OO.o 3.2.0 consistently crashes for me (KDE 4.3.5 / Fedora 12).
This seems like a known issue (#109176).
The workaround is to add:
export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome
to "/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice".
Indeed the Hawala system is the biggest source of unregulated remittances in these parts. At least with PayPal the RBI can track who gives money to whom when required.
PS: It is spelt "remittance".
Re:Can anyone elaborate on this LLVM v. RMS issue?
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Is there anyone who knows what this LLVM issue is about? Anyone out there who is not just ranting incoherently about RMS?
RMS does not like the idea of GCC producing a machine-readable intermediate representation of the input program for fear of this being used by people to subvert the GPL to create proprietary back-ends that build on the power of GCC but do not contribute anything back. For the same reason, he was opposed to the idea of the GNU Compiler for Java (GCJ) producing Java bytecodes. This is one of the main reasons why GCC does not completely output its intermediate representation.
The Tinkertoy Computer That Plays Tic-Tac-Toe
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It seems only I am having problems downloading from ftp.idsoftware.com (it asks for a username/password). In any case, here's a mirror that actually seems to have the stuff:
Swing/AWT using Gtk+ peers has been making tremendous progress in the last few months thanks to a bunch of Red Hat hackers and is quite usable as can be seen here for example.
Unfortunately, these changes are not a part of the 3.4.0 release of GCC/GCJ and will only be available from 3.5.0 (or 4.0.0, as the case might be).
> Getting more contributors to OSS Java projects would > be a pragmatic and actually helpful goal to work > towards. As opposed to demanding Sun give away their > source. IMHO
Just for reference, those of us currently involved in developing free implementations of Java have not, to my knowledge, demanded that Sun give away any source. ESR has, but he doesn't speak for us.
Of course it would be hugely helpful if Sun gave away their source. That would be man-years of work we wouldn't have to do. For instance, right now some people are actively working on Swing. I would expect this to take quite a long time... Sun could shorten that considerably
We don't really expect that, however. And we don't really need it; we'll do ok at our own pace.
The things we really could use, and that I at least really would like Sun to change, are:
* Access to the TCK. No free implementation has ever been run against the TCK. It has never been available under suitable terms. E.g., becoming a Sun licensee is not acceptable.
* Access to the JCP. I'm told that at the moment there are still terms in the JCP that prevent developers of free Java implementations from participating. So, for the most part, we stay away. This is particularly unfortunate as participation in the JCP would be mutually beneficial.
* Lift restrictions on subsetting. Those of us working on free implementations all understand that there is a huge amount of value in compatibility. We don't want to fragment the platform -- we aren't MS. However, free software isn't well suited for a "have one big complete release" model. Instead we do things piecemeal, as they are implemented. In the past anyway, Sun has frowned on this sort of thing and made various attempts (e.g., in JSR click-throughs, or even in licenses at the front of books) to prevent this.
The next question, though, is "what's in it for Sun?". What is their incentive for opening things a bit more? Unfortunately, I don't have very good answers here, yet. I do think the free software community and Sun could be natural allies in this space. Java has made good inroads into free software, however it is still a work in progress. E.g., Mono has appeared, perhaps in 5 years C# will have displaced Java in the free world as well.
To be noted is that he made the speech (look for
the "Think Different" section) at the famous
Indian Institute of Information Technology (India's
foremost academic institution equivalent to MIT).
RTFA!
He made the
speech at the International Institute of Information
Technology (I2IT) not at an Indian
Institute of Information Technology (IIIT).
By no stretch of the imagination are any of these
India's foremost academic institutions.
The submitter perhaps meant one of the Indian
Institute of Technologies (IIT) here...
Re:gcc 3.3 fails on glibc 2.3.2
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*Why* do you say that? I mean, can you point
to some page that details the problems
Then check out GP32 ("GamePark 32"), which IMHO is the GBA
done right. It supports RF wireless gaming and has
a bunch of other cool features that make it a way
more desirable handheld console than the GBA.
On the flip side, it costs more than twice as much
(~USD 160) and has far fewer games (almost all in
Korean!).
Being from Bangalore, India, I can now visualise
how the full benefits of bottom-up SEI CMM Level 5
and Six Sigma would be brought to GNOME (http://www.wipro.com/aboutus/whatapart.htm).
