Well, if you're going to be burning to a CD anyway (audio CD I assume... you didn't say though) then leave out the WAV->MP3 step and just burn the WAVs onto CD to keep the quality up. About ripping from vinyl to WAV, though, I have no idea:)
For an extra $15 you can get a NAT firewall from Linksys. It does PPOE, NAT, portmapping, DHCP, et al. It has no fans, so it is completely silent. Check it out here.
Yeah, but that's a broadband router, and I'm still on dialup (the bandwidth gods haven't blessed my apartment yet... *sigh*)
So the Dreamcast comes with a modem, right? And you can add an Ethernet card of some sort? I was just told that you can't you them both at the same time, but what about when you run it under Linux/NetBSD? If it's possible, I'm thinking of buying one and using it to replace my dialup/NAT box so I can turn off my loud-ass PCs at night and just leave the Dreamcast on. Is this possible? Any pointers on how to do it?
I don't know who fucked up the shortcuts, but I must use alt-d over 100 times a day in IE, the shortcut that brings you to the address bar. I had a (not too investigative) look at the Mozilla help, and couldn't find any info on shortcuts
Ctrl-L (for Location) is the keystroke you're looking for.
* A way to delete the contents of the URL bar without destroying the contents of my clipboard. Right now, I copy a URL from somewhere else, then click in the URL bar and hit delete, just to have the contents of the URL bar copied to my clipboard.
That would be nice, but Moz (and NS4) let you simply middle-click on the HTML display area and it'll go to the URL in your clipboard. Nice timesaver, except when your mouse spazzes and you end up hitting a link instead of empty space and pop up a new window instead:P
I agree 100% with your other points... those are pretty much my main gripes too. About the $EDITOR thing, yes! Every place I *ever* have to enter text should understand vi keys if I want it that way. I already have tcsh and every decently configurable program I run using vi keys, there's no reason Mozilla and all GTK/Qt apps shouldn't be able to as well:P
Oh well, the situation is better than it is on Windows; my vi-trained fingers have a tendancy to hit escape after typing a bunch of text, and in IE this resets the text area to the default value. Quite irritating.
He probably knows _exactly_ how they determine the maximum bridge load. He just enjoys abusing his parental authority.
Then again, Calvin isn't exactly the most attentive audience when it comes to listening to explanations. Like when he asks his dad what causes wind, and his dad answers "Trees sneezing." Calvin asks, "Really?" and his dad says, "No, but the truth is a lot more complicated." Then next panel shows Calvin saying to Hobbes, "Boy, the trees are really sneezing today."
That's funny, because I get paid to develop an app for Linux and Windows which uses Qt 3.0. AFAIK Trolltech hasn't released a free version of 3.0 for Windows yet (although they should soon), but the commercial Windows version was released at the same time the X11 version was.
This is more of a reply to various comments about non-X systems and how they would have to reimplement every device driver. However, with XFree86 4 all device drivers are modular with a very well-defined API - what's to stop an X replacement from simply reimplementing X's driver loader and then using XFree86's drivers in the first place?
Of course, this still ignores the fact that there's nothing inherently wrong with X anyway:) But I'm just curious.
Does WINE allow the installer (some Windows installers can be *quite* obnoxious) to run and copy stuff into directories on the Linux system? I've never actually tried WINE before, and I don't know how it works.
Yes, but they don't always work:) Wine allows you to specify a path (like/usr/windows, for example) which it will use as the C: drive, and Windows apps running under WINE see it as a normal drive. They don't care what sort of filesystem it actually is, as long as WINE provides the correct Win32 calls to read/write the filesystem. So you end up having stuff like/usr/windows/system32.
But that's not the point. We shouldn't have to do this. There is no reason why our government should be that involved with our lives. They do this in the name of terriosm. How many of the packets that are traveling across at any giver moment, are from Osama Bin Laden or any other terriost? So little it's almost insane to try and detect. And surely this technolgy will get abused.
Anyway the government should be working around us. After all we put them there.
