is what is a realistic expectation for when this could be usefully integrated with Mad Hatter from Sun (or croquet) and with a database filesystem (which I think is something Reiser is working on). I would LOVE to test to test out a 3D filesystem and 3D desktop environment and it sounds as if the pieces required are starting to reach usable development positions. If someone were to get them integrated together, we truely would have an instance of Linux leapfrogging MS in the Desktop environment.
It doesn't seem so bad. Links in a browser have been something people who use IE have been doing for years. Almost all companies advertise their other products in their installer so why not sell the space. I don't like the screensaver idea, but I assume it's only in the default which can be turned off.
I do hope, though, that they make available a version without the adds for those of us who subscribe to the mandrake club.
if it fixes the problems I've had with KDE 3.1. When I right click a menu bar to choose something, (usually move to another desktop), the menu disappears when the mouse moves down over it. And if you click the box on the upper left side, the first time I pull down over it it desappears, (though it stays the second time). Also, though I don't know if it's an X problem or a KDE problem, the GUI locks up with only the mouse moving, (it's not possible to interract with any windows or the kicker). I love KDE but these problems usually arize every day.
I sort my files by hand. I guess it would be nice if I could dump them all in 1 directory and have virtual folders pick the specifics out of each file but oh well. I have in my home:
bin
programs
games
hardware
engineering (I'm an EE)
multimedia
Adobe
Audio
Video
Images
Design
retrieval
network
local
internet
programs
media
audio
images
playlists
retrieval
video
documents
tmp
tmp_games
tmp
tmp_audio
tmp_CD
tmp_engineering
tmp_media
tmp_hardware
tmp_multimedia
tmp_network
tmp_programs
tmp_rpms
tmp_source
There are other directories here and there including some more personal subclasification of documents but those catch about everything for files
For email I mainly have filters set up to filter to discrete directories by mailing list it comes from, email address they are sent to, and spam headers.
You can with Koolance. People told me I didn't need liquid cooling when I bought my koolance case, but we keep seeing more and more articles pointing towards liquid cooling in the future.
My postfix installation is extremely secure, I can't get it to receive any email at all. If anyone could help me unsecure it by teaching it to deliver mail to my computer, could they shoot me an email? (bassettgabriel @qwest.net). I'm not a system administrator, just a guy w/ linux at home and the simple setup just isn't working for some reason.
You can read the documentation HERE. It explains the idea of portals. In short, picture walking around your computer's 3D virtual desktop. When you want to play everquest or another 3D game, you create up a 'door' on your virtual desktop and walk through into the game. As for efficiency? Probably not, at least not initially. In the future when people have worked out how to make optimal use of a 3D desktop, better input devices to deal with the new space have been developed, (and they need to be. All FPS players uses a mouse and a keyboard. Try playing descent without a good joystick and you'll realize our problem), and possibly new viewing technlogy past monitors, I think a 3D desktop space will be the future of navigation in a world where computers are so intertwined with the rest of the world.
Cool, now show us looking glass. I've been looking forward to a 3D desktop for a while. Unless croquet is in overdrive this is my best bet I suppose.Hopefully they incorporate the 'portal' idea and allow for a 'ground'. I think the portal idea is the most innovative idea for the desktop since multiple desktops, (or insert whatever).
There is no arguement that suse is a good distrobution. But Suse consistantly does things which piss me off. They were part of United Linux. They don't make ISO's available. They say things like the quote in this post. While they may very well be the best distro for desktop use I will recommend Mandrake, Redhat, and even Lindows over Suse.
All press about the management of Lindows, points towards them being interested in bettering linux. Mandrake caters to it's consumers and redhat is a company that gives back to it's community. Suse seems to be out only for their benefit and while they might make a good product, I don't want to support their business style. Which is why, even though they may make the best desktop linux environment, I run and monitarily support Mandrake.
I am most certainly not a programmer or a network administrator so my ideas may be way off base, but is it possible to impliment hubs that allow for packet filtering and can be remotely administered/updated so that even if an infected laptop is placed on a network, the virus's output can be detected and filtered out? If the problem is that there are no such hubs on the market, I'm an electrical engineer, anyone want to start a business?
SCO should have backed down before they had suits filed against them. The more facts come out and the more SCO management opens it's lips, the more likely it seems that they don't have a leg to stand on. They should have gotten out of it before suits were filed against them, but with Big Blue and redhat filing against them, I can only see them losing miserably and providing a legal precident for the open source community. I can understand the pump and dump but they really don't know how to pick their fights.
In 10 years I expect non-silicon cmos (not the best way to explain it, but it'll do), based processors to be available. I expect quantum processors, diamond processors, organic processors, optical processors, spin processors or such.
Wait, employees of your school actually care what's on the CDR's your carrying around? I could have walked around the school w/ a toolbox that said "big ol' hackin kit" on it and no-one would have looked twice.
The point is that with linux, you can strip off the fat, not just use something out of date. I assume this distro is built on Knoppix 3ish which is up-to-date software. A better comparison would be to windowsXP embedded.
Tell me more about looking glass. It sounds very interesting. I've been looking forward to a 3D desktop for some time. It honestly seems like the natural progression. So far I think by far the best concept is croquet, but it seems so far from becoming something as runnable as today's linux desktops that something like looking glass, backed by a major company really catches my eye. Hopefully it is what croquet will be.
