The best CMS for actually making websites that I know of is Mambo on the other hand it sounds like you don't want that.
If were going for simple I'd have to say I haven't found anything that better than Gallery for pictures. You then need to figure out if you want a Website or a Blog. I haven't used many blogs but you if you want easy webpages use a Wiki
Have you ever wondered why windows XP "resets" itself for some reason. Most people just shrug it off as fault hardware or "something". I got really annoyed at it one day and looked it up.
The truth about why you get no blue screens is that by default you'll only see recoverable blue screens (although most of those are now in "Application Crashed - Send, Don't Send") the none recoverable blue screens just reset your computer. Since it's doesn't take to long to boot up most of the time you forget about it. To be honest though I've had about as many as those as I use to have blue screens (I didn't get to many).
Just though you might like to know why you don't blue screens in XP:-)
Last time I went to asia most of the local market wasn't DVD or VHS but rather VCD and SVCD. They're a lot cheaper than DVD and about the same quality as videos, the players are dirt cheap and they can be played on any computer that's fast enough with a CD drive.
That's not to say that they didn't have DVD but most of the DVDs were in tourist areas.
As for forcing people to into another format I think it's just that China is trying to bring everything inhouse so that the Chinese make money off it not other countries. Some other examples are:
*Not using CDMA or GSM *Starting to make their own CPU *Making their own OS
None of this should be a big suprise. America and Europe have been doing this for years. Europe comes up with a standard and supports it (GSM, PAL) at the same time America decides to use another incompatable standard (CDMA, NTSC). Most of the smaller countries end up using which ever stadard is more politically correct at the time.
To be honest I don't think China cares if it gets this stuff out China but with a Market of 1/6th of the world you'd be stupid to try and not create your own standard or atleast use one without lisencing fees as that alot of money to leave the country.
Hmm, the I get it about 20c a transaction although I must admit it took me almost a year to find it:-) That being said it's still a pain to type in all the information for a 50c transaction which was the main point of micropayments - convience.
I'm suprised no one knows about wxWindows?
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Borland has decided to support wxWindows. It does make any sence for them to create another widget set (aka Qt) or to try and build there own any more. Borland has always been about letting people have control. When everything went off 16 bit they still supported it for a number of years even after it went out of fasion. They tried to do the same with linux using Kylix with varing success.
About two months ago(or less) they started to officially support wxWindows. They're helping them to set up a foundation (aka mozilla foundation) so they can make sure people that they can protect the code.
From what I can see it's a win win situation. wxWindows get support in the form of better testing and an accelerated wxEmbeded toolkit (they always had good doco - well I thought they did) and Borland gets to make the best wxWindows RAD IDE around (there aren't any good WYSIWYG ones around at the moment)
It means that anything made with Kylix 5?(They'll probably rename it or atleast skip a version ^-^) Can be setup in a single build script to create three executables one for Linux, one for Windows and one for the Mac. You'll be able to bundle them all on one CD and sell your product to all off them using native widgets (including native drag and drop and cut and paste).
The code create will be largely wxWindows code although I suspect Borland will make there own libraries in area's that wxWindows doesn't cover or add complex widgets built on wxWindows. I suspect you'll still be able to compile it without borland though. ( Think Netbeans and java )
Anyway I personally think it's a better dirrection although we won't see anything for a year or so.
I've been follow this for a while. I don't know anything about the invoices but I do remember what happened with the PostgreSQL port.
Basically they go it 90% complete then found out that it was impossible to do the last 10% and that it couldn't be worked around. Because they're using emebed code it's not easy to port from one DB to another.
Because they couldn't do the simple port they're now looking at doing it through a layer that will take care of all the middle stuff (like EBJs). rather than bring it into the code.
This is a nontrivial port but it will make it database independant.
It sounds like he could have handled the PR better but if I was the owner of a company looking at this an it changed from a trivial port to a non trivial port I wouldn't be interested in porting it either.
