WordPerfect Office for Linux isn't going to be ready until a couple of months after the final version of the distro is released. So it's not going to be included in the distro, at least initially, so I doubt it's in the beta.
I thought Slashdot types were supposed to be pretty smart, but wake up here. That "Minimum Requirements" page is just a generic link that they have on all their beta-testing page. It's assuming that you're testing a Windows program (which 95% of Corel programs are). Sure, maybe somebody could have updated, but let's maybe talk about something else, which is actually relevant?
Personally, I think they keyboard is pretty much OK as it is. Dvorak is definitely a more efficient layout of the alphabet keys, but most people are used to QWERTY, so it's probably here to stay.
One thing that would be a very easy thing to do would be to move the caps lock, scroll lock, and num lock keys out of the main layout, and put them where the lights are (and have lights built into the keys).
That way, the num lock could be replaced with a backspace key for the num keypad (which would be much more efficient- I think "clear" on the Mac is exactly that), caps would be replaced with something useful (maybe something related to tab, like moving the cursor one tab forward, or a reverse-tab), and the 3 key block of print screen/sysrq, scroll lock, and pause/break could be replaced with cut/copy/paste keys or something like that. (Print screen, sysrq, pause, and break could be retained by going ctrl-f9/f10/f11/f12. There already is a help key, after all- F1. But if that was actually LABELLED "Help" in addition to F1, it would probably make it easier for newbies.
The ultimate keyboard would allow it to be instantly reconfigurable, of course: I wonder if it's possible to put little LCDs on the top of the keys so that the labels can change instantly, through software.....
I did most of my high school programming in VB, because I was forced to. Even in the simple programs I made, Windows and VB incompatibilities really pissed me off. Some examples:
-A setup program for a VB3 program made with the VB3 setup wizard works in 3.1, crashes in 95 -the grid and database controls changed significantly between VB3 and 5, requiring a great deal of recoding to port the program. -One VB5 program which, while compiled as a.exe, wouldn't run on the target system unless VB was installed on it. I've had this problem with VB3 as well. -One VB5 program which ran fine in the VB IDE, but crashed when run as a.exe. THAT was a bitch to debug.
And they wonder why they're losing developers.....
For those of you who say that Universal is just concerned about revenue from its ad banners, one trip to their site would show you that there are ABSOLUTELY NO AD BANNERS ON THEIR SITE. I don't really know what their problem is with people linking directly to the trailer files, but I don't think they'd have a problem if you just linked to the movie's web site, then people can just use the links there to get the trailers. (Just as a sidenote, I think Universal's sites for its movies are way better than the other studios).
Up here, South Park and American Pie are AA-14, "adult rccompaniment required under age 14." Eyes Wide Shut is R, which is "no admittance under age 18." We don't have an NC-17, which means that the uncensored Eyes Wide Shut orgy scene would have been allowed here, but because Canada is considered part of the US movie market, we got the censored version, just because you guys can't figure out a goddam ratings system that works.
He means bootleg the movies in whatever format you want to... just like making an MP3 of a song and putting it on the net is bootlegging. He's not suggesting you put the movie in MP3. Frig, you people have narrow, literal minds...
Slashdot asks for your Slashdot password, not for your e-mail password. Eudora is a client program for e-mail that's sitting on your computer's hard drive, it's not distributing your password anywhere. If Eudora has code that relayed your password back to Eudora HQ, that would be evil. Likewise, if Slashdot was asking for your e-mail password, that would be evil. Why? BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO BUSINESS KNOWING WHAT YOUR E-MAIL PASSWORD IS! The problem with MSNIM is that your password is relayed to MS servers. Why do they need to know? If the AOL password was just stored on your computer, fine, but why do you have to give it to them?
You seem to be under the impression that when you have this on, you can't see what you're doing or where you're going. In fact, the specifications page mentions a "see-through function", by use of an LCD shutter system, so you can either view just the image, or the real world and the image at the same time. However if you wear one of these while walking down the street, I think you'd look like a moron.
This press release from March says that VA Research is working on the port and that "VA Research will deliver the optimized port, in synch with Merced-based system availability in mid 2000." Apparently, HP, SGI, Caldera, Debian, RedHat and SuSE are all working on it as well.
As part of their investment in Red Hat a while back, I remember one of the side-deals was that Intel was either going to work on or fund an effort to have Linux 64-bit on Merced as soon as it comes out, which shouldn't be much of a problem since we're already 64-bit on Alpha. Look at it this way: Linux is gonna support Merced a lot sooner than MS is.
The LC was delayed to March way back in February (can't remember why), and because of this sale and the name change, it was delayed more. It IS coming, but I'm not sure when. I live in Ottawa, and there was a story in the Ottawa Citizen today that they would be introducing a Netwinder based on Corel Desktop Linux, which they want to intro at Linux Expo in August. I don't think they'll wait that long though...
My friend's dad works on the Netwinder, right now they're doing a lot of work on a Netwinder Beowulf cluster. The LC is done development, it's just a matter of actually starting to make them and sell them.
I thought The Matrix was very innovative, but then, I haven't seen Dark City. But nobody's going to The Matrix for plot and story, although they are bonuses. People are going for the effects, which are absolutely amazing.
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Press escape. Maybe not obvious, but it works. Man, I've clicked that option by mistake too many times....
Right on that system specs page that you linked to, at the bottom of the Storage section, it says "Support for up to three internal SCSI drives"
Any questions? It's usually a good idea to get the right information before starting on a rant.
Right on that system specs page that you linked to, at the bottom of the Storage section, it says "Support for up to three internal SCSI drives"
Any questions? It's usually a good idea to get the right information before starting on a rant.
