Like PowerPoint in 'Presentation Mode'? Where the preso goes to the projector screen, and a control panel with notes and clickable forward/back buttons goes to your laptop screen?
Not even close.
With EZWorship I can click on any of the slides of the presentation and that's something powerpoint just doesn't do. It also lets me sort slides into smaller groups (import multiple powerpoint presentations) and let me select the next slide from the middle of another presentation.
It's even worse since everyone seems to be copying a second rate product in the first place.
Powerpoint is the wrong way to do presentations that are in any way more complex than a slide show. Want to skip back? Hit the back arrow twice or remember the slide number and punch it into the keyboard. Even with dual monitors you don't get much more than the ability to see what's ahead of behind.
Proper presentation software would give you a proper click able control screen where you can click back and forth.
Are you asking for bug fixes in a Linux kernel from 6 years ago? Nope, And Linus wouldn't give release them anyway. But I don't hear anyone yelling at about that.....
Linus won't what?
The latest 2.4 version of the Linux kernel is: 2.4.35.3
The latest prepatch for the 2.4 Linux kernel tree is: 2.4.36-pre1
The latest 2.2 version of the Linux kernel is: 2.2.26
The latest prepatch for the 2.2 Linux kernel tree is: 2.2.27-rc2
Ok so linux 2.2 and 2.4 are still being actively maintained.. how old are those?
Jan 28 1999 linux-2.2.1.tar.gz
Jan 30 2001 linux-2.4.1.tar.gz
So your wrong.. you can get Linux kernel patches from 5 year old versions and older.
If I have a secret, I don't care what the antitrust european court says, it's my secret, they shoudln't take that nor my money away for me.
Except that there is no justifiable reason for keeping it a secret since pretty much all of their "secrets" were proprietary extensions based on already known protocols. In fact, some of those protocols were items Microsoft pushed onto the standards track themselves so they have no excuse really.
Actually the steady erosion for the most part has been to Google more than it has been to Windows. Google is running it's own custom web server that dropped just under 5% off of the Apache numbers.
also: Make the installation as easy as possible.. If I have to change 30 config files and assorted hopps I probably won't even bother to finish installing it let alone start looking at the code.
I ended up using cables from RCA that were almost exactly the same as the Monster but half price since the cables that came with my amp were very thing and cheap.
I didn't think it made much of a difference at first but then I switched the sub woofer cable for one from RCA as well. First thing I noticed was that I had to turn the sub woofer down.
So the cables really do make a difference but I think it only really matters once you get out of that crap $1 cable category.
It could be argued that the rules should be more relaxed and consumer friendly but if not for the FCC the airwaves would be chaos.. consider any system where the largest power could drown out anyone else's signal.
I for one am glad my cell phone doesn't need to overpower other signal sources and can use the lowest possible transmission power wich results in better battery lives.
No.. the dry cold is worse, especially when it's too cold to snow and all you have is wind blowing across the ice. The freaking cold air goes through everything.
Made more annoying when some bus routs on the island of Montreal are a tad unreliable and you get stuck out side waiting.
Security is more than just the ability to gain root on a machine.. Qmail has good security in that regard however the ease of which it can be used for reflector spam (spam with bogus return address) means it's unusable without addon patches.
I used to use Qmail for everything until spammers started to fill my mailq with bounces.. now it's postfix for everything.
I read all the article, and it is, as the tags say a non article. This guy is drowning in a glass of water. If the lkml is indeed being spamed with flames related to this, I would suggest Linus and the others to ignore the flamers and just continue to work. If they (we) want to fork the Linux kernel, go ahead, that is the nature of Open Source.
LKML is not being spammed over this at all. There was an argument over it that lasted a few days but that ended weeks ago. At this point there are more news stories and comments then there were actual posts in the threat that started all of this.
The most laughable part about this all is that Linus never disagreed that work was needed to improve the desktop. The disagreement was over which scheduler patch would help the desktop the most in the long term.
There are some serious misrepresentations of the facts being propagated by some of these "journalists" and they should be ashamed of themselves for their part in this.
As someone who has been using Linux since 1995 I can tell you things are a whole lot better than they used to be.
The scripts and kernel have improved a lot. When I started you were presented with a bash prompt after the CD loaded and had to run fdisk yourself (don't forget to set the partition type) before loading the installer which would just dump a bunch of tar files onto the drive. The X server required entering the screen frequencies manually and then you had to edit the conf by hand to get a decent screen mode and a 32 colour depth. PPP had to be setup manually and the scripts had to be edited for my isp's responses.