It's generally because the players just copy what made the iPod good:
1. Large Screen
2. Similar menu system
3. Long inbuilt batteries
4. Small
Before the iPod most of the Hard drive players were the size of portable CD players with little screens, often external batteries and with hard to use menus.
As for PC there was about 5 years where any PC that didn't come from IMB was called a "clone" it wasn't till the Pentium came out and most of the smaller players left that non-IMB boxes stopped being called clones.
I expect that while the MP3 player is still a premium item $200+ most people will get the best after all you don't want to be cheap when they are that expensive. As they drop in price they start to change.
What I mean is if you find and impementation bug in the impementation then it doesn't cost much but if it's a design bug caught in impementation then you have to undo a lot of code and redo it.
So saying that a bug cost more to fix in each level of deveopment that it's missed is true but you have to remember it's only from the level that it was introduced.
I actually want screens to get smaller but with a much better DPI.
What I'd like in the end is something the size of my ipod with the power of my PC. The display and sound would be though my glasses which would go from sun glasses to a high rez screen with an insane refresh rate (so they don't give you head aches). The glasses would also act as a mic so you can speak into it. Because it's on your skin it should be able to pick up mumbles so you can speak really quitely to activate the interface (voice reconition).
The computer (ipod size) Would have multiple connections so you can plug in a mouse, screen keyboard which are faster than voice reconition but not as good "on the run".
That's what i'd like.
Most of this looks like it's going o be possible except the hires glasses. Current display technology isn't good enough to be that close at that high a rez for long periods. You'd get a massive head ache way to quickly.
After the Sobig virus so of our email were taking 3 hours to get through and alot of our users were asking us why it took so long to send an email to someone that was less than 20 meters away (our ISP still does our email as I haven't had time to set one up in house). After getting close to 20 people asking me the same question I sent out an email giving everyone a quick idea of what happens under the hood and how it was a miricle that they got email at all.
It went something like this (short version): When you click on send the message is sent to our ISP. Our ISP then sends it to another ISP (our old ISP that till host our mail)which then sends it back to us. At each ISP it goes into a que with 1,000 of other messages. For your email to get from you to the person 20 meters from you it has to travel 6000+ km (Australia is a big country and our current ISP is in perth) and it normally does this in less than 5 minutes.
Also there are currently two viruses on the internet that have slowed down the entire internet: SoBig and Slammer.
After I sent the email out and explained how email worked and why everything was so slow lots of the users told me that they never new so much happened in the background. I haven't had anyone complain about email again.
Most RRS feeds are generated by some kind of script. Most of the time the script can manually set the HTTP header so you get stuff like.
*Cache like (Squid, etc)
*HTTP Conditional GETs
Save bandwidth and speed up download times with intelligent use of Last-Modified and ETag.
See HTTP Conditional Get for RSS Hackers
MSIE actually does break TCP/IP. Here's some links from an old slashdot story.
It's not "HTTP - Keep-Alive" which is similar. The difference is that Keep-Alive doesn't close a connection between files which is fine. IE on the other hand make a request without creating a connection (Like UDP) and at the end doesn't close it. This makes IIS faster (less overhead) but other servers slower as the broswer times out before it gets the page and the server has to time out before it closes the connection.
Summary:
this isn't the same deal. based on the TCP specs, here is what a server (or client, for that matter) is supposed to do when it wants to close the connection:
1) send FIN
2) wait for ACK
3) wait for FIN
4) send an ACK
if the server never receives the FIN in step 3, it assumes that the client wants to keep the connection open for some reason. this is _correct behaviour_ with regards to the TCP spec. if this article is correct, MS is merely exploiting the TCP spec to its advantage. yes, it's dirty and wastes resources, but it works.
the thing that bothers me tho, is this is what should be happening on the server end (a non-IIS server, that is):
1) send FIN
2) wait for ACK
3) ok, got ACK, now wait for FIN
4) (after timeout) hmm, no FIN, must have been lost, so we'll resend our FIN
5) client ACKs that FIN, but doesn't send its FIN
6) server thinks the response FIN is lost again, so probably resends its FIN
While a 100% Native port would be cool I know lots of the Loki games and a fair few of the other ports from windows Use winelib.
