I'm on linux and I had Mozilla 0.94 installed. I at least expected the Mozilla installer to keep my bookmarks but this was unfortunatelly not true:-(
This sounds to me like a serious bug. When upgrading I don't want my bookmarks to be removed. All other settings (like subscribed newsgroups, proxy settings, mail folders, and even the history) are preserved. But not the bookmarks!
While free software is a nice ideal not everybody has to follow that. There is still freedom to choose to follow the ideals you want to follow.
I personally think that we should try to follow the ideals of free software as much as possible when creating our own software packages. But there is still the fact that there is already a lot of good software available on Windows. It doesn't make sense not to use the software that you need to use (if there is no alternative on linux) just because they violate some ideals.
Not all of us use GNU/linux only for these idealistic reasons. I use linux mostly because I prefer it above Windows. I don't use linux because it is all free and everything. Of course that it is free is a nice benefit but it isn't all important for me. I do realize that for some people this is not true but you can't just generalize the idealism that is often found with linux users to everyone who is using linux.
So I see nothing wrong with being able to run windows software on linux. There is a lot of good software available on windows and in some respect it is a waste to just reprogram what is already available. Instead it is better to concentrate on things that are not already there. I really see nothing wrong with the ability to use both linux and windows software together. If there is an existing windows package to do something then that's nice.
And what if you only have target to one distribution? I only have Mandrake on my PC and I'm not planning to install another distribution. I want to target linux, not a distribution. Sorry but this is absolutely unacceptable solution. Unless linux has a non distribution specific packaging solution then this is not an option.
Ugh. I do NOT want to target a package to some linux distribution. I want to target a package to linux in general. I don't want to care about all those distribution. My package will most likely work on all of them (hopefully).
So this means that I cannot simply do what you want and take the 'linux packaging solution' because linux does not have a standard packaging solution. All distributions have some but not linux itself. But the packaging systems from the distributions are useless as I don't want to target a distribution.
It is very rare that I'm interested in only one value. And it is even more rare that I'm interested in the first value. So I use printf because then my program doesn't stop and I can redirect the output to a file to examine all values when that routine was entered. If I had to do that with a breakpoint I would have to press 'continue' too often and only get the results I want one line at a time.
I usually also put printf's at various places. Having to put breakpoints at all those places (and more annoyingly, having the program stop at all those places) is not very nice.
Additionally I often work on programs that have some kind of GUI and are event driven. It is very hard to make good use of breakpoints for such programs as your GUI is not responsive while the program has stopped so you are unsure what events will get through.
Greetings,
I'd like to download the quicktime movies with Mozilla. I don't have a quicktime plugin but I do not want to play them with Mozilla. Just download them so I can play them with whatever I want. Is that possible?
But keep in mind that there are also sites for which the main purpose is not giving out information but showing something. A good example are sites for children. These sites have the focus on fancy graphics and often use Flash. I've seen some VERY good usages of flash on some children sites and I think without Flash (or other 'flashy' graphics) those sites would not be interesting for children.
A checkbox alone? I have to be able to fill in the url of the automatic proxy file (PAC file). Is that possible too? Note that I'm using the KDE/Konquerer that came with Mandrake 8.0.
As a coincidence I wanted to use Konquerer today for the very first time but I couldn't because I didn't find out how I can use automatic proxy configuration. Any idea how I can do that? I can only fill in direct proxy settings but my ISP doesn't work like that.
As far as I know you can install the off-site SourceForge on an internal network too. So it can be behind a firewall if you want. That would solve all the security and speed issues. What SourceForge is selling is not an internet site but code to support something similar to SourceForge internally in your local intranet.
If you are refering to yesterdays incident to refusing authentication then I'd like to add that this was a scheduled downtime of the CVS services. This downtime was announced on the Sourceforge Site Status page.
Otherwise I have almost never problems with SourceForge and especially not with cvs. I use it daily (and more than once every day) for several of my projects without failure.
Additionally I'd like to add that the value of SourceForge lies not in the number of projects that are hosted on it. Even with only one project in it something like SourceForge would be useful. At my work I only work on one projects (but there are more of course) but even so I would love to use SourceForge to keep track of bugs, supports requests,...
So to summarize. Even if you only use the SourceForge code for one project it is still useful.
