Currently, I have 5 workspaces. Local xterms are configured to open in workspace 1, remote xterms in workspace 5. Sawfish knows that I want my time tracker not to be able to get focus, just like XMMS. It also knows that I don't want any maximized window to cover gkrellm so he doesn't do that. With middle-click on the root window I get a list of all the windows open, with left-click I get my customized menu. With right-click I get the normal sawfish menu. My right 'windows' key launches a local xterm, the 'menu' key makes my customized menu appear.
Of course, aside from gkrellm, there is no permanent app or taskbar or whatever, but I like it that way. I decided to look around for another wm, but I didn't find any who would do what I wanted with the easiness of sawfish. Btw, I don't know lisp.
How much do you earn from each book sold? With his new book Stephen King put the first 2 chapters available somewhere and promised to continue the book if more than 75% of the readers would pay $1 for the first two chapters. They did, so he had to continue writing the book. Can't you do something similar? I expect that what writers actually receive very little from the actual book price, so maybe you can make it a little higher than if you actually published your book by the ordinary means.
As other slashdot poster said, forget the paper format. I would suggest DocBook, as it can be transformed into a lot of outputs, or maybe even LATeX (even though I prefer DocBook). Then you can put pdfs, postscripts, etc, available for some amount, and let people print them for their own use if they wanted to.
create a desktop foundation instead of a gnome foundation? They could use gnome as their implementation if they wanted to, but I think that bringing the kde developers and other people involved to the table would be of great benefit. Standardise the user interface ("menus go here, ok button on this side", etc, etc), drag and drop and all the stuff needed to have a consistent user interface, a way for gnome people and kde people to share their components... I don't know...
I guess a lot of people who would prefer to program using a different toolkit other than gtk (or one of its bindings) could do it more easily and have stuff more integrated...
David
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You know, you're right. Selfish bastards like Isaac Newton or Leonardo Da Vinci would never have made anything if it weren't for the commercial greed. In fact, the dudes that were burned at the stake because of holding scientific ideas contrary to what the incquisition thought the Bible said, only did so because they were being harassed by their investors to defend their products!
Come on! Everything the so-called "capitalism" of our days touches, it corrupts to the bone (just look at the "Net" and all those blow-the-dot-out-your-freaking-dot-in-dot-com.com companies). This is not capitalism, it is pure selfishness and disregard for everyone's rights for the sake of the almighty buck... Jeez, like these people are going to take their money to the grave!
I agree with copyrights. I think everyone should have the right to reap the benefits of what they created. But not abusing those rights, and what we're witnessing is completely blowing everything out of proportion! We got where we are because of people sharing their works, not because of burying their findings under a freaking ton of intellectual property laws!
And, dude, quit the lame these-guys-are-all-communists argument. I'm not communist. But, share a little. You'll only become richer because of that.
Creative's Nomad Jukebox seems pretty cool. A little expensive though ($600), and no cd player. But being able to store 100 hrs of music, I think I can live without the cd.:)
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is that it is not viable for me. Call me an open source zealot if you want, but I prefer to have software that is not a black box. Dude, if your car breaks, you can fix it (if you know how and have the tools). If your fridge breaks, or the tv, or whatever, you can, in most cases, fix them yourself if you want to. With closed software it never happens that way. You have to wait. You do not have a choice. You are limited. That's the problem. My choice is to limit closed source software I have to use to a minimum. But that's just my choice. If you want to, go ahead, and I'm not criticizing you.
I have to say I bought BeOS 4, to support Be, and hoping that they'll eventually be here (no pun intended) long enough to open the source, because their OS is first class. I sincerely think that BeOS has a much greater chance to win on the Desktop on the short term than Linux, and it seems to me that if they would open the OS and concentrate on making apps for it and supporting it, they would have a much better chance of making a good buck. But, alas, I'm not Be and I don't know enough.
Right now, I'm sticking with Linux. I D/Led BeOS PE and I loved it, but not enough to sacrifice that in which I believe. In the end the choice always belongs to oneself. Mine has already been made.
