I'm also impressed that included in this is logic to notice hardware changes when the system is asleep (ok, more like cat-napping). For example, I typically shut the lid and disconnect my network cable at work, then bring it home and wake it to my WiFi router, OSX will automatically sense and join the new network (same in reverse). The network libraries are robust enough to not cause terrible application-level errors or crashes.
My Debian laptop does this -- when I shut the lid it suspends to RAM and I run ifplugd which monitors the link status on the network card. I can come into the office, plug the ethernet into my laptop and open the lid, it resumes, notices the connection and brings up the interface.
Further magic to detect where I am based on a quick ARP ping means that the laptop knows what mail server to use when sending mails so the messages I wrote on the train to work get sent correctly before I've even sat down.
It has to be said, the Debian network configuration layer is very easy to setup for the simple case, yet powerful enough for this.
The point of ACPI is that the software has a say in what happens -- that is the failing of APM (the hardware controls it all).
It's very trivial to configure acpid to switch to S3 when the lid shuts, and I'm just surprised more distributions don't ship like that out of the box (though I have a feeling Mandrake does).
Mirror.ac.uk seems to scale to whatever bandwidth you have. At work we're on a 2M cable modem, and that is maxed out when doing a download from mirror.ac.uk (~270kb/s). 1 meg in 4 seconds is *nice* when downloading ISO images.
If we're talking on TV, then obviously B5 with the super-manuverable fighters has to win.
However, Excession (Iain M Banks) has to win for all-time greatest space battle, despite it lasting ~0.1 seconds. Several massive ships, all travelling faster than light, controlled by AIs, looping around and hyperspace. Somehow the speed and scale of the fight came out of the book, it was wonderful.
(this post is heavily biased towards Debian as most apt-get uses are Debian users, but I may be wrong)
Re (1), and the kernel -- I really recommend using kernel-package. Configure your kernel as you normally would, but call make-kpkg instead of make bzimage. This results in a set of debs you can install as usual, which has the advantage that they are all versioned and if your latest compile doesn't actually work, you can trivially backtrack to the previous build without worrying about modules hanging around.
Re (2), if you don't trust the security of the distributed ssh, sendmail, etc, why should you trust the distributed glibc, vi, grep...
Re (3), backports.org has recompiled for Woody huge amounts of unstable and testing. Much easier than building from source -- speaking as a packager for Debian there are many things which raw upstream tarballs forget to do or need patching to work correctly.
SVGALib is a 2D library, so it won't match OpenGL.
SDL, however -- http://www.libsdl.org/opengl/index.php -- *is* OpenGL when used in 3D.
And please don't tell me all Win32 apps use the same toolkit. There is the standard toolkit which comes with Windows, the Office 2000 toolkit, the Office XP toolkit, the Macromedia toolkit, and yesterday I installed the Sony NetMD software to be greated by *another* toolkit.
Win32 UI is as fragmented as Linux, the only difference is that MS can claim a standard exists.
Or an IBM ThinkPad or some other laptop with a suitably high build quality that you don't need an extended warranty. ThinkPads have 3 years complete cover.
I'm curious -- what did you contribute to the distribution? Documentation? Code? QA?
Having your software packaged by a Red Hat packager and included doesn't count, as that isn't developing *for* Red Hat, its developing independently and Red Hat doing the packaging.
And how does one get online to connect to the VPN? AOL is very popular as it has access points world wide, which means that if you give every travelling person an AOL account and a VPN login, they can get to the company network from anywhere in the world securely.
Last year a Windows-based ATM appeared on the corner near my girlfriend's mum's house. Looks very pretty, colour LCD screen, landscape pictures, etc. The third time I used it there was a dialog splashed across the middle of the screen, warning me that the system was running out of virtual memory and I should close some applications...
Note that most of the London (at least, maybe England) rail status notification boards are WinNT boxes. Its often to walk in and watch these reboot, or have "Running out of virtual memory..." splashed across the route of the 16:05 the Caterham.
Hell, I'm here as I use GTKMM at work, and there is a GTKMM talk.
From my point of view the actual talk was useless (as it was an introduction, and I knew everything), but actually meeting Murray (the gtkmm maintainer) is invaluable.
Somehow we managed to get the company to pay for flights and accomodation, but I didn't expect that...
What's actually in XD2
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· Score: 5, Informative
This review is pants, it just talks about features of GNOME 2.
