So what? As far as I understand this TCPA stuff there will have to be some trusted, independantly verifiable ID on the software. We'll put that thing on our Linux Kernels and be done with it. Or this is really a vendor lock-in or a "pay-bazillions-for-a-certificate-feature"? Which would mean apart from Wintel all the rest will be happy to carry on rolling truly turing complete machines that don't have this restriction crap on them. Namely AMD, IBM, Motorola, Sun, VIA/Epia and whatnot of some taiwanese second row budget CPU builders. If I where anyone of the latter I would actually *beg* for someone to come up with this in order for me to gain an advantage by not implementing this. And you bet there will be Bioses popping up left right and center, ready to be stuck onto these Boards if Phoenix should get pissy with us customers.
and I've come to the conclusion: If you're gonna entangle private life and work you've gotta make shure that work is fun. Make networking a part of your freelancer life. Make it a habit of getting up early regulary. Remember: That's the reason you're a freelancer: You want to have fun getting up early! A rule: Do *never* work in your PJs. Do some aquisition or outside networking by 10 o'clock AM the latest and shut the box down in the evenings and go out and meet the guys, girls or go catch a movie. Have at least one talk on the issue of your trade a day, one on the telephone will do in emergencies. And have at least one talk that is *not* subject to your trade per day aswell. Having a family and taking over small regular tasks (bringing the child to kindergarden in the mornings, f.e.) can actually help rythym your freelancer life. If you haven't got any dutys of those sorts, make shure you get a grip yourself. You don't want a boss to do that for you anyway.
Saying that SVG will kill Flash ist like saying Python will kill JBuilder. If it weren't for the Flash IDE, Flash would be nowhere. If MS manages to build an IDE of simular ease-of-use to designers and alongside manages to actually implement true OOP in the underlying scripting of the technology, THEN there will be a Flashkiller. Until then we'll have to live with this semi-proprietary technology, with the hip looking IDE frontend, the cool flash vector animations and the most crappy scripting object model ever concieved by the human mind. One that triples development time in comparsion to other technologies. Which is why we still hardly see serious webapps developed in Flash. Maybe that's even for the better. Let's all just hope that MS fails as well, and that somehting like a OSS JMF IDE pops up to take over the reign of Flash. We'd finally have a client-webapp IDE that runs on Linux. That would be cool, wouldn't it?
We have raised the bar when it comes to pointless Linux journalisim, have we? I want my 2 Minutes back.
"I think Mozilla is a great option for browsers."
"I use Open Office and Star Office and I think they are good."
"You shouldn't have to push that button.", etc.
Looks like filling another Webpage was due with "LinuxWorld". Oh, sorry, LinuxWorld *Exklusive*. Heavens Crikey, the Daily Sun would have more to say on Linux usability than that waste of time. Anyway, I want my 2 minutes back.
...doesn't mean their dumb. From what I know (and can tell from the pictures), the people on the pictures are just puppets. Some really literally poor petty crime sobs draw into this to pose for some drug and weapon running band of Uberthugs that will kill you on the spot if they don't like your face. Don't think that anyone of the Nigirian Mafia or whoever is pulling these stunts, would be as dumb as to pose for such a photo. The people behing these scams have contacts to higher bank interns and whatnot, they shure as hell also have the infantry to take care of the 'paperwork'.
that she *never* comes into a situation where she feels she has to lie to me. It's hard for them to lie to the people that care about them 24 hrs. a day, y'know? And I wish for myself and our relationship that I never move into a position where I force her to lie to me. If it happens, (it happend allready, nobodys perfect), then humor is a good approach to settle the issue. Just think back what you were thinking at that age, and anger will cool down instantly. Children and teenagers want to be treated with respect. Just like we as parents do. Respect. Nothing more and nothing less. Looking from the distance, the 'no quick closing of windows when I approach rule' isn't very respectfull if you ask me. The Bottom Line: "If you, my child, don't make you're internet usage a problem, neither will I. Don't overdo it and go outside once in a while too. And learn Pyhton, don't just chat. If you have to play for hours on end, it's only on rainy weekends. And play CTF rather than DM, it's a much more intelligent and teamwork way of mulitplaying. Be carefull who you talk to on the web and in chat, there are very sick people out there that would want to hurt a nice girl like you. And anyway, that web passord secured chatserver your geek daddy set up for you and your clique of friends is the way coolest anyway. But you know that allready. If still you want to meet someone in RL that you only know from IRC, take your friend along. I'll bring you and pick you up. And stay away from Microsoft, or else you'll won't get a Job when your grown up."
