Not my experience, sorry. Worked on linux desktop for 18 years or so. I have a mac, I have to work with it every now and then. Normal development tools (eclipse and all that) are ok but the "slick" user interface is hilarious. It may have a hidden logic but that escapes me. Save dialogs are different from one app to another and some of them will only give me 4-5 directories in which I can save the file. After the last update, the finder does not show all the directories in my home, not clear why. I will never understand why the top menu bar is so popular, my mouse has to travel a lot of unnecessary distance.
I agree with you that this is theft and I agree with you that this makes some people to loose money. I find hard to believe that the efects are catastrophic but again, I don't know any figures and you may as well be right.
What I don't believe is that this causes less diversity. The music business is as industrial as food processing and unfortunately this is based on recipes. Two years ago everything was latino. No matter how good or bad. Now it's dance I believe (I'm not following the trend).
Diversity is exactly what file sharing offers to someone like me.
Since when firewalls, web server farms and file servers are not business critical?
I think you (as well as most of the people out there) are using Linux where there are no users with direct interaction with it. That's because users are familiar with windows or because users needs applications that 1. are not available or 2. have already being bought.
Sorry for this, I know it's offtopic but I can't stop myself
Actually, the reason that people don't travel from former communist countries such as the Russian Federation is because the government doesn't let the people out.
Well, this is a sad joke. I'm living in Romania and I know that my government has nothing to do with it. It is the western governments and embassies that do not allow us to travel freely (unless you can prove that you have a huge amount of money with you or a relative or whatever).
It has nothing to do with our government.
Sorin M
Is it just me or it is the third time that I've seen this messaje (not in the same place)? If it is an inconsistency of the database then it is funny that it is precisely this message. But if it's not I'd like to say to the author that I've got he/she's point. From the first time.
But unfortunately the growth of innovation in the "breaking the law" field. I'm not from US so I shouldn't pay to much attention to DMCA and others but as a normal human being I know that a community will accept and even enforce laws of certain strength, laws that most of their members see ar "right". If one tries to make that community obey a much "harder" law the community will fight. How can anyone imagine that a normal person will accept to have a book for only 10 hours? I read my books (paper or free electronic) many times, rereading parts and so.
I think that the companies are rushing things therefore making childish mistakes. While I agree that content providers must be protected somehow much more intelligent ways has to be found for this.
Ha, my speller wants to replace DMCA with YMCA.
Sorin M
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I am runing 2.2 beta and here are some new things that I discovered in konqueror:
An interesting (and very usefull) feature is that Konqueror will show the HTML DOM Tree, therefore making much easier to study a document structure.
Another very important tool is the web archive (something I've been waiting for a long time) - it makes you a tar with a html and all the pictures, a complete web page (Opera had this also but it didn't compress). Web archives can be opened directly in konqueror.
You can validate html's directly from konqueror toolbar, and from the same toolbar you can use babelfish to translate pages.
In the file manager you can see thumbnails of ps and pdf pages now, (up to 2.2 you could see html, text and images).
therefore, it should be done in more ways than one. I would go for a fast database backend (such as mysql) and insert in the database the title, authors and abstract and keywords. Then, if your people have latex source, use hatex2html to produce html use pdflatex to produce latex, use latex2rtf to produce rtf and let the user choose the format. If there are ps files you have ps2pdf, ps2html and possible others. A text search would be nice if you have the harddisk space required. Use pdftotext and ps2ascii to convert to ascii, then index the whole stuff (much like google does).
Sorin M
And then another bug will be discovered, and then another worm will start spreading and so forth. The only solution to this (IMHO) is not to shut down whatever network or to put another patch or even to switch to Apache. The solution is to stop the false ideea that using computers is easy. It is not, it requires work and study. Thos who are merely pushing buttons on screen should quit computers or pay more atention. Having a netwotked computer is a responsibility and people should learn that. "Easy use" of computers is the virus, not Code Red.
Sorin M
Actually it's more that that. DjVu was an At&T invention, sold then to lizardtech. When it deals with text it does some sort of primitive OCR making a dictionary of fonts. It will then compress the images using wavelets. So you get the best compression for text (based on character repetition, word repetition, etc.) and an impressive compression for images. And on top of this the document format supports multiple pages, you have plugins for IE and Netscape. But, the compressor is _very_ expensive. They have released something to opensource (the encoding library). Unfortunately the open source version is not by far as good as the commersial one.
The bottom line is that it is a proprietary format and you have the same tools as with pdf.
Sorin M
There are several projects in this direction. I will mention the ones with web-based interface. The one with (apparently) higher number of features is indeed PhPGroupware.
Most of the modules are usable (e.g. Calendar, Address book, Trouble Ticket system, File Management, Chat, ToDo, etc.). Some of the modules are quite advanced but show some problems (e.g. Project Management, Inventory).With a little custom setup this looks the best choice at the moment.
There is also Twig that is also quite mature but does not have as many modules as phpgroupware. Another project that claims to be Production/Stable is PhProjekt. The modules are much simpler than the ones in phpgroupware, it looks more like a viewer. But it has time cards, calendar, chat, e-mail and others. Another project is the Horde project, quite at the beginning. These are only the php - sql projects, you may find other approaches too.
