Re:Fantastic , more bloatware eyecandy
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KDE 3.0 is Out
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There is nothing beautiful that both the leading software environments are bloated. These are the "apex" of linux wm's. By switching to a less bloated wm you lose all the funtionality and usefullness.
Have you ever considered that adding functionality and usefullness is the cause of that bloat? Reduce the bloat, reduce the functionality. Add functionality, add bloat.
Nautilus? Isn't it a bit bloated? Not only is it slow, but doesn't it require Mozilla? And I have no problems with Konqueror. It doesn't crash when I use it.
"opening the File Explorer onto my C: drive takes a fraction of a second, whereas Konqueror in KDE 2.2.1 takes several seconds."
That's because of the linker in GCC. It's fixed in GCC 3.1, which means that KDE will become NOTICEABLY faster! Also, if you compile KDE yourself with proper optimizations, you can squeeze additional performance
Re:What's the big deal about Nethack?
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Nethack 3.4.0
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· Score: 5, Interesting
The game is amazingly deep. There's just so much you can do in it. There are tons of easter-eggs buried in there and lots of references to other works of fiction
I'm sure others who have more knowledge in Nethack will provide more info. I myself am not an expert on the subject.
"Not but that KDE is quality software.. But a simple clone of Microsoft's desktop isn't going to be freeing me anytime soon.
It's more like indentured service. It's not quite slavery, but it sure as hell isn't freedom."
Why? Why must UI looks 100% different from Windows UI? Are there any usability-reasons or is it just the "It reminds me of MS, it must be EEEEEVIL!"-mindset?
How exactly does KDE look like MS? Gnome looks like MS too, they all that "start-button" or equivalent. They all have a taskbar. Having some similarities with Windows-UI is NOT automatically a bad thing (despite the fact that many people seem to think so)
Why do you think that KDE doesn't give you "freedom"? I mean, it's free software, it's licensed under the GPL. Just because you think that it looks like Windows-UI (There might be some similarities, but honestly, how many different ways are there to design a windowed UI??? They ALL share some basic characteristics! Building a UI with sole goal of looking as different as possible when compared to Win-UI is, well, retarded) does not make it "un-free" or anything.
"overall, kde is a good 'product' but i'm just too disappointed with the speed issue."
The major cause for slowness in KDE is caused by the linker in GCC. To ky knowledge, the fixed linker is order of magnitude faster, and that directly shows in startup-times in KDE. Unfortunately that fixed linker is not ready for release yet.
If you want more speed in KDE, go talk to GCC-team. KDE-team is well avare of the speed-issue, and they are working hard to make things faster in their end. However, ther's nothing they can do about the linker.
Why Gnome? What does it have that KDE lacks? I tried Gnome, didn't like it, went back to KDE.
KDE is developing FAST (unlike Gnome it seems), it was here before Gnome was. Why should people support Gnome instead of KDE?
It's funny, Gnome was started as a "free" alternative to KDE (back when Qt still had licensing-issues). But now it seems that of those two, KDE is the "more free" one. Gnome is influenced by corporations. Hell, one of it's chief developers (Ximian) is a for-profit corp! And certain chief-developer of Gnoma has openly suggested that Gnome should use *gasp* Microsoft-technologies!
I have one right here! I guess it has 33Mhz 486 (judging from the model-number) and color-screen (it says so next to the screen). It also has a built-in trackball. I'm still thinking that to do with it... In case you are wondering, it's AST Bravo 4/33s
Ikons will be in 3.0. Crystal-icons will be in 3.1. Check out the screenshot from lates KDE Kernel Cousin: http://kt.zork.net/kde/kde20020301_34.html )
MS top execs visited Nokias HQ in Finland few years back. They met Nokias execs, and tried to convince them to use MS-OS in smartphones. Nokia representatives literally laughed at them.
Nokia has officially said that they have seen what MS has done to the PC-business, and they have no intention of letting the same thing happen to mobile-phone business. And Nokia has nothing to be worried about. I mean, which companies use Symbian? Nokia, SonyEricsson, Motorola, Panasonic and (if I remember correctly) Siemens. Together, those companies control about 80% of mobile-phone business. Which companies use MS-OS? Samsung and... Sendo??? yeah, I bet Nokia is REALLY worried!