Aside from the slight humor and the lengthy advantages a geek daddy has in this particular parenting field, I'd say that pretty much sums up a good direction of dealing with the internet issue.
It's about the books, the docs and the support. In SuSE that is, at least. That's what distros are about. SuSE is the best n00b distro I know. They've got dead tree docs included that make up for almost an entire Linux library, their support is fair, square and actually has a clue and their YaST install procedure rocks. You get a stack of CDs and a DVD (with all the stuff on that again, so you can easyly hand out a copy and keep another). And, for a distro-look customized appearance, their desktop is way cool too. THAT's what distros are all about. And THATs precisely what you get a discount on if you're a poor student looking into the OSS world. If that's still to much, fair enough. Go download the distro, copy it from a friend (legal that is, of course) or switch to debian, gentoo or whatever. But then you won't have that stack of books and no hotline keycode either. Of course.
AOL got security? What's that? An inhouse media player replacement?
Honestly, when it comes to security or any other area that requires basic brain function I'd say the big ISPs are a all the same: Utterly useless.
It's countless times I've called the T-Online Hotline, asked if their mail server was down or the TDSL dialin node was down or some other informal question and every time I've gotten something like this:
Blockhead:"What's your error message?"
Me:"I don't think my error messages are of any use to you."
Blockhead:"What Mailer do you use?"
Me:"*SIGH* K-Mail."
Blockhead:"We only support Outlook or Netscape."
[Meanwhile down in Hell: Satan marks up another Eternity Candidate]
Me:"I know.(I'm not gonna explain to him that E-Mail is a Service while Outlook and Netscape are Mailers and what that all means) I actually just wanted to know if you Mailserver is down."
Blockhead: "What Windows do you use?"
Me: "I use Linux."
Blockhead: "Oh. Well, we don't support Linux." (NOTE THE SIGNIFICANCE: We're in Germany, so he's actually heard the word 'Linux' before)
[Back in Hell: Satan marks Mr. Blockhead up for extra special skinning, boiling and chainsaw subdividing treatment upon arrival.]
Me: "I know.(I'm certainly NOT gonna explain the difference between an Internet Service and an OS to him) I just wanted to know if you Mailserver is down... Could I speak to second level please?"
Blockhead: "Well, all I can say is that due to our troubletickets the Mailserver is up and running and second level won't tell you anything different."
Me: "Thank you very much".
*KLICK* *Duuuuu* (german dialtone)
I seriously doubt it is _any_ better with AOL right now.
Knoppix has at least 3 tools that come to mind that can easyly be used for the purpose you need and have never failed me. And it's free and can help you do other rescue and recovery stuff as well. In case you don't know: Knoppix is the leading Live CD Linux distribution. A perfect chance to test it as well.
The concept of beaming Energy from outer space solar arrays to earth via microwave dates back to the early eighties. It was dissmissed back then as much to expensive, fault prone, lossy and insecure. Yet there are other simular concepts that are cheaper and more efficient. One of them is to set up simple solar reflectors in space and focus them on large industrial areas, such as LA or the german Ruhrgebiet. That would replace streetlighting, wouldn't need any conversion in space and standard rooftop solar collectors which work at day would work at night as well. The whole microwave thing is completely out, but this reflector idea is just a matter of time, imho. Imagine the savings on not having to set up street lamps alone. Allthough I guess nature would get quite mixed up at the begining. Imagine mean climate zone birds - used to equal length nights and days - like Singing Birds or Roosters chirping and calling until their voice goes all hoarse. LOL.
