Really? Amazing that I have 3 systems without X even installed and I can still access my files...
Another one has fvwm (not fvwm2) and i can still access my files.
I must be special.
Nay, you must be BRILLIANT! You mean you don't need KDE or GNOME? Holy mother of Linus Torvalds, why didn't someone mention this before! Tell me, did you have to hack your system? Are you one of those l334 d00ds that I must f34r? Can mere mortals like me ever hope to achieve such a stunning technological feat?
But if you remove either KDE or GNOME, you will be unable to access your files.:)
My two cents: I'm using Galeon with KDE (or, in the words of a fellow LUG member at an InstallFest, "You're doing what?) The reason being, of course, is that I love Galeon's tabs. I mourned the lack of tabs in Konq, but will most definitely go try it out once KDE 3.1 is out.
The following should not be considered as appropriate or moral advice, but rather as ethically questionable pettiness. You have been warned.
Make a list of your company's top competitors. Take full advantage of the BSA's anonymous whistle-blowing system. Be a little paranoid, and use public telephones to telephone and libraries to email. Be specific. "At least X copies of Win2000, only one licensed Photoshop being shared by both the web designers and marketing, etc." If you are an activist, report your city government, then send them some appropriate literature when they get audited. (Yes, an audit wastes your tax dollars, but they are already wasting your tax dollars, so make them pay for their lack of vision.)
The preceeding unethical material has come to a halt. You may open your eyes now.
We have Aqua. Or about 95% of the look. (Not the underlying technology, but then, does it matter?) Want it? First, use KDE. I say this because I know that there is an Aqua window decoration theme that has translucent unfocused titlebars. If there's a Sawfish window decoration with similar capabilities, speak up. Next, get Aqua themes for KDE and GNOME/GTK. You may have to tweak them a bit so that they are identical, but that shouldn't be too difficult. Grab some OSX icons off the net, play with KDE's kicker until it looks like the dock, and you've got Aqua!
Of course, if you really wanted to be clever, you could patch the kicker source code to get that "bouncing icon" effect that OSX has. If you want to be even more clever, you can patch KDE so that window menus are displayed in the desktop menu, thus giving you that genuine Mac experience. (This might already be the case in KDE3; I'm still running 2.2.)
I skimmed the license agreement, and it looks like (at first glance) a BSD-advertisement license. In any case, the source is available, so (naturally) I am wondering if there are any attempts to port it to Linux/*BSD. Or does it use DirectX? I guess DirectX wouldn't preclude porting, just make it more difficult. Thoughts?
While Bart was quoted out of context, I think that one of Linux's main selling points is that it is good for all countries. It shouldn't be marketed because it strikes a blow at that Evil American MegaCorp(TM), but because it is Open and Free to all, a gift from hackers of many nations, many religions, and many politics. Out of many, one?:) Sorry, couldn't resist.
I was a little surprised that the interviewer didn't turn up the heat a bit and ask just how Eazel managed to burn through all the investment money so fast. My question, for all you armchair pundits out there, is why was Eazel so dependent upon the reports of IDC? For those that didn't read the article, Bart basically said that IDC revised their forecasts for the desktop to one third the original number, the investors got scared, and Eazel failed to get funded and promptly died. Then IDC turns around a couple of months later and revises those forecasts once again, tripling their prediction (remember, 48.2% of all forecasts are pulled ourt of thin air). By my (admittably simple) mind, it would be good business practice to always have a little nest egg to help tide you in such times.
Of course, it was nice of them to release Nautilus under the GPL, so that the community could take a bloated and slow program and actually make it work.:)
...considering Hancom's close partnership with theKompany. Perhaps someone can point him to kde-look.org where he can find all sorts of eye candy goodness for KDE.
Doesn't matter, anyway. Even if there had been a rooftop water system, it wouldn't have done a hill of beans. For once thing, jet fuel burns so hot that you need foam, not water, to extinguish the flames. The heat would have vaporized the water even before it would have reached the flames. Second, sprinklers are not designed to pump the amount of water that would be necessary to extinguish such a fire. They would have to deliver a flood of water (think "Towering Inferno") in order to have any chance of extinguishing the blaze. "Sprinklers" are aptly named. They are designed to contain and supress small blazes, not infernos.