This is nice but, I wish systems like this would come prebuilt with PVR capabilities. They are starting to put some very nice Home theater computers on the market but they are all bear bones. Lets see something that comes with the hardware needed for PVR.
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is what is a realistic expectation for when this could be usefully integrated with Mad Hatter from Sun (or croquet) and with a database filesystem (which I think is something Reiser is working on). I would LOVE to test to test out a 3D filesystem and 3D desktop environment and it sounds as if the pieces required are starting to reach usable development positions. If someone were to get them integrated together, we truely would have an instance of Linux leapfrogging MS in the Desktop environment.
It doesn't seem so bad. Links in a browser have been something people who use IE have been doing for years. Almost all companies advertise their other products in their installer so why not sell the space. I don't like the screensaver idea, but I assume it's only in the default which can be turned off.
I do hope, though, that they make available a version without the adds for those of us who subscribe to the mandrake club.
if it fixes the problems I've had with KDE 3.1. When I right click a menu bar to choose something, (usually move to another desktop), the menu disappears when the mouse moves down over it. And if you click the box on the upper left side, the first time I pull down over it it desappears, (though it stays the second time). Also, though I don't know if it's an X problem or a KDE problem, the GUI locks up with only the mouse moving, (it's not possible to interract with any windows or the kicker). I love KDE but these problems usually arize every day.
I run mandrake 9.1 on my main comp. Is there any linux solution I can use without a lot of problems?
media
documents
tmp
There are other directories here and there including some more personal subclasification of documents but those catch about everything for files
For email I mainly have filters set up to filter to discrete directories by mailing list it comes from, email address they are sent to, and spam headers.
Are there any file systems or file browsers (ala konqueror and nautilus) that allow virtual folders? I have never played with them.
No sense of humor.
I'd welcome a computer that can tell when I"m going over the line. Then it can drive for me from KS to CO and back. Thats 600 miles of strait nothing.
You can with Koolance. People told me I didn't need liquid cooling when I bought my koolance case, but we keep seeing more and more articles pointing towards liquid cooling in the future.
I would have very big issues if I was administering qwest.net on my home machine =)
My postfix installation is extremely secure, I can't get it to receive any email at all. If anyone could help me unsecure it by teaching it to deliver mail to my computer, could they shoot me an email? (bassettgabriel @qwest.net). I'm not a system administrator, just a guy w/ linux at home and the simple setup just isn't working for some reason.
You can read the documentation HERE. It explains the idea of portals. In short, picture walking around your computer's 3D virtual desktop. When you want to play everquest or another 3D game, you create up a 'door' on your virtual desktop and walk through into the game. As for efficiency? Probably not, at least not initially. In the future when people have worked out how to make optimal use of a 3D desktop, better input devices to deal with the new space have been developed, (and they need to be. All FPS players uses a mouse and a keyboard. Try playing descent without a good joystick and you'll realize our problem), and possibly new viewing technlogy past monitors, I think a 3D desktop space will be the future of navigation in a world where computers are so intertwined with the rest of the world.
blow me.
Cool, now show us looking glass. I've been looking forward to a 3D desktop for a while. Unless croquet is in overdrive this is my best bet I suppose.Hopefully they incorporate the 'portal' idea and allow for a 'ground'. I think the portal idea is the most innovative idea for the desktop since multiple desktops, (or insert whatever).
The problem with windows was never it's gui. (Well, not for most users at least.)
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2. Sue Everyone.
3. Profit
All press about the management of Lindows, points towards them being interested in bettering linux. Mandrake caters to it's consumers and redhat is a company that gives back to it's community. Suse seems to be out only for their benefit and while they might make a good product, I don't want to support their business style. Which is why, even though they may make the best desktop linux environment, I run and monitarily support Mandrake.
I am most certainly not a programmer or a network administrator so my ideas may be way off base, but is it possible to impliment hubs that allow for packet filtering and can be remotely administered/updated so that even if an infected laptop is placed on a network, the virus's output can be detected and filtered out? If the problem is that there are no such hubs on the market, I'm an electrical engineer, anyone want to start a business?
SCO should have backed down before they had suits filed against them. The more facts come out and the more SCO management opens it's lips, the more likely it seems that they don't have a leg to stand on. They should have gotten out of it before suits were filed against them, but with Big Blue and redhat filing against them, I can only see them losing miserably and providing a legal precident for the open source community. I can understand the pump and dump but they really don't know how to pick their fights.
The XBox is an x86 processor running a version of windows isn't it?
In 10 years I expect non-silicon cmos (not the best way to explain it, but it'll do), based processors to be available. I expect quantum processors, diamond processors, organic processors, optical processors, spin processors or such.
Wait, employees of your school actually care what's on the CDR's your carrying around? I could have walked around the school w/ a toolbox that said "big ol' hackin kit" on it and no-one would have looked twice.
The point is that with linux, you can strip off the fat, not just use something out of date. I assume this distro is built on Knoppix 3ish which is up-to-date software. A better comparison would be to windowsXP embedded.
Tell me more about looking glass. It sounds very interesting. I've been looking forward to a 3D desktop for some time. It honestly seems like the natural progression. So far I think by far the best concept is croquet, but it seems so far from becoming something as runnable as today's linux desktops that something like looking glass, backed by a major company really catches my eye. Hopefully it is what croquet will be.
This is nice but, I wish systems like this would come prebuilt with PVR capabilities. They are starting to put some very nice Home theater computers on the market but they are all bear bones. Lets see something that comes with the hardware needed for PVR.