You could actually have until 4 drives - count with me the device numbers - 8,9,10, and 11 - look at your dip switches in the 1581 (or jumpers in the 1541 drives) - you got only 2:)
You can install it on MS Windows, but what if I have Windows CD and it's in the basement and not installed? am I legit to install Windows Media player 7.1? I think so..
I think Sony's main idea was that as a parent - you can leave your kids play PS2 games while your walking in this huge area without looking for them (and CeBit IS the biggest show), and Sony will get more PR, and maybe sell some more machines - everyone wins...
Enter Redhat world - one FLOPPY diskette (the netboot.img one) - boot it, put an IP (assuming that your network is connected through another Linux gateway), and continue to install from there while downloading what you need only - from the net..
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I think the announcment is a bit misleading...
There is NO Star Office 6.0 officially available - there is open office - without tons of fonts (only the free fonts), no dictionary (not the gnu old dictionary!), and tons of other stuff which is not there. So I think that they bundled a snapshot of Open Office..
Star office 6.0 WILL cost you money! How much? good question, but it won't be available freely for Linux (although you could use Open Office with the limitations I mentioned above).
IBM - Makes money on the metals, and on other software packages...
Red Hat - doesn't make much money at all - read the finance report and see for yourself. They DO make money from the high-end packages (Redhat Oracle, RH Advanced server) but it's peanuts against other corporates at the same size who sell software.
And there is a simple reason for that, my friend..
How many IT director would go and buy a 32 way SMP machine from Unisys? (Unisys is the only one who make them at the moment, IBM is coming along soon and IBM's 16 way SMP costs about 1/4 of what Unisys price [around $25k in IBM's case])...
The bare price of 32 way SMP machine from Unisys starts with $200,000 (last I heard) - and I'm pretty sure at this price level, it would be better to see whats the other big boys offer (IBM, Sun, SGI, HP, etc) which is not an MS solution...
If there is a browser that you got a chance to see an IE only web site is Konqueror on KDE 3.0 - it got the most compatible with MSIE javascript and rendering techniques...
You CAN switch the HTML engine or even the browser for help - if you're talking about HTML help of course - nothing stopping you from using Gecko (select KMozilla), Mozilla, Galeon or even Opera - it's up to you..
Of course - you'll loose other features of Konqueror - all the plugins;)
So far - from my tests - it played every movie that Windows Media player can play in standard windows - and yes, the player downloads the codec from microsoft site and installs it..
1. It still doesn't fully supports ASX files (yes, even with the latest CVS - I tried one from yesterday).
2. It doesn't provide you with any embedding to your browser. Go ahead and hack it to make mplayer GUI appear inside Mozilla/Konqueror on most of the sites (now.com, yahoo.com, news.com) - good luck!
Although I'm on the KDE side - I would like to correct you on this issue:
Miguel has expressed his desire to use some parts of MONO inside Gnome 4.0 (and maybe 3.0 - not 2.0 which is in feature freeze state right now if I'm not mistaken)..
I congratulate Sun for contributing some work towards GNOME, making it better. Help for open source projects is always welcome...
1 beta, 1 release candidate, and then - final version...
Am I the only one to think this schedule is stupid? GNOME 2.0 is a major revision with an entirely new libraries - and yet - 2 releases before final? didn't someone actually think that people need more time to find the bugs???
Or does the GNOME people want to have the same honour as Nautilus (the most unexpensive piece of application I ever tested)?
Look at the posts above - there is a link to a BBC report that said that Google is *already* profitable...
So, if they're now profitable (actually, for the last 2 quaters), why should they charge money now? where's the logic?
Another issue that someone mentioned here - Yes, Alta vista and other companies did try to sell their search engines and have fallen - but google got 2 points:
1. They're number 1 in search on the net.
2. Dead easy setup - plug the machines, give IP, and open your browser - from there you just have to setup where to get the data from and let the machines do the job. Nothing more...
I wish good Luck for google - I always use it (gg: in konqueror)..
You might want to look at Greg KH patches for HotPCI plugins as well as processors plugins...
Of course - you cannot do it on off-the-shelf motherboard, only on the Telco's customized machines, but there is a Linux support for this kind of stuff..
Marketing - THATS what killed the amiga - beautiful machine, excellent hardware, great OS (do u know any other OS today that you can mix resolutions on the same screen like 640x200 & 320x200, different bitplanes and all at once? didn't see it anywhere else...
And yet, Commodore (who bought Amiga) managed to screw each time their customers over, over, and over again.
Anyone who where following Commodore in their last few years will tell you about their biggest mistake - making their last machine (Amiga 4000) totally incompatible with everything else - was their biggest mistake. Did I mention how much they screwed their customers?
And people wondered how come Atari ST with less then HALF of the featured kicked Amiga's sales in the butt (neck to neck sales in Europe, sold better then Amiga in U.S)
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You could actually have until 4 drives - count with me the device numbers - 8,9,10, and 11 - look at your dip switches in the 1581 (or jumpers in the 1541 drives) - you got only 2 :)
There is a small loophole here...
You can install it on MS Windows, but what if I have Windows CD and it's in the basement and not installed? am I legit to install Windows Media player 7.1? I think so..
I think Sony's main idea was that as a parent - you can leave your kids play PS2 games while your walking in this huge area without looking for them (and CeBit IS the biggest show), and Sony will get more PR, and maybe sell some more machines - everyone wins...
Enter MS world - cry, whine, and kick...
eh??
