A government office can make a decision solely on their own, while the decision may affect potentially a lot of businesses. Worst part is, if the government office makes a mistake, there is no way to mend it other than letting some legitmate businesses taking the hit.
It seems that in almost all aspects of government activities, the decisions can be disputed and reversed, except for patents. This should be changed, or it will greatly impair people's right to "pursue happiness" (thru conducting legitmate businesses), which were explicitly granted in the US Constitution.
that's what I use (RH7.2). when installing, you have to select Chinese support (it's not by default), then if you set your preference of language for KDE to be Chinese, it'll take care of starting XIM (miniChinput) for X. Then, you press ctrl+space to switch to chinese input. there are many input methods of choice.
Contrarary to what some say, I found the miniChinput's PinYin input much better than WinXP's-maybe because I didn't bother to delve in the MS stuff. For example, in WinXP, after typing in all the letters for pinyin, if the character you're looking for is not among the first ten shown, you'll have to grab the mouse to flip to another set of characters, while in miniChinput, you could just press ">". Also the word associations seems more extensive and sensible in miniChinput than in MS Pinyin.
One downside though, a lot websites in mainland china are created towards IE users, with too much DHTML stuff and flash "ADnimations".
There is a chinese openOffice outfitter called RedOne office (ch2000.com.cn). I tried it and it handled Chinese editing pretty well-I never figured out what to set in OpenOffice so that it will know what I typed in was Chinese and apply the according rules for formatting the text (no period at start of line, and such.) However nowhere on ch2000.com.cn's website does it say that the final product would be freely downloadable, and the current beta version would supposably expire on 9/30/2002. Koffice is ok too, if inter-operativity isn't a crucial requirement.
if chinese input in text mode is needed, zhcon is the package you'd need. but I found it not too smoothe to use. Konsole in KDE 3 can handle chinese too, but it seems that there aren't many nice chinese fonts it could utilize.
My roommate just got back from China last month. He said that most customers who swarmed the "netcafes" were teenagers playing games. I trust his words because his brother-in-law owns and operates a small one.
The rate is like 1.00RMB (about $.12) per hour, which will not make much sense if every customer is demanding a lot bandwidth to the internet.
of course the government might utilize this opportunity to strength their control of the content, but most people, including the owners themselves, are supporting the regulation of these cafes.
Needless to say, the netizens of Beijing are pissed and see this as a move to quash the limited access to the net that the Chinese people currently have.
did they? But can you come up with a better idea to get the name "RADLIGHT" known by thousands of us/.ers?
I guess I'd be helping them further if I were to ask "what the heck is the program used for?", so I'll just keep quiet.
The operating system has far more usefulness to the PC than the tag to the matress.
It's more like the workforce to the factory, I think. So MS is really just saying, as Schindler told the Nazi, "You want me to run the factory, you have to give me THOSE jewish workers!"
Of course we all know what then happened to Schindler's business...
No support for AIW. :(
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I found this in their mailing list archive:
http://linuxtv.org/mailinglists/linux-dvb/2001/08- 2001/msg00288.html
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[linux-dvb] Re: ATI All-In-Wonder RADEON 32MB DDR (AGP)?
* To: Louis Swart
* Subject: [linux-dvb] Re: ATI All-In-Wonder RADEON 32MB DDR (AGP)?
* From: Carsten Koch
* Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 16:45:28 +0200
* CC: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org
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Louis Swart wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am starting to setup a Video Disk Recorder for my home.
> My knowledge of Linux is limited.
> I intend to buy the "ATI All-In-Wonder RADEON 32MB DDR (AGP)"
> card form my home VDR. It seems to be one of the best currently
> available.
> > 1) Is the "ATI All-In-Wonder RADEON 32MB DDR (AGP)" card a good choice?
Not for VDR.
> 2) Will it work with the VDR software?
No.
> 3) Any thing else I should know or consider?
Currently, the only card supported by the VDR project is the
family of Siemens DVB cards.
What VDR does, to record a TV broadcast is, take the bits as
they come from the sky and store them on disk. The MPEG-encoding
(compression) takes place at the broadcast side, not in your PC.
The family of Siemens DVB cards does not do MPEG compression nor
does VDR.
The "ATI All-In-Wonder" cards on the other hand, receive analog
signals (that were not compressed at the broadcast side) and do
the compression with a combination of ATI hardware and software
in your PC. VDR does not currently support this mechanism with
any card. If VDR should ever support this path, I would guess
that it would use an encooder card that is well-supported under
Linux. Maybe the KFIR card.
Check out
http://linuxtv.org
http://www.lindy.cc/dvb
http://www.linuxdvb.tv
Carsten.
it may not come to America.
