Apparently, the GTK widgets won't blink anymore when a window gets resized. I think double buffering was implemented to achieve this but can someone confirm this?
There is a cool new looking
control center and I wouldn't mind seeing what the new tree widget looks like if someone has a shot of that.
I'd feel much better about this whole thing if Linux actually were a decent alternative to a M$ Windows desktop. There are certainly places for Linux in a program like this, particularly in the infrastructure. Unfortunately I feel like I'm pushing substandard goods as a Free software advocate in cases like this.
Yikes! Don't use software if you think it's inferior - that's definitely a "Bad Thing". Use software that you feel serves you better than the alternative.
Linux, Gnome, Sawfish, Galeon, Evolution, PHP, Apache, Mozilla, XFree86, Nedit, The Gimp, Open Office, Gnucash, GQView, Hylafax, Panel, MySQL, Bash, Perl and a bunch of other sofware has no better alternative for what I do. I swear.
If you're messing with someone else's machine, you are part of the problem. No matter your intentions, or how nicely you word the "message" you deliver onto their desktop. Just don't touch it.
I totally disagree. If someone in front of me is randomly and unknowingly firing a gun, I have the liberty to take the gun away from him. I'm not taking liberty away from him, I'm simply protecting myself and others around me. This has nothing to do with liberty since the act is being done unconciously and liberty is the freedom to conciously act.
If you're going to call it a virus, think of the influenza virus. A medicine is widely available on the market. It is up to the infected party to take the medicine, and it would be unethical to sieze the unwitting victim and force the medicine into their bodies.
Your argument is flawed because it's missing a few crucial details. If the person who is infected, is unaware of the fact and is infecting others, I would say that you do have the right to force the medicine into their bodies - or simply give them the option of death - either by the virus or otherwise.
Absolute liberty means anarchy and I believe most people prefer a government and laws designed to protect the majority.
For most tasks, Windows Explorer is still the fastest and easiest way to move files around the system.
Ok, try doing this in Windows Explorer with 100 files...
[neural]~/tmp$ for file in *.html; do mv $file $file.old; done
That F2 key will get old real quick.
I don't know what all this stylized presentation garbage is all about, but I can imagine it's a real hog of CPU and memory resources to preview the contents of every item in a folder.
It's much less CPU and memory intensive to load up a light viewer instead of a full blown application everytime just to view a file. That's why I use less to view text files and nedit to edit them. I don't load up the GIMP every time I want to get a quick look at a few PNGs.
When I upgraded my W2K workstation with a new hard drive and reinstalled the OS...
I don't know what to say, I haven't done that in years. Well ever since I started using Debian GNU Linux.
The on going problem with window decorations has been that if they are too small, they are difficult to click on and when they are too large, too much screen space is wasted.
If the the window manager used relatively large transparent borders and title bars, the problem is solved!
First thing is that you won't have many useful instructions to do what you need with the simple native instruction set that Crusoe provides. So you would need to be creative and optimize your code very well to get the speed you are looking for. Remember, your code optimizing abilities are competiting with a very advanced code morphing technology. Next, for the few clock cycles that you are going to get out of doing native is not worth the programming effort.
Here is what needs to be done instead. Design an instruction set specific to the application that you are writing. Our current CPUs can handle very broad tasks and try to be good at everything and when it can't things like MMX, 3DNow and whatnot start to show up in the CPU.
So, If you know the box you are setting up is going to be a web server, design an instruction set that a web server would fly on. If you play games, design an instruction may looks like 3DNow on steroids.
I've been using Quicktax with WINE for years now and have always gotten a large return.
Seriously though, everything works nicely. The only problem I had was printing since I don't own a printer. So I saved the file, emailed it to my mom (she got a printer:) and printed my return from there.
Will Consumers Care? But your're something.
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It's true that the person that is spending the money rarely knows what they have bought when it comes to computers. But what you are missing is that these clueless buyers have knowledgeable friends that scope everyting out for them before the purchase is made.
"I believe in purpose-built devices," Torvalds said. "If you look, for instance, at the Nokia 9000 [Communicator], it is a cute thing, which I like, but it is not a good mobile phone and it is not a good PDA."
He said he expects households to have not just one central multimedia box for digital television and Internet access, but several separate terminals that can share information with each other.
Either Linus is contradicting himself here or I don't understand what he thinks will happen in the furture. So, is the general all purpose device going to stay or will it be replaced by specific purpose devices?
I believe that devices will become even more multi-purpose. In the future the vcr, stereo, tv, computer, news paper... [insert any other information source here] will all be combined into one device. Some large, some small, but in the end , there all going to be general purpose computers.
OUR RELIANCE ON THE SUPPORT OF LINUX TORVALDS AND OTHER PROMINENT LINUX DEVELOPERS COULD IMPAIR OUR ABILITY TO RELEASE MAJOR PRODUCT UPGRADES AND ESTABLISH MARKET SHARE.
Ya that's for sure. You'll never be able to rely on good ole Linux Torvald, today or ever. He doesn't exist you bunch of clowns!
