Actually this is why I personally stopped buying Lexmark. Prior to this, I had three Lexmark printers. When it came time to replace, I went with an HP. Oh, I also picked HP because they have very good Linux support and Lexmark's Linux support sucks or is non-existent.
Sadly, I don't think the average Joe cares about being screwed over. They have been brain-washed to look for rock-bottom prices. If Lexmark can find a way to sell a similar printer to the competitors for $2 - $5 less, most US drone-shoppers will eat it up.
FF gave me a nice message about blocking a pop-up. I also have
AdBlock with the following rules and it seems to kill all pop-ups.
I honestly have not seen on for about a year now.
Oh, and you do? You have it all figured out? You and your boyfriends figured it "all" out after your pot smoking, tree hugging and butt-slapping party? Please tell us what the US stands for. Oh, and don't forget to read your history and see what the US has stood for the majority of her existence.
I hve a better idea, why do you not leave as you seem to want a facist utopia where force and ignorance rules ( Your post effectively makes my point ).
Huh? That is _the_ dumbest sentence I have ever read here on/.. I am a Libertarian. Where did I ever say I wanted a "facist utopia"? I personally cannot stand most of the government of the USA and how the politicians act and are corrupted by bribes.
Oh? Then why are we in Iraq?
Hmm, I can tell you will only believe what your little conspiracies allow. So I won't waste my time. Go ahead and think that we just want oil (even though the USA is currently the worlds daily largest producer of oil), oh and I am sure we also just want their first born?
Why does the US have more military bases in more countries than any other nation?
Hmm, think hard now sunny-boy. If you are #1, there is no where else to go but down. When you are #1, _everyone_ wants to take a swing at you to knock you down. Oh, and there is also the benefits of the massive humanitarian aid that the US military does around the world. Having those bases comes in handy.
Where did I say I was a "right-winger"? I am not. I am a libertarian.
Hmm, i'm beginning to see why only stupid assholes write shit like this. i feel like an absolute dipshit for typing the above
Well you should asshole. You not even close to being correct. So go and hug your tree and smoke your pot you little hippie commie. And and don't forget that when I nation is in need, you can run like a little bitch and cry why real men go and protect her.
Do you have a link to any of these sites? I have not seen one pop-up in Firefox and I hit many sites IMO. I would like to see a site that actually side-steps the anti pop-up features of modern browsers to see how they are doing it. I am sure a simple fix to Firefox/Safari would resolve the problem.
If you look at the GDP of China, they are where we were in 1970!
In adjusted 2000 USD, China is where we were in 1942!. As of 2004 China's economy has been growing well. However, China's GDP is still only US $1.65 trillion, while as of 2004, the US GDP is at least $11.7 trillion! I huge difference.
Oh please dude, go hug a freakin tree. If you hate America so much, why in the hell do you _not_ leave? Go on, we don't need you and we would be better off without your kind. I served in the U.S.M.C and I am willing to fight for freedom for me, my family and others. Something I am sure you would not do. So go on and leave the USA and start your own utopia where you can have all the men running around "in touch with their feminine side" and all the women can run around sleeping with tons of men and getting abortions every-other-month. Oh, and you can pay 60%+ of your salary to your socialist government while your at it, because "they" know how to spend _your_ money better than you do.
Me, I will stick with the USA and what we stand for.
As for Sudan, have they asked for help? Do you even know what you are talking about? Sudan has been in a 20-year civil war. It is not the US's job to police the world. The people of Sudan have been fighting back and it is the people who will have their way, just as the USA didn't need intervention during our _own_ civil war. Also,
The Government of Sudan and southern rebel forces signed a framework peace agreement in early June 2004
it would be pretty stupid for the USA to come in and wreck things now. Also, there is the fact that the people of Sudan have been fighting back and have not been under a dictatorship such as the people of Iraq. Compare Apples to Apples.
As for Zimbabwe, there has been a lot of humanitarian assistance, just search Google and see the tons of aid from the USA and the people of the USA.
You need some new history books.
No, you need some _real_ history books that haven't been rewritten by liberals.
India and China are using trade to defeat us.
