my university (u of washington) has an ocx where x is some really big number. We have individual building which are recieving internet through 3 T3s themselves. Believe me much faster than any T1 and T3 combination. Any way if you were in some way trying to show off or something I felt that I needed to bring you down a little. If not then on you way.
wrong. In hardware those 8 bits aren't used for anything. In software those 8 bits are used for alpha blending. It wouldn't make much sense otherwise. You can't have a transparent pixel on your monitor. RGBA is purely a software thing.
no sorry you are full of shit. libc incompatablities will fuck up your system only if you are trying to recompile libc. or you delete libc. My default installed system can run either libc5 or glibc stuff. so how can installing a GUI fuck my system up due to libc incompatability. Unless they are made by some moron who decides to override my libc. No one is going to do that. Thats a windows thing.
ok then hot shot. go ahead and design one. As far as installing it. I think redhat's and mandrakes installers do a fine job. and stop spreading fud about libc incompatabilities. It's not an issue.
From the people I know. More than Half would say they are running linux. And I live in Seattle. Not to far from Redmond and Microsoft HQ. All serious academic computing is done on unix. Where I work we are in the process of getting rid of all unixes except for Linux. We have one G4 and one p100 barely running windows95. we need this to make sure our product runs properly on these machines. Then the people that work here use linux at home. I really don't know that many people who don't run linux.
That's not really the point. The point is Mandrake needs some fixing. Redhat pretty much works. I at first fixed my mandrake configuration but later went back to redhat. I didn't see a reason to use Mandrake wich is a less supported distro.
In Redhat I use gdm. I type in my user name and password I login and I have a GNOME desktop. My girlfriend logs in and she has a KDE desktop. All without a menu. Redhat comes with a utility called switchdesk(wich mandrake completly broke). By default redhat will execute your.Xclients file in your home directory. This is usefull for running sessions not in the menu, running other programs before your session starts (e.g. xhost +localhost), or even setting some usefull enviroment variables (e.g. EDITOR). Mandrake totally broke this system. You must choose from the menu and if what you want is not on the menu you are screwed. The whole rpm not working is inexcusable. That's why I use redhat. Also their so called compiling for pentium systems doesn't do anything. I didn't notice a diffrance and it ran slower on my friends computer.
yeah mandrake looks cool but from a usability standpoint it broke a couple things. First of all everybody's default session is kde. I know you can change this but then everybodies session would be gnome. This should be the case. When logging in with either gdm or kdm you should be able to use your own default session. This was problematic as I use gnome and my girlfriend uses kde. kdm just didn't work at all. mandrake installed the kernel source but not gcc or make. It had a lot of things that didn't work quite right. And there were no gui tools to fix them. So I was back to text files. Redhat's gui tools may not be the prettiest but they work.
I just used beam it to upload a cd and now I can listen to mp3's without encoding them or using my own hard disk space. That kicks ass. On a side note you have to set up your netscape mime types. They give pretty good directions on how to do that. Although they are directed at windows users and tell you to use RealPlayer I found every thing works if you replace realplayer with xmms %s. That's not enough though. When you try to listen it will redirect you to a page that says your browser is not set up. If your mimetypes are setup all you have to do is click where it says that you do not want to be directed there anymore.
Apple has written a very cool interface. But you can't theme it. It's very limiting. You can even theme windows 98 to a degree. Is apple behind windows??? The interface is not customizable. Apple assumes everyone while diffrent people do have diffrent needs and diffrent styles of work. One needs to customize the computer to work for them and not the other way around.
The other thing that bothers me about apple is their one button mice. They are crap. While windows is moving to 3 buttons and a wheel linux also being able to use 3 buttons and wheel apple is sitting there with their thumbs in their asses saying how much supperior their lame mouse is.
Apple has written a very cool interface. But you can't theme it. It's very limiting. You can even theme windows 98 to a degree. Is apple behind windows??? The interface is not customizable. Apple assumes everyone while diffrent people do have diffrent needs and diffrent styles of work. One needs to customize the computer to work for them and not the other way around.
The other thing that bothers me about apple is their one button mice. They are crap. While windows is moving to 3 buttons and a wheel linux also being able to use 3 buttons and wheel apple is sitting there with their thumbs in their asses saying how much supperior their lame mouse is.
