Honestly, how the hell can anyone even take this seriously?. Its even stupider than Amazons one-click shopping patent. It would take an intelligent person roughly 3 seconds to figure out that having keywords linking to other documents is a good way of linking information. In fact, I think many books such as encyclopedias and dictionaries have used something similar for a long time. (bla bla bla (see p563) bla bla bla
Are they going to sue Bible publishers for including anchors in the text?
When I first started using linux, If I remember correctly, the manual said "go to kernel.org and download the _latest_ kernel, and do this, this and this". it was quite simple. I was quite capable of compiling a kernel after a week of using linux, and I had absolutly no unix experience before that. I can imagine lots of linux nebies fscking their filesystems up straight away with this bug. First impressions last, and we could lose a lot of converts
Ahh.... Amiga. those were the days. Booted up almost instantly, fast, no bloat, no crashes, powerfull hardware, powerfull OS, Workbench was perty, mmmmmmm *sighs*
Konqueror is slow because it has a lot more overhead. It is not actually a web browser. KHTML is. Konqueror is basicly just a DCOP server that allows components to be added, such as KHTML, a File Browser, KOffice Viewer, Aktion!, Ghostview, etc.
If you want a pure and simple web browser using KHTML, there are a couple going round... cant remember what they are called. look on sourceforge if your interested.
If I recall correctly, netmeeting in windows allowed a single application to be shared (viewed and/or controlled) as if it was running localy. It probaly was still just a bitmap copy, but at least its better than the whole desktop.
while it is pretty nice, (It's a bit like a cross between X and VNC. While you still have to use the whole desktop... (AFAIK), it renders windows and widgets on the local machine (or seems to anyway)) But it still has nothing on a X11.
... To have catagories for small apps/single binaries
/usr/bin/mm for multimedia
/usr/bin/system for system apps
/usr/bin/editors for text editors
/usr/bin/graphics/ for graphics
/usr/bin/net/ for internet/networking
and set the path to use all of them.
Large Applications go in/opt
/opt/kde
/opt/gnome
/opt/staroffice
/opt/jdk1.3
Data files go where the app wants them. usually
/usr/share
and so on.
This works quite well. I dont have thousands of binaries in one directory, and I dont have a huge $PATH. It also makes finding and deleting unwanted programs easy.
I use a Redhat system, but I generaly dont touch RPM, I compile from source, or extract the rpm and install binaries manually (Something tells me I should get slackware). If RPM gave you more control over where things went, then I would use it. But it has too many limitations at the moment.
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Most people seem to forget that Amigas were a good 5 years ahead of pc's. The Amiga 4000 had a "Motorola (R) 68040 series 32-bit processor", running at 25mhz. Dont let the low number fool you. Those RISC chips had a lot of grunt. (The playstation one had a similar cpu running at only 33mhz). Add to this the fact that Amigas have a dedicated graphics processor, and a dedicated sound processor, and you've got quite a powerfull machine for its age. It could EASILY handle mpeg1 fullscreen.. (even a 486sx can handle mpeg1). hell, I know someone who does realtime video editing on an amiga.
Windows 2000 was quite good when I installed it. Apart from the fact that it constantly popped up with memory errors, which I assumed was because I had pc100 running at 133 (Of course linux handled it fine). Then after 6 months it was crashing so much and running so slow I put winME on. That was the worst decision I ever made. So now I just use Linux.
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Everyone seems to be going on about how slow XFree86 is, and how we need a direct framebuffer layer bla bla bla... well on my box, Quake3 runs about 20% faster in Linux than it does in Windows.
Hardware: ASUS-CUV4X (via chipset), p3 866, 390mb RAM, Geforce256+32mb
Linux: Redhat 6.1 upgraded to Xf86-4.02, kernel 2.4.6, NVidia-1.0-1541
Windows: WinME with latest NV drivers, and all tweaks. (Was win2k and that was even slower)
Nothing special about that system, and I don't have any speed problems. Admitadly X does take up a fair bit Of hard drive, and about 4 megs of ram, but its I could scale that down pretty easily
Games do not run as well under wine as they do nativly. There are graphics glitches, and countless flaws that cause problems. People will go out and buy windows games, and find that they run slowly, or badly, and assume it's just because Linux is terrible at games. This will also deter companies from porting to Linux because the games already run under wine.
