* Rather dark and gloomy room * Big monitor at high resolution and many xterms prepared * Huge MP3 playlist set to random * One big cup of coffee (machine close by) * Unlimited supply of colas in the fridge
I'm at optimal performance just when I normally should go home from work. Or when I work home, just before I really should go to bed.
It's not that important that its Linux in the background, the avarage (non-techie) user will never notice it anyway. It's the user interface that's important and this one is running Qtopia (QT for palmtop computers) and I've tried it on my iPAQ. It is very easy to use, promise.
This guy, respectable as he might be, seems to like Palm OS quite a bit and the Zaurus is directly competing against the "bulky" PocketPC PDA's - not Palm.
And the statement that there aren't many apps available just isn't right - most QT applications can be run on the Zaurus, even Konqueror.
Part of my job involves being webmaster for our company. When I got to that position we allready had a new and improved website. (I hadn't been involved with the creation of that site). It was constructed so that anyone in the company would be able to add information and news to the webpage. And that without knowing anything about HTML. Sounds nice, eh?
Well, the entire system was delivered by our advertising agency, and we didn't need to care about the system beneath all the beautiful eye-candy. That was a bad thing as it turned out. The site was built with a tool from a web agency which created ASP pages. It also involves special addition to Microsoft IIS (the only webserver capable of running the system). For us to play with we had a nice content management built into the site. We couldn't change absolutely anything (like moving a textbox 1 inch to the right) without calling the web agency and asking for their help. But, wow, we could add certain news items in mandatory textboxes. As it turned out, nobody in the company (who wasn't a HTML-guru) dared to change/add anything to the webpage, because the content management was extremely confusing and unorganized.
I, who know quite a bit about creating websites with HTML/PHP/Perl and whatever, was becoming more and more frustrated with the "nice" content management tool. It also required me to use Internet Explorer 5.5 (nothing else) and load a special entry to the Windows registry which lowered the securitysettings in my browser. When wanted to add a text to the site the CM system started a miniature Microsoft Frontpage. That means it was impossible to add any kind of HTML in the text, no links nothing. But, whohoo, I could press CTRL-I for italic text. Damnit, I run a Linux desktop at work and aren't too happy that I need to switch computer every now and then. The system was also extremely unreliable and would crasch once in a while. I have created a special WWW folder on our IMAP server where I store all mails to the web agency regarding the content management system and the webpage. It's over 100 mails since the beginning of the 2002.
The web agency is now bankrupt and we are working on a new webpage using Zope on a UNIX server. It's really a great and extremely flexible tool which enables you to quickly create advanced dynamic sites.
This is the kind of story that could get huge exposure in "normal" news if there's nothing better to show. Just imagine the headlines: "Internet banking no longer safe"" "Anyone can steal your money when you shop online!" And noone would have an idea what's really going on.
I have used CrossOver since v 1.0 and it is really good. First of all, the installation is very simple and it let's you download the latest codecs of say QuickTime (that's what I mainly use it for) so you always get the latest versions installed. It nicely installs the browser plugins and let's you enable them for individual browsers on your system.
It also creates nice Gnome/KDE shortcuts to launch the QuickTime player.
One could use normal Wine to watch QuickTime in the player, but I gladly pay the extra $20 to get the browser plugin.
Conclusion, very nice product worth paying for. But wouldn't it be even nicer if we could play Quicktime/Windows Media movies with a native library instead?
We only have Dell machines here at work and of course I've installed Linux on mine. I use it as a desktop workstation and as a database/http server. It has performed very good. No downtime since last summer (except when we had to cut the power globally).
As a matter of fact I think Dell is a really good choice for running Linux (if you must go for a brand computer). I have also tried installing Linux on some Compaq machines. Many many hardware related problems. Stay away from those Compaq machines! That's a warning.
Another cool gadget showed at CeBit was Ericsson's new Chatpen which let's you write SMS messenges and e-mails with "normal" pen and paper and then send it with your bluetooth phone. Really cool. Concept is from swedish company Anoto which has also made a work together with Logitech.
I really say that I will gladely pay for a membership. I have felt ashamed for a while. I mean, I've used Mandrake for two years now and it's a really good distro with loads of really useful tools that I use every day. This is the least I can do to keep Mandrake going.
This is not the first time I pay for free software efforts either. Transgaming and Codeweavers have well deserved my cash.