On one hand, RMS is right because we shouldn't put up with companies doing what Amazon did. That is not way to do business, and if you don't have anything to keep you on top except your patents, then you shouldn't be on top anyway.
On the other hand, RMS called for the boycott, but it would be a lot more valid if he had offered (as Tim did) to sit with Jeff and try to work out a solution that would make everybody happy. It's easy to put someone down, but it's a lot harder to offer viable solutions to the problems at hand.
(Btw, anyone knows a good bookstore in Europe apart from amazon.co.uk? I stopped buying from them -- and they lost a good customer because of their bullying attitude -- but I need to keep buying my books. I tried Bookpool but I ended up paying a lot more. Ideas?) David
I actually don't think Linux needs more developers. I think Linux needs more good developers.
Some time ago, while discussing about open-source development, someone told me it's better not to have some program if the alternative is having something that is not well implemented. And I have to say that he has a point there.
It's not uncommon to see people that are pretty much about open-source on the Be Developers' List. This is something that always made me wonder, but I've come to realize that most people think (and in some ways are right) that most open-source software is not well done. But, because it's free, it'll take customers away from them. Is this fair?
I think that before people should start coding they should think a lot about what they want to do. They should consider a lot of variables like UI, quality of code, documentation, ease of use, etc. Not just code, code, code. These are often overlooked in open-source software. I use Linux, but I'm finding myself more and more drawn to the BeOS because of its ellegant API, its speed (the actual speed and the perceived speed), and its good looks (even though Enlightenment has the potential to make things look better).
Now, I'm not against power and configurability, but why must things often be done at the expense of usability? There are a lot of things that could make our lives easier. Who wants to be tweaking their OS to death? Well, I guess a lot of people, but I think a whole lot more prefer just to use it. And if we, developers, can, in the meantime, build tools that will make our lives easier, too, great!
I think a lot needs to be re-thought about the ways open-source people work. We have the power to make things excellent! Why do we so often choose to make them average?
So, I would dare say that we need less code. Given a choice, I would rather have an OS with its apps being slowly, but carefully, developed, than having half-implemented solutions that end up not serving anyone. I would rather have a good, say, text editor, than 5 average ones.
Can anyone explain to me why are those so expensive? Wouldn't we all be a lot better if we didn't have to live in a world where there is no crappy x86 architecture? Oh, well.
Just go check the thread about Linux being obsolete, and Linus' first reply to Andy Tanenbaum, when he criticized Linux. Of course, he apologized later, and I guess he learned a lot with that, but, please! "What Would Linux Do?"
More like "what would someone with some sense do?"
I have to say E is one of the best pieces of software for X that I have ever put my hands on. And, if you look at the current stable release (0.15.5, which is pretty stable imo), you'll see the way E has to go yet, and the potencial it has. That's why I think all this Redhat thing about Linux becoming a better Windows is kind of wrong. On one hand, it brings users to Linux, that's right. But I think this takes creativity away, also. What do I care about a better Windows? I don't want Windows, I want something cool, something new. Not a good implementation of old ideas but the implementation of new, better ideas.
I think E has that, and I think it detached from the Gnome project at the right time. I don't think Gnome is that much enlightened and maybe one of the reasons for that is that it's being funded by Redhat.
An enlightened desktop... now that's a cool thought. Maybe the biggest problem they had with Raster at Redhat was because of them not being able to stop him having cool (maybe weird?) ideas. I guess I can live with that...:)
Nothing personal against Redhat. I just use Debian because for me it's the best.
As to the dektops, the usual way is having both gnome-libs and kde-libs installed, and letting E run the show.
I thing the FSF deserves credit for what it has been doing, but I think the issue here is not about "who" but rather about "what".
The issue here is Freedom.
So, I'd propose something like "GNU-inspired" (I don't now if this will sound the way I want it to, as english is not my native language) or "Running Free Software" or something like that, to emphasize what it seems to me that RMS is being after all about: Freedom.