You're quite correct. However, the fact that I have, at my disposal, extremely strong encryption makes me not worry so much about this. If I have something I don't want people to read (whether it be the government or anybody else), I encrypt it.
So what? People have had the ability to listen in on network communications since the dawn of time (well, the dawn of networking, anyway:) If you have to transmit any sensitive or private information, encrypt it! Maybe this will finally get people to get off their asses and start using PGP/GPG like they should anyway.
No it's certainly not - it is a complete application toolkit. The GUI portion is just a part of it (granted, it's a rather large part). It also provides beautiful asynchronous socket support, database connectivity, better-than-STL STL-like functionality (linked lists, hashes, and so on), settings management (uses the registry on windows, dotfiles on Unix), internationalization, threading functionality, process control, an XML parser, really good file I/O routines, printer support, and more. And all of it works perfectly, on any platform that Qt supports. Name me ONE other toolkit that even comes close to this.
I'm a professional developer and I use Qt, and like the previous poster said, it's worth every penny.
I agree that Qt is quite well put-together, but after working with it for a little while (I'm mostly a GTK/PyGTK fan) I've found it has an annoying flaw that really prevents me from using it effectively: its memory-management system is restrictive, and it only works in C++.
True, it only works in C++, but then again that's what the language was designed for, and using it in another language isn't how it was intended to be used. That said, its memory management is very nice... you don't have to delete stuff yourself! How is that bad? If you create a dialog box with lots of widgets, do you really want to have to delete each and every widget, or would you rather just be able to delete the dialog itself and have it automatically take care of deleting its children?
Granted, in some limited situations it would be nice to be able to turn this off, but for the most part it's very nice.
I've got a biggish Win32 program and wonder about moving it to Qt. How big an effort?
Qt is quite a bit different from MFC, and I think porting would be more effort than simply rewriting it in Qt.
Any performance hits / gotchas?
Not really... don't pay any attention to the AC trolls who bitch and moan about moc (Qt's preprocessor)... it lets you do some really neat stuff that you simply can't do with normal callbacks. As for performance, I haven't noticed any speed hits using Qt as opposed to MFC.
Any features that we'll lose?
Nope. Anything that Qt doesn't support is EXTREMELY easy to add yourself... Qt is designed in such a way that subclassing a widget to add new features is a breeze, so you can make any widget do anything you want.
Qt also provides tons of utility classes, which make it simple to do stuff like asynchronous socket/file i/o and so on. It rocks.
Want to stop being dependent on MS before they collapse!
Dude, did you read my comment? *I* prefer C. But Qt's API is so far above and beyond GTK's that, in my opinion, using GTK is just silly. The API makes my head hurt.
Anyway, I wasn't trying to start a flamewar, just pointing out my opinion.
I just have to point out that Qt really is the most excellent toolkit I've ever used, for any platform (and the fact that it runs on all major platforms is a huge bonus). It's sanely designed and it really is a pleasure to use. I'm not a big fan of C++, generally preferring C for most stuff, but Qt makes using C++ more than worth it.
I just can't comprehend why anybody uses GTK these days:)
If you're running it on a laptop, you'll want YDL, because version 2.1 now provides full sound and power management support for the full line, including the newer iBooks.
Well, I used to run LinuxPPC on here, which had pretty shitty hardware support out of the box, so I know what needs to be done to get everything working on this thing. After a kernel recompile, I have everything working (sound, ethernet, modem, power management, IR, PCMCIA, etc...)
Also, Mandrake PPC is fairly immature and has a few bugs, particularly in the installer.
Yeah, it screwed this thing up and I had to fully reinstall MacOS and Linux. I never did get it to boot into Linux from the installer, I had to manually set up BootX from the MacOS side.
But on a desktop machine, Mandrake might be more desirable because it has better config/admin tools, and if you use GNOME, you have to visit Ximian to get 1.4 for YDL.
I run Mandrake 8 on my Powerbook (G3 Wallstreet second edition), and I'm quite impressed with it. There are *very* few differences between it and the x86 edition. I used to run LinuxPPC on it, but it seemed to be a very halfassed recompiled version of RedHat. How does Yellowdog compare? Also, does anybody know the state of the FreeBSD port? I'd really like to run it on there, since it's my favorite x86 OS...
