I just found it to crash more frequently than I would like. I don't know if it's my version of java on linux that I am using, the version or my code inside. I used jbuilder for 2 years until I just got tired of the problems and bugs.
Being a little bored with VIM I am trying a few different editors and have had some suprising results. Most of my code I write is Java/Python/VelocityMacro/JSP. For me JEdit has been a godsend as I have found that I can do almost everything in there that I need (sorta sick like emacs) but I have a very elegent and easy to use editor with outstanding tools like a built in jpython, code insight, and class browsing.
There is even a plugin that allows basic VI emulation (command mode) which excites the hell out of me. The syntax highlighting seems a bit more complete than VIM's (it just works better, especially in tricky JSP pages).
Kate was an editor that I tried for a day or two, but with a VERY small syntax-highlighting pallete it's hard to be as productive as I am in VIM or JEdit.
Note, for java people.. JEdit is a nice lite alternative to something like NetBeans or JBuilder. It's probably not the best thing for those weak of heart though, plugins can be touchy and a little fickle to get working. If your comfortable with an Emacs level of configurability, you might like it. (Note, this is comming from a non-emacs user).
My Aunt and Uncle own a chain of clean-edited films. From what I understand from them, blockbuster is pushing for the ban of such edited movies to eliminate compitition. I am not sure if it's just ol-fashion competitor parania or truth, but thats their feeling.
Hmmm.. I had a similar issue at an apt. I was at, drunk people kept banging on the back door so I finally stuck a camera up. Then I captured video of drunk people banging on the door at 2am looking for friends.. hmm... I wish I had thought of how un-useful that footage was before going through the effort of hanging a camera in my back window.
Once in a while, a small gem will appear on slashdot and remind me why I still shop here.:)
I went through and added those groovy little zap-embeds and they are GREAT. I have been trying for weeks to get the crapy flash to turn off and now I can do it.
Kudo's to all involved with those little bad-boys.
Dude, your definition of easy software is wizards? You misunderstood what I am saying. Intututive software is what we need, and not needing to dig around in text files.
Again, this elitist attutude is not helping anybody.
Configuration files were made to be edited by hand! This is why Linux is so popular, flexibility. By hiding configuration behind a wizard and storing that configuration in a proprietary, non-text format like some large software vender who shall remain nameless, configuration files provide for flexibility. Not to mention that big configuration files (sendmail.cf for example) allow the user to learn from their mistakes, and it is a right of passage to set up one correctly for the first time. It used to be the same for X, but now with all of the wizards (which don't work on all new cards:-)), people don't have to learn to use their computer.
This is exactly why Linux is NOT popular. I would hardly say that most people want to sit and jack around with config files. If you want the flexibility , install from the source.. but it's going to be efforts like Red Carpet that take Linux to the masses, not the continued 'Flexibility' you speak of.
When Linux can breach 25% of the desktop market on the merit of this flexibility you speak of, I will eat my words.
Appearing in the list isn't the issue, once it's in the list being able to configure the refresh rates from inside xwindows would be nice. In windows and OSX I can go in and choose the resolution and then adjust the frequency. Until I got my 21" monitor, which would tell me what mode it's using, I had no idea if it was using 60hz or 90hz, other than if I was getting sea-sick or not.
Until someone can change this, it's going to continue to be a huge system level issue of using linux. But, as an OSX user, I am quite happy using that rather than using Linux on the desktop anyway.
UGG, this pervasive mentality is going to keep linux probably where it belongs.. only with the geeks.
I own a 21" monitor that can do 1280x1024 at 100hz. I don't see my model in the list of monitors in Xconfigure and that leaves me with two options. Brave the XFree86 config file, or live with a less than optimimum solution.
Gawd, point 10 as the original author stated is probably the biggest embarasment in the open source community. I would venture to say it's a complete failure of human interaction that non OF THE DISTORO'S I HAVE TRIED have fixed this.
CTRL-ALT-+/- works great if your config file is setup correctly, but it's not a likely, and where do you set the frequency?
