However, if you're traveling it is a bother to carry all the chargers around.
Also, finding a power plug might be an issue.
It would be so much easier if the devices could use a standardized charger.
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I haven't seen any signs of Sun dropping the ball here in Finland. At least we're getting all the support we need for implementing Qubes as project servers for the construction industry.
The Qubes are really cool and capable little servers for runnign web-based project banks, especially with the RAID-enabled Qube Pro line.
Yes, Linux support for Epoc devices is abysmal at the moment. Hopefully SyncML will help with this, though.
The lack of available synchronization options between Linux software and a Psion PDA is why I've considered switching my trusty Psion Series 5mx to a Palm.
Luckily, the is at least some information for Epoc-Linux interoperability on http://5-tux.ifrance.com/5-tux/. It is in French, though.
If you read the specs, SyncML is mostly concerned about how to make the sync connection between devices, and how to handle possible versioning conflicts, etc.
It doesn't make any requirements on the actual data being synchronized, but rather leaves that to data abstraction standards like vCalendar and vCard. So basically any data could be transferred using SyncML as long as both the client and server side can use the same abstraction standard.
Not only when it comes to translations, but context-layout in general. PHP is nice and dandy, but for somehow it is really hard to seperate content and layout, or content and language support/translations for that matter.
You might want to check out Midgard then. It is a Web application server that uses PHP as its scripting language. While it isn't that much better in internationalization, it at least has good support for separating layout, structure and content into different components.
We've been using the method of storing strings that need to be translated into arrays successfully with some sites. An example here would be StoneJobs.com.
There strings used in either the layout or applications are handled in the following way:
I think it is backwards compatible enough, at least if you use the 'transitional' DTD. It isn't that hard to convert old sites to it.
And anyhow, the idea here is that by starting to enforce syntatically correct mark-up, the browser engines can be a lot simpler and so browsers can potentially be less bloated.
Old (existing) browsers can't parse it properly
They can't? Why? If you follow the backwards compatibility guidelines that are provided in the appendix of the spec, you shouldn't have problems with existing browsers.
As a real-life example, there is a site my girlfriend built last weekend for the local Kendo society at http://kendo.greywolves.org. That site is in XHTML, and I believe older browsers will mostly have problems with only the PNG images there.
Compared to what general XML can offer, it's a pretty lame DTD
That is not the point here. The point here is to allow gradual transition from legacy SGML-based HTML to te XML-based one. And anyway, it is possible to put parts of a XHTML document to follow another DTD by using the XML namespaces. This way you can use any XML DTD you want, and still stay relatively compliant with existing browsers.
There is a lot hype around XHTML, but I think it really is a good idea (and standard), even while not everything that people write about it is correct.
And as to who will be using it, I'm doing all my Web development work with it even now, and my employer is also slowly transitioning to the standard...
I hope this helped at least slightly with the question...
Can those of us on other distributions try it out without installing Corel?
It is a.deb package, so at least users of Debian 2.1 (or Storm Linux 2000) should be able to run it, provided they have the needed libraries. I remember reading somewhere that Corel Linux included a copy of Qt that was modified by Corel, so it might not work with the regular Qt. As to copyright issues in this, I'm not sure.
I'm sorry I can't provide any real details, as my copy of the (download version of) Corel Linux is in the office. I'll followup this tomorrow if I have time.
If you have the Corel CD available, try browsing around it and see what dpkg (or alien) says about the package.
What comments do Corel Linux users have about the new file manager. How does it compare with KDE, GNOME, or others?
It is pretty similar with KDE's file manager, although it felt slightly slower (as did everything in Corel Linux - possibly has something to do with the Qt modifications). Like KFM, it also has the capability to browse Web and FTP sites. However, its HTML viewing wasn't quite as good as the one in KDE 1.1.2 (judging from a sample of two or three sites i've tried with both).
Now, the idea of being able to browse NFS and Windows Networking shares with the same file manager without having to mount them first was quite nice. However, this was something that seemed to cause a lot of instability in the file manager. Mounting SMB shares didn't work in the version I tried, and trying to follow shortcuts created to SMB shared crashed the browser - which proceeded to take the whole OS with it (which I haven't yet seen any other app do in Linux!)