Are you freaking kidding me? India and Chine don't even come close to our wealth. The USA has only 3% of the worlds population yet has/controls more than 50% of the worlds wealth. That is pretty damn good for 3% of the population IMO. Also, the USA spends more each year on military than the next top 25 nations combined (this was on the Science channel last night)! There is not one single nation that even comes close to the GDP of the USA, not one. Please point out one _single_ nation that is even close. So exactly how in the world is "India and China using trade to defeat us"?
If you look at the GDP of China, they are where we were in 1970! I certainly wouldn't call that "China defeating us", since they are over 35 years behind us. Oh, and the GDP of India doesn't even come close to that of the USA. Just because a few low-tech jobs are out-sourced to India, doesn't mean we are being "defeated". A simple bill passed by congress could stop India and China in their tracks. Congress just needs to pass a bill that charges all US companies an extra "heavy" tax for out-sourced labor or any imported goods from China. That would slow things down for China and India and US companies could still do the same trade with other nations like Taiwan. The USA still has _plenty_ of tricks up-her-sleeve to make sure that we don't lose that #1 spot.
So go on now and take your tree-planting-kit and move to Canada, eh!
Likewise, the American attempt to knock down Iraq has prove to be misguided, since they had no plan for what was going to follow it. Destroying the old order is easy. Building the new one is what's hard.
What idiots modded this crap "Insightful"? It is not like the Iraqi invasion took place 20 years ago and Iraq is still struggling to rebuild. The "war" in Iraq isn't totally over yet, and yet, the nation of Iraq has had their first ever democratic elections! A huge percentage of the Iraqi people came out to vote, even under the threat of terrorist attacks on them if they voted. I personally consider that an incredible achievement. I would personally like to see you lead a nation that removes a horrid dictator, and in practically no time turn around and hold a democratic election for president/prime minister with such a huge turn out. The achievements in Iraq have been great IMO. Setting up a true democratic government is the most important thing right now. The next phase would be to educate the people on the new government. It will of course take years to get people used to a new way of life and freedom and it will be hard. However, freedom and democracy will win. It will be a long-haul for the U.S.A to make sure that democracy takes place in Iraq and to ensure that no radical group comes back to power.
I have read many articles/post about how non-Americans couldn't understand how the majority of US citizens could vote for Bush. However, I now know why they did. The US citizens _knew_ from our own history that it does take resolve to make these long-term changes and make them last. Electing a very week candidate such as Kerry would have brought Iraq to its knees and had Iraq ruled by some other radical group in a matter of months or years. Building a nation and especially a world based on democracy sadly takes takes blood and years, yet the final outcome is alway worth the price.
I served in the U.S.M.C. I am a Conservative Christian, yet I am a Libertarian. However, I really have been amazed at how things are turning out for the people of Iraq. After all, the main focus should be "The People". I really hope they do set up the first democracy in Iraq and take over their own nation. You many come down on democracy all you want. However, democracy is truly the most peaceful system around. Most nations that deal with one another in a democratic fashion will almost never resort to war, look at the U.S.A and most nations in Europe. If the world converted to democracy over-night it would not become perfect, but I doubt war would happen again. Under a democratic world, there really is no reason for war.
MS Windows 2000 has this cert. Exactly where is _all_ this MS documentation available to the public? Oh, that is right, it is not. So exactly why would "Linux" need to have this public documentation? "Linux" wasn't certified. A specific implementation of Linux, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, was awarded this certification level. Novell put in the effort needed to achieve this certification, including proper documentation.
The Linux kernel is Open Source, as well as most/all of the GNU code base forming the complete OS. I can go out and build my own Linux distro (which I have done for personal use based on LFS). However, that doesn't mean that _my_ version of GNU/Linux is EAL4 certified. If you read the articles or even the simple summary, you should have clearly understood that currently, the only version of Linux to be EAL4 certified is, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.
I have actually done it in OS X, MS Windows XP Pro and Xandros. Obviously MS Windows XP Pro was the easiest. Just enter the domain name and you hit join. You might be prompted for a username/passoword and your done. This is how it was in Xandros after you picked the authentication method. Xandros was at least as easy as Os X if not easier, and there were no requirements of Xandros to buy expensive, proprietary hardware. You could use your existing X86 hardware if you wanted to.
