I'm not very impressed with Mandrake overall. They seem to be a bunch of amateurs.
Opinionated troll-bait.
When it comes to package managers, SuSE also has much better network updates and doesn't require a paid subscription like Red Hat. The paid subscription is major bummer indeed.
The Mandrake Update tool works well AND is free...
I don't give a rat's ass about the language it's coded in. I care about whether I can extend the goddamn thing to make things work *exactly* the way I like. For example, I like my thumb button to raise, focus, and start doing a drag on a given window, not passing an event through. AfterStep lets me hack up somethign vaguely correct. Sawfish lets me do it right.
Yeah, Sawfish is pretty cool. I mainly used it for VNC sessions to an old DeadRat server I was given. Trying to upgrade (i.e., going beyond RPM versions) broke something due to some dependency related stuff.
I don't understand why Sawfish has to have all these different, independent parts which all update at different, irregular intervals, some or all of said upgrades may or may not be needed to get the next version of Sawfish to compile. The author of Sawfish also chose to create his own compiled guile-like language, rep, instead of using guile which I found rather odd.
Finally I just gave up and switched to blackbox. That has the upside of freeing up lots of RAM because while Sawfish itself is small, the GNOME infrastructure adds at lot of overhead to the whole thing, which is silly when all you want to do is run a VNC session. I just checked and running blackbox I have 80M free RAM, when in Sawfish I would be hitting swap. Time to add some more Apache and MySQL processes!
For desktop use I tend to prefer KDE, mainly because I use Mandrake. KDE and Mandrake 9.0 are a wonderful combination, but me using KDE is not about QT being like Windows, I used OS/2 when Win95 was vaporware. I started with Slackware 2/3, but after getting Mandrake 6 (which was approaching user friendliness with lots of apps), I switched and never looked back.
Sure there are a few features/bugs (the stupid Web-URL thingy that keeps popping up) but no potential showstoppers other than having to recompile the kernel on my Dell at work. Sure I could have learned to turn off that annoying Web-URL by now but I guess I am not as freakishly compulsive about my configuration as you are.
Chances are there are patches that you are installing that affects system-wide performance. SP3 seriously lowered performance of several machines I've worked with/on.
Oh, I get it:
1. install patches
2. lower performance 3. Microsoft profits!
Makes me glad I run Mandrake -- one of these days I need to send some money to Mandrake!!!
The only downside is that it is all done using Linux. But, that's a personal bias, as I find Linux to be horribly disorganised, disfunctional, and a royal pain to work with compared to FreeBSD.
Obviously the spellcheckers work better in Linux!:->
Dont kid yourselves into thinking that its the racist white man who put these innocent people in prison.... Blacks and Hispanics comit crimes at a higher rate, period.
Can you imagine the effect that would have on our society and future generations if you did in fact lock up or put all males between 15 and 30 under survellience for suspicion to commit a violent act.
It already happens to young minority males in the United States of America.
If you look at current U.S Bureau of Prisons racial statistics and ethnic statistics, Blacks (who make up 12.3% of the U.S. population and almost 41% of the federal prison population) and Hispanics (who make up 12.5% of the U.S. population and 32% of federal prison population) are both incarcerated at levels disporportionate to their population percentages (population stats on race and ethnicity from the Census Bureau).
Now unless there is a gene that I don't know about that gives minority males a higher propensity towards criminal behavior or violence, then you can begin to understand why so many African-Americans and Hispanics are already cynical about the whole U.S. criminal "justice" system...
I hate to sound like a broken record (for anyone who still remembers what that means)
At 44, I know what that expression means, but I never understood why people said "broken record". If your record is broken, you can't play it. If your record player is broken then it would play the non-broken record over and over:->
Since the majority of violent crime is perpetrated by young men from the ages of 15-30 years, we should lock all males between those ages in prison. It would dramatically reduce violent crime. That seems like a legitimate public goal to me.
Better yet, have those young men to channel their aggression by forcing them to join the military, like they used to in the good old days.
Far too many of our policymakers and leaders (both now and in the past) who are in favor of war against [fill in enemy of the month here] never served in the military when they had a chance.
