RMS had his moment in time/history. Unfortunately for him, he's become a dinousaur, and we all know what happened to dinosaurs...
Nevertheless, we must be thankful for his work, and the work of other programmers as well, on the GNU software which is a very very important part of any Linux distro. However, if people would have blindly followed all his recommendations, ou favorite OS would not have support for binary/proprietary dirvers such as nvidia's and we would be nuts trying to use the GNU/Hurd microkernel. Who would use anything else but Windows in today's modern computers?
Fortunately, there's more to GNU/Linux than the GNU software plus the Linux kernel.
Well, as I live in Spain and I watched Spain's TV news today, it looks like these "templars" just want recognition from the Pope. They haven't sued The Vatican or the Catholic Church. They have sued Benedict XVI as legal succesor of Clemente V, as he was the one who suspended them. They told reporters that getting monetary compensation from The Vatican is quite utopic and they were not finally looking for that. They just want the Catholic Church to realize how unfair they were to them.
Having said that, I believe they're going nowhere... If we suddenly started whining about all historic injustices we find in history books, judges wouldn't have time to take care of present ones.
So, George W. Bush, I, as citizen of the Spanish Empire and direct successor of Christopher Columbus I demand you give me back Florida, Louisiana (Sarcossy already agreed), Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California, and crush one and for all Cuba's communist regime (they'd never be there if you Americans had not supported Batista) so I can conquer them again in the name of the Holy Church of Tourism Money and Capitalism. You Southern Americans better move out 'cause I'm coming!!!!
To some extent, this looks like when the first clone PCs appeared in the market. IBM claimed their hardware was better... at the end cloned pcs won the battle.
But the moment mediocre webmasters get into IE7 and start coding stuff that only works under IE7, then we'll see people justifying their jump to XP-SP2 and newer.
Unfortunately, the only way I see Mozilla/Firefox win this war is by getting a so much large user base that mediocre webmasters will be forced to think twice before doing things that only work with IE. And the only way to achieve that is by:
1.- Putting more impressive features into Mozilla/firefox 2.- Linux/MacOS/BSD OSes get, altogether, at least a 30 to 35% share of all users running personal computers.
Well, there is/was the Mitsubishi Pajero. "Pajero" (in Spanish - at leat in Spain) is someone who masturbates a lot. There, and in other countries, it is now called Mitsubishi Montero.
I own a small OEM and consulting computer company. We focus our bussiness in Linux as a server, among other things. We've tried really hard to make our customers comfortable with Linux as a desktop alternative, and we have always found too many problems.
So I don't agree with the contents of the article. Linux, as a replacement for Windows is, in my opinion, harder to use for the regular non-technical user because:
1. There are too many applications that try to do the same thing (more or less). I hate when I see pretty much all distros installing by default repetitive/similar applications. Regular users don't want AbiWord, OpenOffice, KOffice, because one does one particular thing better than the other and viceversa. Same thing happens with the whole bunch of media players, text editors, graphic viewers, internet browsers, email applications, etc. Dont misunderstand me; I like having a choice, but most users don't want to choose among these things, they just want 1 office application that works just like MS Office, 1 media player that plays everything, 1 graphic viewer that displays all formats, and those users are the majority, and they dont want to learn how to use 30 applications to do what in Windows can be done in 7. These non-technical users will be who in the end will make linux win or loose the desktop war. I'd like distro designers to consider that more applications do not make a better distro. Just pick up the really good ones and leave the others as an option.
2. Installing applications is still too hard. Yes, we have rpm and deb files, but regular users do not know about dependencies and stuff like that. They want to double-click on an icon and follow some simple procedures and have an icon on their desktop and on the start menu. Today, still many linux applications are installed and you have to add the icon manually. We really need the GNOME and KDE people to work on this together.
3. Make linux desktop options less complicated. It takes for a regular user hours to check on all bells and whistles that come with i.e. KDEs control panel. I still have to find a Windows user complaining about how simple and unpleasant the windows desktop is.
In few words, make the linux desktop experience really easy-easy for non-technical unexperienced users. They are who will decide who wins this war.
My company is in Spain. This is my experience with Telefonica...