Except that if you consider that the first tower to come down was the second hit, and that it was hit below the 70th floor, it becomes quite clear that the asbestos that was there did little to help.
Face it, no building could have survived a planeload of burning jet fuel that was busy eating its way through the building, with dozens of floors above adding weight to the weakening structure. And for all those people bemoaning the lack of a rooftop water supply for the sprinklers: consider the fact that the fire trucks at airports are not loaded with water, but with foam. You need foam, not water, to effectively put out burning jet fuel. Otherwise, the water would evaporate into steam before it had a chance to extinguish the flames.
Really, it's amazing that they stood as long as they did. Of course, knowing the limitless bounds of greed, people are still going to try to find someone to sue. "I want a bazillion dollars because the contractor didn't design the building to resist the destructive impact of a 767 and a plane-load of burning fuel!" Sheesh.
I'm sorry, but Eric seems to be inhaling too much gunpowder these days. He, better than anyone, ought to realize that you can't "kill" FS/OSS. Furthermore, his argument is that if Microsoft had started its FUD campaign back in 1998, no one would have bought into Linux. This is similar to charging Microsoft with failure to have a crystal ball. Back in 1998, Linux was barely a blip on anyone's radar. I've been using Linux exclusively since Feb. 1999, and I speak from experience when I say that MS had nothing to fear then. Furthermore, even if someone in MS had a premonition, it would have been an absolutely stupid blunder to start FUDing Linux. Think about it; were MS to have attacked Linux at that point, interest would have only gone up. There's no such thing as bad advertizing.
Ah, Windows. That reminds me of the following call between a customer (running Linux) and some telephone monkey. The problem was that the dial-up connection was problamatic. Sometimes the customer would dial-in and connect, but after that, nothing. All packets just disappeared into the bit bucket. The only solution was to hang up and dial again, which usually solved the problem. After explaining this, the following discussion ensued:
Monkey: Very well sir, what version of Internet Explorer are you running?
Customer: I'm not using IE, I'm using Mozilla.
Monkey: Mozilla? (pause) Well, in any case, open up IE.
Customer: I don't have IE installed. I'm running Linux.
Monkey: I'm sorry, sir, we only support Windows.
Customer: I just want to know what if the problem is with my modem or with your server, that's all. It shouldn't matter what OS I'm using.
Monkey: I'm sorry, sir, but you'll have to be running Windows in order for us to determine that.
Customer:(Decides that lying would be easier) Ok, let me switch to my other computer. It's running WindowsMe. (pauses for a few seconds, loads Mozilla, then: ) Ok, I'm at my other computer. And I have IE open.
Monkey: Very good sir. Now, do you have a second line that you can use?
Customer:(lies again) Yes. Should I connect now?
Monkey: Yes.
Customer: Ok, I'm connected, but I can't load any web sites.
Monkey: Try... (gives ISP's web page)
Customer: Nope, that didn't work. Nothing is showing up, and the little network icon in the toolbar doesn't show any activity, either. Monkey: Sounds like a problem with IE. Try rebooting and then see if that doesn't fix the problem.
Customer: But it's not just IE! It doesn't work on my Linux computer, either!
Monkey: Maybe you need to reboot Linux, too, sir.
Any resemblence to any person, living or dead, is strictly coincidental, due to the high numbers of incompetent telephone monkeys in the world.
Very true. What your average geek needs is not software support, but helpdesk people who are technically competent. Nothing is worse than calling in with a question that any reasonably informed person could answer, and getting some telephone monkey who thinks a typewriter is advanced technology and reads from a script. Gah! You would think that with all the time and effort put into making a script, they would have at least one section entitled, What To Do When The Caller Knows More Than You. And preferably, it would have a list of common geek requests, instead of "Put customer on hold and hope that he or she hangs up."
:Peter
Does anyone see this as a possibility?
