Hi, the beta 2 is working perfectly but for some non-show stopping bugs. I use it for dayly work at home. Kmail for email, the Addressbook and and callendar. The visuals have once again got even better! I love the IM Kopete. I use it with ICQ, MSN and Yahoo without any problems. Konqueror filebrowsing is great.
Is it better than 3.2... not realy, just nicer. more like how 98 was nicer than 95 (I mean the GUI) but everything works just like before.
My PC is a Duron 800 with 256 Megs and kde 3.3 beta2 works fairly fast. When I disable most of the animations (which I used to do on Win2k too) it is extremely usable.
By the way, my wife uses the same PC and never complains, but for the spellchecking, which does not detect the language she is writing in, which makes it useless.
Themes are nicer now.
Hope this helps. Any specific questions?
You're right. We would be even better of if everyone who flys tries to smuggle a gun aboard. The more people who test the security, the better the chances are of us helping them find all of their security flaws. Yeah, that would work really well...
I must agree (even tough I think your are sarcastic), that is exactly the OpenSource method applied to the real world. Why do you think do companies pay people to test their services (for example by trying to return a defect item)? There is a big incentive to test the systems out there and the real change in our way of doing things would be to challenge how it is done.
In the context of this story I must add that it is the journalists job to check if the system is working.
1. break into your house to show you how easy it is. It will really help you out in the long run, and you should thank me.
I see a lot of value in this. I latley saw a TV program that showed how easy it is to break into a normal (let say un-patched) house. I take is seriously now, as I previously felt secure.
2. show the pilot on the next flight I'm on how easy it is to get a gun through airport security
Applies to the logic on point 1. If you can show this to be true, we all will be much better off.
3. show the Secret Service (hey, this is sarcasm. I don't need you guys to visit) how easy it is to jump the fence at the whitehouse and run across the lawn
Yes, but show me how you can do this undetected and potentially kill the president? (I am not daring anyone to do this, nor implying that I would want to kill anyone!;-)
4. stick up the local bank to show them how bad their security is. I could write a really good article on that. Obviously I would give them their money back, so there isn't any harm in that. Right?
Sure, again I would love to see how you do that, as it is MY money I keep in the Bank, because I think it is secure. Proove that it isn't and I will make sure my bank upgrades their security.
they got caught way to easily? As far as I understood they published their findings... that does not account to being cought in my world...
I believe journalism has to cross the boundries of ethics once in a while to mantain our freedom. If anything they wrote was a lie, that would be different, but they did factchecking!
I was at a wedding recently where everyone got a disposable camera as they entered. We where asked to make as many photos as we wanted.
This was cool because:
* Its distributed photo making (think cluster!)
* OpenSourcing (we returned the camera but coud reorder prints online)
* Chances of good pictures where great
And they had a normal Photograph for the standard pictures of bride and groom, but only for that!
I believe Novell has a good standing to start to win back small and medium business, as long as they can show how these porblems get resolved through their offerings:
* Licencing cost are low(er) compared with rivals * Costs due to Viri don't exist in Novell's SuSE offerings (business men know this problem first hand) * Costs due to Spam get significantly reduced due to Novells SuSE offerings (business men know this problem) * Security is inherently high (business men know this problem) * Single signon and other Directory services are good for business (business men know this problem) * OpenOffice is free and compatible (free is allways good, as long as you get support... Novell enters the stage) * Novell removes the nerdy part of Linux and makes it business man friendly
These are not technical arguments. They would be the ones I would use to convice any owner of a small or medium business to use Novell's products in an upgrade cycle (from win95, from Oracle 8, from IE5 etc.).
I would like to be able to have a copy of Wikipedia for offline use. When will we see the first Wikipedia "distribution"? (SuSE/Redhat etc. Wikipedia anyone?)
I am not trying to be an ass, but anything written by people you don't know should be questioned. I guess that is one of the first things one should learn in school. I do also question Britannica's content as it was written by people years ago... here are some examples I can not check myself:
Letters to Eb
On a happy note: Wikipedia allows you to correct "wrong" artikles... has anyone tried this with Britannica? (use pencil, that atleast can be rubbed out by the librarian)
So now, how about opensourcing (GPLing) those evergreens to be played on Linux?
Do it like Blender 3D... ask us to donate 10.000 US$ for the source and I will chip in my 5$!!!
Tried the install package on SuSe 9.0 and works like a charm. The only drawback is that the user needs to know where their mozilla/firefox is installed.
Works noticably faster than before (I also have the feeling that it eats much less CPU time).
Next improvement: no flash at all!;-)
How about you use Software instead of Hardware...?
I use http://nick.spurious.biz/naamah/ for my MP3 CDs...
http://videodb.sourceforge.net/ for my dvds
Print numbers on the CDs and put them in a cupboard.
works for me
Not entirely true, even Microsoft copied functions from StarOffice (it did not crash as much in the later version). StarDivision created StarWriter first for DOS then for Win3.1 (I dont remember if there where any english verions of them tough). StarCalc came later and if I remember correctly StarDraw even later (both as DOS versions). I think DOS is dying:-)
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Hi, the beta 2 is working perfectly but for some non-show stopping bugs. I use it for dayly work at home. Kmail for email, the Addressbook and and callendar. The visuals have once again got even better! I love the IM Kopete. I use it with ICQ, MSN and Yahoo without any problems. Konqueror filebrowsing is great. Is it better than 3.2... not realy, just nicer. more like how 98 was nicer than 95 (I mean the GUI) but everything works just like before. My PC is a Duron 800 with 256 Megs and kde 3.3 beta2 works fairly fast. When I disable most of the animations (which I used to do on Win2k too) it is extremely usable. By the way, my wife uses the same PC and never complains, but for the spellchecking, which does not detect the language she is writing in, which makes it useless. Themes are nicer now. Hope this helps. Any specific questions?
