Which leads me to the next question (but since this is the first post I doubt many will see, let alone answer): What's the best free/open X Terminal for Windows? If I have to run Windows then at least give me a reasonable way to reach Linux on another box (VNC is nice but the lag time hurts).
Have you ever tried the XFree86 Windows port from Cygwin?
I've used it in the past to get a remote X login on windows 9x and 2000 machines I had to use at the time. And, yes, it's free.
I'm suprised that more people haven't said anything about XFS. I've been using for awhile now at home and on a production fileserver at work for awhile now and haven't experienced any problems. The only thing at all that has been a worry is the fact that Grub can not yet read XFS, so you have to create a small boot drive at the beginning. At least with XFS, the filesystem has already been designed and tested for years by SGI, and the only matter was porting it to Linux. From what I've seen with ReiserFS, they are still trying to decide on features and on how it is going to go about doing things. That's fine and all, but I don't want to end up having to backup and restore my filesystem a few times as they decide to impliment a new "everything and the kitchen sink" feature. If I'm doing something for file integrity and security, I'd rather have something that I know has been working for years now in a high performance environment. Just so this won't be considered offtopic, I would say that I can see why ext3 would be preferred by Redhat over Reiser (with the in-house development, and the easier migration), and hey, it will probably be "good enough" for most people (and certainly some kind of journaling is better than plain ext2), so hey, good for Redhat, and good for their users. I'll continue using XFS, but that's what's nice about choice anyway, right?
The one main thing that is holding me back from using KDE is having the kind of fine-grained window memory that Enlightenment has. There are simply some windows that I want to always open at a certain size, with a certain border, and on a certain desktop and geometry. Yes I know you can type in -geometry settings for many programs, but having that feature in the K window manager would be great. (and yes, I know you can use other windows managers with KDE, as well as load the panel seperately, etc. disclaimer disclaimer)
I'll have to agree. While it may not be the most powerful computer, I love my Libretto 50CT. I'm dual booting windows 98 and Debian at the moment and it's a nice little machine. Granted you'll want to run a smaller window manager like WindowMaker, but it's nice having a little pocket laptop to hook into a network and do what you need to do. I've used it as a temporary DHCP server and firewall when the need arose, among various other things.
The only problem with it is the battery life, but you can get plans on the net (at http://www.fixup.net) to build a 4 or 8 hour external battery. My next laptop will definitely have to be this small... it takes a bit to get used to the small keyboard, but the nub mouse on the side beats any touchpad or IBM nub that I've tried.
I used to do the gnome panel + E setup, until I realized that it was much easier to simply use the gnome menu instead of moving the mouse to whatever corner the Gnome foot happened to be in, and click on that. I simply mapped my windows key to launch the enlightenment menu, and now whenever I want to launch an app, I can just press that button and have the menu directly on the screen. Once I started doing that I had no need for the extra resources the gnome panel took.
I like how KDE integrates all their applications, and would probably recommend it to most people as a desktop for Linux. I suppose the main thing that has turned me off with it is the fact that the window manager doesn't let you save *every* setting about a window. For instance, I always want my browser to open on a certain desktop, at a certain size. The same goes for certain diagnostic terminals I use. It doesn't seem like there is a way to have the level of fine control over starting windows (without messing manually with -geometry for each program) in KDE. But hey, maybe when they add that, and tabbed menus in konqueror, they will have another convert.
Funny, but maybe ya should have picked an open source developer without a wife and kids. Plus, I'm sure Linus would know better than to mess around with Tove being a karate champion.
Hmm did you actually *read* the article? These guys were fairly critical of Jobs. The article points out both positive and negative opinions they had of Jobs...
Eh, nevermind, just continue to guess what the articles are about.
AOL, I believe, has all of 172.*
And each user's IP changes drastically across subnets of that each time they dialup. Not to mention that the hostname doesn't resolve to anything useful.
One problem, is if you want proper DGA 1.0 mouse support, for games like quake3, if so, you will need to compile X from cvs, or wait for 4.0.2 to come out.
I had that problem with my NES, the problem was the connectors in the machine eventually getting bent back over time. What you do is open it up, and bend those connectors back down with a small screwdriver, and works like a charm.
Actually their business model is more likely to sell the information they log from everyone's scanning, to advertisers. That's why they don't want it hacked, because they won't get their database of consumer goodies that way.
It's fairly simple once you get X 4.0 up and running. I've had it work with ATI cards and a G100, and a TNT2 and a G100. In fact I'm using it at the moment.
Package? Eh, I have X 4.0.1 running on this debian machine w/ xinerama as I type. It's just a matter of compiling the source. Now I probably couldn't have done some of the minor tweaking by myself, someone was nice enough to post a howto on linuxgames and if you follow that step by step, it's a piece of cake.