From a Developers poing a view it's perfect. For as much as possible use winelib but if there are problems then port those area's. This means that with minimal effort you get a high quality game in Linux.
Instead of porting 100% just for the sake of it you can port 10% and get the same results. You get more games on linux that run better. As wine gets the games will run better with less porting. The less porting that is required the more likely a game will be ported. As more games get ported more engines will become cross platform to make it easyier for companies to port thier games to other platforms.
The engines are more impotant than the games. Look at http://www.garagegames.com/ about half the games run on linux because the engine supports it. Halflife is another good example. Lots of the mods start as windows only but as they gain in popularity the include linux Support.
The main thing to notice is that Wine is good for Linux as it gets more games on linux which means more engines will support linux (So they don't have the overhead of wine) which means you'll get more games on linux.
What it does mean through is that Linux "Sales" in his store are higher than Windows Sales.
If you went to a number of other stores you might get the same data as well.
Pool all that data together and you realise that Linux has more sales the XP since the upgrades don't count since they are going from one windows to another.
When you look at this it's obvious that the facts are wrong but this is what microsoft does. Here's some of the tricks that are used to manipulate the stats.
*Sell copies of Windows XP but let the customer downgrade to Windows 2000. XP has rapid adoption because people can't buy anything else.
*Count copies that haven't been sold. They count the copies they ship not that customer buy.[1] This means that the computeron display + others that haven't been sold are counted as a sale.
*Display sales are if it was mindshare. This is bad for Mac's as while PC's are have an upgrad cycle of 3 years Mac's upgrade cycle is about 5 years. So Sales stats are about 95% Windows 2% Mac + 3% others while the real mindshare (Computers being used) is more like 91% Windows 4% Mac and 5% others.
[1] This isn't exactly true but is easier for most people to understand.
If you think killing 10,000 of inocent + a couple of guilty people is just then I pitty you.
Look at any Enron for example. 98% of the people in the company knew nothing and were doing the right thing. There were a couple of people in the company who did the wrong thing does that mean we should killeveryone who work for Enron?
The Taliban lived with the people. They were the people. How many people starved to death because the American were blowwing up sheep with missiles worth $1.4 Million? Do you think it was the Leaders or the people at the bottom? Would you like to be killed because you voted for the greenies last year?
All I'm trying to say is look at thing objectively!
You mean like America did exactly the same thing for Bin Laden when Russia was in Afghanistan or have you forgot that already?
They were commiting doing the same things then but to Russia but no that doesn't count does it?
If another country was funding our freedom fighters while we were boing occupied and then after we got freedom turned around and tried to take our freedom from us so that our freedom fighters attcked them I wouldn't turn around and hand them in?!?!?!?
America funded Bin Laden to get rid of Russia (Imagine of they got control of the middle east with all that oil!) and made promises they didn't plan on keeping. Russia leaves and America goes back on it word. You have a large well funded group of people that have been stabed in the back and people got supprised when the reacted?!?!?
I know what they did was wrong but try and imagine what you'd do if you were in that possition.
The other thing that's important to note is that you are doing a fork. That means not only are you going for a small market but your going for a market that doesn't want an up to date version.
When I look for some software I try to find the original branch and only if it doesn't do what I want look at the forks.
Wiki's are a good example. The first major on is usemod (there were some before this but they aren't around anymore) there are lots of other ones (Python, ASP, PHP, Zope and even more Perl ones) There were lots of minor forks to usermod but I decided to used usermod as I knew it would be supported.
Cvsweb is another example. It started off being done by someone who then had a fork that was better maintained than his. After a while he moved on to something else and the other guys became the main branch later on he stopped working on it and now freebsd has the main branch.
So your problem is that if I was looking for "What ever your program does" and I found it and the original program I'd use the other one unless I couldn't. That's means you won't get the newest version people which are generally the people who help out.
