User: Thalinor

Translation from a native :-)

On: MS Office on Linux (Continued)

MS Office for Linux expected

Rumors have been flying around lately, but now
there seems concrete evidence for the first time:
Microsoft will port its popular Office to Linux.
C't learned from well-informed sources that a
division has been built in Redmond especially for
this project. According to this information,
Microsoft has committed 37 developers to the port.


It's expected that Microsoft will announce the
port during CeBIT and will target a release date.
The software giant has been left behind in the
Linux application market; office products from
other vendors have been available for quite some
time.

Star Division from Hamburg, Germany offers its
Star Office free for non-commercial use.
Wheter Microsoft will choose a similar
distribution policy remains to be seen.

However, its common business practise for the
Windows company to offer applications for
competitors' operating systems: Office for MacOS
made a lot of money for the company.
(cp/c't)

Apple's Project X / Hotsauce

On: Hyperbolic Trees

The main guy behind Hotsauce left Apple for Netscape to work on CDF amd Metadata (not sure about the acronym though). His work lives on in that spec.

Gecko should have some of these capabilities too.

pre IPO shares?

On: Announcing Customizable Slashdot

well done guys.

guess you are a portal now.

when's your IPO and where do I apply for pre IPO shares? :-)

psaux does not load in 2.2.0pre6

On: Sony NOT suing Connectix,and Linux Pre-7 out

Hi,

the driver for my ps/2 mouse does no longer get loaded with 2.2.0pre6. In var/log/messages, there
is an entry
modprobe: can't locate module char-major-10-1
which should not be there, since the ps/2 driver is no longer a module (it got integrated with the keyboard driver)

What do I have to do?

Apache has actually 58.29 %

On: Apache passes 2 million hosts

following the platform link, they list Apache-derived servers, its at 58.29 %

In march or april, the 60% mark will be reached if current trends continue..

startx fails: Cannot open mouse

On: Linux 2.2.0pre6 Released

it seems there is something wrong with my mouse.
when i do startx, i get

Cannot open mouse (Operation not supported by device)

I checked, and ps/2 mouse support *is* compiled in. This is on 2.2.0pre6 on a Sony Vaio.

what gives?

Compilation problems: fixed

On: Linux 2.2.0pre6 Released

thanks guys, as you correctly stated, checksum.c
should not be there. so i just deleted it and the
build went just fine.

However I got a new problem:


startx fails with

Cannot open mouse (Operation not supported by device)

Mouse support is compiled in, however. Could that be related to the corrupted tree i presumably got?

Compilation problems with 2.2.0pre4-6

On: Linux 2.2.0pre6 Released

all,

my compile always stops in arch/i386/lib
with the following error message:

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.0-pre6/arch/i386/lib'
make all_targets
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.0-pre6/arch/i386/lib'
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -c -o checksum.o checksum.c
checksum.c:200: redefinition of `csum_partial_copy'
checksum.c:105: `csum_partial_copy' previously defined here
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:188: Fatal error: Symbol csum_partial_copy already defined.
make[2]: *** [checksum.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.0-pre6/arch/i386/lib'
make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.0-pre6/arch/i386/lib'
make: *** [_dir_arch/i386/lib] Error 2

However by looking at the code i notice a
csum_partial_copy and a csum_partial_copy_fromuser, and not twice
csum_partial_copy.

So whats going on?