WordPerfect Office for Linux isn't going to be ready until a couple of months after the final version of the distro is released. So it's not going to be included in the distro, at least initially, so I doubt it's in the beta.
I thought Slashdot types were supposed to be pretty smart, but wake up here. That "Minimum Requirements" page is just a generic link that they have on all their beta-testing page. It's assuming that you're testing a Windows program (which 95% of Corel programs are). Sure, maybe somebody could have updated, but let's maybe talk about something else, which is actually relevant?
Who really cares anyway?
In a tennis tournament.
Personally, I think they keyboard is pretty much OK as it is. Dvorak is definitely a more efficient layout of the alphabet keys, but most people are used to QWERTY, so it's probably here to stay.
One thing that would be a very easy thing to do would be to move the caps lock, scroll lock, and num lock keys out of the main layout, and put them where the lights are (and have lights built into the keys).
That way, the num lock could be replaced with a backspace key for the num keypad (which would be much more efficient- I think "clear" on the Mac is exactly that), caps would be replaced with something useful (maybe something related to tab, like moving the cursor one tab forward, or a reverse-tab), and the 3 key block of print screen/sysrq, scroll lock, and pause/break could be replaced with cut/copy/paste keys or something like that. (Print screen, sysrq, pause, and break could be retained by going ctrl-f9/f10/f11/f12.
There already is a help key, after all- F1. But if that was actually LABELLED "Help" in addition to F1, it would probably make it easier for newbies.
The ultimate keyboard would allow it to be instantly reconfigurable, of course: I wonder if it's possible to put little LCDs on the top of the keys so that the labels can change instantly, through software.....
Here's a graphic of the Dvorak layout (this one's for Mac, but you get the jist of it)
I did most of my high school programming in VB, because I was forced to. Even in the simple programs I made, Windows and VB incompatibilities really pissed me off. Some examples:
.exe, wouldn't run on the target system unless VB was installed on it. I've had this problem with VB3 as well. .exe. THAT was a bitch to debug.
-A setup program for a VB3 program made with the VB3 setup wizard works in 3.1, crashes in 95
-the grid and database controls changed significantly between VB3 and 5, requiring a great deal of recoding to port the program.
-One VB5 program which, while compiled as a
-One VB5 program which ran fine in the VB IDE, but crashed when run as a
And they wonder why they're losing developers.....
For those of you who say that Universal is just concerned about revenue from its ad banners, one trip to their site would show you that there are ABSOLUTELY NO AD BANNERS ON THEIR SITE. I don't really know what their problem is with people linking directly to the trailer files, but I don't think they'd have a problem if you just linked to the movie's web site, then people can just use the links there to get the trailers. (Just as a sidenote, I think Universal's sites for its movies are way better than the other studios).
Up here, South Park and American Pie are AA-14, "adult rccompaniment required under age 14." Eyes Wide Shut is R, which is "no admittance under age 18." We don't have an NC-17, which means that the uncensored Eyes Wide Shut orgy scene would have been allowed here, but because Canada is considered part of the US movie market, we got the censored version, just because you guys can't figure out a goddam ratings system that works.
He means bootleg the movies in whatever format you want to... just like making an MP3 of a song and putting it on the net is bootlegging. He's not suggesting you put the movie in MP3. Frig, you people have narrow, literal minds...
Slashdot asks for your Slashdot password, not for your e-mail password. Eudora is a client program for e-mail that's sitting on your computer's hard drive, it's not distributing your password anywhere. If Eudora has code that relayed your password back to Eudora HQ, that would be evil. Likewise, if Slashdot was asking for your e-mail password, that would be evil. Why? BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO BUSINESS KNOWING WHAT YOUR E-MAIL PASSWORD IS!
The problem with MSNIM is that your password is relayed to MS servers. Why do they need to know? If the AOL password was just stored on your computer, fine, but why do you have to give it to them?
You seem to be under the impression that when you have this on, you can't see what you're doing or where you're going. In fact, the specifications page mentions a "see-through function", by use of an LCD shutter system, so you can either view just the image, or the real world and the image at the same time.
However if you wear one of these while walking down the street, I think you'd look like a moron.
DOS came out in 1981 with the first IBM PC. Unix has been around since the '60's. Gates has stated on several occasions that DOS was based on Unix.
This press release from March says that VA Research is working on the port and that "VA Research will deliver the optimized port, in synch with Merced-based system availability in mid 2000." Apparently, HP, SGI, Caldera, Debian, RedHat and SuSE are all working on it as well.
As part of their investment in Red Hat a while back, I remember one of the side-deals was that Intel was either going to work on or fund an effort to have Linux 64-bit on Merced as soon as it comes out, which shouldn't be much of a problem since we're already 64-bit on Alpha.
Look at it this way: Linux is gonna support Merced a lot sooner than MS is.
They said they are releasing the source to their distribution, just not to WordPerfect or Draw.
The LC was delayed to March way back in February (can't remember why), and because of this sale and the name change, it was delayed more. It IS coming, but I'm not sure when. I live in Ottawa, and there was a story in the Ottawa Citizen today that they would be introducing a Netwinder based on Corel Desktop Linux, which they want to intro at Linux Expo in August. I don't think they'll wait that long though...
My friend's dad works on the Netwinder, right now they're doing a lot of work on a Netwinder Beowulf cluster. The LC is done development, it's just a matter of actually starting to make them and sell them.
They've got Netwinder i Series running Intel chips, so they could be using x86 Solaris. Don't know why they wouldn't use Linux though.
Anybody here has got to admit that this sounds a lot better than HCC. This is good marketing, and they've got good ideas for the Netwinder.
I thought The Matrix was very innovative, but then, I haven't seen Dark City.
But nobody's going to The Matrix for plot and story, although they are bonuses. People are going for the effects, which are absolutely amazing.