Well that's kind of funny, I have a P2 400/w 128MB of RAM and Ark starts up in around 7 seconds here as well (I just timed it to make sure..) Maybe it's not really CPU/memory related, but perhaps something else ?
But Ellison said in the electronic age, little privacy is left anyway.
``Well, this privacy you're concerned about is largely an illusion,'' he said. ``All you have to give up is your illusions, not any of your privacy. Right now, you can go onto the Internet and get a credit report about your neighbor and find out where your neighbor works, how much they earn and if they had a late mortgage payment and tons of other information.''
So since we are already losing our privacy and our civil liberties, we should might as well give up the rest of them to Larry and Oracle.. good idea.
This is just another prime example of how in this day and age people are willing to let their stand by as their rights vaporize before their eyes. Too many people are willing to simply succumb to the will of corporations like Oracle, that's how things like the DMCA get passed. Of course, the big corps know this and use it to their advantage.
Well, KDE apps which are developed using the QT toolkit CAN run under any platform that QT is ported to which includes Win32 and Mac (as of QT3 I think) Just take a look at HancomOffice.
This office suite runs on Windows, Linux and MacOS as well. Just clarifying the issue (Yes I DID notice you said "very often" in your comment:D)
In case you haven't already noticed, Konqueror is NOT a web browser. It is an application framework for their KParts technology.
Konqueror is the file manager for KDE, and allows for embedded viewing of any files with KParts plugins (or whatever the correct term is). KHTML is just one piece of Konqueror, so your comments do not necessarily apply.
Additionally, Linux has always been about choice and freedom. There is nothing wrong with the Konq guys making their own HTML renderring engine. In fact, you can even use the gecko engine with Konq if you so desired, but in all honesty I think KHTML has it out-done. Konqueror does so many more things than Mozilla, and much faster too.
A more fair comparison of apps would be Konq vs Nautilus, as both of those have similar functionality.
The math 12 cirriculum here in British Columbia requires students to use graphing calculators for their work. However, I believe that these actually impeded the learning process.
In my grade 12 math class last school year, the students who did best on the government (final) exam were those who used their calculator the least. The reason for this being is those that did not use their calculators except when absolutely necessary actually learned the thought processes and fundamental concepts that were required to solve the problems. The ones who used calculators the most just got used to punching in numbers in to the calculator and getting an answer, the concepts did not really sink in.
Come exam time, many of the questions tested the students' understanding of the concepts. Those who relied on their calculators did poorly.
I thinkt that using these PDA's in the classrom, while being a cool gimmick, will do little to help the kids actually learn the concepts they are there to learn. Sure beaming around a virtual virus is fun, but will kids actually learn about how viruses spread? or will they just learn to punch buttons on their PDA?
These problems with fancy Microsoft site designs seem to be caused by JavaScript/DHTML things, which Opera does not seem to handle very well. I have not tried their sites with the Opera 5.05 preview, but they did not work for me with 5.0. I think you are out of luck until Opera upgrades their software.
Correction... according to the article this story links to, Intel's DDR chipset is not due till early next year. The several months advantage VIA has could seriously hurt sales of Intel motherboards and chipsets, since the VIA chipset is cheaper and allows the manufacturing of cheaper systems due to the price difference between DDR and Rambus memory.
The chipset Intel is planning on releasing this year is one that uses standard SDRAM, which, IMO is total BS as the whole P4 architecture relies on high memory bandwidth, which standard SDRAM cannot provide. With SDRAM, Pentium 4's are not likely to perform any better than lower-clocked P3's.
Netscape plugins developed for Windows don't necessarily run on Unix or Linux. A majority of the Netscape plugins available for Linux (ie: the Flash 5 Player) are utter crap, and I haven't seen any Windows Netscape plugins that are any good ported to Linux. The fact is, most developers don't bother developing plugins for Unix/Linux anyway.
According to an article I read recently (if anyone has the link please post) Microsoft is working with Apple to make Quicktime work with IE6, probably as an ActiveX component. So the line about it "disabling Quicktime" is not entirely accurate.
And therein lies the delicious irony. The marquee name on this panel was Bill Gates, who probably programmed MS-DOS with his own personal copy of the Purple Book at his side.
If I recall correctly... didn't Bill Gates just rip off the QDOS source and rebrand it as MSDOS ?