However, I've seen Michael Meek's OpenOffice slides and XD2 has:
* A rocking OpenOffice.org which blends totally with GNOME 2 * printers:/// so that managing print queues can be done in Nautilus * a CUPS admin tool which isn't a web page * tight integration with network sharing (I've heard rumours about nfs:/// working again, but most sources say that XD2 is Samba biased)
http://ximian.com/products/desktop/ just came up, but the server is kinda slashdotted atm...
Do *not* press Build
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· Score: 2, Informative
Pressing the Build button is about the worst thing you could ever do in Glade.
Save the.glade file, and then use libglade to load and build the interface at runtime..glade files are very simple to parse so building the interface at runtime is very fast, and you have far more freedom to alter the interface at any point in the future.
Of course, many people have been using transparent panels since GNOME 1. All the code does it take a snapshot of your wallpaper and crop it. A one line 'convert' call will do the magic.
In fact I still use pixmap panels, as it means I can use GIMP to add funky shaded bars and other l33tness which "transparent" can't do.
The lack of MDI (the single window frame) is a major step forwards in usability. MDI is a poor-mans virtual desktop. What if I want to have a web page open and select a brush at the same time? With MDI I have to resize and move the main window to some silly size, hope that I can still see the brush window, and then put IE next to it. With GIMP I just open a web browser, and I can see both.
Don't take this as gospel, but AFAIK the PNG spec only allows one image per file. That would probably be a copy of the image flattened, then each layer of the image (and the vector parts) would be stored as custom data chunks.
I've editted PDFs, you just need to own Adobe Acrobat, Not Acrobat Reader.
In this way the comparison to GIF/etc is more appropriate.
I can create a file in Photoshop and save it as a PSD file, I get layers, effects, editable type, etc. If I save it as a PNG I just get a copy of the pixels. I can make simple changes but nothing complex, as it is just a single layer.
I can create a file in Word and save it as a DOC file. I get tables, columns, editable pictures etc. If I save it as a PDF I get a copy of the text. I can make simple changes but nothing complex, as it is just a collection of character and lines.
I have edited a white paper we released as a PDF when a product was renamed. I opened it in Acrobad, selected the Text button, clicked in the body text and editted the text.
Slashdot Mirror
My Debian laptop does this -- when I shut the lid it suspends to RAM and I run ifplugd which monitors the link status on the network card. I can come into the office, plug the ethernet into my laptop and open the lid, it resumes, notices the connection and brings up the interface.
Further magic to detect where I am based on a quick ARP ping means that the laptop knows what mail server to use when sending mails so the messages I wrote on the train to work get sent correctly before I've even sat down.
It has to be said, the Debian network configuration layer is very easy to setup for the simple case, yet powerful enough for this.
The point of ACPI is that the software has a say in what happens -- that is the failing of APM (the hardware controls it all).
It's very trivial to configure acpid to switch to S3 when the lid shuts, and I'm just surprised more distributions don't ship like that out of the box (though I have a feeling Mandrake does).
Mirror.ac.uk seems to scale to whatever bandwidth you have. At work we're on a 2M cable modem, and that is maxed out when doing a download from mirror.ac.uk (~270kb/s). 1 meg in 4 seconds is *nice* when downloading ISO images.
If we're talking on TV, then obviously B5 with the super-manuverable fighters has to win.
However, Excession (Iain M Banks) has to win for all-time greatest space battle, despite it lasting ~0.1 seconds. Several massive ships, all travelling faster than light, controlled by AIs, looping around and hyperspace. Somehow the speed and scale of the fight came out of the book, it was wonderful.
(this post is heavily biased towards Debian as most apt-get uses are Debian users, but I may be wrong)
Re (1), and the kernel -- I really recommend using kernel-package. Configure your kernel as you normally would, but call make-kpkg instead of make bzimage. This results in a set of debs you can install as usual, which has the advantage that they are all versioned and if your latest compile doesn't actually work, you can trivially backtrack to the previous build without worrying about modules hanging around.
Re (2), if you don't trust the security of the distributed ssh, sendmail, etc, why should you trust the distributed glibc, vi, grep...
Re (3), backports.org has recompiled for Woody huge amounts of unstable and testing. Much easier than building from source -- speaking as a packager for Debian there are many things which raw upstream tarballs forget to do or need patching to work correctly.
Damn I'm in a picky mood atm.
SVGALib is a 2D library, so it won't match OpenGL.
SDL, however -- http://www.libsdl.org/opengl/index.php -- *is* OpenGL when used in 3D.
And please don't tell me all Win32 apps use the same toolkit. There is the standard toolkit which comes with Windows, the Office 2000 toolkit, the Office XP toolkit, the Macromedia toolkit, and yesterday I installed the Sony NetMD software to be greated by *another* toolkit.
