Windows have its equivalent vfs thing. You can see My Computers Devices, Printers, Control Panel Applets, Windows Neighborhood, network shares and FTP sites and PocketPC filesystem in Explorer.
The main KDE 2 Desktop concepts (I mean Konqueror with kioslaves and kparts) was mostly embracing Win95/98 concepts, just doing them right, I mean, KDE devs did it because it could be cool and useful, not just because they were trying to steal Netscape's market share.
So, no, a number of features of KDE comes from Windows and KDE 4 is no exception, they just are there but most users don't notice about them.
Of course, KDE makes a better choice for me because their feature are usually better implemented, did at library level so the experience is more consistent, and of course there is the integration with the unix fundation.
Nobody is bashing Windows so far, yet it seems to be what the editor look for when he wrote the headline. Has Windows improved enough that nobody try to make fun of it anymore, or slashdotters are already older and more mature?
A regular burglar won't care abour your data. One up to the times would check if you are sloppy and kept home banking credentials on a file in your desktop, or something else he can make money of.
And while it can sound unfair, if you look on it on the right light, it isn't. A GPL'd project can be built on a platform where no free toolchain is available (hey, even GCC had to be compiled on a different compiler the first time!). Of course, the concept is about non-free but publicly available tools, as seems to be in this case.
Most consumer routers could support IPv6, just their firmwares don't. The bad part? Most router vendors won't provide firmware upgrades, they will offer ISPs to buy new IPv6 capable ones instead. The good part? A nice fraction of these devices run Linux, so theoretically ISPs could do bounties for third party IPv6 capable firmwares. I for one am available for such a task.
However, back in 1996, basically the only available toolkit besides Qt was Tk. GTK+, Fltk and others are newer. wxWidgets (wxWindows back then) didn't have native widgets, Motif was fully closed, etc, so choice of Qt probably was reasonable.
Best practices about CA management says you should have your secret key in a (physical) safe. Better yet, divide it in two pieces and put it along the passphrase in three different safes (part1+pass,part2+pass,part1+part2), so you can't lose key access even if you lose one safe, and nobody can take the key by opening a single safe.
> So, the LSB is mainly aimed at attracting privative software like Oracle to Linux (who else need guaranteed ABI compatibility when you can recompile?),
At this time I'm convinced that having to rely on distributions (or worse, 3rd party distro specific packages) for software is stupid. I'll be happy when I'll be able to install any binary package, free or privative, with source available or not, not being constrained by using distribution X or using the version and tweaks distro X provides for that particular app. And then, software producers being able to provide binary packages themselves without caring about distro X or Y, just providing an easy to install package just as they do for Windows, including lots of FOSS apps available for Windows. Well, better than Windows I expect... zeroinstall is the most close to this, but neither zeroinstall, click, LSB or whatever else got any real traction...
Since I'm trying to put myself in a more regular user position (partly to eventually move in-laws when their XP installation get broken), I got my own list of things that need work in order to be really competitive:
Configuration: Yes, usually autodetection and GUI config work. Sometimes doesn't. The worst part is the case of X. Some Distros like Ubuntu trash X.org autodetection in order to use their own, inferior solution (then Debian doesn't include xorgcfg). That's stupid. Enhance the GUI, but keep the working functionality! There are no excuses for misconfigured monitor these days!
Software installation: Again apt/yum/etc is great, but still imperfect. Distros make me feel like different houses with different power outlets each. Yes, all use the same voltage, but I need to get the appliances from the house builder, or mess getting original plug-less appliance and attach it a plug myself. The case is, there is no distribution including all the software all the people will ever use, and downloading and compiling tarballs (sometimes including tricky "./configure" parameters and/or iterating over several dependencies) is of course out of the question. I think the community should embrace things like ZeroInstall (or Autopackage), and either becoming the standard for packaging and installing anything besides the base system, and developers providing those packages instead of just source and waiting for some packagers picking it and integrating it into distros' repos.
Translations. AFAIK, just the development version of libapt is getting i18n support, that tells a lot about how important the end user is, and there are a lot out there that doesn't understand English. And I won't start talking about lack of quality of translations in general.
RTFA. IPv6 routers will need to work as dual stack devices, and have both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, if you ever want to comunicate to the existent, IPv4 only Internet. At least until mostly everybody is into IPv6, then you don't care about being IPv4 able anyway.
Trust me, he is here because of nice yet cheaper location for his movie. Taxes here are expensive (if you are able to sum them all, from VAT to income tax to cheque tax to exporting tax (yes, we don't protect agriculture here, discourage it!), and mostly stolen by politics and the people they serve to keep themselves in charge.
So, unless Coppola got some ties with people in charge, or cared about avoiding taxes, he is paying a lot more of taxes, at least for the services the state provides, yet the total of his expenses are lesser because of exchange rate.
The worst part is, if you even know about this, you can't disable the thing removing the battery, as it is internal. So, if you pick a journey and found you've got the iPhone with you, your best chance is crushing it with a hammer/rock/whatever. Seems cheaper than paying the 5K bill, anyway...
