Re:former dev speaks out on Gentoo and its FUD
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Gentoo Games
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· Score: 1
IF you are truely a former dev and there are others, you should step up formerly. IF this is truely the case, which I doubt it is from reading GWN which does keep track of the developers, then it needs to be brough out to the open. You need to grow some balls and tell us who you are so your claims can be verified. What are you scared of? I am/am not a current Gentoo user. I have Gentoo on my home server alone now, but I do find it a quite nice distribution. One that should probably be targetted more at developers than end users. I abandon Gentoo as my desktop due to some instability and inconsistency issues. Back to the issue, bring your complaints to the mainstream geek news sources and bring him out in the open about it. Don't make irrational claims from behind a mask.
Just so you all know. NFS is a network accessible FS. A DFS can also be network accessible from clients, but it physically resides on multiple systems.
Re:Season Pass anomolies
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TiVo Basic
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· Score: 1
Hmm, that seems odd, as my Season Pass for Stargate SG-1, when originally setup for Sci-Fi, picked up the local season 5 episodes on our Fox affiliate all by itself.
You know, this is quite insightful. SCO is obviously dying. We all know it. We all proclaim it. But, the one important thing to keep in mind here is, a sinking ship does suck down quite a lot of it's surroundings with it. I believe no matter what the outcome of this crap is, it is going to hurt Linux in the long run. Well, this and all the zealots.
Beg to differ. Codeweavers does have partners as well. SuSE AG for example with the SuSE Linux Office Desktop or some such distro. It bundles Codeweavers products pre-installed.
I am sure they are ok with it, seeing as how they did choose the LGPL vs the GPL, and seeing as how Codeweavers contributes back to Wine. What Codeweavers is actually selling is the integrated package with installer and all, not just Wine. If all you want is Wine, then don't pay Codeweavers. Instead donate to Wine. If, on the other hand, you want a complete, easy to use product that can install and run Office and other important Windows based applications, buy from Codeweavers and know that your money IS furthering the development of Wine as well.
Can I do this? I'd like to use their improvements made to Wine, as stated in the GPL and run it for free. After all, they have used a huge amount of code developed by people who wanted to make their code free.
Am I missing anything?
Yes. A clue. There are proprietary bits in Crossover. Ie, thier simple installer/configuration tool. It makes installation a snap and integration with your desktop just as easy.
It's a very useful product. If you need it, pay for it. There really is nothing wrong with paying for good software. I promise. The world will not hate you for it. Sure, some over zealous geeks might poke fun at you.
This is the reason F/OSS will never dominate MS. Too many think EVERYTHING must be free. As in free ride.
I don't know of any wireless carriers in my area that use SIM card enabled phones. And it is against the law, per the FCC according to Cingular Wireless, for them to activate a phone from another carrier on their network. Phones here are produced for the carrier/network they will run on only. That's why there are a dozen or so models of the exact same phone I currently have, Motorola 120c. The c means cricKet wireless. I have also seen, exact same features and all, 120e, 120i, and 120x. All the same phone, different carriers. It can be done. Once Cingular activated a Suncom prepaid phone on a friends plan. It worked for about one day, then they appearently realized their mistake. After that it would chime in with a "Welcome to Suncom" roaming message although he was well within the Cingular service area.
Number portability won't give the consumer much really. If you are displeased with the service of one company and decide to change carriers, you also have to acquire a new phone as well as a new number. Sure, that's not a problem when phones are free or only $0.01. But, when you start throwing in these unlimited local services that don't give away their phones, it can be costly to change carriers just because of the equipment change.
Re:kde with gnome
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Corporate KDE
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I think I would consider myself an average KDE user. Most of my apps are KDE. The one thing I don't understand is those who push using GTK apps in KDE. Why reinvent the wheel? Because these wheels look and feel much better. GTK apps are some of the ugliest I have ever seen. Sure, a few, very few, seem to have all the features I may want in an app, but they look horrible, especially intermixed in a KDE desktop. So, let's see: evolution - absolutely hate it, kmail (particularly kmailcool) is so much better. gaim - nice app, but I like kopete better. Heck, I even prefer Psi to it. Just for the integrated look, if nothing else. Matter of fact, about the only non-KDE app I use on the desktop regularly is XMMS. Haven't tried it out yet, but if they remembered to remove that last lingering debug element from Noatun, I'll be using it from now on as well. I'm sure gnome and gtk are great for some, but I can't stand the immature look and feel of them.
KDE IS coming along
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Corporate KDE
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· Score: 5, Insightful
I have tried 3.1 betas and release candidates, and I'd say it's definitely coming along as far as desktop usability. I've been using it as my primary desktop at home for a couple years now. But, with 3.1, it has been an easy switch to convert my entire household to it. This conversion includes my barely computer literate wife, my 7 year old son and 3.5 year old daughter. The Kroupware project is what will make it ultimately challenging to MS to compete. Replacing Exchange is the turning point for most corporate uses.