So how many employees do you have in this "world's largets AD implementation"? Curiosity wants to know. I work for a fortune 500 that has _many_, _many_ times the number of MS employees working for them and they all get put in to AD (though as a senior programmer, I personally wished we used some more standards compliant applications). There are plenty of companies out there far bigger than MS, sales-wise and employee-wise.
How do you have 25 years of Linux experience when Linux has not been around that long?
They never check that shit
Huh? Where have you gone for job interviews? At the fortune 500 where I work, they are very strict about checking what you put on your resume. As a senior programmer, I get to do some of the technical interviews. I recently did a technical interview with a guy and he passed the technical interview above average. After talking with my boss, we gave him a call-back and offered him a position with a very good salary. At that point we hand the process over to HR and about two days later HR called us back telling us that we could not hire the guy. Why? Because on his resume he put he was a college grad and our HR called the school he said he had a degree at and he never graduated from there. He also put X number of years experience at certain technologies and our HR department called every company he listed to verify the technology experience or at least the numbers of years worked and job title. The guy didn't come close to his stated experience and seemed to be at the junior programmer level as far as experience went (which we were also hiring for). So this chump lost a great job opportunity because he lied on his resume. Most reputable companies _do_ check.
I guess you never used Xandros Desktop OS Version 2.5 Business Edition? It has Windows 2000 Active Directory server and Windows NT PDC authentication out-of-the-box. It is a piece of cake to setup. And no, I do not work for Xandros.
to connect a Linux box to an AD is a total pain in the arse
It doesn't have to be. Have you ever used Xandros Desktop OS Version 2.5 Business Edition? It has Windows 2000 Active Directory server and Windows NT PDC authentication out-of-the-box. It is _very_ easy to setup. It is much easier than the steps needed to get OS X.3 to connect to AD. The only other OS that I have used that is easier to connect to AD is MS windows pro-edition OS's, which I would hope would be easier since MS has access to their own code.
There looks to be a lot of problems with OS X.3 implementations still.
According to the "Introduction" of the article, you need to upgrade to OS X.3 since
OS X.3.4 has a number of problems with binding to Active Directories.
Also,
OS X.3 Panther, offers support for joining a
Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory (AD) using Kerberos authentication.
Do you know if it works with Win2k3? Where I work we upgraded all of our domain controllers and AD to Win2k3.
There is also this from the article:
A large number (if not all) of departments at the university use nested groups within the university's domain structure. Unfortunately, OS X.3 does not recognize or use nested groups
which is likely to be a major problem for many administrators and users. At this stage there appears to be no simple way to configure OS X.3 to recognize these groups
Sadly, it seems the best way to take advantage of MS's proprietary LDAP is to use MS OS's. This is why I personally prefer more standard implementations such as the offerings from SUN and Novell. To the best of my knowledge, there is currently not an OSS implementation that is in the same league as the offerings from Novell, SUN or MS and it seems the MS monopoly has won out again.
I don't know about 5+ seconds, maybe it is your box? However, I do agree. Just run top and move to another page in xpdf and watch the processor usage jump way up, 90%+ is not unusual (this is on a 3.04GHz HT P4 with 1GB memory). The official PDF viewer from Adobe is not much better, it sucks up a bunch of processor time between each page display. Once the page is displayed, my processor usage drops to about 0%-1%. Something isn't right with xpdf or the official Adobe PDF viewer under Linux.
This box is dual-booted with WinXP SP2. Under WinXP if I open a PDF with the latest version of the Adobe Reader, the processor jumps to about 30% usage from 0%-1% usage. While that is not "great", it is still much better than the huge spike I get on the same system under Linux. As a major user of Linux, I personally would like to know what the huge processor usage is from? I actually use Linux with the official NVidia Linux binary and an NVidia GForce 3 TI 500 (this card still kicks butt and can play the latest Doom fine), so I get pretty good 3D excel.
First Napster would never make that change. Napster makes their money by making sure that you _always_ have to pay for what you want over and over again. If Napster let you "keep" the music you purchased, it would kill their whole business model.
