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Isn't that what the *BSD guys complain about linux?
Too many versions, too many different types
of packages etc. What exactly prevents me
from starting a new freeBSD distribution?
In fact, secureBSD and TrustedBSD seem to
be "BSD distributions".
It is amazling that noone has really focussed
any attention on the bias of these appeals court
judges. They have ruled consistently in favor of MS in so many trials. This is the second time they have chosen to dismiss a lower-court judge
who lost his patience with MS' prevarications during a trial.
They have chosen to ignore all of MS demostrated lies during the trial, and focus intead on Jackson.
I want these appeals judges investigated. I want their close relatives' financial statements scrutinized for payoffs. There is no doubt in
my mind that at least a few of these judges have been suborned. The head judge most certainly is. It was very clear that he had decided to dismiss the case before hearing the first sentence of the arguments. He is a bag of slime who is a disgrace to the office that he occupies.
I hope some enterprising journalists, once they are done with investigating the Clinton payoffs, would spend the same effort on these judges.
Everyone misunderstands Emacs. Emacs is NOT
bloated. It is "extensible". There is a difference.
All the extra functionality in Emacs is implemented through the use of Lisp packages
which are not loaded unless the user explicitly
asks them to be loaded.
If you startup a barebones version of Emacs
using "emacs -q", you will get an editor that
starts up instantaneously, consumes little memory
and is lightning fast.
The CDMA2000 standards body recently ratified
the IS-856 standard. This is a standard for
high-speed, mobile, data delivery. The technology
was developed by Qualcomm corporation. Once again,
this is an industry standard, not a technology
controlled by one company (unlike Richochet).
The download speeds vary from 38.4kb/sec to 2.4mb/sec over a 1.25 MHz bandwidth. This is also
a full-scale cellular system, designed to fit
in seamlessly with existing CDMA2000 1xRTT networks. Many companies are building base stations and handhelds for this standard. Expect
large-scale rollouts beginning early 2001.
IS-856 is very, very, cool technology, utilizing extremely advanced, ground-breaking physical-layer and MAC layer design. Of course, the ratification of this standard was the death-knell of any proprietary technology for doing the same thing. Both Richochet and i-Mode
(a similar technology developed by a bay-area
company called Arraycomm) are dead for all practical purposes.
I agree that the current release of Mozilla (0.6) is much much faster on win32 than on linux. But I don't think that this is because of any inherent 2-D rendering difficulties on linux+X. Xfree has a shared memory extension, so 2-D apps on the local machine do not go through the networking layer (the correspondng extension for 3-D is called direct rendering. Someone correct me if I am wrong). You are confusing 3-D with 2-D. 3-D in linux currently suffers from all the problems that you mentioned. But the reasons why 2-D apps are slower on linux than on win32 are the following:
1) Most developers optimize their code for win32 and don't bother doing the same for linux.
2) Win32 compilers produce much faster code than gcc.
3) Mozilla in particular is severly handicapped by the XPkit -> GTK -> Xlib toolchain. They should rip out the gtk dependency and go from XPkit straight to Xlib.
I have given up on Xfree 4.0.1 and gone back
to 3.3.6 because the fonts appear to be completely
messed up. At the same resolution, fonts, esp.
truetype fonts, appear HUGE on xfree86. The
fonts on netscape and Konqueror are especially
bad. I don't know why this is, since I have
setup Xfs to do the font serving and have merely
set the FontPath to unix/:-1.
Magnus.
It is a good idea not to use Reiserfs
on the / partition. This is because, after
compiling a new kernel, you might not be
able to boot since the reiserfs module is
not loaded.
The recommended method is to make a comparitively
small / partition (about 250-500 MB) that is
ext2, and making/usr,/home,/opt and/usr/local
reiserfs.
I've been using reiserfs for several months now
without problems.
I tried ns 6.0 final on both linux 2.2 and
win2000 on the same hardware. The win32 version
is much faster than netscape 4.7x and perfectly
stable. I have not had any issues with it.
It renders all the sites that I visit perfectly.
The linux version, however, is terribly slow,
and very buggy. Crashes abound. I think they
forgot to turn the debugging off, because it keeps
writing tons of text to the console where it has
been launched from.
I think the KDE folks have lost whatever high
moral ground they had over the Gnome folks for
their terrible Gnome1.0 release. KDE2.0 comes with
so many small annoyance bugs and a few outright
showstoppers that it makes it almost unuseable.
Don't get me wrong, I love the KDE developers and
their product. In the spirit of constructive
criticism, I would like to list the following problems that I have found with KDE 2.0.
