To the Slashdot "BSD is dying" crowd - big deal. Death is part of the cycle; take a look at your soft, pallid bodies and consider that right this very moment, parts of you are dying. See? It's not so bad.
Yep, Realplayer is jumping on the "Please feel sorry for us, we're getting h0sed by MS too!" bandwagon.
MS is probably at fault for some of this - but if Real would just realize that their software sucks, and that might be a big reason for people not using it in the first place.
Open message to real: I'm a Linux fanatic. At work, when my Windows users ask "which do I choose at radiowhatever.com, real or ms?" I tell them to use the MS format.
That's how much Real's software sucks. At least we have ogg.
Thanks for the tip about Dreamweaver and XHTML. I've always liked that program, but find it hard to justify the purchase. Maybe now, I'll look into picking up a copy.
You can pick up the whole suite (Dreamweaver, Flash, Coldfusion, Fireworks, etc.) for about ~$800 US. Not too bad.
I used to feel the same way about dreamweaver, I tended to like homesite alot better. Now, ultradev, homesite, and dreamweaver are all combined into mx. Kind of cool.
(A legalistic detail: Technically, government agencies are responsible for compliance, not outside vendors, and we already have seen complaints about offloading 508 compliance to software and hardware makers. The effect is the same: Flash has to be accessible when used by entities covered by 508.)
At work we've been "struggling" with Section 508 compliancy and especially how to make Flash sites accessible. I find it ironic that those "web developers" who are having a hard time with Section 508 and the WCAG guidelines are blissfully unaware of what the W3C even is.
As a web developer who's been doing things right all along, making my pages validate (which sucks), I feel a since of vindication that my stuff already works. As usual, the Frontpage weenies are still struggling and trying to figure out why an alt tag is necessary. I tried to help a guy validate his Frontpage code - the amount of misimplemented xml-inducted nightmare code will make you cry. They curse 508 and the WCAG and warn of a bland website experience for the user - if they would have been coding compliant webpages in the first place, they wouldn't be in this mess.
On a sidenote, I'm glad section 508 is here... it forces government sites to fix their code, also means that the number of sites that work better in mozilla has been steadily increasing. Another sidenote, Dreamweaver MX's XHTML is awesome, I've been converting tons of regular html pages to XHTML 1.0 and they're breezing through the W3C validator - it's easily worth the money.
My vote is for the low-CPU usage of scsi devices. My hardrives, DVD drive, CDROM, and CDR are all SCSI.
I can run three instances of grip and rip/encode from all three drives simultaneously. Desktop still runs like a champ, it doesn't bog down. Rip from one IDE drive and it does ok... start copying around movie files while it does this, and you'll become a SCSI fan real quick.
Sure, I may pay $400 for an 18GB SCSI drive, but it's worth it.:| It really does make a difference, though lately IDE has been too cheap to ignore.
Though many Linux apps suffer from clone ripoff syndrome - Evolution was designed like this on purpose.
A guy came by my desk yesterday, and I was running Evolution on my linux box. He sat there and stared at it for a moment. He thought it was Outlook. I told him it wasn't. He wasn't even aware that something like Evolution existed for *nix. So, I let him play with it for a while - he picked it up EASY.
I've also been doing some user tests with Openoffice and KOffice. By far, Evolution is the easiest for the typical office users to learn. They even call it Outlook.
I'm not a fan of the Outlook-esque UI, but if that means that Joe Blow can easily switch to Free Software, then I'm all for it.
hmmm, that web interface look suspiciously like squirrelmail.
IMAP Rules, plain and simple. Take an old PC, throw Debian on it, and use courier+postfix+squirrelmail+procmail+spamassassin +maildirs and all mail problems tend to disappear.
Alot of other distro release x86 first and Sparc/Whatever later on. Why can't Debian do that?
Debian supports _11_ architectures - a few weeks ago a friend of mine dug up an old sun he had in his basement. We installed Woody. It works exactly the same as it does on my x86 machine, that's awesome.
In one of the last XFree stories, the Xfree maintainer mentioned that he will not treat non-x86 people like second class citizens. Now, I partially agree with you, I'm an x86-only person myself, but think about it, 11 architectures... not many people can even name that many to begin with.
gee, I better uninstall those Redhat security updates, apparently they're not aware that they were supposed to be charging me for them. Thanks for spreading misinformation.
If he's reading VSB instead of BSD and didn't catch it, don't you think maybe that he's talking out of his ass?
Mistakes like that are made my moron PHBs at board room meetings ("Tell us about this Lunix thing again?"), not by supposed "computer revolutionaries."
Hmmm... I bet that Sun could save a crapload of more money by dedicating a few engineers to improve Linux on SPARC, instead of cancelling/reviving Solaris x86 everytime someone up there thinks its a good idea.
I care that this bde stuff is bringing w2k/xp machines down to a grinding halt in fugly ways.
