If (or when) mono technologies start being used in Red Carpet, Evo or whatever then for the most part people shouldn't even notice, to them it will just look like another GNOME app. The fact that the apps are running on Mono is meaningless to end users.
However, it will be good to see Ximian writing stuff on Mono, it will indeed give credence to the power of the technology, just as Evolution did with Bonobo and what-have-you.
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I've used Red Carpet extensively on both a Mandrake 8 and Red Hat 7.2 box and have never had any such problems.
I bought this the other day and while I haven't got very far into it (I'm saving it for an upcoming plane trip but I couldn't resist reading a bit) I've found it both interesting and entertaining so far. It isn't a "Douglas Adams novel" and doesn't pretend to be but it has given me a chance to get to know him a little better and that's something I appreciate.
If Christmas were centrally organised it would be scary because it would be like a massive cult. As it is it's just a lot of people acting largely independantly though with a similar idea.
A traffic warden looking at your car number plate on the street isn't invading your privacy and neither is this. It's just the scale and organisation behind this that makes it scary, not the action being performed.
Because in your article you claim not to favor one over the other.
Personally I think you've chosen the wrong one to bet your development time on. And the reason isn't so much to do with either KDE or GNOME. It's still all to do with the toolkits QT and GTK and their licencing. With GTK everyone is on an equal footing, there is no one company above all others. The LGPL allows largely proprietary companies to come in and experiment without worrying too much about any potentially confusing licencing issues. Basically there's a nice level playing field where everyone is free to make their own decisions for their own reasons.
But in any case, the choice is yours. I have no desire to change you mind and wouldn't bother commenting on my support of GNOME if this were a KDE story.
No, I simply realise that the address a cheque happens to be delivered to is not significant, who the cheque is made out to is.
They clearly say they will use the money to "provide development, education and promotion for GNOME worldwide". If you want to be a friend of GNOME and have something more specific you'd like your money to go towards then just tell them. As their charter states "The foundation will be in charge of disbursing these funds to the benefit of GNOME and, to the extent possible, in accordance with the wishes of the benefactor."
There is nothing hidden here. There is info on the foundation pages, the foundation mailing list is open for all to read. There might not be a vast amount of info on the friends page but that is because they aren't putting on a hard sell. It's there for you if you feel that you'd like to contribute, not trying to make you feel that you should.
Checks are payable to the GNOME Foundation. The GNOME foundation is not Ximian. Anyone who had the slightest interest in finding out what the GNOME foundation is could easily find out. Anyone just interested in trolling would simply jump to ludicrous conclusions and post them on Slashdot...
Building from source is fine, but getting RPMS is nice, particularly if you want other things (Galeon and Nautilus) using Mozilla. I find it quite pleasing to have someone else (ie Ximian in my case) worrying about making sure all three play happily together at any one time.
The show continually pokes fun at itself. For example from the Episode that was aired here last night, Normal Again:
BUFFY: It stung me or something, and... then I was like... no. It, it wasn't "like." I *was* in an institution. There were, um... doctors and... nurses and, and other patients. They, they told me that I was sick. I guess crazy. And that, um, Sunnydale and, and all of this, it... none of it... was real.
XANDER: Oh, come on, that's ridiculous! What? You think this isn't real just because of all the vampires and demons and ex-vengeance demons and the sister that used to be a big ball of universe-destroying energy? (pauses, frowns)
What makes Buffy special is the depth of character and the seemlessness with which it flitters from comedy to drama. It's a fun show, even in this season which is considerably darker than those before it.
In practice people don't erase/record over a tape enough to erase the original information. The effort and time involved in doing so is non-negligable so in practice people don't do it.
If the data on the tape were that important, if you had the opportunity and if you knew that recording over the top would not work unless you did it a lot and with the right sort of sounds you'd simply destroy the tape, ie by converting it to a pile of ash and smoke, dissolving it in acid or otherwise rendering it chemically different from it's original state.
It may be possible to record over a tape to the degree that the original data becomes unrecoverable with any degree of certainty, but it remains impractical to do so.
Indeed, an author expresses his desires through the licence he chooses. Author's make up the most important (though not the noisiest) part of the Free Software/Open Source 'community'. As far as the community goes the one thing that actually binds things together is the software licence, it is a social contract as much as a legal one.
But the licence and licence alone defines what is acceptable behavior. If an author isn't happy with how their software is being distributed then they should amend the licence it is under (hello Transgaming!).