Now most distros set everything up for you. Package management is reasonable and improving (unless your stuck with an.rpm based distro) X setup is pretty much automatic and sets the best screen modes for you most of the time. The interfaces have become downright easy on the eyes and things crash less often. I see no reason the improvements won't continue into the future.
I don't know what's going on with your system but it sounds like it's getting bad data from somewhere. Either you set a bad option somewhere or your dhcp server/isp is feeding it bad info.. You can bypass both using the correct conf options. Feel free to contact me privately if you need help sorting it. Which brings us to the main cause of Linux bugs these days: quite often manufacturers and admins only test against windows so Linux ends up having to maintain quirk for quirk compatibility with an undocumented and changing interface (windows).
It's not just that its too expensive. They are so used to the old system that in many cases I can't even buy what I want.
I'm the sort of person who buys what he likes.. I prefer to give money to people who provide me with entertainment. My usual MO is to download what I want and if I like it I will look for it on CD or DVD and purchase it. I have a strange collection of movies and many of them were downloaded before I bought them. I make good money and I'm more than willing to share some of it with people who make my life more enjoyable.
When it comes to TV shows I find I can't even buy what I want. It's just not available. My choices are to either download it or sit during the time they put it on the TV and watch it and there is my problem. My evenings are MINE to decide what to do with. I'm not going to give up hanging out with friends just so I can sit and watch TV. I'm not going to give up making extra money to sit and watch TV. I'm not going to give up weekly church events to sit and watch TV.
So I download and hope whoever ripped what I want didn't do too bad a job of it. But you know what? My time is expensive. I would happily pay someone to make sure that whatever I got was good quality. But they simply don't provide that service.
How did things get so completely backwards? What happened to customer convenience? The whole point of capitalism is to provide a SERVICE. When the customer wants a service the customer pays for it and gets what (s)he pays for. Give me what I want(entertainment) and I'll give you what you want(money). Instead we have an organization that expects me to make changes for them and do business at their convenience. And then they have the nerve to feel entitled to this arrangement.
They need to get over themselves and start providing a service again. Until they do that: I'm stuck downloading.
I think this applies:
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims
may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber
barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's
cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be
satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us
without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.
-- C. S. Lewis
For 7372 the fix is to use a better designed filesystem such as XFS. As far as I know there are people dedicated to trying to fix ext3's inefficiancies but for the most part people who want better performance are just switching to other filesystems.
AMD ie recently making more moves toward the open source community than either it or ATI did prior to the merger.It seems to me that AMD has realized that there is value in not only having the right products rolling off the lines, but also having a greater mindshare.
AMD has actually been making moves for a long time so this isn't as large a step for them. Even before the amd64 cpus came out AMD had specs available and a machine simulator as well as several kernel developers working on getting Linux to run on their hardware.
On the other hand this is a huge step for ATI and I may very well find myself reconsidering my ATI boycott.
As for the 'it should be open source' calls, I'll agree with the earlier comment about patents, but also, I really don't think it should be an issue, and I'm really quite unnerved by all the 'IT HAS TO BE GPL' people, using GPL is an individual choice for a software developer, just like using BSD is a choice, or keeping everything out of easy view is a choice. Why the H377 should you have any call on how someone else chooses to release software to run their hardware. That's like me banging on your door and demanding you let me drive your car, just because your neighbour gave me his keys.
Well the main logic behind demanding GPL is that we want something that can be integrated with the kernel. Having to reinstall the drivers separately each time I upgrade the kernel is a huge pain and a major reason I'm considering going Intel on my next purchase.. it's just too annoying to bother.
Right now I would settle for a driver that works on recent kernels since one of those improvements mean much to me if I can't actually install them.
I used to be a huge ATI fan but I've completely stopped buying their stuff. If they can't be bothered to make working drivers or have useful support answers. I can't be bothered to shell out money for something that's just going into the garbage bin anyways.
NVIDIA is marginally better.. at least these stuff works even if I have to reinstall the X.org drivers every time I update a kernel.
The trouble is that it's very hard to do that with telephone service. There are a lot of installation costs when the cables are put in the ground and the returns aren't very large.
The problem here is that an inexperienced government got taken advantage of by SBC. SBC has a history of buying their way into a monopoly then abusing that position to no end. In several cases they have even gotten the local governments to ban VOIP and then blocking those ports at the isp leave.
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Like PowerPoint in 'Presentation Mode'? Where the preso goes to the projector screen, and a control panel with notes and clickable forward/back buttons goes to your laptop screen?
Not even close.
With EZWorship I can click on any of the slides of the presentation and that's something powerpoint just doesn't do. It also lets me sort slides into smaller groups (import multiple powerpoint presentations) and let me select the next slide from the middle of another presentation.