Matrox? Weren't those the guys that would release overpriced cards that were buggy and did a perfect job at ignoring or shoddily supporting every industry standard they could think of? To me, Matrox is the Microsoft of Video cards. All just legends built entirely on legend promoted by people with near to zilch knowlege of computergrafics.
A friend of is also a big matrox fan. The kind of matrox millenium 'jerk' that does wee-wee in his pants when it comes to talking about a card that was real big back in 1995, when PCs had just finally talking over the Amiga market. I own a Matrox Mystique. It ruled for about 2 weeks, and the extra edition of Mechwarrior customized for it was really cool too. But to call a card good because they do 'good 2D' (just listen to yourself saying that) is plain silly. Shure the millenium had the most memory back then (a stunning 2 MB!) and shure it works for console and konqureror. But since back then Matrox has has lost its grip and released nothing but hideosly overprived buggy crap for people who don't need performance. That's my impression anyway.
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I was working with a CBT Vendor last year (before they went belly up) and had the lucky chance of sharing the office with a IT Expert with 25 years of expierience. He had a little clue about what was going on in the OSS field, but mainly was into Delphi, due to his Pascal history. He therefore also was a big borland fan. I infused him with SuSE Linux, Python, Zope and Netbeans/Java/JBoss... you name it, and half a year later he was, of course, way ahead of me in the free PL/IDE field. Afaik he enver looked bach on Delphi and he didn't even think about trying Kylix.
IMHO Kylix could have only become relevant if they'd done a more open approach right from the start. With free IDEs for all GPL projects, an open spec for the Delphi/Pascal language and a rock-solid support for the OSS community.
As far as I can remember there is only 2 OSS projects in Kylix right now. Now way is that gonna make up for some recognition in the developers community. Hell, even Micros~1, whose.Net IDEs are supposed to be the hottest thing since wrapped hankeys (so I've heard), is having a hard time getting back the developers once they've met with the Linux enviroment. How then should a buggy Kylix do the trick?
1.) Novell does a f*ck up with SuSE, goes down the drain and pulls SuSE along until they're bought out by somebody else. This is somewhat likely, as SuSE is doing very good as a Linux brand right now. It could hardly get better rather than worse. In germany (most Linux users per capita) SuSE is even synonym for Linux! All in all that would stall Linux brand recognition but probably be good news for Mandrake, the last one left.
2.) Novell has actually seen the light and plans way ahead into the future, were software won't make a buck anymore, but free software will reign and the business is in services.
3.) Novell/SuSE twitches here and there, barely surviving, taking shares from Mandrake, they all die eventually, Mickeysoft prevails and there is a 5 year setback for OSS, with only Gentoo and Debian to the rescue in the far future, when the OSS model has consumed everything.
Bottom line: I don't like this news. Sound bad. Chances are to high that this once o-so big company Novell is gonna screw up. And SuSE is my first recomendation to n00bs right now. It would be a real shame for them to go down the drain.
"Michael Robertson, the Lindows founder, has announced in his 'Michael's Minute' newsletter that Lindows has started the creation of a Frontpage-type program for Linux, called Nvu."
And of course this Lindows guy is so much known for helping out the OSS community by supporting the developement of new, industry strength OSS components, other than, let's say, RedHat or SuSE who do nothing but mostly ripp off OSS projects, make them insecure by completely mangleing their intended setups and looks of them and giving them a public-awareness compliant 'flashy' name. And then issueing new-media-troll press-releases.