Ad-aware is getting used more and more in my toolkit. I sure wish Norton/Macafee/whoever would just go ahead and add crap like this into their AV software. This garbage is a "virus" in my book.
I'm pretty comfortable with Debian, and I am putting trying Gentoo on my to-do list, but I was wondering if anyone knows if there is some interest in bringing some of the source-based distro goodness to Debian.
As far as I understand legislation in your country, it is part of the constitution that every american citizen is allowed to wear a gun. In my opinion that is one major reason for teenage high-school killings - while claiming games like "Doom" guilty is completely ridiculous. What is your opinion?
Are you kidding me? They get a chance to ask this guy 10 questions and this is what they come up with? Anyone do any research on this?
Slightly offtopic, but I was wondering how typical non-American's view Americans concerning the second amendment? Surely people don't think we're a bunch of cowboys shooting everything in sight ala Homer Simpson.
Scientist - "So, how do you like these new sandwiches?" Tired Grunt - "These taste like absolute shit, the only reason I'm eating this is because I haven't eaten all day and I'm hungry as hell."
Agree 100% - I have no idea why people insist on KDE installation for varios *nix's to be KDE's responsibility.
The project publishes the source code - the distributions are responsible for packaging it. I've been reading on forums all over the place (and articles like this) with people having installation problems with KDE, GNOME, or some other large project.
Don't blame KDE people, blame your distro. Debian might be a little slow, but sometime soon "apt-get install kde3" will work - I mean Geez, some people are having to install the individual RPMs in a specific order, what madness is this?
I was finally able to look at one of these things first hand at a local Best Buy. Naturally, it was a floor model and didn't work.
How are the keyboards on these things? It felt kind of mushy. They keyboard itself is rather small, so I wanted to gauge how the Handspring guys had handled the error control, etc. etc.
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To the Slashdot "BSD is dying" crowd - big deal. Death is part of the
cycle; take a look at your soft, pallid bodies and consider that right
this very moment, parts of you are dying. See? It's not so bad.
The ultimate anti-troll.
Or, goto Plugindoc on mozdev and you can fix all your plugin problems in one shot.
This site is great for pointing to Mozilla newbies.
Yep, Realplayer is jumping on the "Please feel sorry for us, we're getting h0sed by MS too!" bandwagon.
MS is probably at fault for some of this - but if Real would just realize that their software sucks, and that might be a big reason for people not using it in the first place.
Open message to real: I'm a Linux fanatic. At work, when my Windows users ask "which do I choose at radiowhatever.com, real or ms?" I tell them to use the MS format.
That's how much Real's software sucks. At least we have ogg.
Anything in this movie .... Total disregard for the laws of physics - that motorcyle scene was ridiculous.
Favorite generic one: Explosions have no shrapnel, they only hurl the hero to where he needs to be.
Linuxwebhost ROCKS.
Their stats are nice, and their customer service is damn good. I can't believe they are so cheap.
Thanks for the tip about Dreamweaver and XHTML. I've always liked that program, but find it hard to justify the purchase. Maybe now, I'll look into picking up a copy.
:)
You can pick up the whole suite (Dreamweaver, Flash, Coldfusion, Fireworks, etc.) for about ~$800 US. Not too bad.
I used to feel the same way about dreamweaver, I tended to like homesite alot better. Now, ultradev, homesite, and dreamweaver are all combined into mx. Kind of cool.
grammar, bleh...
(A legalistic detail: Technically, government agencies are responsible for compliance, not outside vendors, and we already have seen complaints about offloading 508 compliance to software and hardware makers. The effect is the same: Flash has to be accessible when used by entities covered by 508.)
At work we've been "struggling" with Section 508 compliancy and especially how to make Flash sites accessible. I find it ironic that those "web developers" who are having a hard time with Section 508 and the WCAG guidelines are blissfully unaware of what the W3C even is.
As a web developer who's been doing things right all along, making my pages validate (which sucks), I feel a since of vindication that my stuff already works. As usual, the Frontpage weenies are still struggling and trying to figure out why an alt tag is necessary. I tried to help a guy validate his Frontpage code - the amount of misimplemented xml-inducted nightmare code will make you cry. They curse 508 and the WCAG and warn of a bland website experience for the user - if they would have been coding compliant webpages in the first place, they wouldn't be in this mess.
On a sidenote, I'm glad section 508 is here... it forces government sites to fix their code, also means that the number of sites that work better in mozilla has been steadily increasing. Another sidenote, Dreamweaver MX's XHTML is awesome, I've been converting tons of regular html pages to XHTML 1.0 and they're breezing through the W3C validator - it's easily worth the money.
The previous incarnation had a dreadful interface that was difficult to navigate and when it worked it was painfully sssssllllllooooowwwww.
What, didn't like "Fetching Rover", or voting with marbles? How about The Scooter? Scooter? WTF?
To think this was a site to make "X Purty" - MS Bob is laughing at us from the grave.
My vote is for the low-CPU usage of scsi devices. My hardrives, DVD drive, CDROM, and CDR are all SCSI.
