Actually, I had it very,very easy to install Nautilus, or Red Carpet and GNOME using Ximian's installer on my RH6.2. Nothing more than a few mouse clicks and a network conection.
Now, I have tried to install konqueror, and then I really managed to screw up the computer. Tons of rpms to download (I had to search for them, I'm using Rh6.2 mind you). And then, I had tons of dependencies to solve. In the end. I even give up installing java for koqueror, since I don't know if it was not working because of a bad install, or something else.
I really think that Nautilus and Ximian Gnome are easy to install on RedHat.
I mean hell, obviously the guys at slashdot thing highly enough of Bill Hewlett to post about his death, which is a tribute to him in and of itself.
The wroooong part here is that I don't think Slashdot makes a gesture by paying atention to its death. Slashdot should feel obliged to make a gesture, for instance by posting a decent and humble comment about a man for which most of its readers own something.
Maybe HP had more employees than readers than Slashdot readers that will read this article, have you thought about that?
I think there are plenty of reasons to send humans into space. Do you think one can make a robot for anything that a human can do? I can assure you, it would be far more costly to even attempt that instead of sending a human.
Humans are extremely versatile at interpreting data and making decisions based on their interpretations. You can not program a machine to do something that you don't know what's going to be.
And about ISS: yes, it is really useful to science. If not now, it has the potential to be useful to science in ways nothing else can match. Reasons? just look around at all the knowledge acumulated by _human_ space flights until now. You really think everything they can do is done, and we can send machines instead?
>they'll just capitalize on all the R&D that the linux companies have done
Honestly, what kind of R&D are you talking about? Development, maybe. A lot of code is written. But is anything more (i.e., ideas, concepts) in Linux software that was not previously in some Windows, Apple or Unix application?
Can you tell me of a single revolutionary idea introduced by a "Linux"&open-source oriented company? I am open to suggestions. But the main point that the article is missing is that 99% of the open-source _Linux_ apps are implementing some kind of idea from some other software, introduced by some comercial company. And it's often Microsoft who promoted that idea.
"Dot Com Development, Inc", "Method and apparatus for tracking client interaction with a network resource and creating client profiles and resource database".
sounds like something familiar...
I think the abstract of that patent is a real gem. 176 words in the sentence using only 58 different words. And it actuallly wants to say something. Cute.
I find Konqueror to be slow. Much slower than NC 4.76. I use NC to read a lot of local docs in HTML, and I switch a lot between pages with very simple layout. It takes about 1-2 secs more for Konqueror to display a page with just a lot of paragraphs and some intermediate lines. This is just too annoying for me.
I don't know why is that. Maybe because Konqueror tries to draw the page while it's loading and then it has to draw it again at the end? But then why is the pagination (Pgup, pageDown, mouse scrool) also flipping for a fraction of a sec?
No kidding, I think it is both interesting and potentially useful.
I wonder how soon it will be until this kind of work is used for instance in building useful prostheses. People that can not walk any more might have a use for a machine that can do it for them.
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Actually, I had it very,very easy to install Nautilus, or Red Carpet and GNOME using Ximian's installer on my RH6.2. Nothing more than a few mouse clicks and a network conection.
Now, I have tried to install konqueror, and then I really managed to screw up the computer. Tons of rpms to download (I had to search for them, I'm using Rh6.2 mind you). And then, I had tons of dependencies to solve. In the end. I even give up installing java for koqueror, since I don't know if it was not working because of a bad install, or something else.
I really think that Nautilus and Ximian Gnome are easy to install on RedHat.
That's because the guy made a typo. It should have been Aethera instead of Aethra.
I've never seen one in my life.
What about the option of not playing for money? I don't think the kiks pay for the risks on this one.
The wroooong part here is that I don't think Slashdot makes a gesture by paying atention to its death. Slashdot should feel obliged to make a gesture, for instance by posting a decent and humble comment about a man for which most of its readers own something.
Maybe HP had more employees than readers than Slashdot readers that will read this article, have you thought about that?
Gladiator sucks beyond belief.
I think there are plenty of reasons to send humans into space. Do you think one can make a robot for anything that a human can do? I can assure you, it would be far more costly to even attempt that instead of sending a human.
Humans are extremely versatile at interpreting data and making decisions based on their interpretations. You can not program a machine to do something that you don't know what's going to be.
And about ISS: yes, it is really useful to science. If not now, it has the potential to be useful to science in ways nothing else can match. Reasons? just look around at all the knowledge acumulated by _human_ space flights until now. You really think everything they can do is done, and we can send machines instead?
Or maybe this is just a troll...
>they'll just capitalize on all the R&D that the linux companies have done
Honestly, what kind of R&D are you talking about? Development, maybe. A lot of code is written. But is anything more (i.e., ideas, concepts) in Linux software that was not previously in some Windows, Apple or Unix application?
Can you tell me of a single revolutionary idea introduced by a "Linux"&open-source oriented company? I am open to suggestions. But the main point that the article is missing is that 99% of the open-source _Linux_ apps are implementing some kind of idea from some other software, introduced by some comercial company. And it's often Microsoft who promoted that idea.
"Importing" development, yes. Importing research? Hardly.
For instance:
"Dot Com Development, Inc", "Method and apparatus for tracking client interaction with a network resource and creating client profiles and resource database".
sounds like something familiar...
I think the abstract of that patent is a real gem. 176 words in the sentence using only 58 different words. And it actuallly wants to say something. Cute.
I find Konqueror to be slow. Much slower than NC 4.76. I use NC to read a lot of local docs in HTML, and I switch a lot between pages with very simple layout. It takes about 1-2 secs more for Konqueror to display a page with just a lot of paragraphs and some intermediate lines. This is just too annoying for me.
I don't know why is that. Maybe because Konqueror tries to draw the page while it's loading and then it has to draw it again at the end? But then why is the pagination (Pgup, pageDown, mouse scrool) also flipping for a fraction of a sec?
No kidding, I think it is both interesting and potentially useful. I wonder how soon it will be until this kind of work is used for instance in building useful prostheses. People that can not walk any more might have a use for a machine that can do it for them.