I think that a company will soon have a number of projects. Even if you only have three projects (which really isn't much for any company) then it is still nice to have a centralized point to control all this. SourceForge gives you cvs, bug tracker, support tracker, other trackers, message forums, mailing lists,...
I can certainly imagine this to be very useful for even smaller companies.
I have one of those. It is a Compaq Concerto. It is a nice idea but it has one big problem for a LAPtop. It is hard to balance on your lap:-)
I like to use my laptop while sitting in a chair (I'm not a native english speaker, I hope that's the right word for the 'sitting device' that I want to talk about:-) It is hard to do that when the screen is seperate from the keyboard and is rather heavy.
I'm the project manager of that project so I may be a little biased but Crystal Space does all you want. It is very portable (including MacOS/X, Linux, Windows, BeOS, Mac, OS/2,...), Open Source, and has lots of features. It is mainly a 3D engine but there is also support for 2D, sound, networking, python scripting,...
A few people here on slashdot have suggested that I didn't understand the difference between Open Source and Free Software. It is true that I wasn't aware of the difference at the start of the discussion but after reading the links from RMS about this issue I did understand the difference very well... But that's not the point. I may be a bit sloppy in my wording but I didn't want the discussion to go in that direction at all. I was mainly interested in the answer to a technical question about the LGPL and the PS/2. I may not have used the correct terminology but I'm not the kind of person to worry much about correct terminology. This is probably not very sensible of me but that's the way I am. It would have been nice to see a little more acceptance of that fact on the side of RMS. Just wanted to say this:-)
I do understand the difference between Open Source and Free Software (at least after reading the links that RMS gave me). But it was NOT the question. I'm just a bit sloppy with words. Also in the end I argued that Open Source == Free Software in my particular case as the source being Open for the PS/2 wrapper was the only thing stopping it from being Free Software. So I was actually asking about Open Source in the context of trying to make it Free Software.
Sorry, but I DO understand the difference between Open Source and Free Software. It was just not the question that I wanted to ask so I was a bit sloppy in my terminology. Why couldn't he just accept this?
Hmm, as far as I know all the big Open Source projects are coordinates VERY well... You say Open Source works because it is not coordinated? Well I don't agree... Python is coordinated. And it would not succeed if it wasn't. Linux is coordinated. My own project Crystal Space is coordinated. These projects can only work because there is a management team making sure that all contributions are consistant and follow the general strategy of the project.
Coding is an artform indeed. But there is still a fundamental difference to me. When I code something I don't expect it to be perfect. I KNOW it isn't perfect. I'm sure it will have hundreds of bugs and will not work correctly on most systems. That's just normal life for a programmer. So I like to get all the help I can get. That's why I release something Open Source. I want to get help from other people. On the other hand, if I were to create an artwork (which I'll not try to do as I'm not a good artist) then I don't really see how anyone else can improve it. Improving an artwork is not always possible. If you improve it then it will not be the same anymore. An artwork doesn't contain bugs in general:-) Just my opinion. Greetings,
Take a look at Crystal Space (http://crystal.linuxgames.com). It is an Open Source 3D engine that runs on Linux, Windows, BeOS, DOS, Macintosh, FreeBSD, SGI, Solaris, NextStep, OpenStep,... It can use OpenGL, Glide, Direct3D, or software rendering. It supports volumetric fog, curved surfaces, halos, dynamic colored lights with soft shadows, lightmaps and gouraud shading, octrees, portals, BSP trees, terrain engine with dynamic LOD, 3D triangle mesh entities with LOD and skeletal and/or frame based animation, dynamic textures, mipmapping,...
The Crystal Space project is doing very well at the moment. We are the second most active project on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net). More than 110 people already contributed.
What gave you the impression that XFree is slow? I'm the main author on the Crystal Space 3D engine project. This engine runs on both Windows and Linux (and some others). With XFree 3.3 the window s version was faster (for software rendering) but this changed with XFree 4. When I benchmark now CS runs at about the same speed (in a window) on both Windows and XFree. Note that I'm talking about software rendering here.
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Nope. I checked. The bookmarks.html file was empty. What is this about profiles? I didn't see anything related to profiles when installing Mozilla.
.mozilla/... was simply empty after starting up the new mozilla for the first time.
The bookmarks are lost for good though as the bookmarks.html in
Note that I upgraded from 0.94 though. Maybe that has something to do with it?