Enter Redhat world - one FLOPPY diskette (the netboot.img one) - boot it, put an IP (assuming that your network is connected through another Linux gateway), and continue to install from there while downloading what you need only - from the net..
I think the announcment is a bit misleading...
There is NO Star Office 6.0 officially available - there is open office - without tons of fonts (only the free fonts), no dictionary (not the gnu old dictionary!), and tons of other stuff which is not there. So I think that they bundled a snapshot of Open Office..
Star office 6.0 WILL cost you money! How much? good question, but it won't be available freely for Linux (although you could use Open Office with the limitations I mentioned above).
FYI.
IBM - Makes money on the metals, and on other software packages...
Red Hat - doesn't make much money at all - read the finance report and see for yourself. They DO make money from the high-end packages (Redhat Oracle, RH Advanced server) but it's peanuts against other corporates at the same size who sell software.
1. It's not a vaporware - it's very real
2. You cannot buy it (at least not now) - it's for selling to OEM's.
3. You can also connect it to your cellular phone (depends if your OEM supports it)
And there is a simple reason for that, my friend..
How many IT director would go and buy a 32 way SMP machine from Unisys? (Unisys is the only one who make them at the moment, IBM is coming along soon and IBM's 16 way SMP costs about 1/4 of what Unisys price [around $25k in IBM's case])...
The bare price of 32 way SMP machine from Unisys starts with $200,000 (last I heard) - and I'm pretty sure at this price level, it would be better to see whats the other big boys offer (IBM, Sun, SGI, HP, etc) which is not an MS solution...
make uninstall
:)
hard, eh?
Actually it is - take a look at www.xsane.org and look at supported scanners - you might be surprised...
On the contrary...
If there is a browser that you got a chance to see an IE only web site is Konqueror on KDE 3.0 - it got the most compatible with MSIE javascript and rendering techniques...
Not exactly,
;)
You CAN switch the HTML engine or even the browser for help - if you're talking about HTML help of course - nothing stopping you from using Gecko (select KMozilla), Mozilla, Galeon or even Opera - it's up to you..
Of course - you'll loose other features of Konqueror - all the plugins
So far - from my tests - it played every movie that Windows Media player can play in standard windows - and yes, the player downloads the codec from microsoft site and installs it..
1. It still doesn't fully supports ASX files (yes, even with the latest CVS - I tried one from yesterday).
2. It doesn't provide you with any embedding to your browser. Go ahead and hack it to make mplayer GUI appear inside Mozilla/Konqueror on most of the sites (now.com, yahoo.com, news.com) - good luck!
Although I'm on the KDE side - I would like to correct you on this issue:
Miguel has expressed his desire to use some parts of MONO inside Gnome 4.0 (and maybe 3.0 - not 2.0 which is in feature freeze state right now if I'm not mistaken)..
I congratulate Sun for contributing some work towards GNOME, making it better. Help for open source projects is always welcome...
hmm...
1 beta, 1 release candidate, and then - final version...
Am I the only one to think this schedule is stupid? GNOME 2.0 is a major revision with an entirely new libraries - and yet - 2 releases before final? didn't someone actually think that people need more time to find the bugs???
Or does the GNOME people want to have the same honour as Nautilus (the most unexpensive piece of application I ever tested)?
Price...
GCC 3.1, and a newer version of glibc and lots of bleeding edge stuff
Open a Linux/Unix book and learn - libraries can be installed alongside quite nicely...
You can have KDE-1, KDE 2.X & KDE 3.x - all on the same machine, all of them running on the same X without a single problem...
Try the same thing with Windows 9x - they "fixed" this problem on XP if I'm not mistaken..
Look at the posts above - there is a link to a BBC report that said that Google is *already* profitable...
So, if they're now profitable (actually, for the last 2 quaters), why should they charge money now? where's the logic?
Another issue that someone mentioned here - Yes, Alta vista and other companies did try to sell their search engines and have fallen - but google got 2 points:
1. They're number 1 in search on the net.
2. Dead easy setup - plug the machines, give IP, and open your browser - from there you just have to setup where to get the data from and let the machines do the job. Nothing more...
I wish good Luck for google - I always use it (gg: in konqueror)..
And now, in short time - you'll have iPlanet - Linux port.. read their press releases...
(yes, once again - they're saying it's "customer demands")..
Umm, you're wrong...
You might want to look at Greg KH patches for HotPCI plugins as well as processors plugins...
Of course - you cannot do it on off-the-shelf motherboard, only on the Telco's customized machines, but there is a Linux support for this kind of stuff..
They stopped making it - there wasn't any demand for it - sure, it looks cool, but if it doesn't sell well - whats the point?
You can still buy them at eBay...
Oy vey...
Marketing - THATS what killed the amiga - beautiful machine, excellent hardware, great OS (do u know any other OS today that you can mix resolutions on the same screen like 640x200 & 320x200, different bitplanes and all at once? didn't see it anywhere else...
And yet, Commodore (who bought Amiga) managed to screw each time their customers over, over, and over again.
Anyone who where following Commodore in their last few years will tell you about their biggest mistake - making their last machine (Amiga 4000) totally incompatible with everything else - was their biggest mistake. Did I mention how much they screwed their customers?
And people wondered how come Atari ST with less then HALF of the featured kicked Amiga's sales in the butt (neck to neck sales in Europe, sold better then Amiga in U.S)
Oh dear...
remember...
All you need is a trully bored cracker with his favorite new DVD format copy-protected...
My guess - even the most heavily copy protected new DVD format wouldn't take more then 30-60 days to be hacked...