Using GPLed software saves money for businesses, and the money saved by and German companies would help paying German taxes, funding German researches, etc. This is (I reckon) what Mundie wanted to stress but couldn't spell out.
netcraft shows that the site redflag-linux.com is running Black Cat Linux, which was a Russian distro based on Red Hat but now joined ASP Linux. Hell the redflag site even runs something called "rus/PL29.4" which I assume is Russian module for Apache.
Who said "security thru obscurity is bad"? I've always carried a lot cash with me, and who'd have guessed which pocket I put it in each time? It's just as safe as using an ATM card and a 4 digit PIN,-what's the difference with guessing a PIN and picking a pocket anyways?-and a lot easier to implement!
Because there just aren't enough of them Chinese hackers. Growing up in a relatively rich enviromentin Beijing, I daresay I was one of the few first generation of kids brought up having used a computer: I used AppleIIs in the 6th grade. But it was not until 5 years later did I have another chance to touch them again, briefly. Both times learning BASIC.
In college I used "BULL" system, for a intro class of computerscience with FORTRAN, then some PC, for a dBase class. That was already the 90's and a lot of my friends who went to other colleges ended up learning BASIC again, as we did in highschool, because most of their schoolmates didn't touch computer before and, I guess, there weren't enough staff members who could teach FORTRAN.
At mid 90's, the computer started to get in to people homes, and mine too, and it's merely about 5 years now.
I don't know any Chinese hacker, nor have I heard of many. And I myself am too far away from one, although I'm considered a guru. In the stead, those script-kiddies who launced the attack against US sites after the aircraft collision incident were regarded as hackers in China...
you see a lot of Chinese "programmers" in the US now, but most of us were switched from other fields in order to make a living here, and couldn't even put together a pc.
So, please be patient, people. We will make our due contribution, but first we have to make a bigger task force.:)
Or am I missing something hidden between the lines? Just where did you get the idea that the Chinese government is interferring with Shen's activity? It's ARM who's "repressing" the student.
I have been wondering myself why the original post had to specifically mention a "Chinese" representative, because it sounds like that the "Chinese" is trying to stop the developer. Yet it turns out, it's because the developer is Chinese therefore the company (or the "capitalist") had to find itself a Chinese guy to talk to him.
It's so sad to see so many people blindly followed your cold-warish reflex.
although according to my calculation it's 5 min 15 secs. per year.
so patching every fix that M$ released seems totally unfeasible. But they would certainly have backup servers running at the same time, especially for cheap (relatively) boxes running IIS-if the OEM only made use of one webserver in their costly DataCenter solution, then they deserve to be out of business.
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A government office can make a decision solely on their own, while the decision may affect potentially a lot of businesses. Worst part is, if the government office makes a mistake, there is no way to mend it other than letting some legitmate businesses taking the hit.
It seems that in almost all aspects of government activities, the decisions can be disputed and reversed, except for patents. This should be changed, or it will greatly impair people's right to "pursue happiness" (thru conducting legitmate businesses), which were explicitly granted in the US Constitution.
that's what I use (RH7.2). when installing, you have to select Chinese support (it's not by default), then if you set your preference of language for KDE to be Chinese, it'll take care of starting XIM (miniChinput) for X. Then, you press ctrl+space to switch to chinese input. there are many input methods of choice.
Contrarary to what some say, I found the miniChinput's PinYin input much better than WinXP's-maybe because I didn't bother to delve in the MS stuff. For example, in WinXP, after typing in all the letters for pinyin, if the character you're looking for is not among the first ten shown, you'll have to grab the mouse to flip to another set of characters, while in miniChinput, you could just press ">". Also the word associations seems more extensive and sensible in miniChinput than in MS Pinyin.
One downside though, a lot websites in mainland china are created towards IE users, with too much DHTML stuff and flash "ADnimations".
There is a chinese openOffice outfitter called RedOne office (ch2000.com.cn). I tried it and it handled Chinese editing pretty well-I never figured out what to set in OpenOffice so that it will know what I typed in was Chinese and apply the according rules for formatting the text (no period at start of line, and such.) However nowhere on ch2000.com.cn's website does it say that the final product would be freely downloadable, and the current beta version would supposably expire on 9/30/2002. Koffice is ok too, if inter-operativity isn't a crucial requirement.
if chinese input in text mode is needed, zhcon is the package you'd need. but I found it not too smoothe to use. Konsole in KDE 3 can handle chinese too, but it seems that there aren't many nice chinese fonts it could utilize.
The operating system has far more usefulness to the PC than the tag to the matress.
It's more like the workforce to the factory, I think. So MS is really just saying, as Schindler told the Nazi, "You want me to run the factory, you have to give me THOSE jewish workers!"
Of course we all know what then happened to Schindler's business...
I found this in their mailing list archive: http://linuxtv.org/mailinglists/linux-dvb/2001/08- 2001/msg00288.html
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[linux-dvb] Re: ATI All-In-Wonder RADEON 32MB DDR (AGP)?