So, all in all, I think CFM showed lots of promise. I'd advise on waiting it mature a couple of versions before using it for production purposes, though.
this sucks for me, being a new @home user. i have wanted to stop by the usenet, but i havent had a chance to anytime. now im being punished for something im not even doing... anyway a hapless victim could get around this?
Just let @home know how you feel about it. And not only their support, but also their sales. That ought to help as the UDP will be lifted once they clean up their act.
But I blew my top when I found out that I can't mount a FAT filesystem, and I cannot recompile to enable it.
IIRC, Storm has FAT support in it, it is just there as a module instead of being compiled into the kernel. Just run modprobe vfat as root and you should be fine...
I'm running Storm Linux 2000 (rain) on my laptop, and have generally liked it. While many parts are still quite unfinished, it shows a lot of promise.
Of course, being a laptop user, I would've appreciated greatly having PCMCIA modules and kernel sources on the CD-ROM. Oh well, I could install the ones from Corel's CD so there were no problems after all. Now if I only could get SAT's network module to remember its settings.;-)
Corel 1.0 is basically Debian 2.1 (slink) with some added/upgraded software. Just add a Debian archive into your/etc/apt/sources.list and run apt-get update; apt-get install make.
Of course, you can do all this with the Corel Update tool (which actually is a quite nice interface to apt).
Heretik's FinalE for E is clean, good looking and efficient - just what most of us want from a Window Manager theme. It gives E a nice slightly futuristic look similar to some themes in BlackBox.
The Viking Longboat was no ordinary boat. It was designed to be sailed up a low-lying beach, picked up by the oars, and carried to where the raid was to be. Treasure could then just be thrown into the boat, by the raiders, allowing them to take more than they could possibly have done, if they'd had to shove the loot into pockets.
These boats had also some other things making them quite interesting hacks. For example, they were built from damp wood to make them flexible, and then tarred to keep the dampness in the timber. This enabled the (actually very small) boats to survive even quite bad weather conditions.
There have been many attempts at building viking-style longboats in the last decades. Here in Finland, we have at least two organizations working on such projects. One of them, the Rus Project has even sailed around the Europe on their ship.
And more importantly, they don't run anything written by Microshaft!
Alas, while the actual machine doesn't carry any Microsoft software, most of the development and synchronization tools are Windows-specific.
I really like my old Series 5, but sometimes the inability to move any data between it and my desktop computer irritates me. Hopefully Symbian/Psion will start seeing demand for Linux-based connectivity software and open up their specs!
Nokia 9110 Communicator is a nifty little thing, has both advantages and disadvantages to the Psion S5/Ericsson SH888 combo I use.
Having the phone integrated with the PDA is nice because you don't have to worry about IR eyes being messy, and you can type more easily while walking, etc. Of course Bluetooth will make that possible also with separated units.
According to the HBS Press 1996 book "The Internet Strategy Handbook", DEC (now owned by Compaq) was doing something similar already in late 1992 with their Alpha "Test Drive" program.
I'm not sure if they had anything similar after that, but it is nice to see them feature Linux this way.
Creator of the Linux Operating System, Linus Torvalds's employes creates some questions: Nobody knows what it does. Torvalds made one revelation to Tietoviikko today: He revealed when he will reveal what Transmeat does. The schedule for the announcement will be told in the Comdex trade show in mid-November.
No further information on Torvald's mysterious employes has spread to public. Transmeta has been suspected for example to be working on a highly efficient microprocessor. Or some other groundbreaking program. Transmeta's homepage at www.transmeta.com doesn't offer too many hints - not even in the source code for the page, which points out that there are no revelations on Transmeta there.
"My strongest guess is that Transmeta doesn't do anything", said Risto Siilasmaa, the CEO of information security company Data Fellows in the Information Society seminar held in Helsinki University on Wednesday. One possibility is that Transmeta's employees just hang around in their work place, and then sell the hyped-up company onwards for a good price.
Philosopher Pekka Himanen, who also spoke at the Information Society seminary told that he has visited the front of Transmeta's office. The office building has darkened glasses and doesn't let visitors in.
Linus Torvalds placed his words carefully in Thurday on Transmeta announcements. "I can only say now that we will announce the schedule for the announcement at Comdex, but this can also be subject to changes", Torvalds said cryptically.
