I tried QNX, a few thoughts - I like the gui - but I couldn't for the life of me get the network card to work, which makes it pretty useless for me. The sound worked perfectly except playing MP3's skipped! I was disappointed in this to say the least, my PC is a dual 500MHz system so I wouldnt expect problems playing MP3's.
Having said that I'm all for giving different operating systems a chance so I'll give it a go again - anyone know if it installs in vmware?
I read this kind a comment a lot on slashdot. Lets look at this logically:
* "News for Nerds" - I am a nerd (I hope:-) and this is news to me
* "Stuff that Matters" - This story matters to me.
On both these counts this is exactly the kind of story that should be here! Maybe you've heard about this before but I havent and i'm sure not everyone else has either.
If you dont like this story why bother reading it or even wasting everyones time posting?
Trickier than that, there might not be any upgrades! Think about it Microsoft release new versions of Office, not so they can have a nice warm glow inside but so they can get money from people buying it. If those same people are already paying every year then why would you want to waste your R&D money improving the product! Leasing is always attractive to businesses because they dont want to tie up their capital, in fact there is a very large company at the moment that is selling its own property only to lease it back again!
There is a twist that I've heard but nobody here has yet mentioned. In the height of the cold war it was a race to land on the moon. I have heard it said that the Moon landing was faked so that they could say they got there first, when they really faked it and landed later after the soviets.
Worth a thought?
*learn how to present web graphics correctly. 154k for a shit front page like that is a joke.
*learn how to make a site navigable rather than having imagemaps that give no clue where to click on them
*is your front page your special way of keeping people away? theres no way I can get into your site apart from reading the source and typing the url in myself (using IE5.5)
* learn that not everybody can or even wants to resize their window and download your damn font to see your page.
Your site is a great example of the state of the web, any monkey can put up a web site...
The web, at least for me, is more about information than presentation - I dont care much whether it supports whatever function (most useful things are server side anyway, client side stuff is mostly bloat and whistles:-)
Its funny we are discussing something like this on slashdot because in my experience its one of the few sites (excluding my own:-) that look absolutely fine on any platform from QNX to Amiga to Linux to Windows.
Presentation is important and I do use CSS and Javascript on my sites but I make damn sure that I'm not so arrogant as to make it unusable in a browser that doesnt support them.
Sounds nice. I recently installed Debian on an old pentium and needed to install most of it over the net so had to get the network card working but didnt know what it was. After a few educated guesses It was up and running but automatic hardware detection would have been one less headache for me.
Er, pressing escape doesnt stop flash animations - you have to right click on them and untick "play". Some dont even offer that option.
In short flash ad banners are evil:-)
I'm not sure this is even a story, things like this happen all the time, theres not much to interest the average geek here. Now if they were using GPL'd fans and refusing to release the blueprints....:-)
I pulled out my old amiga last week, the floppies where loose in a cardboard box directly under our central heating boiler and consequently had ash/grit between them. Regardless of condition these floppy disks(that were from as far back as 1995) worked perfectly.
The only time i've seen corrupt floppy disks on the PC platform is when some (L)user decides to eject the disk with the floppy light still on.
If you do not enforce a patent, and allow an industry to build up around it, THEN try to enforce the patent you will get laughed out of court.
You mean like Rambus? It seems their whole business model is based on what you claim would be laughed out of court.
The long and short of litigation in the USA is the person with the most money wins.
This is a step in the right direction because no matter what people say games are often killer applications that help people choose their computing platform.
I would like to try some of the apple style GUI/design philosophy without spending out on hardware.
Then again, they make sexy looking hardware too - I am often tempted to by a cube..
Just what I think:
1 - Wasted space on the left hand side of the page, why do it?
2 - The drop down boxes take up as much space as the old icons but are slower to use (and no more quick fire right clicking and "open in new window") - OOOH, just checked again and it looks like its not just me who thought that, the old icons are back.
3 - The font, I dont like the font and it looks different in each browser I looked at (mozilla, IE5, Opera, Netscape). The old freshmeat looked consistent because it was more cross platform. Say hello to CSS and goodbye to cross platform consistency.
All in all I preferred the old site, but you can't improve things without change so i'd like to think they will ultimately rest on a better design.
20,000 people are feared dead. 100,000 people are homeless. And people are getting all melodramatic and tearful because of a few people who died (sad though it is, I agree).
I know american lives are more valuable than others but perhaps a little perspective?