1) Kmail. Sometimes gets mail from the server
and drops it into the ether. Thankfully I tested
it before switching my mailbox over. Sorting does not work properly.
2) The Kpanel is terribly buggy. I cannot add
any applications to the panel. The icon appears
on the panel, but when I click on it, I simply
get an error message.
3) Konqueror crashes reliably under many
circumstances. Clicking on a postscript file displays it correctly once. If I click "back" and
click on the file again, crash! Also, the browser
has a problem with accepting URLs. After a while,
it refuses to take new URLs and keeps going back
to the old page. For some reason, Mozilla M18 has
the exact same bug!
4) I hate to say this, but Koffice is unuseably
buggy. Sometimes, it crashes while doing common
operations. (Creating a table of contents). It
corrupts its own file so that when you try to read
it, it crashes. The math fonts look terrible when
printed.
5) Knode has not crashed on me so far, but there
are so many small things that do not work right
that I gave up on it.
KDE developers, here's hoping that 2.01 will get
here quickly!
There are rules in the US that make it unnecessary to list your age on your resume. How can they possibly find out your age? Especially if you list just the positions that you have occupied during the last 5 years?
Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that you were not screwed. However, there are many people of the older generation who apply for Java jobs listing 20 years of COBOL experience. Furthermore, the same people often have massive chips on their shoulder.
In my last company, there was a system administrator whom they hired at vast expense. The guy had more moods than a prima donna. Not only was he not up to scratch on latest technologies and getting almost as much money as the project lead, he was also insufferably arrogant and thought nothing of leaving at 4:00 PM on a regular basis. His reasons included volunteer basketball coaching, church activities etc. Anyone who tried to remonstrate got a blast of a lecture with similar themes, about how he was a senior engineer, how he had a life and how he was not going to be exploited by some profiteering corporation. As you may imagine, there was no way he could be fired and so we had to increasingly have other people take over his responsibilities. I can tell you that people who experienced that situation would have trouble sympathising with Mr. Matloff's position.
According to comments from Sun developers at openoffice.org, the version of Staroffice that will be released on October 13 will be alpha at best. What Sun has done is merely rip out all the code out of Staroffice that they do not own and made sure that the code still compiles. It is not a fully functional product. Staroffice 6.0, which will have functionality comparable to the current version 5.2, is not expected to be available for several months. It will probably not be available before Gnome 2.0 is released.
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Isn't that what the *BSD guys complain about linux? Too many versions, too many different types of packages etc. What exactly prevents me from starting a new freeBSD distribution? In fact, secureBSD and TrustedBSD seem to be "BSD distributions".
Magnus.I recognize the style, or lack thereof. Vague assertions, no substance.
Magnus.It is amazling that noone has really focussed any attention on the bias of these appeals court judges. They have ruled consistently in favor of MS in so many trials. This is the second time they have chosen to dismiss a lower-court judge who lost his patience with MS' prevarications during a trial. They have chosen to ignore all of MS demostrated lies during the trial, and focus intead on Jackson.
I want these appeals judges investigated. I want their close relatives' financial statements scrutinized for payoffs. There is no doubt in my mind that at least a few of these judges have been suborned. The head judge most certainly is. It was very clear that he had decided to dismiss the case before hearing the first sentence of the arguments. He is a bag of slime who is a disgrace to the office that he occupies.
I hope some enterprising journalists, once they are done with investigating the Clinton payoffs, would spend the same effort on these judges.
Magnus.Everyone misunderstands Emacs. Emacs is NOT bloated. It is "extensible". There is a difference.
All the extra functionality in Emacs is implemented through the use of Lisp packages which are not loaded unless the user explicitly asks them to be loaded.
If you startup a barebones version of Emacs using "emacs -q", you will get an editor that starts up instantaneously, consumes little memory and is lightning fast.
Magnus.Oops, I meant expect rollouts beginning early 2002.
Magnus.The CDMA2000 standards body recently ratified the IS-856 standard. This is a standard for high-speed, mobile, data delivery. The technology was developed by Qualcomm corporation. Once again, this is an industry standard, not a technology controlled by one company (unlike Richochet). The download speeds vary from 38.4kb/sec to 2.4mb/sec over a 1.25 MHz bandwidth. This is also a full-scale cellular system, designed to fit in seamlessly with existing CDMA2000 1xRTT networks. Many companies are building base stations and handhelds for this standard. Expect large-scale rollouts beginning early 2001.
IS-856 is very, very, cool technology, utilizing extremely advanced, ground-breaking physical-layer and MAC layer design. Of course, the ratification of this standard was the death-knell of any proprietary technology for doing the same thing. Both Richochet and i-Mode (a similar technology developed by a bay-area company called Arraycomm) are dead for all practical purposes.