Nokia has embraced open standards. They are going to use Linux in the 3G-base-stations, they use Linux in their mediaterminal
This time MS has to fight a company who is as big as they are, who has invested heavily in R&D, who has big share of the market (and other big players are it's allies), who has years of experience of the business, who has been strengthened by years of cut-throat competition in the business and who doesn't like MS much. It's going to be interesting, and in the end, MS will lose
The tactic is to hide these ships in the vast archipegalo, and wait for the enemy to come close. Once the enemy is within range, they fire their missiles, and leave at top speed (hit 'n run)
No, Linux is not american. You could say it is a finnish OS, since the inventor and the "Man in charge" is a finn. But then again, there are alot of kernel-hackers from other countries.
As for the distros. Sure there are american distros (is Debian american? I consider it to be more international). And there are non-american distros (SuSE, Mandrake, Best Linux etc).
I think the best way to describe Linux is to call in international OS. It has it's roots in Finland, but developement are done all over the world. The man in charge is a finn living is USA, the second in command (Alan Cox) is british. The maintainer of 2.4 kernel is from Brazil.
300-400 million euros you say? Actually, the EU trustbusters could sentence MS to pay fines up to 10% of their global sales. Now THAT would cause at least some damage! And of course, they might order MS to pay that fine each year they refuse to play by the rules.
EU trustbusters have shown that they are not afraid to take on the big corps, as was demonstrated in the GE-Honeywell-merger. And MS has alot less clout in EU as it does in USA.
I would like to see MS-execs get punised along woth the company. THEY were the ones who orchestrated the illegal tactics! Massive fines for them! And I would just LOVE to see Ballmer and Gates publicly admit of breaking the law and apologizing. That would be a hit to their bloated egos.
Re:Bug: Thinking of IT as Personal Property
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This is IT?
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"The whole issue of theft, as well as much of the problem of lugging these heavy objects into buildings, disappears under something like the Yellow Bike paradigm. If people could pick them up where they need them, and drop them off at the destination, they wouldn't need to worry."
There's a project in Helsinki just like that. By paying a small token you get a bike you can use freely. You can get them from several locations throught the city, and you get your money back when you return it. They tried it for one summer (they can't be used in winter), and it was an instant hit, so they continued and expanded the project.
True, there has been problems with theft (some bikes ending up in Estonia) and abuse, but they are working on those. The bikes are already quite sturdy and abuse-proof, but they are going to make them even sturdier. But those aren't major problems, just about everybody loves the bikes.
"And I don't like the drawing. Does anyone like the drawing?"
I LOVE the way Futurama is drawed! Basically, it's same style as Simpsons, but with alot more refinement. The animation seems considerably smoothers and it has a "3D" feel to it.
Simpsons USED to be awesome! Not anymore though. For the last couple of seasons, the quality of The Simpsons has gone DOWN. Basically, the show sucks these days. Before, I taped every single episode that they showed. A bit over years ago I stopped taping them. And soon after that I stopped watching The Simpsons. It's a shame that they keep on beating a dead horse. That show should have died a long ago. I did watch last couple of episodes just to see that has it got any better. Nope. It still sucked.
It just happens that they show Simpsons right after Futurama. I tape & watch Futurama (only show I tape these days), and when the Simpsons start, I just turn off the television.
If you use NVIDIA-card, I remember reading that if you drop the hardware-acceleration notch or two, the map will scroll better. You will lose the beginning video though. Haven't tested that myself.
"My video card (GeForce 2 GTS) has a bandwidth of ~5.4GB/sec to the on-board RAM, which is similar to the X-Box's video specs. My CPU has 1.4GB/sec of bandwidth to RAM, similar to the X-Box again. My CPU is more capable that the X-Box's, as is my RAM. We should be able to see graphics in our games much better than what is found in the X-Box... yet it hasn't happened yet"
Well, you have to remember that your video-card communicates with the rest of the system via slow AGP-bus, whereas in Xbox the GPU comunicates directly with CPU and the RAM. Also, the RAM in Xbox is faster than in PC (200MHz DDR-RAM in 128bit memory-bus)Also, the OS (stripped-down W2K-kernel) has only the essentials required to run the games, whereas PC has loads of additional bloat.
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There is nothing beautiful that both the leading software environments are bloated. These are the "apex" of linux wm's. By switching to a less bloated wm you lose all the funtionality and usefullness.
Have you ever considered that adding functionality and usefullness is the cause of that bloat? Reduce the bloat, reduce the functionality. Add functionality, add bloat.
"If they can combine the story of the books with the depth of their Dune series, this could be a great watch."