The other problem is that _most_ people don't want to rent music. Sure "we" like to rent movies, since you usually only want to see a movie once or twice. However, I know that I like to hear my favorite's songs many times. As a 32-year-old, I don't want to have to pay every month to listen to Pink Floyd, I want to buy Pink Floyd _once_ and listen to them when _I_ want on _my_ terms. I already own most of the Pink Floyd albums I love, and I ripped them to Ogg/MP3. I really don't want to pay for the _same_ content again and again.
There is currently also the other problem that Napster/Janus _only_ works under MS Window and MS "blessed" devices. The MS compatible devices on the market equate to crap market share. Most of the portable device users out there bought the stylish iPod. Napster and Janus do not work on that device. Until it does, most of the music purchasing community will never accept Napster/Janus. As someone who has been in the technology "scene" for many years, I can certainly say that from a purely technical perspective, there are better devices out their than the iPod. However, from a stylish/ease-of-use perspective, nothing comes close to the iPod. The iPod is what the "music generation" wants. So for the foreseeable future, the only options will be services that are compatible with an iPod. The only services that I am aware of that work with an iPod are iTMS and the Real Music Store.
I am sure that the MS Janus framework will have some place, just not in digital music. Janus will probably be used in crappy DRM'ed DVD content that is "allowed" to play X number of times on your PEECEE.
Err.. no, it is _really_ easy to limit customer bandwidth. So all they have to do is limit how much you can download each month and make sure it is not worth more than you pay for. At the very least, they can make sure that you do not download $1,000 worth of music for the month while you only paid $15.00 for it.
I see too many problems with Napster/Janus. End-users want to _own_ their own music, not rent it. I have no clue what the Napster CEO was talking about by saying that the subscription service is just like current P2P. Current P2P allows you to _own_ the song. You don't lose the song if you don't' continue to pay for it. However that is exactly what Napster and the MS Janus crap does. If you don't pay, you no longer have access to content, even the content that you have ALREADY PAID FOR.
First let me say that I am 32, married with two kids. I don't own an iPod and don't think they are "cool". However, I remember what it was like to be a teen and if I was currently a teen or a young twenty-something, the iPod would be the only choice of a "cool" player. All the other players are just such crap. That whole garbage from MS about being able to download from "many sites" means crap. iTunes/iTMS/iPod seem to give young music lovers just what they want. There is really no space in that market now for anyone other than Apple. Maybe MS and the others can market to the 40+ market, however, they wont get back the young market. Especially by pushing more restrictive DRM on them. Seriously, WTF is Napster and MS thinking? What young music lover is going to switch from a service like the iPod/iTMS where they actually get to _buy_ the music to a service where they only get to _rent_ the music and if they don't pay, they lose it all?
And it's also not fair to say "It's only the default install" that counts. If I go to SuSE or Red Hat, I expect that the vendor has done the job of making sure what they are releasing is as stable and secure as possible.
So you expect MS to make _everything_ they release as "secure as possible"? You must really be let down than. Especially considering that the latest release of the MS AntiSpyware program has been totally destroyed by a trojan that just deactivates it and DELETES all of the files for MS AntiSpyware. MS has it pretty easy as far as security goes. The typical MS OS is pretty bare-bones as far as software goes. A typical Linux or Mac OS X OS comes with TONS more software than your typical MS OS. However, MS still seems to have tons of problems locking down their bare-bones OS with almost no software included out-of-the-box. Exactly _what_ is MS's problem? As far as their core OS goes, they have far less to secure than Linux or Mac OS, yet they continue to have plenty of security problems. Could it be bad policies at MS? Maybe pushing "features" over security or maybe ship-dates over a products readiness?
The SP2 firewall will configure itself as you attempt to use applications.
Well, the SP2 "firewall" is not really a firewall. It is only a one-way firewall. I hope you know the importance of the difference between a one-way firewall and a _true_ two-way firewall? Also, the SP 2 firewall _does not_ "configure itself". The SP 2 firewall doesn't just open up ports willy-nilly. You need to manually go into the SP 2 firewall and open up ports. A one-way firewall obviously only protects your SP 2 computer ONE-WAY. So anything going out from your computer is _never_ stopped. That is not a very secure firewall IMO. That basically allows all those MS trojans that Joe User clicked on in their emails to continue to use their computer as a host.
