Have a look here: http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=101169 This is a very interesting discussion I am currently having with indie film makers, on how to use the internet and video sharing sites to produce web TV series and make money out of the whole deal.
There ARE people out there who are FORCED to use WEP because they use it with older devices that don't support anything else. It would be very expensive replacing all these specific/mobile devices just so they can use a new encryption.
I don't like this at all. My eyes hurt with fluorescent bulbs. They give me a headache. I prefer the more natural look and less-flickering of the current bulbs. Unless they fix the fluorescent bulbs to not be so intrusive, I don't like this.
I never have unanswered emails (usually I receive between 50 and 80 daily). I take care all of them. I keep the stuff I need to act upon further on my main Inbox, and I move everything that's already been replied on my Archive-Inbox folder. I delete all spam emails on the spot, I archive all legitimate. My main inbox folder (that I need to further act upon) usually doesn't have more than 3-10 emails.
The Nokia N91 has been one of the most highly anticipated music phones. It was one of the phones touted to be an iPod killer, as it has a 4GB hard drive similar to the now defunct iPod Mini. After being delayed for some time now, the N91 is finally here, and Mobile Burn managed to get hold of one for a test drive. The Nokia N91 runs on Symbian OS v9.1 and, like the previously reviewed N71, it also features the much improved 3rd edition of the S60 user interface.
If you read the whole discussion on slashdot, no one really got it. And now that I do know what it is about, it feels even more pointless than it was before.
>Get root access via su or sudo and then launch the file manager as root, problem solved!
This is exactly what I am trying to AVOID. The user should NOT have to open a terminal to sudo. There are many instances (about 95%), where the user is also the sole user or admin of the machine. Why have him/her open a terminal to sudo when this should be done easily via the file manager. If sudo exists, then the file manager should endorse it too and integrate it. THAT'S usability my friend.
>Then buy a Mac!
I have two, thank you. But I also have two laptops where I run Linux too. And I need them to be more usable. Instead of preaching against like a 70 year old Unix guru, you should be supporting further developments for usability on Linux dekstops.
But there's a back story. When considering the overall picture with Gnome and Linux, including Red Hat's own commercial products, it hurts me seeing such an off topic (and badly explained) project being worked on, while there is so much they could do with their core products. I mean, sure, it's nice to have Red Hat Labs where people can code whatever they want on their 20% of the time (just like Google does), OR, have a special team that works on the science projects (like MS does), or don't developer anything outside the company's focus (just like Apple does). But I have never seen a company creating a labs team by removing them from their main core product that they already had obligations on and putting them working on something that is borderline incoherant and unfocused.
>Actually, Apple's Finder doesn't ask for the root pw. It operates much like sudo.
Who cares what they use?? The point is, IT WORKS for the USER. The user is the No1 entity that needs caring when creating a desktop OS. And if it's risky to shoot a dialog for the root password, well, make the necessary changes to be as secure as it can be.
>The changes on Gnome the past year are only *superficial*.
I will give you NetworkManager (mostly developed by RH) and g-v-m (developed by Novell). Other than that, same old, same old in the Gnome land. I say, come back to the Red Hat Desktop Team and make the team develop things as they used to in 2001: full force. That's what we, Gnome users, have missed the past few years.
And then, you come out after MONTHS in secluding offices, and you talk to us about Mugshot, and media sharing and working with the crappiest site of all, myspace. F*ck that. Darn it, it really makes me so angry. Angry because I BELIEVED IN YOU. >:(
>Mugshot is not intended to be a "social networking" site in the myspace sense.
WHAT is it intended to be then??? Because your web site says absolutely nothing about it! It just doesn't spell out, or gives examples, or mockups of what it does. 99% of the people who have commented on Mugshot don't get it. That's your error, as manager of this project.
>I spend my time and energy on whatever I consider valuable...
That's like saying that Alexander the Great has decided to stop inventing other countries and will focus on scuba diving from now on. Good for you, but useless for the rest of us who expect more from the Linux desktop and have associated you with it. And possibly financially-problematic for Red Hat too, and let's not forget that RH is a public company...
>there's a Red Hat desktop team still working hard on desktop stuff.
Oh really? And then why they have done pretty much ZERO desktop advancements in Gnome in the last 1-2 years?? The changes on Gnome the past year are only *superficial*. The juicy stuff, like a full Bluetooth front-end, doesn't even exist in the drawing board yet.