I'm using Nvidia's latest official detonator release for a Geforce DDR with SMP-enabled quake3 without problems, it's quite smooth and with modestly-high settings I still play between 60-90fps.
This is with detonator 2. I can't vouch for any of these "leaked" drivers though.
Considering how many devices have jumped on the translucent blue bandwagon, it's understandable that Apple would like to have the money they spent on artistic design to be worth something. If they design a certain case, and it's leaked months before they want it to, and others start copying the design, then Apple has just lost the uniqueness in their design for that product much sooner.
I think he was making the point of saying "runtime" is just using too many buzzwords, since programs he writes in another form (Python, GTK) are also "runtime".
Bull there's no support. The day after these new drivers were released I had a problem with a crash, emailed Nvidia, and got a response with a fix that worked in less than 24hrs. I found a separate bug in the beta drivers and alerted them and got a response in a few hours.
Not to mention they opened a channel on irc.openprojects.net, #nvidia devoted SOLELY to support these new drivers and help people get them installed.
Perhaps they weren't too supportive in the past, but I'm very impressed now with how they are handling these new drivers.
What exactly prevents you from recording events you get on pay-per-view on cable? Or movies on HBO for that matter? Pretty much just ethics. So, I suppose the folks who don't think twice about recording pay-per-view events on TV probably won't think twice about saving these movies.
Certainly, for the same reason that Microsoft starting giving away it's browser, and the same reason that Intel is giving it's processors away for the X-Box -- mindshare.
This move simply increases the legitimacy of Linux for use in such devices, it's only recently started being about the money. Now when Fred Foobar wants his boss to use Linux for cash registers, there's just one more example he can point to.
Think of it as a few hundred more free advertisements for Linux.
Having it run on cash registers will at first at least get cash register software ported:), later on who knows.
I think the problem is not with people who want to buy an Nvidia card in the future, but those who bought one in the last year, based on what they thought was a company who was going to open source their code. I got a TNT2 even though I knew the current 3D drivers were poor, because I believed what Nvidia said, that these were just intermediate drivers, and the optimized open-source drivers would come when X 4.0 came out with DRI.
After buying the card a few months ago, I can't just go out and unload $200+ for a different card. I think that's probably the boat most TNT owners are in. But fool me twice shame on me, so, while I'm stuck w/ this card and drivers for the time being, I know better than lay down money for an Nvidia card when the time comes for a new video card.
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Have you ever tried the XFree86 Windows port from Cygwin? I've used it in the past to get a remote X login on windows 9x and 2000 machines I had to use at the time. And, yes, it's free.
I'm suprised that more people haven't said anything about XFS. I've been using for awhile now at home and on a production fileserver at work for awhile now and haven't experienced any problems. The only thing at all that has been a worry is the fact that Grub can not yet read XFS, so you have to create a small boot drive at the beginning. At least with XFS, the filesystem has already been designed and tested for years by SGI, and the only matter was porting it to Linux. From what I've seen with ReiserFS, they are still trying to decide on features and on how it is going to go about doing things. That's fine and all, but I don't want to end up having to backup and restore my filesystem a few times as they decide to impliment a new "everything and the kitchen sink" feature. If I'm doing something for file integrity and security, I'd rather have something that I know has been working for years now in a high performance environment. Just so this won't be considered offtopic, I would say that I can see why ext3 would be preferred by Redhat over Reiser (with the in-house development, and the easier migration), and hey, it will probably be "good enough" for most people (and certainly some kind of journaling is better than plain ext2), so hey, good for Redhat, and good for their users. I'll continue using XFS, but that's what's nice about choice anyway, right?
The one main thing that is holding me back from using KDE is having the kind of fine-grained window memory that Enlightenment has. There are simply some windows that I want to always open at a certain size, with a certain border, and on a certain desktop and geometry. Yes I know you can type in -geometry settings for many programs, but having that feature in the K window manager would be great. (and yes, I know you can use other windows managers with KDE, as well as load the panel seperately, etc. disclaimer disclaimer)
I'll have to agree. While it may not be the most powerful computer, I love my Libretto 50CT. I'm dual booting windows 98 and Debian at the moment and it's a nice little machine. Granted you'll want to run a smaller window manager like WindowMaker, but it's nice having a little pocket laptop to hook into a network and do what you need to do. I've used it as a temporary DHCP server and firewall when the need arose, among various other things.
The only problem with it is the battery life, but you can get plans on the net (at http://www.fixup.net) to build a 4 or 8 hour external battery. My next laptop will definitely have to be this small... it takes a bit to get used to the small keyboard, but the nub mouse on the side beats any touchpad or IBM nub that I've tried.
I used to do the gnome panel + E setup, until I realized that it was much easier to simply use the gnome menu instead of moving the mouse to whatever corner the Gnome foot happened to be in, and click on that. I simply mapped my windows key to launch the enlightenment menu, and now whenever I want to launch an app, I can just press that button and have the menu directly on the screen. Once I started doing that I had no need for the extra resources the gnome panel took.