Two years ago I made a bet with a friend that Macromedia would release at least one member of the dreamteam for linux. Obviously I lost the bet and now owe him an icecream (cream, sauce and crunchy topping and all). But I didn't lose because linux hasn't gained importance as I thought it would have. On the contrary. Linux did gain importance, only macromedia has lost it. The dot-bomb is long ago, all those wannabe dreamweaver-clickers are flipping burgers, browsers actually support css now - a thing _nobody_ _ever_ thought would happen 3 years ago - and content management is the *only* way to go for webstuff today, rendering dreamweavers impressive template engine pointless. Impressive still, but yet pointless anyway. As someone who has been doing web and internet design and programming professionally for quite some time now I'd like to get some things straight in the pro and con macromedia dreamteam flamewar: 1.) In the days when css was synonym for the crappiest implementation of cross-plattform standards ever, Flash was the *only* way to make a good visual appearance and be truly cross plattform. In fact, you'd be more compatible and accessible with Flash than with anything beyond "table" and "href". That has changed since then, with the appearance of NS 6.1 came a whole bunch of browsers that manage css in a way that is fairly acceptable. Flash isn't needed for professional design anymore. And since the macromedia people are the biggest idiots in the entire universe when it come to building usable programming plattforms and put an exceptional effort into keeping Flash MX and the ActionScript object model just as crappy as ever one can almost rest ashure that Flash will eventually fade into oblivion, just as Director is (Praise the Lord!) doing now. 2.) Back in the we-don't-give-a-f*ck-about-webstandards time Dreamweaver was the _only_ tool that would make webdevelopement possible. And I'm talking about real webdevelopement - a concept argueably only grasped by the slashdot crowd on very rare occasions. Actually Dreamweaver was the tool that would make sites accessable for Linux. Nobody would handcode anything for NS 4.7, trust me on that one. And dreamweaver still has features that strike an unexpierienced DW user (read: less that 1 and a half years of DW usage) as perfect. Think of the drag linking, it's ability to *not* touch hand edited code what so ever and the template engine that was the only way to go when dynamic web application stuff wasn't available. Yet most of these things are taken care of by the bazillion server side technologies (and PHP CMSes) out there, so I - and all other professionals I know of - haven't been using DW for 2 years or more. Summary: Flash and DW are both impressive apps (exclude anything that has to do with programming in Flash/AS) - no matter what VI zealot keeps bullshitting about on/. - but the bottom line is that they've both had their great time and it's doubtable if it will ever come back. They've been outrun by JMF (that programming think that macromedia horribly failed at), OSS ContentManagementSystems and by editors that blast DW/Homesite to chunky kibbles.
A article about consitent branding in OSS projects. On/.. And not a half bad one I might add. I'm positively suprised!
BTW: One chance of branding and public awareness was missed: The Mozilla release partys back then! They where unusual and would have been the best possible occasion to gain substancial public awareness of Mozilla and the OSS movement in whole. I had actually expected the whole OSS/Linux community to raise a massive boo-hay about this and even come as far as MTV having a 3 minute report on some big Mozilla release party event in some post-modern superhip location in London, Berlin or San Francisco. But I guess that one was lost. Maybe we should do this for Mozilla 2? Have every big town in the world make a release party at some cool place and drop the word at every place where the press is about to pick it up. And offer Mini-CDs with Mozilla on it.
Still no Linux PLE, Alias? Kinda amature-like don't you think? Well, that's no problem. We'll just have to get the Houdini Apprentice Edition. They've had free non-commercial versions for all OSes since almost a year now. Linux too. To bad Alias won't get the message and *still* not release a Linux PLE. Oh, well, Houdini is the better package anyway, so what am I complaining about? Check out www.sidefx.com and look for Apprentice Editition. Houdini Master with all the features free for non-commercial use. It kicks Maya up and down the street btw. It's been available since way back then when/. rejected my submition on that issue I might add.
A let-lose crowd of slashdot nerds ranting over audiophiles letting of tons of verbal boohay in the shortest period of time. A true intellectual rollercoaster ride. Cotton candy and all. Mind you, but I'll just seat myself in the front row and grab some popcorn. LOL!
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So what?
As far as I understand this TCPA stuff there will have to be some trusted, independantly verifiable ID on the software. We'll put that thing on our Linux Kernels and be done with it.
Or this is really a vendor lock-in or a "pay-bazillions-for-a-certificate-feature"? Which would mean apart from Wintel all the rest will be happy to carry on rolling truly turing complete machines that don't have this restriction crap on them. Namely AMD, IBM, Motorola, Sun, VIA/Epia and whatnot of some taiwanese second row budget CPU builders.