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I like to some extent what the author suggests, but in this day and age where corporations pull the puppet strings on the politicians, can we honestly expect this to happen? Perhaps I am cynical, but this doesn't sound like it has a snowball's chance in hell of ever seeing the light of day, short of a revolution. Feel free to delude me of my cynicism.:)
Ratpoison? Note, I have not tried it (I'm perfectly happy using the mouse:) but it sounds like something you might be interested in. Here's it's description:
Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no large library dependencies, fancy graphics, window decorations, or flash. It is largely modelled after GNU Screen, which has done wonders in virtual terminal market. All interaction with the window manager is done through keystrokes. ratpoison has a prefix map to minimize the key clobbering that cripples EMACS and other quality pieces of software. All windows are maximized and kept maximized to avoid wasting precious screen space.
It will be proprietary, obfuscated, and impossible for other operating systems to read/write to. Furthermore, it will have all sorts of copy management "features" built in to it.
Hmm--I guess I had better post a better link than just the front page; here is the Ethnologue language name index that claims to have listings of 6,800 main languages. However, their database apparently contains 41,000 alternative names and dialects. If that doesn't meet your needs, than nothing will!
There are over 6,000 languages in the world, which should be plenty for your purposes!:) Start off with the major languages, then work your way to the more obscure. SIL's Ethnologue is a great place to start.
It's not much besides pictures, but that's the first thing you want to know, right? That, and that they have a 66 MHz Dragonball SuperVZ processor, run Palm OS 4.1 and have 16 MB of RAM and 10 MB of Flash ROM. They also come memory stick slot and a jog dial. Battery life is 10 days, used for half an hour each day. Guess that means 5 hours.
Well, this has been known for a long time. But really, it's not as big a deal as one might think. "Scientology" as a search term pulls up an entire page of Scinetologist sites, except for #4, which is xenu.net. However, the first page for "Scientology secrets" is full of sites that debunk Scientology. So yes, the Church of Scientology has a virtual monopoly on the search "Scientology" but is far, far from controlling other search items. It all works out in the end.
I thought Disney was the bad guy? Undoubtably, someone is going to get on my case for expecting some standards here at/., but really, this is DISNEY, bringer of evil acronyms, like SSSCA, and part of evil four-letter acronyms, like MPAA. But look! Shiny lights!
You say that you are experienced in the black arts of system administration, that you have a low bandwidth site, and a decent DSL connection. What's your problem?:) You're not at the mercy of another sysadmin and you're not having to pay any more for what you already have, unless you go with a free hosting site, which will plague you with banner ads, pop-ups, and whatnot until you repent.
The only word of advice that you need at this point is, "Don't get slashdotted," and everything will be hunky-dory.
For the acronym impaired, and to escape the lameness filter, "You Have Been Trolled. Have A Nice Day." Remember, even Taco can't resist that urge to troll/. It's so fun and morally wholesome!
I don't mean to become flamebait here but shouldn't all the *nix people be dancing around a fire singing the praises of Red Flag and the chinese govt's decisions to use it?
Look at it this way: the GPL is centered around the notion of freedom. Suddenly, a country that isn't exactly know for a natural proclivity towards freedom adopts your number one symbol. You experience a little cognitive dissonance, because on the one hand, you really think said country should be more respectful of its people's rights, yet on the other hand, are compelled by your own morals to allow them to use it.
This brings to mind another article I was reading, about how the Anti-Defamation League was exposing racist games produced by white supremists using...open source gaming engines. I imagine that the programmers may experience a little discomfort at that; after all, everyone knows that in a first-person shooter, all races (human and alien alike) should be shot into nasty little giblets, regardless of their ethnic origin. I'm sorry, I shouldn't be so glib, but you see my point; when you release code under the GPL, you have to risk someone taking it and using it for evil purposes. Very few people think that white supremists are anything but redneck losers who are so pathetic that they can't find their way out of a paper bag and need to blame someone for their own stupidity, but they have the same right to free speech as the rest of us. If you deny them that right, then you set up the very real potential of denying many more their right to free speech.
One last statement: Since Red Flag is GPL that means that the entire source code has to be realesed etc, etc. Quite neat isn't it? That a totalitarian, communist country is being 'forced' (yeah I'd like to see em prosecute them for a violation of the GPL) to release it's precious code to it's next-gen op system. Quite an accomplishment.
