Try compiling Open Office;-) The last time I did that, I ran out of space in/home where I was building it!
Talking of building KDE though, I'm using 3.2 Beta 2 just now (have been since it was released). Tried compiling 3.2 last night, and it complained about some Qt stuff, so I'm moving from Qt 3.3.0-beta2 to 3.3.0 to see if that helps.
It really says something for KDE and Qt when I (and my finacee) have been happily using it as our primary desktop while both KDE and Qt were in beta.
I suppose the only thing they have in common is that they're both theft.
As to what I said I've just learnt... I was talking about the fact that this meaning of "piracy" is now recognised in the dictionary. Up until recently, wasn't it just a term that people used for copyright theft, rather than an official use of the word "piracy"?
This just reminds me of the discussions about 64-bit desktops that have already taken place on Slashdot and OSnews regarding Suns and Apples. Is there any reason why desktop user experience with 64-bit machines will be any different for Windows users? (apart from the obvious differences caused by using Windows instead of Solaris/OSX).
When they first called it "software piracy", they probably were making a comparison to robbery committed at sea. But langauge evolves. Lots of new words and meanings make it into dictionaries each year. Maybe when more people realise this, we'll get less posts on here about people using the wrong word in particular situations.
I only learned that last year, so I'm passing on my recently gained knowledge:-)
I just installed KDE3.2 beta2 a few weeks ago, and I'm doing something very similar with my K-menu. Although I'm finding so much stuff I've *NEVER* used (from an almost-full redhat 9 install) that I'm just permanently deleting things.
I wonder what other ideas Windows (or windows add-ons) is borrowing from KDE (and perhaps other opensource software)?
I keep hearing people saying that opensource operating systems aren't ready for the desktop. If they're not, then why are people borrowing ideas from them?
I code for a living and the only things I need to interact with that aren't part of KDE are ssh, zsh and gcc.
Cool, you've just manage to reproduce an idea that the KDE and Gnome people have been doing for years. Actually, It's not that different from what CDE on all the commercial unixes has been doing for even longer. I had to use Windows XP at work recently, and set it up in a very similar way to what your screenshot looks like, since it's similar to my Gnome desktop on Solaris and my KDE desktop on Linux, and therefore takes less thinking about since I almost exclusively use the latter two.
I played with both of them a while ago when a friend was going on about how good Win ACE is at compression. I can't remember what sort of files I was compressing when I came to that conclusion. Perhaps we needs some good old benchmarks to give people an idea of what differences there are (compression ration, time taken to compress, etc). If I find some spare time I'll give it a shot.
DDD does let you follow child. It's done this for a while now on Solaris with DBX, and has a nicer UI than Sun Workshop (AFAIC - as far as I'm concerned). I don't often wish to follow both parent and child, and wasn't aware of DBX allowing you to do that either (perhaps just because I've not looked closely enough), although Workshop (the GUI) does give this option.
Encrypted (open PGP), and uses less disk space/bandwidth than RAR files.
It's easy as well. In Konqueror 3.2, right click on a file or folder, and choose "Create bzipped archive", then right click on the.bz2 file and choose "Encrypt file".
I've been using GDB 6.0 on Linux for almost a week now, and am quite impressed with it. I might give it a go on Solaris when I get some spare time (still using DBX there).
Do you know if any of the Linux GUI debugger applications (that use GDB in the background) support following forks (particularly the parent AND child option that Sun Workshop has)?
A lot of people in the UK would interpret "requires forking" as "requires to be forked", like "that wall needs painting" means "that wall requires to be painted". Saying "requires to fork" is less ambiguous.
I was under the impression that "the problem" was that IE makes the user think that they are really looking at "www.whitehouse.gov" rather than "www.slashdot.org". This does not happen with Mozilla Firebird or Konqueror 3.2. The URL "http://www.slashdot.org:foo@www.whitehouse.gov/" remains displayed in the address bar, clearly indicating to the user that they are viewing "www.whitehouse.org" rather than "www.slashdot.org" (and anyone who reads slashdot knows it's just http://slashdot.org anyway;-)
Sun's DBX debugger is an excellent tool (GDB doesn't give you the fork-following options that DBX supports). AFAIK, it only runs on Solaris. Very useful for development of software that requires to fork.
