I don't know or care whether it's fixed or not in RH 7.3. The bug was discovered before the first 7.2 beta went out, and was open during all the 7.2 product life till now.
In fact, they chose to update KDE once, in this advisory, but they left the bug open. Furthermore, there was a new unofficial qt release here, in sync with the KDE 2.2.2 release, but the bug was not fixed.
So, please, make Red Hat accountable for this and stop trying to imply that the user is the only one to blame by saying that an upgrade is the only solution.
Ok folks, no one thinks why people left Red Hat. I remember Red Hat fondly; they were my first distro back in May 2000 when I bought a copy of Red Hat 6.2 Deluxe Workstation and had it shipped to my country. The distro was more than good, and I subsequently upgraded to 7.1 and 7.2 (yes, I skipped 7.0).
However, there were some problems that became increasingly annoying. First of them is the increasing bloat; a standard RH install is now around 2 GB, while a standard MDK install with the same packages occupies much less space. I understand the need of disk space if it is justified, but I don't understand this useless bloat. The software is also slow, and a Mandrake installation is certainly more responsive than Red Hat.
But what really pushed me to leave Red Hat behind is their treatment of KDE. They treated KDE as a second-class project, and KDE users as pariahs. Heck, they got a distro-specific bug in qt, report available here,
that completely disables deadkeys --an essential feature for writing most Western European languages. With this bug one simply can't use Red Hat to write Spanish, or Portuguese, or Italian, or French, and use KDE. Notice the date; the bug was opened in the pre-7.2 RawHide days and it is still open as of today.
No wonder they said that they were dissappointed by the use of Linux at the desktop. With glaring bugs like this and the comtempt they show to desktop users by the very existence of such bugs, is no wonder they managed to drive many thousands of people away from the Linux desktop. Now, they want to be a force in schools. Great, until the French lesson arrives. Talk about shooting yourself in your foot
Red Hat: instead of offering this not very bright kind of measures, start listening to your users and get a clue.
There is a version of Speak Freely for Unix/Linux
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It's available here. It's command line only but it supports all the protocols and encryption of the Windows version. Enclosed in the package are two Tcl/Tk frontends. Additionally, there's this GTK front end for it.
Flash sucks because of so many things that have already been said here, but also because it forces you to download and execute a binary file whose content is not available to you and whose behavior you can't control.
Too many times I have been stuck with an really annoying Flash ad, all glitzy and noisy, only to be greeted with an "About Macromedia Flash 5..." and nothing else, when I right-clicked on it trying to stop that suckage somehow..
Any program that does not let you disable the sound or takes away the control of your own computer is a trojan, a security risk, and an annoyance. And keeping the file format binary only makes it worse.
GNAT, a gcc-based ISO compliant Ada95 compiler is the foremost example of collaboration between Free Software and the military.
The Computer Science Department of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University received a contract from the Ada 9X Project Office, under the direction of Ms Christine M. Anderson, to develop a GNU/Ada system. The work was co-sponsored by ARPA and the Ada Joint Program Office.
GNAT has been validated on many platforms, by Ada Core Technologies (ACT), a company devoted to supporting users of this compiler.
Besides that, if you use Windows, you can use a free IDE, AdaGIDE, developed at the Department of Computer Science of the USAF Academy. The IDE is of course free software put under the terms of the GPL.
Bero, have you tried to use that solution in an US-Intl? Have you documented the appropriate workaround, (if any, because there aren't any for my layout)?
The fact remains: Red Hat is denying its users the capability of writing their own languages.
bero: what about people who need German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian and the like in KDE?? Why don't you put a qt-ja package for Japanese users and the normal and functional qt for the rest of the civilized world???
I really admire you and your efforts. You are singlehandedly pushing KDE in Red Hat (and making a sizable contribution to RH's bottom line since many people use RH with KDE) but your loneliness in supporting KDE speaks volumes about RH's attitude, not to mention issues such as this, which relinquishes all European languages other than English in favor of Japanese. This is plain foolishness.
I think this is *not* bullshit. Bero does what he can, but for a big example of RH's attitude problem towards can be seen in this bug report, which renders all non-us keyboard layouts unusable in KDE. The bug was present in the initial RH 7.2 release and it is still open, even after the upgrade to qt-2.3.2.
