Look for someone who'll happily charge you for doing nothing, let's call them dummysoft. Then put in your request for vim from dummysoft for x hundred dollars. Dummysoft can then send you a link to their download site at, say, vim.org, and take the money. If you can't find any volunteers then I'll happily do it.
In the UK tesco (www.tesco.com) have been doing online groceries for years - as have Ocado.
gnome 2 is faster.
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Personally i found that kde2.x was generally slower than gnome 1.4, but if you used nautilus then that made gnome1.4 a bit slower than kde. Then i upgraded to redhat 7.3, kde3 feels far slower than kde2.x and gnome1.x, and gnome2 (from the ximian snapshots on redcarpet) is significantly faster than the previous versions of gnome (probably because nautilus2 is really fast) and any version of kde (especially kde3). This is most obvious on my slowest machine, a P2 266 where kde3 is basically unusable, but gnome2 feels pretty responsive - fast enough to use happily.
I think you missed the point slightly. I want stability. Yes those features are very useful, but they wuickly become pointless if it crashes every five minutes. I want koffice to do well, so i hope they take the time to make sure all the features they add are stable, and sort out the bugs that currently plague them.
Evolution is stable, i haven't had a crash in months. WIsh i could say the same for kde apps like noatun (which crashes more times than it works) and koffice.
Please don't tell me you're impressed by the table handling of kword (or have you never tried pressing tab in a table?) When abiword implements tables (which they are now working on) they will implement them correctly, even the realease notes for 1.0 say they're not currently available.
I've tried koffice every now and again (most recently the version that comes with kde3) and while it looks like it has potential but it just isn't stable. I have never been able to create a document of any reasonable size with kword/kspread/kpresenter because it crashes... every time. The import/export filters are also poor compared to openoffice, and surely i'm not the only one who expects tab to take you to the next column in a table (rather than to a one of the tab stops in the middle of the current table cell).
I really wanted to like koffice, but without stability it's useless. If i i want light and fast i now use abiword and gnumeric, if i need something abiword can't yet do i use openoffice.
Nautilus certainly is maintained (by Darin Adler and Alex Larsson) see the developers mailing list for more details at the moment the gnome2 port is just about finished and the speed improvements they've got into nautilus2 are amazing. Eazel may have died a while back, but not all the developer left...
you can't with ntfs, i know you don't normally need to but for naming mp3's from cddb it's useful (and there are no problems doing it with ext3) Yes this is less important than many things that ntfs does but worth mwntioning
Gnome is pprogressing faster than ever
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It's not dead, it's just about to make a 2.0 release (now i'm not going to claim it'll kill of kde, but if everyone tried both desktops it probably would.)
Re:What about GNOME and .NET
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Read it again, java support is avilable in.net (although off the top o my head i can't think of any java gnome apps) an there are no licence changes for gnome, the licence for the mono liraries was changed for much the same reason that gtk is licenced under the lgpl not gpl.
I agree with what you say about SDL being necessary, so is openal for sound, but who do you think created these libraries - Loki did, from scratch i believe. Loki was a good company that ported games AND created/maintained the cross platform gpl libraries needed to write games/media players etc on linux. Loki did a lot of good for gaming and media in general on linux, it is sad to see them go.
(btw if you want to run games on windows, don't bother with xp, a few games have compatabilty isues and most need to be run as administrator - you'll probably want 98/ME instead)
I don't give a shit what your opinion on games for linux is, the real question we should be asking is what will happen to sdl (used by most linux media players as well as games) and openal if loki does finally collapse.
If these two libraries die linux loses a lot more than a few games
Maybe, but then the imac supports plenty of scanners/printers/other stuff you'll never need, and it is easy. If you're going to compare it to an imac I'd like to see what the hardware support is like - without resorting to standard linux utilities which would feel out of place on a machine where everything is xul based.
Does anyone know how easy it is to get a printer/scanner/webcam working on it? (I hope it is easy, but i don't know - the reviewer seems to have completely ignored it) And before you say you don't need this on an internet computer, i'll want a webcam anyway, and give me a word processor and i'll want a printer.
this is the reason why the bbc website is good, no adverts ever, so there's certainly no chance of confusing ads with headlines. BBC News
And no it's not just for the UK, they have plenty news for the rest of the world too, American for example.
_Please_ explain what a user could possibly do wrong that would crash an office program, and it be his fault.
(other than the user editting the word binary i can't see a crash being the users fault)
Everyone seems to be assuming that the because the price per cannister works out high the fuel is really expensive. I would have thought they would have a similar system to calor gas (bottles propane/butane) where the cannister is more expensive than the fuel _but_ is reusable, so if you want 9 you pay a lot (for the 9 bottles) after that the fuel is cheap.
I guess we'll wait and see.
In Britain we have very strong data protection laws, they can only keep information for as long as absolutely necessary, and they can't sell it or give it to other companies without your explicit permission first.
Add to this the fact that they must upon written request (and a 10 pound fee) give you a copy of all the data they hold about (This goes for any personal information from any uk company - even cctv footage take a look at An excellent (and funny) overview and the mark thomas competition created to take advantage of this law if you don't believe me!), and you'll see that your concerns are just completely unjustified.
(oh and the bbc is a state funded corproration which doesn't need to make money by selling info about you, or even putting adverts on their tv channels or website - see www.bbc.co.uk
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Look for someone who'll happily charge you for doing nothing, let's call them dummysoft.
Then put in your request for vim from dummysoft for x hundred dollars.
Dummysoft can then send you a link to their download site at, say, vim.org, and take the money.