Er, you dont get it i'm afraid - this isnt the equivalent of javascript (a client side script). There isnt any point trying to get web site viewers to run cgi's in their browser when thats what the server is for. This is for testing scripts. Having said that I still question the value of this for testing, as someone else pointed out it if it doesnt mirror the server you are going to use then you still might have to make changes when you upload it. I run apache with PHP,SSI,CGI support on my p133 40MB linux box and it works great so i'm not sure of the value of protozilla (especially given the resource requirements of mozilla!)
Excuse me, you want to waste 10 gigs of HD space? Go ahead, but my full time linux server only has a 1.6 GB drive and I still want some of that to hold my shared files, web sites and MP3s. I suspect i'm not the only person here who found their old P133 makes an ideal full time linux server. I don't take to kindly to distributions whose compact installation still installs crap that I dont want.
Sorry I know jack about this but I always though you automatically own the copyright to anything you author, or does this vary from country to country.
Of course India is not a country that greatly respects copyright.
Its fine crowing about how nobody could do anything without america's backing. The sad fact is that America is like a fickle child and will sell arms and give money/training to a nation one year then claim they are its enemies the next! Afghanistan is a good example, USA funded the rebels to prevent russia possibly getting hold of the key region then when thats over America declare them the enemies I believe they are called the taliban...
VB might as well be interpreted, all of its functions are in DLL's - mostly MSVBVM DLL (a clue it stands for microsoft Visual Basic Virtual Machine). You need 1.5 MB of DLLs and controls to even run a hello world program!
I hope they never find out about the large caches of books held around the world where people can "borrow" books to read, they would flip!
I think they are called libraries or something:-)
Strange, I felt like flaming then because I thought you were confusing it with a window manager then I re-read the site and realised they confuse it themselves, they write that it's mostly X11 compatible as if to suggest its its own GUI server (or client from the X point of view:-) but also say its games performance is limited by X - suggesting it runs on top of X like a wm. Also one of the requirements is a "X11 window server" - do they really mean server or do they mean client?
Am I confused or have is this just a hyped up window manager?
Aside from this I often find the smaller something is the higher quality it is, at least in the computer world;-) 3D demo's especially and anyone who's seen the 70k "Please the cookie thing" demo might agree with me.
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I tried QNX, a few thoughts - I like the gui - but I couldn't for the life of me get the network card to work, which makes it pretty useless for me. The sound worked perfectly except playing MP3's skipped! I was disappointed in this to say the least, my PC is a dual 500MHz system so I wouldnt expect problems playing MP3's.
Having said that I'm all for giving different operating systems a chance so I'll give it a go again - anyone know if it installs in vmware?
If you admire the phrase so much maybe you'd care to spell it correctly?
I read this kind a comment a lot on slashdot. :-) and this is news to me
Lets look at this logically:
* "News for Nerds" - I am a nerd (I hope
* "Stuff that Matters" - This story matters to me.
On both these counts this is exactly the kind of story that should be here! Maybe you've heard about this before but I havent and i'm sure not everyone else has either.
If you dont like this story why bother reading it or even wasting everyones time posting?
Trickier than that, there might not be any upgrades!
Think about it Microsoft release new versions of Office, not so they can have a nice warm glow inside but so they can get money from people buying it. If those same people are already paying every year then why would you want to waste your R&D money improving the product!
Leasing is always attractive to businesses because they dont want to tie up their capital, in fact there is a very large company at the moment that is selling its own property only to lease it back again!
There is a twist that I've heard but nobody here has yet mentioned. In the height of the cold war it was a race to land on the moon. I have heard it said that the Moon landing was faked so that they could say they got there first, when they really faked it and landed later after the soviets.
Worth a thought?
Do everyone a favour:
*learn how to present web graphics correctly. 154k for a shit front page like that is a joke.
*learn how to make a site navigable rather than having imagemaps that give no clue where to click on them
*is your front page your special way of keeping people away? theres no way I can get into your site apart from reading the source and typing the url in myself (using IE5.5)
* learn that not everybody can or even wants to resize their window and download your damn font to see your page.
Your site is a great example of the state of the web, any monkey can put up a web site...
The web, at least for me, is more about information than presentation - I dont care much whether it supports whatever function (most useful things are server side anyway, client side stuff is mostly bloat and whistles :-) :-) that look absolutely fine on any platform from QNX to Amiga to Linux to Windows.