Yeah, and if the series is as exciting as the games are, it will serve as a great tool to kill yourself with boredom.
Nautilus? Isn't it a bit bloated? Not only is it slow, but doesn't it require Mozilla? And I have no problems with Konqueror. It doesn't crash when I use it.
"opening the File Explorer onto my C: drive takes a fraction of a second, whereas Konqueror in KDE 2.2.1 takes several seconds."
That's because of the linker in GCC. It's fixed in GCC 3.1, which means that KDE will become NOTICEABLY faster! Also, if you compile KDE yourself with proper optimizations, you can squeeze additional performance
The game is amazingly deep. There's just so much you can do in it. There are tons of easter-eggs buried in there and lots of references to other works of fiction
I'm sure others who have more knowledge in Nethack will provide more info. I myself am not an expert on the subject.
"Not but that KDE is quality software.. But a simple clone of Microsoft's desktop isn't going to be freeing me anytime soon.
It's more like indentured service. It's not quite slavery, but it sure as hell isn't freedom."
Why? Why must UI looks 100% different from Windows UI? Are there any usability-reasons or is it just the "It reminds me of MS, it must be EEEEEVIL!"-mindset?
How exactly does KDE look like MS? Gnome looks like MS too, they all that "start-button" or equivalent. They all have a taskbar. Having some similarities with Windows-UI is NOT automatically a bad thing (despite the fact that many people seem to think so)
Why do you think that KDE doesn't give you "freedom"? I mean, it's free software, it's licensed under the GPL. Just because you think that it looks like Windows-UI (There might be some similarities, but honestly, how many different ways are there to design a windowed UI??? They ALL share some basic characteristics! Building a UI with sole goal of looking as different as possible when compared to Win-UI is, well, retarded) does not make it "un-free" or anything.
And, will it have the fixed linker? That would give KDE's performance a nice boost
So RMS hates KDE? My God, who would have guessed! I am shocked! Shocked, I tells ya!
"... except Konqueror is based on Mozilla. D'oh!"
No it isn't. Check your facts.
"overall, kde is a good 'product' but i'm just too disappointed with the speed issue."
The major cause for slowness in KDE is caused by the linker in GCC. To ky knowledge, the fixed linker is order of magnitude faster, and that directly shows in startup-times in KDE. Unfortunately that fixed linker is not ready for release yet.
If you want more speed in KDE, go talk to GCC-team. KDE-team is well avare of the speed-issue, and they are working hard to make things faster in their end. However, ther's nothing they can do about the linker.
Why Gnome? What does it have that KDE lacks? I tried Gnome, didn't like it, went back to KDE.
KDE is developing FAST (unlike Gnome it seems), it was here before Gnome was. Why should people support Gnome instead of KDE?
It's funny, Gnome was started as a "free" alternative to KDE (back when Qt still had licensing-issues). But now it seems that of those two, KDE is the "more free" one. Gnome is influenced by corporations. Hell, one of it's chief developers (Ximian) is a for-profit corp! And certain chief-developer of Gnoma has openly suggested that Gnome should use *gasp* Microsoft-technologies!
I have one right here! I guess it has 33Mhz 486 (judging from the model-number) and color-screen (it says so next to the screen). It also has a built-in trackball. I'm still thinking that to do with it... In case you are wondering, it's AST Bravo 4/33s
Ikons will be in 3.0. Crystal-icons will be in 3.1. Check out the screenshot from lates KDE Kernel Cousin: http://kt.zork.net/kde/kde20020301_34.html )
MS top execs visited Nokias HQ in Finland few years back. They met Nokias execs, and tried to convince them to use MS-OS in smartphones. Nokia representatives literally laughed at them.
Nokia has officially said that they have seen what MS has done to the PC-business, and they have no intention of letting the same thing happen to mobile-phone business. And Nokia has nothing to be worried about. I mean, which companies use Symbian? Nokia, SonyEricsson, Motorola, Panasonic and (if I remember correctly) Siemens. Together, those companies control about 80% of mobile-phone business. Which companies use MS-OS? Samsung and... Sendo??? yeah, I bet Nokia is REALLY worried!
Nokia has embraced open standards. They are going to use Linux in the 3G-base-stations, they use Linux in their mediaterminal
This time MS has to fight a company who is as big as they are, who has invested heavily in R&D, who has big share of the market (and other big players are it's allies), who has years of experience of the business, who has been strengthened by years of cut-throat competition in the business and who doesn't like MS much. It's going to be interesting, and in the end, MS will lose
Does PocketPC belong in PDA's? After all, Palm OS was very established in the PDA-market and people trusted it.