My company is based in a small town 40 miles away the third largest city in Spain (Valencia). Until now, the only way to get broadband in small cities is to get an ADSL. Many ISP companies offer their broadband services, but all physical hooks to the backbones go through Telefonica (that means, when I buy broadband services from any ISP, the ISP actually buys the service from Telefonica and resells it to me).
When I got the ADSL for my company, all IPs were static. Telfonica wouldnt admit it, because they were still working on the implementation of ADSL through PPPoE, with dynamic IPs. Later, I got a second ADSL for home, this time with PPPoE, or I had to pay an extra fee of 12 for the static IP. Since this was just for my home network, I thought having a dynamic IP would be ok. Almost all Telefonica routers come with NAT enabled so the routers are in charge of the PPPoE connection. However, I wanted my linux box to handle the connection and the routing processes with ip tables and shorewall, and dhcp for the LAN. So I put a Windows machine for the techie-guy to configure the modem/router in bridge-mode, disabling the router capabilities of the modem. Thank God I was there when he came, because he had no idea on configuring the service in bridge-mode!!!!! I had to do it myself while he was watching me do it!!!
My company ADSL (Static IP, no PPPoE) works ok. Its a 2Mbps downstream, 300kbps upstream. In reality, I get 1.6Mbps downstream, almost 300kbps uptream. And I must be vey happy and thankful to mighty Telefonica, because although they sell me this connection as 2Mbbps/300kbps, there is a clause in the contract that says that they will only guarantee 10% of the speed you contract!
My home ADSL basically sucks! Its a 512/128kbps, and I get synchro problems almost everyday. Each time I get a synchro problem I loose connection, therefore rp-pppoe has to restart (1-2 minute blackdown). Download speed ranges from 400 to 430kbps max.
Well, under this scenario, you live in the US, for instance, and you call to complain, and there is a chance you get results. Under this scenario in Spain, you have to kiss their asses, because theyre still a monopoly everywhere but in large cities.
I lived for 8 years in the US, and when I came back I had to switch my brain-chip so I wouldt get burned after speaking whith these people for 5 minutes. Until a couple of weeks ago, that I told them to either kiss my ass very very gently each time I spoke with them, or kiss my ass goodbye in less than 6 monts, where Ill be switching to a cable company that is now starting to offer telephone and broadband in some areas of the city I live. Finallym they understood me.
About what happened with their mail... I have already checked that my primary company IP is in the range already blacklisted (yes, we are in the RIMA subnet, and it is, as of now, the best one Telefonica has). I called technical supoort to ask questions about this issue, and THEY DIDNT EVEN KNOW THAT THIS IS ALREADY HAPPENNING!!!!!
In few words... Telefonica is the largest communications company in Spain and othre countries. They used to be a monopoly, they still are a monopoly in certain areas, and they still treat their customers as a monopoly, with bad support, assuming we are ignorants who live in oblivion, and charging high-rates for high-sucking-services. Examples:
- In the mid 90s, the Infovia network of modems (what spaniard used to connect to the internet) had a maximum number of 10000 simultaneous connections for a country of almost 40 million people (Univerity of Austin in Texas had more for their students at that time)
- Services such as caller id, and similar are still in development in many areas of the country
- Telephone rates, in absolute terms, are not the hihest in Europe, but salaries in Spain are less than half than Europes, making these the higher rates in Europe.
- Their technical and commercial staff lack manners, and knowledge, and be careful, they could charge you for unsolicited servi
Mine was a great ooportunity. I used to live in Austin TX, we got broadband @1.5Mbps with static IPs for less than $100/month at our appartment complex, and having installed linux just for learning purposes a year earlier I decided to put my own server on the net through the T1 I had for myself. It was great for 2 years, until the apartment management switched companies, and they switched to dynamic IPs through DHCP and lower speeds in order to being able to have more customers without installing more equipment.
When Microsoft bought out Win95 and it still had DOS people complained that it was just a shell running on DOS, not a real
OS.
Now when they bring out WinME and DOS is gone, people suggest that they have to have an "excuse" to do it...
You got it wrong. It is a question of software architecture.