What does Qt do? It uses fake transparency and doesn't use much of the native support for displaying widgets. Only a fragment on the powerful Mac Display API is used AFAIK.
This means that Qt is far slower on Mac than it could have been.
Qt doesn't use native widgets on any platform. This allows developers to subclass widgets and change the way they're displayed in a platform-independant way. This is a good thing.
I haven't tried Qt on OS X, but the performance is good on X11 and Win32, where it uses the same techniques. There's nothing inherently slow about drawing widgets yourself instead of using the operating system's native libraries.
In order for you to make your Qt application cross platform (linux/win32), it's gonna Cost ($$$) you an arm and a leg in license fee's for the Win32 version of Qt, which, by the way is NOT FREE.
Ahh, but it is. Qt/Win32 is now licensed similarly to the X11 version - free for open source stuff, expensive for commercial stuff.
I'm sorry but I have a huge problem with running KDE when there's a dependency on proprietary software.
It's GPL'ed. Is that not open enough for you?
It's dual-licensed - GPL so it can be used with free software, or if you want to use it in a closed-source commercial app, pay TrollTech some money. I think this is a great licensing scheme, as it keeps the source open for people who agree to the GPL's terms while still allowing TrollTech to pay developers to keep developing it full-time. If they weren't making money off of it, I don't think it would be the amazing toolkit that it is today.
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Well, if you're going to be burning to a CD anyway (audio CD I assume... you didn't say though) then leave out the WAV->MP3 step and just burn the WAVs onto CD to keep the quality up. About ripping from vinyl to WAV, though, I have no idea :)
For an extra $15 you can get a NAT firewall from Linksys. It does PPOE, NAT, portmapping, DHCP, et al. It has no fans, so it is completely silent. Check it out here.
Yeah, but that's a broadband router, and I'm still on dialup (the bandwidth gods haven't blessed my apartment yet... *sigh*)
So the Dreamcast comes with a modem, right? And you can add an Ethernet card of some sort? I was just told that you can't you them both at the same time, but what about when you run it under Linux/NetBSD? If it's possible, I'm thinking of buying one and using it to replace my dialup/NAT box so I can turn off my loud-ass PCs at night and just leave the Dreamcast on. Is this possible? Any pointers on how to do it?
I don't know who fucked up the shortcuts, but I must use alt-d over 100 times a day in IE, the shortcut that brings you to the address bar. I had a (not too investigative) look at the Mozilla help, and couldn't find any info on shortcuts
Ctrl-L (for Location) is the keystroke you're looking for.
* A way to delete the contents of the URL bar without destroying the contents of my clipboard. Right now, I copy a URL from somewhere else, then click in the URL bar and hit delete, just to have the contents of the URL bar copied to my clipboard.
:P
:P
That would be nice, but Moz (and NS4) let you simply middle-click on the HTML display area and it'll go to the URL in your clipboard. Nice timesaver, except when your mouse spazzes and you end up hitting a link instead of empty space and pop up a new window instead
I agree 100% with your other points... those are pretty much my main gripes too. About the $EDITOR thing, yes! Every place I *ever* have to enter text should understand vi keys if I want it that way. I already have tcsh and every decently configurable program I run using vi keys, there's no reason Mozilla and all GTK/Qt apps shouldn't be able to as well
Oh well, the situation is better than it is on Windows; my vi-trained fingers have a tendancy to hit escape after typing a bunch of text, and in IE this resets the text area to the default value. Quite irritating.
He probably knows _exactly_ how they determine the maximum bridge load. He just enjoys abusing his parental authority.
Then again, Calvin isn't exactly the most attentive audience when it comes to listening to explanations. Like when he asks his dad what causes wind, and his dad answers "Trees sneezing." Calvin asks, "Really?" and his dad says, "No, but the truth is a lot more complicated." Then next panel shows Calvin saying to Hobbes, "Boy, the trees are really sneezing today."