... start copying around movie files while it does this, and you'll become a SCSI fan real quick.
:| It really does make a difference, though lately IDE has been too cheap to ignore.
I can run three instances of grip and rip/encode from all three drives simultaneously. Desktop still runs like a champ, it doesn't bog down. Rip from one IDE drive and it does ok
Sure, I may pay $400 for an 18GB SCSI drive, but it's worth it.
Though many Linux apps suffer from clone ripoff syndrome - Evolution was designed like this on purpose.
A guy came by my desk yesterday, and I was running Evolution on my linux box. He sat there and stared at it for a moment. He thought it was Outlook. I told him it wasn't. He wasn't even aware that something like Evolution existed for *nix. So, I let him play with it for a while - he picked it up EASY.
I've also been doing some user tests with Openoffice and KOffice. By far, Evolution is the easiest for the typical office users to learn. They even call it Outlook.
I'm not a fan of the Outlook-esque UI, but if that means that Joe Blow can easily switch to Free Software, then I'm all for it.
I'm waiting for Evolution on KDE :) I love Evolution but think Gnome stinks.
Evolution runs in KDE just fine - do you have the gnome libs intalled?
hmmm, that web interface look suspiciously like squirrelmail.
n +maildirs and all mail problems tend to disappear.
IMAP Rules, plain and simple. Take an old PC, throw Debian on it, and use courier+postfix+squirrelmail+procmail+spamassassi
Alot of other distro release x86 first and Sparc/Whatever later on. Why can't Debian do that?
... not many people can even name that many to begin with.
Debian supports _11_ architectures - a few weeks ago a friend of mine dug up an old sun he had in his basement. We installed Woody. It works exactly the same as it does on my x86 machine, that's awesome.
In one of the last XFree stories, the Xfree maintainer mentioned that he will not treat non-x86 people like second class citizens. Now, I partially agree with you, I'm an x86-only person myself, but think about it, 11 architectures
Everyone put your hands over your ears and chant "please don't kill mozilla, please don't kill mozilla, blame it on accounting ... "
# free security updates, unlike RedHat
gee, I better uninstall those Redhat security updates, apparently they're not aware that they were supposed to be charging me for them. Thanks for spreading misinformation.
If he's reading VSB instead of BSD and didn't catch it, don't you think maybe that he's talking out of his ass?
Mistakes like that are made my moron PHBs at board room meetings ("Tell us about this Lunix thing again?"), not by supposed "computer revolutionaries."
Yawn.
Hmmm ... I bet that Sun could save a crapload of more money by dedicating a few engineers to improve Linux on SPARC, instead of cancelling/reviving Solaris x86 everytime someone up there thinks its a good idea.
Graphics accelerated desktop - isn't this one of the features of Enlightenment .17, or is this something else?
I care that this bde stuff is bringing w2k/xp machines down to a grinding halt in fugly ways.
Ad-aware is getting used more and more in my toolkit. I sure wish Norton/Macafee/whoever would just go ahead and add crap like this into their AV software. This garbage is a "virus" in my book.
I'm pretty comfortable with Debian, and I am putting trying Gentoo on my to-do list, but I was wondering if anyone knows if there is some interest in bringing some of the source-based distro goodness to Debian.
....
'apt-build install kde3' or something, mmmm
As far as I understand legislation in your country, it is part of the constitution that every american citizen is allowed to wear a gun. In my opinion that is one major reason for teenage high-school killings - while claiming games like "Doom" guilty is completely ridiculous. What is your opinion?
Are you kidding me? They get a chance to ask this guy 10 questions and this is what they come up with? Anyone do any research on this?
Slightly offtopic, but I was wondering how typical non-American's view Americans concerning the second amendment? Surely people don't think we're a bunch of cowboys shooting everything in sight ala Homer Simpson.
Scientist - "So, how do you like these new sandwiches?"
Tired Grunt - "These taste like absolute shit, the only reason I'm eating this is because I haven't eaten all day and I'm hungry as hell."
Scientist jots down "acceptable".
Anonymously stealing, trading personal information
Ok, do this over IRC, and you're a criminal - do it with a website, spyware, or spam, and you're a business.
hmmmm..... maybe I need to check out #amazon and #brilliant.
Agree 100% - I have no idea why people insist on KDE installation for varios *nix's to be KDE's responsibility.
The project publishes the source code - the distributions are responsible for packaging it. I've been reading on forums all over the place (and articles like this) with people having installation problems with KDE, GNOME, or some other large project.
Don't blame KDE people, blame your distro. Debian might be a little slow, but sometime soon "apt-get install kde3" will work - I mean Geez, some people are having to install the individual RPMs in a specific order, what madness is this?
I was finally able to look at one of these things first hand at a local Best Buy. Naturally, it was a floor model and didn't work.
How are the keyboards on these things? It felt kind of mushy. They keyboard itself is rather small, so I wanted to gauge how the Handspring guys had handled the error control, etc. etc.