I like how KDE integrates all their applications, and would probably recommend it to most people as a desktop for Linux. I suppose the main thing that has turned me off with it is the fact that the window manager doesn't let you save *every* setting about a window. For instance, I always want my browser to open on a certain desktop, at a certain size. The same goes for certain diagnostic terminals I use. It doesn't seem like there is a way to have the level of fine control over starting windows (without messing manually with -geometry for each program) in KDE. But hey, maybe when they add that, and tabbed menus in konqueror, they will have another convert.
Of course, they also say, if you can't be fired, you can't be promoted...
Funny, but maybe ya should have picked an open source developer without a wife and kids. Plus, I'm sure Linus would know better than to mess around with Tove being a karate champion.
Hmm did you actually *read* the article? These guys were fairly critical of Jobs. The article points out both positive and negative opinions they had of Jobs...
Eh, nevermind, just continue to guess what the articles are about.
AOL, I believe, has all of 172.*
And each user's IP changes drastically across subnets of that each time they dialup. Not to mention that the hostname doesn't resolve to anything useful.
One problem, is if you want proper DGA 1.0 mouse support, for games like quake3, if so, you will need to compile X from cvs, or wait for 4.0.2 to come out.
I had that problem with my NES, the problem was the connectors in the machine eventually getting bent back over time. What you do is open it up, and bend those connectors back down with a small screwdriver, and works like a charm.
Hmm it looks like that comment was from the story submitter, not Hemos.
Actually their business model is more likely to sell the information they log from everyone's scanning, to advertisers. That's why they don't want it hacked, because they won't get their database of consumer goodies that way.
It's fairly simple once you get X 4.0 up and running. I've had it work with ATI cards and a G100, and a TNT2 and a G100. In fact I'm using it at the moment.
Package? Eh, I have X 4.0.1 running on this debian machine w/ xinerama as I type. It's just a matter of compiling the source. Now I probably couldn't have done some of the minor tweaking by myself, someone was nice enough to post a howto on linuxgames and if you follow that step by step, it's a piece of cake.
I'm using Nvidia's latest official detonator release for a Geforce DDR with SMP-enabled quake3 without problems, it's quite smooth and with modestly-high settings I still play between 60-90fps.
This is with detonator 2. I can't vouch for any of these "leaked" drivers though.
I'm pretty sure he used dict which checks quite a few dictionaries including Websters, the jargon file, and the gazetteer.
Considering how many devices have jumped on the translucent blue bandwagon, it's understandable that Apple would like to have the money they spent on artistic design to be worth something. If they design a certain case, and it's leaked months before they want it to, and others start copying the design, then Apple has just lost the uniqueness in their design for that product much sooner.
I think he was making the point of saying "runtime" is just using too many buzzwords, since programs he writes in another form (Python, GTK) are also "runtime".
Bull there's no support. The day after these new drivers were released I had a problem with a crash, emailed Nvidia, and got a response with a fix that worked in less than 24hrs. I found a separate bug in the beta drivers and alerted them and got a response in a few hours.
Not to mention they opened a channel on irc.openprojects.net, #nvidia devoted SOLELY to support these new drivers and help people get them installed.
Perhaps they weren't too supportive in the past, but I'm very impressed now with how they are handling these new drivers.
What exactly prevents you from recording events you get on pay-per-view on cable? Or movies on HBO for that matter?
Pretty much just ethics.
So, I suppose the folks who don't think twice about recording pay-per-view events on TV probably won't think twice about saving these movies.
Certainly, for the same reason that Microsoft starting giving away it's browser, and the same reason that Intel is giving it's processors away for the X-Box -- mindshare.
:), later on who knows.
This move simply increases the legitimacy of Linux for use in such devices, it's only recently started being about the money. Now when Fred Foobar wants his boss to use Linux for cash registers, there's just one more example he can point to.
Think of it as a few hundred more free advertisements for Linux.
Having it run on cash registers will at first at least get cash register software ported
In short, it certainly doesn't hurt "the cause".
I think the problem is not with people who want to buy an Nvidia card in the future, but those who bought one in the last year, based on what they thought was a company who was going to open source their code. I got a TNT2 even though I knew the current 3D drivers were poor, because I believed what Nvidia said, that these were just intermediate drivers, and the optimized open-source drivers would come when X 4.0 came out with DRI.
After buying the card a few months ago, I can't just go out and unload $200+ for a different card. I think that's probably the boat most TNT owners are in. But fool me twice shame on me, so, while I'm stuck w/ this card and drivers for the time being, I know better than lay down money for an Nvidia card when the time comes for a new video card.
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Elaine "Is it a problem that I'm not religious?"
Puddy "Not for me."
Elaine "What do you mean?"
Puddy "I'm not the one going to hell."
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