People complained that Win 9x wasn't a new OS, but a GUI on top of DOS (pretty much like Win 3.1 except for the use of protected drivers instead of real-mode). Now, WinME STILL is a shell on top of DOS with a more restricted access to the plain command.com, but don't say that DOS is gone, 'cause it's still there. and while it's there, I'd prefer to have access to the command prompt.
Yep. It's about 3 hours long. It is *not* the director's cut, but rather an alternative version for television. David Lynch does not sign the movie, he uses a pseudonym instead (can't remeber the name now). There are not many scenes added to the movie, but a rather lengthy introduction which makes the movie easier to understand for those who have not read the novel. It is curious to see the difference in the texture and the color of the footage added.
The movie is divided into episodes for television. It is available in very few video clubs. The only one I know in my area that rents it is Vulcan Video in Austin TX (in case you live nearby or visit the area)
Actaully, in Spanish the number 2 is pronounced with a short-closed "o". Spanish does not have the long "ou" sound or the grave vowels "è" and "ò". Just 1 grave vowel ("a") and the other 4 closed vowels, being only 5 sounds for all 5 vowels. Closed vowels are hard to compare against American English. Easier to imagine if you're Scottish or Irish.
Are they going to do another brilliant move and move the files out of/opt/kde again? It's the most annoying thing in the world to get redhat rpm's and watch them put it in a f'd up location, true switchdesk is nice and all but leave it where it was intended by the programmers!
I completely agree with you. Having KDE and GNOME in/usr makes me sick. Then, if you want to compile KDE and GNOME apps from tarballs they install to/usr by default. For me,/usr is sacred. I believe anything not being core components of the OS should go to either/usr/local or/opt.
I have been using KDE since Beta2, compiling eveything from tarballs. I decided to try GNOME a few weeks ago. Since I did not want to mess/usr with packages that do not belong there, I had to edit the gnome rpm specs amd recompile all SRPM packages to install them in a different location. I could have compiled from tarballs in the first time, but I wanted to prove my point.
For those of you who like to place certain applications in/opt, here's a script I have declared in/etc/bashrc to automate your $PATH to reflect new directories in/opt. It was made by cpg, not me.
repath () { # pick new stuff off/opt for i in/opt/*/bin ; do if [ -x $i ] && (echo $PATH | grep -v --silent $i); then PATH="$PATH:$i" fi done }
PAL systems (including PAL Plus) use 625 horizontal lines of information. Of those 625, around 400 go to video, and the rest are used for sound, teletext, etc.
PAL Plus is compatible with PAL. That means you can watch PAL Plus programs on a standard TV (of course, you'll see the black bars). What PAL Plus does is to send encoded information hidden in the lines that are carrying the black bars. This encoded information is only readable by PAL Plus TV sets. Regular PAL TV sets will discard it and only show those 2 black bars.
These encoded lines contain video signal destined to improve/enhance the quality of the image. For example:
If 30% of the video carrier is encoded info for the PAL Plus video signal, what you get is the remaining 70% improved by 30%. Therefore: you get full quality picture on a wide screen TV set.
If, OTOH, you have a PAL (without the Plus) wide screen TV set, you are not decoding that info. That means you are ONLY zooming the image to make it fit your screen. I wouldn't recommend that. Yes, you watch the programs in wide screen, but you're losing image resolution!
Buying a PAL (without the Plus) widescreen TV, or broadcasting in the same manner, is just plain stupid when PAL Plus gives better image quality to widescreen TV owners and remians 100% compatible with regular PAL.
RealPlayerG2, as well as some older versions of RealPlayer 5.0 has a nasty bug: after exactly 1 hour of listening to a live broadcast, the player stops broadcasting, although the player goes on downloading the stream data. At least that happens under RedHat glibc-based systems. OTOH the latest 5.0 works great with the open.so patch.
Also, I do not understand why it has to steal almost all my cpu cycles (OTOH RealPlayer 5.0 = 2.5%). I added a nice -19 to G2 and works fine. Presets are not saved correctly. Instead of saving the remote location, it saves a local file created under/tmp.
I guess Im gonna wait a little til it gets better.
Do you really know what you're talking about? Corel said they wanted a desktop and would use KDE as long as it was the only option. It's not anymore, and they haven't made a release yet, so I bet they will take the options, study them side by side (on a lot of factors, not only UI) and pick the best. And I seriously doubt it will be KDE.