Yet these same people have no problems with a draft that disporportionately affects young minority kids to supply the military with cannon fodder needed to fight the war du jour for them...
Unfortunately, Swing is a pain to work with (at least from my experience) and Microsoft put VB in my hands for next to no cost when I was a college student and allowed me to use it after I graduated, even on commercial projects. Once again, Microsoft's marketing succeeds in this case.
I have gotten a student version of VB6 with a textbook. The student version will not let you compile the exe file. Did you get a special student price on the full version of VB with no restrictions on how you use it after you leave school?
I'm not sure what the solution to this is, but perhaps QT would consider a per-project license fee, one that acknowledges low-budget projects. Maybe charging a percentage of a project's total cost (if under a certain amount) for the rights to use QT in it would work.
They really should also take into account educational institutions. It would be nice to write in-house Windows programs that are not meant to be distributed anywhere. For a lot of database driven apps the HTML forms interface has some shortcomings, a real GUI interface would be cool. I guess I need to look at TK...
To set the facts straight, simdesk was selected by bid rigging and conflict of interest of a software contract in Houston.... It's about to be thrown out and legal action pursued against the IT contractor.
Did you read the freaking article? There was an open bid process and MS failed to bid on it. Quit yer crying, Bill!
And where are your references on these "facts" of yours? I'll bet they are where your head is, i.e., where the sun doesn't shine...
The funny thing is that Mayor Lee P. Brown has overspent all of the reserve funds in Houston so that any 'savings' from non-MS software will be much more than wasted on higher government spending. This hits everyone regressivly since all of the costs are added to each homeowner's property tax and water bill. This applies to renters since rent is based on direct taxes and water costs.
You obviously don't know crap about real estate economics. Taxes and water/garbage costs are only a small part of a renter's rent. Maintenance and upkeep are a much larger part of the bill than taxes and water/garbage fees.
And the reason we still have a regressive property tax system in Texas is because the White Republicans in charge will never adopt a more fair state income tax because that way rich White conservatives will have to pay their fair share of taxes, unlike the situation today.
The reason for the overspending is that Mayor Lee P. Brown wanted to fund/back several downtown sports stadiums (baseball, football, and basketball).
Ridership on the bus line for this route is under 150 people a day. This project was sold as a way to revitalize that area of town. Funny how the sports stadium built in the early 1960s in the same area was sold as a way to revitalize that part of town.
This paragraph is so full of errors it is laughable. There is no SINGLE bus line that tracks the train. There are at least 6 different routes, and many of them have massive traffic to the Medical Center and downtown Houston.
As far as your second assertion goes, the whole Astrodome area was once prairie, but now the Medical Center is growing to the point where it almost takes up the whole area. There are beaucoup apartments, office buildings, stores, car dealers, etc. in the area, so it HAS been revitalized!
It is almost like a burecrat/politician wants to accomplish some big $$ government project so that they can go on to a job with another city with more pay and do the same thing again.
And this ties into SimDesk how? Besides the "connection" in your fevered brain that is...
I am always amazed at how generous liberal politicians are with the taxpayer's money.
That proves it. This post is full of errors that it cannot be moderated as "informative". It is actually pure Texas-grade bullshit so it cannot considered "insightful". It is really a troll and should be moderated as such.
Moderators, please check the facts before moderating someone as "informative". Someone needs to step up and bitchslap this piece of crap before anyone else thinks there is even a grain of truth to it...
What I really want to know is why a little sissy-ass-tutu-wearing bitch like yourself has the balls to call soemone an "idiot" when you obviously cannot even read.
Heh, it seems that the problem is that you can't write well. If you could I would not have misunderstood you as badly as I supposedly did. Your original post referred to people taking advantage about the misery of others, the consultants. My point is that the ones taking advantage of the handicapped are NOT the consultants.
Gee, only thousands of hours teaching newbies how to code HTML properly. Now I suppose I will spend a few more moments teaching another newbie.
How about documenting these claims? For my amusement, post some URLs that show you doing this noble work for the betterment of the web.