I would say 80% of the linux geeks can't rant off their frequency-ranges v/h of their monitor. Who keeps the manual ?
Geezus, sorry for the rant.. but this topic has hit a cord with me.
The fastest one should be Sun's 1.4.0 release. Especially for Swing clients under X11, where they stopped moving bitmaps around instead of drawing commands.
Note that I answered this despite I think that you are a troll.:)
Hehe, on Linux w/IBM JDK 1.3.1 it still performed (our application, servlets) almost 25% faster than the latest Sun version 1.4.
I am not trolling, just reporting our usage. Take it for what it is. As for performance on a 2x2.2ghz machine, no doubt anything you run it will seem quick:)
We have 10 load balanced Java based app servers. Each one is a dual processor system. I have tried running our software with BSD's native Java platform and frankly it sucked. I am not trolling, I am not anything.. but the performance was almost 1/3 of what I could get on Linux with IBM's JDK. And if your suggestion to that issue is run in Linux compatibility mode, your smoking crack.
Even compared to Solaris, we get more bang for the buck out of our little linux machines. Especially since IBM's JDK is SOO damn fast.
You make it sound like Linux has no place, and anywhere you might use Linux, you should only use FreeBSD. Thats frankly untrue. We have 10 servers that are running Debian and they have had almost 0 problems (Other than loosing the hard disk on one of them).
We use an OpenBSD box as our firewall. I don't think I would trust FreeBSD for that either;-).
I personally would be more comfortable with the model of paying for the hardware, or flat license rather than paying for per-stream charges. The Real server is per-stream licensed, so if you buy a 10k stream server, it's going to be far far far more than what you would pay for an encoder card. The encoder card is great in that it keeps the cpu usage down a bit and lets you stream more from your hardware rather than throwing more boxes at. it.
hehe, mandrake helped me get into linux 3-4 years ago when I found that RedHat was at best discouraging.
I can say that they have helped me shape my career and my way of life through stronger income potential. $10 a month for one year is the LEAST I can do.
Since when was war fair? If slippery-slime will help bring home more troops, slime away. It's pretty easy for you to sign on to 'fair war' when your sitting behind your computer under the delusion that you will never be called out. I sure as hell bet your attutude would change if your where the one of the front line.
I agree with you, but there are a few other areas of growth that you didn't consider.
The global economy is becoming more aware of the volitility of the commercial software vendor.
The IT administrators on average at small, medium and large are becoming more and more familure with Linux on average. It's now just as easy to install as windows is for most non-experienced hackers and can very easily can be configured to be a dns/smtp/etc etc server. You don't need to put it in your budget, and pc's are such a commodity these days, who doesn't have an old pentium around to throw linux on for this and that. Note this is an observation not an assertion, and not based on any facts.
Product activation. Come on, how many computers in the past have you put windows on because you could, and thought you would just deal with it later, or ask your employer, IT mgr, whatever to deal with the details later. I have done it on at least 15-20 machines in the past 4-5 years. Will I ever do that with XP, nope. The other day we had an employee leave, I threw linux on it because it was running windows 98, didn't want to deal with buying a copy of XP and we are trying to be complient and budgets are VERY tight. Linux is a convenient install now that Windows isn't. It's not that i'm dishonest, I just often times need something and don't want to run down to PC-World to buy it.. (weekends in europe can be a bitch for open stores).
Elite-Factor. I think that lots of junior up and comming admins feel that linux is l33t and rules and all that. Bit extreme, and again this is just a casual observation.. but it seems that Linux is being deployed in certain situations because the admin 'can'. (if I was an IT admin), I would want to put linux into the corp to create more value for myself.. it's not as easy to manage as a bunch of NT servers possibly and linux machines can be a bit more cryptic in managing, especially if done poorly.:) Anyway, another reason for IT folks to put boxes in.. but maybe a reason for companies to keep em out.
wow, I wish that my job was simple enough I could get away with such stuff.