So what is on your primary master? With windows it is a hit-or-miss game. I tried to install a corporate version WinXP SP 2 on a disk that was the primary slave and WinXP puked. It installed on my "D:" drive and most of it was not working. This was an out of the box install using the Win XP SP 2 install disk. Nothing worked well at all. As soon as I did a re-install on my primary master "C:" drive, WinXP SP 2 worked fine. Though it did kill my Linux OS boot record.
It is funny that if I install MS Windows first and than Linux, everything works fine. However if I install Linux and than MS Windows, MS Windows kill ANYTHING that is not MS Windows. I just stick to installing MS Windows first and than installing Linux and I never have a problem. Grub boots MS Windows XP on any drive, even where MS Windows XP has never installed for me.
Have you considered the possibility that scientists are ignoring science to favor undue burdening of businesses?
Sure I have. However, I look at who has to gain more from the action? Businesss is the one that benefits and makes the profits. It is really sad that you would force your Republi-crap thought process on the scientific process. Exactly what do most scientists have to gain by doing what you suggest? Even if these scientists suggest the crap you are talking about, the peer review process of other scientist would show them to be idiots. You cannot fool the scientific community, you can only show fools _within_ the scientific community.
Since when does a language communicate "ideas"? If I can communicate an idea in English, exactly why can I not communicate the _exact_ same idea in Spanish?
The LGPL is very clear and very basic. You can keep you code closed and you do not have to license your code under the LGPL. The only requirement is if you make changes to the _original_ LGPLed code/library, than you have to release those changes. For example, you write you application in C/GTK+. GTK+ is an LGPLed GUI tool-kit. You do not have to release _your_ source code. You do not have to release _your_ source code under the LGPL. The only time you would have to release _any_ code is if you went and actually changed the GTK+ tool-kit itself, which is not someting normally done, since you just _use_ the tool-kit. This is no different than under MS Windows. Do you think Microsoft would allow you to modify their Win32 API and distribute those modifications as your own? Nope.
However, if you try to tell me that gnome is a widget set, I will proceed to ignore you for what I hope are obvious reasons.
Gnome is a desktop environment. Gnome does have its _own_ API on top of GTK+ which is the tool-kit for Gnome. Here is a link to the GNOME Developer Platform Libraries.
GLib - GLib provides functionality which makes C more pleasant and convenient to use. It is used throughout the libraries of GTK+ and GNOME as well as in GNOME programs.
GObject - GObject provides the object system used for Pango and GTK+.
Atk - Atk - The ATK library provides a set of interfaces for accessibility. By supporting the ATK interfaces, an application or toolkit can be used such as tools such as screen readers, magnifiers, and alternative input devices.
At-spi - The AT-SPI library provides interfaces which are used by accessibility technologies. The documentation above describes the C bindings for these interfaces.
Gail - The GAIL library provides accessibility support for GTK+ and libgnomecanvas by implementing AtkObjects for widgets in these libraries.
Pango - Pango provides font and text handling that is used for GDK and GTK+.
GdkPixbuf - GdkPixbuf is a library for image loading and manipulation. The GdkPixbuf documentation contains both the programmer's guide and the API reference.
GDK - An intermediate layer which isolates GTK+ from the details of the windowing system.
GTK+ - The GTK+ widgets.
libXML - Powerful and feature complete XML handling library.
libxslt - The XSLT C library developed for the Gnome project. XSLT itself is a an XML language to define transformation for XML. Libxslt is based on libxml2.
libglade - The Libglade library gives applications the ability to load user interfaces from XML files at runtime. These interface files can be created with the GLADE user interface builder. Libglade is also capable of automatically connecting handlers to the signals defined in the interface file.
libGnome - Library containing extra widgets to let your GNOME applications shine.
libGnomeui - Library containing extra widgets to let your GNOME applications really shine.
GNOME-vfs - Library for letting applications seamlessly access remote and local files.
GConf - GConf is a process-transparent configuration database with a model-view-controller architecture and a number of other spiffy features. Like the Registry, but fixed up and on steroids.
