Your country is ruled by Christians, for Christians. It just so happens some of them were clever enough to stop the rest persecuting all those ungodly-but-suprisingly-useful non-Christians.
Under Mac OS X 10.2, start playing a DVD. Check your CPU usage.
Now make a terminal semi-transparent. Drag it over the top, and watch the DVD play through.
Check your CPU usage. It hasn't changed.
My linux XFree-based desktop can't do that.
I think the future of linux desktops may lie with DirectFB and their rootless X server. All the remote functionality/backwards compatibility, only with a new, clean, and clever rendering engine.
May I say, I am constantly using Apple X11. The X protocol is great, and despite what some say, perfect for a practical world. It's just the XFree86 engine that's showing its age.
The intergration. All of these features in a powerful package with an installer targetted at admins.
The only thing I would ever ask of them is to take some of the lessons learned from the Gentoo Portage System.
The biggest advantage of Gentoo...
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...is the one they're not using.
Gento is source based, meaning big compile times. However, it has the possible advantage of very small downloads. Imagine, that instead of downloading all the source packages for KDE 3.0.4, you simply had to download the patch level difference for the source from KDE 3.0.3. The diff file would probably be less than 500k.
Of course, patch files would be too difficult to manage, so why not set up an rsync or cvs server, and use cvsup to grab the differences. Not from the production cvs, but from another set up by Gentoo. This would turn a bandwidth hungry dist into the lightest one of all. After downloading the initial sources, the updates would be noticably smaller than binary dists.
Of course, gentoo doesn't do this, but I use it anyway.:-)
An XML-RPC or SOAP interface running on top of one of the ultra light http servers would make more sense. Then a graphical program could be built that communicates to the interface, receiving configuration information and updating settings.
This would let you have a house management program for everything. The toaster, blinds, fridge, tv, lights, everything.
When you have to build a java swing client that talks to a network, keeping the networking in a different thread to the gui execution can be quite a time consuming process. With xwt, the single command you give does all the thread management for you.
If it's an applet, you also have the advantage that you have a 0.5mb ActiveX control on windows for the user instead of a 10mb Java Runtime.
I also find that XWT graphics runs much faster than Java Swing, even when XWT is running on top of Java! I would suggest is has something to do with the general heavyweight design of Swing, and the fact that it was layered on top of an older graphics library, AWT.
Yes, signed applets are a Java 2 concept, much like signed ActiveX contorls. They can do anything they want to do on your computer, that's why it will complain loud and long if the applet is not signed by one of the big companies in your JRE's trusted list.
What we really need are external devices with a keypad of some kind on them, that have their own logic built into them.
That way, when you want to log into a computer, you plug it in, you click the login button on the computer, and then it gets your public key out of its memory. It then encrypts something with its public key, and then your public key, and then sends it to the box.
The box then asks you to type in your pin number, which gives it permission to decrypt the sent package, and sends back the payload only encrypted with the computers protection. It can then decrypt and check to make sure that the box has the private key that matches the public key stored in its memory.
Basically, SSL over the system bus to an external device. You can't try and brute force the password out of the box, because the pin needs to be typed in every time, and the public key can be available on it as well, so when you add a new user to the computer, you just need to plug it in and the key gets downloaded.
Then use it for SSH authentication, so you can walk up to any machine with the latest ssh supporting them and a USB port and log in.
You could also store multiple keysets on each box, for your normal user, the root user, the root user on the ftp server, etc. It can also store your friends public keys for secure email corraspondence.
You want really fast image preview, the new Pixie Plus is meant to be the fast one.
The author (Mosfet) claims several hundered images in a directory can be previewed in about 1 second.
www.mosfet.org/pixie.
And they have bin directories under that. Funny, until now I've only ever heard people slam SuSe for doing it (something about not being Linux Standard Base compliant).
I personally like it. The only thing, whenever you compile a kde program, you add --prefix=/opt/kde2 to the./configure command.
The problem there is that humans are fundamentally unreliable. How many people can't handle the stress level in a higher pace job? How many of us end up in mental institusions. How many of us go through a mid life ciris?
I personally don't want a server crashing just becase it's 'that time of month' again.
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For them it is. If the little Windows box starts acting up, they could be in serious problems very quickly.
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Why does your money say "In God we Trust"?
How many non-Christian presidents have you had?
Your country is ruled by Christians, for Christians. It just so happens some of them were clever enough to stop the rest persecuting all those ungodly-but-suprisingly-useful non-Christians.
I recommend Foundation by Isaac Asimov. A tale of science, religion, human survival and prediction.
Under Mac OS X 10.2, start playing a DVD. Check your CPU usage.
Now make a terminal semi-transparent. Drag it over the top, and watch the DVD play through.
Check your CPU usage. It hasn't changed.
My linux XFree-based desktop can't do that.
I think the future of linux desktops may lie with DirectFB and their rootless X server. All the remote functionality/backwards compatibility, only with a new, clean, and clever rendering engine.