Its funny we are discussing something like this on slashdot because in my experience its one of the few sites (excluding my own
Presentation is important and I do use CSS and Javascript on my sites but I make damn sure that I'm not so arrogant as to make it unusable in a browser that doesnt support them.
Sounds nice. I recently installed Debian on an old pentium and needed to install most of it over the net so had to get the network card working but didnt know what it was. After a few educated guesses It was up and running but automatic hardware detection would have been one less headache for me.
Er, pressing escape doesnt stop flash animations - you have to right click on them and untick "play". Some dont even offer that option. :-)
In short flash ad banners are evil
Not exactly what you asked for but pressing escape stops animations in most browsers. I find it handy to reduce the annoyance of animated banners.
I'm not sure this is even a story, things like this happen all the time, theres not much to interest the average geek here. Now if they were using GPL'd fans and refusing to release the blueprints.... :-)
I pulled out my old amiga last week, the floppies where loose in a cardboard box directly under our central heating boiler and consequently had ash/grit between them. Regardless of condition these floppy disks(that were from as far back as 1995) worked perfectly.
The only time i've seen corrupt floppy disks on the PC platform is when some (L)user decides to eject the disk with the floppy light still on.
The long and short of litigation in the USA is the person with the most money wins.
This is a step in the right direction because no matter what people say games are often killer applications that help people choose their computing platform.
I would like to try some of the apple style GUI/design philosophy without spending out on hardware.
Then again, they make sexy looking hardware too - I am often tempted to by a cube..
Just what I think:
1 - Wasted space on the left hand side of the page, why do it?
2 - The drop down boxes take up as much space as the old icons but are slower to use (and no more quick fire right clicking and "open in new window") - OOOH, just checked again and it looks like its not just me who thought that, the old icons are back.
3 - The font, I dont like the font and it looks different in each browser I looked at (mozilla, IE5, Opera, Netscape). The old freshmeat looked consistent because it was more cross platform. Say hello to CSS and goodbye to cross platform consistency.
All in all I preferred the old site, but you can't improve things without change so i'd like to think they will ultimately rest on a better design.
20,000 people are feared dead. 100,000 people are homeless. And people are getting all melodramatic and tearful because of a few people who died (sad though it is, I agree).
I know american lives are more valuable than others but perhaps a little perspective?
Er, you dont get it i'm afraid - this isnt the equivalent of javascript (a client side script). There isnt any point trying to get web site viewers to run cgi's in their browser when thats what the server is for. This is for testing scripts.
Having said that I still question the value of this for testing, as someone else pointed out it if it doesnt mirror the server you are going to use then you still might have to make changes when you upload it.
I run apache with PHP,SSI,CGI support on my p133 40MB linux box and it works great so i'm not sure of the value of protozilla (especially given the resource requirements of mozilla!)
Excuse me, you want to waste 10 gigs of HD space? Go ahead, but my full time linux server only has a 1.6 GB drive and I still want some of that to hold my shared files, web sites and MP3s. I suspect i'm not the only person here who found their old P133 makes an ideal full time linux server. I don't take to kindly to distributions whose compact installation still installs crap that I dont want.
Sorry I know jack about this but I always though you automatically own the copyright to anything you author, or does this vary from country to country.
Of course India is not a country that greatly respects copyright.
Its fine crowing about how nobody could do anything without america's backing. The sad fact is that America is like a fickle child and will sell arms and give money/training to a nation one year then claim they are its enemies the next! Afghanistan is a good example, USA funded the rebels to prevent russia possibly getting hold of the key region then when thats over America declare them the enemies I believe they are called the taliban...
VB might as well be interpreted, all of its functions are in DLL's - mostly MSVBVM DLL (a clue it stands for microsoft Visual Basic Virtual Machine).
You need 1.5 MB of DLLs and controls to even run a hello world program!
I hope they never find out about the large caches of books held around the world where people can "borrow" books to read, they would flip! :-)
I think they are called libraries or something
Strange, I felt like flaming then because I thought you were confusing it with a window manager then I re-read the site and realised they confuse it themselves, they write that it's mostly X11 compatible as if to suggest its its own GUI server (or client from the X point of view :-) but also say its games performance is limited by X - suggesting it runs on top of X like a wm.
Also one of the requirements is a "X11 window server" - do they really mean server or do they mean client?
Am I confused or have is this just a hyped up window manager?
Aside from this I often find the smaller something is the higher quality it is, at least in the computer world ;-)
3D demo's especially and anyone who's seen the 70k "Please the cookie thing" demo might agree with me.