done by people who have
as little vested interest it the outcome of the
research as possible (not the quality of the
research, but the actual results it produces).
University researchers need to have the freedom
to license their work as they see fit, but they
also have a moral responsibility to serve both
the public and private interests who fund their
work.
In my opinion researches should be allowed to
decide how they license their work, but should
take that power very seriously and to be as open
as possible. Research work that has been paid
for by the public should be put into the public
domain, and work that was paid for by private
companies should be placed under a
non-discriminatory license that guarantees some
usefull degree of access by all.
It's my understanding that 2gb limit was never ext2 related, and was a limitation of the 2.2 vfs.
And no you can make files as big as you want with both ext2 and ext3 with kernel 2.4.
Ext3 is a decent filesystem that offers solid reliabitily,performance, and feature set. XFS may be a better option in the long run, but right now ext3 is the best filesystem for linux.
Well I doubt that BSD does at all since FreeBSD and OpenBSD only really suports Intel, and NetBSD does not support SMP.
The graphics are quite nice, but it seems to me all of these "revolutiony" features were done first with tribes 2, and improved on in Tribes 2 (and runs extremely well on Linux).
Trial by Slashdot Effect, if your web site goes down you dies, if it stays up you live. Sounds Like Sys-admin justice to me
No, I thinks its more like Linux is saying he would rather make Linux faster, than make it feel faster.
This would be a great way to both improve ese of use, and security at the same time. no more repeaded logins to do simple maintenace.
I think we bad mouth Microsoft more for stealing someone's elses idea and marketing it as "Microsoft inovation".
Linux has always been a Unix ripoff, and KDE and Gnome have always been windows rippoffs, but we don't go around prepending that we invented all this stuff.
What we do trumpet is that our platform is free, and not ruled by a big monopolistic corparation, and that our software provides it's users with more freedom to do what they want with it.
If you install an X server on it, or if you use command line programs you can get alot of Linux/Unix based software to run on OS X. OS X is based on the Mach open source kernel, and various BSD command Line tools, and supports most standard Unix api's so that it is possible to get much of the software made for Linux/unix machines to run (with some trouble, and some poking and proding I'm told)
How much lost productivity do you get when you retrain people for Office XP, and Windows XP? I suspect it's about the same as the costs to move to Star Office and KDE.
Hiding messages in pictures or sound files does sound like a good way to beat any carnivore or e-mail survaillance systems. But are there any good stego client software that can be plugged into common email applications? IF worst comes to worst this could be the only way to have true secure email in the future.
Carnivore is not that complex a peice of software, all you need is encription program that can fool carnivore into letting it pass as regular encrypted email.
Anybody could simply encrypt their messages with back-dorr free crypto and simply wrap it into another layer of back-doored encryption.
That brings up a good point, why is mozilla creating an application framework when Gnome and KDE are already doing so, Mozilla is not the first, KDE had an web browser/file manager in KDE 1.
Mozilla is internet application suite, when all anybody wanted from them was a decent browser.
An improvement on the settings above is to use set up only fonts that look best without aa.
As an example:
match
any family = "Times New Roman"
weight = medium
any size > 7
any size 14
edit
antialias = false;
causes on times new roman to only be anti-aliased
above and below 7 and 14 points. In my experience all sans-serif fonts look best with aa at all sizes, while some serif fonts look better without aa when unbolded.
Repeat the setting above for each font where you only want aa at certain sizes.
go to http://dot.kde.org/989808269/ for more info.