The webserver they are running isn't Apache, atleast, according to Netcraft, which says it's running "inetd in realloc(): warning, junk pointer too low to make sense"
It seems that Netcraft is broken. Here is what E-Soft's Server Probe answers:
Site being probed: http://www.linuxone.net
Web Server: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) (Red Hat/Linux)
Operating System: nmap's best guess: Linux 2.1.122 - 2.1.132; 2.2.0-pre1 - 2.2.2 Queso's best guess: Linux 2.1.xx
Any idea how it compares in scope? From looking at the sites, Zope appears to be a MUCH larger project than Midgard.
Which one is better depends greatly on your viewpoint. If you like Python, Zope is probably what you'll want to use. Otherwise, it might also be Midgard.
The projects have a quite different focus and I believe there will be enough room for both.
Jukka Zitting's take on the matter can be found from Midgard's mailing list archives. The comment is from few days after Midgard 1.0 was released, and our situation has improved much after that.
Of course, it depends mostly about what kind of Web application serving or development needs you have.
That's encouraging to hear. What environments do you expect Berlin to eventually be used?
Anything we can get to work with Berlin. Systems which are more similar to Linux will be easiest to port to but there were even voices from people thinking about porting it to Windows NT.
Since we are using high level libraries (standard C++, OpenGL, omniORB, POSIX), we are less concerned about low level differences; they should be absorbed by the libraries we depend on.
We'll certainly start with all the free OS'es around, from linux over FreeBSD to Hurd. Then let's see for the rest.
So judging from this it could be expected that they intend to make it as platform-independent as possible.
And I guess architecture indepence comes with that, too.
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However, if you're traveling it is a bother to carry all the chargers around.
Also, finding a power plug might be an issue.
It would be so much easier if the devices could use a standardized charger.
I haven't seen any signs of Sun dropping the ball here in Finland. At least we're getting all the support we need for implementing Qubes as project servers for the construction industry.
The Qubes are really cool and capable little servers for runnign web-based project banks, especially with the RAID-enabled Qube Pro line.
Midgard is a GPLd application server that has APIs for calendaring and contact management. Replication is naturally also supported.
What do you mean? Psion S5 and S5mx have been the only PDAs so far with a real working keyboard.
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Yes, Linux support for Epoc devices is abysmal at the moment. Hopefully SyncML will help with this, though.
The lack of available synchronization options between Linux software and a Psion PDA is why I've considered switching my trusty Psion Series 5mx to a Palm.
Luckily, the is at least some information for Epoc-Linux interoperability on http://5-tux.ifrance.com/5-tux/. It is in French, though.
--
If you read the specs, SyncML is mostly concerned about how to make the sync connection between devices, and how to handle possible versioning conflicts, etc.
It doesn't make any requirements on the actual data being synchronized, but rather leaves that to data abstraction standards like vCalendar and vCard. So basically any data could be transferred using SyncML as long as both the client and server side can use the same abstraction standard.
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Not only when it comes to translations, but context-layout in general. PHP is nice and dandy, but for somehow it is really hard to seperate content and layout, or content and language support/translations for that matter.
You might want to check out Midgard then. It is a Web application server that uses PHP as its scripting language. While it isn't that much better in internationalization, it at least has good support for separating layout, structure and content into different components.
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We've been using the method of storing strings that need to be translated into arrays successfully with some sites. An example here would be StoneJobs.com.
There strings used in either the layout or applications are handled in the following way:
$welcome[0] = "Tervetuloa!";
$welcome[1] = "Welcome!";
echo $welcome[$lang];
We're using Midgard (the PHP-based application server) there, so content is easily separated into languages by using an extra database field.
There have been plans for creating a better system for handling localization within Midgard, but we're still waiting for ideas on that.
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It seems to be a file manager / desktop environment. I found at least one screenshot from the site.
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It's not backwards compatible with HTML
I think it is backwards compatible enough, at least if you use the 'transitional' DTD. It isn't that hard to convert old sites to it.
And anyhow, the idea here is that by starting to enforce syntatically correct mark-up, the browser engines can be a lot simpler and so browsers can potentially be less bloated.
