I'm not sure if I'm proud of this or embarassed. I'm sure glad 'Linux' (as the article refers to all of us in the community) can put up a good fight, but I'd hate to think that DoS attacks and bad publicity are our best weapons.
Your home directory will now be called 'My Home'. And it's not a directory anymore, it's a 'Folder' because that's somehow easier to understand. TTYs are now called 'DOS' and shell scripts are 'Batch' files.
KDE and Gnome will be merged and renamed to 'Bob'.
All Windows networks will be identified by Samba as 'My Network' to reflect how easy it is to 'pwn' the network. Linux network security will be removed by uninstalling firewalls and opening all shares to anonymous r/w access, thus integrating perfectly within the Windows network.
To make everybody's life easier, distros will now default to 'chmod -R 777/' when the system is installed and then chmod will be removed from the system.
The new standard will be for all applications to save configuration into their app directory under/Program\ Files. To facilitate backwards compatibility, ~/.appname will be symlinked back to the appropriate directory.
'Core' system files such as everything in/srv will be automatically regenerated if they are deleted or changed. The regenerated file will not be the same version as the one that was deleted.
To facilitate easier use of the command line for new users, the following application renaming will take place:
ls to 'show me what is in this folder' mv to 'move this somewhere else' cp to 'copy this somewhere else' cd to 'change folder' exit to 'close this DOS window'
(I am currently accepting applications for other application renaming options).
I'm also petitioning to have Firefox renamed to 'Aiiieeey'. Please sign below if you support this effort.
Yeah right. Not while they're trying to convince customers to buy their current generation of crap translators. I got sucked into an IBM conference two years ago where they tried to convince me that their Websphere translator was "near perfect" and that it was ready to be deployed on web sites wanting to offer content in multiple languages. They even went so far as to bring in supposed unbiased happy customers who testified that the Websphere translator was as good as human translators.
In the conference was mostly IBM platinum partners (development firms who specialize in IBM "solutions" and make IBM enough money to be called platinum partners) and they seemed to buy into it. Of course, platinum partners tend to believe everything IBM tells them.
"Windows comes with drivers to support a wide range of hardware"
That's a myth. XP ships with drivers for some common peripherals, most NICs, and some partial drivers for popular video cards that aren't any better than Vesa except that they support better resolutions and color depth.
Linux comes with way more drivers than Windows, including more NICs, more printers and more video cards. The problem Linux has is that most manufacturers don't offer drivers for it, so when you need to find one on your own you're usually out of luck.
In fact, Gnome is usually pre-installed by distros even easier, adding a Places menu that links to 'places' on your computer, such as hard disks, network drives and so on.
By default, Gnome is much more intuitive than Windows. Windows wins simply because most people already know it.
I'd use Konq if I could get rocker navigation for it. Does anybody know a way?
FYI, rocker navigation is a gesture you perform with your mouse buttons. By 'rocking' your fingers over the right, then left button you execute the 'back' history action. Going forward in history is the opposite rocker gesture.
Wrong. It's potentially one of the best ideas they've ever had.
I haven't used NS 8, but it appears to allow you to specify which sites should be rendered in IE. It sounds like a great way to help rid corporate desktops of IE. I know a lot want to, but are shackled by their intranet apps. This would let them browse the Internet safely using Gecko and have the browser automatically use IE for internal apps that need it. Those apps can be slowly fixed to work with Gecko, or just naturally life-cycled out and replaced with Gecko-compliant apps.
Why do you think Linux folks are missing out on that kind of reliability? The truth is that Windows has trained users into thinking computers shouldn't be that stable, while in reality nearly every OS can have > 1 year uptime (OS X, Linux, BSD, AIX, QNX, etc).
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[quote]Nobody wants to admit that most of the money funding open source development, maybe 80% to 90%, is coming from companies that are not open source companies themselves. What happens when these sponsors go away and there is not enough money floating around?[/quote]
Non-OSS companies like IBM fund OSS because they benefit from it. IBM makes tons of money by packaging Linux as part of their business solutions. They package Apache as IBM HTTP Server as part of their Websphere solution. They aren't going to stop funding projects that help them make money because when those projects die, IBM will need to take over development or switch to new software while maintaining patches for the old software. Either way it will cost them more if an OSS project dies than it would to fund it to keep it alive.
I don't think Intel has any dependence on Microsoft. Both Intel and Microsoft are de facto PC standards. Microsoft can't just switch to PowerPC chips for Longhorn and expect to be successful.
"It's just a shame it's an IR laser and you can't see it"
What's so exciting about seeing a dot on your desk?
Wireless Intellimouse Explorer? I don't think so
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I purchased a Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2.0 a while ago and it's completely unusable. I switched back to my several year old first generation Logitech optical mouse and it's way better.