Those of you who are from Europe--especially Spain!-- I'd like to hear what you think about all this.
Ok, I'm from Spain, although I temporarily live in the US, I still go there very often.
The reason most people use programs for the windows patform is no other than the huge ammount of piracy among computer users. Although things have changed considerably and Linux is becoming more popular, with articles in many magazines and, last year, with the release of the 1st linux magazine in spanish.
Most people believe software is overpriced (and that *is* true), so they do not buy it, but copy it. Most people feel that if prices went down they would buy the programs. For instance, a company that has been VERY successful with this strategy is Dinamic Multimedia (the makers of PC-Futbol), who sell their games at a low price, so people *do* buy their games.
In Spain there has been so much demand for CD-R technology that today many people I know have their own CD-R unit. CD-R disks can be bought for about $1.25-$1.50 (just for audio, that is 2-3 times cheaper than chrome-based audio-cassettes!!!)
You're mixing apples with oranges. This article is not about politics. First: France's National Front has never gained *considerable* support. It still is a very much minority group in the french political scenario (thank God) Second: (I won't talk about UK's because I don't know much about it) However, Spain... Franco died 1975. In 1982 socialist governement was elected and ran the country for 15 years. In Germany the Social-Democrats were elected and formed an alliance with the Green Party. Anyway, I'm not going to go on because this is not the point. You missed it completely:
Again, they aren't talking about politics, but attitudes. For instance, would you ever consider having unprofitable railroads routes in your country? Well, if you are European, you ought to know there are many in Europe, and they're kept functioning only because it is a service to the citizens who live on those areas. Most European countries also have free health-services (including semi-free medicine administration), Work Unions are strong and very well-established, and many other social movements even have political representation, such as the Green Party. On the other hand, in the US the unions are so weak it seems they do not exist, I nev er heard of any Green Party (or Greenpeace rallies and mettings?), and there is nothing for free (but Coke refills and OSS) here.
Again, it is not a question of politics, but attitudes. From my living experience in the US, I can assure you Europe is far ahead in those aspects.
And can someone explain why MS would want to compare Win3.1 to Win98 rather than Win95 to Win98? Someone at the DOJ should ask Microsoft on stand why this comparison is so relevant.
Yep. I was thinking the same. Why are they comparing Win98 against Win3.1 instead of Win95? It does not make any sense, unless Win98 and Win95 perform the same with and without IE. And that is obviously the reason they used Win3.1.
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RMS had his moment in time/history. Unfortunately for him, he's become a dinousaur, and we all know what happened to dinosaurs...
Nevertheless, we must be thankful for his work, and the work of other programmers as well, on the GNU software which is a very very important part of any Linux distro. However, if people would have blindly followed all his recommendations, ou favorite OS would not have support for binary/proprietary dirvers such as nvidia's and we would be nuts trying to use the GNU/Hurd microkernel. Who would use anything else but Windows in today's modern computers?
Fortunately, there's more to GNU/Linux than the GNU software plus the Linux kernel.
All fanatisms suck big time.
Well, as I live in Spain and I watched Spain's TV news today, it looks like these "templars" just want recognition from the Pope. They haven't sued The Vatican or the Catholic Church. They have sued Benedict XVI as legal succesor of Clemente V, as he was the one who suspended them. They told reporters that getting monetary compensation from The Vatican is quite utopic and they were not finally looking for that. They just want the Catholic Church to realize how unfair they were to them.
Having said that, I believe they're going nowhere... If we suddenly started whining about all historic injustices we find in history books, judges wouldn't have time to take care of present ones.
So, George W. Bush, I, as citizen of the Spanish Empire and direct successor of Christopher Columbus I demand you give me back Florida, Louisiana (Sarcossy already agreed), Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California, and crush one and for all Cuba's communist regime (they'd never be there if you Americans had not supported Batista) so I can conquer them again in the name of the Holy Church of Tourism Money and Capitalism. You Southern Americans better move out 'cause I'm coming!!!!
Thank you for nothing :)
To some extent, this looks like when the first clone PCs appeared in the market. IBM claimed their hardware was better... at the end cloned pcs won the battle.
