Well if you really got those MSN games to work with Firefox 0.9 and Flash 7.0.19 please inform how, otherwise I don't see how your "Informative" score applies.
I could not get any of the linked MSN games to work, all I got was an error when MSN "tries to install or update" my flash (which is brand new and working fine other places).
Well, my experience was about as opposite as they get:
1. Downloaded FirefoxSetup-0.9rc.exe. 2. Ran setup. 3. Chose to install to a new directory (this is an RC, not the final version, and common wisdom says to not install windows software over old versions) 4. Started via shortcut. 5. Firefox asked me politely what profile I want to import. 6. Firefox launched smoothly and looked very nice. All existing preferences, history, etc. migrated from my 0.8. 7. About->Firefox says 0.8+ (which is the terminology for versions past 0.8 but not yet 0.9 release)
The theme is maybe not as nice as the Qute theme, but thanks to Arvids work you can quickly install a brand new version of Qute to go with 0.9 from his site.
The Clamshell edition of the T610 is actually a lot better imho. It is a bit bulkier than the T610, but makes up for it with a better and bigger keypad, a much prettier exterior. Louder ringtones if needed, better screen (which supposedly is better in sunlight). Overall an excellent phone, and using it with bluetooth is a joy:)
As for the direct links to these phones, very simple: T610 Z600
I would say this book is as close to a 10 as possible.
The first historical overview mentioned is very nice, but can be skipped. However I feel it is an important part of the book, and gives weight to the arguments on why using the standards way later on. It also gets designers new to the web up to date on what has passed, and highlights mistakes that were made (so we can possibly avoid them again).
Otherwise I agree fully with the author, the book is indeed both well written, has a nice flow and really gives good arguments why this is the right way, and how to do it the right way. The authors attitude is never arrogant, and the solutions are always practically oriented and work well in real-life (unlike a lot of other books on HTML and CSS).
My take on this book is that if you want to read one book on web design this should be it. Of course after having read this book you probably change your mind and start looking for other literature by the same author:)
Finally someone who compares apples ! Thunderbird is definitely the most directly comparable OSS client to OE. And a great competitor. Whereas a lot of people find Mozilla AppSuite to be a bit sluggish and "heavy", the birds just fly !
Thunderbird is good looking, slim and speedy and has all the right settings you need. Including a great spamfilter integrated.
Evolution, Kmail, Mozilla Appsuites Mailnews.. All are nice email clients, but none are directly comparable to OE;
- Evolution is more of an Outlook clone, with more features and a bit different UI, also not available for Windows.
- Kmail is not available on windows in a native enough manner that most people can "download and install"
- Mozilla Appsuite is not only an email client, and can only be installed with the browser (incidentally making links from email messages open in anything other than Mozilla is difficult too !)
So Thunderbird has my vote as the definitive OE killer ! Get installer packaged builds from here and spread to your friends: seb.mozdev.org
After I bought one of those PS2-to-USB converter thingies and a PS2 controller I haven't used my normal PC joysticks / gamepads at all.
What they claim is true to a certain degree in my experience, the best PC only games are definitely better played with mouse & keys, while the ports / dual platform titles are more often than not best played on the console, using the console controller.
However I do believe there are a number of PC controller users who will disagree. There is probably quite a few nice PC controllers out there that definitely enhance the gaming experience. IMHO though the PS2 controller is very nice for those games best not played with a keyboard, like puzzlers and arcadegames.
I think ETM has gotten far more flak than it deserves.. Not being a fanatical gamer these days I still try to play games in between. (The problem to me seems to be the games, none of them hook me for more than a couple of hours at the most.)
Anyhow, after a friends recommendation I tried ETM out, and I was pleasantly surprised ! It is unlike all the other people here say, playable, the graphics are definitely good enough to give a good feeling of the Matrix, and the plotline is action packed to say the least.
The people who are dissing the movie clips etc are horribly out of line. The quality is clear and nice, and one has to think about the space requirements. After all the game did not ship on a DVD-ROM..