And you know what, I have writing web pages for ~5 years, but that is not all. I also administer a Dead Rat server (for Apache/PHP/MySQL), maintain over 30 Winblows workstations and run a Multimedia Lab so excuse me I am not an expert in everything but my webpages are for the most part serviceable (at least they render).
Your webpage http://de7.hccs.edu/ben/ has several egregious errors on it... A person using a screen reader will have absolutely no clue where those "good stuff"... (other comments about my shitty little homepage deleted for brevity)
1) I NEVER claimed to be an accessiblity expert, I just pointed out the they are not the "low-lifes" (your words) here.
2) That link is a pissy little homepage that I knocked out in 5 minutes. I should have run Tidy on the page but for a stupid little PERSONAL home page but why bother when I have so much other work to do?
3) I think a person with a screen reader would go to google for good stuff before they came to my useless little webpage.:-)
Coming from someone who cannot even write accessible webpages, what a joke.
ROTFL! It seems it it you, my friend, that cannor READ! Show me me where I said that I was an accessibility expert. Show me where I said I was the uber-webpage designer.
You can't because I didn't. I will admit that I have not thought about accessibility as much as I should and I can start doing so from now on, but don't accuse me of being unfriendly to the blind.
I work for a community college and if I ever get an ADA request I can refer the student in question to the Counselors. If as student calls me on the phone, I will stay on the phone as long as they need me to be answering any and all of their question and they would get better, more personalized information than they ever could from my crappy little webpage...
A few meta-comments:
1) Sorry abuout the "idiot" remark. I posted first thing in the morning so I was a little harsher than I could have been.
2) What is up with the moderation here? Being labeled flamebait for calling someone an idiot is a little "Politically Correct".
3) I noticed that you were not hesitant in using some ad hominems (sp?) there. If calling you an "idiot" is flamebait the you calling me "a little sissy-ass-tutu-wearing bitch" is too...
It is really pathetic that some people make a living off of other peoples' misery and suffering. They are the lowest of the low-life on the internet and most of them only pretend to champion the cause for disabled people because it gives them a justification for their poor development and design skills.
Are you an idiot, or what? The low-lifes are the ones that put up content-free webpages with lots of Flash bells and whistles that are totally INACCESSIBLE to then handicapped. These consultants consult with ORGANIZATIONS, not the handicapped themselves, to ensure access for all and so those organizations do not get sued for denying a citizen's rights.
A truly successful developer/designer would DONATE their time to making the www a better place for all.
It is put up or shut up time. What have YOU donated to make the web a better place?
Oh, you said SUCCESSFUL developer/designer. Never mind...
I thought it was kind of nice that the aliens' "Spaceport" wireless system was backwards compatible with the old-timey "Airport" system Jeff Goldblum's Mac was using.
I can't wait for the reworked/remastered DVD version where Jeff Goldblum is replaced by Janie Porche, the girl who "saved" Christmas!
Yes, it sucks for you Americans, but until you actually take a stand and do something about it, it's just going to keep sucking worse.
While I agree with your statement in principle, it will never happen. If an individual takes a stand, they get Ruby-Ridged. If a group does, they get Waco-ed.
Everybody goes on and on about the 2nd Amendment, saying that the fact that the Americans own lots of guns will keep the US government in check. Randy Weaver and David Koresh were HIGHLY armed yet the US government had no problem supressing them and their ideas.
IMO it is much easier for disaffected US citizens to move to some place sane (Europe? Canada? Costa Rica?) than to try to challenge the powers that be here in the states...
If I may add: the first lawsuit of Sun against MS about Java truely hurted developers on windows... If Sun hadn't sued MS for that, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't have had.NET today, but everyone on Windows was developing in Java for COM objects.
Whatever it is you are smoking I want some! Eventually MS would have gotten jealous of Sun's control of Java and it would have created it own version of the technology. Microsoft will never support its "enemies". Embrace, extend and sometime extinguish, yes, but not cooperation.
Microsoft's competitors need to keep pressing Microsoft to uphold its agreements with them. If Microsoft had not broken its agreements with Sun, Sun would have not been able to successfully file the lawsuits in the first place.
If the federal government is not willing to put some teeth into the punishment as far as the antitrust trial is concerned, private companies should go ahead and file private lawsuits to gain individual relief from Microsoft's illegal actions.