Actually Microsoft's implementation of JavaScript (JScript) had a bunch of Microsoft-specific code while still being compatible with JavaScript. So Internet Explorer could still use JavaScript, but Netscape and other browsers could not run JScripts with the Microsoft specific extensions.
Not to mention that if IIRC, Google is the only search engine to turn a profit. They have managed to sell their search technology to many businesses world-wide and this has no doubt givn them feedback that they used to improve their search capability.
As Google is actually making money off their operation, they are more likely to keep constantly improving their technology. I believe that this will help keep them in the forefront of the plethora of search engines out there.
Vi, well vim (Vi Improved), has a built in tutorial that teaches you how to use it's commands and different modes, it is very handy in getting used to this editor. Just use the command "vimtutor" and off you go... Personally I love this editor as it maximizes the use of screen area, thought I have barely scratched the surface of its functionality.
As I pointed out in my post, I found Mandrake and RedHat not to be inferior to Debian, I just did not like the way they handled operations. I listed the reasons for choosing Debian, and also suggested what kind of users prefer to use RedHat and Mandrake. Picking a distro is obviously personal preference, I was just giving a recount of my experiences.
Please have some consideration for others opions, and don't start your posts with "You are an idiot.", like I said, I was just recounting my experience and impressions.
I have been using Linux for just over a month now, and have tried 3 different distros in the process. This is my experience:
First of all, I installed Mandrake, which has a reputation for being the easiest to install, and supposedly has a rather large user base. However, upon installing it, I was immediately dissastisfied. Mandrake did not offer to me the control I wanted over my system, and seemed too "dumbed-down" for me.. everything was oversimplified, and I was unable to get help from the linux help channels on irc.openprojects.net since Mandrake had non-standard configurations for all of the major functions. Additionally, I ran in to some package incompatibility problems, and performance in Gnome was unusually sluggish (I had used Gnome before on a friend's PC of less spec.). So seeing as I was still in the experimentation stage.. i decided to try Red Hat first.
Red Hat was the distro I had heard the most about, so I decided to install that. Everything went smoothly for at least a week and a half while I started to delve deeper in to the workings of the system. Everything was fine till I decided to test-drive the new version of KDE. Problems arose when I tried to change some configuration files required for KDE to start on boot. I discovered that RedHat had it's own distro-specific settings for a lot of things in it's/etc/sysconfig directory. This is a convention I was not very happy with, as once again I started running in to support problems...
So on a whim, I decided to give Debian a try, I figured I should see what the "power user" distro has to offer. I downloaded Progeny 1.0, which is a mix of Debian Potato and Woody (the stable and testing versions). It took me a few tries to get the distro installed properly (mostly due to user error during configuration). Since I like to play with fairly new software, I upgraded my Progeny install to Woody almost right away once I finally installed the system properly.
And that is where I have been ever since.. I am extremely happy with Debian as a distro. The packaging system is excellent, much better than what RedHat/Mandrake have to offer. A majority of the people in the Debian help channels and mailing lists are extremely helpful, and the community atmosphere is great. I have not run in to any problems I have not been able to resolve, and have learned a lot about how Linux works in the process.
Overall, I would say if you are not too experienced/adventurous and don't mind having a whole boatload of software you will probably never use installed on your system, I would recommend RedHat and Mandrake, they are not bad, just not my thing.
However if you like having a distro that is extremely configurable, has a great package managment system, and a good community, I would recommend Debian. If you don't want to brave the standard Debian installation, try Progeny, the installation is extremely simple (even easier than Mandrakes) and I hear it is possible to purchase printed installation manuals/users guides as well.
I hope this has been helpful. Any feedback is appreciated.
Hmm I can just imagine it now, the open-sourced car movement GNUCars. A bunch of car developers trying to make cars and highways freely available to all, making the "car source" available to all. And of course, they'd have to compete with the proprietary car manfucaturers, and try to make their cars compatible with the others parts while the monopolistic car companies would influence politicians to keep their prominent positions in the industry.
Hm.. this reminds me somewhat of the struggle to have electric/hybrid cars become more accepted in the marketplace...
The reason Microsoft has continued to "innovate" in the market is because they need to maintain their monopoly and a source of revenue. If Windows stayed like Windows 3.11, users would have no reason to purchase a new version and thus Microsoft would not make money from their products (assuming they decided to not develop any new versions).
As for the market being open, I agree that there is still room to make some headway against the Microsoft monopoly (and there always will be unless Microsoft owns all programmers), however a majority of PC users associate Microsoft with personal computers, making it harder for other programs to compete.