I've been using PHP for two years now and just love it. I've written web applications ranging from an intranet based datamart to a Kiosk swipe station with great success. I highly recommend PHP to anyone who wants to develop web applications.
Great. Thank you for a complete answer. I'm also interested in a language that has GNOME or KDE bindings and I'm not sure if there are any for CL but I'm definately going to check it out.
It does look like there is activity on the Python and Dylan GTK wrappers. Python seems to be more popular but Dylan seems a like a better language overall.
The prize is hardly a T-shirt. It's a dual CPU system; sounds like it's worth about $2500.
You're not writing a game, composing music or doing the creative work. You're improving an already complete game, for fun, in you're spare time to win a prize.
The ability to configure is really what people want.
No, I don't thinks so. Most people don't care if they can specify a different pixmap for each border on a window. There is a strong demand for consistency in the industry which in turn relates to standards. One of the main reasons for the KDE and GNOME projects is to provide a good looking and consistent desktop, not configurability. Even though GNOME and KDE 2.0 do a great job at letting you configure.
E on the other hand has a different agenda and I think that is why the more conservative people at RedHat didn't like it. E is much more attractive to artists and people who like do experiment with their UI than the average computer user. Therefore E doesn't fit RedHat's agenda of putting Linux on mom's home computer.
The ability to configure is for people who like to explore ideas and try out new ways of doing things with their desktop. It's really a hobby for me to sit at my computer at home and spend a few hours just changing my E or GNOME settings. It's fun, not productive. Most people buy a computer to be productive.
Most people have trouble figuring out how to use the 95/98 UI, never mind letting them come up with their own ideas on how a UI should be designed.
Mais au contraire mon frere. Microsoft kindly pointed out to the Linux community that the 2.2 kernel could not beat NT on some specific benchmarks. Linus took it personally at first and then as constructive criticism from the competition. Shortly after, Linus announced the 2.4 kernel as the *performance* release.
I personally think that Linus wants 2.4 to beat the pants off Windows NT on all benchmarks on any hardware. And when it does, you will see that all the penguins will have a proud grin carved in their faces.
So, having that said, has anyone benchmarked 2.3.18 lately?
by picking the os first, you are putting the cart in front of the horse.
No I don't think so.
First case: multiple apps If you have an existing server curently running several applications such as SMB, FTP, HTTP or SMTP, and you are not ready to invesnt into a new server
Second case: skills Your staff is equiped with ABC OS skills, so you look for an ABC OS package.
Third case: cost If the app you want only runs on an AS/400, then the total solution cost increases dramatically since AS/400 hardware isn't cheap no to mention the OS which can cost up to $10,000.
And finally most people run more than one app on their systems. If I chose a different OS for every app that I use according to it's performance, I would be stuck with Win98 because IE 5 is the best web browser, Linux because the X/Enlightenment is the best graphical environment and OS/400 because it has the best online help system.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, I find the people who find the people on Slashdot perplexing, perplexing.
Apparently, the GTK widgets won't blink anymore when a window gets resized. I think double buffering was implemented to achieve this but can someone confirm this?
There is a cool new looking control center and I wouldn't mind seeing what the new tree widget looks like if someone has a shot of that.
Yikes! Don't use software if you think it's inferior - that's definitely a "Bad Thing". Use software that you feel serves you better than the alternative.
Linux, Gnome, Sawfish, Galeon, Evolution, PHP, Apache, Mozilla, XFree86, Nedit, The Gimp, Open Office, Gnucash, GQView, Hylafax, Panel, MySQL, Bash, Perl and a bunch of other sofware has no better alternative for what I do. I swear.
RichAppWatch is like Google for finding free software; the search results are usually very accurate to what is intended.
Freshmeat is more like AltaVista, there's a ton of stuff, but the search results are not pertinent.
I hope AppWatch can continue operating without ZD or they will me missed.
I totally disagree. If someone in front of me is randomly and unknowingly firing a gun, I have the liberty to take the gun away from him. I'm not taking liberty away from him, I'm simply protecting myself and others around me. This has nothing to do with liberty since the act is being done unconciously and liberty is the freedom to conciously act.
Your argument is flawed because it's missing a few crucial details. If the person who is infected, is unaware of the fact and is infecting others, I would say that you do have the right to force the medicine into their bodies - or simply give them the option of death - either by the virus or otherwise.
Absolute liberty means anarchy and I believe most people prefer a government and laws designed to protect the majority.
Because this is a serious site and if a title was posted such as "Microsoft security problem?", it would just be too funny to post.
[neural]~/tmp$ for file in *.html; do mv $file $file.old; done
That F2 key will get old real quick. It's much less CPU and memory intensive to load up a light viewer instead of a full blown application everytime just to view a file. That's why I use less to view text files and nedit to edit them. I don't load up the GIMP every time I want to get a quick look at a few PNGs. I don't know what to say, I haven't done that in years. Well ever since I started using Debian GNU Linux.
