Have an LFS installation. Have been compiling KDE for every new release since 2.2
Yeah, it takes some time. I just start the compile process before I leave for the office. My compile script shuts down the PC when it's done. By the time I'm back, it's done. Simple. No time wasted. It could take 8 minutes or 8 hours - no matter to me coz I'm not using the machine at the time - no slowdown noticed.
Or just composer and the browser? Perfectly standards compliant and fast. Add some good CSS and template support to Composer with some basic site management, make it a true visual editor and suddenly mozilla doesn't go away so easily.
Oh, but if you're going to keep the e-mail client, could you please include the option to re-write mail headers or to pipe the mail through another program or even to re-direct/forward the mail automatically? These are important functions for e-mail and neither mozilla's email nor Thunderbird have them.
To keep it simple, here's what you need in 2.0 - LOTS of refinement. It needs to look like it's good to your average Joe Blow. It needs to load fast and just do what it's supposed to without crashing. Wouldn't help if it looked good too - a lot of artists are already helping a lot on that front.
...and $100 is DEFINITELY NOT 1 month's pay for an architect. Why, fresh B.E.s start off at a minimum of around $400 a month. Architects make a lot more. The average salary here is above $1000 a month for a moderately experienced professional. So I'll take it you meant 1000 and not 100.
Just to give you an idea of the living expenses, if you eat out every day, food can cost you between Rs. 100-300 a day in a good restaurant in the famous city of Bangalore - I'm not talking fastfood:) Apartment rentals start at around Rs.6000 a month. Movie tickets are around Rs. 150.
To put the "broadband" rates here in perspective, the going rate now is about Rs.800 (less than $20) for a 256kbps connection with about a 500 MB traffic limit. So a 100 bucks for 2Mbps is an excellent deal.
Sorry to sound like a wet blanket, but there have been past stories about how walmart pressurizes it's suppliers to lower costs to the point of even bankrupting them. So, what I'm wondering is, who is it this time? Sure, it's great to have a laptop for less than $500, but hey, is some poor guy suffering to provide this pricing? or not? Anyone?
Thanks! CScope is something like what I had in mind. I definitely will check it out this weekend. Also came across CBrowser (the front end to CScope), but then cscope is built into vi, which is the most popular console based text editor here:)
Splint is already installed. What I would like to do is to show the tool to those that are interested, give them a short lesson on it and then leave them to their own devices and let their curiosity make them learn.
Was just about to make the above point myself:) Well, even if they aren't very servieable, replacements could be very cheap compared to satellites. Plus, if they could get this to work in a P2P fashion, it's going to be a really viable alternative ESPECIALLY for developing countries, plus you could upgrade each node very easily.
The only thing is that you would need to make sure that aircraft are kept well away from these things. This would definitely help in reducing gaming lag. If this takes off, I can definitely see a lot of international gamers using this, which would lead to much more fun:)
So it has an ssh client. That's good, but does it have an ssh server? That would be better. Not trying to troll, just an honest query and suggestion.
When you need to quickly transfer files using scp from Linux to Windows without the headache of setting up Samba etc, something like this could be invaluable.
No headache of installation - it would really be a time saver.
Think the majority of computer users - non-geeks. Think what the majority of those machines are used for:
1) Internet browsing at home/office 2) Multimedia at home 3) Office work, presentations 4) Small time and educational games in schools
Now, if we had an open source card that could take care of all the overhead processing that today's desktop eye candy requires and then some, you've just got yourself a solution to this problem:
"I'm your average joe blow. I do not know what XFree86 is. I do not know what a driver is and I don't want to. I want it to work, I want it to work well and I want it to look good."
You've just cleared away 90% of that market's concerns about a video card that just works. Since it's open source, it's cheap. Since it's open source, it'll be used in universities. Since it's open source, there will be an expanding knowledge base for it.
Forget high end games. That will come in time. Target desktop eye-candy - great looking shadows, transparency, 3D Desktops, god knows what else. Target an interface BETTER than the Mac. Heck, TARGET SVG implementation! Use this to give our community artists free reign with their themes. I think there's some VERY serious potential here.
I think this is a gold mine that might actually help with better Linux adoption.
Hey! I just got an even better idea.....
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Why not bring in team play? a lot of bots controlled by humans over the internet, running around and killing things...
Well, apparently it's a kinda standard that specifies where our files are stored, what your default installation prefixes are, the filesystem hierarchy, where your init scripts are stored, etc...
basically, if I'm right, this means that once this is implemented, you'll find all your initscripts in/etc/rc.d/init.d on all conforming distros and you won't have to remember that one stores it in/etc/init.d while another stores it in/etc/rc.d/ etc etc...not just filesystem hierarchy, but a TON of other stuff...but you get the idea.
kinda a standard structure for Linux implementation.
groping around in the dark in games will only halve your half life, spell doom for and finally leave you floating through the level with a halo:)...except ofcourse in The Sims 2...it would get u a hot date there:)
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That's the least of your worries...how would you like a dishwashing toaster? :)
simply leave them alone in a room...
You installed it on your grand-father's grand-mother's laptop? DUDE!
Don't worry. We'll get you a smaller bedroom too.
Microsoft office XML schemas as closed as ever.
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
...and you probably won't have slashdot to crib to ;)
ROFL!! Parent got modded insightful!
:)
Only on Slashdot babay. Only on Slashdot!