Magnus.I agree that the current release of Mozilla (0.6) is much much faster on win32 than on linux. But I don't think that this is because of any inherent 2-D rendering difficulties on linux+X. Xfree has a shared memory extension, so 2-D apps on the local machine do not go through the networking layer (the correspondng extension for 3-D is called direct rendering. Someone correct me if I am wrong). You are confusing 3-D with 2-D. 3-D in linux currently suffers from all the problems that you mentioned. But the reasons why 2-D apps are slower on linux than on win32 are the following:
1) Most developers optimize their code for win32 and don't bother doing the same for linux.
2) Win32 compilers produce much faster code than gcc.
3) Mozilla in particular is severly handicapped by the XPkit -> GTK -> Xlib toolchain. They should rip out the gtk dependency and go from XPkit straight to Xlib.
Magnus.
Hi,
I did try turning off Xfs. It did not make
any difference. The fonts are still huge.
And using startx -dpi 100 seems to have no
effect on Xfree 4.0.1. Whether I use
-dpi 100 or -dpi 75, xdpyinfo always returns
a resolution of 108x101.
Magnus.
I have given up on Xfree 4.0.1 and gone back to 3.3.6 because the fonts appear to be completely messed up. At the same resolution, fonts, esp. truetype fonts, appear HUGE on xfree86. The fonts on netscape and Konqueror are especially bad. I don't know why this is, since I have setup Xfs to do the font serving and have merely set the FontPath to unix/:-1. Magnus.
It is a good idea not to use Reiserfs
/usr, /home, /opt and /usr/local
on the / partition. This is because, after
compiling a new kernel, you might not be
able to boot since the reiserfs module is
not loaded.
The recommended method is to make a comparitively
small / partition (about 250-500 MB) that is
ext2, and making
reiserfs.
I've been using reiserfs for several months now
without problems.
Magnus.
I tried ns 6.0 final on both linux 2.2 and
win2000 on the same hardware. The win32 version
is much faster than netscape 4.7x and perfectly
stable. I have not had any issues with it.
It renders all the sites that I visit perfectly.
The linux version, however, is terribly slow,
and very buggy. Crashes abound. I think they
forgot to turn the debugging off, because it keeps
writing tons of text to the console where it has
been launched from.
Magnus
I think the KDE folks have lost whatever high moral ground they had over the Gnome folks for their terrible Gnome1.0 release. KDE2.0 comes with so many small annoyance bugs and a few outright showstoppers that it makes it almost unuseable.
Don't get me wrong, I love the KDE developers and their product. In the spirit of constructive criticism, I would like to list the following problems that I have found with KDE 2.0.
1) Kmail. Sometimes gets mail from the server and drops it into the ether. Thankfully I tested it before switching my mailbox over. Sorting does not work properly.
2) The Kpanel is terribly buggy. I cannot add any applications to the panel. The icon appears on the panel, but when I click on it, I simply get an error message.
3) Konqueror crashes reliably under many circumstances. Clicking on a postscript file displays it correctly once. If I click "back" and click on the file again, crash! Also, the browser has a problem with accepting URLs. After a while, it refuses to take new URLs and keeps going back to the old page. For some reason, Mozilla M18 has the exact same bug!
4) I hate to say this, but Koffice is unuseably buggy. Sometimes, it crashes while doing common operations. (Creating a table of contents). It corrupts its own file so that when you try to read it, it crashes. The math fonts look terrible when printed.
5) Knode has not crashed on me so far, but there are so many small things that do not work right that I gave up on it.
KDE developers, here's hoping that 2.01 will get here quickly!
Magnus.Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that you were not screwed. However, there are many people of the older generation who apply for Java jobs listing 20 years of COBOL experience. Furthermore, the same people often have massive chips on their shoulder.
In my last company, there was a system administrator whom they hired at vast expense. The guy had more moods than a prima donna. Not only was he not up to scratch on latest technologies and getting almost as much money as the project lead, he was also insufferably arrogant and thought nothing of leaving at 4:00 PM on a regular basis. His reasons included volunteer basketball coaching, church activities etc. Anyone who tried to remonstrate got a blast of a lecture with similar themes, about how he was a senior engineer, how he had a life and how he was not going to be exploited by some profiteering corporation. As you may imagine, there was no way he could be fired and so we had to increasingly have other people take over his responsibilities. I can tell you that people who experienced that situation would have trouble sympathising with Mr. Matloff's position.
Magnus.Magnus.