It's token about 3 years before IE was useable. If you used the first versions of most of the programs your talking about it would be a diffent story. What most people know is that Open Source is starting out from behind. What people also know is that it's catching up faster than it to the comercial people to write it.
The end result is that most people know that at some time in the future most Open Source project will over take the comercial project. To prevent this from happening the comercial project have the inovate or intergate. Most of them are intergating - Abobe and Microsft.
Fonts have been more or less standerdised by the freedesktop people. We'll have to wait for all the programs to support it now which will take about 6 months for 75% but then another year or two for 99% to support them.
As for Scribus vs InDesign your looking at a product that's been around for a while base on other products that have been aroud for over 10 years vs a product that only just getting established.
I noticed that the new versions of gnome have meta data turned on and it looked like they loaded the meta data as they loaded the files for text files at least.
XP does a similar thing but it gets a list then goes through and loads the metadata.
That being said I know linux will be slower. If it takes windows 3 seconds to open the dirrectory then you must have atleast 3,000 songs in it? No files systems that I know of like having lots of files in a dirrectory.
Anyway opening a NTFS drive under linux is like running a windows appliaction through wine. It works but it's not as good as native. If it was in linux it would be much faster. You'd have a similar experiance if you get a driver for windows the access the linux drive (There is a few comercial ones around) as they driver is just made to work not work fast.
If you want a better test do the thumbnail view in both linux and windows (native drives) on a folder with 10,000 or so images. It's a fairer test but you really don't care you just want the folder to come up quicker right:-)
Anyway what I ended up doing was putting music in folders that means they load up quickly over network drives as well.
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Depends on what you want:
The best CMS for actually making websites that I know of is Mambo on the other hand it sounds like you don't want that.
If were going for simple I'd have to say I haven't found anything that better than Gallery for pictures. You then need to figure out if you want a Website or a Blog. I haven't used many blogs but you if you want easy webpages use a Wiki
Hope you find what your looking for though.
Have you ever wondered why windows XP "resets" itself for some reason. Most people just shrug it off as fault hardware or "something". I got really annoyed at it one day and looked it up.
:-)
The truth about why you get no blue screens is that by default you'll only see recoverable blue screens (although most of those are now in "Application Crashed - Send, Don't Send") the none recoverable blue screens just reset your computer. Since it's doesn't take to long to boot up most of the time you forget about it. To be honest though I've had about as many as those as I use to have blue screens (I didn't get to many).
Just though you might like to know why you don't blue screens in XP
Last time I went to asia most of the local market wasn't DVD or VHS but rather VCD and SVCD. They're a lot cheaper than DVD and about the same quality as videos, the players are dirt cheap and they can be played on any computer that's fast enough with a CD drive.
That's not to say that they didn't have DVD but most of the DVDs were in tourist areas.
As for forcing people to into another format I think it's just that China is trying to bring everything inhouse so that the Chinese make money off it not other countries. Some other examples are:
*Not using CDMA or GSM
*Starting to make their own CPU
*Making their own OS
None of this should be a big suprise. America and Europe have been doing this for years. Europe comes up with a standard and supports it (GSM, PAL) at the same time America decides to use another incompatable standard (CDMA, NTSC). Most of the smaller countries end up using which ever stadard is more politically correct at the time.
To be honest I don't think China cares if it gets this stuff out China but with a Market of 1/6th of the world you'd be stupid to try and not create your own standard or atleast use one without lisencing fees as that alot of money to leave the country.
Hmm, the I get it about 20c a transaction although I must admit it took me almost a year to find it :-) That being said it's still a pain to type in all the information for a 50c transaction which was the main point of micropayments - convience.
Borland has decided to support wxWindows. It does make any sence for them to create another widget set (aka Qt) or to try and build there own any more. Borland has always been about letting people have control. When everything went off 16 bit they still supported it for a number of years even after it went out of fasion. They tried to do the same with linux using Kylix with varing success.