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I think they should try to raise their profile between Windows developers, in order to encourage them to do some testing on Wine. I guess they already does testing on half a dozen Windows environments, they'll add Wine to the list if they think it's a viable platform and a part of their potential market.
Nice try, but AFAIK ClamAV doesn't clean viruses, it just is able to quarantine or delete the files. Cleanup is mostly a wasted effort in a time when you aren't trying to catch old school viruses attached to legitimate files but mere self-contained worms than you can simply send to the bit bucket.
No, W3C didn't come out and said "ok XHTML wasn't exactly what we needed". They say "We proposed XHTML+CSS but nobody cared (well, not Microsoft and not most web developers), so content still is malformed XHTML or even plain HTML 4 (and even transitional and/or riddled with tables for layout)". So they accept their failure and try to propose alternate ways of enhance the web.
That's the problem. After reading the headline I went straight to a CUPS' license file, and found it didn't have the "GPL2 or later" clause (still it already has an "Apple can" clause). That's a distro bundled 1.1.23 version from more than a year ago. So I wonder if there ever was a GPL3 compatible version, and how old such version is.
Since 1999 or so, the preferred way of putting style on web pages ("how this part of looks") is not mixed into the content structure ("what kind of information this part contains"), but in a separate place, the style sheet. The style sheet Selectors say what parts of a page must carry it associated style, e.g. 2nd level headers (selector) must be blue and use a 14 point, bold, sans serif font (style). The CSS stylesheet standard allows lots of complex kinds of selectors, and so browsers used to support only a small subset of selectors.
There is a difference in philosophy: Windows must keep compatibility because of angry customers willing to keep using a bunch of valuable software they bought. On the other hand, as you can upgrade your FOSS without licensing costs, they don't care so much about that.
Anyway, I guess most Microsoft upgrade breakages are because of sloppiness, not because planned behavior changes. Breakages in daily updates are a different matter, I guess based not only on sloppiness, but on keeping building their castle of cards becoming impossible. There you appreciate FOSS fixing problems before compatibility inconveniences become compatibility nightmares.
Agreed. I saw a printer tray applet from HP build using Java and running over a Apache Tomcat install. All on an old computer that could need anything but such piece of crap running on it. Things like this make me think hardware manufacturers should have software development forbidden.
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Windows have its equivalent vfs thing. You can see My Computers Devices, Printers, Control Panel Applets, Windows Neighborhood, network shares and FTP sites and PocketPC filesystem in Explorer.
The main KDE 2 Desktop concepts (I mean Konqueror with kioslaves and kparts) was mostly embracing Win95/98 concepts, just doing them right, I mean, KDE devs did it because it could be cool and useful, not just because they were trying to steal Netscape's market share.
So, no, a number of features of KDE comes from Windows and KDE 4 is no exception, they just are there but most users don't notice about them.
Of course, KDE makes a better choice for me because their feature are usually better implemented, did at library level so the experience is more consistent, and of course there is the integration with the unix fundation.
Nobody is bashing Windows so far, yet it seems to be what the editor look for when he wrote the headline. Has Windows improved enough that nobody try to make fun of it anymore, or slashdotters are already older and more mature?
A regular burglar won't care abour your data. One up to the times would check if you are sloppy and kept home banking credentials on a file in your desktop, or something else he can make money of.
I guess you are anarchist, aren't you?
And while it can sound unfair, if you look on it on the right light, it isn't. A GPL'd project can be built on a platform where no free toolchain is available (hey, even GCC had to be compiled on a different compiler the first time!). Of course, the concept is about non-free but publicly available tools, as seems to be in this case.
Most consumer routers could support IPv6, just their firmwares don't.
The bad part? Most router vendors won't provide firmware upgrades, they will offer ISPs to buy new IPv6 capable ones instead.
The good part? A nice fraction of these devices run Linux, so theoretically ISPs could do bounties for third party IPv6 capable firmwares. I for one am available for such a task.
I doubt anybody would dare to work with Hans lately.
However, back in 1996, basically the only available toolkit besides Qt was Tk. GTK+, Fltk and others are newer. wxWidgets (wxWindows back then) didn't have native widgets, Motif was fully closed, etc, so choice of Qt probably was reasonable.
Best practices about CA management says you should have your secret key in a (physical) safe. Better yet, divide it in two pieces and put it along the passphrase in three different safes (part1+pass,part2+pass,part1+part2), so you can't lose key access even if you lose one safe, and nobody can take the key by opening a single safe.
> So, the LSB is mainly aimed at attracting privative software like Oracle to Linux (who else need guaranteed ABI compatibility when you can recompile?),
At this time I'm convinced that having to rely on distributions (or worse, 3rd party distro specific packages) for software is stupid. I'll be happy when I'll be able to install any binary package, free or privative, with source available or not, not being constrained by using distribution X or using the version and tweaks distro X provides for that particular app. And then, software producers being able to provide binary packages themselves without caring about distro X or Y, just providing an easy to install package just as they do for Windows, including lots of FOSS apps available for Windows. Well, better than Windows I expect... zeroinstall is the most close to this, but neither zeroinstall, click, LSB or whatever else got any real traction...
