The Netherlands is voting on June 10th. Why? Because some Christian fractions thought it to be indecent to vote on a Sunday.
Now, we have a problem with the EC, that says we have to keep the results secret until June 13th, and our govt. says that we won't have an official result until that date, but the results per city may be published. This makes it very easy to calculate the semi-official countrywide result...
Could you back up this claim? As far as I know, the European Greens are among the strongest supporters of European cooperation. They've even surrected the first European party!
Don't contribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.
The Dutch Minister of Economic affairs has voted pro-patents as well, despite both the Dutch Parliament (including his own party, D66!) and the majority of the Dutch MEPs not agreeing. The patent lobby at his Department must have convinced him he was voting for something that was a real compromise between pro- and opponents.
It's a Christian holiday, "Hemelvaart". It's 40 days after Easter, the day Jesus supposedly ascended to Heaven on a cloud.
BTW I'm a student at cs.vu.nl and I can tell you the bandwidth is definately not the problem (we're almost directly connected to the Amsterdam-US backbone).
And the ISO's I get are the public release version.
Plus 1 CD bonus, read your own text!
You should be aware that any 'PowerPack' packages you're missing can be downloaded right from the special urpmi access for club members - just run drakclub to set it up for you.
It isn't fixed, because it's designed to work this way. Apparently detecting ISA sound cards caused too many problems for people, that's why they're only detecting PCI soundcards by default.
Dude, you have a hardware (cooling) problem. You couldn't get clearer signs of that than random reboots during compiling. This has nothing to do with which distro you're using.
But the main thing I would like to point out and have everyone else re-point-out, is that the Official release doesn't actually come out for a couple of months! At which point it will most likely contain KDE 3.2.2, GNOME 2.6.1, kernel 2.6.5, GIMP 2.0.x and whatever else has come out in the meantime, plus a whole bunch of bug-fixes, etc.
No, it won't. The 10.0 Offical branch will not be introducing new versions of packages, just polish and (security) bugfixes. What you're describing will be in 10.1 Community.
The word you were looking for is 'Work area'. On the GNOME usability mailing list there is a discussion involving this very subject, you might want to join in!
The problem with recipes on the internet is that they don't scale well internationally. Apart from the fact that many ingredient names aren't part of my english vocabulary, the biggest problem is that I've got not the faintest idea how much an oz, lb, c or tsp is.
Now if everyone just started to comply with internationally agreed upon standards (metric units) I wouldn't get the same uneasy feeling I have when receiving a Word-attachment whenever I read an American/English recipe on the net. It's time for a W3C validator for recipes!
What will happen is that those apps running under WINE won't run quite as well as their windows counterparts, so Windows users don't see reason to switch. Linux users won't pay for mediocre software, so Macromedia declares the Linux market nonviable and we're back at square 1.
All this happened with OS/2 ten years ago, you know.
There you have it. The download edition doesn't come with non-free packages such as the Sun Java Runtime Environment. If you would have been using the PowerPack instead of the download edition and/or would have installed the j2re RPM from the MandrakeClub commercial repository, the symlink would have been created for you.
How can you question the 'user friendliness' of Mandrake in this case where you obviously have been using a non-Mandrake JRE package?
You don't think this might have anything to do with the quality of native language user interfaces, or stimulating the own economy instead of someone elses? Nah...
Also I'd like to point out that Mandrake now has a policy of only allowing paying users to access Mandrake linux when it comes out. Only later does the rest of the world get access to it.
Yes, when 9.2 came out, Club members got privileged access to the ISO-torrents, but at that time anyone could update his current install or do a network install from the ftp mirrors. Plus, of course the ISO's appeared on public P2P networks anyway, and while perhaps not so nice towards Mandrakesoft, this was completely legal.
Since the paying users are the only ones making Mandrake any money its not unlikely that sooner or later Mandrake will stop offering it for Free.
This is just spreading FUD. There is no evidence indicating Mandrakesoft will stop offering their distro for free. Statements from execs are always to the contrary. So get your facts straight please.
For anyone interested in MandrakeMove, you may also want to check out PCLinuxOS. It's a similar project lead by Texstar (famous for many Mandrake RPM contribs), based on Mandrake 9.2.