If you're just some loudmouth whose unhappy about how someone else's software is being distributed then you are entitled to your opinion but it's of little value, the author has set the rules and as long as a distributer follows them all is peachy, it's got nothing to do with you.
The licence is core, ultimatly it's all we have, anything else is just your imaginiation.
only relate to why you would need the source if you had a binary. The GPL requires and UnitedLinux provide this access so if you have obtained binaries from UnitedLinux you have all the access you would normally have to perform such analysis.
If it just deletes everything without infecting anything and spreading itself for a while. Now a real cross-platform virus would try and mount your FAT partitions under linux and your ext2 partitions under Windows and cross infect would be nasty.
The fact that AOTC is digital means that it is easier for the studios to distribute the film in a more timely manner doesn't it? I thought that was one of the attractions of digital media for the studios. As well as getting the product out there faster (and therefore getting money in sooner) they get the added promotional advantages from close releases (eg news of record breaking box office takings in America hitting us in Australia close to when the film is actually released here).
Of course, this is another reason why region encoding on DVD's should die. When movies start being released to cinemas simultaneously around the world there should be no reason to region encode DVDs in an effort to "protect" markets that are months behind.
Evolution is very stable for me and doesn't depend on Gecko in any case.
It's certainly true that getting Mozilla, Galeon and Nautilus' web view to all work at the same time hasn't always been the easiest thing if your compiling it yourself, that's one of the reasons that using Ximian is so pleasurable. Everything just works because someone who knows what they are doing has done the hard bits for you.
That looks pretty good. Other peoples comments on digital v analog for reducing static and wireless phones (which I have, as well as living in an apartment building so there could be others near by).
Looks like I've got a bit more research to do before I stump up the cash but thanks for the pointer.
I spent about a week downloading the Buffy musical DIVX on my modem. I still watched it on TV when it was on here in Australia. The VHS copy I made while it was on TV is significantly better than the DIVX copy (for now at least, obviously it will degrade over time if it's watched enough). When it arrives on DVD I'll likely add it to my DVD collection which, quite frankly, I've already spent enough money on.
I love DVDs. I enjoy hearing the Smashing Pumpkins talking about their videos while I'm watching them. I enjoy the countless remixes with each video on my Beastie Boys anthology. I enjoy Robert Rodriguez pointing out all the snafus in Desperado (shadows of a camera on a boom passing through a shot, the same extra dying multiple times etc). I like the features.
There was a thing on TV here the other day about cinemas in Australia not being able to afford the equiptment to show digital movies, so we get AotC on analogue film rather than the original digital. People go to the Cinema for the large high quality picture and the sound, in short the experience. If cinemas here can't afford the digital technology, what percentage of people are going to have anything approaching it in their own homes?
It doesn't. A major piece of Opera's business is embedded space. That their embedded and desktop browsers share the same lightweight core is an enormous boast. Mozilla is too bloated in this respect. Part of the reason it's lightweight is because it doesn't attempt to kludge around the errors of browsers past. It's standards support still remains strong. The only thing seriously missing being DOM support, but DOM usage should be reserved for applications in a closed environment, not the public web in any case.
Opera clearly identifies itself in it's UA string, a knowledgable webmaster can easily deal with that. The UA spoofing is only there for the scarily large percentage of clueless webmasters....
Part of what you pay for when you buy Red Hat installation support. People who already own a Linux distro are unlikely to need it so it seems reasonable to pass some of that saving back to them.
Windows users on the other hand are more likely to use that support.
It seems to me that Redhat aren't targetting other distros so much as passing some savings on to those who already know Linux to some extent and therefore will be less of a drain on Redhat Support.
Part of what you pay for when you buy a Redhat box is installation support. Users of other distros are less likely to make use of that support as they are already at least somewhat knowledgable about Linux, thus it's less costly for Redhat to provide to those users.
People migrating from Windows would be more likely to use that support.
(For what it's worth I'm a Mandrake user. I got my Mandrake CD from a local cheap CD burner, donated some money to Mandrake online and purchased Ximian Red Carpet premium service and I'm happy with all of it. I just see cost related reasons why Redhat would do this for people owning Linux and not Windows).
