I'm back to Mozilla 0.9.4 because the Mail application has some changes I don't like. For example, in the message preview, extra headers are shown that I don't care about. This limits how much of the actual mail message I see. I have not found a settings change to correct it. They also added a search bar to the top of the message list.
Yes, the U.S. government better be on a nationwide Intranet. I've worked for a few Fortune 50 companies, and their networks are all private. Sure, they external webservers and employees can use port 80 for WWW traffic, but everything else stays internal.
I too hate the damn tux. I'd rather see a Goat as a Linux mascot. Unfortunately I can't Gimp worth a shit.
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My bad, 170*4 = 680 million transistors per package.
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The IBM Power4 architecture uses a "Wavepipelined" interconnect bus. This is a clockless bus. I believe the Alpha 21384 was going to use this as well.
Too bad IBM won't sell the chips. They only sell the servers. Each die has 170 million transistors with 2 microprocessors per die! They package 4 dies in one package totaling 710 million transistors.
It kicks the snot out of anything Intel or AMD has.
Initial benchmarks show the SPECINT2000 and
SPECFP2000 at 808 and 1169 are comfortably ahead of the competition (2GHz Pentium IV was the SPECINT leader at 656, while Alpha 21264 @833MHz was SPECFP leader at 777).
Of course....I can sell software that's under GPL. But then I have to provide the source-code. That is not viable for most businesses.
What's even worse is that if I *develop* my software using the GPL license, then I must provide the source code if I decide to sell it...even if I then purchase a full QT license!
I agree...QT is awesome. However, is there a way to develop a desktop application that interacts with the KDE desktop without using KDE?
At my previous job, I often created utilities. I would have liked to use QT, but no way would my manager spring for a QT license and providing my utilities as GPL wouldn't happen.
I used to be a huge KDE fan until I thought about things recently. I was labeled a troll for making this post earlier. I will likely be labeled a Troll again and be ripped again for this post if its even moderated high enough.
If KDE continues to capture "desktop share" among the Linux community, how will this affect Linux software development? Consider if KDE is on 80% of all Linux desktops 5 years from now. Do you think some small commercial software company will want to purchase a $2000 Trolltech license to develop software for the "Linux Desktop"? Some will, but many won't. This is not good for Linux. I realize they could still develop using other alternatives, but it wouldn't interoperate well with the commonplace "Linux Desktop" being KDE.
Sure, Trolltech does great work and deserves to be compensated. However, I believe that desktop application development for Linux needs LGPL libraries. Commercial software really is important for the future of Linux. The small shops who don't want to open-source their software won't bring applications to a KDE desktop.
And if KDE becomes the dominant Linux desktop and a commercial company wants to develop a Linux desktop application, why should Trolltech get compensated? What about Linus? What about the XFree86 developers? What about the hundreds of other people who pour hard work into Linux for free? This is what Linux is all about.
KDE is dangerous...its too good. There is nothing wrong with Trolltech and I don't mean to bash them. However, the prominent Linux desktop can't depend on KDE. Gnome needs to succeed.
I can't believe the response to this. I'm not a Troll. Trolltech has done great work, and they deserve financial compensation.
If I were able to "develop" my killer app using the free edition, and then buy the license when I am ready to sell, I would be happy. However I can't do this. Hell, I can purchase tools to develop Windows applications for less than $500.
This type of reaction is very disappointing to me. There are clearly quite a few KDE/QT zealots out there.
I'm thoroughly disenchanted by Linux distributions. I used to use Redhat. When I upgraded from 6.2 to 7.0, I lost all of my custom settings. Seems that upgrade settings just don't work. So then I tried Slackware and I liked it, but many binary-releases are.rpm only. So then I tried Linux-from-Scratch. This was fun building a system and learning how it works. But I quickly tired from the high maintenance required. I'd like to try Debian, but I have a Radeon graphics card and they are still stuck at XFree86 3.x.x!!! I really wish there would be a large effort into improving the maintainability of these so called "distributions".
I hate to say it, but "Windows Update" works pretty damn good.