It is very difficult to think that RH does not hate KDE when a simple but annoying bug that renders all your accents and diacriticals unusable is left out in the cold without any hope of fixing.
whether evolution does happen or not. I do not like scientific creationsm, but also a major part of what we call evolution seems like wishful thinking big time.
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Bero, the problem is not with you. The problem is with Red Hat which obviously does not care a bit about KDE and its users. Were that the case, perahps it could assign more resources to you or to someone else in any way, but it would get the RPMs built with no strange dependencies and in absolutely no time.
The optimization disappears when you write another language. English is common, but it is not the only one. Worse yet, there are accents and tildes that further complicates this picture.
Linux is GPL. If Mexico City's government wants to stick with a certain distro, they can buy one set of a Deluxe/Professional set ($70) and a CD-Burner ($200) with a number of blank CD-Rs. That's all. Paying for a distro is not paying for a license!
I second wholeheartedly what you've said here. The Spanish of the article in question is really, really awful. It is a pity that such a widely circulated Mexican newspaper such as this has to suffer this assassination of the Spanish language.
The supposed similarity of human genome to genomes of other animals still fails to explain how the genes emerged from nothing, without creative intervention of an intelligent mind. And much less the genome prove that human genes are in fact derived from other animals.
Resemblance does not equal dependence. Linux did not evolve from Unix, to say an analogy, nor any portion of Unix kernel source code is in Tux's kernel code. Yet, the two are strikingly similar, at least when we see it at work, since it is somewhat difficult to get Unix's source code... (Perhaps Caldera may help?)
The only thing that these debates can prove is that human beings are willing to believe in anything with a full religious fervor. Read Julian Huxley, Carl Sagan, Bertrand Russell, and Stephen Jay Gould, and you'll get the new priesthood of the new faith.
New faith? Yes, because for believing in a thing such as "natural" evolution you need lots of blind, uncommitted, fundamentalist-type faith.
Yeah. It's right. Gamecenter, like all of c|net, has been always a fast load, and I liked very much that fact. Yet, GameSpot had much more content, and has all of it online and always available. For example, GameSpot has the free Game Guides, something that is a sure bet for driving traffic to the site. The bottom line: I hope that GameSpot can add the content of Gamecenter to their own, and (hopefully, but with a grain of salt) take some clues in web design from them.
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Or better optimization and smaller stupidity, something present in great abundance in slashdot trolls :)
I don't know or care whether it's fixed or not in RH 7.3. The bug was discovered before the first 7.2 beta went out, and was open during all the 7.2 product life till now.
In fact, they chose to update KDE once, in this advisory, but they left the bug open. Furthermore, there was a new unofficial qt release here, in sync with the KDE 2.2.2 release, but the bug was not fixed.
So, please, make Red Hat accountable for this and stop trying to imply that the user is the only one to blame by saying that an upgrade is the only solution.
Ok folks, no one thinks why people left Red Hat. I remember Red Hat fondly; they were my first distro back in May 2000 when I bought a copy of Red Hat 6.2 Deluxe Workstation and had it shipped to my country. The distro was more than good, and I subsequently upgraded to 7.1 and 7.2 (yes, I skipped 7.0).
However, there were some problems that became increasingly annoying. First of them is the increasing bloat; a standard RH install is now around 2 GB, while a standard MDK install with the same packages occupies much less space. I understand the need of disk space if it is justified, but I don't understand this useless bloat. The software is also slow, and a Mandrake installation is certainly more responsive than Red Hat.
But what really pushed me to leave Red Hat behind is their treatment of KDE. They treated KDE as a second-class project, and KDE users as pariahs. Heck, they got a distro-specific bug in qt, report available here, that completely disables deadkeys --an essential feature for writing most Western European languages. With this bug one simply can't use Red Hat to write Spanish, or Portuguese, or Italian, or French, and use KDE. Notice the date; the bug was opened in the pre-7.2 RawHide days and it is still open as of today.