Perhaps this could the innovation that makes it easier to quit smoking. The article states it's a three step solution: Quest 1 = 17% less nicotine Quest 2 = 58% less Quest 3 = nicotine free
Except, it looks as though they haven't quite gotten there yet. From the Vector Tobacco website:
Virtual Elimination of Nicotine Scientists have determined that nicotine is the addictive element in cigarettes. Nicotine is an alkaloid that naturally occurs in tobacco. Alkaloids are complex, nitrogen containing compounds that naturally occur in plants, and have pharmacological effects in humans.
Vector Tobacco has the rights to a proprietary process that virtually eliminates nicotine from tobacco. Vector Tobacco's virtually nicotine-free process represents the first successful attempt to significantly lower nicotine in the tobacco leaf by growing tobacco plants bred to block nicotine production. While tobacco from an initial crop registered a trace level of nicotine, the company's goal is to grow tobacco with undetectable levels of nicotine.
Many scientists in the field believe virtual elimination of nicotine content is an important and much-needed step in the market for tobacco products.
So, it appears there will still be nicotine. You may just end up smoking more in the long run. You still have to have mental discipline to quit.
I don't understand the fixation with forcing Microsoft to ship other people's software.
I totally agree here. Microsoft should not be forced to include any third party software. Matter of fact they possibly shouldn't even be allowed to ship any third party software with their OS, this should include MS third party software such as IE.
Of course, then all the weasels will come out and say that no Linux distribution should be allowed to bundle third party apps. If that happens there goes every ditro except maybe LFS.:)
Is it just me? How does GTK make it look nice and shiny? This is not meant as a troll or anything. I am very serious. Nearly all GTK apps I have ever used or seen look, well, very old. Quite similar to the win 3.1 days. Squarish appearence. I find it ugly. If I have just missed some excellent tweak for it, please let me know. It seems the majority of completely functional apps for Linux are GTK based, but I tend to find QT apps much nicer looking. I'd really like the few GTK apps I do use to look as clean as QT ones.
Re:Cable is not *Better*
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DSL Rising
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Cable is not really suitable for video on demand? I beg to differ. Time Warner just started offering on demand services in my area. They work flawlessly. The network seems more than fast enough to handle that, and at least 50 cable modem subscribers just in my subdivision. And, probably one fourth of those 50 are high bandwidth users; gamers, work at home, home servers, etc. When Time Warner initially launched cable modem service, it really did suck horribly. They have since gotten their shit together, and they now provide very reliable and high performance service.
This is definitely a matter of providers not technology.
In the southeast, BellSouth is apparently still using PPPoE. I'll stick with Time Warner myself. They're work at home service is great. The only real tricky thing I have seen with Bell's PPPoE is that if you don't use their client, you have to make sure you add @bellsouth.net to the PPPoE username.
I was at one time a Telocity customer. I must say I am sad to see this service provider go, as long as things hadn't changed too terribly much. They, while Telocity at least, had probably one of the best AUP's I had ever been a subscriber under. Well, all except that first small dialup ISP I worked that basically had no AUP. Anyway, it was basically do whatever you want so long as it's not illegal, and you are not making money directly from it. I was really looking forward to Bell getting off their arses and expanding the DSL capabilities of my area so I could return to DirectvDSL, Telocity. I admit they had an annoying problem of every first day I would be the on-call engineer, somehow a routing loop would occur between San Diego and San Jose. That was probably the worst thing about the then Telocity, was an AUP targeting, to a degree, geeks, but initial customer service the level of someone on a phone reading through script cards that barely know an email address from a URL, much less anything about networking. Anyway, sad to see a decently provider go down even if I have found a better alternative.
How is this copying XP? I am working on a XP system right now, and I see no resemblance. This concept is a new idea in the taskbar, menu, tray utilities layout. It appears to me that this would make the desktop a much more usable and informative space. I do agree with one poster at KDE Look that this should be a separate project from KDE core. It should be some type of plugable kicker replacement. All in all, I would love to use a desktop based on this concept. It IS quite innovative compared to today's desktops.
Not really something everyone can just implement for themselves, but what you are talking about requires no modification to SMTP or any other protocol. It's called Tagged Message Delivery. You can find out all about it here. If all e-mail providers would implement such things, we would all see a lot less SPAM.
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IF you are truely a former dev and there are others, you should step up formerly.
IF this is truely the case, which I doubt it is from reading GWN which does keep track of the developers, then it needs to be brough out to the open. You need to grow some balls and tell us who you are so your claims can be verified. What are you scared of?