A lot of my friends have been all over this game too, and have been using several days to complete it..
ATI FireGL provides the drivers in only one standard packaging
format. It's the widespread RPM packaging standard which is well Known in the Linux community. Respective files are named "*.rpm" and are just called RPMs. Its assumed that this is the method that serves the needs our customer's best.
RPM is nice and such, but please do like Nvidia, and provide a non RPM option ! I can get around this by using RPM and extracting the stuff, then making an ebuild or something, but hey, it is much easier if RPM is complemented by a tgz..
Ever consider donating some of that hardware to someone who might actually _use_ it ? Some examples would be : - Schools - Charity organizations - Developing nations organizations / schools
I mean, rather than stockpiling it all, wouldn't it make you feel good if you knew you could help someone worse off than you ?
The Mac DVD Resource seems to be what you are looking for ? Patches, info etc..
Phoenix / Thunderbird (Minotaur)
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· Score: 5, Informative
Just to clarify the confusion with the projects:
Thunderbird is the new name of the Minotaur project. Unlike what some said, they are thus one, and will fill the same function as Phoenix for the mail part.
Eventually we will have two very capable clients, Phoenix for browsing, and Thunderbird for Mail. This will make advocacy easier too, some people complain they cannot run Mozilla on their older Windoze boxen. Well they can run Phoenix and Thunderbird !
I measured Phoenix memory usage compared to Mozilla and Opera (all with about 6-7 tabs open, the same URLs in all three), and Phoenix was really close to Opera, about 10M less than Mozilla.. YMMV of course with different pages etc, but it is slimmer indeed.
There are other important issues RedHat need to improve in their KDE support:
- Updates to packages As it is now, everyone installs unofficial KDE packages, due to the complete ignorance of RedHat of new versions. And no I know how they operate, only releasing backported fixes of their version, for example KDE 3.0.0. Problem is they rarely if ever release updated KDE packages !! (I have been running RH7.3 for a while now, and do know what I am talking about.) SuSE on the other hand release new KDE packages all the time, and backport the most important fixes to their released version / OR issue a completely new one when appropriate (KDE 3.0.2 for example).
- Packaging of more KDE applications. Again SuSE impressed me a lot when I installed their distro. An amazing selection of good KDE applications. RedHat consistently provided me with GTK / Gnome apps, but rarely that many KDE apps.
How are the chances a patched (they did change the sources of a good number of parts of both KDE and Gnome Afaik) packageset of both desktops is going to improve the above mentioned points ?
Would be nice if Bero commented on this (or anyone else with RH), as I still doubt RHs commitment to anything else than Gnome / GTK..
It seems your question is a bit badly researched before "Ask Slashdot", but anyhow..
I have personal experience with the following:
- eZ Publish (PHP, *nix, MySQL/PgSQL based) - Slashcode (Perl, *nix, MySQL based) - PHP Nuke (PHP, MySQL based)
I wouldnt recommend PHP Nuke, but have little experience with the forks off it.. (Check Freshmeat.net as someone suggested).
eZ Publish is the closest I have seen a complete GPL CMS (Content Management Solution), and integrating some of the addons or buying the desktop edition makes it very easy to use!Highly recommended, and now comes in an easy to install Debian package too !:) (As of woody, apt-cache search ezpublish and then apt-get install the package..)
Slashcode is possibly one of the better weblogs, although you should possibly check these too, if that is the kind of website you need :
For non "LAMP", based on Tcl and the AOLServer webserver, check out OpenACS, which is reportedly very feature rich.
I do not have personal experience with either Scoop, Drupal or OpenACS, but several sites use them and produce great sites with them.
Good luck !
Sen To Chihiro ..
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· Score: 2, Informative
Saw the R2 DVD with English subs yesterday, and it is indeed an amazing movie. I wish it would appear here in a cinema some time. Not much chance of that happening though (I am living in Norway).
Not as epic as Mononoke, but definitely magical, and no not comparable to any Disney animated feature I ever saw.