In a lot of situations, when a new computer is aquirred, it's purpose is already know, and the software required is already known (I'm talking about households that already have one PC, offices, shops, etc). When installing lots of apps, one after the other, Fedora (and other Redhat systems) remember that the desktop user is allowed root priviledges after the first time, and will not prompt you for the root password again (until this feature times out). So for most things, it doesn't matter if you're running as root or not, as long as you've already done an administrative task.
And as for Fedora on the server, is Fedora really meant to be a server operating system?
And for ease of installation, I found Solaris to be a lot more straightforward than Windows 98, 2000 or XP. It has sensible default options, and asks less questions.
Installing Gimp on Fedora is not hard. In fact, it's easier (read: less effort) than installing Photoshop on Windows. You just double-click the RPM file and press OK, then it's all done.
I've seen myself ripping CDs (gRip) and playing MP3s (xmms) while playing Unreal Tournament (server and client), and it worked perfectly smoothly. That was an AMD system that cost about 1000 2 years ago. And it all ran smoothly.
Other than the OS, I spent about 4 minutes installing and configuring (did it again recently on the same hardware since I replaced the disk with a larger one), and it all ran smoothly.
If I'd bought a PC 2 years ago that couldn't do that all at once with no problems, I'd take it back to the shop.
Yeah, it's good that PCs can do this, but it's nothing amazing these days.
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I think you'll find the majority of computer users (the masses) don't use KVMs.
Try compiling Open Office ;-) /home where I was building it!
The last time I did that, I ran out of space in
Talking of building KDE though, I'm using 3.2 Beta 2 just now (have been since it was released). Tried compiling 3.2 last night, and it complained about some Qt stuff, so I'm moving from Qt 3.3.0-beta2 to 3.3.0 to see if that helps.
It really says something for KDE and Qt when I (and my finacee) have been happily using it as our primary desktop while both KDE and Qt were in beta.
The link in your .sig doesn't appear to work :)
Anyone know if SCO intend coming back online anytime soon?
we (brits) pay them to give us the facts, the truth.
I pay them so that I can see the Simpsons without giving Sky 25/month!
I suppose the only thing they have in common is that they're both theft.
As to what I said I've just learnt... I was talking about the fact that this meaning of "piracy" is now recognised in the dictionary. Up until recently, wasn't it just a term that people used for copyright theft, rather than an official use of the word "piracy"?
This just reminds me of the discussions about 64-bit desktops that have already taken place on Slashdot and OSnews regarding Suns and Apples. Is there any reason why desktop user experience with 64-bit machines will be any different for Windows users? (apart from the obvious differences caused by using Windows instead of Solaris/OSX).
When they first called it "software piracy", they probably were making a comparison to robbery committed at sea. But langauge evolves. Lots of new words and meanings make it into dictionaries each year. Maybe when more people realise this, we'll get less posts on here about people using the wrong word in particular situations.
:-)
I only learned that last year, so I'm passing on my recently gained knowledge
Some education for you:
Piracy is "The unauthorized use or reproduction of copyrighted or patented material".
I currently use two monitors, both filled to the brim with icons and several drawers on each desktop.
;-)
How on earth do you get any work done with all that clutter?
When I'm doing work, I don't care what's on my desktop. I generally don't see that much of it, with all the work covering it
I just installed KDE3.2 beta2 a few weeks ago, and I'm doing something very similar with my K-menu. Although I'm finding so much stuff I've *NEVER* used (from an almost-full redhat 9 install) that I'm just permanently deleting things.
detach views (like KDE)
I wonder what other ideas Windows (or windows add-ons) is borrowing from KDE (and perhaps other opensource software)?
I keep hearing people saying that opensource operating systems aren't ready for the desktop. If they're not, then why are people borrowing ideas from them?
I code for a living and the only things I need to interact with that aren't part of KDE are ssh, zsh and gcc.