No wonder they said that they were dissappointed by the use of Linux at the desktop. With glaring bugs like this and the comtempt they show to desktop users by the very existence of such bugs, is no wonder they managed to drive many thousands of people away from the Linux desktop. Now, they want to be a force in schools. Great, until the French lesson arrives. Talk about shooting yourself in your foot
Red Hat: instead of offering this not very bright kind of measures, start listening to your users and get a clue.
It's available here. It's command line only but it supports all the protocols and encryption of the Windows version. Enclosed in the package are two Tcl/Tk frontends. Additionally, there's this GTK front end for it.
Too many times I have been stuck with an really annoying Flash ad, all glitzy and noisy, only to be greeted with an "About Macromedia Flash 5..." and nothing else, when I right-clicked on it trying to stop that suckage somehow..
Any program that does not let you disable the sound or takes away the control of your own computer is a trojan, a security risk, and an annoyance. And keeping the file format binary only makes it worse.
The quotation was taken from http://www.adahome.com/Resources/Compilers/GNAT.h
You can get GNAT here or check the above webpage for mirrors.
Besides that, if you use Windows, you can use a free IDE, AdaGIDE, developed at the Department of Computer Science of the USAF Academy. The IDE is of course free software put under the terms of the GPL.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these :D
Bero, have you tried to use that solution in an US-Intl? Have you documented the appropriate workaround, (if any, because there aren't any for my layout)?
The fact remains: Red Hat is denying its users the capability of writing their own languages.
I really admire you and your efforts. You are singlehandedly pushing KDE in Red Hat (and making a sizable contribution to RH's bottom line since many people use RH with KDE) but your loneliness in supporting KDE speaks volumes about RH's attitude, not to mention issues such as this, which relinquishes all European languages other than English in favor of Japanese. This is plain foolishness.
It is very difficult to think that RH does not hate KDE when a simple but annoying bug that renders all your accents and diacriticals unusable is left out in the cold without any hope of fixing.
whether evolution does happen or not. I do not like scientific creationsm, but also a major part of what we call evolution seems like wishful thinking big time.
That's all. Red Hat, please get a clue.
The optimization disappears when you write another language. English is common, but it is not the only one. Worse yet, there are accents and tildes that further complicates this picture.
Linux is GPL. If Mexico City's government wants to stick with a certain distro, they can buy one set of a Deluxe/Professional set ($70) and a CD-Burner ($200) with a number of blank CD-Rs. That's all. Paying for a distro is not paying for a license!
I second wholeheartedly what you've said here. The Spanish of the article in question is really, really awful. It is a pity that such a widely circulated Mexican newspaper such as this has to suffer this assassination of the Spanish language.
btw, evolution is not falsifiable, either. Show me an experiment into which you can provide falsification for the process of evolution.
Evolution is just another religious belief.
The supposed similarity of human genome to genomes of other animals still fails to explain how the genes emerged from nothing, without creative intervention of an intelligent mind. And much less the genome prove that human genes are in fact derived from other animals.
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Resemblance does not equal dependence. Linux did not evolve from Unix, to say an analogy, nor any portion of Unix kernel source code is in Tux's kernel code. Yet, the two are strikingly similar, at least when we see it at work, since it is somewhat difficult to get Unix's source code... (Perhaps Caldera may help?)
The only thing that these debates can prove is that human beings are willing to believe in anything with a full religious fervor. Read Julian Huxley, Carl Sagan, Bertrand Russell, and Stephen Jay Gould, and you'll get the new priesthood of the new faith.
New faith? Yes, because for believing in a thing such as "natural" evolution you need lots of blind, uncommitted, fundamentalist-type faith.
Beware of Darwin-bashing fundamentalists!!!
Yeah. It's right. Gamecenter, like all of c|net, has been always a fast load, and I liked very much that fact. Yet, GameSpot had much more content, and has all of it online and always available. For example, GameSpot has the free Game Guides, something that is a sure bet for driving traffic to the site. The bottom line: I hope that GameSpot can add the content of Gamecenter to their own, and (hopefully, but with a grain of salt) take some clues in web design from them.
Next time we will realize that Activision's Battlezone wasn't only a wild, despicable story. Perhaps it may be next year's headlines.