The MS mouse is awful because the wheel has no tactile feel to the roll. This is annoying in most apps and impossible to deal with in games. What's worse, the lack of tactile feel means that when you try to push the wheel button, any tiny amount of roll of the wheel will cancel out the button click. Combine that with the fact that the wheel button is difficult to push and I had to click two or three times before I got the click to actually work.
Button layout is another issue. The wheel seems slightly too far away for my average size hands, although that wouldn't be noticable if the wheel button pushed easily. The browser back and forward buttons are a feat of design mastery... they manage to be impossible to push without contorting your fingers and simultaneously very easy to accidentally push.
As if the mouse needed anymore faults, the wireless capability is very weak. At least once a day I'd need to re-sync the mouse to its base station. Every time my 2.4Ghz cordless phone was in use the mouse would barely work and would need to be re-synced after the phone was shut off. Note that my > 6 year old wireless Logitech ball mouse never has this problem.
I spent only about six weeks with the Intellimouse Explorer 2.0 before my four year old knocked it off my keyboard tray onto the carpeted floor and it broke. I have never been so happy to have something break in my life because it finally put an end to me trying to convince myself to keep trying to use the MS mouse until I got used to it.
I am buying logitech from now on, but I can't decide if I should stick with the cheap optical mice or get a fancy one, maybe even a laser mouse. Trouble is, I really don't use any extra functionality of these mice, but they are shaped better.
"They have published the specs so others (like MONO) can implement VMs for other platforms."
C# is open and they have published the specs for their byte code, but that hardly makes it easy to implement a VM on any other platform because the entire.NET API is closed. That's why Mono isn't a 100% replacement for.NET and probably will never be. Luckily, the Mono guys have done a wonderful job and if you target Mono you can develop a cross-platform app pretty easily.
Stop with the BS..NET and Java (or J2EE if you like) are easily comparable. The fact that.NET can use multiple languages is irrelevent... Java is a language *and* a platform. Their platforms are very similar.
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I'm not sure if I'm proud of this or embarassed. I'm sure glad 'Linux' (as the article refers to all of us in the community) can put up a good fight, but I'd hate to think that DoS attacks and bad publicity are our best weapons.
Your home directory will now be called 'My Home'. And it's not a directory anymore, it's a 'Folder' because that's somehow easier to understand. TTYs are now called 'DOS' and shell scripts are 'Batch' files.
/' when the system is installed and then chmod will be removed from the system.
/Program\ Files. To facilitate backwards compatibility, ~/.appname will be symlinked back to the appropriate directory.
/srv will be automatically regenerated if they are deleted or changed. The regenerated file will not be the same version as the one that was deleted.
KDE and Gnome will be merged and renamed to 'Bob'.
All Windows networks will be identified by Samba as 'My Network' to reflect how easy it is to 'pwn' the network. Linux network security will be removed by uninstalling firewalls and opening all shares to anonymous r/w access, thus integrating perfectly within the Windows network.
To make everybody's life easier, distros will now default to 'chmod -R 777
The new standard will be for all applications to save configuration into their app directory under
'Core' system files such as everything in
To facilitate easier use of the command line for new users, the following application renaming will take place:
ls to 'show me what is in this folder'
mv to 'move this somewhere else'
cp to 'copy this somewhere else'
cd to 'change folder'
exit to 'close this DOS window'
(I am currently accepting applications for other application renaming options).
I'm also petitioning to have Firefox renamed to 'Aiiieeey'. Please sign below if you support this effort.
"Slowly, the computer is becoming an all in one console."
Not so slowly, the console is becoming an all-in-one computer. Think: media player, internet browser, etc.
Yeah right. Not while they're trying to convince customers to buy their current generation of crap translators. I got sucked into an IBM conference two years ago where they tried to convince me that their Websphere translator was "near perfect" and that it was ready to be deployed on web sites wanting to offer content in multiple languages. They even went so far as to bring in supposed unbiased happy customers who testified that the Websphere translator was as good as human translators.
In the conference was mostly IBM platinum partners (development firms who specialize in IBM "solutions" and make IBM enough money to be called platinum partners) and they seemed to buy into it. Of course, platinum partners tend to believe everything IBM tells them.
Not exactly a "minor" platform there now, is it?
"Windows comes with drivers to support a wide range of hardware"
That's a myth. XP ships with drivers for some common peripherals, most NICs, and some partial drivers for popular video cards that aren't any better than Vesa except that they support better resolutions and color depth.
Linux comes with way more drivers than Windows, including more NICs, more printers and more video cards. The problem Linux has is that most manufacturers don't offer drivers for it, so when you need to find one on your own you're usually out of luck.
Yeah, you'd bet, but you'd be wrong.
In fact, Gnome is usually pre-installed by distros even easier, adding a Places menu that links to 'places' on your computer, such as hard disks, network drives and so on.