Could happen it didnt go down too well with the general US moviegoers though, it is indeed quite asian when it comes to all the gods and spirits etc. And the lovestory plotline is not exactly conventional:-)
Refering to additional evidence the states want to put forward :
"Wednesday, Gutman brought the number of documents he'd like to see admitted down to 7, and Kollar-Kotelly said she'd take the request under advisement, though she seemed unenthusiastic."
IANAL, but I know when things sound too bad to be true (tm). What kind of justice system is so square in shape it lets important evidence stay out of the case ? Ok, rules say that blahblahblah, but if really crucial evidence comes up why isn't it allowed to be submitted ?
This trial is more and more of a farce, and it's all at the expense of the US in general, first most of the states simply back off (obviously due to string pulling), then the trial itself is anything but proper.. Bah, your courtsystem seems even worse than most European ones!
>"..As a fan of pen-n-paper, without the geekiness, Neverwinter Nights solves my dilemma!"
I must say I am not very informed about the features of Neverwinter.. but computer RPG will not reach my expectations before they actually provide an option of having a live Dungeon Master (Gamemaster or whatever) in the session..
It is the DM / GM aspect of the storytelling I liked the most. When one can have a DM to make human randomized events happen in a computer game RPG I'll finally have the digitized Pen & Paper experience I always wanted. Diablo, Baldurs Gate, even Dungeon Keeper, all were good but failed on that particular point.. (IMHO)
Thanks for the tips, also thanks to Bruce for reminding me to check out the contrib section..
I probably will postpone the update for another.1 or.2 anyway, just to be on the extremely safe side.
PostgreSQL is excellent, I use it, administer it, and generally have a Good Feeling (tm) towards it.
However, at our site uptime is king. We initially installed 7.1.2 and used it until 7.1.3 came along, easy upgrade indeed.
Along the way, much of what is fixed / improved in 7.2.0 has been the source of some annoyances.
I would now love to upgrade and run 7.2.0. However reading through the INSTALL, I quickly read "Only upgrading from pre 7.2 requires an initdb". I read the whole procedure and yes it is doable to perform an upgrade through a dump & restore.
What I am a little annoyed about though is that the 7.2.0 release does not include a better solution for upgrades from 7.1.X.
I understand there has to be fundamental changes to the structure to facilitate these improvements, however what I am looking for is a less downtime demanding solution / set of scripts, to actually perform the upgrade..
Oh well, I'll probably just have to hold my breath a little longer, and wait till 7.2.2 for the upgrade;-)
- Advanced Debian Administration
Including :
* Making.deb packages
* Performance tuning
* Advanced local / remote security
- Advanced PostgreSQL (Administration / Usage)
Including :
- Performance tuning apps
- Performance tuning servers
- Various types of extensions (gist indices etc..)
- Example backup & restore scripts and applications of these
Not including anything covered already in the excellent PostgreSQL "Introduction & concepts".
Firstly the post doesn't take into account it is not the actual games itself this page comments on, it is the ultra violent toys and packaging.
Second, they are just giving an opinion like many others do. What does this have to do with my rights online ?
I was never given He-Man or other action figures as a kid, instead my parents gave me a Commodore64... I am very happy they did !:-)
Instead of wasting my time with useless plastic figures, where the idea was mindless "wargames" I programmed BASIC. I guess I don't have to elaborate:-)
Just saw the movie today at a press screening.
Amazing effects combined with well played characters made it a joy to watch.
The effects behind "shrinking" the hobbits were maybe the most amazing, as they are in virtually every scene..
Not only that, the hobbits appear to be short people, also in the way they move and behave.. Extremely well done.
The orcs were properly horrible, the elves pretty, the balrog & troll very well executed and Gandalfs fireworks amazing:)
All in all I'll give the effects 5/5, and the movie 4.5/5..
Not much could have been better, though it's impossible to make it "perfect" because the perfect version is in my imagination !
Still, go see it, and expect a very enjoyable 3 hours of movie !
Slashdot Mirror
Well if you really got those MSN games to work with Firefox 0.9 and Flash 7.0.19 please inform how, otherwise I don't see how your "Informative" score applies.