The EPIC instruction set architecture of Itanium/McKinley is not a good match for Java Virtual Machines....at least thats what I read in a technical article about IBM's Power4 architecture. Apparently JVM's can't take advantage of VLIW as well as compiled code can, and this makes sense because Java is compiled to machine-code on the fly. Like it or not, Java is a major player in today's software technology. If AMD continues to excel with IA-32 (which is a decent match for Java), it will help Java as well as AMD...
KDE is not the perfect desktop. I can't create a KDE application and sell it without buying a QT license for over $2000. Since my budget is tight, I plan on developing my killer application in GTK/Gnome. Then I will be rich enough to buy a QT license.
I don't like Redhat/Mandrake because when I went from RH6.2 to RH7.1, I lost all of my custom configuration setups. I tried building my own Linux box without a distribution...I got everything working but quickly realized that maintaining it is not as fun as building it. I hope Debian's apt package system is what I'm looking for...
I plan on installing a Linux distro soon. I'd like to try Debian, however I want XFree86 4.1.0 and a 2.4 kernel. Can I download a Woody distro? Or should I get Potato and upgrade the parts I want?
well you just hit the point! The P3 and Athlon convert the CISC instructions to internal RISC-like "micro-ops". If the x86 instruction set would have been RISC in the first place, they would not have to spend 10,000,000 transistors to do the conversion. Hence they needed to do that because of BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY! They couldn't just dump the instruction set because of backwards compatibility. Just like dozens of System Admins who cannot and will not reformat their partitions to a different FS. They will go to Ext3 because of the easy upgrade.
You're real bright too. Ever heard of backwards compatibility? I suppose you never considered why our microprocessors (PIII, Athlon) have 40 million transistors to accomplish the same thing as a PowerPC, or Alpha EV6 which have a quarter as many transistors.
Not everybody has time to convert their *data* to a different file system. But hobbyists like you and myself probably don't have important data anyways.
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I'm back to Mozilla 0.9.4 because the Mail application has some changes I don't like. For example, in the message preview, extra headers are shown that I don't care about. This limits how much of the actual mail message I see. I have not found a settings change to correct it. They also added a search bar to the top of the message list.
Yes, the U.S. government better be on a nationwide Intranet. I've worked for a few Fortune 50 companies, and their networks are all private. Sure, they external webservers and employees can use port 80 for WWW traffic, but everything else stays internal.
And why is this labeled a "Troll"? Can anybody explain how the Slashdot moderation works? Its seems like a load of shit to me.
Grow up.
My Seagate IDE drive crashed after a year. Piece of shit.
thanks
How come I can't find the QT Free Download at http://www.trolltech.com???
I too hate the damn tux. I'd rather see a Goat as a Linux mascot. Unfortunately I can't Gimp worth a shit.
My bad, 170*4 = 680 million transistors per package.
The IBM Power4 architecture uses a "Wavepipelined" interconnect bus. This is a clockless bus. I believe the Alpha 21384 was going to use this as well.
r dw are/datactr/p690.html
Too bad IBM won't sell the chips. They only sell the servers. Each die has 170 million transistors with 2 microprocessors per die! They package 4 dies in one package totaling 710 million transistors.
It kicks the snot out of anything Intel or AMD has.
Initial benchmarks show the SPECINT2000 and
SPECFP2000 at 808 and 1169 are comfortably ahead of the competition (2GHz Pentium IV was the SPECINT leader at 656, while Alpha 21264 @833MHz was SPECFP leader at 777).
Anybody have $450,000 to spare?
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/ha
Of course....I can sell software that's under GPL. But then I have to provide the source-code. That is not viable for most businesses.
What's even worse is that if I *develop* my software using the GPL license, then I must provide the source code if I decide to sell it...even if I then purchase a full QT license!
I agree...QT is awesome. However, is there a way to develop a desktop application that interacts with the KDE desktop without using KDE?
At my previous job, I often created utilities. I would have liked to use QT, but no way would my manager spring for a QT license and providing my utilities as GPL wouldn't happen.
I used to be a huge KDE fan until I thought about things recently. I was labeled a troll for making this post earlier. I will likely be labeled a Troll again and be ripped again for this post if its even moderated high enough.