I spend my time with 4 windows open, a web browser, 3 IM windows, email client, Kivio (visio clone) and often using AbiWord.
I just find these tools productive for me. My friend just does perl web development and might be able to get away with just a terminal, except his testing with a web browser.. oh well
sounds like your doing a great job of just keeping your life simple:)
Hmm... lame ass example. I would like to have my cake and eat it too, and as technology has proved we can. Look at low output chips such as the transmeta, PPC and ARM processors..
next thing you will say, use TWM instead of KDE or Gnome because they run better on your 486. Doesn't matter how efficient you try to make KDE, it's not going to ever be as efficient as TWM, because KDE can simply do more for you.
Imagine if we kept that mindset, geezus, none of us would of ever left dos.
Actually, after seeing the Fish logo a little while ago (5-6 months), I thought geez... those guys are either very arogant SOB's or VERY sure of their software with such claims (turns out they are both!!:) ). Since putting it on an old machine which is now my home nat device, I have been a OBSD fan. Even moved a box into production.
I could almost feel good about this, if it weren't for the fact that iD is competing with a monopoly, and is succeeding only because they remain privately owned and hold their market presence through sheer programming prowess.
Makes you wonder if it's just a matter of time before there are extensions to d3d to make something like the quake engine redundant as a licensed technology. The quality of the quake games have been less and less important compared to the quake-engined games. Look at Half Life/ Counter Strike, Medal of Honor - Day of Defeat, etc. They are the real games, not Quake III Team Arena. Doom 3 might be a great seller, but I don't see ID veering from their pattern of game design...
Hopefully the federal government will be able to keep enough control on MS to keep such a thing from happening.. who knows.
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I just found it to crash more frequently than I would like. I don't know if it's my version of java on linux that I am using, the version or my code inside. I used jbuilder for 2 years until I just got tired of the problems and bugs.
Being a little bored with VIM I am trying a few different editors and have had some suprising results. Most of my code I write is Java/Python/VelocityMacro/JSP. For me JEdit has been a godsend as I have found that I can do almost everything in there that I need (sorta sick like emacs) but I have a very elegent and easy to use editor with outstanding tools like a built in jpython, code insight, and class browsing.
There is even a plugin that allows basic VI emulation (command mode) which excites the hell out of me. The syntax highlighting seems a bit more complete than VIM's (it just works better, especially in tricky JSP pages).
Kate was an editor that I tried for a day or two, but with a VERY small syntax-highlighting pallete it's hard to be as productive as I am in VIM or JEdit.
Note, for java people.. JEdit is a nice lite alternative to something like NetBeans or JBuilder. It's probably not the best thing for those weak of heart though, plugins can be touchy and a little fickle to get working. If your comfortable with an Emacs level of configurability, you might like it. (Note, this is comming from a non-emacs user).
Cheers
My Aunt and Uncle own a chain of clean-edited films. From what I understand from them, blockbuster is pushing for the ban of such edited movies to eliminate compitition. I am not sure if it's just ol-fashion competitor parania or truth, but thats their feeling.
hmm... history teaches you shouldn't write app on Java 1.0.
Thats about all the Corel story teaches us.
Are you smoking crack? Your just plain wrong.
I have KDE running on a 300 mhz p2 and it's not as fast as OSX on my tiBook? I have a G4-466 tower that feels faster than KDE 3.0.2 on my p2-300.
Hmmm.. I had a similar issue at an apt. I was at, drunk people kept banging on the back door so I finally stuck a camera up. Then I captured video of drunk people banging on the door at 2am looking for friends.. hmm... I wish I had thought of how un-useful that footage was before going through the effort of hanging a camera in my back window.
oh well
Once in a while, a small gem will appear on slashdot and remind me why I still shop here.
I went through and added those groovy little zap-embeds and they are GREAT. I have been trying for weeks to get the crapy flash to turn off and now I can do it.
Kudo's to all involved with those little bad-boys.