I could not get any of the linked MSN games to work, all I got was an error when MSN "tries to install or update" my flash (which is brand new and working fine other places).
Well, my experience was about as opposite as they get :
1. Downloaded FirefoxSetup-0.9rc.exe.
2. Ran setup.
3. Chose to install to a new directory (this is an RC, not the final version, and common wisdom says to not install windows software over old versions)
4. Started via shortcut.
5. Firefox asked me politely what profile I want to import.
6. Firefox launched smoothly and looked very nice. All existing preferences, history, etc. migrated from my 0.8.
7. About->Firefox says 0.8+ (which is the terminology for versions past 0.8 but not yet 0.9 release)
The theme is maybe not as nice as the Qute theme, but thanks to Arvids work you can quickly install a brand new version of Qute to go with 0.9 from
his site.
Direct links: fail.
More info to read up on: fail.
Reference to the relevant list / list archive: fail.
Perhaps this story could be fleshed out a little ?
I'll google it or use some other news source to find more about this, but...
No you got it all wrong, we are a "networkoftheapes".
The Clamshell edition of the T610 is actually a lot better imho. It is a bit bulkier than the T610, but makes up for it with a better and bigger keypad, a much prettier exterior. Louder ringtones if needed, better screen (which supposedly is better in sunlight). Overall an excellent phone, and using it with bluetooth is a joy :)
:
As for the direct links to these phones, very simple
T610
Z600
I would say this book is as close to a 10 as possible.
:)
The first historical overview mentioned is very nice, but can be skipped. However I feel it is an important part of the book, and gives weight to the arguments on why using the standards way later on. It also gets designers new to the web up to date on what has passed, and highlights mistakes that were made (so we can possibly avoid them again).
Otherwise I agree fully with the author, the book is indeed both well written, has a nice flow and really gives good arguments why this is the right way, and how to do it the right way. The authors attitude is never arrogant, and the solutions are always practically oriented and work well in real-life (unlike a lot of other books on HTML and CSS).
My take on this book is that if you want to read one book on web design this should be it. Of course after having read this book you probably change your mind and start looking for other literature by the same author
Finally someone who compares apples !
;
:
Thunderbird is definitely the most directly comparable OSS client to OE. And a great competitor. Whereas a lot of people find Mozilla AppSuite to be a bit sluggish and "heavy", the birds just fly !
Thunderbird is good looking, slim and speedy and has all the right settings you need. Including a great spamfilter integrated.
Evolution, Kmail, Mozilla Appsuites Mailnews.. All are nice email clients, but none are directly comparable to OE
- Evolution is more of an Outlook clone, with more features and a bit different UI, also not available for Windows.
- Kmail is not available on windows in a native enough manner that most people can "download and install"
- Mozilla Appsuite is not only an email client, and can only be installed with the browser (incidentally making links from email messages open in anything other than Mozilla is difficult too !)
So Thunderbird has my vote as the definitive OE killer ! Get installer packaged builds from here and spread to your friends
seb.mozdev.org
- Thunderbirds are GO!
After I bought one of those PS2-to-USB converter thingies and a PS2 controller I haven't used my normal PC joysticks / gamepads at all.
What they claim is true to a certain degree in my experience, the best PC only games are definitely better played with mouse & keys, while the ports / dual platform titles are more often than not best played on the console, using the console controller.
However I do believe there are a number of PC controller users who will disagree. There is probably quite a few nice PC controllers out there that definitely enhance the gaming experience. IMHO though the PS2 controller is very nice for those games best not played with a keyboard, like puzzlers and arcadegames.
I think ETM has gotten far more flak than it deserves.. Not being a fanatical gamer these days I still try to play games in between. (The problem to me seems to be the games, none of them hook me for more than a couple of hours at the most.)
..
Anyhow, after a friends recommendation I tried ETM out, and I was pleasantly surprised ! It is unlike all the other people here say, playable, the graphics are definitely good enough to give a good feeling of the Matrix, and the plotline is action packed to say the least.