If I where anyone of the latter I would actually *beg* for someone to come up with this in order for me to gain an advantage by not implementing this.
And you bet there will be Bioses popping up left right and center, ready to be stuck onto these Boards if Phoenix should get pissy with us customers.
and I've come to the conclusion:
If you're gonna entangle private life and work you've gotta make shure that work is fun. Make networking a part of your freelancer life. Make it a habit of getting up early regulary. Remember: That's the reason you're a freelancer: You want to have fun getting up early! A rule: Do *never* work in your PJs.
Do some aquisition or outside networking by 10 o'clock AM the latest and shut the box down in the evenings and go out and meet the guys, girls or go catch a movie. Have at least one talk on the issue of your trade a day, one on the telephone will do in emergencies. And have at least one talk that is *not* subject to your trade per day aswell.
Having a family and taking over small regular tasks (bringing the child to kindergarden in the mornings, f.e.) can actually help rythym your freelancer life. If you haven't got any dutys of those sorts, make shure you get a grip yourself. You don't want a boss to do that for you anyway.
Saying that SVG will kill Flash ist like saying Python will kill JBuilder.
If it weren't for the Flash IDE, Flash would be nowhere. If MS manages to build an IDE of simular ease-of-use to designers and alongside manages to actually implement true OOP in the underlying scripting of the technology, THEN there will be a Flashkiller.
Until then we'll have to live with this semi-proprietary technology, with the hip looking IDE frontend, the cool flash vector animations and the most crappy scripting object model ever concieved by the human mind. One that triples development time in comparsion to other technologies. Which is why we still hardly see serious webapps developed in Flash. Maybe that's even for the better.
Let's all just hope that MS fails as well, and that somehting like a OSS JMF IDE pops up to take over the reign of Flash. We'd finally have a client-webapp IDE that runs on Linux. That would be cool, wouldn't it?
..and why is he taking UltraSparcs appart anyway?
We have raised the bar when it comes to pointless Linux journalisim, have we?
I want my 2 Minutes back.
"I think Mozilla is a great option for browsers."
"I use Open Office and Star Office and I think they are good."
"You shouldn't have to push that button.", etc.
Looks like filling another Webpage was due with "LinuxWorld". Oh, sorry, LinuxWorld *Exklusive*. Heavens Crikey, the Daily Sun would have more to say on Linux usability than that waste of time.
Anyway, I want my 2 minutes back.
Ok. I'll take it.
Read my Sig.
...doesn't mean their dumb.
From what I know (and can tell from the pictures), the people on the pictures are just puppets. Some really literally poor petty crime sobs draw into this to pose for some drug and weapon running band of Uberthugs that will kill you on the spot if they don't like your face. Don't think that anyone of the Nigirian Mafia or whoever is pulling these stunts, would be as dumb as to pose for such a photo. The people behing these scams have contacts to higher bank interns and whatnot, they shure as hell also have the infantry to take care of the 'paperwork'.
that she *never* comes into a situation where she feels she has to lie to me. It's hard for them to lie to the people that care about them 24 hrs. a day, y'know?
And I wish for myself and our relationship that I never move into a position where I force her to lie to me. If it happens, (it happend allready, nobodys perfect), then humor is a good approach to settle the issue. Just think back what you were thinking at that age, and anger will cool down instantly.
Children and teenagers want to be treated with respect. Just like we as parents do. Respect. Nothing more and nothing less.
Looking from the distance, the 'no quick closing of windows when I approach rule' isn't very respectfull if you ask me.
The Bottom Line:
"If you, my child, don't make you're internet usage a problem, neither will I. Don't overdo it and go outside once in a while too. And learn Pyhton, don't just chat. If you have to play for hours on end, it's only on rainy weekends. And play CTF rather than DM, it's a much more intelligent and teamwork way of mulitplaying. Be carefull who you talk to on the web and in chat, there are very sick people out there that would want to hurt a nice girl like you. And anyway, that web passord secured chatserver your geek daddy set up for you and your clique of friends is the way coolest anyway. But you know that allready. If still you want to meet someone in RL that you only know from IRC, take your friend along. I'll bring you and pick you up. And stay away from Microsoft, or else you'll won't get a Job when your grown up."