I'm on linux and I had Mozilla 0.94 installed. I at least expected the Mozilla installer to keep my bookmarks but this was unfortunatelly not true :-(
This sounds to me like a serious bug. When upgrading I don't want my bookmarks to be removed. All other settings (like subscribed newsgroups, proxy settings, mail folders, and even the history) are preserved. But not the bookmarks!
Greetings,
While free software is a nice ideal not everybody has to follow that. There is still freedom to choose to follow the ideals you want to follow.
:-)
I personally think that we should try to follow the ideals of free software as much as possible when creating our own software packages. But there is still the fact that there is already a lot of good software available on Windows. It doesn't make sense not to use the software that you need to use (if there is no alternative on linux) just because they violate some ideals.
Just my opinion
Greetings,
Not all of us use GNU/linux only for these idealistic reasons. I use linux mostly because I prefer it above Windows. I don't use linux because it is all free and everything. Of course that it is free is a nice benefit but it isn't all important for me. I do realize that for some people this is not true but you can't just generalize the idealism that is often found with linux users to everyone who is using linux.
So I see nothing wrong with being able to run windows software on linux. There is a lot of good software available on windows and in some respect it is a waste to just reprogram what is already available. Instead it is better to concentrate on things that are not already there. I really see nothing wrong with the ability to use both linux and windows software together. If there is an existing windows package to do something then that's nice.
Just my opinion.
Greetings,
And what if you only have target to one distribution? I only have Mandrake on my PC and I'm not planning to install another distribution. I want to target linux, not a distribution. Sorry but this is absolutely unacceptable solution. Unless linux has a non distribution specific packaging solution then this is not an option.
Just IMHO of course.
Greetings
Ugh. I do NOT want to target a package to some linux distribution. I want to target a package to linux in general. I don't want to care about all those distribution. My package will most likely work on all of them (hopefully).
So this means that I cannot simply do what you want and take the 'linux packaging solution' because linux does not have a standard packaging solution. All distributions have some but not linux itself. But the packaging systems from the distributions are useless as I don't want to target a distribution.
Greetings,
It is very rare that I'm interested in only one value. And it is even more rare that I'm interested in the first value. So I use printf because then my program doesn't stop and I can redirect the output to a file to examine all values when that routine was entered. If I had to do that with a breakpoint I would have to press 'continue' too often and only get the results I want one line at a time.
I usually also put printf's at various places. Having to put breakpoints at all those places (and more annoyingly, having the program stop at all those places) is not very nice.
Additionally I often work on programs that have some kind of GUI and are event driven. It is very hard to make good use of breakpoints for such programs as your GUI is not responsive while the program has stopped so you are unsure what events will get through.
Greetings,
I'd like to download the quicktime movies with Mozilla. I don't have a quicktime plugin but I do not want to play them with Mozilla. Just download them so I can play them with whatever I want. Is that possible?
Greetings
I agree with you for 95% of the sites :-)
But keep in mind that there are also sites for which the main purpose is not giving out information but showing something. A good example are sites for children. These sites have the focus on fancy graphics and often use Flash. I've seen some VERY good usages of flash on some children sites and I think without Flash (or other 'flashy' graphics) those sites would not be interesting for children.
Greetings,
A checkbox alone? I have to be able to fill in the url of the automatic proxy file (PAC file). Is that possible too? Note that I'm using the KDE/Konquerer that came with Mandrake 8.0.
Greetings,
As a coincidence I wanted to use Konquerer today for the very first time but I couldn't because I didn't find out how I can use automatic proxy configuration. Any idea how I can do that? I can only fill in direct proxy settings but my ISP doesn't work like that.
So now I'm using Mozilla...
Greetings and thanks in advance,
As far as I know you can install the off-site SourceForge on an internal network too. So it can be behind a firewall if you want. That would solve all the security and speed issues. What SourceForge is selling is not an internet site but code to support something similar to SourceForge internally in your local intranet.
Greetings,
If you are refering to yesterdays incident to refusing authentication then I'd like to add that this was a scheduled downtime of the CVS services. This downtime was announced on the Sourceforge Site Status page.
Otherwise I have almost never problems with SourceForge and especially not with cvs. I use it daily (and more than once every day) for several of my projects without failure.