Well, I'm surprised at this point of the thread I didn't found a reply from CmdrTaco(1)
Since I'm trying to put myself in a more regular user position (partly to eventually move in-laws when their XP installation get broken), I got my own list of things that need work in order to be really competitive:
Configuration: Yes, usually autodetection and GUI config work. Sometimes doesn't. The worst part is the case of X. Some Distros like Ubuntu trash X.org autodetection in order to use their own, inferior solution (then Debian doesn't include xorgcfg). That's stupid. Enhance the GUI, but keep the working functionality! There are no excuses for misconfigured monitor these days!
Software installation: Again apt/yum/etc is great, but still imperfect. Distros make me feel like different houses with different power outlets each. Yes, all use the same voltage, but I need to get the appliances from the house builder, or mess getting original plug-less appliance and attach it a plug myself. The case is, there is no distribution including all the software all the people will ever use, and downloading and compiling tarballs (sometimes including tricky "./configure" parameters and/or iterating over several dependencies) is of course out of the question. I think the community should embrace things like ZeroInstall (or Autopackage), and either becoming the standard for packaging and installing anything besides the base system, and developers providing those packages instead of just source and waiting for some packagers picking it and integrating it into distros' repos.
Translations. AFAIK, just the development version of libapt is getting i18n support, that tells a lot about how important the end user is, and there are a lot out there that doesn't understand English. And I won't start talking about lack of quality of translations in general.
You are just going out of luck. a.out loader is just being phased out of the ELF kernels.
RTFA. IPv6 routers will need to work as dual stack devices, and have both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, if you ever want to comunicate to the existent, IPv4 only Internet. At least until mostly everybody is into IPv6, then you don't care about being IPv4 able anyway.
Nope, the problem is Qt being GPL2 only, so KDE is unable to use GPL3 OpenChange code, because any resulting binary won't be legally redistributable.
Trust me, he is here because of nice yet cheaper location for his movie.
Taxes here are expensive (if you are able to sum them all, from VAT to income tax to cheque tax to exporting tax (yes, we don't protect agriculture here, discourage it!), and mostly stolen by politics and the people they serve to keep themselves in charge.
So, unless Coppola got some ties with people in charge, or cared about avoiding taxes, he is paying a lot more of taxes, at least for the services the state provides, yet the total of his expenses are lesser because of exchange rate.
But, there is no tax paradise here.
The worst part is, if you even know about this, you can't disable the thing removing the battery, as it is internal.
So, if you pick a journey and found you've got the iPhone with you, your best chance is crushing it with a hammer/rock/whatever. Seems cheaper than paying the 5K bill, anyway...
I think they should try to raise their profile between Windows developers, in order to encourage them to do some testing on Wine. I guess they already does testing on half a dozen Windows environments, they'll add Wine to the list if they think it's a viable platform and a part of their potential market.
Nice try, but AFAIK ClamAV doesn't clean viruses, it just is able to quarantine or delete the files. Cleanup is mostly a wasted effort in a time when you aren't trying to catch old school viruses attached to legitimate files but mere self-contained worms than you can simply send to the bit bucket.
No, W3C didn't come out and said "ok XHTML wasn't exactly what we needed". They say "We proposed XHTML+CSS but nobody cared (well, not Microsoft and not most web developers), so content still is malformed XHTML or even plain HTML 4 (and even transitional and/or riddled with tables for layout)".
So they accept their failure and try to propose alternate ways of enhance the web.
It's OK while she doesn't stream her strip teases for us!
That's the problem. After reading the headline I went straight to a CUPS' license file, and found it didn't have the "GPL2 or later" clause (still it already has an "Apple can" clause). That's a distro bundled 1.1.23 version from more than a year ago.
So I wonder if there ever was a GPL3 compatible version, and how old such version is.
Since 1999 or so, the preferred way of putting style on web pages ("how this part of looks") is not mixed into the content structure ("what kind of information this part contains"), but in a separate place, the style sheet.
The style sheet Selectors say what parts of a page must carry it associated style, e.g. 2nd level headers (selector) must be blue and use a 14 point, bold, sans serif font (style).
The CSS stylesheet standard allows lots of complex kinds of selectors, and so browsers used to support only a small subset of selectors.
There is a difference in philosophy: Windows must keep compatibility because of angry customers willing to keep using a bunch of valuable software they bought. On the other hand, as you can upgrade your FOSS without licensing costs, they don't care so much about that.
Anyway, I guess most Microsoft upgrade breakages are because of sloppiness, not because planned behavior changes.
Breakages in daily updates are a different matter, I guess based not only on sloppiness, but on keeping building their castle of cards becoming impossible. There you appreciate FOSS fixing problems before compatibility inconveniences become compatibility nightmares.
Agreed. I saw a printer tray applet from HP build using Java and running over a Apache Tomcat install. All on an old computer that could need anything but such piece of crap running on it. Things like this make me think hardware manufacturers should have software development forbidden.