Aside from the slight humor and the lengthy advantages a geek daddy has in this particular parenting field, I'd say that pretty much sums up a good direction of dealing with the internet issue.
It's about the books, the docs and the support. In SuSE that is, at least. That's what distros are about.
SuSE is the best n00b distro I know. They've got dead tree docs included that make up for almost an entire Linux library, their support is fair, square and actually has a clue and their YaST install procedure rocks. You get a stack of CDs and a DVD (with all the stuff on that again, so you can easyly hand out a copy and keep another).
And, for a distro-look customized appearance, their desktop is way cool too.
THAT's what distros are all about. And THATs precisely what you get a discount on if you're a poor student looking into the OSS world. If that's still to much, fair enough. Go download the distro, copy it from a friend (legal that is, of course) or switch to debian, gentoo or whatever. But then you won't have that stack of books and no hotline keycode either. Of course.
"EU Commission stomps MS to chunky kibbles."
AOL got security? What's that? An inhouse media player replacement?
Honestly, when it comes to security or any other area that requires basic brain function I'd say the big ISPs are a all the same: Utterly useless.
It's countless times I've called the T-Online Hotline, asked if their mail server was down or the TDSL dialin node was down or some other informal question and every time I've gotten something like this:
Blockhead:"What's your error message?"
Me:"I don't think my error messages are of any use to you."
Blockhead:"What Mailer do you use?"
Me:"*SIGH* K-Mail."
Blockhead:"We only support Outlook or Netscape."
[Meanwhile down in Hell: Satan marks up another Eternity Candidate]
Me:"I know.(I'm not gonna explain to him that E-Mail is a Service while Outlook and Netscape are Mailers and what that all means) I actually just wanted to know if you Mailserver is down."
Blockhead: "What Windows do you use?"
Me: "I use Linux."
Blockhead: "Oh. Well, we don't support Linux." (NOTE THE SIGNIFICANCE: We're in Germany, so he's actually heard the word 'Linux' before)
[Back in Hell: Satan marks Mr. Blockhead up for extra special skinning, boiling and chainsaw subdividing treatment upon arrival.]
Me: "I know.(I'm certainly NOT gonna explain the difference between an Internet Service and an OS to him) I just wanted to know if you Mailserver is down... Could I speak to second level please?"
Blockhead: "Well, all I can say is that due to our troubletickets the Mailserver is up and running and second level won't tell you anything different."
Me: "Thank you very much".
*KLICK* *Duuuuu* (german dialtone)
I seriously doubt it is _any_ better with AOL right now.
Knoppix has at least 3 tools that come to mind that can easyly be used for the purpose you need and have never failed me.
And it's free and can help you do other rescue and recovery stuff as well.
In case you don't know: Knoppix is the leading Live CD Linux distribution. A perfect chance to test it as well.
'nuff said.
The concept of beaming Energy from outer space solar arrays to earth via microwave dates back to the early eighties. It was dissmissed back then as much to expensive, fault prone, lossy and insecure.
Yet there are other simular concepts that are cheaper and more efficient. One of them is to set up simple solar reflectors in space and focus them on large industrial areas, such as LA or the german Ruhrgebiet. That would replace streetlighting, wouldn't need any conversion in space and standard rooftop solar collectors which work at day would work at night as well.
The whole microwave thing is completely out, but this reflector idea is just a matter of time, imho. Imagine the savings on not having to set up street lamps alone. Allthough I guess nature would get quite mixed up at the begining. Imagine mean climate zone birds - used to equal length nights and days - like Singing Birds or Roosters chirping and calling until their voice goes all hoarse. LOL.
Matrox?