Libgnomecanvas - The libgnomecanvas library provides a widget for creating interactive structured graphics in object-oriented fashion.
Libart - Libart functions - Libart handles the drawing capabilities in GNOME. All complex rendering is handled here.
ORBit - ORBit is an implementation of the C CORBA specification. It is among the fastest CORBA ORB's available.
Bonobo-activation - Bonobo-activation allows you to browse the available CORBA servers on your system (running or not). It keeps track of the running servers so that if you ask for a s
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Sadly, I don't think the average Joe cares about being screwed over. They have been brain-washed to look for rock-bottom prices. If Lexmark can find a way to sell a similar printer to the competitors for $2 - $5 less, most US drone-shoppers will eat it up.
Do you have a link to any of these sites? I have not seen one pop-up in Firefox and I hit many sites IMO. I would like to see a site that actually side-steps the anti pop-up features of modern browsers to see how they are doing it. I am sure a simple fix to Firefox/Safari would resolve the problem.
Me, I will stick with the USA and what we stand for.
As for Sudan, have they asked for help? Do you even know what you are talking about? Sudan has been in a 20-year civil war. It is not the US's job to police the world. The people of Sudan have been fighting back and it is the people who will have their way, just as the USA didn't need intervention during our _own_ civil war. Also,
it would be pretty stupid for the USA to come in and wreck things now. Also, there is the fact that the people of Sudan have been fighting back and have not been under a dictatorship such as the people of Iraq. Compare Apples to Apples.As for Zimbabwe, there has been a lot of humanitarian assistance, just search Google and see the tons of aid from the USA and the people of the USA.
No, you need some _real_ history books that haven't been rewritten by liberals.Are you freaking kidding me? India and Chine don't even come close to our wealth. The USA has only 3% of the worlds population yet has/controls more than 50% of the worlds wealth. That is pretty damn good for 3% of the population IMO. Also, the USA spends more each year on military than the next top 25 nations combined (this was on the Science channel last night)! There is not one single nation that even comes close to the GDP of the USA, not one. Please point out one _single_ nation that is even close. So exactly how in the world is "India and China using trade to defeat us"?If you look at the GDP of China, they are where we were in 1970! I certainly wouldn't call that "China defeating us", since they are over 35 years behind us. Oh, and the GDP of India doesn't even come close to that of the USA. Just because a few low-tech jobs are out-sourced to India, doesn't mean we are being "defeated". A simple bill passed by congress could stop India and China in their tracks. Congress just needs to pass a bill that charges all US companies an extra "heavy" tax for out-sourced labor or any imported goods from China. That would slow things down for China and India and US companies could still do the same trade with other nations like Taiwan. The USA still has _plenty_ of tricks up-her-sleeve to make sure that we don't lose that #1 spot.
So go on now and take your tree-planting-kit and move to Canada, eh!
I have read many articles/post about how non-Americans couldn't understand how the majority of US citizens could vote for Bush. However, I now know why they did. The US citizens _knew_ from our own history that it does take resolve to make these long-term changes and make them last. Electing a very week candidate such as Kerry would have brought Iraq to its knees and had Iraq ruled by some other radical group in a matter of months or years. Building a nation and especially a world based on democracy sadly takes takes blood and years, yet the final outcome is alway worth the price.
I served in the U.S.M.C. I am a Conservative Christian, yet I am a Libertarian. However, I really have been amazed at how things are turning out for the people of Iraq. After all, the main focus should be "The People". I really hope they do set up the first democracy in Iraq and take over their own nation. You many come down on democracy all you want. However, democracy is truly the most peaceful system around. Most nations that deal with one another in a democratic fashion will almost never resort to war, look at the U.S.A and most nations in Europe. If the world converted to democracy over-night it would not become perfect, but I doubt war would happen again. Under a democratic world, there really is no reason for war.
MS Windows 2000 has this cert. Exactly where is _all_ this MS documentation available to the public? Oh, that is right, it is not. So exactly why would "Linux" need to have this public documentation? "Linux" wasn't certified. A specific implementation of Linux, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, was awarded this certification level. Novell put in the effort needed to achieve this certification, including proper documentation.
