Hollywood is scared about the Internet revolution, this is just a deseperate move. What they don't realise is that you simply can't stop the sea with your hands.
Forgot to add that "Le Tiers Etat" while mainly represented by "Les Bourgeois" was mainly composed of very poor people, hence "Tiers monde" in French and then "Third world" to name countries which were neither capitalist, nor communist, but just poor:) .
Third world comes from "Tiers Etat" Tiers means Third in French, this comes from the composition of the "constituante" which was a kind of parliament under Louis XVI just before the French revolution. Louis XVI has been obliged under mass protestation to call for a new "constituante"
The constituante was equally composed of : 1) Les nobles ; Aristocrates 2) Le Clergé : Clergymen 3) All the last remaining third part : "Le tiers", who where neither Aristocrats nor Clergymen, mainly represented by the "Bourgeois" who where rich or educated people who were not aristocrates.
I Don't recall exactly the details, but the "Constituante" will lately vote for the death sentence of Louis XVI and the Republic, and the "Bourgeois" will take the power. The most progressive people used to sit at the "left" of the president, the conservative ones at his right, hence the left "la gauche" and the right "la droite" which have seen become common in politic.
It's sad very sad that this country who has given so much to democracy his now leaving so harsh time with Le Pen.
Yes this is one of the main reason why Linux is still not ready for the desktop ! there is just a gazillion way to do things and often badly, or at least in a confusing manner. The "official party line" in the Linux community is "diversity is good" and no one dare to really challenge that ! but what a passionate geek, willing to spend hundreds configuring his desktop calls "diversity" is just "confusion" for a newbie, who just want to install and go !
Mant geeks vehemently protest when a Desktop like KDE try to do things just the way Windows does them, there is a reason to that ! it's just because this is what people are used too ! there is reason why Ctrl-V and Ctrl-X are used for copy and cut in Windows, it's just because this is the way Wordstar does this ! so it was the de facto standard ! and whether we like or not, Windows is now the de facto standard.
What Linux on the Desktop needs is simplification and coherence and not yet other fuctionnalities.
apt has been ported to RPM by connectiva. I have just upgraded my Redhat 7.1 to 7.2, from freshrpms.net, it workded wonderfully well, I was really stunned and enthusiastic.
All I had to do was:
1) grab the apt rpm from the site and install it. 2) apt-get update to get downlaod the list of available RPMS 3) apt-get dist-install
And you are set ! I had minor conflits, mainly with some Ximian RPMS, but it was very easy to deal with, I just had to delete theme and redo an apt-get install
I really believe that apt is the future of RPM. The dependency hell is completly gone !
Alas IT IS! and this is something that most geeks fail to understand. For the better or the worse. For many people this is the first contact they will have with a software, and this first impression has a major impact about the acceptation of a software by a PHB, like or not !!
I remember while at the university, students were fighting to do graphic or visual projects because experience has showed them that these were the projects which were rated better !!!!
This is something that the open source community is at last beginning to understand, to reach the masses, projects have got to be "pretty", with the recent integration of true type fonts, alpha blending, transparency, anti-aliasing, new good looking themes and so on.
It's just marketing ! this is what Apple and M$ have understood long time age.
In fact one of basic M$ has a strategy is to make people believe that it's product will literally "invade" the market ! they lobby journalist or make them believe this will be the case, hence the flood of press articles making people believe this. It's like a self fulfilling prediction, the more you make people believe it'll happen the more it has chance to actually happen.
Did you remember the public hysteria when Windows 95 was released ? and TV showing all these people waiting for the stores to happen to rush in and buy that crappy OS ?
Yes M$ is really very clever at that kind of mass manipulation !
Google has been an enchantment for me since it's beginning !
They have always made the right decision ! they have offered internet users an incredible asset ! and I was so much grateful when they decided to rescue Deja, a site something I just don't know how I can leave without !
I view them as the most "honest and fair" site on the Net ! and without any doubt the most useful too.
Go Google ! you are showing the right way ! to all these stupid-crapy-portal sites which have invaded the net, I just hope you manage to stay in business and prosper for a loooooong, looooong time:)
Google is a gift to the Internet. I thank everyday these folks to keep it as it is, and sometimes improve it ! I only hope they will manage to break even and keep it alive, and not go under or be obliged to go the portal crap someday !
Wine by just emulating the win32 API, can now, (thanks to Codeweavers) run MS Office 2000, IE, QT, Photoshop and many major windows running software ! so has the Wine guys managed to do what MS with its Billion $ not managed to achieve ?
What about the Win32 port ?
on
GTK+ 2.0
·
· Score: 2
They seem to imply that GTK application execute on X Windows, Frame buffer, and Windows ! the former Win32 port was not integrated in the main release ! does it mean now that with just a recompile I can get my GTK applications running in Windows 9x or XP ?
--- 1.3/arch/i386/Config.help Tue Jan 29 06:32:09 2002
+++ 1.4/arch/i386/Config.help Sat Feb 9 11:11:32 2002
@@ -25,6 +25,16 @@
If you don't know what to do here, say N.