If KDE continues to capture "desktop share" among the Linux community, how will this affect Linux software development? Consider if KDE is on 80% of all Linux desktops 5 years from now. Do you think some small commercial software company will want to purchase a $2000 Trolltech license to develop software for the "Linux Desktop"? Some will, but many won't. This is not good for Linux. I realize they could still develop using other alternatives, but it wouldn't interoperate well with the commonplace "Linux Desktop" being KDE.
Sure, Trolltech does great work and deserves to be compensated. However, I believe that desktop application development for Linux needs LGPL libraries. Commercial software really is important for the future of Linux. The small shops who don't want to open-source their software won't bring applications to a KDE desktop.
And if KDE becomes the dominant Linux desktop and a commercial company wants to develop a Linux desktop application, why should Trolltech get compensated? What about Linus? What about the XFree86 developers? What about the hundreds of other people who pour hard work into Linux for free? This is what Linux is all about.
KDE is dangerous...its too good. There is nothing wrong with Trolltech and I don't mean to bash them. However, the prominent Linux desktop can't depend on KDE. Gnome needs to succeed.
Please mod this up. Where are the moderators and how is this done? Slashdot, please do not be impartial.
I can't believe the response to this. I'm not a Troll. Trolltech has done great work, and they deserve financial compensation.
If I were able to "develop" my killer app using the free edition, and then buy the license when I am ready to sell, I would be happy. However I can't do this. Hell, I can purchase tools to develop Windows applications for less than $500.
This type of reaction is very disappointing to me. There are clearly quite a few KDE/QT zealots out there.
Well, that's why Sun won't be using KDE anytime soon.
I'm thoroughly disenchanted by Linux distributions. I used to use Redhat. When I upgraded from 6.2 to 7.0, I lost all of my custom settings. Seems that upgrade settings just don't work. So then I tried Slackware and I liked it, but many binary-releases are .rpm only. So then I tried Linux-from-Scratch. This was fun building a system and learning how it works. But I quickly tired from the high maintenance required. I'd like to try Debian, but I have a Radeon graphics card and they are still stuck at XFree86 3.x.x!!! I really wish there would be a large effort into improving the maintainability of these so called "distributions".
I hate to say it, but "Windows Update" works pretty damn good.
The EPIC instruction set architecture of Itanium/McKinley is not a good match for Java Virtual Machines....at least thats what I read in a technical article about IBM's Power4 architecture. Apparently JVM's can't take advantage of VLIW as well as compiled code can, and this makes sense because Java is compiled to machine-code on the fly. Like it or not, Java is a major player in today's software technology. If AMD continues to excel with IA-32 (which is a decent match for Java), it will help Java as well as AMD...
KDE is not the perfect desktop. I can't create a KDE application and sell it without buying a QT license for over $2000. Since my budget is tight, I plan on developing my killer application in GTK/Gnome. Then I will be rich enough to buy a QT license.
but what about the 21364 chip? Is that gone?
Thanks for the advice!
I don't like Redhat/Mandrake because when I went from RH6.2 to RH7.1, I lost all of my custom configuration setups. I tried building my own Linux box without a distribution...I got everything working but quickly realized that maintaining it is not as fun as building it. I hope Debian's apt package system is what I'm looking for...
I'm looking forward to trying out Debian.
-Mike
I plan on installing a Linux distro soon. I'd like to try Debian, however I want XFree86 4.1.0 and a 2.4 kernel. Can I download a Woody distro? Or should I get Potato and upgrade the parts I want?
I'm curious to know how FreeBSD would fare doing the same tasks that you described...
I'm pretty tempted to cross the fence and give it a try!
well you just hit the point! The P3 and Athlon convert the CISC instructions to internal RISC-like "micro-ops". If the x86 instruction set would have been RISC in the first place, they would not have to spend 10,000,000 transistors to do the conversion. Hence they needed to do that because of BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY! They couldn't just dump the instruction set because of backwards compatibility. Just like dozens of System Admins who cannot and will not reformat their partitions to a different FS. They will go to Ext3 because of the easy upgrade.
You're real bright too. Ever heard of backwards compatibility? I suppose you never considered why our microprocessors (PIII, Athlon) have 40 million transistors to accomplish the same thing as a PowerPC, or Alpha EV6 which have a quarter as many transistors.
Not everybody has time to convert their *data* to a different file system. But hobbyists like you and myself probably don't have important data anyways.