Not so fast.... I've been writing a DirectX compatibility layer for linux that does the exact opposite, the best thing is that it can be compiled with wgl and run on windows, that's DirectX running on windows via opengl.
So, all you need are good opengl drivers on windows and you can run the desktop via my DirectX 9 compatibility layer.
If it gets to the point where the people are taking that much then it should be made a public service and payed for by taxation. Unless it's harmfull (like Britney or Sweets) in which case it should be prohibited so that only place you can get crap muzak and diabetes causing fat tooth rot pills is the black market.
KDE sucks every resource on the PC because, 'memory management is the kernels job' and I should imagine 'if i suck 100% CPU it's the schedulers fault that any other app runs slowly'
I got the first responce when I suggested that when memory started getting tight KHTML dropped the the uncompressed images taking up tonnes of ram in favor of the few k of jpeg's and gif's downloaded.
Yes I do still run KDE, and yes I do try to make progressive improvements.
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but the MR2 was sold under a different name in france. Who wants a car called Merde.
It's not that there hard to parse, it just that they would be easier to parse if they were in XML, and they wouldn't have the limitations of ini files.
I have a number of files on my harddrive that have UTF8 characters that cannot be used in some configuration files, if I have files with Sanskrit file names then I'd be completely screwed.
(1 reboot) wow, typically my PC requires no-reboots when I fix holes, and most of the time I don't even have to leave the desktop, I just su to a admin account from my normal account and do all the work there.
That's my strongest argument for XML over plain text. another is that XML/xsd can contain documentation for the configuration file and should be fairly easy to wrap up in a GUI. and then there's, you only have to learn one way of writing configuration files.
Which Linux config files require their own parser should be the question your asking...
anyhow.
off the top of my head postfix uses all binary files.kde uses ini files (yuck even Ms ditched them)
As for the character set, there are lots of different latin and unicode character sets that you could read most if not all of. but plain old latin may not be good enough for Mandarin speakers. xml would cope will all options.
In days gone bye, even science was considered an art form, but nowadays it's all science and the only artists left seem to be the people who once were musicians.
If Britney Spears can be referred to as an artist then gees, there's enough computer porn out there for programming to qualify as an art.
Eire is part of the EU, the part where Microsoft HQ is based too!
Years ago, before adopting the EURO, Eire dropped all it's interest rates and corporation tax to the floor causing a mini boom to happen, because the EU members haven't yet decided to harmonise taxation Eire can still get away with being far more friendly to businesses than anywhere else in Europe making the Euro slightly less strong that it would be.
Don't worry, the EU must at some point harmonise taxes, to stop Eire taking the piss if nothing else.
n.b. Microsoft seems to have lobbied all the Eire MEP's into voting for software patents.
How about, all configuration files must be in XML with a XSD for documentation and validation.
xml val foo.xsd foo.config is much easier than/etc/init.d/foo restart shit I used tabs instead of spaces in th the config file and a standard agreed used by a vast number of people is better than a standard invented for this one application.
Standardised command lines, well at least settle on standards for help, version, verbose and debug, file.
Standard menu layouts for things like File and Edit.
maybe apps could get a start rating system for compliance, bronze for the basic command line and menus going upto gold for everything works with xml.
Oh, and why the hell do KDE keep there configuration in/usr/kde/share instead of ext like the rest of the world. and why do my kdm setting always get replaced when a new version of kde comes out.
Were never going to get the promised holy grail Linux desktop in the future if we can't build an acceptable desktop of the now.
If Linux was so much better then there would be tones of switchers, just look at how well firefox has done.
The Linux desktop needs:
Applications that run on the desktop. Some kind of standards for UI's Some kind of standards for command line (help is? help -help --help -h -? ahhhh) Gnome and KDE actually working together for a change. Someone who's prepared to polish up OSS by removing the 'this works on a Wednesday but it's so cool I had to keep it' features, and generally tidying up the rest. etc....
Hopefully the work I'm doing will help in some way to making the Linux desktop more of a reality than a pipe dream.
