Considering the fact that JC has been mostly done with the engine for a long time I wouldn't bet on any huge improvements. Some optimized drivers (like ATI and Q3A) and a few tweeks, other settings perhaps, but the leaked build should be indicative of performance.
You told them you saved notes on every phone call, every meeting, every conversation. Yet you estimate the number of times this happened to tree or four?
"It's my opinion that if you feel like you need tabs, there is something wrong with your window manager (or you don't know how to use it right)."
Who are you to decide what is the correct way to use my windowmanager?
I love the unix desktop because I can have multiple virtual desktops or work areas. This lets me get away from clutter. You sound like a Windows-person just starting out with KDE. Why would you even cycle through windows? I just place one type of application in one area, browser in one, gimp in the other, mail by it self etc. I almost never cycle through any apps, I just chose work area. Tabs in the browser lets me maximize the browser in its area and use the tabs to navigate between sites, advantage beeing I can see the title of the next page. I usually have two or three browser areas with 4-5 related tabs each.
This is my favourite quote:
the tabs are on the opposite end of the screen from where I switch tasks on my WM. This means I have to do a lot of unnecessary mousing around.
If you use the mouse to navigate I would say you do not know how to quickly and effectively navigate your desktop. Switching work area I do with my keyboard. Then I can switch tabs with the same kayboard. No unnecessary mousing around here. I'm sure there is nothing wrong with your windowmanager, most have keyboard shortcuts, so it must be you who don't know how to use it right:P
Thats one of the main reasons why people do warez. How are they otherwise going to get the latest stuff? The stores are slow so its easier to just warezed it. Ok, most of the time its just a money issue. But I for one warezed Quake3 as soon as I could to get some extra practice, then I bought the game when it eventually hit the stores where I live.
Warez are a lot more convenient than actually buying the products. Maybe not so much in the US and other countries where broadband or adsl isnt as common as Sweden. Here the p2p underground has a real stronghold. Whatever you want, its probably the fastest way to get it on Direct Connect. If you have a phat pipe (10 Mbits or so) and some 50-100 Gigs worth of movies/progs you can access the best hubs. 6-800 users and 15-20 Tbytes of data, that will keep you busy for a while. And thats just one hub of many.
I have never ridden a motorcycle in cold winter climate. But I do ride snowmobiles so I think I know something about cold weather. In the end of January of this year me and my brother went on a 350 kilometer ride starting at -19 C, it was -26 C when we got back. I started with tshirt, a thin turtleneck and a lined cotton shirt and my snowmobilejacket/pants. The snowmobilegear are usually made of Cordura or Gore Tex. I took off the extra shirt after 80 k.
Sure a snowmobile have a windshield and it's quite active driving, shifting your weigth around all the time. But still, two thin layers and a good breating jacket/pant-combination at -19 to -26 C for 7-8 hours. Sure you will freeze if you come in contact with parts of the suit directly exposed to wind. The 3 mm neoprene kneepads take care of that.
"Yes, how could Americans not see the value in a bloated bureaucracy that is not elected and is accountable to no one?"
That's funny. One could almost say the same about USA. The UN may be bloated and not accountable to anyone, but at least they try to prevent crimes agains humanity. I'm not so sure that is always the case with the US. And who would USA be accountable to in a world where money talks?
Why is it that whenever someone comes up with new ideas that don't fit into the wannabe-*nix-guru-haxx0ring-bigiron-mentality it is not going to work. Network computing is the only viable future for most people. Why sit by a small desk when you can have the DivX-3D projected on your retina wireless allover your home. PDA:s are gonna get better and get everywere when better interfaces become available, banking and the personal administration work will all be connected. Stuff in your home will be connected to the 'home' computer, taking care of aircoolers, lights etc. It will all be networked so that is the future of most computerusers. The big grey box will still be around but the everyday computing will be networking.
I said you can only add. You can't take anything away. Even if they didn't give away their software (that they rightfully own) they will make debian better by making sure packages work and are updated, otherwise they will go out of business.
Some might see this as profiting on other peoples work, but that is the very idea with GPL software. I see it as they will only make money on the added value they provide over debian. Besides no one is making lots of money selling CDs with any dist, it's the services that generate the income.
I think this is great news. It was to bad that Corel Linux wasn't a hit, more people should be basing their distro on Debian instead of RedHat. Debian is to distros what Gnome is for desktops. Ximian and Eazel is building ontop and making Gnome better for all, giving almost everone what they wants be it a better free desktop or commersial support.