>Why on earth should Linux or Gnome ask you for the root password to copy or delete files from a user's home directory???
I did not say about a USER's home directory. I said OUT of a user's directory. For example, when I try to copy a file on to/usr/share/app/ I want the file manager to ask me for a root password so the file operation goes through!
>Linux is inherently a multi-user system and not everybody has access to the root password on systems where they have user accounts.
Oh, really? We didn't know!!:P:P
Look pal, if someone doesn't know the root password, he simply clicks "Cancel" on the dialog. But if you do know the root password, the application should provide you with that dialog and let you do the operation without having to open a terminal to do so, or open another Nautilus window as root. Apple's Finder asks for the password dialog and it's really, really, REALLY convenient. And no, there are no security problems with it.
I don't see why I can't have Qt 2.x.x native apps too. Zaurus had native apps and was based on the same version of Qt. The problem is not SXE or anything like that. The problem is that Motorola hasn't released their EZX SDK.
I downloaded the source code for the A1200 and e680/a780. There IS NO WAY you can create a native graphical application with the tarballs they offer. Whoever submitted the news on Slashdot is an idiot and he didn't try the tarballs. The modified Qt/EZX toolkit is NOT included in these tarballs.
In other words, Motorola gave us NOTHING more than they didn't before. They just released a fancy web site about it. And we, Linux phone users, STILL CAN NOT create graphical native apps!
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You have a few things messed up. The rumors was for a purchase of Palm, not PalmSource/Access (which this news item is about). These are two completely different companies now.
PalmSource also open sourced today their Binder technology, now called OpenBinder. This futuristic architecture technology is described by engineer Dianne Hackborn in her interview.
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This will be based on Symbian's S60 4.0 new version btw, not Linux. It's just the evolution of their S60 smartphone platform.
Have a look here:
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=101169
This is a very interesting discussion I am currently having with indie film makers, on how to use the internet and video sharing sites to produce web TV series and make money out of the whole deal.
Well said.
Exactly. And then there are lots of PDAs and similar devices that don't have upgradable WIFI cards. Unfortunately, WEP won't go away so fast.
There ARE people out there who are FORCED to use WEP because they use it with older devices that don't support anything else. It would be very expensive replacing all these specific/mobile devices just so they can use a new encryption.
I don't like this at all. My eyes hurt with fluorescent bulbs. They give me a headache. I prefer the more natural look and less-flickering of the current bulbs. Unless they fix the fluorescent bulbs to not be so intrusive, I don't like this.
I have lots of free time. :D
I never have unanswered emails (usually I receive between 50 and 80 daily). I take care all of them. I keep the stuff I need to act upon further on my main Inbox, and I move everything that's already been replied on my Archive-Inbox folder. I delete all spam emails on the spot, I archive all legitimate. My main inbox folder (that I need to further act upon) usually doesn't have more than 3-10 emails.
The Nokia N91 has been one of the most highly anticipated music phones. It was one of the phones touted to be an iPod killer, as it has a 4GB hard drive similar to the now defunct iPod Mini. After being delayed for some time now, the N91 is finally here, and Mobile Burn managed to get hold of one for a test drive. The Nokia N91 runs on Symbian OS v9.1 and, like the previously reviewed N71, it also features the much improved 3rd edition of the S60 user interface.
I agree. Damon is too old to play a 20-year old guy. Other than that, I have no problem whatsoever for Damon to play Kirk.
And you think I haven't?
If you read the whole discussion on slashdot, no one really got it. And now that I do know what it is about, it feels even more pointless than it was before.
>Get root access via su or sudo and then launch the file manager as root, problem solved!
This is exactly what I am trying to AVOID. The user should NOT have to open a terminal to sudo. There are many instances (about 95%), where the user is also the sole user or admin of the machine. Why have him/her open a terminal to sudo when this should be done easily via the file manager. If sudo exists, then the file manager should endorse it too and integrate it. THAT'S usability my friend.
>Then buy a Mac!
I have two, thank you. But I also have two laptops where I run Linux too. And I need them to be more usable. Instead of preaching against like a 70 year old Unix guru, you should be supporting further developments for usability on Linux dekstops.
From that point of view, you are right Jamin.
