My best wishes and may your future togeather be happy.
Bittorrent
on
A Better FTP?
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
bittorrent
has some of what you're looking for. It automaticaally mirrors when you download, helping ease the load on the server for poular downloads. Worth checking out. It could probably be run over ipsec if you wanted to.
The author is working an a new version. he's set up a page on sourceforge here. It doesnt' seem to have been updated since Jan 28th this year, but his plans look exciting.
Personally I run xosl which then runs lilo. It's saved my bacon many times, really a very impressive tool.
I'm planing on replacing my lilo with grub next time I reboot, but that coudl be a little while;)
Re:These guys have got the right idea.
on
Tiny Apps
·
· Score: 2
As it happens, I do think that KDE is unacceptably slow on less than really fast boxes. But the reasons for that are understood and have nothing to do with "poor programming". (No, I haven't tried the prelinking hacks yet.)
While the objprelink does help somewhat with startup time, it doesn't help with the overall speed of the apps. On my p200, kde2.2 (+objprelink) is still too slow to use day to day.
While it doesn't give desktop icons, xwc is a fantastically snappy file manager. On my p200 it starts up and runs fast enough that it actaully feels fast.(and not a lot of apps do here!)
xwc has an optional two pane layout, and a tree widget. Very nice.
I actually run dfm, and on it I have an xwc icon;)
Learning Python
programming Python ,
both featuring Mark Lutz, and published by O'Reilly.
Learning python is a very good book to introduce someone to python programming, and programming in general. Python as a language is easy to get to grips with, and free.
Programming Python is a good reference work to go along with python's online documentation and is a great book to have. Both are well written and easy to read.
With all the delays, mir probably won't touch down until the late in the official prediction, so I'll guess 2001-03-18 13:12:11 . (Which also happends to be my birthday, not that they're related, but still.)
I actually believe it's possible to use ssh/scp without encryption altogeather. I always thought that seemed a bit pointelss, but I guess this is a case when it could be useful.
You can have a look over at linuxdvd.org for a hardware mpeg2 encoder that works under linux. This should make at least 1/2 of the PVR work easier. (the other half could be done in software, or hardware if you have say a dxr2 based decoder.
I'm using a mac (imac, os8.1) right now, and while I think teh gui is quite nice, what really impresses me (as compared with my linux box at home, p200 usually running windowmaker or kde2) is how well the filemanager is integrated into the desktop, and how _fast_ it is. None of the filemanagers I've used under linux (and I've been using it for4 years as my only OS... I'm visiting my parents now, hence the mac) even come close to how responsive it feels.
GMC is very slow, nautilus even slower. Konqueror can be decent once it's started and image previews and everything else is off, but it's still far, far slower than the mac filemanager.
Your experience is quite different from mine. When switching from 3.3.6 to 4.0 - I experienced a large speedup, and everything felt snappier. It might be that the driver for your card didnt' take advantage of teh XAA. (I use a voodoo banshee)
There are a few possible alternatives, but as a framemaker user (Linux during the beta probram, back to Solaris now.) - I fel that none of them work as well
There is Tex/Lyx/Klyx - they produce nice output - but when handling large documents they're not nearly as convenient.
Then there's Kword, which medels itself on Framemaker. It's a nice try - but doesn't work as well, and it's still very unstable (I use the version that comes with KDE2.0). I've managed to create several duumenets with it that crash kword.
I use framemaker for scientific work as well, and it's witout a doubt the best program for the job. I used the linux version, but now that it's not available - I'll go back to my old copy for solaris.
I tried to replicate some of my stuff in KWord, and it's defintiely got potential. however, it's very far from an adequate replacement from framemaker. not only feature wise, but stability. I managed to create several documents in KWord that now crash Kword when I try to load them. (This is the Koffice that ships with KDE2.0)
Check out Mandrake 7.2. It's ogt configurable security levels. They can be chosen at installation, and later changed (with a snazzy graphical tool). I believe there's 6 levels of security, and the most secure really does take a lot of precautions. Very nice.
I did submit a bug report. It's bug 962.
I've been very impressed by how smoothly php/mysql has been working (apart from this little hickup) for most of the time leading up to 7.2 itself. Installing the different php modules separately is very nice indeed.
The way teh config files are set up is very intuitive, as is the vhosts setup for apache.
They're not still mirroring, it's been 2 days since 7.2 first appeared. Further, there's been no changes to 7.2 for almost a week, so you could just download the mandrake-devel/7.2 if you happand to find an incomplete mirror.