Although Mandrake seemingly does a helluva job making a desktop RedHat they are also competitors. No one is a competitor to Debian, you can only add to Debian much like you can only add to Gnome, you are taking away users perhaps but that doesn't matter that much for the debian developers. The worst thing that could happen with Progeny is that not enough debian developer gets paid to work on it but thats OK, they didn't get paid before either.
The GPL is restrictive but that doesn't matter. What matters is that the source and the use of the program is free in the long run, that makes it free software. With the GPL your freedom ends where the next persons freedom starts, you are free to do as you with until you invade someone elses freedom. If you want a free licence you don't use any and state that it is free for all purposes, otherwise it is still copyrighted.
I believe that if MS could, they would eliminate any and all competitors, making it the only commersial OS vendor and leverageing their power to block access to underlying hardware and infrastructure. Therin lies the danger of not imposing any restrictions on your sources use.
The GPL is not free but the software is, and that's all that matters.
There is almost no insight, analasys or objective press left. What you see on TV leaves no room for thought, just the latest scoop, highest bodycount and jucies stories. The movies are more sex and mindless violence less drama, good acting and intelligent scripts(with a few exceptions). Computers are used to surf pr0n, play action games and chat while at work. Ppl are 'too' well off and don't want to spend time learning new stuff when they can zap away at 100+ channels of pure crap, 40 million pr0n sites, never reading a single piece of text longer than a screenful. In the wast flow of information one can't take in everything so you disregard the things hard to grasp content with thinking 'at least I think like most others'. Well what can you do? People are sheep. I am happy knowing I don't think like most others.
Could this maybe be used on Universities where there is a need for massive computing jobs? There is usually less than 50% full in our computer halls during day and most of the night its basically empty. This seems like a waste of cycles, couldn't this be used for academic research or SETI like activity, I'd rather trust the data from a known source rather than data from whatever crackhead on the internet. Maybe the schools could sell of CPU time even?
That'd be great, hudreds of Spacs and PSs chugging away all night every nigth... well maybe not in California.
I found the article very informative and they mentioned this. Sure enough a stateful firewall will eat up memory but you have a stateless firewall in front to get rid of most of the flak, thus making the stateful firewalls job easier but maintaining flexibility. And it should be better at preventing dos attacks.
Anyway the same goes for other stateful firewalls so if a linux box doesn't cut it for a large company they still have their expensive proprietary solutions, but for a nice home firewall this rox.
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Considering the fact that JC has been mostly done with the engine for a long time I wouldn't bet on any huge improvements. Some optimized drivers (like ATI and Q3A) and a few tweeks, other settings perhaps, but the leaked build should be indicative of performance.
Yes exactly, and 640k should be enough for anyone.
This generated a lot of posts quickly... Hope it generates some real interest in .ogg as well.
You told them you saved notes on every phone call, every meeting, every conversation. Yet you estimate the number of times this happened to tree or four?
You were lucky they didn't call your bluff.
(sorry I just had to)
It's the other way around :P
"It's my opinion that if you feel like you need tabs, there is something wrong with your window manager (or you don't know how to use it right)."
:P
Who are you to decide what is the correct way to use my windowmanager?
I love the unix desktop because I can have multiple virtual desktops or work areas. This lets me get away from clutter. You sound like a Windows-person just starting out with KDE. Why would you even cycle through windows? I just place one type of application in one area, browser in one, gimp in the other, mail by it self etc. I almost never cycle through any apps, I just chose work area. Tabs in the browser lets me maximize the browser in its area and use the tabs to navigate between sites, advantage beeing I can see the title of the next page. I usually have two or three browser areas with 4-5 related tabs each.
This is my favourite quote:
the tabs are on the opposite end of the screen from where I switch tasks on my WM. This means I have to do a lot of unnecessary mousing around.
If you use the mouse to navigate I would say you do not know how to quickly and effectively navigate your desktop. Switching work area I do with my keyboard. Then I can switch tabs with the same kayboard. No unnecessary mousing around here. I'm sure there is nothing wrong with your windowmanager, most have keyboard shortcuts, so it must be you who don't know how to use it right
Monkeys are flying out of my ass!
imagine a beo... ahw crap.
Thats one of the main reasons why people do warez. How are they otherwise going to get the latest stuff? The stores are slow so its easier to just warezed it. Ok, most of the time its just a money issue. But I for one warezed Quake3 as soon as I could to get some extra practice, then I bought the game when it eventually hit the stores where I live.