No, Windows XP is not very compatible with older Win apps. It has happened so many times now I seriously consider installing Windows 98 instead, for those crucial apps I really need. Or perhaps one would buy a VMWare licence so I can run them without rebooting from Linux.:-P
I pretty sure they'll sell quite some more OS X packages now. I know many people have been waiting to upgrade from 9.x and Photoshop has been the main reason.
Ciryon
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This is nice news. I am running KDE now and I believe that KDE 3.0 will be the ultimate *nix desktop. But perhaps this Gnome beta can prove me wrong.
The anti aliased fonts, is that the gtk hack that came some months ago? It looked really ugly.:-P
LEGO Mindstorms is so extremely cool. My girlfriend's little brother got it last x-mas and I was playing with it a lot more than him.:-) And this is even better, now you can ping your little robot and most likely you'll be able to control it remotely over the internet. DAMN, I wish I was ten years younger... or perhaps this is the best time to get some kids!? Honeeey!!
I have just started developing with Cocoa and it's really great. The "Application Builder" works flawlessly together with the "Interface Builder". It's also easy to port your *nix programs to Mac OS X. I need to take a closer look on Objective-C though, since I don't feel like using Java.
Apple is also providing excellent documentation and tutorials.
Ciryon
PS. I am actually running Mac OS X on an old iMac G3 300Mhz with 64MB RAM. And it's not that slow actually!! The 10.1 update really speeds things up! Great work, Apple!
My portable MP3 player is capable of playing WMF files, but I would never use it. It's a matter of principles as well as I can download MP3's for free everywhere. I bet M$ will have to put some kind of copy protection in WMF very soon.
MP3 is _the_ standard. What's more interesting is what the next huge video standard is going to be; MPG/x, DivX, Quicktime or anything else?
I wonder what the proprietary operating system is? Pretty cool device, but I believe more in conventional PDA's, with an extra phone-backpack or whatever. Also note that this machine is only 75Mhz and most likely rather slow. And 4MB Flash + 16MB SDRAM is not enough when it comes to playing MP3's.
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This must be the first distro shipping KDE3, or am I mistaken?
I simple took a visit to Apple's homepage and once again realized that they are the creators of the finest laptop computers around.
As simple as that.
Optimal condition is:
* Rather dark and gloomy room
* Big monitor at high resolution and many xterms prepared
* Huge MP3 playlist set to random
* One big cup of coffee (machine close by)
* Unlimited supply of colas in the fridge
I'm at optimal performance just when I normally should go home from work. Or when I work home, just before I really should go to bed.
Ciryon
Who uses IE in Mac OS X anyway? Both Opera and Mozilla are truly great browsers which run fast and smoothly in Mac OS X.
Here's something interesting though:
IE in Mac OS X follows the standards a lot better than IE in Windows.
When we constructed our new company webpage we had to customize it for both IE/windows and IE/Mac.
Ciryon
This guy, respectable as he might be, seems to like Palm OS quite a bit and the Zaurus is directly competing against the "bulky" PocketPC PDA's - not Palm.
And the statement that there aren't many apps available just isn't right - most QT applications can be run on the Zaurus, even Konqueror.
Ciryon
Can it be done? Like replacing Windows CE with Linux in Pocket PC handhelds...?
Ciryon
Part of my job involves being webmaster for our company. When I got to that position we allready had a new and improved website. (I hadn't been involved with the creation of that site). It was constructed so that anyone in the company would be able to add information and news to the webpage. And that without knowing anything about HTML. Sounds nice, eh?
Well, the entire system was delivered by our advertising agency, and we didn't need to care about the system beneath all the beautiful eye-candy. That was a bad thing as it turned out. The site was built with a tool from a web agency which created ASP pages. It also involves special addition to Microsoft IIS (the only webserver capable of running the system). For us to play with we had a nice content management built into the site. We couldn't change absolutely anything (like moving a textbox 1 inch to the right) without calling the web agency and asking for their help. But, wow, we could add certain news items in mandatory textboxes. As it turned out, nobody in the company (who wasn't a HTML-guru) dared to change/add anything to the webpage, because the content management was extremely confusing and unorganized.
I, who know quite a bit about creating websites with HTML/PHP/Perl and whatever, was becoming more and more frustrated with the "nice" content management tool. It also required me to use Internet Explorer 5.5 (nothing else) and load a special entry to the Windows registry which lowered the securitysettings in my browser. When wanted to add a text to the site the CM system started a miniature Microsoft Frontpage. That means it was impossible to add any kind of HTML in the text, no links nothing. But, whohoo, I could press CTRL-I for italic text. Damnit, I run a Linux desktop at work and aren't too happy that I need to switch computer every now and then. The system was also extremely unreliable and would crasch once in a while. I have created a special WWW folder on our IMAP server where I store all mails to the web agency regarding the content management system and the webpage. It's over 100 mails since the beginning of the 2002.