Win32 UI is as fragmented as Linux, the only difference is that MS can claim a standard exists.
Or an IBM ThinkPad or some other laptop with a suitably high build quality that you don't need an extended warranty. ThinkPads have 3 years complete cover.
I'm curious -- what did you contribute to the distribution? Documentation? Code? QA?
Having your software packaged by a Red Hat packager and included doesn't count, as that isn't developing *for* Red Hat, its developing independently and Red Hat doing the packaging.
And how does one get online to connect to the VPN? AOL is very popular as it has access points world wide, which means that if you give every travelling person an AOL account and a VPN login, they can get to the company network from anywhere in the world securely.
Dude, Novell bought SuSe to destroy KDE so that GNOME can win.
GNOME FOREVER!
The article explicity states that NTFS is not going anyway, as it works. Did you actually read the article?
Last year a Windows-based ATM appeared on the corner near my girlfriend's mum's house. Looks very pretty, colour LCD screen, landscape pictures, etc. The third time I used it there was a dialog splashed across the middle of the screen, warning me that the system was running out of virtual memory and I should close some applications...
Note that most of the London (at least, maybe England) rail status notification boards are WinNT boxes. Its often to walk in and watch these reboot, or have "Running out of virtual memory..." splashed across the route of the 16:05 the Caterham.
Hell, I'm here as I use GTKMM at work, and there is a GTKMM talk.
From my point of view the actual talk was useless (as it was an introduction, and I knew everything), but actually meeting Murray (the gtkmm maintainer) is invaluable.
Somehow we managed to get the company to pay for flights and accomodation, but I didn't expect that...
This review is pants, it just talks about features of GNOME 2.
However, I've seen Michael Meek's OpenOffice slides and XD2 has:
* A rocking OpenOffice.org which blends totally with GNOME 2
* printers:/// so that managing print queues can be done in Nautilus
* a CUPS admin tool which isn't a web page
* tight integration with network sharing (I've heard rumours about nfs:/// working again, but most sources say that XD2 is Samba biased)
http://ximian.com/products/desktop/ just came up, but the server is kinda slashdotted atm...
Pressing the Build button is about the worst thing you could ever do in Glade.
.glade file, and then use libglade to load and build the interface at runtime. .glade files are very simple to parse so building the interface at runtime is very fast, and you have far more freedom to alter the interface at any point in the future.
Save the
Don't press Build!
Dude, E and G split years ago.
GNOME 1.4 officially used Sawfish instead of E, as E is, well, too damn huge to act solely as a window manager.
Of course, many people have been using transparent panels since GNOME 1. All the code does it take a snapshot of your wallpaper and crop it. A one line 'convert' call will do the magic.
In fact I still use pixmap panels, as it means I can use GIMP to add funky shaded bars and other l33tness which "transparent" can't do.
There has been two version of gdkpixbuf since GNOME 1. Finished trolling yet?
As a part-time 56k user, I can state that adzapper really does help the web speed up.
The lack of MDI (the single window frame) is a major step forwards in usability. MDI is a poor-mans virtual desktop. What if I want to have a web page open and select a brush at the same time? With MDI I have to resize and move the main window to some silly size, hope that I can still see the brush window, and then put IE next to it. With GIMP I just open a web browser, and I can see both.
Dude, what part of "We currently use Visual Studio... and want to move away from Microsoft" did you not understand?
I'm sure a read a story this morning which said they were only 'hidden', not removed.
So, are the core IE executables/DLLs actually deleted from the disk? Or are the just disabled?
Kaffe is a free JVM. It may not rock, but if you want to remain "pure" it is a choice.
And last time I checked dselect on my debian box there were plenty of Java applications packaged...
Don't take this as gospel, but AFAIK the PNG spec only allows one image per file. That would probably be a copy of the image flattened, then each layer of the image (and the vector parts) would be stored as custom data chunks.
I've editted PDFs, you just need to own Adobe Acrobat, Not Acrobat Reader.
In this way the comparison to GIF/etc is more appropriate.
I can create a file in Photoshop and save it as a PSD file, I get layers, effects, editable type, etc. If I save it as a PNG I just get a copy of the pixels. I can make simple changes but nothing complex, as it is just a single layer.
I can create a file in Word and save it as a DOC file. I get tables, columns, editable pictures etc. If I save it as a PDF I get a copy of the text. I can make simple changes but nothing complex, as it is just a collection of character and lines.
I have edited a white paper we released as a PDF when a product was renamed. I opened it in Acrobad, selected the Text button, clicked in the body text and editted the text.