I was brought up with Day of a Tentacle and Sid Meier and all the great game designers, and it gave me a love of those which I still have today at 21. Games gives you a lifetime of pleasure. I wouldn't have that if I had been reading litterature"
I do enjoy both litterature and gaming. Ofcourse there a crappy games just as there is crappy litterature. But litterature like Day of a Tentacle is something you never forget.
I recieved my official danish digital certificate(x.v509) by getting two pin codes. One via snail mail and the other when I ordered the certificate via the web. Both had to be typed in to recieve the certificate via mail.
Seems pretty secure to me.
The only thing it works for so far is tax stuff, and mail.
Zeroconf is a much larger beast. What you can compare is SLP (Service location protocol) www.openslp.org and UPnP (?). zeroconf gathers all the small details for ip/dns issues so that ip/dns(local) networking can "just work". SLP is what apple uses for itunes & and their IM so you can find anyone on your own subnet using the same program (or service), it's an service location protocol;)
Microsoft didn't like SLP for a number of reasons, although i can't find the URL to the guy who designed uPnP for microsoft. He had a nice informative site.
But I'm pretty sure you can make 1:1 functional (what it does) comparison between SLP and uPNP. The design is the thing that makes them different.
I hate myself for feeling the same(almost;)), can't help it though. I just dont like bashing big corporations because they are...well big corporations.
Commercial software is built by carefully selected and screened teams of programmers working to build proprietary, secure software. This process is designed to monitor the security..... [of] the code.
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There is no mechanism inherent in the Linux development process to assure that intellectual property rights, confidentiality or security are protected.
But especially the way the letter mentions the word "secure software" together with the Intellectual and proprietary words made me think twice;)
Maybe that's why quakenet wasn't in the list because of the non existant warez distribution (bots/channels).
It's by far the largest network. So I think it's pretty odd the worm doesnt target quakenet.
I never said i wanted the application to control their own window.
Also when i mentioned toolkits i meant "qt/gtk". And WM's metacity/sawfish/kwin. They may mean bloat to you but they do come with 'must-have' features for a user desktop.
These issues are in fact known by hackers, and they are working on it. I can't help wonder what the X SYNC extension is needed for when you claim there isn't a problem.
And if the app doesnt redraw itself if it is busy, I would consider it a bug.
GUI "speed"/IS/ an issue. Not the way you may think of speed but as in visual artifacts.. ie 'refresh speed'.
The perfect world program would not have any visual artifacts when resizing and dragging windows. This is one of the few X issues that seem to be hard to solve;). There has to be improvements on how toolkits AND windowmanagers work together through X.
Try resizing your window, does the toolkit follow instantly? or does it lag? Try moving your window fast around the screen... any update lag? ie. 'white/black' trail?
The good thing is that these issues have no impact on doing 'work'. However it is cruft for the visually pleasing desktop.
I might have been a bit quick. Figuring out what part does what. It is indeed a bit hard, but i think i've figured it out;). The problem is that Xft1 is quite a bit different from Xft2 in functionality. That is why there is so many different views on what Xft actually does. I believe the explanation on the freetype page refers to Xft1. (it's out of date)
Anyway i believe the layer is like this in gnome2 (as an example), starting from the top:
gtk2->pango->fontconfig->Xft2->freetype2.
Pango does the text layout part. Not very interesting wrt. AA fonts, since it can use different backends for the rendering part.
From the fontconfig developers reference:
2. FUNCTIONAL OVERVIEW
Fontconfig contains two essential modules, the configuration module which builds an internal configuration from XML files and the matching module which accepts font patterns and returns the nearest matching
The current version of Xft (2.0) provides a client-side font API for X applications. It uses Fontconfig to select fonts and the X protocol for rendering them. When available, Xft uses the Render extension to accelerate text drawing. When Render is not available, Xft uses the core protocol to draw client-side glyphs. This provides completely compatible support of client-side fonts for all X servers.
And last but not least the freetype description:
FreeType is a free, high-quality portable font engine used by Xft to rasterize fonts. While Fontconfig doesn't expose any FreeType dependencies on applications, it does use FreeType internally to get font information from font files.
That means freetype gets the information Xft needs to render hinted and anti aliased fonts.
So i was a bit quick to state that freetype did the rendering part =).
It is not Xft that renders fonts. It's the freetype lib. Xft is a client side API that uses fontconfig to select fonts. If you update your freetype lib to 2.1.4 you will probably see a few more enhancements.
Instead you should really appreciate the amazing work that has been done by the freetype project. Especially David Turner has been cranking out algorithms to make your linux desktop look nice with AA fonts, even without the patented hinter.
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So opensource is for software what the printing press was for books/litterature? (In the star trek future)
As for the type of game, I just took one of my fondest memories, there are being created games that are great imo.