About two months ago(or less) they started to officially support wxWindows. They're helping them to set up a foundation (aka mozilla foundation) so they can make sure people that they can protect the code.
From what I can see it's a win win situation. wxWindows get support in the form of better testing and an accelerated wxEmbeded toolkit (they always had good doco - well I thought they did) and Borland gets to make the best wxWindows RAD IDE around (there aren't any good WYSIWYG ones around at the moment)
It means that anything made with Kylix 5?(They'll probably rename it or atleast skip a version ^-^) Can be setup in a single build script to create three executables one for Linux, one for Windows and one for the Mac. You'll be able to bundle them all on one CD and sell your product to all off them using native widgets (including native drag and drop and cut and paste).
The code create will be largely wxWindows code although I suspect Borland will make there own libraries in area's that wxWindows doesn't cover or add complex widgets built on wxWindows. I suspect you'll still be able to compile it without borland though. ( Think Netbeans and java )
Anyway I personally think it's a better dirrection although we won't see anything for a year or so.
I've been follow this for a while. I don't know anything about the invoices but I do remember what happened with the PostgreSQL port.
Basically they go it 90% complete then found out that it was impossible to do the last 10% and that it couldn't be worked around. Because they're using emebed code it's not easy to port from one DB to another.
Because they couldn't do the simple port they're now looking at doing it through a layer that will take care of all the middle stuff (like EBJs). rather than bring it into the code.
This is a nontrivial port but it will make it database independant.
It sounds like he could have handled the PR better but if I was the owner of a company looking at this an it changed from a trivial port to a non trivial port I wouldn't be interested in porting it either.
It's generally because the players just copy what made the iPod good: 1. Large Screen 2. Similar menu system 3. Long inbuilt batteries 4. Small Before the iPod most of the Hard drive players were the size of portable CD players with little screens, often external batteries and with hard to use menus. As for PC there was about 5 years where any PC that didn't come from IMB was called a "clone" it wasn't till the Pentium came out and most of the smaller players left that non-IMB boxes stopped being called clones. I expect that while the MP3 player is still a premium item $200+ most people will get the best after all you don't want to be cheap when they are that expensive. As they drop in price they start to change.
What I mean is if you find and impementation bug in the impementation then it doesn't cost much but if it's a design bug caught in impementation then you have to undo a lot of code and redo it.
So saying that a bug cost more to fix in each level of deveopment that it's missed is true but you have to remember it's only from the level that it was introduced.
While I know you ment that as a joke it's probably a good idea.
Just have a normal link and if they go to it in less than a second then they can't be human.
Spammers would write scripts and it wouldn't work but users would never notice.
I actually want screens to get smaller but with a much better DPI.
What I'd like in the end is something the size of my ipod with the power of my PC. The display and sound would be though my glasses which would go from sun glasses to a high rez screen with an insane refresh rate (so they don't give you head aches). The glasses would also act as a mic so you can speak into it. Because it's on your skin it should be able to pick up mumbles so you can speak really quitely to activate the interface (voice reconition).
The computer (ipod size) Would have multiple connections so you can plug in a mouse, screen keyboard which are faster than voice reconition but not as good "on the run".
That's what i'd like.
Most of this looks like it's going o be possible except the hires glasses. Current display technology isn't good enough to be that close at that high a rez for long periods. You'd get a massive head ache way to quickly.
After the Sobig virus so of our email were taking 3 hours to get through and alot of our users were asking us why it took so long to send an email to someone that was less than 20 meters away (our ISP still does our email as I haven't had time to set one up in house). After getting close to 20 people asking me the same question I sent out an email giving everyone a quick idea of what happens under the hood and how it was a miricle that they got email at all.
It went something like this (short version):
When you click on send the message is sent to our ISP. Our ISP then sends it to another ISP (our old ISP that till host our mail)which then sends it back to us. At each ISP it goes into a que with 1,000 of other messages. For your email to get from you to the person 20 meters from you it has to travel 6000+ km (Australia is a big country and our current ISP is in perth) and it normally does this in less than 5 minutes.