The web agency is now bankrupt and we are working on a new webpage using Zope on a UNIX server. It's really a great and extremely flexible tool which enables you to quickly create advanced dynamic sites.
Ciryon
There is allready a company working with this kind of cameras. Here.
This is the kind of story that could get huge exposure in "normal" news if there's nothing better to show. Just imagine the headlines: "Internet banking no longer safe"" "Anyone can steal your money when you shop online!" And noone would have an idea what's really going on.
Ciryon
I have used CrossOver since v 1.0 and it is really good. First of all, the installation is very simple and it let's you download the latest codecs of say QuickTime (that's what I mainly use it for) so you always get the latest versions installed. It nicely installs the browser plugins and let's you enable them for individual browsers on your system.
It also creates nice Gnome/KDE shortcuts to launch the QuickTime player.
One could use normal Wine to watch QuickTime in the player, but I gladly pay the extra $20 to get the browser plugin.
Conclusion, very nice product worth paying for. But wouldn't it be even nicer if we could play Quicktime/Windows Media movies with a native library instead?
Ciryon
X-Bucks is not half as good as PS2. ;-)
We only have Dell machines here at work and of course I've installed Linux on mine. I use it as a desktop workstation and as a database/http server. It has performed very good. No downtime since last summer (except when we had to cut the power globally).
As a matter of fact I think Dell is a really good choice for running Linux (if you must go for a brand computer). I have also tried installing Linux on some Compaq machines. Many many hardware related problems. Stay away from those Compaq machines! That's a warning.
Ciryon
Really cool stuff!
Ciryon
It had too many damn floppies. Took all evening to install on my 386 computer. Has it really been 10 (!) years?!?
OS/2 was my first "alternative" OS to use. The multitasking was really impressive, and overall much better than DOS/Win3.1
I really say that I will gladely pay for a membership. I have felt ashamed for a while. I mean, I've used Mandrake for two years now and it's a really good distro with loads of really useful tools that I use every day. This is the least I can do to keep Mandrake going.
This is not the first time I pay for free software efforts either. Transgaming and Codeweavers have well deserved my cash.
Ciryon
Aaah, now I know why they mentioned Microsoft. On the last link you'll find a nice
:-P
"We recommend Internet Explorer 5.0+"
I wonder how much they paid for that?
Ciryon
No, Windows XP is not very compatible with older Win apps. It has happened so many times now I seriously consider installing Windows 98 instead, for those crucial apps I really need. Or perhaps one would buy a VMWare licence so I can run them without rebooting from Linux. :-P
Ciryon
I pretty sure they'll sell quite some more OS X packages now. I know many people have been waiting to upgrade from 9.x and Photoshop has been the main reason.
Ciryon
This is nice news. I am running KDE now and I believe that KDE 3.0 will be the ultimate *nix desktop. But perhaps this Gnome beta can prove me wrong.
:-P
The anti aliased fonts, is that the gtk hack that came some months ago? It looked really ugly.
Ciryon
Ciryon
LEGO Mindstorms is so extremely cool. My girlfriend's little brother got it last x-mas and I was playing with it a lot more than him. :-) And this is even better, now you can ping your little robot and most likely you'll be able to control it remotely over the internet. DAMN, I wish I was ten years younger... or perhaps this is the best time to get some kids!? Honeeey!!
Ciryon
I have just started developing with Cocoa and it's really great. The "Application Builder" works flawlessly together with the "Interface Builder". It's also easy to port your *nix programs to Mac OS X. I need to take a closer look on Objective-C though, since I don't feel like using Java.
Apple is also providing excellent documentation and tutorials.
Ciryon
PS. I am actually running Mac OS X on an old iMac G3 300Mhz with 64MB RAM. And it's not that slow actually!! The 10.1 update really speeds things up! Great work, Apple!
Even if just a really really small portion of the Yahoo! visitors are willing to pay for searches, Yahoo! will earn a lot of money.
I wonder how many visitors they have each day?
Ciryon
My portable MP3 player is capable of playing WMF files, but I would never use it. It's a matter of principles as well as I can download MP3's for free everywhere. I bet M$ will have to put some kind of copy protection in WMF very soon.
MP3 is _the_ standard. What's more interesting is what the next huge video standard is going to be; MPG/x, DivX, Quicktime or anything else?
Ciryon
Ciryon