The Linux kernel is Open Source, as well as most/all of the GNU code base forming the complete OS. I can go out and build my own Linux distro (which I have done for personal use based on LFS). However, that doesn't mean that _my_ version of GNU/Linux is EAL4 certified. If you read the articles or even the simple summary, you should have clearly understood that currently, the only version of Linux to be EAL4 certified is, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.
I have actually done it in OS X, MS Windows XP Pro and Xandros. Obviously MS Windows XP Pro was the easiest. Just enter the domain name and you hit join. You might be prompted for a username/passoword and your done. This is how it was in Xandros after you picked the authentication method. Xandros was at least as easy as Os X if not easier, and there were no requirements of Xandros to buy expensive, proprietary hardware. You could use your existing X86 hardware if you wanted to.
So how many employees do you have in this "world's largets AD implementation"? Curiosity wants to know. I work for a fortune 500 that has _many_, _many_ times the number of MS employees working for them and they all get put in to AD (though as a senior programmer, I personally wished we used some more standards compliant applications). There are plenty of companies out there far bigger than MS, sales-wise and employee-wise.
I guess you never used Xandros Desktop OS Version 2.5 Business Edition? It has Windows 2000 Active Directory server and Windows NT PDC authentication out-of-the-box. It is a piece of cake to setup. And no, I do not work for Xandros.
There is also this from the article:
Sadly, it seems the best way to take advantage of MS's proprietary LDAP is to use MS OS's. This is why I personally prefer more standard implementations such as the offerings from SUN and Novell. To the best of my knowledge, there is currently not an OSS implementation that is in the same league as the offerings from Novell, SUN or MS and it seems the MS monopoly has won out again.Acrobat 6 is dog slow to start up compared to Acrobat 5. However, there are some things you can do to _really_ decrease startup times.
This box is dual-booted with WinXP SP2. Under WinXP if I open a PDF with the latest version of the Adobe Reader, the processor jumps to about 30% usage from 0%-1% usage. While that is not "great", it is still much better than the huge spike I get on the same system under Linux. As a major user of Linux, I personally would like to know what the huge processor usage is from? I actually use Linux with the official NVidia Linux binary and an NVidia GForce 3 TI 500 (this card still kicks butt and can play the latest Doom fine), so I get pretty good 3D excel.
The other problem is that _most_ people don't want to rent music. Sure "we" like to rent movies, since you usually only want to see a movie once or twice. However, I know that I like to hear my favorite's songs many times. As a 32-year-old, I don't want to have to pay every month to listen to Pink Floyd, I want to buy Pink Floyd _once_ and listen to them when _I_ want on _my_ terms. I already own most of the Pink Floyd albums I love, and I ripped them to Ogg/MP3. I really don't want to pay for the _same_ content again and again.
There is currently also the other problem that Napster/Janus _only_ works under MS Window and MS "blessed" devices. The MS compatible devices on the market equate to crap market share. Most of the portable device users out there bought the stylish iPod. Napster and Janus do not work on that device. Until it does, most of the music purchasing community will never accept Napster/Janus. As someone who has been in the technology "scene" for many years, I can certainly say that from a purely technical perspective, there are better devices out their than the iPod. However, from a stylish/ease-of-use perspective, nothing comes close to the iPod. The iPod is what the "music generation" wants. So for the foreseeable future, the only options will be services that are compatible with an iPod. The only services that I am aware of that work with an iPod are iTMS and the Real Music Store.
I am sure that the MS Janus framework will have some place, just not in digital music. Janus will probably be used in crappy DRM'ed DVD content that is "allowed" to play X number of times on your PEECEE.
I see too many problems with Napster/Janus. End-users want to _own_ their own music, not rent it. I have no clue what the Napster CEO was talking about by saying that the subscription service is just like current P2P. Current P2P allows you to _own_ the song. You don't lose the song if you don't' continue to pay for it. However that is exactly what Napster and the MS Janus crap does. If you don't pay, you no longer have access to content, even the content that you have ALREADY PAID FOR.