Weren't those the guys that would release overpriced cards that were buggy and did a perfect job at ignoring or shoddily supporting every industry standard they could think of?
To me, Matrox is the Microsoft of Video cards. All just legends built entirely on legend promoted by people with near to zilch knowlege of computergrafics.
A friend of is also a big matrox fan. The kind of matrox millenium 'jerk' that does wee-wee in his pants when it comes to talking about a card that was real big back in 1995, when PCs had just finally talking over the Amiga market.
I own a Matrox Mystique. It ruled for about 2 weeks, and the extra edition of Mechwarrior customized for it was really cool too. But to call a card good because they do 'good 2D' (just listen to yourself saying that) is plain silly. Shure the millenium had the most memory back then (a stunning 2 MB!) and shure it works for console and konqureror. But since back then Matrox has has lost its grip and released nothing but hideosly overprived buggy crap for people who don't need performance. That's my impression anyway.
I was working with a CBT Vendor last year (before they went belly up) and had the lucky chance of sharing the office with a IT Expert with 25 years of expierience. He had a little clue about what was going on in the OSS field, but mainly was into Delphi, due to his Pascal history. He therefore also was a big borland fan.
.Net IDEs are supposed to be the hottest thing since wrapped hankeys (so I've heard), is having a hard time getting back the developers once they've met with the Linux enviroment. How then should a buggy Kylix do the trick?
I infused him with SuSE Linux, Python, Zope and Netbeans/Java/JBoss... you name it, and half a year later he was, of course, way ahead of me in the free PL/IDE field. Afaik he enver looked bach on Delphi and he didn't even think about trying Kylix.
IMHO Kylix could have only become relevant if they'd done a more open approach right from the start. With free IDEs for all GPL projects, an open spec for the Delphi/Pascal language and a rock-solid support for the OSS community.
As far as I can remember there is only 2 OSS projects in Kylix right now. Now way is that gonna make up for some recognition in the developers community. Hell, even Micros~1, whose
1.) Novell does a f*ck up with SuSE, goes down the drain and pulls SuSE along until they're bought out by somebody else. This is somewhat likely, as SuSE is doing very good as a Linux brand right now. It could hardly get better rather than worse. In germany (most Linux users per capita) SuSE is even synonym for Linux!
All in all that would stall Linux brand recognition but probably be good news for Mandrake, the last one left.
2.) Novell has actually seen the light and plans way ahead into the future, were software won't make a buck anymore, but free software will reign and the business is in services.
3.) Novell/SuSE twitches here and there, barely surviving, taking shares from Mandrake, they all die eventually, Mickeysoft prevails and there is a 5 year setback for OSS, with only Gentoo and Debian to the rescue in the far future, when the OSS model has consumed everything.
Bottom line:
I don't like this news. Sound bad. Chances are to high that this once o-so big company Novell is gonna screw up. And SuSE is my first recomendation to n00bs right now. It would be a real shame for them to go down the drain.
"Michael Robertson, the Lindows founder, has announced in his 'Michael's Minute' newsletter that Lindows has started the creation of a Frontpage-type program for Linux, called Nvu."
And of course this Lindows guy is so much known for helping out the OSS community by supporting the developement of new, industry strength OSS components, other than, let's say, RedHat or SuSE who do nothing but mostly ripp off OSS projects, make them insecure by completely mangleing their intended setups and looks of them and giving them a public-awareness compliant 'flashy' name. And then issueing new-media-troll press-releases.
Errr... wait a minute...
Two years ago I made a bet with a friend that Macromedia would release at least /. -
one member of the dreamteam for linux. Obviously I lost the bet and now owe him
an icecream (cream, sauce and crunchy topping and all).
But I didn't lose because linux hasn't gained importance as I thought it would
have. On the contrary. Linux did gain importance, only macromedia has lost it. The
dot-bomb is long ago, all those wannabe dreamweaver-clickers are flipping burgers,
browsers actually support css now - a thing _nobody_ _ever_
thought would happen 3 years ago - and content management is the *only* way to
go for webstuff today, rendering dreamweavers impressive template engine
pointless. Impressive still, but yet pointless anyway.