After reading the review, it doesn't look like this is much more than Red Hat with all instances of "Hat" replaced with "Flag." (See my prior comment above.) I personally am not expecting much new original code coming from Red Flag for a good long time, if this is how they produce a distribution...
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Nay, you must be BRILLIANT! You mean you don't need KDE or GNOME? Holy mother of Linus Torvalds, why didn't someone mention this before! Tell me, did you have to hack your system? Are you one of those l334 d00ds that I must f34r? Can mere mortals like me ever hope to achieve such a stunning technological feat?
:)
:Peter
But if you remove either KDE or GNOME, you will be unable to access your files. :)
My two cents: I'm using Galeon with KDE (or, in the words of a fellow LUG member at an InstallFest, "You're doing what?) The reason being, of course, is that I love Galeon's tabs. I mourned the lack of tabs in Konq, but will most definitely go try it out once KDE 3.1 is out.
:Peter
The following should not be considered as appropriate or moral advice, but rather as ethically questionable pettiness. You have been warned.
Make a list of your company's top competitors. Take full advantage of the BSA's anonymous whistle-blowing system. Be a little paranoid, and use public telephones to telephone and libraries to email. Be specific. "At least X copies of Win2000, only one licensed Photoshop being shared by both the web designers and marketing, etc." If you are an activist, report your city government, then send them some appropriate literature when they get audited. (Yes, an audit wastes your tax dollars, but they are already wasting your tax dollars, so make them pay for their lack of vision.)
The preceeding unethical material has come to a halt. You may open your eyes now.
:Peter
We have Aqua. Or about 95% of the look. (Not the underlying technology, but then, does it matter?) Want it? First, use KDE. I say this because I know that there is an Aqua window decoration theme that has translucent unfocused titlebars. If there's a Sawfish window decoration with similar capabilities, speak up. Next, get Aqua themes for KDE and GNOME/GTK. You may have to tweak them a bit so that they are identical, but that shouldn't be too difficult. Grab some OSX icons off the net, play with KDE's kicker until it looks like the dock, and you've got Aqua!
Of course, if you really wanted to be clever, you could patch the kicker source code to get that "bouncing icon" effect that OSX has. If you want to be even more clever, you can patch KDE so that window menus are displayed in the desktop menu, thus giving you that genuine Mac experience. (This might already be the case in KDE3; I'm still running 2.2.)
:Peter
I skimmed the license agreement, and it looks like (at first glance) a BSD-advertisement license. In any case, the source is available, so (naturally) I am wondering if there are any attempts to port it to Linux/*BSD. Or does it use DirectX? I guess DirectX wouldn't preclude porting, just make it more difficult. Thoughts?
:Peter
While Bart was quoted out of context, I think that one of Linux's main selling points is that it is good for all countries. It shouldn't be marketed because it strikes a blow at that Evil American MegaCorp(TM), but because it is Open and Free to all, a gift from hackers of many nations, many religions, and many politics. Out of many, one? :) Sorry, couldn't resist.
:Peter
I was a little surprised that the interviewer didn't turn up the heat a bit and ask just how Eazel managed to burn through all the investment money so fast. My question, for all you armchair pundits out there, is why was Eazel so dependent upon the reports of IDC? For those that didn't read the article, Bart basically said that IDC revised their forecasts for the desktop to one third the original number, the investors got scared, and Eazel failed to get funded and promptly died. Then IDC turns around a couple of months later and revises those forecasts once again, tripling their prediction (remember, 48.2% of all forecasts are pulled ourt of thin air). By my (admittably simple) mind, it would be good business practice to always have a little nest egg to help tide you in such times.
:)
Of course, it was nice of them to release Nautilus under the GPL, so that the community could take a bloated and slow program and actually make it work.
:Peter
...considering Hancom's close partnership with theKompany. Perhaps someone can point him to kde-look.org where he can find all sorts of eye candy goodness for KDE.
Or have I been trolled?