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Well that's kind of funny, I have a P2 400 /w 128MB of RAM and Ark starts up in around 7 seconds here as well (I just timed it to make sure..) Maybe it's not really CPU/memory related, but perhaps something else ?
So since we are already losing our privacy and our civil liberties, we should might as well give up the rest of them to Larry and Oracle.. good idea. This is just another prime example of how in this day and age people are willing to let their stand by as their rights vaporize before their eyes. Too many people are willing to simply succumb to the will of corporations like Oracle, that's how things like the DMCA get passed. Of course, the big corps know this and use it to their advantage.
Well, KDE apps which are developed using the QT toolkit CAN run under any platform that QT is ported to which includes Win32 and Mac (as of QT3 I think) Just take a look at HancomOffice.
:D)
This office suite runs on Windows, Linux and MacOS as well. Just clarifying the issue (Yes I DID notice you said "very often" in your comment
In case you haven't already noticed, Konqueror is NOT a web browser. It is an application framework for their KParts technology.
:D
Konqueror is the file manager for KDE, and allows for embedded viewing of any files with KParts plugins (or whatever the correct term is). KHTML is just one piece of Konqueror, so your comments do not necessarily apply.
Additionally, Linux has always been about choice and freedom. There is nothing wrong with the Konq guys making their own HTML renderring engine. In fact, you can even use the gecko engine with Konq if you so desired, but in all honesty I think KHTML has it out-done. Konqueror does so many more things than Mozilla, and much faster too.
A more fair comparison of apps would be Konq vs Nautilus, as both of those have similar functionality.
Anyway, that's my 2 cents
As an example:
The math 12 cirriculum here in British Columbia requires students to use graphing calculators for their work. However, I believe that these actually impeded the learning process.
In my grade 12 math class last school year, the students who did best on the government (final) exam were those who used their calculator the least. The reason for this being is those that did not use their calculators except when absolutely necessary actually learned the thought processes and fundamental concepts that were required to solve the problems. The ones who used calculators the most just got used to punching in numbers in to the calculator and getting an answer, the concepts did not really sink in.
Come exam time, many of the questions tested the students' understanding of the concepts. Those who relied on their calculators did poorly.
I thinkt that using these PDA's in the classrom, while being a cool gimmick, will do little to help the kids actually learn the concepts they are there to learn. Sure beaming around a virtual virus is fun, but will kids actually learn about how viruses spread? or will they just learn to punch buttons on their PDA?
These problems with fancy Microsoft site designs seem to be caused by JavaScript/DHTML things, which Opera does not seem to handle very well. I have not tried their sites with the Opera 5.05 preview, but they did not work for me with 5.0. I think you are out of luck until Opera upgrades their software.
Correction... according to the article this story links to, Intel's DDR chipset is not due till early next year. The several months advantage VIA has could seriously hurt sales of Intel motherboards and chipsets, since the VIA chipset is cheaper and allows the manufacturing of cheaper systems due to the price difference between DDR and Rambus memory.
The chipset Intel is planning on releasing this year is one that uses standard SDRAM, which, IMO is total BS as the whole P4 architecture relies on high memory bandwidth, which standard SDRAM cannot provide. With SDRAM, Pentium 4's are not likely to perform any better than lower-clocked P3's.
Netscape plugins developed for Windows don't necessarily run on Unix or Linux. A majority of the Netscape plugins available for Linux (ie: the Flash 5 Player) are utter crap, and I haven't seen any Windows Netscape plugins that are any good ported to Linux. The fact is, most developers don't bother developing plugins for Unix/Linux anyway.
According to an article I read recently (if anyone has the link please post) Microsoft is working with Apple to make Quicktime work with IE6, probably as an ActiveX component. So the line about it "disabling Quicktime" is not entirely accurate.
Just like it says here...
Actually Microsoft's implementation of JavaScript (JScript) had a bunch of Microsoft-specific code while still being compatible with JavaScript. So Internet Explorer could still use JavaScript, but Netscape and other browsers could not run JScripts with the Microsoft specific extensions.
Does anyone know the specifics, or a source of information, about these two changes listed in the "final" section at the top of the changelog ?
I want to be cloned so that my clone can do my homework for me while I am busy gaming... and I can't wait to clone myself some hot girlfriends.. :D
So what happens when the boulder is neither lying on the ground nor embedded in the soil? Does it cease to be a boulder?