Yeah but you probably didn't know that win2k is "ready for prime time" microsoft put out gold cd's already. The final version of win2k is out to those who have managed to get their hands on it. A friend of mine actually managed to get a copy. This is not a development copy this is the real thing. its just not for sale yet. so the only way to get it is to work for microsoft, have microsoft send it to you, or some illegall means.
The project is freeciv. The website is http://www.freeciv.org The newer versions have much nicer tiles and use gtk instead of the athena widgets. It looks nice and is alot of fun.
How can you say kde is prettier. It looks like windows. gtk+ is themable. It can be made to look just as ugly as kde. gnome has better icons. Unfortunatly of you are using kde you can't tell because it does a horible job of rendering gnome icons in its gnome menu. With the alpha channel suport in gnome 1.1.1 the icons look even better. and gnome manages to display kde's icons just fine. That and kde didn't get fullcolor icons untill kde 1.1.2. Also kde will only let you choose icons for your stuff from two directories and only in xpm format.
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/gnome for all the programs and packages you compile. Not just gnome-libs. Everything needs it. Otherwise the default of/usr/local will be used.
I have found kde to be less intuative and less stable than October GNOME. GNOME may have gotten itself a reputation of being unstable because of its release early release often strategy but the stable release of GNOME is in fact very stable. KDE however doesn't make releases very often. So people only get exposed to their stable stuff. While distributors like Redhat put GNOME on their cd while its in prerelease. (e.g Redhat put pre-October GNOME on their 6.1 cd) This prerealese is unstable. I have seen it freeze up. For anyone who thinks that GNOME is unstable download the latest October stuff and think again.
I've been using October GNOME and sawmill for quite some time now. Anyone saying that its less stable than kde now is just plain wrong. I decided to give kde a try. I tried to force myself to use it. I gave up after a few days. Gnome's desktop is trully customizable. No two gnome-desktops after being customized to ones needs are alike. Gnome's panel has the best applets. If you like mini apps these kick ass. From a cpu monitor network monitor icq mini-commander pager deskguide. many diffrent clocks. Drawers are great too they let you consolidate your shortcuts. Oh well thats enough for now.
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my university (u of washington) has an ocx where x is some really big number. We have individual building which are recieving internet through 3 T3s themselves. Believe me much faster than any T1 and T3 combination. Any way if you were in some way trying to show off or something I felt that I needed to bring you down a little. If not then on you way.
Have you tried kdbg
wrong. In hardware those 8 bits aren't used for anything. In software those 8 bits are used for alpha blending. It wouldn't make much sense otherwise. You can't have a transparent pixel on your monitor. RGBA is purely a software thing.
no sorry you are full of shit. libc incompatablities will fuck up your system only if you are trying to recompile libc. or you delete libc. My default installed system can run either libc5 or glibc stuff. so how can installing a GUI fuck my system up due to libc incompatability. Unless they are made by some moron who decides to override my libc. No one is going to do that. Thats a windows thing.
ok then hot shot. go ahead and design one. As far as installing it. I think redhat's and mandrakes installers do a fine job. and stop spreading fud about libc incompatabilities. It's not an issue.
From the people I know. More than Half would say they are running linux. And I live in Seattle. Not to far from Redmond and Microsoft HQ. All serious academic computing is done on unix. Where I work we are in the process of getting rid of all unixes except for Linux. We have one G4 and one p100 barely running windows95. we need this to make sure our product runs properly on these machines. Then the people that work here use linux at home. I really don't know that many people who don't run linux.
That's not really the point. The point is Mandrake needs some fixing. Redhat pretty much works. I at first fixed my mandrake configuration but later went back to redhat. I didn't see a reason to use Mandrake wich is a less supported distro.
I'm on their ftp server. But I can't find the beta. does anyone know where on their server it is.
In Redhat I use gdm. I type in my user name and password I login and I have a GNOME desktop. My girlfriend logs in and she has a KDE desktop. All without a menu. Redhat comes with a utility called switchdesk(wich mandrake completly broke). By default redhat will execute your .Xclients file in your home directory. This is usefull for running sessions not in the menu, running other programs before your session starts (e.g. xhost +localhost), or even setting some usefull enviroment variables (e.g. EDITOR). Mandrake totally broke this system. You must choose from the menu and if what you want is not on the menu you are screwed. The whole rpm not working is inexcusable. That's why I use redhat. Also their so called compiling for pentium systems doesn't do anything. I didn't notice a diffrance and it ran slower on my friends computer.
yeah mandrake looks cool but from a usability standpoint it broke a couple things. First of all everybody's default session is kde. I know you can change this but then everybodies session would be gnome. This should be the case. When logging in with either gdm or kdm you should be able to use your own default session. This was problematic as I use gnome and my girlfriend uses kde. kdm just didn't work at all. mandrake installed the kernel source but not gcc or make. It had a lot of things that didn't work quite right. And there were no gui tools to fix them. So I was back to text files. Redhat's gui tools may not be the prettiest but they work.