"that neat animated applet is launching icon next tothe cursor? I dont want that, I want it turned off."
Then do so: Control Center ==> Look & Feel ==> Launch Feedback
The Hamina-class missile-boat:
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http://www.mil.fi/merivoimat/toim_kalusto_5.htm
The tactic is to hide these ships in the vast archipegalo, and wait for the enemy to come close. Once the enemy is within range, they fire their missiles, and leave at top speed (hit 'n run)
Over 10 years ago Linus said this:
"I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows)"
10 years have passed since those words were uttered. Where is Hurd? "Oh, it's coming! just wait for it!"
No, Linux is not american. You could say it is a finnish OS, since the inventor and the "Man in charge" is a finn. But then again, there are alot of kernel-hackers from other countries.
As for the distros. Sure there are american distros (is Debian american? I consider it to be more international). And there are non-american distros (SuSE, Mandrake, Best Linux etc).
I think the best way to describe Linux is to call in international OS. It has it's roots in Finland, but developement are done all over the world. The man in charge is a finn living is USA, the second in command (Alan Cox) is british. The maintainer of 2.4 kernel is from Brazil.
300-400 million euros you say? Actually, the EU trustbusters could sentence MS to pay fines up to 10% of their global sales. Now THAT would cause at least some damage! And of course, they might order MS to pay that fine each year they refuse to play by the rules.
EU trustbusters have shown that they are not afraid to take on the big corps, as was demonstrated in the GE-Honeywell-merger. And MS has alot less clout in EU as it does in USA.
I would like to see MS-execs get punised along woth the company. THEY were the ones who orchestrated the illegal tactics! Massive fines for them! And I would just LOVE to see Ballmer and Gates publicly admit of breaking the law and apologizing. That would be a hit to their bloated egos.
"The whole issue of theft, as well as much of the problem of lugging these heavy objects into buildings, disappears under something like the Yellow Bike paradigm. If people could pick them up where they need them, and drop them off at the destination, they wouldn't need to worry."
There's a project in Helsinki just like that. By paying a small token you get a bike you can use freely. You can get them from several locations throught the city, and you get your money back when you return it. They tried it for one summer (they can't be used in winter), and it was an instant hit, so they continued and expanded the project.
True, there has been problems with theft (some bikes ending up in Estonia) and abuse, but they are working on those. The bikes are already quite sturdy and abuse-proof, but they are going to make them even sturdier. But those aren't major problems, just about everybody loves the bikes.
"And I don't like the drawing. Does anyone like the drawing?"
I LOVE the way Futurama is drawed! Basically, it's same style as Simpsons, but with alot more refinement. The animation seems considerably smoothers and it has a "3D" feel to it.
Simpsons USED to be awesome! Not anymore though. For the last couple of seasons, the quality of The Simpsons has gone DOWN. Basically, the show sucks these days. Before, I taped every single episode that they showed. A bit over years ago I stopped taping them. And soon after that I stopped watching The Simpsons. It's a shame that they keep on beating a dead horse. That show should have died a long ago. I did watch last couple of episodes just to see that has it got any better. Nope. It still sucked.
It just happens that they show Simpsons right after Futurama. I tape & watch Futurama (only show I tape these days), and when the Simpsons start, I just turn off the television.
The Simpsons should die already.
If you use NVIDIA-card, I remember reading that if you drop the hardware-acceleration notch or two, the map will scroll better. You will lose the beginning video though. Haven't tested that myself.
Right-click desktop ==> Settings ==> Advanced ==> Troubleshooting.
"My video card (GeForce 2 GTS) has a bandwidth of ~5.4GB/sec to the on-board RAM, which is similar to the X-Box's video specs. My CPU has 1.4GB/sec of bandwidth to RAM, similar to the X-Box again. My CPU is more capable that the X-Box's, as is my RAM. We should be able to see graphics in our games much better than what is found in the X-Box... yet it hasn't happened yet"
Well, you have to remember that your video-card communicates with the rest of the system via slow AGP-bus, whereas in Xbox the GPU comunicates directly with CPU and the RAM. Also, the RAM in Xbox is faster than in PC (200MHz DDR-RAM in 128bit memory-bus)Also, the OS (stripped-down W2K-kernel) has only the essentials required to run the games, whereas PC has loads of additional bloat.