Not to mention that if IIRC, Google is the only search engine to turn a profit. They have managed to sell their search technology to many businesses world-wide and this has no doubt givn them feedback that they used to improve their search capability.
As Google is actually making money off their operation, they are more likely to keep constantly improving their technology. I believe that this will help keep them in the forefront of the plethora of search engines out there.
Vi, well vim (Vi Improved), has a built in tutorial that teaches you how to use it's commands and different modes, it is very handy in getting used to this editor. Just use the command "vimtutor" and off you go... Personally I love this editor as it maximizes the use of screen area, thought I have barely scratched the surface of its functionality.
As I pointed out in my post, I found Mandrake and RedHat not to be inferior to Debian, I just did not like the way they handled operations. I listed the reasons for choosing Debian, and also suggested what kind of users prefer to use RedHat and Mandrake. Picking a distro is obviously personal preference, I was just giving a recount of my experiences.
Please have some consideration for others opions, and don't start your posts with "You are an idiot.", like I said, I was just recounting my experience and impressions.
I have been using Linux for just over a month now, and have tried 3 different distros in the process. This is my experience: First of all, I installed Mandrake, which has a reputation for being the easiest to install, and supposedly has a rather large user base. However, upon installing it, I was immediately dissastisfied. Mandrake did not offer to me the control I wanted over my system, and seemed too "dumbed-down" for me.. everything was oversimplified, and I was unable to get help from the linux help channels on irc.openprojects.net since Mandrake had non-standard configurations for all of the major functions. Additionally, I ran in to some package incompatibility problems, and performance in Gnome was unusually sluggish (I had used Gnome before on a friend's PC of less spec.). So seeing as I was still in the experimentation stage.. i decided to try Red Hat first. Red Hat was the distro I had heard the most about, so I decided to install that. Everything went smoothly for at least a week and a half while I started to delve deeper in to the workings of the system. Everything was fine till I decided to test-drive the new version of KDE. Problems arose when I tried to change some configuration files required for KDE to start on boot. I discovered that RedHat had it's own distro-specific settings for a lot of things in it's /etc/sysconfig directory. This is a convention I was not very happy with, as once again I started running in to support problems...
So on a whim, I decided to give Debian a try, I figured I should see what the "power user" distro has to offer. I downloaded Progeny 1.0, which is a mix of Debian Potato and Woody (the stable and testing versions). It took me a few tries to get the distro installed properly (mostly due to user error during configuration). Since I like to play with fairly new software, I upgraded my Progeny install to Woody almost right away once I finally installed the system properly.
And that is where I have been ever since.. I am extremely happy with Debian as a distro. The packaging system is excellent, much better than what RedHat/Mandrake have to offer. A majority of the people in the Debian help channels and mailing lists are extremely helpful, and the community atmosphere is great. I have not run in to any problems I have not been able to resolve, and have learned a lot about how Linux works in the process.
Overall, I would say if you are not too experienced/adventurous and don't mind having a whole boatload of software you will probably never use installed on your system, I would recommend RedHat and Mandrake, they are not bad, just not my thing.
However if you like having a distro that is extremely configurable, has a great package managment system, and a good community, I would recommend Debian. If you don't want to brave the standard Debian installation, try Progeny, the installation is extremely simple (even easier than Mandrakes) and I hear it is possible to purchase printed installation manuals/users guides as well.
I hope this has been helpful. Any feedback is appreciated.
Hmm I can just imagine it now, the open-sourced car movement GNUCars. A bunch of car developers trying to make cars and highways freely available to all, making the "car source" available to all. And of course, they'd have to compete with the proprietary car manfucaturers, and try to make their cars compatible with the others parts while the monopolistic car companies would influence politicians to keep their prominent positions in the industry. Hm.. this reminds me somewhat of the struggle to have electric/hybrid cars become more accepted in the marketplace...
Next thing you know, we'll start using 1500 lb move 150lb's of person to and from work.. oh wait.. doh.
The reason Microsoft has continued to "innovate" in the market is because they need to maintain their monopoly and a source of revenue. If Windows stayed like Windows 3.11, users would have no reason to purchase a new version and thus Microsoft would not make money from their products (assuming they decided to not develop any new versions). As for the market being open, I agree that there is still room to make some headway against the Microsoft monopoly (and there always will be unless Microsoft owns all programmers), however a majority of PC users associate Microsoft with personal computers, making it harder for other programs to compete.