BUT, native Linux games do run really well. All the native Linux games I've played (Quake1,2,3, Tribes2, UT, sof, etc) run really well. As for raw framerate, they are about the same (In heavy benchmarks Linux scores roughly 10% higher, but this isnt that noticeable in real gameplay). The benefits come from things like loading time, etc. Starting quake3, loading levels, etc run 3-4 times faster in linux than in windows, and it also handles heavy loads a lot better. It just overall feels more responsive.
So while wineX is a good way to increase linux gaming support, it will not really make developers port there games to linux.
But batteries are heavy, expensive, and take a long time to charge. Hydrogen is light, cheap (if we mass produce it enough it will be), and you can fill your car up with hydrogen in minutes, rather than hours.
Actually the watchfull eyes did pick it up. Thats why your reading it on slashdot. just because the person who happened to notice it was a BSD developer didnt mean he's not counted.
Josef Stalin: "He is an Imperialist Traitor! Kill him."
Adolf Hitler: "He is Jewish! Kill Him!"
Ashcroft: "He is a Terrorist! Kill Him!"
In each case, if your get on the wrong side of someone in a position of power, your toast. They just use the Public Enemy Number One(TM) at the time label on you, and no one blinks during your execution. Witch, Jew, Imperialist/Capitalist Pig, Terrorist- All used throughout history to rid people of those they dont like. Whether we execute them with a pistol, inject them with poison, or lock them up for life, the effect is the same- to take away the rest of their life.
With WWIII looming on the horizon, one thing has become very clear: History repeats itself.
Oops. Guess you didnt read the article. Of course you probably cant read, but let me guess, your an american anyway so its not like thats uncommon. most Americans are illiterate idiots. Dont feel bad. How about next time, read the fucking article, and post to the correct story. Im sure people love to get comments from previous storys in with the current one, just for flavour anyway, but its better if you post in the right spot.
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Honestly, how the hell can anyone even take this seriously?. Its even stupider than Amazons one-click shopping patent. It would take an intelligent person roughly 3 seconds to figure out that having keywords linking to other documents is a good way of linking information. In fact, I think many books such as encyclopedias and dictionaries have used something similar for a long time. (bla bla bla (see p563) bla bla bla
Are they going to sue Bible publishers for including anchors in the text?
When I first started using linux, If I remember correctly, the manual said "go to kernel.org and download the _latest_ kernel, and do this, this and this". it was quite simple. I was quite capable of compiling a kernel after a week of using linux, and I had absolutly no unix experience before that. I can imagine lots of linux nebies fscking their filesystems up straight away with this bug. First impressions last, and we could lose a lot of converts
Ahh.... Amiga. those were the days. Booted up almost instantly, fast, no bloat, no crashes, powerfull hardware, powerfull OS, Workbench was perty, mmmmmmm *sighs*
Konqueror is slow because it has a lot more overhead. It is not actually a web browser. KHTML is. Konqueror is basicly just a DCOP server that allows components to be added, such as KHTML, a File Browser, KOffice Viewer, Aktion!, Ghostview, etc.
If you want a pure and simple web browser using KHTML, there are a couple going round... cant remember what they are called. look on sourceforge if your interested.
If I recall correctly, netmeeting in windows allowed a single application to be shared (viewed and/or controlled) as if it was running localy. It probaly was still just a bitmap copy, but at least its better than the whole desktop.
while it is pretty nice, (It's a bit like a cross between X and VNC. While you still have to use the whole desktop... (AFAIK), it renders windows and widgets on the local machine (or seems to anyway)) But it still has nothing on a X11.
... To have catagories for small apps/single binaries
/opt
/usr/bin/mm for multimedia
/usr/bin/system for system apps
/usr/bin/editors for text editors
/usr/bin/graphics/ for graphics
/usr/bin/net/ for internet/networking
and set the path to use all of them.
Large Applications go in
/opt/kde
/opt/gnome
/opt/staroffice
/opt/jdk1.3
Data files go where the app wants them. usually
/usr/share
and so on.
This works quite well. I dont have thousands of binaries in one directory, and I dont have a huge $PATH. It also makes finding and deleting unwanted programs easy.
I use a Redhat system, but I generaly dont touch RPM, I compile from source, or extract the rpm and install binaries manually (Something tells me I should get slackware). If RPM gave you more control over where things went, then I would use it. But it has too many limitations at the moment.
Look for my post earlier. Amigas were a good 5 years ahead of x86 pc's. an Amiga 4000 would handle fullscreen mpeg without breaking a sweat.