May I say, I am constantly using Apple X11. The X protocol is great, and despite what some say, perfect for a practical world. It's just the XFree86 engine that's showing its age.
I remember a time when we were innocent until proven guilty.
Win the manager, and the staff will be dragged kicking and screaming.
If anyone's ever had Microsoft convince their manager of the wonders of Exchange and MS SQL, you know what I'm talking about.
The intergration. All of these features in a powerful package with an installer targetted at admins.
The only thing I would ever ask of them is to take some of the lessons learned from the Gentoo Portage System.
...is the one they're not using.
Gento is source based, meaning big compile times. However, it has the possible advantage of very small downloads. Imagine, that instead of downloading all the source packages for KDE 3.0.4, you simply had to download the patch level difference for the source from KDE 3.0.3. The diff file would probably be less than 500k.
Of course, patch files would be too difficult to manage, so why not set up an rsync or cvs server, and use cvsup to grab the differences. Not from the production cvs, but from another set up by Gentoo. This would turn a bandwidth hungry dist into the lightest one of all. After downloading the initial sources, the updates would be noticably smaller than binary dists.
Of course, gentoo doesn't do this, but I use it anyway. :-)
This would let you have a house management program for everything. The toaster, blinds, fridge, tv, lights, everything.
In about three days, they raised $35,000 for the website, and had over three million ad impressions registered.
They got OpenOffice onto one cd? No wonder this is the most popular distro.
j/k
Even if the applet is signed by one of the 'trustworthy' companies, it still asks for user confirmation. All you have to do is say no.
When you have to build a java swing client that talks to a network, keeping the networking in a different thread to the gui execution can be quite a time consuming process. With xwt, the single command you give does all the thread management for you.
If it's an applet, you also have the advantage that you have a 0.5mb ActiveX control on windows for the user instead of a 10mb Java Runtime.
I also find that XWT graphics runs much faster than Java Swing, even when XWT is running on top of Java! I would suggest is has something to do with the general heavyweight design of Swing, and the fact that it was layered on top of an older graphics library, AWT.
Yes, signed applets are a Java 2 concept, much like signed ActiveX contorls. They can do anything they want to do on your computer, that's why it will complain loud and long if the applet is not signed by one of the big companies in your JRE's trusted list.
ssh
...
gpg
https://
webdavs://
imaps://
Big Brother can watch all they want, but they'll only see my random bits.
Is that the same roadmap that hasn't yet acknowledged the release of 0.9.8?
;-)
What we really need are external devices with a keypad of some kind on them, that have their own logic built into them.
That way, when you want to log into a computer, you plug it in, you click the login button on the computer, and then it gets your public key out of its memory. It then encrypts something with its public key, and then your public key, and then sends it to the box.
The box then asks you to type in your pin number, which gives it permission to decrypt the sent package, and sends back the payload only encrypted with the computers protection. It can then decrypt and check to make sure that the box has the private key that matches the public key stored in its memory.
Basically, SSL over the system bus to an external device. You can't try and brute force the password out of the box, because the pin needs to be typed in every time, and the public key can be available on it as well, so when you add a new user to the computer, you just need to plug it in and the key gets downloaded.
Then use it for SSH authentication, so you can walk up to any machine with the latest ssh supporting them and a USB port and log in.
You could also store multiple keysets on each box, for your normal user, the root user, the root user on the ftp server, etc. It can also store your friends public keys for secure email corraspondence.
Well, I guess the only thing to do is get the US government to ban the selling of such undemocratic software.
You want really fast image preview, the new Pixie Plus is meant to be the fast one. The author (Mosfet) claims several hundered images in a directory can be previewed in about 1 second. www.mosfet.org/pixie.
SuSe actuallly does this. On my /opt path I have:
./configure command.
/opt/kde
/opt/kde2
/opt/gnome
And they have bin directories under that. Funny, until now I've only ever heard people slam SuSe for doing it (something about not being Linux Standard Base compliant).
I personally like it. The only thing, whenever you compile a kde program, you add --prefix=/opt/kde2 to the
Compare the size of the bz2 files between 2.2.2 and 2.2.20
linux-2.2.2.tar.bz2 10.1M
linux-2.2.20.tar.bz2 15.0M
50% increase in the stable series...
Perhaps its time more people focused on ideas like OpenNIC.
Does this mean the GPL (which CDDB's orginal software was under) could do the rounds in court?
It will be interesting to see what they think of the license.
The problem there is that humans are fundamentally unreliable. How many people can't handle the stress level in a higher pace job? How many of us end up in mental institusions. How many of us go through a mid life ciris?
I personally don't want a server crashing just becase it's 'that time of month' again.
For them it is. If the little Windows box starts acting up, they could be in serious problems very quickly.
I heard a company in Dublin is now putting full resources into an application that will CHANGE THE WORLD!!! Solar powered underwear...