I am/am not a current Gentoo user. I have Gentoo on my home server alone now, but I do find it a quite nice distribution. One that should probably be targetted more at developers than end users. I abandon Gentoo as my desktop due to some instability and inconsistency issues.
Back to the issue, bring your complaints to the mainstream geek news sources and bring him out in the open about it. Don't make irrational claims from behind a mask.
Just so you all know. NFS is a network accessible FS. A DFS can also be network accessible from clients, but it physically resides on multiple systems.
Hmm, that seems odd, as my Season Pass for Stargate SG-1, when originally setup for Sci-Fi, picked up the local season 5 episodes on our Fox affiliate all by itself.
You know, this is quite insightful. SCO is obviously dying. We all know it. We all proclaim it.
But, the one important thing to keep in mind here is, a sinking ship does suck down quite a lot of it's surroundings with it. I believe no matter what the outcome of this crap is, it is going to hurt Linux in the long run. Well, this and all the zealots.
Beg to differ. Codeweavers does have partners as well. SuSE AG for example with the SuSE Linux Office Desktop or some such distro. It bundles Codeweavers products pre-installed.
I am sure they are ok with it, seeing as how they did choose the LGPL vs the GPL, and seeing as how Codeweavers contributes back to Wine.
What Codeweavers is actually selling is the integrated package with installer and all, not just Wine.
If all you want is Wine, then don't pay Codeweavers. Instead donate to Wine. If, on the other hand, you want a complete, easy to use product that can install and run Office and other important Windows based applications, buy from Codeweavers and know that your money IS furthering the development of Wine as well.
There is something that I cannot understand.
Doesn't Crossover Office use Wine?
Yes.
Isn't Wine GPL?
No. It's LGPL.
Then, how come Wine still struggles to run the same apps?
It does? Takes some work to get them installed, but it works pretty much the same as Crossover after that.
I should be able to download their source code, shouldn't I?
You can. At least the changes to wine. Here.
Can I do this? I'd like to use their improvements made to Wine, as stated in the GPL and run it for free.
After all, they have used a huge amount of code developed by people who wanted to make their code free.
Am I missing anything?
Yes. A clue. There are proprietary bits in Crossover. Ie, thier simple installer/configuration tool. It makes installation a snap and integration with your desktop just as easy.
It's a very useful product. If you need it, pay for it. There really is nothing wrong with paying for good software. I promise. The world will not hate you for it. Sure, some over zealous geeks might poke fun at you.
This is the reason F/OSS will never dominate MS. Too many think EVERYTHING must be free. As in free ride.
You would think.
But of course, you and I aren't them. If we were then we WOULD think.
I don't know of any wireless carriers in my area that use SIM card enabled phones. And it is against the law, per the FCC according to Cingular Wireless, for them to activate a phone from another carrier on their network.
Phones here are produced for the carrier/network they will run on only. That's why there are a dozen or so models of the exact same phone I currently have, Motorola 120c. The c means cricKet wireless. I have also seen, exact same features and all, 120e, 120i, and 120x. All the same phone, different carriers.
It can be done. Once Cingular activated a Suncom prepaid phone on a friends plan. It worked for about one day, then they appearently realized their mistake. After that it would chime in with a "Welcome to Suncom" roaming message although he was well within the Cingular service area.
Actually, it's more like asking ISP's to make IP addresses portable, which is very possible and done regularly now.
Number portability won't give the consumer much really. If you are displeased with the service of one company and decide to change carriers, you also have to acquire a new phone as well as a new number. Sure, that's not a problem when phones are free or only $0.01. But, when you start throwing in these unlimited local services that don't give away their phones, it can be costly to change carriers just because of the equipment change.
Ok, I'll bite. Why are you still using the modem? TurboNet cards have been out forever. They are extremely easy to install.
Clearly you didn't read the article. It's not Merged BSD, it's FretBSD.
Hrmmmm.....
It's kind of a pinball slot machine. You use little steel balls instead of coin tokens.
Hell, why not just try it and find out.
I think I would consider myself an average KDE user. Most of my apps are KDE. The one thing I don't understand is those who push using GTK apps in KDE. Why reinvent the wheel? Because these wheels look and feel much better. GTK apps are some of the ugliest I have ever seen. Sure, a few, very few, seem to have all the features I may want in an app, but they look horrible, especially intermixed in a KDE desktop.
So, let's see:
evolution - absolutely hate it, kmail (particularly kmailcool) is so much better.
gaim - nice app, but I like kopete better. Heck, I even prefer Psi to it. Just for the integrated look, if nothing else.
Matter of fact, about the only non-KDE app I use on the desktop regularly is XMMS. Haven't tried it out yet, but if they remembered to remove that last lingering debug element from Noatun, I'll be using it from now on as well.
