Say what you will, the ability for a clueless end-user to click "accept" on an email and automatically schedule themselves for a meeting is a Big Deal(tm).
Kronolith (the Horde web-based calendar) and IMP can do this via iTip.
I stand corrected. This is the first indexed PNG that I see that does not display in IE. What exactly is wrong with it ? My guess is that there is something wrong (from IE POV) with the palette, but I can't find how to show the palette using The GIMP. Too bad.
PNG transparency works fine in IE as long as you don't try to do partial transparency. For simple on/off transparency (the same as what GIF offers), there are no problem with IE5 and up.
More precisely, the PNG need to be in indexed mode (aka PNG8) for full transparency to work in IE. In The GIMP, click the "Image" menu, "Mode", "Indexed".
Some myth ("IE don't support PNG !!!") really die hard.
The game-on-bootable-CD concept suffer many problems:
- Require a reboot - What if you need to patch the game ? - What if you need drivers for hardware (ie video cards) that came out after the CD ? Or updated drivers ? - What if you want to run a third-party application (ie Roger Wilco) in paralel with your game ? - Where and how do you save game ? - How do you use/apply mods to your games ? - How do you manage networking (setting, patch, etc)
There's probably more, these are just those I can come up with in 30 seconds.
In case network booting is not available on your board, a cheaper (and probably faster) alternative would be to use some kind of Flash storage (USB keychain, etc).
Never used it myself (my whiteboard serve me well enough), but KOrganizer look good and is reputedly very well integrated with other KDE apps (Kmail, etc).
RedHat could buy a "license" for MP3 playback, and distribute a closed-source decoding library that Open-Source media player could use. And do without the Real crap.
No. You are misinterpreting. A RedHat exec made the comment that Linux was not really suited for the home desktop market, so they see very little opportunity there. They always had a corporate desktop product strategy (where the money is, actually).
OSX has a hardware rendered desktop, longhorn will have it too. No linux will be able to have a hardware rendered desktop without GPLed drivers.
I do not understand all the futz about hardware-accelerated display. I must be retarded because I am totally indifferent to that. Right now, the software-rendered display on my Pentium IV 1.4 box is quite snappy. By the time Longhorn come out, most people will be running multi-Ghz machine with gobs of RAM. What difference will hardware acceleration make then ?
Back when I was using a Pentium 133, I wish I had hardware-accelerated graphic. The interface was constantly sluggish. Today ? I don't see the point outside of games. My load barely ever get over 1, and my CPU is 98% idle while I am typing this. I have CPU cycle enough to spare for software rendering of my GUI.
So no small or medium business environments have dual-CPU workstations?
In my experience, no. Actually yes, but the number are pretty insignificant. SMB that need dual-CPU machine usually do so because of a specific application (graphism, CAD, etc), so their choice of platform is dictated by the core application they need. Your typical administrative assistant and marketing drone certainly do not need dual CPU.
The vast majority of people (and the last time I checked, the users of RedHat's distro were people) want Java pre-installed. They want Acrobat pre-installed. They even want RealPlayer pre-installed because they just want thier computer to work and they don't want to have to spend a lot of time and money getting it to work.
I agree about Java. But considering how sucky Acrobat Reader and Real Player are, I think RedHat customer would be best served by having an equivalent OSS software configured properly out-of-the-box. I don't know if there is an OSS media player that can play Real stream, but PDF reader abound.
Acrobat Reader : so far, the few PDF I had to read displayed quite nicely in the Gnome PDF viewer (I was using Xpdf before that). The day Adobe make a build of Acrobat Reader with a decent widget set (QT or GTK, I suppose), I may give it a shot. In the meantime, I have very little interest in their butt-ugly reader. Hello ? The 90s called, they want their shitty Motif look back.
RealPlayer : Most of the streaming media I listen in Linux is in MP3 format. The rest is in WMA, and I could listen to it if I could be bothered to configure MPlayer properly. In the past two years, I can't remember ever wanting to listen to something in Real format. Considering that the Windows version of Real Player is a stinking shitty piece of adware (from what I recall), I don't feel I am missing out much. I may give a try to their OSS project though (can't remember the name off-hand).
Flash : I will be glad to do without this POS if it was'nt for my girlfriend. Unless she can access her Flash game on the Web, there is no way I can make her use Linux (sad, I know). It's a performance hog and it constantly crash. This plugin suck, and I certainly wish there was an OSS alternative.
Java is something I do install, but basically just for the browser plugin.
XAML/Avalon is the hypeware du jour. It's cool stuff, but I don't get my panty in a bunch about it. Before that, it was.NET. Before that... well , I don't remember since there have been so many hypeware from Redmond in the past decade. Stop drinking the Kool-Aid.
Most importantly of all, it needs to support server-side calendar store! The open source community appears to want to standardize on IMAP (just a folder called "Calendar" full of vCalendar objects), and that's just a dandy way of doing it.
iCalendar-over-WebDAV would be nice too, and TMK it is what Apple use for their iCal thingy. AFAIK, Mozilla does not support WebDAV though... I guess that would be a worthy addition.
