Ok, so mod me down for this... but why did the Frist Psot tradition get thrown to the wind when the 30 minute subsriber window went into effect? I almost never see one, and I miss them. Sniff...Sniff...Someone post a BSD is Dying troll for me so that I can get over this...
So which of the browsers between IV, V and VI will become gigantic stars, while leaving the other actors as one-hit (OK three-hit) wonders, as Ford did?
Oh, the memories of 4KB RAM (expandable to 48!!), a tape drive, and 50 for loops per second. I learned everything that I know about computers from that one. Later, I hacked on networking through the serial port and am posting this from a browser I wrote for it in trash BASIC. Okay, that last part isn't true, but the Model I was my first computer, and I remember the pain of having to program my own games in both assembly and basic because there weren't really very many for it.
OTOH, it was a very "open source" experience for me because I learned the basics from the small manual they supplied with it and looking at the BASIC code that most of the games were written in.
I don't know about your desktop (I seriously suspect that it has a start button), but my KDE menu entry for XMMS says, (well, it's in Thai, but I'll translate) "program for listening to music." Similarly, I've got "web browser" (Mozilla), "FTP program" (gFTP), and "downloader program" (Xdownloader). Seems to be a moot problem for most of us.
This is going to sound a little far fetched, but I suggest you give LinuxTLE a go. They have a ready to work desktop with all the major plugins already configured, a Connectiva style apt, and update software regularly. For example, since I upgraded to 5.0 about ?three? months ago, I have been upgraded from mozilla 1.2.1 to 1.3 to 1.4. This never used to happen with RH or Mandrake. In fact, I read about Moz 1.4 on Slashdot and went to download, but found the look just ugly compared to the 1.3 I was running from LinuxTLE, then did my apt-get update && apt-get upgrade and found the next morning that I had a beautiful looking Moz 1.4 on my desktop, with my profile carried over.
How about if they dropped their price 90+% like they did here in Thailand to fight the 100,000 new Linux computers the government is offering??? You and I probably still wouldn't (that probably is about you, not me), but a serious percentage of slashdot would have a copy, not to mention the rest of the world.
In fact, Slashdot could avoid devious SCO interviews, and focus on anti-FUD efforts. HP withdrew it's Linux PC notebook offerings in Thailand, and MS is offering XP and Office for $36!!
I want to know where you are getting your Thailand info. So far, I have only seen the news in Thai, and would like more details than the newspapers are giving. The price I saw for Windows on the "ICT Computer" (pre-loaded with Linux, originally) is less than 300 Baht, or about US$6. I am in mourning now.
What I don't understand is why (and yes I'm going to make an offtopic "Why didn't MY submission make it?" comment) this story is a big deal, when MS just hikacked tens of thousands of computers to be sold by the Thai government with Linux pre-installed by offering Windows to purchasers for 250 Baht (about US$6). There were supposed to be a hundred thousand Linux computers by December, and now there will be, like zero. Check my journal for the details.
You could be right (I'm assuming that you are and not even clicking the link). I have been outside the US for several years and am a little out of touch with such things.
What's kind of funny is that I was talking to my GF about this subject just this morning. We already have an LTSP setup and a stack of P133s with no fans that I bought on a pallet from Japan sitting in a closet. I said "I'm going to run a computer cable," meaning CAT5, "up to the fifth floor and use that old 13" IBM monitor with some speakers to play music in the bedroom." She replied that she wants a large monitor so that she can lie down and play with GIMP. It'll take the time to run the cable plus about ten minutes, and we'll be up and rolling.
I know this is OT for the story, but I have my server in another room, and all my other computers are all P133 Dells with no fan as xterms. My lab is whisper quiet except the AC. I play, like, zero games, so it's a perfect setup for me.
There was just a game based on the Ogre engine produced in Thailand that won 500,000 baht in a competition by Liberta Computer in their quest to find more games for their Linux computers. They now sell their own branded Linux and Office with all their computers, with MSWindows as an additional option. It is part of the glacial move toward Linux as the country tries to control illigal software.