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23886&cid=2
Most people seem to forget that Amigas were a good 5 years ahead of pc's. The Amiga 4000 had a "Motorola (R) 68040 series 32-bit processor", running at 25mhz. Dont let the low number fool you. Those RISC chips had a lot of grunt. (The playstation one had a similar cpu running at only 33mhz). Add to this the fact that Amigas have a dedicated graphics processor, and a dedicated sound processor, and you've got quite a powerfull machine for its age. It could EASILY handle mpeg1 fullscreen.. (even a 486sx can handle mpeg1). hell, I know someone who does realtime video editing on an amiga.
h tm - PSone statistics.
References
http://amiga.emugaming.com/a4000tech.html - A4000 statistics
http://www.sony-middleeast.com/playstation/psone.
Thats a pretty good idea... You could change the color of your clothes whenever you want.
Rubbish. REAL men use switches and LED's.
lol. The Collins class submarine can't even shoot properly, last time I checked.
Windows 2000 was quite good when I installed it. Apart from the fact that it constantly popped up with memory errors, which I assumed was because I had pc100 running at 133 (Of course linux handled it fine). Then after 6 months it was crashing so much and running so slow I put winME on. That was the worst decision I ever made. So now I just use Linux.
rofl. Slashdot her phone!
... Not if you put Linux, *BSD, Solaris, etc on it
Everyone seems to be going on about how slow XFree86 is, and how we need a direct framebuffer layer bla bla bla... well on my box, Quake3 runs about 20% faster in Linux than it does in Windows.
Hardware: ASUS-CUV4X (via chipset), p3 866, 390mb RAM, Geforce256+32mb
Linux: Redhat 6.1 upgraded to Xf86-4.02, kernel 2.4.6, NVidia-1.0-1541
Windows: WinME with latest NV drivers, and all tweaks. (Was win2k and that was even slower)
Nothing special about that system, and I don't have any speed problems. Admitadly X does take up a fair bit Of hard drive, and about 4 megs of ram, but its I could scale that down pretty easily
Games do not run as well under wine as they do nativly. There are graphics glitches, and countless flaws that cause problems. People will go out and buy windows games, and find that they run slowly, or badly, and assume it's just because Linux is terrible at games. This will also deter companies from porting to Linux because the games already run under wine.
BUT, native Linux games do run really well. All the native Linux games I've played (Quake1,2,3, Tribes2, UT, sof, etc) run really well. As for raw framerate, they are about the same (In heavy benchmarks Linux scores roughly 10% higher, but this isnt that noticeable in real gameplay). The benefits come from things like loading time, etc. Starting quake3, loading levels, etc run 3-4 times faster in linux than in windows, and it also handles heavy loads a lot better. It just overall feels more responsive.
So while wineX is a good way to increase linux gaming support, it will not really make developers port there games to linux.
But batteries are heavy, expensive, and take a long time to charge. Hydrogen is light, cheap (if we mass produce it enough it will be), and you can fill your car up with hydrogen in minutes, rather than hours.
Actually, the NVidia kernel drivers are open source. The GLX modules are close sourced.
> it is impossible to copyright a word, phrase, note, or chord
So... it would be impossible to copyright the word Illustrater? somebody tell adobe that.
Go to a MS program, go to help menu, select about. Guess what, they put credits in there even if they are not requred to.
Actually the watchfull eyes did pick it up. Thats why your reading it on slashdot. just because the person who happened to notice it was a BSD developer didnt mean he's not counted.
Josef Stalin: "He is an Imperialist Traitor! Kill him."
Adolf Hitler: "He is Jewish! Kill Him!"
Ashcroft: "He is a Terrorist! Kill Him!"
In each case, if your get on the wrong side of someone in a position of power, your toast. They just use the Public Enemy Number One(TM) at the time label on you, and no one blinks during your execution. Witch, Jew, Imperialist/Capitalist Pig, Terrorist- All used throughout history to rid people of those they dont like. Whether we execute them with a pistol, inject them with poison, or lock them up for life, the effect is the same- to take away the rest of their life.
With WWIII looming on the horizon, one thing has become very clear: History repeats itself.
It probably didnt work multiplayer because Starcraft uses IPX, not TCP/IP, so unless you have linux set up to use IPX it wont work.
Oops. Guess you didnt read the article. Of course you probably cant read, but let me guess, your an american anyway so its not like thats uncommon. most Americans are illiterate idiots. Dont feel bad. How about next time, read the fucking article, and post to the correct story. Im sure people love to get comments from previous storys in with the current one, just for flavour anyway, but its better if you post in the right spot.