make the loser pay the defendants costs. viacom would think twice before entering into such a lengthy law suit that benefits neither viacom nor google's users, regardless of the outcome. and $100m? wowzers! americans just LOVE money, hey?
You have to be kidding me? Zope is the Frankenstein's monster of frameworks. Developing TTW? Who was the idiot to come up with THAT? Zope is horrendous!
Django? anything that uses SQLObject is doomed to failure on anything but the most basic of projects. It's about 100 times slower than active record.
Cake php? You have to write php to use it. Game over.
I regret the day i ever purchased it. the heat is immense, the noise annoying, and as for apple's "support" - it's been a joke. my screen died, and they've replaced it with one with dead pixels. the silver started to wear off etc etc, now the keys are starting to 'smudge' (again, i think the silver finish is wearing off). I've promised my girlfriend can have this pos, and i'll be replacing it with a sony vaio fe. worst money i've ever spent, and has turned me away from buying from apple EVER again.
you and your friend musn't be very experienced users then, as the ui for adding a windows share is very intuitive - where else would be be but the 'Places' menu? it's one click away.
if you like nautilus, but you'd like something faster, smaller etc, take a look at thunar. It's the file manager for the xfce project. works well in gnome as a nautilus replacement, and where nautilus has extensions(scripts), thunar has plugins. have a look.
i've used gentoo, and though it's great for developers and people who like to get their hands dirty - it's not for everyday folk who just like to check their email with the latest Evolution, and browse the web with the latest Firefox.
Until linux has real drag and drop package management, not this searching through a 10000 package repo garbage, there's absolutely no chance in hell. And I won't recommend it to anybody either.
I love linux, use it every day on my pc's, but it's package management is trash. Mac users for example. If the latest beta of their chat client comes out, they can very easily download the package, open it, and run the app inside. it doesn't clash with anything on their existing system, it just works. On the other hand, I can't install the latest Gaim beta because it's source only. Then I have to worry about its deps. So depressing.
We've had standards bodies for a long time. LSB, Freedesktop, etc - none of will help increase market share. Sure, they make like easier for developers, ie a gnome icon theme will soon work on a kde desktop. But the single major problem on linux is dependancy hell. I have nightmares about this.
Repository based installation is NOT the way to go. Autopackage is just a pretty frontend around the same problem. Until we can install and remove applications as easily as OSX users can, we don't stand a chance.
If you were a new user to unix, what would you prefer: A) open synaptic, search the thousands of packages, hope you find what you're after, install it. B) download an app folder, drag it to your appliactions folder. go.
Without this ease of use, there's no chance. I still laugh at people who say linux is ready, whilst at the same time they can't install the latest firefox on their box because it depends on the latest gtk which depends on the latest glib, which depends on....
I'm confused as to why anyone would buy one of these machines. In a world where hardware that is a success is simple, sleek and nice to look at, why oh why would someone want one of the hideous things from Alienware. And then Dell go and buy the company. Yikes.
i'm in a similar situation, having just bought my first mac, but i'm looking for ruby ide's. os x is fantastic, and so far ahead of desktop linux, i dont want to go back. one thing that lets it down though, are the ide's available. i've settled on eclipse, since it handles python, ruby etc. you do need to install python/ruby support, but it's easily done. the python extensions can be found here: pyDev
make MS include optional software, perhaps on a second disk, with more important things like Firefox being the default browser on an out of the box install. CD 2 could have things like OpenOffice, or Free instant messengers.
i remember perfectly well the moment i switched to google:) asking on a redhat mailing list about 5 years ago why i was missing libfoobar.so.1, someone suggested i search google for that exact lib. google found the package i was searching for and i was on my way.
at first, i thought it was some kind of open source search engine, since it did a great job of finding the solutions to rpm hell through mailing lists etc.
This is a fantastic move by Novell. We use Suse at work, and I always make sure to put Gnome as the defaut desktop on a new install. I'm not a Suse user at home, as it's too much of a 'mish-mash', with a Gnome desktop, you're still using KDE/QT apps for config. Hopefully, we'll see a new breed of Gnome/mono config tools for a real Gnome desktop.
i'd taken it to mean friend A visits friend B who lives in the same city as friend C. friend C can look for friend A, see they're in the area, and ask them to meet up. having never used this service, or even heared about it, i'm just guessing:)
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erm, i'll just make a note of your IP, Mr Bin Laden
you took my comment out of context. they're luxuries, yes. People NEED a browser these days, but they don't need a weather applet built into it, or the choice of n amount of download managers. And if they could get that, they won't pay for it.
is it? it must be if they think browser extensions are going to make money. people aren't going to shell out for things they don't really need. what's the business plan?
I'm not sure if they've done this, but they REALLY need to compress their distro down a lot! 3 - 4 cd's to get a usable desktop is terrible. They should get a gnome desktop, and office suite onto cd 1, then development tools on cd 2, etc. last time i tried fedora, i needed to download 3 cd's just to get a desktop.
the problem i see is that ubuntu's main goal is conflicting with debian. Mark Shuttleworth has said that he doesn't wan't ubuntu to be a mainstream distro that everyone uses, but he wan't it to be seen as a framework for building other distributions. Which is kind of what debian has become. I really like ubuntu, but it would be a shame if it veered so far away from the debian path as for it to become incompatible.
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The Azureus torrent client does something like that. All of it's updates are downloaded through the client via a torrent. Makes sense for Azureus, but it'd be a lot of work for gentoo to set up.
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make the loser pay the defendants costs. viacom would think twice before entering into such a lengthy law suit that benefits neither viacom nor google's users, regardless of the outcome.
and $100m? wowzers! americans just LOVE money, hey?
does it make the ipod/iphone usable for linux users?
i wish i could :q! you!
