I've got a internationalised (Dutch) version of KDE 3.2 so my guesstimates of the actual English names might be wrong.
Start the KDE Configurationcenter (or use the menu on your bottom pannel) Klick Auxilary devices Click Screen Change screensize to 800x600 Click [Apply] Click the accept button to keep changes
You can also load the Screen rotate and resize thingy like this:
Klick the K button Klick System Klick Screen rotate and resize
Now you see an extra button in the systemtray, left-click on it to see a list of possible resolutions. Click 800x600. Klick the accept button.
Yes, your posting is mostly right. There are lots of Linux zealots who are terrorising new users. I personally use Gentoo now, and I point all new Linux users to something like Knoppix or Mandrake. They may or may-not decide on some other distro when they know their way around on Linux.
And I don't want to sound smart ass, but that information screen about X, is the information screen. Setting the screen resolution is done somewhere else, a much simpler screen, it is accessible via the configuration center. IMHO a bad move to put that as the third picture in a user friendliness document, but well. Forgive the nerds...
I did. Cutting pasting (Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V) between OpenOffice (whatever of program the suite) and basicly any other KDE or Gnome program, should work. And currently I haven't found a single one where it doesn't. I can 'even' copy a picture in a director directly onto my document.
I don't have Photoshop nor Gimp installed so I couldn't test your scenario. But it worked with images and text between OOWriter, OOCalc, gedit (..no images) and Konqueror.
Do you also think that the mouse is a lazy's mans crutch?
My personal opinion about keyboard and mouse is that they are arcane ways to communicate with. I know quite a few people for which these HID devices are either physical (slightly) unusable, or plain difficult to grasp (talking about the mouse here).
>>4. Microsoft ignoring wireless, thin clients, etc.
Ignoring Wireless? They built it in to Windows XP. How long before that could their have been "ignoring" it? Every wireless vendor ever (except Apple) has released Windows support for their products. And Microsoft has had their own thin client product since the mid-90's.
The parent poster probably wanted to point to they ignorance over mobile wireless solutions. Never wondered why you need a thirdparty program to make use of bluetooth under Windows? Especialy since he also mentions thin clients etc.
Under basicly every other networked OS you can use the same computer simulatiously via remote login. (Yes yes, there are products and hacks that add that to Windows NT/2k/XP too)
Microsoft doesn't want people to see their PC+Windows as a center to their computer system, they want full blown Windows on every device. Why else didn't they promote their wireless remote-desktop handheld LCDs more?
...is because the virus writers are too scared for being caught. Just take a look at the figures of the most virulent worms of the last 2 years. They did infect a substantialy large part of the open Windows systems in the first 10-15 minutes.
You seem to forget that America is not the world. AOL software runs on Microsoft Windows, so that de facto tells you that it's used by a subset of the total Microsoft Windows users wordwide. AOL and sister companies are not that big outside America.
As soon as Microsoft want's to bind it's music shop to it's Windows, only governements can stop it. People will use it.
Unless the competition is better and easier to use, a la what Google made big.
I think it will at least take some time before Linux (the kernel) can really be compared to QNX. The QNX kernel is a micro kernel, and a really tiny one, everything is 'modules'. Under linux for example the IPv4 stack can't even be compiled as a module.
But of course, Linux can (and maybe will) become the overall most used kernel for PC-like (screen, keyboard, some plugable devices) systems.
While Microsoft is really pushing.NET because it's their only chance for a secure Windows environment, the OSS community is already working on implementing it on their own. So maybe one day companies can promote Linux because it's smoother multitasking than Windows, but still runs all the programs.
I can't remember to ever have upgraded the kernel on my windows machine. There was (is..) a kernel update for Windows 95. It fixed some things with network stacks AFAIK.
Desktop OS of choice for some people. It's certainly not the desktop OS choice for me.
I second that, Windows (98SE/XP) just feels hog slow compared to Linux kernel 2.6, so unresponsive.