First let me say that I am 32, married with two kids. I don't own an iPod and don't think they are "cool". However, I remember what it was like to be a teen and if I was currently a teen or a young twenty-something, the iPod would be the only choice of a "cool" player. All the other players are just such crap. That whole garbage from MS about being able to download from "many sites" means crap. iTunes/iTMS/iPod seem to give young music lovers just what they want. There is really no space in that market now for anyone other than Apple. Maybe MS and the others can market to the 40+ market, however, they wont get back the young market. Especially by pushing more restrictive DRM on them. Seriously, WTF is Napster and MS thinking? What young music lover is going to switch from a service like the iPod/iTMS where they actually get to _buy_ the music to a service where they only get to _rent_ the music and if they don't pay, they lose it all?
It is funny that if I install MS Windows first and than Linux, everything works fine. However if I install Linux and than MS Windows, MS Windows kill ANYTHING that is not MS Windows. I just stick to installing MS Windows first and than installing Linux and I never have a problem. Grub boots MS Windows XP on any drive, even where MS Windows XP has never installed for me.
Since when does a language communicate "ideas"? If I can communicate an idea in English, exactly why can I not communicate the _exact_ same idea in Spanish?
The LGPL is very clear and very basic. You can keep you code closed and you do not have to license your code under the LGPL. The only requirement is if you make changes to the _original_ LGPLed code/library, than you have to release those changes. For example, you write you application in C/GTK+. GTK+ is an LGPLed GUI tool-kit. You do not have to release _your_ source code. You do not have to release _your_ source code under the LGPL. The only time you would have to release _any_ code is if you went and actually changed the GTK+ tool-kit itself, which is not someting normally done, since you just _use_ the tool-kit. This is no different than under MS Windows. Do you think Microsoft would allow you to modify their Win32 API and distribute those modifications as your own? Nope.
Gnome is a desktop environment. Gnome does have its _own_ API on top of GTK+ which is the tool-kit for Gnome. Here is a link to the GNOME Developer Platform Libraries.
GLib - GLib provides functionality which makes C more pleasant and convenient to use. It is used throughout the libraries of GTK+ and GNOME as well as in GNOME programs.
GObject - GObject provides the object system used for Pango and GTK+.
Atk - Atk - The ATK library provides a set of interfaces for accessibility. By supporting the ATK interfaces, an application or toolkit can be used such as tools such as screen readers, magnifiers, and alternative input devices.
At-spi - The AT-SPI library provides interfaces which are used by accessibility technologies. The documentation above describes the C bindings for these interfaces.
Gail - The GAIL library provides accessibility support for GTK+ and libgnomecanvas by implementing AtkObjects for widgets in these libraries.
Pango - Pango provides font and text handling that is used for GDK and GTK+.
GdkPixbuf - GdkPixbuf is a library for image loading and manipulation. The GdkPixbuf documentation contains both the programmer's guide and the API reference.
GDK - An intermediate layer which isolates GTK+ from the details of the windowing system.
GTK+ - The GTK+ widgets.
libXML - Powerful and feature complete XML handling library.
libxslt - The XSLT C library developed for the Gnome project. XSLT itself is a an XML language to define transformation for XML. Libxslt is based on libxml2.
libglade - The Libglade library gives applications the ability to load user interfaces from XML files at runtime. These interface files can be created with the GLADE user interface builder. Libglade is also capable of automatically connecting handlers to the signals defined in the interface file.
libGnome - Library containing extra widgets to let your GNOME applications shine.
libGnomeui - Library containing extra widgets to let your GNOME applications really shine.
GNOME-vfs - Library for letting applications seamlessly access remote and local files.
GConf - GConf is a process-transparent configuration database with a model-view-controller architecture and a number of other spiffy features. Like the Registry, but fixed up and on steroids.
Libgnomecanvas - The libgnomecanvas library provides a widget for creating interactive structured graphics in object-oriented fashion.
Libart - Libart functions - Libart handles the drawing capabilities in GNOME. All complex rendering is handled here.
ORBit - ORBit is an implementation of the C CORBA specification. It is among the fastest CORBA ORB's available.
Bonobo-activation - Bonobo-activation allows you to browse the available CORBA servers on your system (running or not). It keeps track of the running servers so that if you ask for a s