Greetings,
Additionally I'd like to add that the value of SourceForge lies not in the number of projects that are hosted on it. Even with only one project in it something like SourceForge would be useful. At my work I only work on one projects (but there are more of course) but even so I would love to use SourceForge to keep track of bugs, supports requests, ...
So to summarize. Even if you only use the SourceForge code for one project it is still useful.
Greetings,
I think that a company will soon have a number of projects. Even if you only have three projects (which really isn't much for any company) then it is still nice to have a centralized point to control all this. SourceForge gives you cvs, bug tracker, support tracker, other trackers, message forums, mailing lists, ...
I can certainly imagine this to be very useful for even smaller companies.
Greetings,
I have one of those. It is a Compaq Concerto. It is a nice idea but it has one big problem for a LAPtop. It is hard to balance on your lap :-)
:-) It is hard to do that when the screen is seperate from the keyboard and is rather heavy.
I like to use my laptop while sitting in a chair (I'm not a native english speaker, I hope that's the right word for the 'sitting device' that I want to talk about
Greetings,
I'm the project manager of that project so I may be a little biased but Crystal Space does all you want. It is very portable (including MacOS/X, Linux, Windows, BeOS, Mac, OS/2, ...), Open Source, and has lots of features. It is mainly a 3D engine but there is also support for 2D, sound, networking, python scripting, ...
Check it out at http://crystal.linuxgames.com
Greetings,
So I actually like the original series the least.
But that's probably just me
Greetings,
A few people here on slashdot have suggested that I didn't understand the difference between Open Source and Free Software. It is true that I wasn't aware of the difference at the start of the discussion but after reading the links from RMS about this issue I did understand the difference very well... But that's not the point. I may be a bit sloppy in my wording but I didn't want the discussion to go in that direction at all. I was mainly interested in the answer to a technical question about the LGPL and the PS/2. I may not have used the correct terminology but I'm not the kind of person to worry much about correct terminology. This is probably not very sensible of me but that's the way I am. It would have been nice to see a little more acceptance of that fact on the side of RMS. Just wanted to say this :-)
Greetings,
I do understand the difference between Open Source and Free Software (at least after reading the links that RMS gave me). But it was NOT the question. I'm just a bit sloppy with words. Also in the end I argued that Open Source == Free Software in my particular case as the source being Open for the PS/2 wrapper was the only thing stopping it from being Free Software. So I was actually asking about Open Source in the context of trying to make it Free Software.
Greetings,
Sorry, but I DO understand the difference between Open Source and Free Software. It was just not the question that I wanted to ask so I was a bit sloppy in my terminology. Why couldn't he just accept this?
Greetings,
Greetings,
Coding is an artform indeed. But there is still a fundamental difference to me. When I code something I don't expect it to be perfect. I KNOW it isn't perfect. I'm sure it will have hundreds of bugs and will not work correctly on most systems. That's just normal life for a programmer. So I like to get all the help I can get. That's why I release something Open Source. I want to get help from other people. On the other hand, if I were to create an artwork (which I'll not try to do as I'm not a good artist) then I don't really see how anyone else can improve it. Improving an artwork is not always possible. If you improve it then it will not be the same anymore. An artwork doesn't contain bugs in general :-) Just my opinion. Greetings,
Just a little shameless plug here :-)
... It can use OpenGL, Glide, Direct3D, or software rendering. It supports volumetric fog, curved surfaces, halos, dynamic colored lights with soft shadows, lightmaps and gouraud shading, octrees, portals, BSP trees, terrain engine with dynamic LOD, 3D triangle mesh entities with LOD and skeletal and/or frame based animation, dynamic textures, mipmapping, ...
Take a look at Crystal Space (http://crystal.linuxgames.com). It is an Open Source 3D engine that runs on Linux, Windows, BeOS, DOS, Macintosh, FreeBSD, SGI, Solaris, NextStep, OpenStep,
The Crystal Space project is doing very well at the moment. We are the second most active project on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net). More than 110 people already contributed.
Greetings,
What gave you the impression that XFree is slow? I'm the main author on the Crystal Space 3D engine project. This engine runs on both Windows and Linux (and some others). With XFree 3.3 the window s version was faster (for software rendering) but this changed with XFree 4. When I benchmark now CS runs at about the same speed (in a window) on both Windows and XFree. Note that I'm talking about software rendering here.
Greetings,