* To: Louis Swart
* Subject: [linux-dvb] Re: ATI All-In-Wonder RADEON 32MB DDR (AGP)?
* From: Carsten Koch
* Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 16:45:28 +0200
* CC: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org
* Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
* Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
* Delivered-To: mhonarc@limes.convergence.de
* Organization: ICEM Technologies GmbH
* References:
* Sender: cko@icem.de
* Sender: linux-dvb-bounce@linuxtv.org
Louis Swart wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am starting to setup a Video Disk Recorder for my home.
> My knowledge of Linux is limited.
> I intend to buy the "ATI All-In-Wonder RADEON 32MB DDR (AGP)"
> card form my home VDR. It seems to be one of the best currently
> available.
> > 1) Is the "ATI All-In-Wonder RADEON 32MB DDR (AGP)" card a good choice?
Not for VDR.
> 2) Will it work with the VDR software?
No.
> 3) Any thing else I should know or consider?
Currently, the only card supported by the VDR project is the
family of Siemens DVB cards.
What VDR does, to record a TV broadcast is, take the bits as
they come from the sky and store them on disk. The MPEG-encoding
(compression) takes place at the broadcast side, not in your PC.
The family of Siemens DVB cards does not do MPEG compression nor
does VDR.
The "ATI All-In-Wonder" cards on the other hand, receive analog
signals (that were not compressed at the broadcast side) and do
the compression with a combination of ATI hardware and software
in your PC. VDR does not currently support this mechanism with
any card. If VDR should ever support this path, I would guess
that it would use an encooder card that is well-supported under
Linux. Maybe the KFIR card.
Check out
http://linuxtv.org
http://www.lindy.cc/dvb
http://www.linuxdvb.tv
Carsten.
When will we see "spacecraft in 24 hours"?
it may not come to America. Using GPLed software saves money for businesses, and the money saved by and German companies would help paying German taxes, funding German researches, etc. This is (I reckon) what Mundie wanted to stress but couldn't spell out.
netcraft shows that the site redflag-linux.com is running Black Cat Linux, which was a Russian distro based on Red Hat but now joined ASP Linux. Hell the redflag site even runs something called "rus/PL29.4" which I assume is Russian module for Apache.
does schooling prevents learning? or *grasp* does open-sourcing prevents innovation?
Who said "security thru obscurity is bad"? I've always carried a lot cash with me, and who'd have guessed which pocket I put it in each time? It's just as safe as using an ATM card and a 4 digit PIN,-what's the difference with guessing a PIN and picking a pocket anyways?-and a lot easier to implement!
:)
Credit cards? Pfff, those paranoid wusses...
Because there just aren't enough of them Chinese hackers. Growing up in a relatively rich enviromentin Beijing, I daresay I was one of the few first generation of kids brought up having used a computer: I used AppleIIs in the 6th grade. But it was not until 5 years later did I have another chance to touch them again, briefly. Both times learning BASIC.
:)
In college I used "BULL" system, for a intro class of computerscience with FORTRAN, then some PC, for a dBase class. That was already the 90's and a lot of my friends who went to other colleges ended up learning BASIC again, as we did in highschool, because most of their schoolmates didn't touch computer before and, I guess, there weren't enough staff members who could teach FORTRAN.
At mid 90's, the computer started to get in to people homes, and mine too, and it's merely about 5 years now.
I don't know any Chinese hacker, nor have I heard of many. And I myself am too far away from one, although I'm considered a guru. In the stead, those script-kiddies who launced the attack against US sites after the aircraft collision incident were regarded as hackers in China...
you see a lot of Chinese "programmers" in the US now, but most of us were switched from other fields in order to make a living here, and couldn't even put together a pc.
So, please be patient, people. We will make our due contribution, but first we have to make a bigger task force.
Or am I missing something hidden between the lines? Just where did you get the idea that the Chinese government is interferring with Shen's activity? It's ARM who's "repressing" the student.
I have been wondering myself why the original post had to specifically mention a "Chinese" representative, because it sounds like that the "Chinese" is trying to stop the developer. Yet it turns out, it's because the developer is Chinese therefore the company (or the "capitalist") had to find itself a Chinese guy to talk to him.
It's so sad to see so many people blindly followed your cold-warish reflex.
That's just too mean, man. Martial arts movies are always like that, ever since Bruce Lee. The Matrix and Jackie Chan were no exception.
although according to my calculation it's 5 min 15 secs. per year. so patching every fix that M$ released seems totally unfeasible. But they would certainly have backup servers running at the same time, especially for cheap (relatively) boxes running IIS-if the OEM only made use of one webserver in their costly DataCenter solution, then they deserve to be out of business.
It cost you $300 too! Unless you hack it and make worth $500, that is. :)