Uhhh, Qt is still at version 2.3.0 for Windows.
That's funny, because I get paid to develop an app for Linux and Windows which uses Qt 3.0. AFAIK Trolltech hasn't released a free version of 3.0 for Windows yet (although they should soon), but the commercial Windows version was released at the same time the X11 version was.
RMS is against the KDE project because it is based on Qt which is not a GPL application.
Yes it is.
This is more of a reply to various comments about non-X systems and how they would have to reimplement every device driver. However, with XFree86 4 all device drivers are modular with a very well-defined API - what's to stop an X replacement from simply reimplementing X's driver loader and then using XFree86's drivers in the first place?
:) But I'm just curious.
Of course, this still ignores the fact that there's nothing inherently wrong with X anyway
Does WINE allow the installer (some Windows installers can be *quite* obnoxious) to run and copy stuff into directories on the Linux system? I've never actually tried WINE before, and I don't know how it works.
:) Wine allows you to specify a path (like /usr/windows, for example) which it will use as the C: drive, and Windows apps running under WINE see it as a normal drive. They don't care what sort of filesystem it actually is, as long as WINE provides the correct Win32 calls to read/write the filesystem. So you end up having stuff like /usr/windows/system32.
Yes, but they don't always work
But that's not the point. We shouldn't have to do this. There is no reason why our government should be that involved with our lives. They do this in the name of terriosm. How many of the packets that are traveling across at any giver moment, are from Osama Bin Laden or any other terriost? So little it's almost insane to try and detect. And surely this technolgy will get abused.
Anyway the government should be working around us. After all we put them there.
You're quite correct. However, the fact that I have, at my disposal, extremely strong encryption makes me not worry so much about this. If I have something I don't want people to read (whether it be the government or anybody else), I encrypt it.
didn't you write powershell?
:)
Yep. Haven't updated it in a year and a half, though... I just can't deal with GTK+ anymore
So what? People have had the ability to listen in on network communications since the dawn of time (well, the dawn of networking, anyway :) If you have to transmit any sensitive or private information, encrypt it! Maybe this will finally get people to get off their asses and start using PGP/GPG like they should anyway.
Seriously it is ONLY a GUI toolkit.
No it's certainly not - it is a complete application toolkit. The GUI portion is just a part of it (granted, it's a rather large part). It also provides beautiful asynchronous socket support, database connectivity, better-than-STL STL-like functionality (linked lists, hashes, and so on), settings management (uses the registry on windows, dotfiles on Unix), internationalization, threading functionality, process control, an XML parser, really good file I/O routines, printer support, and more. And all of it works perfectly, on any platform that Qt supports. Name me ONE other toolkit that even comes close to this.
I'm a professional developer and I use Qt, and like the previous poster said, it's worth every penny.
I agree that Qt is quite well put-together, but after working with it for a little while (I'm mostly a GTK/PyGTK fan) I've found it has an annoying flaw that really prevents me from using it effectively: its memory-management system is restrictive, and it only works in C++.
True, it only works in C++, but then again that's what the language was designed for, and using it in another language isn't how it was intended to be used. That said, its memory management is very nice... you don't have to delete stuff yourself! How is that bad? If you create a dialog box with lots of widgets, do you really want to have to delete each and every widget, or would you rather just be able to delete the dialog itself and have it automatically take care of deleting its children?
Granted, in some limited situations it would be nice to be able to turn this off, but for the most part it's very nice.
I've got a biggish Win32 program and wonder about moving it to Qt. How big an effort?
:)
Qt is quite a bit different from MFC, and I think porting would be more effort than simply rewriting it in Qt.
Any performance hits / gotchas?
Not really... don't pay any attention to the AC trolls who bitch and moan about moc (Qt's preprocessor)... it lets you do some really neat stuff that you simply can't do with normal callbacks. As for performance, I haven't noticed any speed hits using Qt as opposed to MFC.
Any features that we'll lose?