As someone who has been doing web and internet design and programming
professionally for quite some time now I'd like to get some things straight in
the pro and con macromedia dreamteam flamewar:
1.) In the days when css was synonym for the crappiest implementation of
cross-plattform standards ever, Flash was the *only* way to make a good visual
appearance and be truly cross plattform. In fact, you'd be more compatible and
accessible with Flash than with anything beyond "table" and "href". That has
changed since then, with the appearance of NS 6.1 came a whole bunch of browsers
that manage css in a way that is fairly acceptable. Flash isn't needed for
professional design anymore. And since the macromedia people are the biggest
idiots in the entire universe when it come to building usable programming
plattforms and put an exceptional effort into keeping Flash MX and the
ActionScript object model just as crappy as ever one can almost rest ashure
that Flash will eventually fade into oblivion, just as Director is
(Praise the Lord!) doing now.
2.) Back in the we-don't-give-a-f*ck-about-webstandards time Dreamweaver was the
_only_ tool that would make webdevelopement possible. And I'm talking about real
webdevelopement - a concept argueably only grasped by the slashdot crowd on very
rare occasions. Actually Dreamweaver was the tool that would make sites
accessable for Linux. Nobody would handcode anything for NS 4.7, trust me on
that one. And dreamweaver still has features that strike an unexpierienced DW
user (read: less that 1 and a half years of DW usage) as perfect. Think of the
drag linking, it's ability to *not* touch hand edited code what so ever and the
template engine that was the only way to go when dynamic web application stuff
wasn't available. Yet most of these things are taken care of by the bazillion
server side technologies (and PHP CMSes) out there, so I - and all other
professionals I know of - haven't been using DW for 2 years or more.
Summary:
Flash and DW are both impressive apps (exclude anything that has to do with
programming in Flash/AS) - no matter what VI zealot keeps bullshitting about on
but the bottom line is that they've both had their great time and it's doubtable if it will ever come back.
They've been outrun by JMF (that programming think that macromedia horribly failed at), OSS Content Management Systems and by
editors that blast DW/Homesite to chunky
kibbles.
A article about consitent branding in OSS projects. On /.. And not a half bad one I might add. I'm positively suprised!
BTW: One chance of branding and public awareness was missed: The Mozilla release partys back then! They where unusual and would have been the best possible occasion to gain substancial public awareness of Mozilla and the OSS movement in whole.
I had actually expected the whole OSS/Linux community to raise a massive boo-hay about this and even come as far as MTV having a 3 minute report on some big Mozilla release party event in some post-modern superhip location in London, Berlin or San Francisco.
But I guess that one was lost. Maybe we should do this for Mozilla 2? Have every big town in the world make a release party at some cool place and drop the word at every place where the press is about to pick it up. And offer Mini-CDs with Mozilla on it.
Visual Basic 6: Why it is stinking.
Still no Linux PLE, Alias? Kinda amature-like don't you think? /. rejected my submition on that issue I might add.
Well, that's no problem. We'll just have to get the Houdini Apprentice Edition.
They've had free non-commercial versions for all OSes since almost a year now. Linux too.
To bad Alias won't get the message and *still* not release a Linux PLE.
Oh, well, Houdini is the better package anyway, so what am I complaining about?
Check out www.sidefx.com and look for Apprentice Editition. Houdini Master with all the features free for non-commercial use. It kicks Maya up and down the street btw.
It's been available since way back then when
A let-lose crowd of slashdot nerds ranting over audiophiles letting of tons of verbal boohay in the shortest period of time.
A true intellectual rollercoaster ride. Cotton candy and all.
Mind you, but I'll just seat myself in the front row and grab some popcorn. LOL!
"Definition, detail, and soundstaging were all impressive, and high-frequency response was almost liquid in its lack of edge effects."
Damn gaseous edge effects.
I'm with you pal. Not my jargon either.
Let's discuss optimizing the compilation of the debian woody sources for Itanium 2 and Opteron, shall we?