This are better news and a much needed clarification.
Miguel surely understands (if he didn't he wouldn't clarify it like this) that although he (or ximian) don't own GNOME, they have a major steering strength on its development.
Sometimes that counts for a lot, and is what surely led to everyone's confusion (specially the news agents) on this subject.
Thank you Miguel, I feel _very_ less stressed out about this.
Moderating the above message as troll seems like an abuse of moderation rights. The only reason it could be called troll is if you disagree with his opinion, and that is a sad motive for modding someone down.
Booo to the moderators who moderated this guy as a troll (I guess this will make me a flame bait, oh *sigh* that bothers me so much, coming from those who moderated the above as a troll -- not)
Considering most of those 3500 projects of C are made in the last 7 years or so... I can only take your 'depreciation' of C's age as infantile.
Those numbers are obviously not the totallity of C or Java programs, but a statistical sample from a projects list, most of which free or at least opensource, most of which have not such a huge age as C.
Well, I'd just recommend a quick visit at freshmeat's browse by programming language page. There are 3.01 C programs for each Java program. And that's not counting C++, C# and Objective-C, which will make it 4.21 C derivate programs for each java program.
I do agree that the motives he stated are somewhat trivial. My quick statistics are far better. A pity I can't easily count the lines of code, I'd laugh even more of java (of course you must count the real program lines and not the library lines, although they should also be taken in account for greater fairness).
In Setember 1999, I bought a non IRDA infrared receiver, irman, which wasn't at all very well supported under Linux.
Sure there is libirman, sure there is lirc, but the goal of irmctl is to allow its users the ability to execute an arbitrary command at the touch of a couple of buttons.
Thus, I wrote this program.
I hope it is usefull.
PS: once I manage to have irda working on my laptop, I'll add support for irda.
I've done a nifty program... IRMCTL which receives any infrared command through the IRMAN receiver (though it should be easy to do more receivers) and executes a shell script or a built in function.
It's not a programmable remote, but you can say what that button you just pressed will do on your linux machine.
Help is appreciated, for I had some ideas which haven't still showed up because I need help!
... At least in Portugal. Sunday, on the train, I talked for hours with a small group of people on my wagon, and I went from Free Software to Copyrights, and they either took me for a lunatic or an illuminated person and were convinced of what was happening. I believe the later happened, fourtunately.
That's all you have to do... even if it doesn't make the news... read the FSF papers, be informed and above all, INFORM your people. Most aren't even aware of what's happening. If each of us talks (and convinces) one or two people from time to time, and not bitching about how bad it is on/., eventually we will make the world a better place than it is.
I'd like to thank Richard Stallman, and the other spokesmen of the FSF, for it was by reading their texts and by listeing to the ogg/vorbis on the site that I was able to argue with those who heard me, with lead weight arguments able to convince anyone who might care even if for a little.
> Not with a 0.99 dot pitch:)
> Nice resolution though, 1300x768. Good for corporate presentations. And Quake III.
As the photo on the link clearly shows, this seems to be a monitor directed towards presentations, boards and stuff. You don't want a huge resolution. 1300x768 is a reasonably big resolution, and the dot pitch, at a fair distance as it was designed for, doesn't strike me as that a huge (and bad) dot pitch.
However, it has too little resolution to substitute a blackboard, but just think of an arquitect with one of these babies with a sensor screen... GREAT!:)
> using free (or low cost) open source software
open source software does not require you to pay an amount to get the source. In the old days, some (even Richard Stallman) earned some money selling a packaged medium whith the source, since that would be easier than from the dangling primordial web.
Today, you usually pay for opensource software when you want to receive a CD with all the stuff a box usually gives you (books, assistance, etc).
Bottom line: if you want, you can contribute some money by getting software that way: more expensive than for free, but certainly cheaper than closed source.
As to examples of usages, a bank association in Portugal (composed of almost if not all portuguese banks) has a large number of services based on linux, as well as solaris, irix, hp-ux, aix and yes, windows. Not everybody is that enlightened, or it is something that's needed and just isn't there for linux.
I don't know the exact percentage, but linux is not the smallest one:)
And, specially because of getting something for a far smaller price (zero) we are using tomcat each time more than jrun, which has an exorbitantly expensive licensing fees.
First, I must say that red-carpet is a very impressive piece of software installation for newbies. BUT...
I am terribly afraid of this trend of making EVERYTHING too easy to do for the people who do not understand HOW or WHAT they are doing in fact.
So now, as if it wasn't enough that red-carpet requires root access for it to work BEFORE really needing root previledges, you will have software distributed in pieces in that shareing mechanism?
Make usage easy on people, but please, do not exagerate on giving power to those who cannot handle it. Next thing we'll know, viruses for linux will start spreading because of all the guys who have no idea they should avoid using root as much as possible.
I love gnome as a desktop, but primates, please stop and consider... do not open precedents please.
First of all, cut root usage to the bare minimum in red-carpet (it currently isn't).
Apart from that, thanks for the neatly tied gnome packages.
Ok, after sounding like a flamebait, let me apologise and congratulate the author on this interesting comment.