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Not my experience, sorry. Worked on linux desktop for 18 years or so. I have a mac, I have to work with it every now and then. Normal development tools (eclipse and all that) are ok but the "slick" user interface is hilarious. It may have a hidden logic but that escapes me. Save dialogs are different from one app to another and some of them will only give me 4-5 directories in which I can save the file. After the last update, the finder does not show all the directories in my home, not clear why. I will never understand why the top menu bar is so popular, my mouse has to travel a lot of unnecessary distance.
I agree with you that this is theft and I agree with you that this makes some people to loose money. I find hard to believe that the efects are catastrophic but again, I don't know any figures and you may as well be right.
What I don't believe is that this causes less diversity. The music business is as industrial as food processing and unfortunately this is based on recipes. Two years ago everything was latino. No matter how good or bad. Now it's dance I believe (I'm not following the trend).
Diversity is exactly what file sharing offers to someone like me.
The computer industry "experienced a boom that I don't think we'll see again in our lifetime"
This guy has a problem with evolution (640K memory, etc.).
Sorin M
Since when firewalls, web server farms and file servers are not business critical?
I think you (as well as most of the people out there) are using Linux where there are no users with direct interaction with it. That's because users are familiar with windows or because users needs applications that 1. are not available or 2. have already being bought.
Sorin M
Sorry for this, I know it's offtopic but I can't stop myself
Actually, the reason that people don't travel from former communist countries such as the Russian Federation is because the government doesn't let the people out.
Well, this is a sad joke. I'm living in Romania and I know that my government has nothing to do with it. It is the western governments and embassies that do not allow us to travel freely (unless you can prove that you have a huge amount of money with you or a relative or whatever).
It has nothing to do with our government.
Sorin M
Is it just me or it is the third time that I've seen this messaje (not in the same place)? If it is an inconsistency of the database then it is funny that it is precisely this message. But if it's not I'd like to say to the author that I've got he/she's point. From the first time.
Sorin M
But unfortunately the growth of innovation in the "breaking the law" field. I'm not from US so I shouldn't pay to much attention to DMCA and others but as a normal human being I know that a community will accept and even enforce laws of certain strength, laws that most of their members see ar "right". If one tries to make that community obey a much "harder" law the community will fight. How can anyone imagine that a normal person will accept to have a book for only 10 hours? I read my books (paper or free electronic) many times, rereading parts and so.
I think that the companies are rushing things therefore making childish mistakes. While I agree that content providers must be protected somehow much more intelligent ways has to be found for this.
Ha, my speller wants to replace DMCA with YMCA.
Sorin M
I am runing 2.2 beta and here are some new things that I discovered in konqueror:
An interesting (and very usefull) feature is that Konqueror will show the HTML DOM Tree, therefore making much easier to study a document structure.
Another very important tool is the web archive (something I've been waiting for a long time) - it makes you a tar with a html and all the pictures, a complete web page (Opera had this also but it didn't compress). Web archives can be opened directly in konqueror.
You can validate html's directly from konqueror toolbar, and from the same toolbar you can use babelfish to translate pages.
In the file manager you can see thumbnails of ps and pdf pages now, (up to 2.2 you could see html, text and images).
Sorin M
therefore, it should be done in more ways than one. I would go for a fast database backend (such as mysql) and insert in the database the title, authors and abstract and keywords. Then, if your people have latex source, use hatex2html to produce html use pdflatex to produce latex, use latex2rtf to produce rtf and let the user choose the format. If there are ps files you have ps2pdf, ps2html and possible others. A text search would be nice if you have the harddisk space required. Use pdftotext and ps2ascii to convert to ascii, then index the whole stuff (much like google does). Sorin M
And then another bug will be discovered, and then another worm will start spreading and so forth. The only solution to this (IMHO) is not to shut down whatever network or to put another patch or even to switch to Apache. The solution is to stop the false ideea that using computers is easy. It is not, it requires work and study. Thos who are merely pushing buttons on screen should quit computers or pay more atention. Having a netwotked computer is a responsibility and people should learn that. "Easy use" of computers is the virus, not Code Red. Sorin M
Actually it's more that that. DjVu was an At&T invention, sold then to lizardtech. When it deals with text it does some sort of primitive OCR making a dictionary of fonts. It will then compress the images using wavelets. So you get the best compression for text (based on character repetition, word repetition, etc.) and an impressive compression for images. And on top of this the document format supports multiple pages, you have plugins for IE and Netscape. But, the compressor is _very_ expensive. They have released something to opensource (the encoding library). Unfortunately the open source version is not by far as good as the commersial one. The bottom line is that it is a proprietary format and you have the same tools as with pdf. Sorin M
There are several projects in this direction. I will mention the ones with web-based interface. The one with (apparently) higher number of features is indeed PhPGroupware. Most of the modules are usable (e.g. Calendar, Address book, Trouble Ticket system, File Management, Chat, ToDo, etc.). Some of the modules are quite advanced but show some problems (e.g. Project Management, Inventory).With a little custom setup this looks the best choice at the moment. There is also Twig that is also quite mature but does not have as many modules as phpgroupware. Another project that claims to be Production/Stable is PhProjekt. The modules are much simpler than the ones in phpgroupware, it looks more like a viewer. But it has time cards, calendar, chat, e-mail and others. Another project is the Horde project, quite at the beginning. These are only the php - sql projects, you may find other approaches too.
Sorin M