By default, Gnome is much more intuitive than Windows. Windows wins simply because most people already know it.
I'd use Konq if I could get rocker navigation for it. Does anybody know a way?
FYI, rocker navigation is a gesture you perform with your mouse buttons. By 'rocking' your fingers over the right, then left button you execute the 'back' history action. Going forward in history is the opposite rocker gesture.
Always do...
My brain is an HTML layout engine, you insensitive clod.
Except that the leader of the Republic was actually controlling the separatists. Man, wouldn't *that* throw everyone in the tech world for a loop :)
I've been programming in C for 33 years, newbie.
Truth is, the lead developer couldn't tell the difference and accidentally based Longhorn on J2EE.
(I know they're not identical. I was just making fun of how MS copied Java so much.)
Let me know how that BOIP (Bullet Over IP) goes.
Wrong. It's potentially one of the best ideas they've ever had.
I haven't used NS 8, but it appears to allow you to specify which sites should be rendered in IE. It sounds like a great way to help rid corporate desktops of IE. I know a lot want to, but are shackled by their intranet apps. This would let them browse the Internet safely using Gecko and have the browser automatically use IE for internal apps that need it. Those apps can be slowly fixed to work with Gecko, or just naturally life-cycled out and replaced with Gecko-compliant apps.
Why do you think Linux folks are missing out on that kind of reliability? The truth is that Windows has trained users into thinking computers shouldn't be that stable, while in reality nearly every OS can have > 1 year uptime (OS X, Linux, BSD, AIX, QNX, etc).
[quote]Nobody wants to admit that most of the money funding open source development, maybe 80% to 90%, is coming from companies that are not open source companies themselves. What happens when these sponsors go away and there is not enough money floating around?[/quote]
Non-OSS companies like IBM fund OSS because they benefit from it. IBM makes tons of money by packaging Linux as part of their business solutions. They package Apache as IBM HTTP Server as part of their Websphere solution. They aren't going to stop funding projects that help them make money because when those projects die, IBM will need to take over development or switch to new software while maintaining patches for the old software. Either way it will cost them more if an OSS project dies than it would to fund it to keep it alive.
Marlin Brando? What, will he be playing Gill Grissom in the new CSI?
I don't think Intel has any dependence on Microsoft. Both Intel and Microsoft are de facto PC standards. Microsoft can't just switch to PowerPC chips for Longhorn and expect to be successful.
"Maybe some of this is payback for Intel's Linux support"
I've heard that IBM is thinking of supporting Linux, too...
"It's just a shame it's an IR laser and you can't see it"
What's so exciting about seeing a dot on your desk?
I purchased a Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2.0 a while ago and it's completely unusable. I switched back to my several year old first generation Logitech optical mouse and it's way better.
The MS mouse is awful because the wheel has no tactile feel to the roll. This is annoying in most apps and impossible to deal with in games. What's worse, the lack of tactile feel means that when you try to push the wheel button, any tiny amount of roll of the wheel will cancel out the button click. Combine that with the fact that the wheel button is difficult to push and I had to click two or three times before I got the click to actually work.
Button layout is another issue. The wheel seems slightly too far away for my average size hands, although that wouldn't be noticable if the wheel button pushed easily. The browser back and forward buttons are a feat of design mastery... they manage to be impossible to push without contorting your fingers and simultaneously very easy to accidentally push.
As if the mouse needed anymore faults, the wireless capability is very weak. At least once a day I'd need to re-sync the mouse to its base station. Every time my 2.4Ghz cordless phone was in use the mouse would barely work and would need to be re-synced after the phone was shut off. Note that my > 6 year old wireless Logitech ball mouse never has this problem.
I spent only about six weeks with the Intellimouse Explorer 2.0 before my four year old knocked it off my keyboard tray onto the carpeted floor and it broke. I have never been so happy to have something break in my life because it finally put an end to me trying to convince myself to keep trying to use the MS mouse until I got used to it.
I am buying logitech from now on, but I can't decide if I should stick with the cheap optical mice or get a fancy one, maybe even a laser mouse. Trouble is, I really don't use any extra functionality of these mice, but they are shaped better.
"They have published the specs so others (like MONO) can implement VMs for other platforms."
.NET API is closed. That's why Mono isn't a 100% replacement for .NET and probably will never be. Luckily, the Mono guys have done a wonderful job and if you target Mono you can develop a cross-platform app pretty easily.
C# is open and they have published the specs for their byte code, but that hardly makes it easy to implement a VM on any other platform because the entire
Stop with the BS. .NET and Java (or J2EE if you like) are easily comparable. The fact that .NET can use multiple languages is irrelevent... Java is a language *and* a platform. Their platforms are very similar.
That's how he got burned.