And if you've seen screenshots of Longhorn and asked what they could use that sidebar for, I'd suggest installing a Linux distro with KDE 3.2 and enabling the "universal sidebar" feature (rightclick the taskbar and you will find it under 'Add', 'Panel', 'universal sidebar').
I always wondered why Microsoft didn't decide to abstract the older windows versions into some VMware alike virtual machine environment. So old windows 'cruft' can only affect old windows programs.
That looks a lot like Last.fm, with the difference that iRATE caches songs (you need an IRATE client to do that), but Last.fm streams everything (webradio).
[btw, replace Linux with Mac OS X, or maybe another *NIX version, if you want]
What most of the Linux advocates are trying to tell is that even though most people don't want to know or even care about their OS, they really should. Windows is less secure than Linux, by design(-mistakes). Yes, Linux can be made insecure too, but a pretty standard install with some version of KDE/Gnome a bunch of office programs and browser(s) is way more secure than a standard Windows install will be in it's current form. (AFAIK a recently bought Windows copy is still vulnerable to the LoveSan worm)
Or, you could also tell it the other way around. If most people used Linux, then "windows advocates" would probably be laughed about by computer savvy people. In such a world ordinary people' may not care.
The last couple of times the internet was slowed down by massive attacks were all caused by Microsoft Windows machines. There are people that care about the technological structures that are in place now.
Yes, I do know Linux is not the answer to everything. But the way it is now is dangerous. What people advocating Linux are picky about is how it became what it is today.
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You will probably know what you are talking about, but...
When I google for 'sony memory stick linux' I only see 'succes' stories along the lines of "I put my presentation on my sony memory stick".
What are the troubles you expect there to be?
I recently discovered that IBM keeps instructions videos about it's hardware (also consumer hardware). Could be quite handy if you own some IBM stuff.
...only heard about them.
That man is scary...
I've got a internationalised (Dutch) version of KDE 3.2 so my guesstimates of the actual English names might be wrong.
Start the KDE Configurationcenter (or use the menu on your bottom pannel)
Klick Auxilary devices
Click Screen
Change screensize to 800x600
Click [Apply]
Click the accept button to keep changes
You can also load the Screen rotate and resize thingy like this:
Klick the K button
Klick System
Klick Screen rotate and resize
Now you see an extra button in the systemtray, left-click on it to see a list of possible resolutions. Click 800x600. Klick the accept button.
Yes, your posting is mostly right. There are lots of Linux zealots who are terrorising new users. I personally use Gentoo now, and I point all new Linux users to something like Knoppix or Mandrake. They may or may-not decide on some other distro when they know their way around on Linux.
And I don't want to sound smart ass, but that information screen about X, is the information screen. Setting the screen resolution is done somewhere else, a much simpler screen, it is accessible via the configuration center. IMHO a bad move to put that as the third picture in a user friendliness document, but well. Forgive the nerds...
Have you tried?
I did. Cutting pasting (Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V) between OpenOffice (whatever of program the suite) and basicly any other KDE or Gnome program, should work. And currently I haven't found a single one where it doesn't. I can 'even' copy a picture in a director directly onto my document.
I don't have Photoshop nor Gimp installed so I couldn't test your scenario. But it worked with images and text between OOWriter, OOCalc, gedit (..no images) and Konqueror.
Do you also think that the mouse is a lazy's mans crutch?
My personal opinion about keyboard and mouse is that they are arcane ways to communicate with. I know quite a few people for which these HID devices are either physical (slightly) unusable, or plain difficult to grasp (talking about the mouse here).
>>4. Microsoft ignoring wireless, thin clients, etc.
Ignoring Wireless? They built it in to Windows XP. How long before that could their have been "ignoring" it? Every wireless vendor ever (except Apple) has released Windows support for their products. And Microsoft has had their own thin client product since the mid-90's.
The parent poster probably wanted to point to they ignorance over mobile wireless solutions. Never wondered why you need a thirdparty program to make use of bluetooth under Windows? Especialy since he also mentions thin clients etc.