If you don't like proprietary games, support in your country what a local PC maker did here: Liberta gave a total of one million Baht in prize money (the top prize was about two years' average salary) for best new GPLed 3D game on Linux. The company recently switched to Linux standard, with Windows upgrade available.
Thank you for the info, but, since I am in Thailand, I was talking about books in Thai. I actually have a copy of "Teach Yourself GIMP in 24 Hours." I am also aware of the online availability, and have downloaded some of the material, but none in Thai.
We are under a Free software revolution in Thailand (see my sig), so I am seeing reviews of Linux / OO.o / others in almost every magazine. The reviews generally run like this: "The program works well and doesn't crash often, but I don't recommend its use because it's interface/hotkeys/configuration is/are not like the equivalent program in Windows that I am familiar with." I do not claim that GIMPcan compare to PS, but we use it full time in my school, and my wife has known nothing else.
Sometimes she reads books on PS (there are none for Gimp) and says "Wow! that's cool. That takes me xx commands in Gimp," but both she and I know that 90% of the stuff can be scripted, by us or somebody else. I hope to spend some time with Script-fu and get those for her.
The other 10% is functional stuff that I have no way to fix, like CMYK. We don't do print, just in-house web stuff, so we are fine.
There are many who consider the power to destroy as a greater power than the power to create.
Yeah, two year olds. You build them something, and they bash it to pieces, laughing all the while.
Try to file your taxes online with the Revenue Department of Thailand. It is IE only. Fortunately, I teach the director of IT for the RD, and we had a long talk (OK, I had a long rant) about how much I wanted to file online, and how I tried for two weeks, but in the end that I couldn't. I got many nods. Next year will be different, because there will be an extra million linux computers in the country by then.
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A thin client web site I went to yeasterday said that sales of Linux based thin clients rose 87% worldwide last year.
So I've always wondered how Google makes enough money to support their 1000 machine cluster. How are they bankrolled?
Ok, so mod me down for this... but why did the Frist Psot tradition get thrown to the wind when the 30 minute subsriber window went into effect? I almost never see one, and I miss them. Sniff...Sniff...Someone post a BSD is Dying troll for me so that I can get over this...
So which of the browsers between IV, V and VI will become gigantic stars, while leaving the other actors as one-hit (OK three-hit) wonders, as Ford did?
Oh, the memories of 4KB RAM (expandable to 48!!), a tape drive, and 50 for loops per second. I learned everything that I know about computers from that one. Later, I hacked on networking through the serial port and am posting this from a browser I wrote for it in trash BASIC. Okay, that last part isn't true, but the Model I was my first computer, and I remember the pain of having to program my own games in both assembly and basic because there weren't really very many for it.
OTOH, it was a very "open source" experience for me because I learned the basics from the small manual they supplied with it and looking at the BASIC code that most of the games were written in.
I don't know about your desktop (I seriously suspect that it has a start button), but my KDE menu entry for XMMS says, (well, it's in Thai, but I'll translate) "program for listening to music." Similarly, I've got "web browser" (Mozilla), "FTP program" (gFTP), and "downloader program" (Xdownloader). Seems to be a moot problem for most of us.
This is going to sound a little far fetched, but I suggest you give LinuxTLE a go. They have a ready to work desktop with all the major plugins already configured, a Connectiva style apt, and update software regularly. For example, since I upgraded to 5.0 about ?three? months ago, I have been upgraded from mozilla 1.2.1 to 1.3 to 1.4. This never used to happen with RH or Mandrake. In fact, I read about Moz 1.4 on Slashdot and went to download, but found the look just ugly compared to the 1.3 I was running from LinuxTLE, then did my apt-get update && apt-get upgrade and found the next morning that I had a beautiful looking Moz 1.4 on my desktop, with my profile carried over.
How about if they dropped their price 90+% like they did here in Thailand to fight the 100,000 new Linux computers the government is offering??? You and I probably still wouldn't (that probably is about you, not me), but a serious percentage of slashdot would have a copy, not to mention the rest of the world.
and (OT) I call splitting the check "going Dutch," while my Thai friends call it "American share."
I can, and the infomation that I gave is buried in the middle, so I summarized instead of translating, as I usually do.