I've been following the progress of mandrake with rsync and rpm -Fvh. All in all it's a very nice distribution... BUT I've had more X lockups, crashes(!) and problems with the stuff that's released (and I don't mean the betas or releas candidates, I know they're just that, not complete) than I had with ALL the RH distributions from 5.0 to 6.9(pinstripe).
They include ReiserFS support. It's a very nice file system, fast and the journalling is sweet! But, I've gotten 2 kernel panics with it. (i've filed a bugreport with makdrake's bugzilla, but there's been no response (yet)
There are also problems with x4.01 in Mandrake that I didnt' have with X4.01 under RH6.2 (with the rpm's from linux.3dfx.com), including X randomly restarting. That's happened three times already.
Klyx misbehaves
MandrakeUpdate chokes if you've got helix gnome installed. In fact, if you install helix gnome, the apps won't appear in the kde or gnome menu's, since Mandrake uses their own menu system
I'm having some problems with php4 under Mandrake7.2 (it worked thoughout the beta site, and only broke with their final update)
I'm not sure if they've solved their linuxconf problem yet, but there's been a lot of complaints on the cooker lists about that. I had to add it to inetd.conf myself to get the web interface to work
BUT, there are a lot of great things about Mandrake 7.2 as well. They have included Webmnin, and set that up very nicely. It's a peach to use.
When it works, their unified menu system is very nice. They've also included blackbox, and a lot of other window managers and desktop environments. It makes it easy for people to try what they like.
You can import fonts very easily with their mandrakefont tool. In fact, they've got a lof of nice mandrake tools for controlling everything from runlevels, to configuring X.
Their 2.2.17 kernel includes USB support, so my Visor syncs without a hitch.
They include the alsa drivers (which I've not tested yet, but they probably work).
They include grub as a bootloader. Of course, I use xosl and lilo still, and that's very nice.
So, in spite of the problems, it's a very nice disrtibution and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it!
Slashdot Mirror
My best wishes and may your future togeather be happy.
bittorrent has some of what you're looking for. It automaticaally mirrors when you download, helping ease the load on the server for poular downloads. Worth checking out. It could probably be run over ipsec if you wanted to.
Personally I run xosl which then runs lilo. It's saved my bacon many times, really a very impressive tool.
I'm planing on replacing my lilo with grub next time I reboot, but that coudl be a little while ;)
very nice. You can combine it with DFM, and a couple of dockapps. I suggest asmix, ascd and grellm.
*I couldnt' find the xwc homepage, but that's the foXcommander, which builds on XWC.
As it happens, I do think that KDE is unacceptably slow on less than really fast boxes. But the reasons for that are understood and have nothing to do with "poor programming". (No, I haven't tried the prelinking hacks yet.)
While the objprelink does help somewhat with startup time, it doesn't help with the overall speed of the apps. On my p200, kde2.2 (+objprelink) is still too slow to use day to day.
While it doesn't give desktop icons, xwc is a fantastically snappy file manager. On my p200 it starts up and runs fast enough that it actaully feels fast.(and not a lot of apps do here!)
xwc has an optional two pane layout, and a tree widget. Very nice.
I actually run dfm, and on it I have an xwc icon ;)
programming Python
, both featuring Mark Lutz, and published by O'Reilly.
Learning python is a very good book to introduce someone to python programming, and programming in general. Python as a language is easy to get to grips with, and free.
Programming Python is a good reference work to go along with python's online documentation and is a great book to have. Both are well written and easy to read.
It supports Java, Perl, Python, Php, c, and c++. Personally I think the python support looks especially interesting.
RikardEven better are the ones that come from radars, they're a good 2 or 3kg each (and come in pairs), but I guess they're a tad harder to get ahold of.
To speed up your browsing experience, I recommend that you install squid. It speeds up my NS4.7 nicely. (I turn off its internat cache).
With all the delays, mir probably won't touch down until the late in the official prediction, so I'll guess 2001-03-18 13:12:11 . (Which also happends to be my birthday, not that they're related, but still.)
I actually believe it's possible to use ssh/scp without encryption altogeather. I always thought that seemed a bit pointelss, but I guess this is a case when it could be useful.
You can have a look over at linuxdvd.org for a hardware mpeg2 encoder that works under linux. This should make at least 1/2 of the PVR work easier. (the other half could be done in software, or hardware if you have say a dxr2 based decoder.