It's even worse since everyone seems to be copying a second rate product in the first place.
Powerpoint is the wrong way to do presentations that are in any way more complex than a slide show. Want to skip back? Hit the back arrow twice or remember the slide number and punch it into the keyboard. Even with dual monitors you don't get much more than the ability to see what's ahead of behind.
Proper presentation software would give you a proper click able control screen where you can click back and forth.
I find it somewhat sad that the best way to view power point presentations is actually via Software designed to run a church service
Are you asking for bug fixes in a Linux kernel from 6 years ago? Nope, And Linus wouldn't give release them anyway. But I don't hear anyone yelling at about that.....
Linus won't what?
The latest 2.4 version of the Linux kernel is: 2.4.35.3
The latest prepatch for the 2.4 Linux kernel tree is: 2.4.36-pre1
The latest 2.2 version of the Linux kernel is: 2.2.26
The latest prepatch for the 2.2 Linux kernel tree is: 2.2.27-rc2
Ok so linux 2.2 and 2.4 are still being actively maintained.. how old are those?
Jan 28 1999 linux-2.2.1.tar.gz
Jan 30 2001 linux-2.4.1.tar.gz
So your wrong.. you can get Linux kernel patches from 5 year old versions and older.
Your right about the mounting bracket although my power connector seems to work fine but then I use the SATA power connector.
In fact, if you want to build an energy efficient desktop, a good way is to use a laptop hard drive with an adapter.
Actually thanks to SATA the adaptor is no longer needed. They have the same plug now.
If I have a secret, I don't care what the antitrust european court says, it's my secret, they shoudln't take that nor my money away for me.
Except that there is no justifiable reason for keeping it a secret since pretty much all of their "secrets" were proprietary extensions based on already known protocols. In fact, some of those protocols were items Microsoft pushed onto the standards track themselves so they have no excuse really.
Not quite forced down your throat. Dell will install XP if you ask and HP has some models with XP.
I've had to direct customers to these since Vista's shorter battery life is a huge problem.
Actually the steady erosion for the most part has been to Google more than it has been to Windows. Google is running it's own custom web server that dropped just under 5% off of the Apache numbers.
also: Make the installation as easy as possible.. If I have to change 30 config files and assorted hopps I probably won't even bother to finish installing it let alone start looking at the code.
Does it support receipt printers and cash drawers?
1 make sure you you don't use easily guessable passwords
2 Install only the remotely accessible daemons that you really need.
3 if you absolutely must allow ssh logins "apt-get install denyhosts" to lock out password guessing scripts.
I ended up using cables from RCA that were almost exactly the same as the Monster but half price since the cables that came with my amp were very thing and cheap.
I didn't think it made much of a difference at first but then I switched the sub woofer cable for one from RCA as well. First thing I noticed was that I had to turn the sub woofer down.
So the cables really do make a difference but I think it only really matters once you get out of that crap $1 cable category.
They do compete in the private sector.. Diebold is a major producer of ATM machines.
It could be argued that the rules should be more relaxed and consumer friendly but if not for the FCC the airwaves would be chaos.. consider any system where the largest power could drown out anyone else's signal.
I for one am glad my cell phone doesn't need to overpower other signal sources and can use the lowest possible transmission power wich results in better battery lives.
No.. the dry cold is worse, especially when it's too cold to snow and all you have is wind blowing across the ice. The freaking cold air goes through everything.
Made more annoying when some bus routs on the island of Montreal are a tad unreliable and you get stuck out side waiting.
Security is more than just the ability to gain root on a machine.. Qmail has good security in that regard however the ease of which it can be used for reflector spam (spam with bogus return address) means it's unusable without addon patches.
I used to use Qmail for everything until spammers started to fill my mailq with bounces.. now it's postfix for everything.
I read all the article, and it is, as the tags say a non article. This guy is drowning in a glass of water. If the lkml is indeed being spamed with flames related to this, I would suggest Linus and the others to ignore the flamers and just continue to work. If they (we) want to fork the Linux kernel, go ahead, that is the nature of Open Source.
LKML is not being spammed over this at all. There was an argument over it that lasted a few days but that ended weeks ago. At this point there are more news stories and comments then there were actual posts in the threat that started all of this.
The most laughable part about this all is that Linus never disagreed that work was needed to improve the desktop. The disagreement was over which scheduler patch would help the desktop the most in the long term.
There are some serious misrepresentations of the facts being propagated by some of these "journalists" and they should be ashamed of themselves for their part in this.
As someone who has been using Linux since 1995 I can tell you things are a whole lot better than they used to be.