The on going problem with window decorations has
been that if they are too small, they are
difficult to click on and when they are too large,
too much screen space is wasted.
If the the window manager used relatively large
transparent borders and title bars, the problem is
solved!
Chips & Dips
First thing is that you won't have many useful instructions to do what you need with the simple native instruction set that Crusoe provides. So you would need to be creative and optimize your code very well to get the speed you are looking for. Remember, your code optimizing abilities are competiting with a very advanced code morphing technology. Next, for the few clock cycles that you are going to get out of doing native is not worth the programming effort.
Here is what needs to be done instead. Design an instruction set specific to the application that you are writing. Our current CPUs can handle very broad tasks and try to be good at everything and when it can't things like MMX, 3DNow and whatnot start to show up in the CPU.
So, If you know the box you are setting up is going to be a web server, design an instruction set that a web server would fly on. If you play games, design an instruction may looks like 3DNow on steroids.
I've been using Quicktax with WINE for years now and have always gotten a large return.
Seriously though, everything works nicely. The only problem I had was printing since I don't own a printer. So I saved the file, emailed it to my mom (she got a printer:) and printed my return from there.
It's true that the person that is spending the money rarely knows what they have bought when it comes to computers. But what you are missing is that these clueless buyers have knowledgeable friends that scope everyting out for them before the purchase is made.
Ok you kernel gurus, how does such a problem get resolved in C.
I believe that devices will become even more multi-purpose. In the future the vcr, stereo, tv, computer, news paper
I've been using PHP for two years now and just love it. I've written web applications ranging from an intranet based datamart to a Kiosk swipe station with great success. I highly recommend PHP to anyone who wants to develop web applications.
Great. Thank you for a complete answer. I'm also interested in a language that has GNOME or KDE bindings and I'm not sure if there are any for CL but I'm definately going to check it out.
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It does look like there is activity on the Python and Dylan GTK wrappers. Python seems to be more popular but Dylan seems a like a better language overall.
Decisions, decisions
The prize is hardly a T-shirt. It's a dual CPU system; sounds like it's worth about $2500.
You're not writing a game, composing music or doing the creative work. You're improving an already complete game, for fun, in you're spare time to win a prize.
Sounds like deal to me.
Of course, now I'm moving to better languages (the dynamic ones)...
You seem to know your stuff. So what are the better languages? Because I don't want to waste my time with C++ if I don't have to.
No, I don't thinks so. Most people don't care if they can specify a different pixmap for each border on a window. There is a strong demand for consistency in the industry which in turn relates to standards. One of the main reasons for the KDE and GNOME projects is to provide a good looking and consistent desktop, not configurability. Even though GNOME and KDE 2.0 do a great job at letting you configure.
E on the other hand has a different agenda and I think that is why the more conservative people at RedHat didn't like it. E is much more attractive to artists and people who like do experiment with their UI than the average computer user. Therefore E doesn't fit RedHat's agenda of putting Linux on mom's home computer.
The ability to configure is for people who like to explore ideas and try out new ways of doing things with their desktop. It's really a hobby for me to sit at my computer at home and spend a few hours just changing my E or GNOME settings. It's fun, not productive. Most people buy a computer to be productive.
Most people have trouble figuring out how to use the 95/98 UI, never mind letting them come up with their own ideas on how a UI should be designed.
Mais au contraire mon frere. Microsoft kindly pointed out to the Linux community that the 2.2 kernel could not beat NT on some specific benchmarks. Linus took it personally at first and then as constructive criticism from the competition. Shortly after, Linus announced the 2.4 kernel as the *performance* release.
I personally think that Linus wants 2.4 to beat the pants off Windows NT on all benchmarks on any hardware. And when it does, you will see that all the penguins will have a proud grin carved in their faces.
So, having that said, has anyone benchmarked 2.3.18 lately?
by picking the os first, you are putting the cart in front of the horse.
No I don't think so.
First case: multiple apps
If you have an existing server curently running several applications such as SMB, FTP, HTTP or SMTP, and you are not ready to invesnt into a new server
Second case: skills
Your staff is equiped with ABC OS skills, so you look for an ABC OS package.
Third case: cost
If the app you want only runs on an AS/400, then the total solution cost increases dramatically since AS/400 hardware isn't cheap no to mention the OS which can cost up to $10,000.
And finally most people run more than one app on their systems. If I chose a different OS for every app that I use according to it's performance, I would be stuck with Win98 because IE 5 is the best web browser, Linux because the X/Enlightenment is the best graphical environment and OS/400 because it has the best online help system.
Rich
The new site is much faster in part because there is no load on it yet. Let see what happens when it goes live.
Ya I figured this might happen. Sentence and word optimizations can confuse people.
I was talking about the concept of DDNS vs SDNS.
The concept behind DDNS is that a device should always have the same name but the IP can change.
The concept behind SDNS is that a device should always have the same IP but the name can change.
That is what I meant by bindings.
With DDNS, the hostname is bound to a device and the IP changes. With static DNS, the IP is bound to a device and the name changes.