Well, without binaries for my SuSE I will stick to the Beta 2...
I found mine on eBay... but make sure you check for bad RAM first (use Knoppix)
Well I did! Now I am on SuSE...
How do you do that, I have set 1.5 as my SA and still get spam?!
Try to work arround your company firewall... its MS stuff and its fun to see how our IT thinks some things can't be done.
I must agree (even tough I think your are sarcastic), that is exactly the OpenSource method applied to the real world. Why do you think do companies pay people to test their services (for example by trying to return a defect item)? There is a big incentive to test the systems out there and the real change in our way of doing things would be to challenge how it is done.
In the context of this story I must add that it is the journalists job to check if the system is working.
I disagree with you here:
;-)
1. break into your house to show you how easy it is. It will really help you out in the long run, and you should thank me.
I see a lot of value in this. I latley saw a TV program that showed how easy it is to break into a normal (let say un-patched) house. I take is seriously now, as I previously felt secure.
2. show the pilot on the next flight I'm on how easy it is to get a gun through airport security
Applies to the logic on point 1. If you can show this to be true, we all will be much better off.
3. show the Secret Service (hey, this is sarcasm. I don't need you guys to visit) how easy it is to jump the fence at the whitehouse and run across the lawn
Yes, but show me how you can do this undetected and potentially kill the president? (I am not daring anyone to do this, nor implying that I would want to kill anyone!
4. stick up the local bank to show them how bad their security is. I could write a really good article on that. Obviously I would give them their money back, so there isn't any harm in that. Right?
Sure, again I would love to see how you do that, as it is MY money I keep in the Bank, because I think it is secure. Proove that it isn't and I will make sure my bank upgrades their security.
they got caught way to easily? As far as I understood they published their findings... that does not account to being cought in my world...
I believe journalism has to cross the boundries of ethics once in a while to mantain our freedom. If anything they wrote was a lie, that would be different, but they did factchecking!
Make mental note never to enroll in Oxford.
I was at a wedding recently where everyone got a disposable camera as they entered. We where asked to make as many photos as we wanted. This was cool because: * Its distributed photo making (think cluster!) * OpenSourcing (we returned the camera but coud reorder prints online) * Chances of good pictures where great And they had a normal Photograph for the standard pictures of bride and groom, but only for that!
I believe Novell has a good standing to start to win back small and medium business, as long as they can show how these porblems get resolved through their offerings:
* Licencing cost are low(er) compared with rivals
* Costs due to Viri don't exist in Novell's SuSE offerings (business men know this problem first hand)
* Costs due to Spam get significantly reduced due to Novells SuSE offerings (business men know this problem)
* Security is inherently high (business men know this problem)
* Single signon and other Directory services are good for business (business men know this problem)
* OpenOffice is free and compatible (free is allways good, as long as you get support... Novell enters the stage)
* Novell removes the nerdy part of Linux and makes it business man friendly
These are not technical arguments. They would be the ones I would use to convice any owner of a small or medium business to use Novell's products in an upgrade cycle (from win95, from Oracle 8, from IE5 etc.).
I would like to be able to have a copy of Wikipedia for offline use. When will we see the first Wikipedia "distribution"? (SuSE/Redhat etc. Wikipedia anyone?)
I am not trying to be an ass, but anything written by people you don't know should be questioned. I guess that is one of the first things one should learn in school.
I do also question Britannica's content as it was written by people years ago... here are some examples I can not check myself: Letters to Eb
On a happy note: Wikipedia allows you to correct "wrong" artikles... has anyone tried this with Britannica? (use pencil, that atleast can be rubbed out by the librarian)
from that webpage: "Charamel is not compatible with Firefox builds after June 14th. " I guess that means 0.91
So now, how about opensourcing (GPLing) those evergreens to be played on Linux? Do it like Blender 3D... ask us to donate 10.000 US$ for the source and I will chip in my 5$!!!
Tried the install package on SuSe 9.0 and works like a charm. The only drawback is that the user needs to know where their mozilla/firefox is installed. Works noticably faster than before (I also have the feeling that it eats much less CPU time). Next improvement: no flash at all! ;-)
I saw something like a solar refrigerator on German TV a year or so ago. Here a link:
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http://www.eg-solar.de/english/solar_cooling.ht
Cheers
I agree, I am using SuSE since 8.2 and only because of the 3D drivers and perfect KDE
check out
http://frigate.free.fr/screenshots1.html
for some old screens of Pirates on all Architectures
a Pirates game in OSS: http://huntforgold.sf.net Taking shape, needing developers... plays as good as Pirates! Gold
...does it run GNU/Linux?
My sister is still using my EIZO 9400i. Dont know how old... 20" and VERY heavy. has some color problems, but she does not know the difference.
that I copied my DVDs in Norway and I am safe?
How about you use Software instead of Hardware...? I use http://nick.spurious.biz/naamah/ for my MP3 CDs... http://videodb.sourceforge.net/ for my dvds Print numbers on the CDs and put them in a cupboard. works for me
Not entirely true, even Microsoft copied functions from StarOffice (it did not crash as much in the later version). StarDivision created StarWriter first for DOS then for Win3.1 (I dont remember if there where any english verions of them tough). StarCalc came later and if I remember correctly StarDraw even later (both as DOS versions). I think DOS is dying :-)