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Literal: God's name whore brothel shit fucked idiot bumfucked of your mother. It does'nt make sense in French either by the way, in case you wonder.
Kronolith (the Horde web-based calendar) and IMP can do this via iTip.
I stand corrected. This is the first indexed PNG that I see that does not display in IE. What exactly is wrong with it ? My guess is that there is something wrong (from IE POV) with the palette, but I can't find how to show the palette using The GIMP. Too bad.
Because it does not support alpha channel.
???
Famous last word.
More precisely, the PNG need to be in indexed mode (aka PNG8) for full transparency to work in IE. In The GIMP, click the "Image" menu, "Mode", "Indexed".
Some myth ("IE don't support PNG !!!") really die hard.
Huh ?!? My initrd is an ext2 fs ...
Indeed. It's called a console :)
Choice of which API is ported will influence which application run under Wine.
The game-on-bootable-CD concept suffer many problems:
- Require a reboot
- What if you need to patch the game ?
- What if you need drivers for hardware (ie video cards) that came out after the CD ? Or updated drivers ?
- What if you want to run a third-party application (ie Roger Wilco) in paralel with your game ?
- Where and how do you save game ?
- How do you use/apply mods to your games ?
- How do you manage networking (setting, patch, etc)
There's probably more, these are just those I can come up with in 30 seconds.
In case network booting is not available on your board, a cheaper (and probably faster) alternative would be to use some kind of Flash storage (USB keychain, etc).
This have been fixed recently. I am using Gnome PDF Viewer 0.131 (came standard on Fedora Core 2 Test 2), and it use the standard Gnome print dialog.
Never used it myself (my whiteboard serve me well enough), but KOrganizer look good and is reputedly very well integrated with other KDE apps (Kmail, etc).
Only slightly so.
RedHat could buy a "license" for MP3 playback, and distribute a closed-source decoding library that Open-Source media player could use. And do without the Real crap.
No. You are misinterpreting. A RedHat exec made the comment that Linux was not really suited for the home desktop market, so they see very little opportunity there. They always had a corporate desktop product strategy (where the money is, actually).
Indeed. If it was'nt for hardware costing twice as much ...
I do not understand all the futz about hardware-accelerated display. I must be retarded because I am totally indifferent to that. Right now, the software-rendered display on my Pentium IV 1.4 box is quite snappy. By the time Longhorn come out, most people will be running multi-Ghz machine with gobs of RAM. What difference will hardware acceleration make then ?
Back when I was using a Pentium 133, I wish I had hardware-accelerated graphic. The interface was constantly sluggish. Today ? I don't see the point outside of games. My load barely ever get over 1, and my CPU is 98% idle while I am typing this. I have CPU cycle enough to spare for software rendering of my GUI.
In my experience, no. Actually yes, but the number are pretty insignificant. SMB that need dual-CPU machine usually do so because of a specific application (graphism, CAD, etc), so their choice of platform is dictated by the core application they need. Your typical administrative assistant and marketing drone certainly do not need dual CPU.
I agree about Java. But considering how sucky Acrobat Reader and Real Player are, I think RedHat customer would be best served by having an equivalent OSS software configured properly out-of-the-box. I don't know if there is an OSS media player that can play Real stream, but PDF reader abound.
Acrobat Reader : so far, the few PDF I had to read displayed quite nicely in the Gnome PDF viewer (I was using Xpdf before that). The day Adobe make a build of Acrobat Reader with a decent widget set (QT or GTK, I suppose), I may give it a shot. In the meantime, I have very little interest in their butt-ugly reader. Hello ? The 90s called, they want their shitty Motif look back.
.NET. Before that ... well , I don't remember since there have been so many hypeware from Redmond in the past decade. Stop drinking the Kool-Aid.
RealPlayer : Most of the streaming media I listen in Linux is in MP3 format. The rest is in WMA, and I could listen to it if I could be bothered to configure MPlayer properly. In the past two years, I can't remember ever wanting to listen to something in Real format. Considering that the Windows version of Real Player is a stinking shitty piece of adware (from what I recall), I don't feel I am missing out much. I may give a try to their OSS project though (can't remember the name off-hand).
Flash : I will be glad to do without this POS if it was'nt for my girlfriend. Unless she can access her Flash game on the Web, there is no way I can make her use Linux (sad, I know). It's a performance hog and it constantly crash. This plugin suck, and I certainly wish there was an OSS alternative.
Java is something I do install, but basically just for the browser plugin.
XAML/Avalon is the hypeware du jour. It's cool stuff, but I don't get my panty in a bunch about it. Before that, it was
I wish they would documented the MAPI protocol a bit better so we could interoperate though.
iCalendar-over-WebDAV would be nice too, and TMK it is what Apple use for their iCal thingy. AFAIK, Mozilla does not support WebDAV though ... I guess that would be a worthy addition.
You have my sympathy too.
:) <-- obligatory smily for the humor-impaired