Warez are a lot more convenient than actually buying the products. Maybe not so much in the US and other countries where broadband or adsl isnt as common as Sweden. Here the p2p underground has a real stronghold. Whatever you want, its probably the fastest way to get it on Direct Connect. If you have a phat pipe (10 Mbits or so) and some 50-100 Gigs worth of movies/progs you can access the best hubs. 6-800 users and 15-20 Tbytes of data, that will keep you busy for a while. And thats just one hub of many.
I have never ridden a motorcycle in cold winter climate. But I do ride snowmobiles so I think I know something about cold weather. In the end of January of this year me and my brother went on a 350 kilometer ride starting at -19 C, it was -26 C when we got back. I started with tshirt, a thin turtleneck and a lined cotton shirt and my snowmobilejacket/pants. The snowmobilegear are usually made of Cordura or Gore Tex. I took off the extra shirt after 80 k.
Sure a snowmobile have a windshield and it's quite active driving, shifting your weigth around all the time. But still, two thin layers and a good breating jacket/pant-combination at -19 to -26 C for 7-8 hours. Sure you will freeze if you come in contact with parts of the suit directly exposed to wind. The 3 mm neoprene kneepads take care of that.
"Yes, how could Americans not see the value in a bloated bureaucracy that is not elected and is accountable to no one?"
That's funny. One could almost say the same about USA. The UN may be bloated and not accountable to anyone, but at least they try to prevent crimes agains humanity. I'm not so sure that is always the case with the US. And who would USA be accountable to in a world where money talks?
Why is it that whenever someone comes up with new ideas that don't fit into the wannabe-*nix-guru-haxx0ring-bigiron-mentality it is not going to work. Network computing is the only viable future for most people. Why sit by a small desk when you can have the DivX-3D projected on your retina wireless allover your home. PDA:s are gonna get better and get everywere when better interfaces become available, banking and the personal administration work will all be connected. Stuff in your home will be connected to the 'home' computer, taking care of aircoolers, lights etc. It will all be networked so that is the future of most computerusers. The big grey box will still be around but the everyday computing will be networking.
Some might see this as profiting on other peoples work, but that is the very idea with GPL software. I see it as they will only make money on the added value they provide over debian. Besides no one is making lots of money selling CDs with any dist, it's the services that generate the income.
Although Mandrake seemingly does a helluva job making a desktop RedHat they are also competitors. No one is a competitor to Debian, you can only add to Debian much like you can only add to Gnome, you are taking away users perhaps but that doesn't matter that much for the debian developers. The worst thing that could happen with Progeny is that not enough debian developer gets paid to work on it but thats OK, they didn't get paid before either.
The GPL is restrictive but that doesn't matter. What matters is that the source and the use of the program is free in the long run, that makes it free software. With the GPL your freedom ends where the next persons freedom starts, you are free to do as you with until you invade someone elses freedom. If you want a free licence you don't use any and state that it is free for all purposes, otherwise it is still copyrighted. I believe that if MS could, they would eliminate any and all competitors, making it the only commersial OS vendor and leverageing their power to block access to underlying hardware and infrastructure. Therin lies the danger of not imposing any restrictions on your sources use. The GPL is not free but the software is, and that's all that matters.
There is almost no insight, analasys or objective press left. What you see on TV leaves no room for thought, just the latest scoop, highest bodycount and jucies stories. The movies are more sex and mindless violence less drama, good acting and intelligent scripts(with a few exceptions). Computers are used to surf pr0n, play action games and chat while at work. Ppl are 'too' well off and don't want to spend time learning new stuff when they can zap away at 100+ channels of pure crap, 40 million pr0n sites, never reading a single piece of text longer than a screenful. In the wast flow of information one can't take in everything so you disregard the things hard to grasp content with thinking 'at least I think like most others'. Well what can you do? People are sheep. I am happy knowing I don't think like most others.
Could this maybe be used on Universities where there is a need for massive computing jobs? There is usually less than 50% full in our computer halls during day and most of the night its basically empty. This seems like a waste of cycles, couldn't this be used for academic research or SETI like activity, I'd rather trust the data from a known source rather than data from whatever crackhead on the internet. Maybe the schools could sell of CPU time even? That'd be great, hudreds of Spacs and PSs chugging away all night every nigth... well maybe not in California.
I found the article very informative and they mentioned this. Sure enough a stateful firewall will eat up memory but you have a stateless firewall in front to get rid of most of the flak, thus making the stateful firewalls job easier but maintaining flexibility. And it should be better at preventing dos attacks.
Anyway the same goes for other stateful firewalls so if a linux box doesn't cut it for a large company they still have their expensive proprietary solutions, but for a nice home firewall this rox.