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A Sound Server For X
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I could stream a full uncompressed video that entire section of the XMMS window for less than 11 mbits/sec. X is supposed to be a lot more efficient than that (I guess xmms's themed interface doesn't help, though).
Of course it wouldn't win at Divx encoding, but for general desktop use, it quite possibly would. Imagine this: a CPU intensive task is running. Maybe a program's starting up, maybe you're compiling something, or maybe something is locked up and using 100% CPU. That will create moments when the computer is unusable - even on a Thz machine. On a dual machine, there are no such moments, so the computer is always usable and productive.
Technically, Mozilla uses the GTK/GDK libraries for display, so it sort of is a GNOME app. Also, there's a well-developed GTK embed widget for Gecko (look at Galeon), but no QT embed widget (I think there was at some point, but it sucked and got left behind, because all the QT people were using KHTML).
If you expect to have the latest Free Software from the coolest software projects you can not get that with RedHat.
Of course you can. You can't expect that Redhat will package every single free software program out there on the day of its release, for a stable distro version. If you want KDE3.1, you can compile from source, or you can use any of the trillions of unofficial RPMs floating around. Note in fact that the only major distros to have KDE3.1 packages are SuSE and (suprisingly) Debian. No
Re:superb desktop, always top notch from the KDE t
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Are there any plans to implement dynamic keybindings (where you hover over a menu item, press a key, and it changes the binding - no app support necessary) in KDE? That's one of the things I really like about GNOME.
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I would think that if they want to ship two different OSs, they should hire people to work on both. If they're unwilling to do that, they should drop one of them.
Similarly, Redhat should either work harder on KDE, or drop it altogether. If I were them, I'd drop it, except for the libraries. Having two DEs available destroys the integration of the UI - Joe Sixpack doesn't know or care what a "GNOME" or "KDE" is, and the choice confuses him. The people who do care are generally capable of installing KDE themselves.
Yeah, Starcraft came out soon after WC2, being based on the Warcraft engine. If that pattern were to continue, we'd get Starcraft 2, based on an updated WC3 engine, sometime in the next year or two. One the one hand, Blizzard hasn't announced such a thing, so it's probably not too close. On the other hand, WoW comes out next year, and Blizzard hasn't said what they plan to do after that.
You have good points, and I mostly agree with you. However, you have to remember that the manpower of the general public is vastly superior to that of anti-piracy cops. For every server law enforcers find, hundreds of users will have found it first. And for every one that gets shut down, another one will pop up in Russia, Estonia, or wherever the haven of the moment is.
If this is possible (which I doubt - can they get all ISPs to detect and block gnutella, etc. traffic on every port), it would mean going back to FTP, IRC, etc. That would significantly reduce piracy, although probably a lot of file sharers would just switch to the other protocols.
Copyright holders can make piracy more cumbersome, and thus less appealing, but, short of a 1984-like world, they can never stop someone who's determined to do it from pirating.
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I could stream a full uncompressed video that entire section of the XMMS window for less than 11 mbits/sec. X is supposed to be a lot more efficient than that (I guess xmms's themed interface doesn't help, though).
A sound server for X. Think about it.
Wine can use the -winver option to emulate 3.1, 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2K, or XP. Of course, none of the emulations are perfect.
What we (or at least, I) need is a Unix-based virus scanner that can prevent the spread of viruses for all platforms.
There are such things - the websites of qmail-scanner and amavis list several virus scanners, both commercial and Free.
It is.
who can't afford 50 bucks on a virus scanner or decent firewall software
Then don't pay 50 bucks.
I saw Nimda infections up until the end of last year
Norton and McAfee both provided free available Nimda removal tools. Besides, if you can afford IIS, you can afford a virus scanner.
SMIL is a system to sync audio and video files. Unfortunately, it's even less supported than SVG.
I've heard 30 million as an approximation of their whole user base. If that's true, then 170000 is only 0.6%.
cat /dev/urandom > /mnt/bigvolume/data.out would be a lot faster and simpler.
How many use unix as a major desktop OS? Servers don't count - they generally don't use FireWire or need 40-bit encryption.
Because they don't want to have to support them.
Thank you for repeating exactly what it says in the article summary.
That's tuxkart you're talking about, not tuxracer. They're two completely different games. Get them straight.
It's pure fucking H2O, no matter where it came from. It's the exact same thing, and a sufficiently mature individual would see that.
Of course it wouldn't win at Divx encoding, but for general desktop use, it quite possibly would. Imagine this: a CPU intensive task is running. Maybe a program's starting up, maybe you're compiling something, or maybe something is locked up and using 100% CPU. That will create moments when the computer is unusable - even on a Thz machine. On a dual machine, there are no such moments, so the computer is always usable and productive.
This yahoo article says that the new Macs are significantly quieter.
The gf4mx and radeon 9000 benchmark similarly, IIRC, but the Radeon supports all directx8 features, while the gf4 only supports dx7.
He means the new completely themable gdm - see this. Very drool-worthy.
Technically, Mozilla uses the GTK/GDK libraries for display, so it sort of is a GNOME app. Also, there's a well-developed GTK embed widget for Gecko (look at Galeon), but no QT embed widget (I think there was at some point, but it sucked and got left behind, because all the QT people were using KHTML).
Of course you can. You can't expect that Redhat will package every single free software program out there on the day of its release, for a stable distro version. If you want KDE3.1, you can compile from source, or you can use any of the trillions of unofficial RPMs floating around. Note in fact that the only major distros to have KDE3.1 packages are SuSE and (suprisingly) Debian. No
Are there any plans to implement dynamic keybindings (where you hover over a menu item, press a key, and it changes the binding - no app support necessary) in KDE? That's one of the things I really like about GNOME.
Similarly, Redhat should either work harder on KDE, or drop it altogether. If I were them, I'd drop it, except for the libraries. Having two DEs available destroys the integration of the UI - Joe Sixpack doesn't know or care what a "GNOME" or "KDE" is, and the choice confuses him. The people who do care are generally capable of installing KDE themselves.
Including Doom 3? :-)
Yeah, Starcraft came out soon after WC2, being based on the Warcraft engine. If that pattern were to continue, we'd get Starcraft 2, based on an updated WC3 engine, sometime in the next year or two. One the one hand, Blizzard hasn't announced such a thing, so it's probably not too close. On the other hand, WoW comes out next year, and Blizzard hasn't said what they plan to do after that.
You have good points, and I mostly agree with you. However, you have to remember that the manpower of the general public is vastly superior to that of anti-piracy cops. For every server law enforcers find, hundreds of users will have found it first. And for every one that gets shut down, another one will pop up in Russia, Estonia, or wherever the haven of the moment is.
If this is possible (which I doubt - can they get all ISPs to detect and block gnutella, etc. traffic on every port), it would mean going back to FTP, IRC, etc. That would significantly reduce piracy, although probably a lot of file sharers would just switch to the other protocols.
Copyright holders can make piracy more cumbersome, and thus less appealing, but, short of a 1984-like world, they can never stop someone who's determined to do it from pirating.