I just used beam it to upload a cd and now I can listen to mp3's without encoding them or using my own hard disk space. That kicks ass. On a side note you have to set up your netscape mime types. They give pretty good directions on how to do that. Although they are directed at windows users and tell you to use RealPlayer I found every thing works if you replace realplayer with xmms %s. That's not enough though. When you try to listen it will redirect you to a page that says your browser is not set up. If your mimetypes are setup all you have to do is click where it says that you do not want to be directed there anymore.
Apple has written a very cool interface. But you can't theme it. It's very limiting. You can even theme windows 98 to a degree. Is apple behind windows??? The interface is not customizable. Apple assumes everyone while diffrent people do have diffrent needs and diffrent styles of work. One needs to customize the computer to work for them and not the other way around.
The other thing that bothers me about apple is their one button mice. They are crap. While windows is moving to 3 buttons and a wheel linux also being able to use 3 buttons and wheel apple is sitting there with their thumbs in their asses saying how much supperior their lame mouse is.
Apple has written a very cool interface. But you can't theme it. It's very limiting. You can even theme windows 98 to a degree. Is apple behind windows??? The interface is not customizable. Apple assumes everyone while diffrent people do have diffrent needs and diffrent styles of work. One needs to customize the computer to work for them and not the other way around.
The other thing that bothers me about apple is their one button mice. They are crap. While windows is moving to 3 buttons and a wheel linux also being able to use 3 buttons and wheel apple is sitting there with their thumbs in their asses saying how much supperior their lame mouse is.
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what about Alan Cox the wooky
Please send a message to amazon don't give them your money.
is the gnustep project just window maker or is it more? Can anyone enlighten me on what else the gnustep project has done.
pork the other white meat
Yeah but you probably didn't know that win2k is "ready for prime time" microsoft put out gold cd's already. The final version of win2k is out to those who have managed to get their hands on it. A friend of mine actually managed to get a copy. This is not a development copy this is the real thing. its just not for sale yet. so the only way to get it is to work for microsoft, have microsoft send it to you, or some illegall means.
The project is freeciv.
The website is
http://www.freeciv.org
The newer versions have much nicer tiles and use gtk instead of the athena widgets. It looks nice and is alot of fun.
Nvidia stuff sucks under linux. It sucks pretty badly.
How can you say kde is prettier. It looks like windows. gtk+ is themable. It can be made to look just as ugly as kde. gnome has better icons. Unfortunatly of you are using kde you can't tell because it does a horible job of rendering gnome icons in its gnome menu. With the alpha channel suport in gnome 1.1.1 the icons look even better. and gnome manages to display kde's icons just fine. That and kde didn't get fullcolor icons untill kde 1.1.2. Also kde will only let you choose icons for your stuff from two directories and only in xpm format.
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/gnome /usr/local will be used.
for all the programs and packages you compile. Not just gnome-libs. Everything needs it. Otherwise the default of
I have found kde to be less intuative and less stable than October GNOME. GNOME may have gotten itself a reputation of being unstable because of its release early release often strategy but the stable release of GNOME is in fact very stable. KDE however doesn't make releases very often. So people only get exposed to their stable stuff. While distributors like Redhat put GNOME on their cd while its in prerelease. (e.g Redhat put pre-October GNOME on their 6.1 cd) This prerealese is unstable. I have seen it freeze up. For anyone who thinks that GNOME is unstable download the latest October stuff and think again.
I've been using October GNOME and sawmill for quite some time now. Anyone saying that its less stable than kde now is just plain wrong. I decided to give kde a try. I tried to force myself to use it. I gave up after a few days. Gnome's desktop is trully customizable. No two gnome-desktops after being customized to ones needs are alike. Gnome's panel has the best applets. If you like mini apps these kick ass. From a cpu monitor network monitor icq mini-commander pager deskguide. many diffrent clocks. Drawers are great too they let you consolidate your shortcuts. Oh well thats enough for now.