Check this:
p ecification_nightmare
http://diaryproducts.net/for/geek/microsoft_rtf_s
and this:
http://www.fileformat.info/format/rtf/egff.htm
But the moment mediocre webmasters get into IE7 and start coding stuff that only works under IE7, then we'll see people justifying their jump to XP-SP2 and newer.
Unfortunately, the only way I see Mozilla/Firefox win this war is by getting a so much large user base that mediocre webmasters will be forced to think twice before doing things that only work with IE. And the only way to achieve that is by:
1.- Putting more impressive features into Mozilla/firefox
2.- Linux/MacOS/BSD OSes get, altogether, at least a 30 to 35% share of all users running personal computers.
stop supporting microsoft with pirating their software!!!!!
The most accurate description on the success of Microsoft I've seen in a long time...
Well, there is/was the Mitsubishi Pajero. "Pajero" (in Spanish - at leat in Spain) is someone who masturbates a lot. There, and in other countries, it is now called Mitsubishi Montero.
I own a small OEM and consulting computer company. We focus our bussiness in Linux as a server, among other things. We've tried really hard to make our customers comfortable with Linux as a desktop alternative, and we have always found too many problems.
So I don't agree with the contents of the article. Linux, as a replacement for Windows is, in my opinion, harder to use for the regular non-technical user because:
1. There are too many applications that try to do the same thing (more or less). I hate when I see pretty much all distros installing by default repetitive/similar applications. Regular users don't want AbiWord, OpenOffice, KOffice, because one does one particular thing better than the other and viceversa. Same thing happens with the whole bunch of media players, text editors, graphic viewers, internet browsers, email applications, etc. Dont misunderstand me; I like having a choice, but most users don't want to choose among these things, they just want 1 office application that works just like MS Office, 1 media player that plays everything, 1 graphic viewer that displays all formats, and those users are the majority, and they dont want to learn how to use 30 applications to do what in Windows can be done in 7. These non-technical users will be who in the end will make linux win or loose the desktop war. I'd like distro designers to consider that more applications do not make a better distro. Just pick up the really good ones and leave the others as an option.
2. Installing applications is still too hard. Yes, we have rpm and deb files, but regular users do not know about dependencies and stuff like that. They want to double-click on an icon and follow some simple procedures and have an icon on their desktop and on the start menu. Today, still many linux applications are installed and you have to add the icon manually. We really need the GNOME and KDE people to work on this together.
3. Make linux desktop options less complicated. It takes for a regular user hours to check on all bells and whistles that come with i.e. KDEs control panel. I still have to find a Windows user complaining about how simple and unpleasant the windows desktop is.
In few words, make the linux desktop experience really easy-easy for non-technical unexperienced users. They are who will decide who wins this war.
My company is in Spain. This is my experience with Telefonica... My company is based in a small town 40 miles away the third largest city in Spain (Valencia). Until now, the only way to get broadband in small cities is to get an ADSL. Many ISP companies offer their broadband services, but all physical hooks to the backbones go through Telefonica (that means, when I buy broadband services from any ISP, the ISP actually buys the service from Telefonica and resells it to me). When I got the ADSL for my company, all IPs were static. Telfonica wouldnt admit it, because they were still working on the implementation of ADSL through PPPoE, with dynamic IPs. Later, I got a second ADSL for home, this time with PPPoE, or I had to pay an extra fee of 12 for the static IP. Since this was just for my home network, I thought having a dynamic IP would be ok. Almost all Telefonica routers come with NAT enabled so the routers are in charge of the PPPoE connection. However, I wanted my linux box to handle the connection and the routing processes with ip tables and shorewall, and dhcp for the LAN. So I put a Windows machine for the techie-guy to configure the modem/router in bridge-mode, disabling the router capabilities of the modem. Thank God I was there when he came, because he had no idea on configuring the service in bridge-mode!!!!! I had to do it myself while he was watching me do it!!! My company ADSL (Static IP, no PPPoE) works ok. Its a 2Mbps downstream, 300kbps upstream. In reality, I get 1.6Mbps