Problem with approaches like these ("User Levels") is that some users learn along the way, and hence need a way to explore more advanced stuff. Also, if memory serves me right, user testing has indicated that people are afraid to choose "Dummies" level because they don't want to miss something important.
Nonetheless I've read that Mandrakesoft has a variant of their 9.2 distro called 'Discovery Pack' which is targeted at your categories 1-2. You may want to check it out.
The Dutch government has started a similar initiative some time ago, providing governmental agencies and other interested parties with information about Open Source and Open Standards. The site:
OSOSS.nl
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The Netherlands is voting on June 10th. Why? Because some Christian fractions thought it to be indecent to vote on a Sunday.
Now, we have a problem with the EC, that says we have to keep the results secret until June 13th, and our govt. says that we won't have an official result until that date, but the results per city may be published. This makes it very easy to calculate the semi-official countrywide result...
Don't contribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.
The Dutch Minister of Economic affairs has voted pro-patents as well, despite both the Dutch Parliament (including his own party, D66!) and the majority of the Dutch MEPs not agreeing. The patent lobby at his Department must have convinced him he was voting for something that was a real compromise between pro- and opponents.
Anyhow-- if you happen to be a Dutchman representing a company (MKB) please undersign the communiqé at: http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/DebatDenHaagJointStat ement
It's a Christian holiday, "Hemelvaart". It's 40 days after Easter, the day Jesus supposedly ascended to Heaven on a cloud.
BTW I'm a student at cs.vu.nl and I can tell you the bandwidth is definately not the problem (we're almost directly connected to the Amsterdam-US backbone).
You should be aware that any 'PowerPack' packages you're missing can be downloaded right from the special urpmi access for club members - just run drakclub to set it up for you.
It isn't fixed, because it's designed to work this way. Apparently detecting ISA sound cards caused too many problems for people, that's why they're only detecting PCI soundcards by default.
By the way, did you try urpmi openssh?
The numbers correspond to amendments. In general you can say, the more green boxes a MEP has, the better.
Having to type audiocd:/ is intuitive?
Anyway I've just fired up konqueror and tried it. It just took me to Google. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but again this is hardly intuitive.
No, you don't have to:
Tweakers.net
Webwereld.nl
Are you trying to start a distro war here? I happen to believe Mandrake is the best distro.
No, it won't. The 10.0 Offical branch will not be introducing new versions of packages, just polish and (security) bugfixes. What you're describing will be in 10.1 Community.
The word you were looking for is 'Work area'. On the GNOME usability mailing list there is a discussion involving this very subject, you might want to join in!
Imagine having to do this conversion for each and every ingredient, for each and every recipe.
Call me back when Babelfish does this conversion for me (together with Dutch translations...).
And a tsp, is it a teaspoon or a tablespoon or something else altogether? Quite a few teaspoons fit into a tablespoon...
Now if everyone just started to comply with internationally agreed upon standards (metric units) I wouldn't get the same uneasy feeling I have when receiving a Word-attachment whenever I read an American/English recipe on the net. It's time for a W3C validator for recipes!
What will happen is that those apps running under WINE won't run quite as well as their windows counterparts, so Windows users don't see reason to switch. Linux users won't pay for mediocre software, so Macromedia declares the Linux market nonviable and we're back at square 1.
All this happened with OS/2 ten years ago, you know.
How can you question the 'user friendliness' of Mandrake in this case where you obviously have been using a non-Mandrake JRE package?
You don't think this might have anything to do with the quality of native language user interfaces, or stimulating the own economy instead of someone elses? Nah...
A truly well-informed reply to a highly overrated piece of flamebait.
For anyone interested in MandrakeMove, you may also want to check out PCLinuxOS. It's a similar project lead by Texstar (famous for many Mandrake RPM contribs), based on Mandrake 9.2.
More info can be found here.
Problem with approaches like these ("User Levels") is that some users learn along the way, and hence need a way to explore more advanced stuff. Also, if memory serves me right, user testing has indicated that people are afraid to choose "Dummies" level because they don't want to miss something important.
Nonetheless I've read that Mandrakesoft has a variant of their 9.2 distro called 'Discovery Pack' which is targeted at your categories 1-2. You may want to check it out.
The Dutch government has started a similar initiative some time ago, providing governmental agencies and other interested parties with information about Open Source and Open Standards. The site: OSOSS.nl
This usually means that you have no write access in the directory the install script wants to write in.