If you can't find any volunteers then I'll happily do it.
In the UK tesco (www.tesco.com) have been doing online groceries for years - as have Ocado.
Personally i found that kde2.x was generally slower than gnome 1.4, but if you used nautilus then that made gnome1.4 a bit slower than kde. Then i upgraded to redhat 7.3, kde3 feels far slower than kde2.x and gnome1.x, and gnome2 (from the ximian snapshots on redcarpet) is significantly faster than the previous versions of gnome (probably because nautilus2 is really fast) and any version of kde (especially kde3). This is most obvious on my slowest machine, a P2 266 where kde3 is basically unusable, but gnome2 feels pretty responsive - fast enough to use happily.
I think you missed the point slightly. I want stability. Yes those features are very useful, but they wuickly become pointless if it crashes every five minutes. I want koffice to do well, so i hope they take the time to make sure all the features they add are stable, and sort out the bugs that currently plague them.
Yes it is fast and quite impressive, but it's currently an alpha version so don't be surprised if it crashes almost as much as koffice.
Evolution is stable, i haven't had a crash in months. WIsh i could say the same for kde apps like noatun (which crashes more times than it works) and koffice.
Please don't tell me you're impressed by the table handling of kword (or have you never tried pressing tab in a table?) When abiword implements tables (which they are now working on) they will implement them correctly, even the realease notes for 1.0 say they're not currently available.
I've tried koffice every now and again (most recently the version that comes with kde3) and while it looks like it has potential but it just isn't stable. I have never been able to create a document of any reasonable size with kword/kspread/kpresenter because it crashes... every time. The import/export filters are also poor compared to openoffice, and surely i'm not the only one who expects tab to take you to the next column in a table (rather than to a one of the tab stops in the middle of the current table cell).
I really wanted to like koffice, but without stability it's useless. If i i want light and fast i now use abiword and gnumeric, if i need something abiword can't yet do i use openoffice.
Nautilus certainly is maintained (by Darin Adler and Alex Larsson) see the developers mailing list for more details at the moment the gnome2 port is just about finished and the speed improvements they've got into nautilus2 are amazing. Eazel may have died a while back, but not all the developer left...
Here's looking forward to GNOME2.
you can't with ntfs, i know you don't normally need to but for naming mp3's from cddb it's useful (and there are no problems doing it with ext3) Yes this is less important than many things that ntfs does but worth mwntioning
It's not dead, it's just about to make a 2.0 release (now i'm not going to claim it'll kill of kde, but if everyone tried both desktops it probably would.)
Read it again, java support is avilable in .net (although off the top o my head i can't think of any java gnome apps) an there are no licence changes for gnome, the licence for the mono liraries was changed for much the same reason that gtk is licenced under the lgpl not gpl.
I agree with what you say about SDL being necessary, so is openal for sound, but who do you think created these libraries - Loki did, from scratch i believe. Loki was a good company that ported games AND created/maintained the cross platform gpl libraries needed to write games/media players etc on linux. Loki did a lot of good for gaming and media in general on linux, it is sad to see them go.
(btw if you want to run games on windows, don't bother with xp, a few games have compatabilty isues and most need to be run as administrator - you'll probably want 98/ME instead)
I don't give a shit what your opinion on games for linux is, the real question we should be asking is what will happen to sdl (used by most linux media players as well as games) and openal if loki does finally collapse.
If these two libraries die linux loses a lot more than a few games
Maybe, but then the imac supports plenty of scanners/printers/other stuff you'll never need, and it is easy. If you're going to compare it to an imac I'd like to see what the hardware support is like - without resorting to standard linux utilities which would feel out of place on a machine where everything is xul based.
Does anyone know how easy it is to get a printer/scanner/webcam working on it? (I hope it is easy, but i don't know - the reviewer seems to have completely ignored it) And before you say you don't need this on an internet computer, i'll want a webcam anyway, and give me a word processor and i'll want a printer.
this is the reason why the bbc website is good, no adverts ever, so there's certainly no chance of confusing ads with headlines. BBC News
And no it's not just for the UK, they have plenty news for the rest of the world too, American for example.
_Please_ explain what a user could possibly do wrong that would crash an office program, and it be his fault.
(other than the user editting the word binary i can't see a crash being the users fault)
Everyone seems to be assuming that the because the price per cannister works out high the fuel is really expensive. I would have thought they would have a similar system to calor gas (bottles propane/butane) where the cannister is more expensive than the fuel _but_ is reusable, so if you want 9 you pay a lot (for the 9 bottles) after that the fuel is cheap.
I guess we'll wait and see.
Since when did you need a hard drive to play a dvd?
People want the console to play games, and dvd movies, the hard drive is a non issue right now.
so the correct calculations to play dvds are:
Xbox $299 + $30
(or in the UK 299 gb pounds available sometime next year + about 30 pounds)
PS2
$299 (or in the UK 199 gb pounds)
So if your in the US you save $30, if your in the UK you save about 130 pounds and a 3 or 4 month wait - Make your own mind up.
In Britain we have very strong data protection laws, they can only keep information for as long as absolutely necessary, and they can't sell it or give it to other companies without your explicit permission first.
Add to this the fact that they must upon written request (and a 10 pound fee) give you a copy of all the data they hold about (This goes for any personal information from any uk company - even cctv footage take a look at An excellent (and funny) overview and the mark thomas competition created to take advantage of this law if you don't believe me!), and you'll see that your concerns are just completely unjustified.
(oh and the bbc is a state funded corproration which doesn't need to make money by selling info about you, or even putting adverts on their tv channels or website - see www.bbc.co.uk