It's like people keep forgetting that Microsoft was convicted of breaking federal antitrust law. Microsoft must have one of those Monopoly the game "Get Out Of Jail" cards, a gift from the Republican White House.
I wonder how much one of those "Get Out Of Jail" cards costs? I'll bet it wasn't cheap...
Edit this file outside of MS Office (invalidating the hash code) and suffer the consequences: MS treats it as "untrusted" input and rips out only the text content, no formatting.
So my word processor and spreadsheet will refuse to let ME, the user, do what I want with MY documents? I myself would refuse to run those apps.
Is this really a big problem? Unless MS cripples the export function you can always Save->As a RTF or CSV file. You can then parse the file and then format the data using the XML schema of your choice. Or am I missing something?
I've mentioned before that I design, write, and support police records software. I know how important audit trailing is to them, I was up until 3 AM last night debugging some of it.
So you would be the first to admit that your opinions are colored due to the way you earn your daily bread?
The reason is simple. The jackass lawyers who think the constitution spells out their job as 'get the client off, no matter what it takes'. Another rant entirely, but rigorous defence doesnt mean knowingly lying and misleading a jury.
Knowingly stating an lie in court is perjury. I am sure that if your DAs are compentent they could convince a judge that it is perjury.
Also, show me in the Constitution where it says that defendants are not entitled to the best defense they can afford. Or where it says that defendants are guilty until proven innocent. Or where it says it is OK for the cops and DAs to lie.
Police are constantly accused of lying, tampering with evidence, planting evidence, in stupid cases like misdemeanor posession of pot.
And cops never lie? Shit, in Houston, Texas the HPD busted down the door of a Mexican citizen and assassinated him in bed. Oh, he was a "drug dealer" but no drugs were ever found. That was a FATAL lie by the police.
If pot cases are "stupid" (and I agree with you there) then the stupid law needs to be changed. But just try to legalize pot and see all the right-wing pro-law-enforcement groups come out with the Big Lie against weed, led by the Doofus in Chief in the White House.
Don't you know that marijuana kills? Or when you buy weed you are supporting terrorism? The really sad part is the sheep, err citizens, willingly believe this crap!
...If a criminal can claim that evidence should be thrown out because it wasn't secure, you bet the judge will side with him.
...Although I could compromise on the first one if the law would be strong enough to prevent evidence from being thrown out...
Doesn't anyone read the US Constitution anymore? It is intended to LIMIT the govenment's power and ENHANCE the people's power.
I do not see how in the world this post was modded as insightful. It is just parroting the same old tired right-wing "law and order" rhetoric. Probably the mod was some "Ditto-head" or he/she works as a cop or DA...
Yeah, lets give our cops and DAs <insert random power here> as long as it is rigidly controlled and fair and just. Trust us, the government doesn't make mistakes.
Look at the death penalty. The overwhelming thing that jumps out at you is that minorities are on death row disporportionate to their population percentages. There are also more poor people on death row than rich people.
For some reason, White techies tend to be conservative, they are always dogging the liberals and espousing Republican and/or Libertarian viewpoints. Why is that?
Look around you, it is the Republicans that are taking rights away from you. They are selling this nation down the river but as long as you White techies are making money you are content to ignore what is going on around you.
Bah! I am getting disgusted with this country and am looking for somewhere to go. I'm thinking Costa Rica, Spain or maybe even Ireland. Anyone have any suggestions on any techie nirvanas out there?
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I don't understand why Sawfish has to have all these different, independent parts which all update at different, irregular intervals, some or all of said upgrades may or may not be needed to get the next version of Sawfish to compile. The author of Sawfish also chose to create his own compiled guile-like language, rep, instead of using guile which I found rather odd.
Finally I just gave up and switched to blackbox. That has the upside of freeing up lots of RAM because while Sawfish itself is small, the GNOME infrastructure adds at lot of overhead to the whole thing, which is silly when all you want to do is run a VNC session. I just checked and running blackbox I have 80M free RAM, when in Sawfish I would be hitting swap. Time to add some more Apache and MySQL processes!