It seems to me if you can answer how memories are stored you automatically answer what is concesness, and then it should be trivial to answer 'How did cooperative behavior evolve?'
'Why Do Humans Have So Few Genes?' and 'To What Extent Are Genetic Variation and Personal Health Linked?' Are also tightly linked, since genes also have a survival of the fittest battle amongst themselves. A low number of genes must mean that higher numbers of genes are lightly to cause death before you can reproduce.
'What Is the Universe Made Of?' and 'Can the Laws of Physics Be Unified?' are pretty much one of the same too.
The first law of thermodynamics tells us that nothing is created or destroyed it can only be changed.
Since God can create, then God can do 'anything' even things that are impossible.
So, God can create a rock that it too heavy for him to lift, and he can also lift that rock.
I think the answer you are looking for is 'mu' or 'wu', the famous answer to "does a dog have Buddha nature", to indicate that the question was of false premise.
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Not so fast.... I've been writing a DirectX compatibility layer for linux that does the exact opposite, the best thing is that it can be compiled with wgl and run on windows, that's DirectX running on windows via opengl.
So, all you need are good opengl drivers on windows and you can run the desktop via my DirectX 9 compatibility layer.
Take that Microsoft.
I think they should spend the money on someone who goes through ebay and removes all the crap, scams, stolen, pirated software instead.
Ebay's just like torrent, except they don't remove offending items when asked.
If it gets to the point where the people are taking that much then it should be made a public service and payed for by taxation. Unless it's harmfull (like Britney or Sweets) in which case it should be prohibited so that only place you can get crap muzak and diabetes causing fat tooth rot pills is the black market.
Ah, so it's you!!!
If more care had been taken with KDE then I could run it on my pocket PC and not need 1GB or ram and a 2Ghz+ processor.
Just wait......
Hopefully people are going to start utilizing shaders for widgets, so they will be able to make then act and appear far more tactile than before.
And the more tactile the user interface the easier it is to use.
But I have a taskbar, I can see what apps are open, and I have 4 desktops too, so I don't need to clutter up one.
Try running kde in 64mb?
KDE sucks every resource on the PC because, 'memory management is the kernels job' and I should imagine 'if i suck 100% CPU it's the schedulers fault that any other app runs slowly'
I got the first responce when I suggested that when memory started getting tight KHTML dropped the the uncompressed images taking up tonnes of ram in favor of the few k of jpeg's and gif's downloaded.
Yes I do still run KDE, and yes I do try to make progressive improvements.
but the MR2 was sold under a different name in france. Who wants a car called Merde.
It's not that there hard to parse, it just that they would be easier to parse if they were in XML, and they wouldn't have the limitations of ini files.
I have a number of files on my harddrive that have UTF8 characters that cannot be used in some configuration files, if I have files with Sanskrit file names then I'd be completely screwed.
But his "prank" costs tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars.
and not one life.
The empire state building cost $40,948,900
and between 5 and hundreds of lives.
A bit of perspective always helps.
(1 reboot) wow, typically my PC requires no-reboots when I fix holes, and most of the time I don't even have to leave the desktop, I just su to a admin account from my normal account and do all the work there.
The more testes the better,
At the moment I'm merging everything with wine, but in a week or so there should be lots of testing to do...
drop me an email at oliver_stieber@yahoo.co.uk and I'll let you know when enough works been merged into wine that many games should be playable.
Sofar the Directx 9 playable games include:
Halflife 2.
Rolercoster tycoon 3
Teenage mutant ninja turtles
Colin Macea rally 2004
Kohan 2
Axis and Allies
The increadables
Warhammer 40k
Evil Genius
Pirates
Robots
Settlers heritage of the king.
That's my strongest argument for XML over plain text. another is that XML/xsd can contain documentation for the configuration file and should be fairly easy to wrap up in a GUI.
and then there's, you only have to learn one way of writing configuration files.
Which Linux config files require their own parser should be the question your asking...
anyhow.
off the top of my head postfix uses all binary files.kde uses ini files (yuck even Ms ditched them)
As for the character set, there are lots of different latin and unicode character sets that you could read most if not all of. but plain old latin may not be good enough for Mandarin speakers. xml would cope will all options.