I'm using a mac (imac, os8.1) right now, and while I think teh gui is quite nice, what really impresses me (as compared with my linux box at home, p200 usually running windowmaker or kde2) is how well the filemanager is integrated into the desktop, and how _fast_ it is. None of the filemanagers I've used under linux (and I've been using it for4 years as my only OS... I'm visiting my parents now, hence the mac) even come close to how responsive it feels.
GMC is very slow, nautilus even slower. Konqueror can be decent once it's started and image previews and everything else is off, but it's still far, far slower than the mac filemanager.
Your experience is quite different from mine. When switching from 3.3.6 to 4.0 - I experienced a large speedup, and everything felt snappier. It might be that the driver for your card didnt' take advantage of teh XAA. (I use a voodoo banshee)
Slow run affirmed. (posted from a p200 with 64Mb of RAM)
There is actually a patch to do this, but I'm not sure exactly how finished it is.
There are a few possible alternatives, but as a framemaker user (Linux during the beta probram, back to Solaris now.) - I fel that none of them work as well
There is Tex/Lyx/Klyx - they produce nice output - but when handling large documents they're not nearly as convenient.
Then there's Kword, which medels itself on Framemaker. It's a nice try - but doesn't work as well, and it's still very unstable (I use the version that comes with KDE2.0). I've managed to create several duumenets with it that crash kword.
I use framemaker for scientific work as well, and it's witout a doubt the best program for the job. I used the linux version, but now that it's not available - I'll go back to my old copy for solaris.
I tried to replicate some of my stuff in KWord, and it's defintiely got potential. however, it's very far from an adequate replacement from framemaker. not only feature wise, but stability. I managed to create several documents in KWord that now crash Kword when I try to load them. (This is the Koffice that ships with KDE2.0)
Check out Mandrake 7.2. It's ogt configurable security levels. They can be chosen at installation, and later changed (with a snazzy graphical tool). I believe there's 6 levels of security, and the most secure really does take a lot of precautions. Very nice.
I did submit a bug report. It's bug 962. I've been very impressed by how smoothly php/mysql has been working (apart from this little hickup) for most of the time leading up to 7.2 itself. Installing the different php modules separately is very nice indeed.
The way teh config files are set up is very intuitive, as is the vhosts setup for apache.
They're not still mirroring, it's been 2 days since 7.2 first appeared. Further, there's been no changes to 7.2 for almost a week, so you could just download the mandrake-devel/7.2 if you happand to find an incomplete mirror.
They do include the flash plugin for netscape(possibly the gpl one).
I've been following the progress of mandrake with rsync and rpm -Fvh. All in all it's a very nice distribution... BUT I've had more X lockups, crashes(!) and problems with the stuff that's released (and I don't mean the betas or releas candidates, I know they're just that, not complete) than I had with ALL the RH distributions from 5.0 to 6.9(pinstripe).
They include ReiserFS support. It's a very nice file system, fast and the journalling is sweet! But, I've gotten 2 kernel panics with it. (i've filed a bugreport with makdrake's bugzilla, but there's been no response (yet)
There are also problems with x4.01 in Mandrake that I didnt' have with X4.01 under RH6.2 (with the rpm's from linux.3dfx.com), including X randomly restarting. That's happened three times already.
Klyx misbehaves
MandrakeUpdate chokes if you've got helix gnome installed. In fact, if you install helix gnome, the apps won't appear in the kde or gnome menu's, since Mandrake uses their own menu system
I'm having some problems with php4 under Mandrake7.2 (it worked thoughout the beta site, and only broke with their final update)
I'm not sure if they've solved their linuxconf problem yet, but there's been a lot of complaints on the cooker lists about that. I had to add it to inetd.conf myself to get the web interface to work
BUT, there are a lot of great things about Mandrake 7.2 as well. They have included Webmnin, and set that up very nicely. It's a peach to use.
When it works, their unified menu system is very nice. They've also included blackbox, and a lot of other window managers and desktop environments. It makes it easy for people to try what they like.
You can import fonts very easily with their mandrakefont tool. In fact, they've got a lof of nice mandrake tools for controlling everything from runlevels, to configuring X.
Their 2.2.17 kernel includes USB support, so my Visor syncs without a hitch.
They include the alsa drivers (which I've not tested yet, but they probably work).
They include grub as a bootloader. Of course, I use xosl and lilo still, and that's very nice.
So, in spite of the problems, it's a very nice disrtibution and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it!
and, if you've already installed one of the beta's or rc's you can do rpm -Fvh *
--