But there's a back story. When considering the overall picture with Gnome and Linux, including Red Hat's own commercial products, it hurts me seeing such an off topic (and badly explained) project being worked on, while there is so much they could do with their core products. I mean, sure, it's nice to have Red Hat Labs where people can code whatever they want on their 20% of the time (just like Google does), OR, have a special team that works on the science projects (like MS does), or don't developer anything outside the company's focus (just like Apple does). But I have never seen a company creating a labs team by removing them from their main core product that they already had obligations on and putting them working on something that is borderline incoherant and unfocused.
>Your right, you can work on anything you find value in.
I am happy for him too. But not happy for Red Hat's main products.
>Actually, Apple's Finder doesn't ask for the root pw. It operates much like sudo.
Who cares what they use?? The point is, IT WORKS for the USER. The user is the No1 entity that needs caring when creating a desktop OS. And if it's risky to shoot a dialog for the root password, well, make the necessary changes to be as secure as it can be.
>The changes on Gnome the past year are only *superficial*.
I will give you NetworkManager (mostly developed by RH) and g-v-m (developed by Novell). Other than that, same old, same old in the Gnome land. I say, come back to the Red Hat Desktop Team and make the team develop things as they used to in 2001: full force. That's what we, Gnome users, have missed the past few years.
And then, you come out after MONTHS in secluding offices, and you talk to us about Mugshot, and media sharing and working with the crappiest site of all, myspace. F*ck that. Darn it, it really makes me so angry. Angry because I BELIEVED IN YOU. >:(
s/inventing/invading
>Mugshot is not intended to be a "social networking" site in the myspace sense.
WHAT is it intended to be then??? Because your web site says absolutely nothing about it! It just doesn't spell out, or gives examples, or mockups of what it does. 99% of the people who have commented on Mugshot don't get it. That's your error, as manager of this project.
>I spend my time and energy on whatever I consider valuable...
That's like saying that Alexander the Great has decided to stop inventing other countries and will focus on scuba diving from now on. Good for you, but useless for the rest of us who expect more from the Linux desktop and have associated you with it. And possibly financially-problematic for Red Hat too, and let's not forget that RH is a public company...
>there's a Red Hat desktop team still working hard on desktop stuff.
Oh really? And then why they have done pretty much ZERO desktop advancements in Gnome in the last 1-2 years?? The changes on Gnome the past year are only *superficial*. The juicy stuff, like a full Bluetooth front-end, doesn't even exist in the drawing board yet.
[got my passwd back, I am now logged in]
/usr/share/app/ I want the file manager to ask me for a root password so the file operation goes through!
:P :P
LEARN TO READ, before you reply.
>Why on earth should Linux or Gnome ask you for the root password to copy or delete files from a user's home directory???
I did not say about a USER's home directory. I said OUT of a user's directory. For example, when I try to copy a file on to
>Linux is inherently a multi-user system and not everybody has access to the root password on systems where they have user accounts.
Oh, really? We didn't know!!
Look pal, if someone doesn't know the root password, he simply clicks "Cancel" on the dialog. But if you do know the root password, the application should provide you with that dialog and let you do the operation without having to open a terminal to do so, or open another Nautilus window as root. Apple's Finder asks for the password dialog and it's really, really, REALLY convenient. And no, there are no security problems with it.
I don't see why I can't have Qt 2.x.x native apps too. Zaurus had native apps and was based on the same version of Qt. The problem is not SXE or anything like that. The problem is that Motorola hasn't released their EZX SDK.
I downloaded the source code for the A1200 and e680/a780. There IS NO WAY you can create a native graphical application with the tarballs they offer. Whoever submitted the news on Slashdot is an idiot and he didn't try the tarballs. The modified Qt/EZX toolkit is NOT included in these tarballs.
In other words, Motorola gave us NOTHING more than they didn't before. They just released a fancy web site about it. And we, Linux phone users, STILL CAN NOT create graphical native apps!
Thom at OSNews also posted his opinion on an editorial published yesterday:
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=14282
You have a few things messed up. The rumors was for a purchase of Palm, not PalmSource/Access (which this news item is about). These are two completely different companies now.
PalmSource also open sourced today their Binder technology, now called OpenBinder. This futuristic architecture technology is described by engineer Dianne Hackborn in her interview.