For desktop use I tend to prefer KDE, mainly because I use Mandrake. KDE and Mandrake 9.0 are a wonderful combination, but me using KDE is not about QT being like Windows, I used OS/2 when Win95 was vaporware. I started with Slackware 2/3, but after getting Mandrake 6 (which was approaching user friendliness with lots of apps), I switched and never looked back.
Sure there are a few features/bugs (the stupid Web-URL thingy that keeps popping up) but no potential showstoppers other than having to recompile the kernel on my Dell at work. Sure I could have learned to turn off that annoying Web-URL by now but I guess I am not as freakishly compulsive about my configuration as you are.
My advice? Take a chill pill, dude!
Oh yeah, where are the Microsoft babes?
If you look at current U.S Bureau of Prisons racial statistics and ethnic statistics, Blacks (who make up 12.3% of the U.S. population and almost 41% of the federal prison population) and Hispanics (who make up 12.5% of the U.S. population and 32% of federal prison population) are both incarcerated at levels disporportionate to their population percentages (population stats on race and ethnicity from the Census Bureau).
Now unless there is a gene that I don't know about that gives minority males a higher propensity towards criminal behavior or violence, then you can begin to understand why so many African-Americans and Hispanics are already cynical about the whole U.S. criminal "justice" system...
Far too many of our policymakers and leaders (both now and in the past) who are in favor of war against [fill in enemy of the month here] never served in the military when they had a chance.
Yet these same people have no problems with a draft that disporportionately affects young minority kids to supply the military with cannon fodder needed to fight the war du jour for them...
Go look up Texas politics (and economics) on the net and you will see that I am not too far off in my description of what is going on here.
Also, look up the word Chicano in the dictionary. Not all minority issues are black/white...
And where are your references on these "facts" of yours? I'll bet they are where your head is, i.e., where the sun doesn't shine...You obviously don't know crap about real estate economics. Taxes and water/garbage costs are only a small part of a renter's rent. Maintenance and upkeep are a much larger part of the bill than taxes and water/garbage fees.
And the reason we still have a regressive property tax system in Texas is because the White Republicans in charge will never adopt a more fair state income tax because that way rich White conservatives will have to pay their fair share of taxes, unlike the situation today.The city has very little direct involvement with the sports stadiums. I guess you have never heard of the Houston/Harris County Sports Authority The train route is actually 7.5 miles. It begins next to the University of Houston Downtown (and runs on Main Street about 1/2 mile from the baseball park and basketball stadium), runs next to Houston Community College Central Campus, the Museum District, Rice University, and the Texas Medical Center before it gets to the Astrodome area and the new football stadium. It is hardly a stadium to stadium shuttle.This paragraph is so full of errors it is laughable. There is no SINGLE bus line that tracks the train. There are at least 6 different routes, and many of them have massive traffic to the Medical Center and downtown Houston.
As far as your second assertion goes, the whole Astrodome area was once prairie, but now the Medical Center is growing to the point where it almost takes up the whole area. There are beaucoup apartments, office buildings, stores, car dealers, etc. in the area, so it HAS been revitalized!And this ties into SimDesk how? Besides the "connection" in your fevered brain that is...That proves it. This post is full of errors that it cannot be moderated as "informative". It is actually pure Texas-grade bullshit so it cannot considered "insightful". It is really a troll and should be moderated as such.
Moderators, please check the facts before moderating someone as "informative". Someone needs to step up and bitchslap this piece of crap before anyone else thinks there is even a grain of truth to it...
And you know what, I have writing web pages for ~5 years, but that is not all. I also administer a Dead Rat server (for Apache/PHP/MySQL), maintain over 30 Winblows workstations and run a Multimedia Lab so excuse me I am not an expert in everything but my webpages are for the most part serviceable (at least they render).1) I NEVER claimed to be an accessiblity expert, I just pointed out the they are not the "low-lifes" (your words) here.
2) That link is a pissy little homepage that I knocked out in 5 minutes. I should have run Tidy on the page but for a stupid little PERSONAL home page but why bother when I have so much other work to do?
3) I think a person with a screen reader would go to google for good stuff before they came to my useless little webpage.