There is always wine.
It won't. It is still a hack since X does not support alpha channels.
Gtk/gdk on directFB does have real alpha transparency, so it is supported by gtk, but not X.
I was brought up with Day of a Tentacle and Sid Meier and all the great game designers, and it gave me a love of those which I still have today at 21. Games gives you a lifetime of pleasure. I wouldn't have that if I had been reading litterature"
I do enjoy both litterature and gaming. Ofcourse there a crappy games just as there is crappy litterature. But litterature like Day of a Tentacle is something you never forget.
And how much of your harddisk would that actually use? It's not like harddisk space is the most expensive these days.
Ofcourse i did not recieve it by email. It was 'delivered' via https
I recieved my official danish digital certificate(x.v509) by getting two pin codes. One via snail mail and the other when I ordered the certificate via the web. Both had to be typed in to recieve the certificate via mail.
Seems pretty secure to me.
The only thing it works for so far is tax stuff, and mail.
i think mrpoject was in mdk 9.1. Try searching for it in the software installer (rpmdrake).
Hmm it doesn't say cowboyneal on their page. Did they pull or is this a modified copy?
There is urpmi from mandrake as 'reimplementation' of apt-get.
READ! It clearly states that nodes can boot via PXE.
This is a thing GPL/LGPL can prevent.
Zeroconf is a much larger beast. What you can compare is SLP (Service location protocol) www.openslp.org and UPnP (?). zeroconf gathers all the small details for ip/dns issues so that ip/dns(local) networking can "just work". SLP is what apple uses for itunes & and their IM so you can find anyone on your own subnet using the same program (or service), it's an service location protocol ;)
Microsoft didn't like SLP for a number of reasons, although i can't find the URL to the guy who designed uPnP for microsoft. He had a nice informative site.
But I'm pretty sure you can make 1:1 functional (what it does) comparison between SLP and uPNP. The design is the thing that makes them different.
Hope it helps. (i'm in a hurry)
gimp isn't dead. Far from.
Easy when you have the (oil) money Norway has ;)
Regards
An almost envy dane.
I suck...
intellectual property and proprietary words
I hate myself for feeling the same(almost
But especially the way the letter mentions the word "secure software" together with the Intellectual and proprietary words made me think twice
Maybe that's why quakenet wasn't in the list because of the non existant warez distribution (bots/channels). It's by far the largest network. So I think it's pretty odd the worm doesnt target quakenet.
i believe you call the stuff a "*nix".. when spoken you say "a nix", when you actually mean
"unix-like operating system"
Ofcourse this isnt in any dictionary, yet! =)
True, i've only used nss to play around with winbind
in a win2k domain (samba3).
Pretty odd seing windows usernames with 'ls -l' =)
Linux has had this for ages?
I never said i wanted the application to control their own window.
Also when i mentioned toolkits i meant "qt/gtk". And WM's metacity/sawfish/kwin. They may mean bloat to you but they do come with 'must-have' features for a user desktop.
These issues are in fact known by hackers, and they are working on it. I can't help wonder what the X SYNC extension is needed for when you claim there isn't a problem.
And if the app doesnt redraw itself if it is busy, I would consider it a bug.
GUI "speed" /IS/ an issue. Not the way you may think of speed but as in visual artifacts.. ie 'refresh speed'.
;). There has to be improvements on how toolkits AND windowmanagers work together through X.
The perfect world program would not have any visual artifacts when resizing and dragging windows. This is one of the few X issues that seem to be hard to solve
Try resizing your window, does the toolkit follow instantly? or does it lag?
Try moving your window fast around the screen... any update lag? ie. 'white/black' trail?
The good thing is that these issues have no impact on doing 'work'. However it is cruft for the visually pleasing desktop.
Anyway i believe the layer is like this in gnome2 (as an example), starting from the top:
gtk2->pango->fontconfig->Xft2->freetype2. Pango does the text layout part. Not very interesting wrt. AA fonts, since it can use different backends for the rendering part. From the fontconfig developers reference:
Xft2 description from fontconfig.org
And last but not least the freetype description:
That means freetype gets the information Xft needs to render hinted and anti aliased fonts.
So i was a bit quick to state that freetype did the rendering part =).
It is not Xft that renders fonts. It's the freetype lib. Xft is a client side API that uses fontconfig to select fonts. If you update your freetype lib to 2.1.4 you will probably see a few more enhancements.
Instead you should really appreciate the amazing work that has been done by the freetype project. Especially David Turner has been cranking out algorithms to make your linux desktop look nice with AA fonts, even without the patented hinter.
gnome/gtk libs has been ABI/APIstable since 2.0. It seems they are pretty comitted to do just what you want.