The people who are dissing the movie clips etc are horribly out of line. The quality is clear and nice, and one has to think about the space requirements. After all the game did not ship on a DVD-ROM
A lot of my friends have been all over this game too, and have been using several days to complete it..
In my book I would give it 4/5.
This book should definitely be in an IT managers bookshelf ..
Peopleware
Yes, it is specific to software project management, but goes deeper, and applies to generic management of technical personell aswell.
RPM is nice and such, but please do like Nvidia, and provide a non RPM option ! I can get around this by using RPM and extracting the stuff, then making an ebuild or something, but hey, it is much easier if RPM is complemented by a tgz
Ever consider donating some of that hardware to someone who might actually _use_ it ?
:)
Some examples would be :
- Schools
- Charity organizations
- Developing nations organizations / schools
I mean, rather than stockpiling it all, wouldn't it make you feel good if you knew you could help someone worse off than you ?
Install Linux on them and send them off !
The Mac DVD Resource seems to be what you are looking for ?
Patches, info etc..
Just to clarify the confusion with the projects:
Thunderbird is the new name of the Minotaur project. Unlike what some said, they are thus one, and will fill the same function as Phoenix for the mail part.
Eventually we will have two very capable clients, Phoenix for browsing, and Thunderbird for Mail. This will make advocacy easier too, some people complain they cannot run Mozilla on their older Windoze boxen. Well they can run Phoenix and Thunderbird ! I measured Phoenix memory usage compared to Mozilla and Opera (all with about 6-7 tabs open, the same URLs in all three), and Phoenix was really close to Opera, about 10M less than Mozilla.. YMMV of course with different pages etc, but it is slimmer indeed.
There are other important issues RedHat need to improve in their KDE support :
- Updates to packages
As it is now, everyone installs unofficial KDE packages, due to the complete ignorance of RedHat of new versions. And no I know how they operate, only releasing backported fixes of their version, for example KDE 3.0.0. Problem is they rarely if ever release updated KDE packages !! (I have been running RH7.3 for a while now, and do know what I am talking about.) SuSE on the other hand release new KDE packages all the time, and backport the most important fixes to their released version / OR issue a completely new one when appropriate (KDE 3.0.2 for example).
- Packaging of more KDE applications.
Again SuSE impressed me a lot when I installed their distro. An amazing selection of good KDE applications. RedHat consistently provided me with GTK / Gnome apps, but rarely that many KDE apps.
How are the chances a patched (they did change the sources of a good number of parts of both KDE and Gnome Afaik) packageset of both desktops is going to improve the above mentioned points ?
Would be nice if Bero commented on this (or anyone else with RH), as I still doubt RHs commitment to anything else than Gnome / GTK..
It seems your question is a bit badly researched before "Ask Slashdot", but anyhow..
:
:) (As of woody, apt-cache search ezpublish and then apt-get install the package ..)
I have personal experience with the following
- eZ Publish (PHP, *nix, MySQL/PgSQL based)
- Slashcode (Perl, *nix, MySQL based)
- PHP Nuke (PHP, MySQL based)
I wouldnt recommend PHP Nuke, but have little experience with the forks off it.. (Check Freshmeat.net as someone suggested).
eZ Publish is the closest I have seen a complete GPL CMS (Content Management Solution), and integrating some of the addons or buying the desktop edition makes it very easy to use!Highly recommended, and now comes in an easy to install Debian package too !
Slashcode is possibly one of the better weblogs, although you should possibly check these too, if that is the kind of website you need :
- Scoop
- Drupal
For non "LAMP", based on Tcl and the AOLServer webserver, check out OpenACS, which is reportedly very feature rich.
I do not have personal experience with either Scoop, Drupal or OpenACS, but several sites use them and produce great sites with them.
Good luck !
Saw the R2 DVD with English subs yesterday, and it is indeed an amazing movie. I wish it would appear here in a cinema some time. Not much chance of that happening though (I am living in Norway).