ROTFL! It seems it it you, my friend, that cannor READ! Show me me where I said that I was an accessibility expert. Show me where I said I was the uber-webpage designer.
You can't because I didn't. I will admit that I have not thought about accessibility as much as I should and I can start doing so from now on, but don't accuse me of being unfriendly to the blind.
I work for a community college and if I ever get an ADA request I can refer the student in question to the Counselors. If as student calls me on the phone, I will stay on the phone as long as they need me to be answering any and all of their question and they would get better, more personalized information than they ever could from my crappy little webpage...
A few meta-comments:
1) Sorry abuout the "idiot" remark. I posted first thing in the morning so I was a little harsher than I could have been.
2) What is up with the moderation here? Being labeled flamebait for calling someone an idiot is a little "Politically Correct".
3) I noticed that you were not hesitant in using some ad hominems (sp?) there. If calling you an "idiot" is flamebait the you calling me "a little sissy-ass-tutu-wearing bitch" is too...
Oh, you said SUCCESSFUL developer/designer. Never mind...
I can't wait for the reworked/remastered DVD version where Jeff Goldblum is replaced by Janie Porche, the girl who "saved" Christmas!
Everybody goes on and on about the 2nd Amendment, saying that the fact that the Americans own lots of guns will keep the US government in check. Randy Weaver and David Koresh were HIGHLY armed yet the US government had no problem supressing them and their ideas.
IMO it is much easier for disaffected US citizens to move to some place sane (Europe? Canada? Costa Rica?) than to try to challenge the powers that be here in the states...
Microsoft's competitors need to keep pressing Microsoft to uphold its agreements with them. If Microsoft had not broken its agreements with Sun, Sun would have not been able to successfully file the lawsuits in the first place.
If the federal government is not willing to put some teeth into the punishment as far as the antitrust trial is concerned, private companies should go ahead and file private lawsuits to gain individual relief from Microsoft's illegal actions.
It's like people keep forgetting that Microsoft was convicted of breaking federal antitrust law. Microsoft must have one of those Monopoly the game "Get Out Of Jail" cards, a gift from the Republican White House.
I wonder how much one of those "Get Out Of Jail" cards costs? I'll bet it wasn't cheap...
Is this really a big problem? Unless MS cripples the export function you can always Save->As a RTF or CSV file. You can then parse the file and then format the data using the XML schema of your choice. Or am I missing something?
Also, show me in the Constitution where it says that defendants are not entitled to the best defense they can afford. Or where it says that defendants are guilty until proven innocent. Or where it says it is OK for the cops and DAs to lie.And cops never lie? Shit, in Houston, Texas the HPD busted down the door of a Mexican citizen and assassinated him in bed. Oh, he was a "drug dealer" but no drugs were ever found. That was a FATAL lie by the police.
If pot cases are "stupid" (and I agree with you there) then the stupid law needs to be changed. But just try to legalize pot and see all the right-wing pro-law-enforcement groups come out with the Big Lie against weed, led by the Doofus in Chief in the White House.
Don't you know that marijuana kills? Or when you buy weed you are supporting terrorism? The really sad part is the sheep, err citizens, willingly believe this crap!
I do not see how in the world this post was modded as insightful. It is just parroting the same old tired right-wing "law and order" rhetoric. Probably the mod was some "Ditto-head" or he/she works as a cop or DA...
Yeah, lets give our cops and DAs <insert random power here> as long as it is rigidly controlled and fair and just. Trust us, the government doesn't make mistakes.
Look at the death penalty. The overwhelming thing that jumps out at you is that minorities are on death row disporportionate to their population percentages. There are also more poor people on death row than rich people.
For some reason, White techies tend to be conservative, they are always dogging the liberals and espousing Republican and/or Libertarian viewpoints. Why is that?
Look around you, it is the Republicans that are taking rights away from you. They are selling this nation down the river but as long as you White techies are making money you are content to ignore what is going on around you.
Bah! I am getting disgusted with this country and am looking for somewhere to go. I'm thinking Costa Rica, Spain or maybe even Ireland. Anyone have any suggestions on any techie nirvanas out there?