Now, I justify why I consider it overrated:
It... is... too... superficial. Do not understand me wrongly. All I mean is that it is so light headed that all its points become just as simple as any average >3 comment on RIAA articles in slashdot.
Hey, Crashnbur, please reedit, make it longer, more to the point and make it a comment!:)
Hugs, Cyke
The original ssh author should have been more cautious with the ssh name from the beggining, not after all the many years of typing ssh. At the minimum, it seemed to me like a very bad move (at least in terms of opensource reputation).
Behold the miracle of the multiplication of light source.
It's very promising. But I wonder how many years untill it is available/affordable for us, common mortals. ASAP, I hope.
Hugs
MacOS X sees Linux as direct competition.
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Is UNIX An OS?
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At least this is what it seemed to me. The author mentions quite a few times characteristics that have been, or only have been, associated with the Mac, as for example, streaming video. I think he mentions it twice, and always as quicktime. No RealMedia, which is supported in linux.
All the article had a "MacOS X is a better OS because it has a GUI and many applications".
Well...
Linux has MANY GUI's to satisfy user choice, MacOS only has what used to be called The Finder. Besides, I just bet that MacOS X may be run without gui... with a hack or two, probably. Is it less of an OS?
Linux HAS applications, surely many have been in development, but many more are coming to linux, and yet more will come up, as linux raises in popularity.
MacOS is good. Windows also (although terrible) but has a browser and applications, and browsers are an essential part of the experience of an OS. Well, Linux has text based browsers... and this seemed to me like the final argument that showed the bias in the artical towards MacOS X. There is only one good OS, MacOS, and the rest is crap.
Maybe it's the fact that Linux is probably growing faster that MacOS is...
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They say "The hammer can strike mines at velocities of up to three meters per second.".
So, that's 3m*60s*60m = 10800m/h = 10.8 km/h.
That's fast? I smell some misinformation in here.
This are better news and a much needed clarification.
Miguel surely understands (if he didn't he wouldn't clarify it like this) that although he (or ximian) don't own GNOME, they have a major steering strength on its development.
Sometimes that counts for a lot, and is what surely led to everyone's confusion (specially the news agents) on this subject.
Thank you Miguel, I feel _very_ less stressed out about this.
Best wishes, Cyke
Moderating the above message as troll seems like an abuse of moderation rights. The only reason it could be called troll is if you disagree with his opinion, and that is a sad motive for modding someone down.
Booo to the moderators who moderated this guy as a troll (I guess this will make me a flame bait, oh *sigh* that bothers me so much, coming from those who moderated the above as a troll -- not)
You're right. Let's remove the SIX or so C# projects, it'll really help java's ratio ;)
Considering most of those 3500 projects of C are made in the last 7 years or so... I can only take your 'depreciation' of C's age as infantile.
Those numbers are obviously not the totallity of C or Java programs, but a statistical sample from a projects list, most of which free or at least opensource, most of which have not such a huge age as C.
Hugs...
Well, I'd just recommend a quick visit at freshmeat's browse by programming language page. There are 3.01 C programs for each Java program. And that's not counting C++, C# and Objective-C, which will make it 4.21 C derivate programs for each java program.
I do agree that the motives he stated are somewhat trivial. My quick statistics are far better. A pity I can't easily count the lines of code, I'd laugh even more of java (of course you must count the real program lines and not the library lines, although they should also be taken in account for greater fairness).
Hugs, Cyclops
Come on, how can you not understat that that comment from Alan Cox was a protest (though using some british sense of humour?).
There is full disclosure. Just look the diff.
I can't understand how people can claim to understand free software development and then have these claims.
Hugs, Cyclops
In Setember 1999, I bought a non IRDA infrared receiver, irman, which wasn't at all very well supported under Linux.
Sure there is libirman, sure there is lirc, but the goal of irmctl is to allow its users the ability to execute an arbitrary command at the touch of a couple of buttons.
Thus, I wrote this program.
I hope it is usefull.
PS: once I manage to have irda working on my laptop, I'll add support for irda.
I've done a nifty program... IRMCTL which receives any infrared command through the IRMAN receiver (though it should be easy to do more receivers) and executes a shell script or a built in function.
It's not a programmable remote, but you can say what that button you just pressed will do on your linux machine.
Help is appreciated, for I had some ideas which haven't still showed up because I need help!
Hugs, Cyke
Before he was elected, already Republicans warned that they would do whatever was in their means to make life easier for Microsoft.
Apparently, in lack of other means, they resorted to bullying the DoJ.
Welcome... to the Corporate Democracy. Do you want the blue pill or the red pill?
Hugs, Cyke
Real men use binary language to write documents.
I'm such a sissy for using LaTeX2e even for my resume.
Hugs, Cyclops
... At least in Portugal. Sunday, on the train, I talked for hours with a small group of people on my wagon, and I went from Free Software to Copyrights, and they either took me for a lunatic or an illuminated person and were convinced of what was happening. I believe the later happened, fourtunately.
/., eventually we will make the world a better place than it is.