For the humour challenged, that was SARCASM.
Seriously though, my sympathies are with GNOME -
and my desktop with KDE.
Slightly offtopic, but I noticed that Serious Sam Second Encounter uses Ogg Vorbis - I found that cool. I hope more game developers start using Ogg.
Way to go Croteam!
Ranjit.
Step 1: Hire my boss (God, please hire him away!).
Step 2: Put him in charge of software development.
Step 3: Do nothing as priorities change weekly and deadlines slip away.
Step 4: Do nothing to stem exodus of clued-in employees to less-screwed companies.
Step 5: Force remaining employees to work 15 hour days. Provide subtle reminders that there's a recession out there.
Step 6: Do nothing as even non-clued-in employees flee.
Step 7: Hire a sweatshop in China to crank out code; present this sound like a good idea.
Errr... From "Step 1", "Step 4" and "Step 6", one is led to believe that you are an employee with no clue whatsoever!
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OO.o 3.2.0 consistently crashes for me (KDE 4.3.5 / Fedora 12). This seems like a known issue (#109176).
The workaround is to add:
export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome
to "/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice".
Indeed the Hawala system is the biggest source of unregulated remittances in these parts. At least with PayPal the RBI can track who gives money to whom when required.
PS: It is spelt "remittance".
How about Tatjana van Vark?
The BBC Micro was quite popular in the UK and in India. "The BBC Lives" has extensive information about this microcomputer.
The Economist had a damning article on Scott McNealy just a couple of weeks ago.
RMS does not like the idea of GCC producing a machine-readable intermediate representation of the input program for fear of this being used by people to subvert the GPL to create proprietary back-ends that build on the power of GCC but do not contribute anything back. For the same reason, he was opposed to the idea of the GNU Compiler for Java (GCJ) producing Java bytecodes. This is one of the main reasons why GCC does not completely output its intermediate representation.
Have a look:n kertoyComputer/TinkerToy.html
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cfs/472_html/Intro/Ti
http://www.gamers.org/pub/games/idgames/idstuff/do om3/linux/
http://download.beyondunreal.com/fileworks.php/dem os/unreal3_0002.wmv
http://germanjulian.com/open/unreal3_0002.wmv
It really is quite awesome.
Unfortunately, these changes are not a part of the 3.4.0 release of GCC/GCJ and will only be available from 3.5.0 (or 4.0.0, as the case might be).
Just:
"Hello World"
would do in a Scheme interpreter.
It did win all the awards it was nominated for elswhere though.
the GNU Compiler for Java (GCJ) posted a very nice and
much more pragmatic request to Sun. Reproduced below:
These pages remind me of "Codex Seraphinianus".
RTFA!
He made the speech at the International Institute of Information Technology (I2IT) not at an Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT).
By no stretch of the imagination are any of these India's foremost academic institutions. The submitter perhaps meant one of the Indian Institute of Technologies (IIT) here...
*Why* do you say that? I mean, can you point to some page that details the problems
See this link instead.
See http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/ instead.
Then check out GP32 ("GamePark 32"), which IMHO is the GBA done right. It supports RF wireless gaming and has a bunch of other cool features that make it a way more desirable handheld console than the GBA.
On the flip side, it costs more than twice as much (~USD 160) and has far fewer games (almost all in Korean!).
You can buy one for yourself at Lik-Sang.
For the humour challenged, that was SARCASM.
Seriously though, my sympathies are with GNOME - and my desktop with KDE.
Slightly offtopic, but I noticed that Serious Sam Second Encounter uses Ogg Vorbis - I found that cool. I hope more game developers start using Ogg. Way to go Croteam! Ranjit.
Have you Americans never heard of WorldSpace, a digital satellite radio service that we've had for some time now?
Step 2: Put him in charge of software development.
Step 3: Do nothing as priorities change weekly and deadlines slip away.
Step 4: Do nothing to stem exodus of clued-in employees to less-screwed companies.
Step 5: Force remaining employees to work 15 hour days. Provide subtle reminders that there's a recession out there.
Step 6: Do nothing as even non-clued-in employees flee.
Step 7: Hire a sweatshop in China to crank out code; present this sound like a good idea.
Errr... From "Step 1", "Step 4" and "Step 6", one is led to believe that you are an employee with no clue whatsoever!