As I recall (a friend of mine who worked at Linuxcare with Andrew Tridgell has a couple of hacked TiVos) Tridge and co reverse engineered the TiVo's guide data format and generate their own data for Australia by screen-scraping various tv guides hosted on the web. I think the guide data (you can find some on the tivo.samba.org ftp site IIRC) is then rsynced onto the TiVo via an ethernet connection. I think they have intentionally not published the guide data format because they don't want to endanger TiVo's revenue model.
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If (or when) mono technologies start being used in Red Carpet, Evo or whatever then for the most part people shouldn't even notice, to them it will just look like another GNOME app. The fact that the apps are running on Mono is meaningless to end users.
However, it will be good to see Ximian writing stuff on Mono, it will indeed give credence to the power of the technology, just as Evolution did with Bonobo and what-have-you.
I've used Red Carpet extensively on both a Mandrake 8 and Red Hat 7.2 box and have never had any such problems.
Red Carpet "just works", every time.
I bought this the other day and while I haven't got very far into it (I'm saving it for an upcoming plane trip but I couldn't resist reading a bit) I've found it both interesting and entertaining so far. It isn't a "Douglas Adams novel" and doesn't pretend to be but it has given me a chance to get to know him a little better and that's something I appreciate.
plugindoc.mozdev.org is what you want.
According to the announcements the only thing the vulnerability can do is cause your webserver to crash.
Then it's not exactly an invasion of privacy.
A traffic warden looking at your car number plate on the street isn't invading your privacy and neither is this. It's just the scale and organisation behind this that makes it scary, not the action being performed.
Because in your article you claim not to favor one over the other.
Personally I think you've chosen the wrong one to bet your development time on. And the reason isn't so much to do with either KDE or GNOME. It's still all to do with the toolkits QT and GTK and their licencing. With GTK everyone is on an equal footing, there is no one company above all others. The LGPL allows largely proprietary companies to come in and experiment without worrying too much about any potentially confusing licencing issues. Basically there's a nice level playing field where everyone is free to make their own decisions for their own reasons.
But in any case, the choice is yours. I have no desire to change you mind and wouldn't bother commenting on my support of GNOME if this were a KDE story.
No, I simply realise that the address a cheque happens to be delivered to is not significant, who the cheque is made out to is.
They clearly say they will use the money to "provide development, education and promotion for GNOME worldwide". If you want to be a friend of GNOME and have something more specific you'd like your money to go towards then just tell them. As their charter states "The foundation will be in charge of disbursing these funds to the benefit of GNOME and, to the extent possible, in accordance with the wishes of the benefactor."
There is nothing hidden here. There is info on the foundation pages, the foundation mailing list is open for all to read. There might not be a vast amount of info on the friends page but that is because they aren't putting on a hard sell. It's there for you if you feel that you'd like to contribute, not trying to make you feel that you should.
Checks are payable to the GNOME Foundation. The GNOME foundation is not Ximian.
Anyone who had the slightest interest in finding out what the GNOME foundation is could easily find out. Anyone just interested in trolling would simply jump to ludicrous conclusions and post them on Slashdot...
Building from source is fine, but getting RPMS is nice, particularly if you want other things (Galeon and Nautilus) using Mozilla. I find it quite pleasing to have someone else (ie Ximian in my case) worrying about making sure all three play happily together at any one time.
those problems are caused by violent television, movies and video games.
In practice people don't erase/record over a tape enough to erase the original information. The effort and time involved in doing so is non-negligable so in practice people don't do it.
If the data on the tape were that important, if you had the opportunity and if you knew that recording over the top would not work unless you did it a lot and with the right sort of sounds you'd simply destroy the tape, ie by converting it to a pile of ash and smoke, dissolving it in acid or otherwise rendering it chemically different from it's original state.
It may be possible to record over a tape to the degree that the original data becomes unrecoverable with any degree of certainty, but it remains impractical to do so.
Indeed, an author expresses his desires through the licence he chooses. Author's make up the most important (though not the noisiest) part of the Free Software/Open Source 'community'. As far as the community goes the one thing that actually binds things together is the software licence, it is a social contract as much as a legal one.
But the licence and licence alone defines what is acceptable behavior. If an author isn't happy with how their software is being distributed then they should amend the licence it is under (hello Transgaming!).
If you're just some loudmouth whose unhappy about how someone else's software is being distributed then you are entitled to your opinion but it's of little value, the author has set the rules and as long as a distributer follows them all is peachy, it's got nothing to do with you.