Most people who suffer this problem give it the three finger salute ;-)
Cool, you've just manage to reproduce an idea that the KDE and Gnome people have been doing for years. Actually, It's not that different from what CDE on all the commercial unixes has been doing for even longer. I had to use Windows XP at work recently, and set it up in a very similar way to what your screenshot looks like, since it's similar to my Gnome desktop on Solaris and my KDE desktop on Linux, and therefore takes less thinking about since I almost exclusively use the latter two.
I played with both of them a while ago when a friend was going on about how good Win ACE is at compression. I can't remember what sort of files I was compressing when I came to that conclusion. Perhaps we needs some good old benchmarks to give people an idea of what differences there are (compression ration, time taken to compress, etc). If I find some spare time I'll give it a shot.
DDD does let you follow child. It's done this for a while now on Solaris with DBX, and has a nicer UI than Sun Workshop (AFAIC - as far as I'm concerned). I don't often wish to follow both parent and child, and wasn't aware of DBX allowing you to do that either (perhaps just because I've not looked closely enough), although Workshop (the GUI) does give this option.
According to this apge, RAR uses AES-128 encryption (see the last paragraph).
.tar.bz2.asc
.bz2 file and choose "Encrypt file".
Encrypted (open PGP), and uses less disk space/bandwidth than RAR files.
It's easy as well. In Konqueror 3.2, right click on a file or folder, and choose "Create bzipped archive", then right click on the
I've been using GDB 6.0 on Linux for almost a week now, and am quite impressed with it. I might give it a go on Solaris when I get some spare time (still using DBX there).
Do you know if any of the Linux GUI debugger applications (that use GDB in the background) support following forks (particularly the parent AND child option that Sun Workshop has)?
A lot of people in the UK would interpret "requires forking" as "requires to be forked", like "that wall needs painting" means "that wall requires to be painted". Saying "requires to fork" is less ambiguous.
I was under the impression that "the problem" was that IE makes the user think that they are really looking at "www.whitehouse.gov" rather than "www.slashdot.org". This does not happen with Mozilla Firebird or Konqueror 3.2. The URL "http://www.slashdot.org:foo@www.whitehouse.gov/" remains displayed in the address bar, clearly indicating to the user that they are viewing "www.whitehouse.org" rather than "www.slashdot.org" (and anyone who reads slashdot knows it's just http://slashdot.org anyway ;-)
Thanks for that... I've not had a look at the GDB site recently as I've been using DBX more. I'll go and check it out now :-)
Sun's DBX debugger is an excellent tool (GDB doesn't give you the fork-following options that DBX supports). AFAIK, it only runs on Solaris. Very useful for development of software that requires to fork.
In a lot of situations, when a new computer is aquirred, it's purpose is already know, and the software required is already known (I'm talking about households that already have one PC, offices, shops, etc). When installing lots of apps, one after the other, Fedora (and other Redhat systems) remember that the desktop user is allowed root priviledges after the first time, and will not prompt you for the root password again (until this feature times out). So for most things, it doesn't matter if you're running as root or not, as long as you've already done an administrative task.
And as for Fedora on the server, is Fedora really meant to be a server operating system?
And for ease of installation, I found Solaris to be a lot more straightforward than Windows 98, 2000 or XP. It has sensible default options, and asks less questions.
Installing Gimp on Fedora is not hard. In fact, it's easier (read: less effort) than installing Photoshop on Windows. You just double-click the RPM file and press OK, then it's all done.
I've seen myself ripping CDs (gRip) and playing MP3s (xmms) while playing Unreal Tournament (server and client), and it worked perfectly smoothly. That was an AMD system that cost about 1000 2 years ago. And it all ran smoothly.
Other than the OS, I spent about 4 minutes installing and configuring (did it again recently on the same hardware since I replaced the disk with a larger one), and it all ran smoothly.
If I'd bought a PC 2 years ago that couldn't do that all at once with no problems, I'd take it back to the shop.
Yeah, it's good that PCs can do this, but it's nothing amazing these days.