downstream, almost 300kbps uptream. And I must be vey happy and thankful to mighty Telefonica, because although they sell me this connection as 2Mbbps/300kbps, there is a clause in the contract that says that they will only guarantee 10% of the speed you contract! My home ADSL basically sucks! Its a 512/128kbps, and I get synchro problems almost everyday. Each time I get a synchro problem I loose connection, therefore rp-pppoe has to restart (1-2 minute blackdown). Download speed ranges from 400 to 430kbps max. Well, under this scenario, you live in the US, for instance, and you call to complain, and there is a chance you get results. Under this scenario in Spain, you have to kiss their asses, because theyre still a monopoly everywhere but in large cities. I lived for 8 years in the US, and when I came back I had to switch my brain-chip so I wouldt get burned after speaking whith these people for 5 minutes. Until a couple of weeks ago, that I told them to either kiss my ass very very gently each time I spoke with them, or kiss my ass goodbye in less than 6 monts, where Ill be switching to a cable company that is now starting to offer telephone and broadband in some areas of the city I live. Finallym they understood me. About what happened with their mail... I have already checked that my primary company IP is in the range already blacklisted (yes, we are in the RIMA subnet, and it is, as of now, the best one Telefonica has). I called technical supoort to ask questions about this issue, and THEY DIDNT EVEN KNOW THAT THIS IS ALREADY HAPPENNING!!!!! In few words... Telefonica is the largest communications company in Spain and othre countries. They used to be a monopoly, they still are a monopoly in certain areas, and they still treat their customers as a monopoly, with bad support, assuming we are ignorants who live in oblivion, and charging high-rates for high-sucking-services. Examples: - In the mid 90s, the Infovia network of modems (what spaniard used to connect to the internet) had a maximum number of 10000 simultaneous connections for a country of almost 40 million people (Univerity of Austin in Texas had more for their students at that time) - Services such as caller id, and similar are still in development in many areas of the country - Telephone rates, in absolute terms, are not the hihest in Europe, but salaries in Spain are less than half than Europes, making these the higher rates in Europe. - Their technical and commercial staff lack manners, and knowledge, and be careful, they could charge you for unsolicited servi
Mine was a great ooportunity. I used to live in Austin TX, we got broadband @1.5Mbps with static IPs for less than $100/month at our appartment complex, and having installed linux just for learning purposes a year earlier I decided to put my own server on the net through the T1 I had for myself. It was great for 2 years, until the apartment management switched companies, and they switched to dynamic IPs through DHCP and lower speeds in order to being able to have more customers without installing more equipment.
:-)
Then, a year later, I moved out of the country
Now when they bring out WinME and DOS is gone, people suggest that they have to have an "excuse" to do it...
You got it wrong. It is a question of software architecture.
People complained that Win 9x wasn't a new OS, but a GUI on top of DOS (pretty much like Win 3.1 except for the use of protected drivers instead of real-mode). Now, WinME STILL is a shell on top of DOS with a more restricted access to the plain command.com, but don't say that DOS is gone, 'cause it's still there. and while it's there, I'd prefer to have access to the command prompt.
Yep. It's about 3 hours long. It is *not* the director's cut, but rather an alternative version for television. David Lynch does not sign the movie, he uses a pseudonym instead (can't remeber the name now). There are not many scenes added to the movie, but a rather lengthy introduction which makes the movie easier to understand for those who have not read the novel. It is curious to see the difference in the texture and the color of the footage added.
The movie is divided into episodes for television. It is available in very few video clubs. The only one I know in my area that rents it is Vulcan Video in Austin TX (in case you live nearby or visit the area)
Actaully, in Spanish the number 2 is pronounced with a short-closed "o". Spanish does not have the long "ou" sound or the grave vowels "è" and "ò". Just 1 grave vowel ("a") and the other 4 closed vowels, being only 5 sounds for all 5 vowels. Closed vowels are hard to compare against American English. Easier to imagine if you're Scottish or Irish.
It's the most annoying thing in the world to get redhat rpm's and watch them put it in a f'd up location, true
switchdesk is nice and all but leave it where it was intended by the programmers!