.rpm based distro) X setup is pretty much automatic and sets the best screen modes for you most of the time. The interfaces have become downright easy on the eyes and things crash less often. I see no reason the improvements won't continue into the future.
The scripts and kernel have improved a lot. When I started you were presented with a bash prompt after the CD loaded and had to run fdisk yourself (don't forget to set the partition type) before loading the installer which would just dump a bunch of tar files onto the drive. The X server required entering the screen frequencies manually and then you had to edit the conf by hand to get a decent screen mode and a 32 colour depth. PPP had to be setup manually and the scripts had to be edited for my isp's responses.
Now most distros set everything up for you. Package management is reasonable and improving (unless your stuck with an
I don't know what's going on with your system but it sounds like it's getting bad data from somewhere. Either you set a bad option somewhere or your dhcp server/isp is feeding it bad info.. You can bypass both using the correct conf options. Feel free to contact me privately if you need help sorting it. Which brings us to the main cause of Linux bugs these days: quite often manufacturers and admins only test against windows so Linux ends up having to maintain quirk for quirk compatibility with an undocumented and changing interface (windows).
It's not just that its too expensive. They are so used to the old system that in many cases I can't even buy what I want.
I'm the sort of person who buys what he likes.. I prefer to give money to people who provide me with entertainment. My usual MO is to download what I want and if I like it I will look for it on CD or DVD and purchase it. I have a strange collection of movies and many of them were downloaded before I bought them. I make good money and I'm more than willing to share some of it with people who make my life more enjoyable.
When it comes to TV shows I find I can't even buy what I want. It's just not available. My choices are to either download it or sit during the time they put it on the TV and watch it and there is my problem. My evenings are MINE to decide what to do with. I'm not going to give up hanging out with friends just so I can sit and watch TV. I'm not going to give up making extra money to sit and watch TV. I'm not going to give up weekly church events to sit and watch TV.
So I download and hope whoever ripped what I want didn't do too bad a job of it. But you know what? My time is expensive. I would happily pay someone to make sure that whatever I got was good quality. But they simply don't provide that service.
How did things get so completely backwards? What happened to customer convenience? The whole point of capitalism is to provide a SERVICE. When the customer wants a service the customer pays for it and gets what (s)he pays for. Give me what I want(entertainment) and I'll give you what you want(money). Instead we have an organization that expects me to make changes for them and do business at their convenience. And then they have the nerve to feel entitled to this arrangement.
They need to get over themselves and start providing a service again. Until they do that: I'm stuck downloading.
I think this applies: Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences. -- C. S. Lewis
For 7372 the fix is to use a better designed filesystem such as XFS. As far as I know there are people dedicated to trying to fix ext3's inefficiancies but for the most part people who want better performance are just switching to other filesystems.
AMD ie recently making more moves toward the open source community than either it or ATI did prior to the merger.It seems to me that AMD has realized that there is value in not only having the right products rolling off the lines, but also having a greater mindshare.
AMD has actually been making moves for a long time so this isn't as large a step for them. Even before the amd64 cpus came out AMD had specs available and a machine simulator as well as several kernel developers working on getting Linux to run on their hardware.
On the other hand this is a huge step for ATI and I may very well find myself reconsidering my ATI boycott.
As for the 'it should be open source' calls, I'll agree with the earlier comment about patents, but also, I really don't think it should be an issue, and I'm really quite unnerved by all the 'IT HAS TO BE GPL' people, using GPL is an individual choice for a software developer, just like using BSD is a choice, or keeping everything out of easy view is a choice. Why the H377 should you have any call on how someone else chooses to release software to run their hardware. That's like me banging on your door and demanding you let me drive your car, just because your neighbour gave me his keys.
Well the main logic behind demanding GPL is that we want something that can be integrated with the kernel. Having to reinstall the drivers separately each time I upgrade the kernel is a huge pain and a major reason I'm considering going Intel on my next purchase.. it's just too annoying to bother.
Right now I would settle for a driver that works on recent kernels since one of those improvements mean much to me if I can't actually install them.
I used to be a huge ATI fan but I've completely stopped buying their stuff. If they can't be bothered to make working drivers or have useful support answers. I can't be bothered to shell out money for something that's just going into the garbage bin anyways.
NVIDIA is marginally better.. at least these stuff works even if I have to reinstall the X.org drivers every time I update a kernel.
The trouble is that it's very hard to do that with telephone service. There are a lot of installation costs when the cables are put in the ground and the returns aren't very large.
The problem here is that an inexperienced government got taken advantage of by SBC. SBC has a history of buying their way into a monopoly then abusing that position to no end. In several cases they have even gotten the local governments to ban VOIP and then blocking those ports at the isp leave.