LMAO
Have an LFS installation. Have been compiling KDE for every new release since 2.2
Yeah, it takes some time. I just start the compile process before I leave for the office. My compile script shuts down the PC when it's done. By the time I'm back, it's done. Simple. No time wasted. It could take 8 minutes or 8 hours - no matter to me coz I'm not using the machine at the time - no slowdown noticed.
Or just composer and the browser? Perfectly standards compliant and fast. Add some good CSS and template support to Composer with some basic site management, make it a true visual editor and suddenly mozilla doesn't go away so easily.
Oh, but if you're going to keep the e-mail client, could you please include the option to re-write mail headers or to pipe the mail through another program or even to re-direct/forward the mail automatically? These are important functions for e-mail and neither mozilla's email nor Thunderbird have them.
To keep it simple, here's what you need in 2.0 - LOTS of refinement. It needs to look like it's good to your average Joe Blow. It needs to load fast and just do what it's supposed to without crashing. Wouldn't help if it looked good too - a lot of artists are already helping a lot on that front.
For the record, I use Thunderbird and Firefox.
Which elephant route do you take? Mine is 3A.
...and $100 is DEFINITELY NOT 1 month's pay for an architect. Why, fresh B.E.s start off at a minimum of around $400 a month. Architects make a lot more. The average salary here is above $1000 a month for a moderately experienced professional. So I'll take it you meant 1000 and not 100.
:) Apartment rentals start at around Rs.6000 a month. Movie tickets are around Rs. 150.
Just to give you an idea of the living expenses, if you eat out every day, food can cost you between Rs. 100-300 a day in a good restaurant in the famous city of Bangalore - I'm not talking fastfood
To put the "broadband" rates here in perspective, the going rate now is about Rs.800 (less than $20) for a 256kbps connection with about a 500 MB traffic limit. So a 100 bucks for 2Mbps is an excellent deal.
Yeah, but the real cause for the crash was an Access backend. So there! :)
...slashdotted reservations?
Sorry to sound like a wet blanket, but there have been past stories about how walmart pressurizes it's suppliers to lower costs to the point of even bankrupting them. So, what I'm wondering is, who is it this time? Sure, it's great to have a laptop for less than $500, but hey, is some poor guy suffering to provide this pricing? or not? Anyone?
Thanks! CScope is something like what I had in mind. I definitely will check it out this weekend. Also came across CBrowser (the front end to CScope), but then cscope is built into vi, which is the most popular console based text editor here :)
Splint is already installed. What I would like to do is to show the tool to those that are interested, give them a short lesson on it and then leave them to their own devices and let their curiosity make them learn.
You gotta love that server grovelling at your feet.
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Was just about to make the above point myself :) Well, even if they aren't very servieable, replacements could be very cheap compared to satellites. Plus, if they could get this to work in a P2P fashion, it's going to be a really viable alternative ESPECIALLY for developing countries, plus you could upgrade each node very easily. :)
The only thing is that you would need to make sure that aircraft are kept well away from these things. This would definitely help in reducing gaming lag. If this takes off, I can definitely see a lot of international gamers using this, which would lead to much more fun
So it has an ssh client. That's good, but does it have an ssh server? That would be better. Not trying to troll, just an honest query and suggestion.
When you need to quickly transfer files using scp from Linux to Windows without the headache of setting up Samba etc, something like this could be invaluable.
No headache of installation - it would really be a time saver.
the X Price competition...later renamed "The Price is Right"
Think the majority of computer users - non-geeks. :
Think what the majority of those machines are used for
1) Internet browsing at home/office
2) Multimedia at home
3) Office work, presentations
4) Small time and educational games in schools
Now, if we had an open source card that could take care of all the overhead processing that today's desktop eye candy requires and then some, you've just got yourself a solution to this problem:
"I'm your average joe blow. I do not know what XFree86 is. I do not know what a driver is and I don't want to. I want it to work, I want it to work well and I want it to look good."
You've just cleared away 90% of that market's concerns about a video card that just works. Since it's open source, it's cheap. Since it's open source, it'll be used in universities. Since it's open source, there will be an expanding knowledge base for it.
Forget high end games. That will come in time. Target desktop eye-candy - great looking shadows, transparency, 3D Desktops, god knows what else. Target an interface BETTER than the Mac. Heck, TARGET SVG implementation! Use this to give our community artists free reign with their themes. I think there's some VERY serious potential here.
I think this is a gold mine that might actually help with better Linux adoption.
Why not bring in team play? a lot of bots controlled by humans over the internet, running around and killing things...
err..wait...
Well, apparently it's a kinda standard that specifies where our files are stored, what your default installation prefixes are, the filesystem hierarchy, where your init scripts are stored, etc...
/etc/rc.d/init.d on all conforming distros and you won't have to remember that one stores it in /etc/init.d while another stores it in /etc/rc.d/ etc etc...not just filesystem hierarchy, but a TON of other stuff...but you get the idea.
:
basically, if I'm right, this means that once this is implemented, you'll find all your initscripts in
kinda a standard structure for Linux implementation.
You can get more specific info here
LSB latest draft
You forgot all the spoilt brats Netscape sired with the AOL branding around them :)
...that comes with a half full bucket of ink ;)
groping around in the dark in games will only halve your half life, spell doom for and finally leave you floating through the level with a halo :) ...except ofcourse in The Sims 2...it would get u a hot date there :)