Basically, my journal is a translation (summary, in this case) of Thai Linux info. I don't know of any English sources, or I would give one, gladly.
In fact, Slashdot could avoid devious SCO interviews, and focus on anti-FUD efforts. HP withdrew it's Linux PC notebook offerings in Thailand, and MS is offering XP and Office for $36!!
I want to know where you are getting your Thailand info. So far, I have only seen the news in Thai, and would like more details than the newspapers are giving. The price I saw for Windows on the "ICT Computer" (pre-loaded with Linux, originally) is less than 300 Baht, or about US$6. I am in mourning now.
What I don't understand is why (and yes I'm going to make an offtopic "Why didn't MY submission make it?" comment) this story is a big deal, when MS just hikacked tens of thousands of computers to be sold by the Thai government with Linux pre-installed by offering Windows to purchasers for 250 Baht (about US$6). There were supposed to be a hundred thousand Linux computers by December, and now there will be, like zero. Check my journal for the details.
Yeah, and that was going to change here in Thailand until MS lowered the cost of Windows to US$6 to stop Linux. (see my sig_
You could be right (I'm assuming that you are and not even clicking the link). I have been outside the US for several years and am a little out of touch with such things.
Or.... The millions of fast food restaurants owned by PepsiCo
What's kind of funny is that I was talking to my GF about this subject just this morning. We already have an LTSP setup and a stack of P133s with no fans that I bought on a pallet from Japan sitting in a closet. I said "I'm going to run a computer cable," meaning CAT5, "up to the fifth floor and use that old 13" IBM monitor with some speakers to play music in the bedroom." She replied that she wants a large monitor so that she can lie down and play with GIMP. It'll take the time to run the cable plus about ten minutes, and we'll be up and rolling.
I know this is OT for the story, but I have my server in another room, and all my other computers are all P133 Dells with no fan as xterms. My lab is whisper quiet except the AC. I play, like, zero games, so it's a perfect setup for me.
There was just a game based on the Ogre engine produced in Thailand that won 500,000 baht in a competition by Liberta Computer in their quest to find more games for their Linux computers. They now sell their own branded Linux and Office with all their computers, with MSWindows as an additional option. It is part of the glacial move toward Linux as the country tries to control illigal software.
If you don't like proprietary games, support in your country what a local PC maker did here: Liberta gave a total of one million Baht in prize money (the top prize was about two years' average salary) for best new GPLed 3D game on Linux. The company recently switched to Linux standard, with Windows upgrade available.
Thank you for the info, but, since I am in Thailand, I was talking about books in Thai. I actually have a copy of "Teach Yourself GIMP in 24 Hours." I am also aware of the online availability, and have downloaded some of the material, but none in Thai.
We are under a Free software revolution in Thailand (see my sig), so I am seeing reviews of Linux / OO.o / others in almost every magazine. The reviews generally run like this: "The program works well and doesn't crash often, but I don't recommend its use because it's interface/hotkeys/configuration is/are not like the equivalent program in Windows that I am familiar with." I do not claim that GIMPcan compare to PS, but we use it full time in my school, and my wife has known nothing else.
Sometimes she reads books on PS (there are none for Gimp) and says "Wow! that's cool. That takes me xx commands in Gimp," but both she and I know that 90% of the stuff can be scripted, by us or somebody else. I hope to spend some time with Script-fu and get those for her.
The other 10% is functional stuff that I have no way to fix, like CMYK. We don't do print, just in-house web stuff, so we are fine.
Not to be too technical, but the WinChip was an old Pentium MMX clone, while the C3 is derived from the Cyrix model that VIA bought out.
There are many who consider the power to destroy as a greater power than the power to create.
Yeah, two year olds. You build them something, and they bash it to pieces, laughing all the while.
Try to file your taxes online with the Revenue Department of Thailand. It is IE only. Fortunately, I teach the director of IT for the RD, and we had a long talk (OK, I had a long rant) about how much I wanted to file online, and how I tried for two weeks, but in the end that I couldn't. I got many nods. Next year will be different, because there will be an extra million linux computers in the country by then.