(in rather closed-minded ways, if I might add)
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Pegasus is the one to get. At tucows. Otherwise, for Linux, Mutt is da mua!:)
Just look at the size of Windows. Just look at what happened to mozilla. Just look at some of the causes jwz pointed to explain that failure. Who is going to go through the code and try to make sense of it. Just look at all the cruft that's been layered through the years. Will it really matter? I don't understand why is there all this thing about Microsoft. I think the main step was taken by Netscape. Microsoft will be just another one entering the boat (If they will really do it). So I think there shouldn't even have been any letter. Let them go their way, and we will go ours. If they want to do something good, let them contribute to WINE.
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One word: sawfish.
Currently, I have 5 workspaces. Local xterms are configured to open in workspace 1, remote xterms in workspace 5. Sawfish knows that I want my time tracker not to be able to get focus, just like XMMS. It also knows that I don't want any maximized window to cover gkrellm so he doesn't do that. With middle-click on the root window I get a list of all the windows open, with left-click I get my customized menu. With right-click I get the normal sawfish menu. My right 'windows' key launches a local xterm, the 'menu' key makes my customized menu appear.
Of course, aside from gkrellm, there is no permanent app or taskbar or whatever, but I like it that way. I decided to look around for another wm, but I didn't find any who would do what I wanted with the easiness of sawfish. Btw, I don't know lisp.
Did I mention it is fast?
As other slashdot poster said, forget the paper format. I would suggest DocBook, as it can be transformed into a lot of outputs, or maybe even LATeX (even though I prefer DocBook). Then you can put pdfs, postscripts, etc, available for some amount, and let people print them for their own use if they wanted to.
David
I guess a lot of people who would prefer to program using a different toolkit other than gtk (or one of its bindings) could do it more easily and have stuff more integrated...
David
Come on! Everything the so-called "capitalism" of our days touches, it corrupts to the bone (just look at the "Net" and all those blow-the-dot-out-your-freaking-dot-in-dot-com.com companies). This is not capitalism, it is pure selfishness and disregard for everyone's rights for the sake of the almighty buck... Jeez, like these people are going to take their money to the grave!
I agree with copyrights. I think everyone should have the right to reap the benefits of what they created. But not abusing those rights, and what we're witnessing is completely blowing everything out of proportion! We got where we are because of people sharing their works, not because of burying their findings under a freaking ton of intellectual property laws!
And, dude, quit the lame these-guys-are-all-communists argument. I'm not communist. But, share a little. You'll only become richer because of that.
David
Creative's Nomad Jukebox seems pretty cool. A little expensive though ($600), and no cd player. But being able to store 100 hrs of music, I think I can live without the cd. :)
I have to say I bought BeOS 4, to support Be, and hoping that they'll eventually be here (no pun intended) long enough to open the source, because their OS is first class. I sincerely think that BeOS has a much greater chance to win on the Desktop on the short term than Linux, and it seems to me that if they would open the OS and concentrate on making apps for it and supporting it, they would have a much better chance of making a good buck. But, alas, I'm not Be and I don't know enough.
Right now, I'm sticking with Linux. I D/Led BeOS PE and I loved it, but not enough to sacrifice that in which I believe. In the end the choice always belongs to oneself. Mine has already been made.
Cheers,
David
On the other hand, RMS called for the boycott, but it would be a lot more valid if he had offered (as Tim did) to sit with Jeff and try to work out a solution that would make everybody happy. It's easy to put someone down, but it's a lot harder to offer viable solutions to the problems at hand.
(Btw, anyone knows a good bookstore in Europe apart from amazon.co.uk? I stopped buying from them -- and they lost a good customer because of their bullying attitude -- but I need to keep buying my books. I tried Bookpool but I ended up paying a lot more. Ideas?) David
I actually don't think Linux needs more developers. I think Linux needs more good developers.