The licence is core, ultimatly it's all we have, anything else is just your imaginiation.
only relate to why you would need the source if you had a binary. The GPL requires and UnitedLinux provide this access so if you have obtained binaries from UnitedLinux you have all the access you would normally have to perform such analysis.
If it just deletes everything without infecting anything and spreading itself for a while. Now a real cross-platform virus would try and mount your FAT partitions under linux and your ext2 partitions under Windows and cross infect would be nasty.
The fact that AOTC is digital means that it is easier for the studios to distribute the film in a more timely manner doesn't it? I thought that was one of the attractions of digital media for the studios. As well as getting the product out there faster (and therefore getting money in sooner) they get the added promotional advantages from close releases (eg news of record breaking box office takings in America hitting us in Australia close to when the film is actually released here).
Of course, this is another reason why region encoding on DVD's should die. When movies start being released to cinemas simultaneously around the world there should be no reason to region encode DVDs in an effort to "protect" markets that are months behind.
Evolution is very stable for me and doesn't depend on Gecko in any case.
It's certainly true that getting Mozilla, Galeon and Nautilus' web view to all work at the same time hasn't always been the easiest thing if your compiling it yourself, that's one of the reasons that using Ximian is so pleasurable. Everything just works because someone who knows what they are doing has done the hard bits for you.
That looks pretty good. Other peoples comments on digital v analog for reducing static and wireless phones (which I have, as well as living in an apartment building so there could be others near by).
Looks like I've got a bit more research to do before I stump up the cash but thanks for the pointer.
I spent about a week downloading the Buffy musical DIVX on my modem. I still watched it on TV when it was on here in Australia. The VHS copy I made while it was on TV is significantly better than the DIVX copy (for now at least, obviously it will degrade over time if it's watched enough). When it arrives on DVD I'll likely add it to my DVD collection which, quite frankly, I've already spent enough money on.
I love DVDs. I enjoy hearing the Smashing Pumpkins talking about their videos while I'm watching them. I enjoy the countless remixes with each video on my Beastie Boys anthology. I enjoy Robert Rodriguez pointing out all the snafus in Desperado (shadows of a camera on a boom passing through a shot, the same extra dying multiple times etc). I like the features.
There was a thing on TV here the other day about cinemas in Australia not being able to afford the equiptment to show digital movies, so we get AotC on analogue film rather than the original digital. People go to the Cinema for the large high quality picture and the sound, in short the experience. If cinemas here can't afford the digital technology, what percentage of people are going to have anything approaching it in their own homes?
You think the web begins and ends at the desktop.
It doesn't. A major piece of Opera's business is embedded space. That their embedded and desktop browsers share the same lightweight core is an enormous boast. Mozilla is too bloated in this respect. Part of the reason it's lightweight is because it doesn't attempt to kludge around the errors of browsers past. It's standards support still remains strong. The only thing seriously missing being DOM support, but DOM usage should be reserved for applications in a closed environment, not the public web in any case.
Opera clearly identifies itself in it's UA string, a knowledgable webmaster can easily deal with that. The UA spoofing is only there for the scarily large percentage of clueless webmasters....
Part of what you pay for when you buy Red Hat installation support. People who already own a Linux distro are unlikely to need it so it seems reasonable to pass some of that saving back to them.
Windows users on the other hand are more likely to use that support.
It seems to me that Redhat aren't targetting other distros so much as passing some savings on to those who already know Linux to some extent and therefore will be less of a drain on Redhat Support.
Part of what you pay for when you buy a Redhat box is installation support. Users of other distros are less likely to make use of that support as they are already at least somewhat knowledgable about Linux, thus it's less costly for Redhat to provide to those users.
People migrating from Windows would be more likely to use that support.
(For what it's worth I'm a Mandrake user. I got my Mandrake CD from a local cheap CD burner, donated some money to Mandrake online and purchased Ximian Red Carpet premium service and I'm happy with all of it. I just see cost related reasons why Redhat would do this for people owning Linux and not Windows).
As I recall (a friend of mine who worked at Linuxcare with Andrew Tridgell has a couple of hacked TiVos) Tridge and co reverse engineered the TiVo's guide data format and generate their own data for Australia by screen-scraping various tv guides hosted on the web. I think the guide data (you can find some on the tivo.samba.org ftp site IIRC) is then rsynced onto the TiVo via an ethernet connection. I think they have intentionally not published the guide data format because they don't want to endanger TiVo's revenue model.
But it is doable, I've seen it.