Nope. Anything that Qt doesn't support is EXTREMELY easy to add yourself... Qt is designed in such a way that subclassing a widget to add new features is a breeze, so you can make any widget do anything you want.
Qt also provides tons of utility classes, which make it simple to do stuff like asynchronous socket/file i/o and so on. It rocks.
Want to stop being dependent on MS before they collapse!
Heheh. Good plan
Could it be that some people actually prefer C?
Dude, did you read my comment? *I* prefer C. But Qt's API is so far above and beyond GTK's that, in my opinion, using GTK is just silly. The API makes my head hurt.
Anyway, I wasn't trying to start a flamewar, just pointing out my opinion.
I just have to point out that Qt really is the most excellent toolkit I've ever used, for any platform (and the fact that it runs on all major platforms is a huge bonus). It's sanely designed and it really is a pleasure to use. I'm not a big fan of C++, generally preferring C for most stuff, but Qt makes using C++ more than worth it.
:)
I just can't comprehend why anybody uses GTK these days
If you're running it on a laptop, you'll want YDL, because version 2.1 now provides full sound and power management support for the full line, including the newer iBooks.
:P KDE, baby :)
Well, I used to run LinuxPPC on here, which had pretty shitty hardware support out of the box, so I know what needs to be done to get everything working on this thing. After a kernel recompile, I have everything working (sound, ethernet, modem, power management, IR, PCMCIA, etc...)
Also, Mandrake PPC is fairly immature and has a few bugs, particularly in the installer.
Yeah, it screwed this thing up and I had to fully reinstall MacOS and Linux. I never did get it to boot into Linux from the installer, I had to manually set up BootX from the MacOS side.
But on a desktop machine, Mandrake might be more desirable because it has better config/admin tools, and if you use GNOME, you have to visit Ximian to get 1.4 for YDL.
Ack, Gnome
I run Mandrake 8 on my Powerbook (G3 Wallstreet second edition), and I'm quite impressed with it. There are *very* few differences between it and the x86 edition. I used to run LinuxPPC on it, but it seemed to be a very halfassed recompiled version of RedHat. How does Yellowdog compare? Also, does anybody know the state of the FreeBSD port? I'd really like to run it on there, since it's my favorite x86 OS...
What does Qt do? It uses fake transparency and doesn't use much of the native support for displaying widgets. Only a fragment on the powerful Mac Display API is used AFAIK. This means that Qt is far slower on Mac than it could have been.
Qt doesn't use native widgets on any platform. This allows developers to subclass widgets and change the way they're displayed in a platform-independant way. This is a good thing.
I haven't tried Qt on OS X, but the performance is good on X11 and Win32, where it uses the same techniques. There's nothing inherently slow about drawing widgets yourself instead of using the operating system's native libraries.
It is only Qt 2.3 [ QtWin230NonCommercial.exe ] I could not find Qt 3.0 free version for Windows, and they dont say anything about it.
Ah. You're right. I stand corrected.
Well, Qt 3's only been out for a few hours now, maybe they'll get a free 'doze version out at some point.
Then I realised its only free on X, you got to pay around 1500$ to get it on other platforms even if you want to write/ditribute a freeware app.
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No, dude. It's free for open source software on Win32 as well:
http://www.trolltech.com/developer/download/qt-wi
In order for you to make your Qt application cross platform (linux/win32), it's gonna Cost ($$$) you an arm and a leg in license fee's for the Win32 version of Qt, which, by the way is NOT FREE.
Ahh, but it is. Qt/Win32 is now licensed similarly to the X11 version - free for open source stuff, expensive for commercial stuff.
I'm sorry but I have a huge problem with running KDE when there's a dependency on proprietary software.
It's GPL'ed. Is that not open enough for you?
It's dual-licensed - GPL so it can be used with free software, or if you want to use it in a closed-source commercial app, pay TrollTech some money. I think this is a great licensing scheme, as it keeps the source open for people who agree to the GPL's terms while still allowing TrollTech to pay developers to keep developing it full-time. If they weren't making money off of it, I don't think it would be the amazing toolkit that it is today.