Cheers
Dude, your definition of easy software is wizards? You misunderstood what I am saying. Intututive software is what we need, and not needing to dig around in text files.
Again, this elitist attutude is not helping anybody.
Configuration files were made to be edited by hand! This is why Linux is so popular, flexibility. By hiding configuration behind a wizard and storing that configuration in a proprietary, non-text format like some large software vender who shall remain nameless, configuration files provide for flexibility. Not to mention that big configuration files (sendmail.cf for example) allow the user to learn from their mistakes, and it is a right of passage to set up one correctly for the first time. It used to be the same for X, but now with all of the wizards (which don't work on all new cards :-)), people don't have to learn to use their computer.
This is exactly why Linux is NOT popular. I would hardly say that most people want to sit and jack around with config files. If you want the flexibility , install from the source.. but it's going to be efforts like Red Carpet that take Linux to the masses, not the continued 'Flexibility' you speak of.
When Linux can breach 25% of the desktop market on the merit of this flexibility you speak of, I will eat my words.
Appearing in the list isn't the issue, once it's in the list being able to configure the refresh rates from inside xwindows would be nice. In windows and OSX I can go in and choose the resolution and then adjust the frequency. Until I got my 21" monitor, which would tell me what mode it's using, I had no idea if it was using 60hz or 90hz, other than if I was getting sea-sick or not.
Until someone can change this, it's going to continue to be a huge system level issue of using linux. But, as an OSX user, I am quite happy using that rather than using Linux on the desktop anyway.
OS9 and OSX are VERY diferent from the ground up. I would be surprised if fundamental security issues that are found in one, exist in the other.
Cheers
UGG, this pervasive mentality is going to keep linux probably where it belongs.. only with the geeks.
I own a 21" monitor that can do 1280x1024 at 100hz. I don't see my model in the list of monitors in Xconfigure and that leaves me with two options. Brave the XFree86 config file, or live with a less than optimimum solution.
Gawd, point 10 as the original author stated is probably the biggest embarasment in the open source community. I would venture to say it's a complete failure of human interaction that non OF THE DISTORO'S I HAVE TRIED have fixed this.
CTRL-ALT-+/- works great if your config file is setup correctly, but it's not a likely, and where do you set the frequency?
I would say 80% of the linux geeks can't rant off their frequency-ranges v/h of their monitor. Who keeps the manual ?
Geezus, sorry for the rant.. but this topic has hit a cord with me.
The fastest one should be Sun's 1.4.0 release. Especially for Swing clients under X11, where they stopped moving bitmaps around instead of drawing commands.
:)
:)
Note that I answered this despite I think that you are a troll.
Hehe, on Linux w/IBM JDK 1.3.1 it still performed (our application, servlets) almost 25% faster than the latest Sun version 1.4.
I am not trolling, just reporting our usage. Take it for what it is. As for performance on a 2x2.2ghz machine, no doubt anything you run it will seem quick
Cheers
Hmm.. I will use our company as an example.
We have 10 load balanced Java based app servers. Each one is a dual processor system. I have tried running our software with BSD's native Java platform and frankly it sucked. I am not trolling, I am not anything.. but the performance was almost 1/3 of what I could get on Linux with IBM's JDK. And if your suggestion to that issue is run in Linux compatibility mode, your smoking crack.
Even compared to Solaris, we get more bang for the buck out of our little linux machines. Especially since IBM's JDK is SOO damn fast.
You make it sound like Linux has no place, and anywhere you might use Linux, you should only use FreeBSD. Thats frankly untrue. We have 10 servers that are running Debian and they have had almost 0 problems (Other than loosing the hard disk on one of them).
We use an OpenBSD box as our firewall. I don't think I would trust FreeBSD for that either
Cheers
Else they could loose their source of income, bored techies browsing slashdot at work.