Also there are currently two viruses on the internet that have slowed down the entire internet: SoBig and Slammer.
After I sent the email out and explained how email worked and why everything was so slow lots of the users told me that they never new so much happened in the background. I haven't had anyone complain about email again.
Most RRS feeds are generated by some kind of script. Most of the time the script can manually set the HTTP header so you get stuff like.
*Cache like (Squid, etc)
*HTTP Conditional GETs
Save bandwidth and speed up download times with intelligent use of Last-Modified and ETag. See HTTP Conditional Get for RSS Hackers
Sorry I missed I point. It only broke it on NT.
MSIE actually does break TCP/IP. Here's some links from an old slashdot story.
... Sometimes
It's not "HTTP - Keep-Alive" which is similar. The difference is that Keep-Alive doesn't close a connection between files which is fine. IE on the other hand make a request without creating a connection (Like UDP) and at the end doesn't close it. This makes IIS faster (less overhead) but other servers slower as the broswer times out before it gets the page and the server has to time out before it closes the connection.
Why IE Is So Fast
Article it linked to
Summary:
this isn't the same deal. based on the TCP specs, here is what a server (or client, for that matter) is supposed to do when it wants to close the connection: 1) send FIN 2) wait for ACK 3) wait for FIN 4) send an ACK if the server never receives the FIN in step 3, it assumes that the client wants to keep the connection open for some reason. this is _correct behaviour_ with regards to the TCP spec. if this article is correct, MS is merely exploiting the TCP spec to its advantage. yes, it's dirty and wastes resources, but it works. the thing that bothers me tho, is this is what should be happening on the server end (a non-IIS server, that is): 1) send FIN 2) wait for ACK 3) ok, got ACK, now wait for FIN 4) (after timeout) hmm, no FIN, must have been lost, so we'll resend our FIN 5) client ACKs that FIN, but doesn't send its FIN 6) server thinks the response FIN is lost again, so probably resends its FIN
"KNOWN" depends on where you come from. SuSe ir more "KNOWN" in Europe whereas Redhat is more "KNOWN" in USA. RedFlag is more well "KNOWN" in china.
It also turned off computers so you couldn't connect to the internet.
While a 100% Native port would be cool I know lots of the Loki games and a fair few of the other ports from windows Use winelib.
From a Developers poing a view it's perfect. For as much as possible use winelib but if there are problems then port those area's. This means that with minimal effort you get a high quality game in Linux.
Instead of porting 100% just for the sake of it you can port 10% and get the same results. You get more games on linux that run better. As wine gets the games will run better with less porting. The less porting that is required the more likely a game will be ported. As more games get ported more engines will become cross platform to make it easyier for companies to port thier games to other platforms.
The engines are more impotant than the games. Look at http://www.garagegames.com/ about half the games run on linux because the engine supports it. Halflife is another good example. Lots of the mods start as windows only but as they gain in popularity the include linux Support.
The main thing to notice is that Wine is good for Linux as it gets more games on linux which means more engines will support linux (So they don't have the overhead of wine) which means you'll get more games on linux.
What it does mean through is that Linux "Sales" in his store are higher than Windows Sales.
If you went to a number of other stores you might get the same data as well.
Pool all that data together and you realise that Linux has more sales the XP since the upgrades don't count since they are going from one windows to another.
When you look at this it's obvious that the facts are wrong but this is what microsoft does. Here's some of the tricks that are used to manipulate the stats.
*Sell copies of Windows XP but let the customer downgrade to Windows 2000. XP has rapid adoption because people can't buy anything else.
*Count copies that haven't been sold. They count the copies they ship not that customer buy.[1] This means that the computeron display + others that haven't been sold are counted as a sale.
*Display sales are if it was mindshare. This is bad for Mac's as while PC's are have an upgrad cycle of 3 years Mac's upgrade cycle is about 5 years. So Sales stats are about 95% Windows 2% Mac + 3% others while the real mindshare (Computers being used) is more like 91% Windows 4% Mac and 5% others.