+CONFIG_PREEMPT
+ This option reduces the latency of the kernel when reacting to
+ real-time or interactive events by allowing a low priority process to
+ be preempted even if it is in kernel mode executing a system call.
+ This allows applications to run more reliably even when the system is
+ under load.
+
+ Say Y here if you are building a kernel for a desktop, embedded
+ or real-time system. Say N if you are unsure.
+
CONFIG_X86
This is Linux's home port. Linux was originally native to the Intel
386, and runs on all the later x86 processors including the Intel
I have been waiting for this for a long time. I was not even sure whether Linus will ever accept it one day. This is a major achievement for Linux and open a lot of new opportunities in Desktop and Real time applications.
The model that Linus is advocating is in fact a peer to peer network with maintaines acting as super peers. This seems to be a sound way to scalability for me !
No ! you could have looked for it in goups.google.com by sarching for something like this "LCD, TrueType, Xfree86" you would have found it in some seconds !!
searching in groups.google.com has become a "reflex" for me, and it pays !!
The problem is not that difficult, if you want Gnutella to scale, then you need to avoid the exponential explosition of the number of messages exchanged between the clients as their number grows. The only solution is to structure the network by using "super clients" or "servants" or "super nodes", call them what you want, the later is what KaZaa and Morphus have accomplished; this makes the number of messages exchanged grows in a logarithmic way (this is an outrageous simplification of course, but gives an idea). There are many such expriments with Gnutella two with those ideas, this is what BearShare is trying to do.
CVS succesor Subversion, http://subversion.tigris.org currently developed by collab.net (who is also the maintainer of CVS) is also based an Webdav. Distributed repositories will be much easier to operate.
Yes indeed, this is a valid argument ! but the problem is that al these softwares will never have a critical mass of users, and this is what really count. This is why Microsoft is so hard to displace. Yes it's nice to have many open source suites, or desktops (KDE or Gnome) but the real problem is the "fragmentation" of the user base, so in the end all these programs might stay marginal, even though they might be excellent. We all know that the best software is not always the winner.
Slashdot Mirror
He also appears in this Washinton post article
/ 02 / etro_ijet040402.htm
http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum
Hollywood is scared about the Internet revolution, this is just a deseperate move. What they don't realise is that you simply can't stop the sea with your hands.
Don't forget that most of the time, only a vocal minority make things change. This has shown itself true many times in the history.
Forgot to add that "Le Tiers Etat" while mainly represented by "Les Bourgeois" was mainly composed of very poor people, hence "Tiers monde" in French and then "Third world" to name countries which were neither capitalist, nor communist, but just poor :) .
Third world comes from "Tiers Etat" Tiers means Third in French, this comes from the composition of the "constituante" which was a kind of parliament under Louis XVI just before the French revolution. Louis XVI has been obliged under mass protestation to call for a new "constituante"
The constituante was equally composed of :
1) Les nobles ; Aristocrates
2) Le Clergé : Clergymen
3) All the last remaining third part : "Le tiers", who where neither Aristocrats nor Clergymen, mainly represented by the "Bourgeois" who where rich or educated people who were not aristocrates.
I Don't recall exactly the details, but the "Constituante" will lately vote for the death sentence of Louis XVI and the Republic, and the "Bourgeois" will take the power. The most progressive people used to sit at the "left" of the president, the conservative ones at his right, hence the left "la gauche" and the right "la droite" which have seen become common in politic.
It's sad very sad that this country who has given so much to democracy his now leaving so harsh time with Le Pen.
Yes this is one of the main reason why Linux is still not ready for the desktop ! there is just a gazillion way to do things and often badly, or at least in a confusing manner. The "official party line" in the Linux community is "diversity is good" and no one dare to really challenge that ! but what a passionate geek, willing to spend hundreds configuring his desktop calls "diversity" is just "confusion" for a newbie, who just want to install and go !
Mant geeks vehemently protest when a Desktop like KDE try to do things just the way Windows does them, there is a reason to that ! it's just because this is what people are used too ! there is reason why Ctrl-V and Ctrl-X are used for copy and cut in Windows, it's just because this is the way Wordstar does this ! so it was the de facto standard ! and whether we like or not, Windows is now the de facto standard.
What Linux on the Desktop needs is simplification and coherence and not yet other fuctionnalities.
apt has been ported to RPM by connectiva. I have just upgraded my Redhat 7.1 to 7.2, from freshrpms.net, it workded wonderfully well, I was really stunned and enthusiastic.
:
All I had to do was
1) grab the apt rpm from the site and install it.
2) apt-get update to get downlaod the list of available RPMS
3) apt-get dist-install
And you are set ! I had minor conflits, mainly with some Ximian RPMS, but it was very easy to deal with, I just had to delete theme and redo an apt-get install
I really believe that apt is the future of RPM. The dependency hell is completly gone !