In days gone bye, even science was considered an art form, but nowadays it's all science and the only artists left seem to be the people who once were musicians.
If Britney Spears can be referred to as an artist then gees, there's enough computer porn out there for programming to qualify as an art.
Eire is part of the EU, the part where Microsoft HQ is based too!
Years ago, before adopting the EURO, Eire dropped all it's interest rates and corporation tax to the floor causing a mini boom to happen, because the EU members haven't yet decided to harmonise taxation Eire can still get away with being far more friendly to businesses than anywhere else in Europe making the Euro slightly less strong that it would be.
Don't worry, the EU must at some point harmonise taxes, to stop Eire taking the piss if nothing else.
n.b. Microsoft seems to have lobbied all the Eire MEP's into voting for software patents.
XML is far more standard than text, for a start it tells you what character set it's written in.
txt could be one of many iso standards, utf8 utf7, utf16 etc... any you could only ever hazard a guess at which format it was.
sure make the entry barrier low, but don't lower all software down to entry level.
(BTW I think you'll find it easier to use someone elses XML library then to write you own file format library, and it will have less bug too!)
How about, all configuration files must be in XML with a XSD for documentation and validation.
/etc/init.d/foo restart
/usr/kde/share instead of ext like the rest of the world. and why do my kdm setting always get replaced when a new version of kde comes out.
xml val foo.xsd foo.config is much easier than
shit I used tabs instead of spaces in th the config file
and a standard agreed used by a vast number of people is better than a standard invented for this one application.
Standardised command lines, well at least settle on standards for help, version, verbose and debug, file.
Standard menu layouts for things like File and Edit.
maybe apps could get a start rating system for compliance, bronze for the basic command line and menus going upto gold for everything works with xml.
Oh, and why the hell do KDE keep there configuration in
Were never going to get the promised holy grail Linux desktop in the future if we can't build an acceptable desktop of the now.
If Linux was so much better then there would be tones of switchers, just look at how well firefox has done.
The Linux desktop needs:
Applications that run on the desktop.
Some kind of standards for UI's
Some kind of standards for command line (help is? help -help --help -h -? ahhhh)
Gnome and KDE actually working together for a change.
Someone who's prepared to polish up OSS by removing the 'this works on a Wednesday but it's so cool I had to keep it' features, and generally tidying up the rest.
etc....
Hopefully the work I'm doing will help in some way to making the Linux desktop more of a reality than a pipe dream.
I booted into windows to download ndiswrapper, and had popups appearing with in a couple of minutes of dialling up.
do you have your own ip or is in in an ISP block? I would expect most scans to attack the dynamically assigned ISP's ip range.
but idle people or surplus (turned-off) machines don't contribute to global warming.
It was some obscure anniversary like when we first met today and you forgot so I'm not going to talk to you.
Women have a special bit of brain that men don't have. They don't use it often, but when they do it's always right and never forgets.
There's one other major cause of fertility problems, oestrogen like molecules.
There are two key sources for absorbed oestrogen like molecules, pollution and soya.
A just to make sure you get all the bang for you buck, they also causes birth defects.
It seems to me if you can answer how memories are stored you automatically answer what is concesness, and then it should be trivial to answer 'How did cooperative behavior evolve?'
'Why Do Humans Have So Few Genes?' and
'To What Extent Are Genetic Variation and Personal Health Linked?'
Are also tightly linked, since genes also have a survival of the fittest battle amongst themselves. A low number of genes must mean that higher numbers of genes are lightly to cause death before you can reproduce.
'What Is the Universe Made Of?' and 'Can the Laws of Physics Be Unified?' are pretty much one of the same too.
'What does it mean to create something?'
The first law of thermodynamics tells us that nothing is created or destroyed it can only be changed.
Since God can create, then God can do 'anything' even things that are impossible.
So, God can create a rock that it too heavy for him to lift, and he can also lift that rock.
I think the answer you are looking for is 'mu' or 'wu', the famous answer to "does a dog have Buddha nature", to indicate that the question was of false premise.