Old (existing) browsers can't parse it properly
They can't? Why? If you follow the backwards compatibility guidelines that are provided in the appendix of the spec, you shouldn't have problems with existing browsers.
As a real-life example, there is a site my girlfriend built last weekend for the local Kendo society at http://kendo.greywolves.org. That site is in XHTML, and I believe older browsers will mostly have problems with only the PNG images there.
Compared to what general XML can offer, it's a pretty lame DTD
That is not the point here. The point here is to allow gradual transition from legacy SGML-based HTML to te XML-based one. And anyway, it is possible to put parts of a XHTML document to follow another DTD by using the XML namespaces. This way you can use any XML DTD you want, and still stay relatively compliant with existing browsers.
There is a lot hype around XHTML, but I think it really is a good idea (and standard), even while not everything that people write about it is correct.
And as to who will be using it, I'm doing all my Web development work with it even now, and my employer is also slowly transitioning to the standard...
I hope this helped at least slightly with the question...
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Can those of us on other distributions try it out without installing Corel?
It is a .deb package, so at least users of Debian 2.1 (or Storm Linux 2000) should be able to run it, provided they have the needed libraries. I remember reading somewhere that Corel Linux included a copy of Qt that was modified by Corel, so it might not work with the regular Qt.
As to copyright issues in this, I'm not sure.
I'm sorry I can't provide any real details, as my copy of the (download version of) Corel Linux is in the office. I'll followup this tomorrow if I have time.
If you have the Corel CD available, try browsing around it and see what dpkg (or alien) says about the package.
What comments do Corel Linux users have about the new file manager. How does it compare with KDE, GNOME, or others?
It is pretty similar with KDE's file manager, although it felt slightly slower (as did everything in Corel Linux - possibly has something to do with the Qt modifications). Like KFM, it also has the capability to browse Web and FTP sites. However, its HTML viewing wasn't quite as good as the one in KDE 1.1.2 (judging from a sample of two or three sites i've tried with both).
Now, the idea of being able to browse NFS and Windows Networking shares with the same file manager without having to mount them first was quite nice. However, this was something that seemed to cause a lot of instability in the file manager. Mounting SMB shares didn't work in the version I tried, and trying to follow shortcuts created to SMB shared crashed the browser - which proceeded to take the whole OS with it (which I haven't yet seen any other app do in Linux!)
So, all in all, I think CFM showed lots of promise. I'd advise on waiting it mature a couple of versions before using it for production purposes, though.
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this sucks for me, being a new @home user. i have wanted to stop by the usenet, but i havent had a chance to anytime. now im being punished for something im not even doing... anyway a hapless victim could get around this?
Just let @home know how you feel about it. And not only their support, but also their sales. That ought to help as the UDP will be lifted once they clean up their act.
--
But I blew my top when I found out that I can't mount a FAT filesystem, and I cannot recompile to enable it.
IIRC, Storm has FAT support in it, it is just there as a module instead of being compiled into the kernel. Just run modprobe vfat as root and you should be fine...
I'm running Storm Linux 2000 (rain) on my laptop, and have generally liked it. While many parts are still quite unfinished, it shows a lot of promise.
Of course, being a laptop user, I would've appreciated greatly having PCMCIA modules and kernel sources on the CD-ROM. Oh well, I could install the ones from Corel's CD so there were no problems after all. Now if I only could get SAT's network module to remember its settings. ;-)
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Corel 1.0 is basically Debian 2.1 (slink) with some added/upgraded software. Just add a Debian archive into your /etc/apt/sources.list and run apt-get update; apt-get install make.
Of course, you can do all this with the Corel Update tool (which actually is a quite nice interface to apt).
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PHP is a very nice addition to Apache. Without it Midgard wouldn't be where it is today.
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Heretik's FinalE for E is clean, good looking and efficient - just what most of us want from a Window Manager theme. It gives E a nice slightly futuristic look similar to some themes in BlackBox.
You'll find the theme from http://e.themes.org/themes.phtml ?themeid=944708022
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The Viking Longboat was no ordinary boat. It was designed to be sailed up a low-lying beach, picked up by the oars, and carried to where the raid was to be. Treasure could then just be thrown into the boat, by the raiders, allowing them to take more than they could possibly have done, if they'd had to shove the loot into pockets.