I'm sure gnome and gtk are great for some, but I can't stand the immature look and feel of them.
I have tried 3.1 betas and release candidates, and I'd say it's definitely coming along as far as desktop usability. I've been using it as my primary desktop at home for a couple years now.
But, with 3.1, it has been an easy switch to convert my entire household to it. This conversion includes my barely computer literate wife, my 7 year old son and 3.5 year old daughter.
The Kroupware project is what will make it ultimately challenging to MS to compete. Replacing Exchange is the turning point for most corporate uses.
Perhaps this could the innovation that makes it easier to quit smoking.
The article states it's a three step solution:
Quest 1 = 17% less nicotine
Quest 2 = 58% less
Quest 3 = nicotine free
Except, it looks as though they haven't quite gotten there yet. From the Vector Tobacco website:
Virtual Elimination of Nicotine
Scientists have determined that nicotine is the addictive element in cigarettes. Nicotine is an alkaloid that naturally occurs in tobacco. Alkaloids are complex, nitrogen containing compounds that naturally occur in plants, and have pharmacological effects in humans.
Vector Tobacco has the rights to a proprietary process that virtually eliminates nicotine from tobacco. Vector Tobacco's virtually nicotine-free process represents the first successful attempt to significantly lower nicotine in the tobacco leaf by growing tobacco plants bred to block nicotine production. While tobacco from an initial crop registered a trace level of nicotine, the company's goal is to grow tobacco with undetectable levels of nicotine.
Many scientists in the field believe virtual elimination of nicotine content is an important and much-needed step in the market for tobacco products.
So, it appears there will still be nicotine. You may just end up smoking more in the long run.
You still have to have mental discipline to quit.
I don't understand the fixation with forcing Microsoft to ship other people's software.
:)
I totally agree here. Microsoft should not be forced to include any third party software. Matter of fact they possibly shouldn't even be allowed to ship any third party software with their OS, this should include MS third party software such as IE.
Of course, then all the weasels will come out and say that no Linux distribution should be allowed to bundle third party apps. If that happens there goes every ditro except maybe LFS.
Is it just me? How does GTK make it look nice and shiny? This is not meant as a troll or anything. I am very serious.
Nearly all GTK apps I have ever used or seen look, well, very old. Quite similar to the win 3.1 days. Squarish appearence. I find it ugly.
If I have just missed some excellent tweak for it, please let me know. It seems the majority of completely functional apps for Linux are GTK based, but I tend to find QT apps much nicer looking. I'd really like the few GTK apps I do use to look as clean as QT ones.
Cable is not really suitable for video on demand? I beg to differ. Time Warner just started offering on demand services in my area. They work flawlessly. The network seems more than fast enough to handle that, and at least 50 cable modem subscribers just in my subdivision. And, probably one fourth of those 50 are high bandwidth users; gamers, work at home, home servers, etc.
When Time Warner initially launched cable modem service, it really did suck horribly. They have since gotten their shit together, and they now provide very reliable and high performance service.
This is definitely a matter of providers not technology.
In the southeast, BellSouth is apparently still using PPPoE. I'll stick with Time Warner myself. They're work at home service is great.
The only real tricky thing I have seen with Bell's PPPoE is that if you don't use their client, you have to make sure you add @bellsouth.net to the PPPoE username.
I was at one time a Telocity customer. I must say I am sad to see this service provider go, as long as things hadn't changed too terribly much. They, while Telocity at least, had probably one of the best AUP's I had ever been a subscriber under. Well, all except that first small dialup ISP I worked that basically had no AUP. Anyway, it was basically do whatever you want so long as it's not illegal, and you are not making money directly from it.
I was really looking forward to Bell getting off their arses and expanding the DSL capabilities of my area so I could return to DirectvDSL, Telocity.
I admit they had an annoying problem of every first day I would be the on-call engineer, somehow a routing loop would occur between San Diego and San Jose. That was probably the worst thing about the then Telocity, was an AUP targeting, to a degree, geeks, but initial customer service the level of someone on a phone reading through script cards that barely know an email address from a URL, much less anything about networking.
Anyway, sad to see a decently provider go down even if I have found a better alternative.
How is this copying XP? I am working on a XP system right now, and I see no resemblance.
This concept is a new idea in the taskbar, menu, tray utilities layout. It appears to me that this would make the desktop a much more usable and informative space.
I do agree with one poster at KDE Look that this should be a separate project from KDE core. It should be some type of plugable kicker replacement.
All in all, I would love to use a desktop based on this concept. It IS quite innovative compared to today's desktops.
Not really something everyone can just implement for themselves, but what you are talking about requires no modification to SMTP or any other protocol. It's called Tagged Message Delivery. You can find out all about it here.
If all e-mail providers would implement such things, we would all see a lot less SPAM.