:-)
Not as epic as Mononoke, but definitely magical, and no not comparable to any Disney animated feature I ever saw.
Could happen it didnt go down too well with the general US moviegoers though, it is indeed quite asian when it comes to all the gods and spirits etc. And the lovestory plotline is not exactly conventional
Ok, rules say that blahblahblah, but if really crucial evidence comes up why isn't it allowed to be submitted ?
This trial is more and more of a farce, and it's all at the expense of the US in general, first most of the states simply back off (obviously due to string pulling), then the trial itself is anything but proper.. Bah, your courtsystem seems even worse than most European ones!
Sounds nice, but I won't cheer until it proves to work out the way I want it to ;)
... ;)
It is definitely harder to make a PC RPG work well with a human DM than it is to make a standard PC RPG with NPC's, PC's and a defined ruleset..
From their earlier attempts in the RPG genre one can hope though
>"..As a fan of pen-n-paper, without the geekiness, Neverwinter Nights solves my dilemma!"
.. (IMHO)
I must say I am not very informed about the features of Neverwinter.. but computer RPG will not reach my expectations before they actually provide an option of having a live Dungeon Master (Gamemaster or whatever) in the session..
It is the DM / GM aspect of the storytelling I liked the most. When one can have a DM to make human randomized events happen in a computer game RPG I'll finally have the digitized Pen & Paper experience I always wanted. Diablo, Baldurs Gate, even Dungeon Keeper, all were good but failed on that particular point
Thanks for the tips, also thanks to Bruce for reminding me to check out the contrib section ..
.1 or .2 anyway, just to be on the extremely safe side.
I probably will postpone the update for another
-d9s
PostgreSQL is excellent, I use it, administer it, and generally have a Good Feeling (tm) towards it.
;-)
However, at our site uptime is king. We initially installed 7.1.2 and used it until 7.1.3 came along, easy upgrade indeed.
Along the way, much of what is fixed / improved in 7.2.0 has been the source of some annoyances.
I would now love to upgrade and run 7.2.0. However reading through the INSTALL, I quickly read "Only upgrading from pre 7.2 requires an initdb". I read the whole procedure and yes it is doable to perform an upgrade through a dump & restore.
What I am a little annoyed about though is that the 7.2.0 release does not include a better solution for upgrades from 7.1.X.
I understand there has to be fundamental changes to the structure to facilitate these improvements, however what I am looking for is a less downtime demanding solution / set of scripts, to actually perform the upgrade..
Oh well, I'll probably just have to hold my breath a little longer, and wait till 7.2.2 for the upgrade
- d9s
- Advanced Debian Administration .deb packages
Including :
* Making
* Performance tuning
* Advanced local / remote security
- Advanced PostgreSQL (Administration / Usage)
Including :
- Performance tuning apps
- Performance tuning servers
- Various types of extensions (gist indices etc..)
- Example backup & restore scripts and applications of these
Not including anything covered already in the excellent PostgreSQL "Introduction & concepts".
Firstly the post doesn't take into account it is not the actual games itself this page comments on, it is the ultra violent toys and packaging.
:-)
:-)
Second, they are just giving an opinion like many others do. What does this have to do with my rights online ?
I was never given He-Man or other action figures as a kid, instead my parents gave me a Commodore64... I am very happy they did !
Instead of wasting my time with useless plastic figures, where the idea was mindless "wargames" I programmed BASIC. I guess I don't have to elaborate
Just saw the movie today at a press screening. :)
..
Amazing effects combined with well played characters made it a joy to watch.
The effects behind "shrinking" the hobbits were maybe the most amazing, as they are in virtually every scene..
Not only that, the hobbits appear to be short people, also in the way they move and behave.. Extremely well done.
The orcs were properly horrible, the elves pretty, the balrog & troll very well executed and Gandalfs fireworks amazing
All in all I'll give the effects 5/5, and the movie 4.5/5
Not much could have been better, though it's impossible to make it "perfect" because the perfect version is in my imagination !
Still, go see it, and expect a very enjoyable 3 hours of movie !
denis