That's all you have to do... even if it doesn't make the news... read the FSF papers, be informed and above all, INFORM your people. Most aren't even aware of what's happening. If each of us talks (and convinces) one or two people from time to time, and not bitching about how bad it is on
I'd like to thank Richard Stallman, and the other spokesmen of the FSF, for it was by reading their texts and by listeing to the ogg/vorbis on the site that I was able to argue with those who heard me, with lead weight arguments able to convince anyone who might care even if for a little.
Hugs, Cyke
A developer who uses the GPL can sell his products. Please, read the GPL.
Great! Troll Mod... grunt grunt.
I didn't read that in the article, but nevertheless, integrated devices, and a couple of pci devices, still make up for what I said.
> Not with a 0.99 dot pitch :)
:)
> Nice resolution though, 1300x768. Good for corporate presentations. And Quake III.
As the photo on the link clearly shows, this seems to be a monitor directed towards presentations, boards and stuff. You don't want a huge resolution. 1300x768 is a reasonably big resolution, and the dot pitch, at a fair distance as it was designed for, doesn't strike me as that a huge (and bad) dot pitch.
However, it has too little resolution to substitute a blackboard, but just think of an arquitect with one of these babies with a sensor screen... GREAT!
> using free (or low cost) open source software
:)
open source software does not require you to pay an amount to get the source. In the old days, some (even Richard Stallman) earned some money selling a packaged medium whith the source, since that would be easier than from the dangling primordial web.
Today, you usually pay for opensource software when you want to receive a CD with all the stuff a box usually gives you (books, assistance, etc).
Bottom line: if you want, you can contribute some money by getting software that way: more expensive than for free, but certainly cheaper than closed source.
As to examples of usages, a bank association in Portugal (composed of almost if not all portuguese banks) has a large number of services based on linux, as well as solaris, irix, hp-ux, aix and yes, windows. Not everybody is that enlightened, or it is something that's needed and just isn't there for linux.
I don't know the exact percentage, but linux is not the smallest one
And, specially because of getting something for a far smaller price (zero) we are using tomcat each time more than jrun, which has an exorbitantly expensive licensing fees.
Hugs
There is a hidden pref in mozilla (I don't since when) called useragent.
...")
Just edit your preferences and set:
user_pref("browser.useragent", "MSIE
Hugs, Cyke
First, I must say that red-carpet is a very impressive piece of software installation for newbies. BUT...
I am terribly afraid of this trend of making EVERYTHING too easy to do for the people who do not understand HOW or WHAT they are doing in fact.
So now, as if it wasn't enough that red-carpet requires root access for it to work BEFORE really needing root previledges, you will have software distributed in pieces in that shareing mechanism?
Make usage easy on people, but please, do not exagerate on giving power to those who cannot handle it. Next thing we'll know, viruses for linux will start spreading because of all the guys who have no idea they should avoid using root as much as possible.
I love gnome as a desktop, but primates, please stop and consider... do not open precedents please.
First of all, cut root usage to the bare minimum in red-carpet (it currently isn't).
Apart from that, thanks for the neatly tied gnome packages.
Hugs, Cyke
about ten replies and it's slashdotted already?
:)
Anyway, nature has a lot of way to form perfect (at the distance) geometric forms, but I look forward to 2020
Hugs, Cyke
Actually, AbiWord has opened this doc quite painless. I can't say how faithfull it is to the true document, but you surely could get its gist.
As a colaborator of the project I might be biased, but I think its a pretty decent ms word doc viewer for linux.
Hugs, Cyke
How did it get promoted to an article?
:)
Hugs, Cyke
Ok, after sounding like a flamebait, let me apologise and congratulate the author on this interesting comment.
Now, I justify why I consider it overrated:
It... is... too... superficial. Do not understand me wrongly. All I mean is that it is so light headed that all its points become just as simple as any average >3 comment on RIAA articles in slashdot.
Hey, Crashnbur, please reedit, make it longer, more to the point and make it a comment!
Nothing to see here, move along now.
The original ssh author should have been more cautious with the ssh name from the beggining, not after all the many years of typing ssh. At the minimum, it seemed to me like a very bad move (at least in terms of opensource reputation).
I bought this one for me this xmas, and I can recommendi it for someone who wants to run linux on it, and who is a geek.
:)
All it's USB, Parallel, Serial, PS2, 2 Type II or 1 Type III pcmcia slots, cdrom 24x, sound card, video card work perfectly.
The internal modem is a lucent one, it is supposed to work, but I haven't had the time to test it yet, same for the TVout.
Why it is good for geeks? Well, just chek all that you can connect to it!!! I can barely think of two interfaces that lack in this laptop!
The only downsize is weight... it's not very light, but I'm sure that it's 14.1'' and all those interfaces sure must compensate it!
Hugs, Cyke
Behold the miracle of the multiplication of light source.
It's very promising. But I wonder how many years untill it is available/affordable for us, common mortals. ASAP, I hope.
Hugs
All the article had a "MacOS X is a better OS because it has a GUI and many applications".
Well...
Maybe it's the fact that Linux is probably growing faster that MacOS is...