[1] This isn't exactly true but is easier for most people to understand.
If you think killing 10,000 of inocent + a couple of guilty people is just then I pitty you.
Look at any Enron for example. 98% of the people in the company knew nothing and were doing the right thing. There were a couple of people in the company who did the wrong thing does that mean we should killeveryone who work for Enron?
The Taliban lived with the people. They were the people. How many people starved to death because the American were blowwing up sheep with missiles worth $1.4 Million? Do you think it was the Leaders or the people at the bottom? Would you like to be killed because you voted for the greenies last year?
All I'm trying to say is look at thing objectively!
You mean like America did exactly the same thing for Bin Laden when Russia was in Afghanistan or have you forgot that already?
They were commiting doing the same things then but to Russia but no that doesn't count does it?
If another country was funding our freedom fighters while we were boing occupied and then after we got freedom turned around and tried to take our freedom from us so that our freedom fighters attcked them I wouldn't turn around and hand them in?!?!?!?
America funded Bin Laden to get rid of Russia (Imagine of they got control of the middle east with all that oil!) and made promises they didn't plan on keeping. Russia leaves and America goes back on it word. You have a large well funded group of people that have been stabed in the back and people got supprised when the reacted?!?!?
I know what they did was wrong but try and imagine what you'd do if you were in that possition.
The other thing that's important to note is that you are doing a fork. That means not only are you going for a small market but your going for a market that doesn't want an up to date version.
When I look for some software I try to find the original branch and only if it doesn't do what I want look at the forks.
Wiki's are a good example. The first major on is usemod (there were some before this but they aren't around anymore) there are lots of other ones (Python, ASP, PHP, Zope and even more Perl ones) There were lots of minor forks to usermod but I decided to used usermod as I knew it would be supported.
Cvsweb is another example. It started off being done by someone who then had a fork that was better maintained than his. After a while he moved on to something else and the other guys became the main branch later on he stopped working on it and now freebsd has the main branch.
So your problem is that if I was looking for "What ever your program does" and I found it and the original program I'd use the other one unless I couldn't. That's means you won't get the newest version people which are generally the people who help out.
What I don't get is how they get off charging for a single CPU license when they say the code that was taken was only for SMP?
It's token about 3 years before IE was useable. If you used the first versions of most of the programs your talking about it would be a diffent story. What most people know is that Open Source is starting out from behind. What people also know is that it's catching up faster than it to the comercial people to write it.
The end result is that most people know that at some time in the future most Open Source project will over take the comercial project. To prevent this from happening the comercial project have the inovate or intergate. Most of them are intergating - Abobe and Microsft.
Fonts have been more or less standerdised by the freedesktop people. We'll have to wait for all the programs to support it now which will take about 6 months for 75% but then another year or two for 99% to support them. As for Scribus vs InDesign your looking at a product that's been around for a while base on other products that have been aroud for over 10 years vs a product that only just getting established.
Have you got meta data on?
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I noticed that the new versions of gnome have meta data turned on and it looked like they loaded the meta data as they loaded the files for text files at least.
XP does a similar thing but it gets a list then goes through and loads the metadata.
That being said I know linux will be slower. If it takes windows 3 seconds to open the dirrectory then you must have atleast 3,000 songs in it? No files systems that I know of like having lots of files in a dirrectory.
Anyway opening a NTFS drive under linux is like running a windows appliaction through wine. It works but it's not as good as native. If it was in linux it would be much faster. You'd have a similar experiance if you get a driver for windows the access the linux drive (There is a few comercial ones around) as they driver is just made to work not work fast.
If you want a better test do the thumbnail view in both linux and windows (native drives) on a folder with 10,000 or so images. It's a fairer test but you really don't care you just want the folder to come up quicker right
Anyway what I ended up doing was putting music in folders that means they load up quickly over network drives as well.