I completely agree with you. Having KDE and GNOME in
I have been using KDE since Beta2, compiling eveything from tarballs. I decided to try GNOME a few weeks ago. Since I did not want to mess
For those of you who like to place certain applications in
repath () { # pick new stuff off
for i in
if [ -x $i ] && (echo $PATH | grep -v --silent $i); then
PATH="$PATH:$i"
fi
done
}
PAL systems (including PAL Plus) use 625 horizontal lines of information. Of those 625, around 400 go to video, and the rest are used for sound, teletext, etc.
PAL Plus is compatible with PAL. That means you can watch PAL Plus programs on a standard TV (of course, you'll see the black bars). What PAL Plus does is to send encoded information hidden in the lines that are carrying the black bars. This encoded information is only readable by PAL Plus TV sets. Regular PAL TV sets will discard it and only show those 2 black bars.
These encoded lines contain video signal destined to improve/enhance the quality of the image. For example:
If 30% of the video carrier is encoded info for the PAL Plus video signal, what you get is the remaining 70% improved by 30%. Therefore: you get full quality picture on a wide screen TV set.
If, OTOH, you have a PAL (without the Plus) wide screen TV set, you are not decoding that info. That means you are ONLY zooming the image to make it fit your screen. I wouldn't recommend that. Yes, you watch the programs in wide screen, but you're losing image resolution!
Buying a PAL (without the Plus) widescreen TV, or broadcasting in the same manner, is just plain stupid when PAL Plus gives better image quality to widescreen TV owners and remians 100% compatible with regular PAL.
RealPlayerG2, as well as some older versions of RealPlayer 5.0 has a nasty bug: after exactly 1 hour of listening to a live broadcast, the player stops broadcasting, although the player goes on downloading the stream data. At least that happens under RedHat glibc-based systems. OTOH the latest 5.0 works great with the open.so patch.
/tmp.
Also, I do not understand why it has to steal almost all my cpu cycles (OTOH RealPlayer 5.0 = 2.5%). I added a nice -19 to G2 and works fine. Presets are not saved correctly. Instead of saving the remote location, it saves a local file created under
I guess Im gonna wait a little til it gets better.
That's what the logo in the webpage claims. However, www.netcraft.com says:
rebel.com is running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) on Solaris
linux.rebel.com is running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) on Solaris
Maybe I'm wrong, but I guess, since they're European, they may be talking about a PAL encoder.
I can see this guy is a good journalist. He has probably never seen a machine running Linux, yet he's talking as he was an expert...
Which will it be then?
when loading the module aha152x:
bug: kernel timer added twice at c021a72d (of course, that last "thing" changes any time I try to load the module)
Those of you who are from Europe--especially Spain!-- I'd like to hear what you think about all this.
Ok, I'm from Spain, although I temporarily live in the US, I still go there very often.
The reason most people use programs for the windows patform is no other than the huge ammount of piracy among computer users. Although things have changed considerably and Linux is becoming more popular, with articles in many magazines and, last year, with the release of the 1st linux magazine in spanish.
Most people believe software is overpriced (and that *is* true), so they do not buy it, but copy it. Most people feel that if prices went down they would buy the programs. For instance, a company that has been VERY successful with this strategy is Dinamic Multimedia (the makers of PC-Futbol), who sell their games at a low price, so people *do* buy their games.
In Spain there has been so much demand for CD-R technology that today many people I know have their own CD-R unit. CD-R disks can be bought for about $1.25-$1.50 (just for audio, that is 2-3 times cheaper than chrome-based audio-cassettes!!!)
Again, they aren't talking about politics, but attitudes. For instance, would you ever consider having unprofitable railroads routes in your country? Well, if you are European, you ought to know there are many in Europe, and they're kept functioning only because it is a service to the citizens who live on those areas. Most European countries also have free health-services (including semi-free medicine administration), Work Unions are strong and very well-established, and many other social movements even have political representation, such as the Green Party. On the other hand, in the US the unions are so weak it seems they do not exist, I nev er heard of any Green Party (or Greenpeace rallies and mettings?), and there is nothing for free (but Coke refills and OSS) here.
Again, it is not a question of politics, but attitudes. From my living experience in the US, I can assure you Europe is far ahead in those aspects.
Yep. I was thinking the same. Why are they comparing Win98 against Win3.1 instead of Win95? It does not make any sense, unless Win98 and Win95 perform the same with and without IE. And that is obviously the reason they used Win3.1.