Everybody's seek and tired of waiting for years for you to come up with something that just DOES WEB BROWSING and doesn't eat up all the available memory and doesn't crash every 5 minutes. Mosilla is the biggest open source fiasco ever.
Are you sure you'd better buy Linux-based PDA just because it's linux-based and cheap? It will be your toy for a few weeks, and then you'll be desperately trying to sell it to somebody. OS and (to some extent) price don't matter here. These little things should be USABLE first of all. And if you need something usable NOW (not a couple of years later) - you'd buy either palm or pocketpc. Don't make a mistake. Define your priorities first.
I was unable to make NetGear work with linux. I have netgear network adapter, and it seems to be working well. I also have Netgear FR314 DSL router. It works perfect with Windows (just tell Windows to use DHCP and you're saved), but does NOT work with linux at all. While booting, RH 7.1 stops at eth0 and does something for 1.5 minutes (probably tries to figure out network settings via DHCP). Then it usually says OK (sometimes FAILED) and continues. Sometimes there is no ping to the router, sometimes there is. ifconfig shows that interface works correctly. It even went through one time, so I was able to load slashdot. Well, actually not slashdot, but first 300 or 400 bytes of html, and then it stopped working. I don't know whose fault it is, but Linux is my main suspect. I've heard of some troubles with DHCP and now ran into them. Gotta try the same shit with freebsd.
That's like most of Windows software companies do: they use GUI tools for developers and CLI for nightly builds. GUI tools are invaluable when you program, just because most of them contain something like IntelliSense, so you have no need to memorize thousands of methods and API calls, you don't need to type them fully, you don't need to memorize the list of arguments. More advanced GUI tools (like Visual Studio.NET IDE) will even highlight some of syntax errors for you AS YOU TYPE. After compilation you have direct access to the places where errors were found from TODO window. I'm not even talking about integrated debugger and MSDN - these two are life-savers. Many people don't know, but in Visual Studio integrated debugger you can change the text of your program as you debug it, and, after performing minimal recompilation, you can CONTINUE debugging it without shutting debugger down and repeating all the steps. I'm not even talking about server browser and integrates SQL utilities. I see clearly, that developer doubles his productivity just by using GUI tools. But when it comes to nightly builds... Man you have to build them on 4-proc server and this is where you need make utility and CLI. Fortunately all GUI tools I'm familiar with offer command line builds. Literally, you get the best of both worlds.
Microsoft won't support Bluetooth in upcoming WinXP. And WILL support 802.11 at unprecedented level. Bluetooth comitee did a poor job on standartisation, that's why Bluetooth devices are not functional now. Bluetooth standard leaves too much freedom for device developer. With this standard at its present state it is very hard to create a bluetooth device which is capable to "talk" to other bluetooth devices.
The funny thing about that is that renderfarms have ALREADY been running Linux for a while now. At least for THREE years. And they were smart not using IBM hardware, because it SUCKS.
You'll have to try them all, and stick with NT/W2K/WXP as I did. All that altruistic shit is great, but look, I have to make money. So I'd like software I write be licensed under some license that permits to make money out of it. It is not about whether or not Linux is great (I don't think it's THAT great by the way), it's about windows being installed on 95% of desktops worldwide and representing the best platform to market software on.
No IT IS a bottleneck! Look at Windows. Many of you guys don't like windows, but when it comes to "local" graphics, Windows wins hands down. Why? Because it doesn't have "client-server" overhead! Why should drawing of the one fucking line involve IPC? Why should it involve sockets or shared memory? WHY? That's why XWindow is so slow and so are graphics libraries.
Well guys, do you have any other ideas on how to stop software piracy? Don't tell me about giving everything away for free, look at RHAT or LNUX share price graph instead. They're trying hard to stop people from stealing software from them. The new product activation thing should eliminate some of the problems, but not all. You certainly won't be happy if someone steals software which you've spent billions of bucks and years of time developing and marketing. Buy software, watch for licensing and have no hassle. GPL is dead end. Nobody eats solar energy, and everything besides solar energy costs money. Sorry guys, human race isn't ready for communism yet.
The situation is following:
One man was selling the chicken at the market. Then another man came to him and asked for the price.
"Thousand bucks," - seller replied
"Is it made of gold?" - buyer worndered
"No, but I LOVE money".
Seems that the reason behind rediculously overpriced CA's is exactly the same.
Why not to open OS/2? Why not to release it under GPL? It was (and still is) technologically superior to Linux, and I believe that only it can act as a contender to Microsoft Windows. If you guys are really concerned about open source community, why not to do it?
I think this will slow X Window down to crawl. It's already slow, but at least it only has to transfer bitmaps to the server and cache them there. It's not an option with AA. It will transfer letter images in 24 bit without any caching. And if you remember that X uses IPC even locally and IPC has never been as fast as direct API calls... Goddamit, somebody invent some replacement to X!
Actually, SuSE could only make less losses. 'cuz RedHat ended last year with losses of 10 MUSD. It has never been profitable and would never be. Just check stock price dynamics an finance.yahoo.com.