:Peter
:Peter
Face it, no building could have survived a planeload of burning jet fuel that was busy eating its way through the building, with dozens of floors above adding weight to the weakening structure. And for all those people bemoaning the lack of a rooftop water supply for the sprinklers: consider the fact that the fire trucks at airports are not loaded with water, but with foam. You need foam, not water, to effectively put out burning jet fuel. Otherwise, the water would evaporate into steam before it had a chance to extinguish the flames.
Really, it's amazing that they stood as long as they did. Of course, knowing the limitless bounds of greed, people are still going to try to find someone to sue. "I want a bazillion dollars because the contractor didn't design the building to resist the destructive impact of a 767 and a plane-load of burning fuel!" Sheesh.
:Peter
:Peter
Monkey: Very well sir, what version of Internet Explorer are you running?
Customer: I'm not using IE, I'm using Mozilla.
Monkey: Mozilla? (pause) Well, in any case, open up IE.
Customer: I don't have IE installed. I'm running Linux.
Monkey: I'm sorry, sir, we only support Windows.
Customer: I just want to know what if the problem is with my modem or with your server, that's all. It shouldn't matter what OS I'm using.
Monkey: I'm sorry, sir, but you'll have to be running Windows in order for us to determine that.
Customer: (Decides that lying would be easier) Ok, let me switch to my other computer. It's running WindowsMe. (pauses for a few seconds, loads Mozilla, then: ) Ok, I'm at my other computer. And I have IE open.
Monkey: Very good sir. Now, do you have a second line that you can use?
Customer: (lies again) Yes. Should I connect now?
Monkey: Yes.
Customer: Ok, I'm connected, but I can't load any web sites.
Monkey: Try... (gives ISP's web page)
Customer: Nope, that didn't work. Nothing is showing up, and the little network icon in the toolbar doesn't show any activity, either.
Monkey: Sounds like a problem with IE. Try rebooting and then see if that doesn't fix the problem.
Customer: But it's not just IE! It doesn't work on my Linux computer, either!
Monkey: Maybe you need to reboot Linux, too, sir.
Any resemblence to any person, living or dead, is strictly coincidental, due to the high numbers of incompetent telephone monkeys in the world.
:Peter
:Peter
Yes, I'm cynical. But really, why shouldn't I?
:Peter
:Peter
:Peter
Lots of pictures of the new models
It's not much besides pictures, but that's the first thing you want to know, right? That, and that they have a 66 MHz Dragonball SuperVZ processor, run Palm OS 4.1 and have 16 MB of RAM and 10 MB of Flash ROM. They also come memory stick slot and a jog dial. Battery life is 10 days, used for half an hour each day. Guess that means 5 hours.
:Peter
:Peter
Bah. A pox on your house.
:Peter
The only word of advice that you need at this point is, "Don't get slashdotted," and everything will be hunky-dory.
:Peter
For the acronym impaired, and to escape the lameness filter, "You Have Been Trolled. Have A Nice Day." Remember, even Taco can't resist that urge to troll
:Peter
Look at it this way: the GPL is centered around the notion of freedom. Suddenly, a country that isn't exactly know for a natural proclivity towards freedom adopts your number one symbol. You experience a little cognitive dissonance, because on the one hand, you really think said country should be more respectful of its people's rights, yet on the other hand, are compelled by your own morals to allow them to use it.
This brings to mind another article I was reading, about how the Anti-Defamation League was exposing racist games produced by white supremists using...open source gaming engines. I imagine that the programmers may experience a little discomfort at that; after all, everyone knows that in a first-person shooter, all races (human and alien alike) should be shot into nasty little giblets, regardless of their ethnic origin. I'm sorry, I shouldn't be so glib, but you see my point; when you release code under the GPL, you have to risk someone taking it and using it for evil purposes. Very few people think that white supremists are anything but redneck losers who are so pathetic that they can't find their way out of a paper bag and need to blame someone for their own stupidity, but they have the same right to free speech as the rest of us. If you deny them that right, then you set up the very real potential of denying many more their right to free speech.
After reading the review, it doesn't look like this is much more than Red Hat with all instances of "Hat" replaced with "Flag." (See my prior comment above.) I personally am not expecting much new original code coming from Red Flag for a good long time, if this is how they produce a distribution...
:Peter