Alas IT IS! and this is something that most geeks fail to understand. For the better or the worse. For many people this is the first contact they will have with a software, and this first impression has a major impact about the acceptation of a software by a PHB, like or not !!
I remember while at the university, students were fighting to do graphic or visual projects because experience has showed them that these were the projects which were rated better !!!!
This is something that the open source community is at last beginning to understand, to reach the masses, projects have got to be "pretty", with the recent integration of true type fonts, alpha blending, transparency, anti-aliasing, new good looking themes and so on.
It's just marketing ! this is what Apple and M$ have understood long time age.
In fact one of basic M$ has a strategy is to make people believe that it's product will literally "invade" the market ! they lobby journalist or make them believe this will be the case, hence the flood of press articles making people believe this. It's like a self fulfilling prediction, the more you make people believe it'll happen the more it has chance to actually happen.
Did you remember the public hysteria when Windows 95 was released ? and TV showing all these people waiting for the stores to happen to rush in and buy that crappy OS ?
Yes M$ is really very clever at that kind of mass manipulation !
Google has been an enchantment for me since it's beginning !
:)
They have always made the right decision ! they have offered internet users an incredible asset ! and I was so much grateful when they decided to rescue Deja, a site something I just don't know how I can leave without !
I view them as the most "honest and fair" site on the Net ! and without any doubt the most useful too.
Go Google ! you are showing the right way ! to all these stupid-crapy-portal sites which have invaded the net, I just hope you manage to stay in business and prosper for a loooooong, looooong time
Google is a gift to the Internet. I thank everyday these folks to keep it as it is, and sometimes improve it ! I only hope they will manage to break even and keep it alive, and not go under or be obliged to go the portal crap someday !
Wine by just emulating the win32 API, can now, (thanks to Codeweavers) run MS Office 2000, IE, QT, Photoshop and many major windows running software ! so has the Wine guys managed to do what MS with its Billion $ not managed to achieve ?
They seem to imply that GTK application execute on X Windows, Frame buffer, and Windows ! the former Win32 port was not integrated in the main release ! does it mean now that with just a recompile I can get my GTK applications running in Windows 9x or XP ?
I am in Europe and 99,99% percent of the SPAM I get is from US !
Taken from the Bitkeeper diff
--- 1.3/arch/i386/Config.help Tue Jan 29 06:32:09 2002
+++ 1.4/arch/i386/Config.help Sat Feb 9 11:11:32 2002
@@ -25,6 +25,16 @@
If you don't know what to do here, say N.
+CONFIG_PREEMPT
+ This option reduces the latency of the kernel when reacting to
+ real-time or interactive events by allowing a low priority process to
+ be preempted even if it is in kernel mode executing a system call.
+ This allows applications to run more reliably even when the system is
+ under load.
+
+ Say Y here if you are building a kernel for a desktop, embedded
+ or real-time system. Say N if you are unsure.
+
CONFIG_X86
This is Linux's home port. Linux was originally native to the Intel
386, and runs on all the later x86 processors including the Intel
http://linux.bkbits.net:8088/linux-2.5/ChangeSet@- 1d?nav=index.html
:)
It's just 3 hours old
A very nice way to follow the fresher kernel !
I have been waiting for this for a long time. I was not even sure whether Linus will ever accept it one day. This is a major achievement for Linux and open a lot of new opportunities in Desktop and Real time applications.
The model that Linus is advocating is in fact a peer to peer network with maintaines acting as super peers. This seems to be a sound way to scalability for me !
No ! you could have looked for it in goups.google.com by sarching for something like this "LCD, TrueType, Xfree86" you would have found it in some seconds !!
searching in groups.google.com has become a "reflex" for me, and it pays !!
While a apreciate what the Gnome people are doing, the AA fonts are really butt ugly ! I only hope this will change in the final version.
The problem is not that difficult, if you want Gnutella to scale, then you need to avoid the exponential explosition of the number of messages exchanged between the clients as their number grows. The only solution is to structure the network by using "super clients" or "servants" or "super nodes", call them what you want, the later is what KaZaa and Morphus have accomplished; this makes the number of messages exchanged grows in a logarithmic way (this is an outrageous simplification of course, but gives an idea). There are many such expriments with Gnutella two with those ideas, this is what BearShare is trying to do.
While some modules might be indeed hard to compile and install, http://www.apachetoolbox.com/ has made that task much much easier !
CVS succesor Subversion, http://subversion.tigris.org currently developed by collab.net (who is also the maintainer of CVS) is also based an Webdav. Distributed repositories will be much easier to operate.
Well its seems you need to lear sed :)
Yes indeed, this is a valid argument ! but the problem is that al these softwares will never have a critical mass of users, and this is what really count. This is why Microsoft is so hard to displace. Yes it's nice to have many open source suites, or desktops (KDE or Gnome) but the real problem is the "fragmentation" of the user base, so in the end all these programs might stay marginal, even though they might be excellent. We all know that the best software is not always the winner.