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They switched from Solaris, dude. So did ebay a while ago, but they've switched to Windows. Scott McNealy should be very angry. :0)
Everybody's seek and tired of waiting for years for you to come up with something that just DOES WEB BROWSING and doesn't eat up all the available memory and doesn't crash every 5 minutes. Mosilla is the biggest open source fiasco ever.
Are you sure you'd better buy Linux-based PDA just because it's linux-based and cheap? It will be your toy for a few weeks, and then you'll be desperately trying to sell it to somebody. OS and (to some extent) price don't matter here. These little things should be USABLE first of all. And if you need something usable NOW (not a couple of years later) - you'd buy either palm or pocketpc. Don't make a mistake. Define your priorities first.
I was unable to make NetGear work with linux. I have netgear network adapter, and it seems to be working well. I also have Netgear FR314 DSL router. It works perfect with Windows (just tell Windows to use DHCP and you're saved), but does NOT work with linux at all. While booting, RH 7.1 stops at eth0 and does something for 1.5 minutes (probably tries to figure out network settings via DHCP). Then it usually says OK (sometimes FAILED) and continues. Sometimes there is no ping to the router, sometimes there is. ifconfig shows that interface works correctly. It even went through one time, so I was able to load slashdot. Well, actually not slashdot, but first 300 or 400 bytes of html, and then it stopped working. I don't know whose fault it is, but Linux is my main suspect. I've heard of some troubles with DHCP and now ran into them. Gotta try the same shit with freebsd.
That's like most of Windows software companies do: they use GUI tools for developers and CLI for nightly builds. GUI tools are invaluable when you program, just because most of them contain something like IntelliSense, so you have no need to memorize thousands of methods and API calls, you don't need to type them fully, you don't need to memorize the list of arguments. More advanced GUI tools (like Visual Studio.NET IDE) will even highlight some of syntax errors for you AS YOU TYPE. After compilation you have direct access to the places where errors were found from TODO window. I'm not even talking about integrated debugger and MSDN - these two are life-savers. Many people don't know, but in Visual Studio integrated debugger you can change the text of your program as you debug it, and, after performing minimal recompilation, you can CONTINUE debugging it without shutting debugger down and repeating all the steps. I'm not even talking about server browser and integrates SQL utilities. I see clearly, that developer doubles his productivity just by using GUI tools. But when it comes to nightly builds... Man you have to build them on 4-proc server and this is where you need make utility and CLI. Fortunately all GUI tools I'm familiar with offer command line builds. Literally, you get the best of both worlds.
Rats are running away from the sinking ship. That's all. First - layoffs, then - running rats
Microsoft won't support Bluetooth in upcoming WinXP. And WILL support 802.11 at unprecedented level. Bluetooth comitee did a poor job on standartisation, that's why Bluetooth devices are not functional now. Bluetooth standard leaves too much freedom for device developer. With this standard at its present state it is very hard to create a bluetooth device which is capable to "talk" to other bluetooth devices.
The funny thing about that is that renderfarms have ALREADY been running Linux for a while now. At least for THREE years. And they were smart not using IBM hardware, because it SUCKS.
You'll have to try them all, and stick with NT/W2K/WXP as I did. All that altruistic shit is great, but look, I have to make money. So I'd like software I write be licensed under some license that permits to make money out of it. It is not about whether or not Linux is great (I don't think it's THAT great by the way), it's about windows being installed on 95% of desktops worldwide and representing the best platform to market software on.
No IT IS a bottleneck! Look at Windows. Many of you guys don't like windows, but when it comes to "local" graphics, Windows wins hands down. Why? Because it doesn't have "client-server" overhead! Why should drawing of the one fucking line involve IPC? Why should it involve sockets or shared memory? WHY? That's why XWindow is so slow and so are graphics libraries.
Well guys, do you have any other ideas on how to stop software piracy? Don't tell me about giving everything away for free, look at RHAT or LNUX share price graph instead. They're trying hard to stop people from stealing software from them. The new product activation thing should eliminate some of the problems, but not all. You certainly won't be happy if someone steals software which you've spent billions of bucks and years of time developing and marketing. Buy software, watch for licensing and have no hassle. GPL is dead end. Nobody eats solar energy, and everything besides solar energy costs money. Sorry guys, human race isn't ready for communism yet.
The situation is following: One man was selling the chicken at the market. Then another man came to him and asked for the price. "Thousand bucks," - seller replied "Is it made of gold?" - buyer worndered "No, but I LOVE money". Seems that the reason behind rediculously overpriced CA's is exactly the same.
Why not to open OS/2? Why not to release it under GPL? It was (and still is) technologically superior to Linux, and I believe that only it can act as a contender to Microsoft Windows. If you guys are really concerned about open source community, why not to do it?
I think this will slow X Window down to crawl. It's already slow, but at least it only has to transfer bitmaps to the server and cache them there. It's not an option with AA. It will transfer letter images in 24 bit without any caching. And if you remember that X uses IPC even locally and IPC has never been as fast as direct API calls... Goddamit, somebody invent some replacement to X!
Actually, SuSE could only make less losses. 'cuz RedHat ended last year with losses of 10 MUSD. It has never been profitable and would never be. Just check stock price dynamics an finance.yahoo.com.