I personally would be more comfortable with the model of paying for the hardware, or flat license rather than paying for per-stream charges. The Real server is per-stream licensed, so if you buy a 10k stream server, it's going to be far far far more than what you would pay for an encoder card. The encoder card is great in that it keeps the cpu usage down a bit and lets you stream more from your hardware rather than throwing more boxes at. it.
hehe, mandrake helped me get into linux 3-4 years ago when I found that RedHat was at best discouraging.
I can say that they have helped me shape my career and my way of life through stronger income potential. $10 a month for one year is the LEAST I can do.
Already joined this morning.
Since when was war fair? If slippery-slime will help bring home more troops, slime away. It's pretty easy for you to sign on to 'fair war' when your sitting behind your computer under the delusion that you will never be called out. I sure as hell bet your attutude would change if your where the one of the front line.
I agree with you, but there are a few other areas of growth that you didn't consider.
.. but it seems that Linux is being deployed in certain situations because the admin 'can'. (if I was an IT admin), I would want to put linux into the corp to create more value for myself.. it's not as easy to manage as a bunch of NT servers possibly and linux machines can be a bit more cryptic in managing, especially if done poorly. :) Anyway, another reason for IT folks to put boxes in .. but maybe a reason for companies to keep em out.
The global economy is becoming more aware of the volitility of the commercial software vendor.
The IT administrators on average at small, medium and large are becoming more and more familure with Linux on average. It's now just as easy to install as windows is for most non-experienced hackers and can very easily can be configured to be a dns/smtp/etc etc server. You don't need to put it in your budget, and pc's are such a commodity these days, who doesn't have an old pentium around to throw linux on for this and that. Note this is an observation not an assertion, and not based on any facts.
Product activation. Come on, how many computers in the past have you put windows on because you could, and thought you would just deal with it later, or ask your employer, IT mgr, whatever to deal with the details later. I have done it on at least 15-20 machines in the past 4-5 years. Will I ever do that with XP, nope. The other day we had an employee leave, I threw linux on it because it was running windows 98, didn't want to deal with buying a copy of XP and we are trying to be complient and budgets are VERY tight. Linux is a convenient install now that Windows isn't. It's not that i'm dishonest, I just often times need something and don't want to run down to PC-World to buy it.. (weekends in europe can be a bitch for open stores).
Elite-Factor. I think that lots of junior up and comming admins feel that linux is l33t and rules and all that. Bit extreme, and again this is just a casual observation
Cheers
wow, I wish that my job was simple enough I could get away with such stuff.
I spend my time with 4 windows open, a web browser, 3 IM windows, email client, Kivio (visio clone) and often using AbiWord.
I just find these tools productive for me. My friend just does perl web development and might be able to get away with just a terminal, except his testing with a web browser.. oh well
sounds like your doing a great job of just keeping your life simple
Hmm... lame ass example. I would like to have my cake and eat it too, and as technology has proved we can. Look at low output chips such as the transmeta, PPC and ARM processors..
next thing you will say, use TWM instead of KDE or Gnome because they run better on your 486. Doesn't matter how efficient you try to make KDE, it's not going to ever be as efficient as TWM, because KDE can simply do more for you.
Imagine if we kept that mindset, geezus, none of us would of ever left dos.
Great logo, I love that damn fish.
Actually, after seeing the Fish logo a little while ago (5-6 months), I thought geez
Cheers OBSD team.
He is probably from Canada
Not all Americans are sad they lost, it was a great game and exemplifies why the sport is great.
I could almost feel good about this, if it weren't for the fact that iD is competing with a monopoly, and is succeeding only because they remain privately owned and hold their market presence through sheer programming prowess.
Makes you wonder if it's just a matter of time before there are extensions to d3d to make something like the quake engine redundant as a licensed technology. The quality of the quake games have been less and less important compared to the quake-engined games. Look at Half Life/ Counter Strike, Medal of Honor - Day of Defeat, etc. They are the real games, not Quake III Team Arena. Doom 3 might be a great seller, but I don't see ID veering from their pattern of game design...
Hopefully the federal government will be able to keep enough control on MS to keep such a thing from happening.. who knows.
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