You have to be kidding me? Zope is the Frankenstein's monster of frameworks. Developing TTW? Who was the idiot to come up with THAT? Zope is horrendous!
Django? anything that uses SQLObject is doomed to failure on anything but the most basic of projects. It's about 100 times slower than active record.
Cake php? You have to write php to use it. Game over.
I regret the day i ever purchased it. the heat is immense, the noise annoying, and as for apple's "support" - it's been a joke.
my screen died, and they've replaced it with one with dead pixels. the silver started to wear off etc etc, now the keys are starting to 'smudge' (again, i think the silver finish is wearing off). I've promised my girlfriend can have this pos, and i'll be replacing it with a sony vaio fe. worst money i've ever spent, and has turned me away from buying from apple EVER again.
you and your friend musn't be very experienced users then, as the ui for adding a windows share is very intuitive - where else would be be but the 'Places' menu? it's one click away.
double clicking an iso will open it as a directory view.
if you like nautilus, but you'd like something faster, smaller etc, take a look at thunar. It's the file manager for the xfce project. works well in gnome as a nautilus replacement, and where nautilus has extensions(scripts), thunar has plugins. have a look.
i've used gentoo, and though it's great for developers and people who like to get their hands dirty - it's not for everyday folk who just like to check their email with the latest Evolution, and browse the web with the latest Firefox.
Until linux has real drag and drop package management, not this searching through a 10000 package repo garbage, there's absolutely no chance in hell. And I won't recommend it to anybody either.
I love linux, use it every day on my pc's, but it's package management is trash. Mac users for example. If the latest beta of their chat client comes out, they can very easily download the package, open it, and run the app inside. it doesn't clash with anything on their existing system, it just works. On the other hand, I can't install the latest Gaim beta because it's source only. Then I have to worry about its deps. So depressing.
We've had standards bodies for a long time. LSB, Freedesktop, etc - none of will help increase market share. Sure, they make like easier for developers, ie a gnome icon theme will soon work on a kde desktop. But the single major problem on linux is dependancy hell. I have nightmares about this.
Repository based installation is NOT the way to go. Autopackage is just a pretty frontend around the same problem. Until we can install and remove applications as easily as OSX users can, we don't stand a chance.
If you were a new user to unix, what would you prefer:
A) open synaptic, search the thousands of packages, hope you find what you're after, install it.
B) download an app folder, drag it to your appliactions folder. go.
Without this ease of use, there's no chance. I still laugh at people who say linux is ready, whilst at the same time they can't install the latest firefox on their box because it depends on the latest gtk which depends on the latest glib, which depends on....
I'm confused as to why anyone would buy one of these machines. In a world where hardware that is a success is simple, sleek and nice to look at, why oh why would someone want one of the hideous things from Alienware. And then Dell go and buy the company. Yikes.
i'm in a similar situation, having just bought my first mac, but i'm looking for ruby ide's. os x is fantastic, and so far ahead of desktop linux, i dont want to go back. one thing that lets it down though, are the ide's available. i've settled on eclipse, since it handles python, ruby etc. you do need to install python/ruby support, but it's easily done. the python extensions can be found here: pyDev
make MS include optional software, perhaps on a second disk, with more important things like Firefox being the default browser on an out of the box install. CD 2 could have things like OpenOffice, or Free instant messengers.
i remember perfectly well the moment i switched to google :)
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asking on a redhat mailing list about 5 years ago why i was missing libfoobar.so.1, someone suggested i search google for that exact lib. google found the package i was searching for and i was on my way.
at first, i thought it was some kind of open source search engine, since it did a great job of finding the solutions to rpm hell through mailing lists etc.
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This is a fantastic move by Novell. We use Suse at work, and I always make sure to put Gnome as the defaut desktop on a new install. I'm not a Suse user at home, as it's too much of a 'mish-mash', with a Gnome desktop, you're still using KDE/QT apps for config. Hopefully, we'll see a new breed of Gnome/mono config tools for a real Gnome desktop.
Go Novell!
i'd taken it to mean friend A visits friend B who lives in the same city as friend C. friend C can look for friend A, see they're in the area, and ask them to meet up. :)
having never used this service, or even heared about it, i'm just guessing
erm, i'll just make a note of your IP, Mr Bin Laden
you took my comment out of context. they're luxuries, yes. People NEED a browser these days, but they don't need a weather applet built into it, or the choice of n amount of download managers. And if they could get that, they won't pay for it.
is it? it must be if they think browser extensions are going to make money. people aren't going to shell out for things they don't really need.
what's the business plan?
i don;t have the bandwidth to download a dvd. thats the whole point of only wanting 1 cd. see?
I'm not sure if they've done this, but they REALLY need to compress their distro down a lot! 3 - 4 cd's to get a usable desktop is terrible. They should get a gnome desktop, and office suite onto cd 1, then development tools on cd 2, etc.
last time i tried fedora, i needed to download 3 cd's just to get a desktop.
the problem i see is that ubuntu's main goal is conflicting with debian.
Mark Shuttleworth has said that he doesn't wan't ubuntu to be a mainstream distro that everyone uses, but he wan't it to be seen as a framework for building other distributions. Which is kind of what debian has become.
I really like ubuntu, but it would be a shame if it veered so far away from the debian path as for it to become incompatible.
The Azureus torrent client does something like that. All of it's updates are downloaded through the client via a torrent. Makes sense for Azureus, but it'd be a lot of work for gentoo to set up.
why are there no official extensions for it?* google's software is all Windows/IE, but nothing for Free software.
*i know there are 3rd party ones.
gnome has a live cd, based on debian.