These boats had also some other things making them quite interesting hacks. For example, they were built from damp wood to make them flexible, and then tarred to keep the dampness in the timber. This enabled the (actually very small) boats to survive even quite bad weather conditions.
There have been many attempts at building viking-style longboats in the last decades. Here in Finland, we have at least two organizations working on such projects. One of them, the Rus Project has even sailed around the Europe on their ship.
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Any software modem projects underway perhaps?
Check out the Gnokii project.
They're working on drivers to Nokia phones for Linux and BSD.
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And more importantly, they don't run anything written by Microshaft!
Alas, while the actual machine doesn't carry any Microsoft software, most of the development and synchronization tools are Windows-specific.
I really like my old Series 5, but sometimes the inability to move any data between it and my desktop computer irritates me. Hopefully Symbian/Psion will start seeing demand for Linux-based connectivity software and open up their specs!
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You'll find more information on Nokia 9110 from http://www.nokia.com/phones/9110/.
Nokia 9110 Communicator is a nifty little thing, has both advantages and disadvantages to the Psion S5/Ericsson SH888 combo I use.
Having the phone integrated with the PDA is nice because you don't have to worry about IR eyes being messy, and you can type more easily while walking, etc. Of course Bluetooth will make that possible also with separated units.
--
According to the HBS Press 1996 book " The Internet Strategy Handbook ", DEC (now owned by Compaq) was doing something similar already in late 1992 with their Alpha "Test Drive" program.
I'm not sure if they had anything similar after that, but it is nice to see them feature Linux this way.
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This is done in a bit of haste, sorry...
No new revelations of the mysterious Transmeta
Creator of the Linux Operating System, Linus Torvalds's employes creates some questions: Nobody knows what it does. Torvalds made one revelation to Tietoviikko today: He revealed when he will reveal what Transmeat does. The schedule for the announcement will be told in the Comdex trade show in mid-November.
No further information on Torvald's mysterious employes has spread to public. Transmeta has been suspected for example to be working on a highly efficient microprocessor. Or some other groundbreaking program. Transmeta's homepage at www.transmeta.com doesn't offer too many hints - not even in the source code for the page, which points out that there are no revelations on Transmeta there.
"My strongest guess is that Transmeta doesn't do anything", said Risto Siilasmaa, the CEO of information security company Data Fellows in the Information Society seminar held in Helsinki University on Wednesday. One possibility is that Transmeta's employees just hang around in their work place, and then sell the hyped-up company onwards for a good price.
Philosopher Pekka Himanen, who also spoke at the Information Society seminary told that he has visited the front of Transmeta's office. The office building has darkened glasses and doesn't let visitors in.
Linus Torvalds placed his words carefully in Thurday on Transmeta announcements. "I can only say now that we will announce the schedule for the announcement at Comdex, but this can also be subject to changes", Torvalds said cryptically.
(Translated from http://www.tietoviikko.c om/cgi-bin/lueuutinen.cgi?id=45382)
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The webserver they are running isn't Apache, atleast, according to Netcraft, which says it's running "inetd in realloc(): warning, junk pointer too low to make sense"
It seems that Netcraft is broken. Here is what E-Soft's Server Probe answers:
Site being probed: http://www.linuxone.net
Web Server: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) (Red Hat/Linux)
Operating System:
nmap's best guess: Linux 2.1.122 - 2.1.132; 2.2.0-pre1 - 2.2.2
Queso's best guess: Linux 2.1.xx
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Any idea how it compares in scope? From looking at the sites, Zope appears to be a MUCH larger project than Midgard.
Which one is better depends greatly on your viewpoint. If you like Python, Zope is probably what you'll want to use. Otherwise, it might also be Midgard.
The projects have a quite different focus and I believe there will be enough room for both.
Jukka Zitting's take on the matter can be found from Midgard's mailing list archives. The comment is from few days after Midgard 1.0 was released, and our situation has improved much after that.
Of course, it depends mostly about what kind of Web application serving or development needs you have.
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what platforms does/will berlin support?
Actually, this was answered in the interview:
So judging from this it could be expected that they intend to make it as platform-independent as possible.
And I guess architecture indepence comes with that, too.
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