Under basicly every other networked OS you can use the same computer simulatiously via remote login. (Yes yes, there are products and hacks that add that to Windows NT/2k/XP too)
Microsoft doesn't want people to see their PC+Windows as a center to their computer system, they want full blown Windows on every device. Why else didn't they promote their wireless remote-desktop handheld LCDs more?
Are you sure?
...is because the virus writers are too scared for being caught. Just take a look at the figures of the most virulent worms of the last 2 years. They did infect a substantialy large part of the open Windows systems in the first 10-15 minutes.
"SWAT" stands for "Skilled Workers With Advanced Tools." in the Rapid Application Development (RAD) context.
Docbook has several conversion frontends, including plain text.
We should all start to call it FireStar :-)
You know Photoshop 6 and 7 run under Wine?
= 20
See here: http://www.frankscorner.org/
(links to 'tutorials' on the right side)
According to the Wine application database Adobe Illustrator 10 also works:
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId
YMMV though...
Copy-paste from http://www.openssl.org/ :
17-mar-2004: OpenSSL 0.9.7d is now available, including important bugfixes
That's 7d, not a 6d.
You seem to forget that America is not the world. AOL software runs on Microsoft Windows, so that de facto tells you that it's used by a subset of the total Microsoft Windows users wordwide. AOL and sister companies are not that big outside America.
As soon as Microsoft want's to bind it's music shop to it's Windows, only governements can stop it. People will use it.
Unless the competition is better and easier to use, a la what Google made big.
I think it will at least take some time before Linux (the kernel) can really be compared to QNX. The QNX kernel is a micro kernel, and a really tiny one, everything is 'modules'. Under linux for example the IPv4 stack can't even be compiled as a module.
.NET because it's their only chance for a secure Windows environment, the OSS community is already working on implementing it on their own. So maybe one day companies can promote Linux because it's smoother multitasking than Windows, but still runs all the programs.
But of course, Linux can (and maybe will) become the overall most used kernel for PC-like (screen, keyboard, some plugable devices) systems.
While Microsoft is really pushing
I can't remember to ever have upgraded the kernel on my windows machine.
There was (is..) a kernel update for Windows 95. It fixed some things with network stacks AFAIK.
Desktop OS of choice for some people. It's certainly not the desktop OS choice for me.
I second that, Windows (98SE/XP) just feels hog slow compared to Linux kernel 2.6, so unresponsive.
And if you've seen screenshots of Longhorn and asked what they could use that sidebar for, I'd suggest installing a Linux distro with KDE 3.2 and enabling the "universal sidebar" feature (rightclick the taskbar and you will find it under 'Add', 'Panel', 'universal sidebar').
I always wondered why Microsoft didn't decide to abstract the older windows versions into some VMware alike virtual machine environment. So old windows 'cruft' can only affect old windows programs.
Could this become the new 'dual celeron' like a couple of years ago?
10) the audience is NOT wearing any clothes.
That's the most wierd statement I've seen in a post modded +4, Insightful
That looks a lot like Last.fm, with the difference that iRATE caches songs (you need an IRATE client to do that), but Last.fm streams everything (webradio).
Good point, but you oversaw one major point.
[btw, replace Linux with Mac OS X, or maybe another *NIX version, if you want]
What most of the Linux advocates are trying to tell is that even though most people don't want to know or even care about their OS, they really should. Windows is less secure than Linux, by design(-mistakes). Yes, Linux can be made insecure too, but a pretty standard install with some version of KDE/Gnome a bunch of office programs and browser(s) is way more secure than a standard Windows install will be in it's current form. (AFAIK a recently bought Windows copy is still vulnerable to the LoveSan worm)
Or, you could also tell it the other way around. If most people used Linux, then "windows advocates" would probably be laughed about by computer savvy people. In such a world ordinary people' may not care.
The last couple of times the internet was slowed down by massive attacks were all caused by Microsoft Windows machines. There are people that care about the technological structures that are in place now.
Yes, I do know Linux is not the answer to everything. But the way it is now is dangerous. What people advocating Linux are picky about is how it became what it is today.
Don't we have Memigo for this?
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