Some time ago, while discussing about open-source development, someone told me it's better not to have some program if the alternative is having something that is not well implemented. And I have to say that he has a point there.
It's not uncommon to see people that are pretty much about open-source on the Be Developers' List. This is something that always made me wonder, but I've come to realize that most people think (and in some ways are right) that most open-source software is not well done. But, because it's free, it'll take customers away from them. Is this fair?
I think that before people should start coding they should think a lot about what they want to do. They should consider a lot of variables like UI, quality of code, documentation, ease of use, etc. Not just code, code, code. These are often overlooked in open-source software. I use Linux, but I'm finding myself more and more drawn to the BeOS because of its ellegant API, its speed (the actual speed and the perceived speed), and its good looks (even though Enlightenment has the potential to make things look better).
Now, I'm not against power and configurability, but why must things often be done at the expense of usability? There are a lot of things that could make our lives easier. Who wants to be tweaking their OS to death? Well, I guess a lot of people, but I think a whole lot more prefer just to use it. And if we, developers, can, in the meantime, build tools that will make our lives easier, too, great!
I think a lot needs to be re-thought about the ways open-source people work. We have the power to make things excellent! Why do we so often choose to make them average?
So, I would dare say that we need less code. Given a choice, I would rather have an OS with its apps being slowly, but carefully, developed, than having half-implemented solutions that end up not serving anyone. I would rather have a good, say, text editor, than 5 average ones.
Am I wrong in here?
And if it crashes, doesn't do anything you want, and generally doesn't do anything correctly, then it's Windows... :)
(ok, ok, ot but I had to say this)
I want an Alpha.
Can anyone explain to me why are those so expensive? Wouldn't we all be a lot better if we didn't have to live in a world where there is no crappy x86 architecture? Oh, well.
Just go check the thread about Linux being obsolete, and Linus' first reply to Andy Tanenbaum, when he criticized Linux. Of course, he apologized later, and I guess he learned a lot with that, but, please! "What Would Linux Do?"
More like "what would someone with some sense do?"
I have to say E is one of the best pieces of software for X that I have ever put my hands on. And, if you look at the current stable release (0.15.5, which is pretty stable imo), you'll see the way E has to go yet, and the potencial it has. That's why I think all this Redhat thing about Linux becoming a better Windows is kind of wrong. On one hand, it brings users to Linux, that's right. But I think this takes creativity away, also. What do I care about a better Windows? I don't want Windows, I want something cool, something new. Not a good implementation of old ideas but the implementation of new, better ideas.
:)
I think E has that, and I think it detached from the Gnome project at the right time. I don't think Gnome is that much enlightened and maybe one of the reasons for that is that it's being funded by Redhat.
An enlightened desktop... now that's a cool thought. Maybe the biggest problem they had with Raster at Redhat was because of them not being able to stop him having cool (maybe weird?) ideas. I guess I can live with that...
Nothing personal against Redhat. I just use Debian because for me it's the best.
As to the dektops, the usual way is having both gnome-libs and kde-libs installed, and letting E run the show.
David
I thing the FSF deserves credit for what it has been doing, but I think the issue here is not about "who" but rather about "what".
The issue here is Freedom.
So, I'd propose something like "GNU-inspired" (I don't now if this will sound the way I want it to, as english is not my native language) or "Running Free Software" or something like that, to emphasize what it seems to me that RMS is being after all about: Freedom.
(in rather closed-minded ways, if I might add)
Pegasus is the one to get. At tucows. :)
Otherwise, for Linux, Mutt is da mua!
Just look at the size of Windows. Just look at what happened to mozilla. Just look at some of the causes jwz pointed to explain that failure. Who is going to go through the code and try to make sense of it. Just look at all the cruft that's been layered through the years. Will it really matter?
I don't understand why is there all this thing about Microsoft. I think the main step was taken by Netscape. Microsoft will be just another one entering the boat (If they will really do it). So I think there shouldn't even have been any letter. Let them go their way, and we will go ours. If they want to do something good, let them contribute to WINE.