Here in sweden/lulea, I live in a quite small apartment nearby the University. I have 6 outlets on approximately 25 square meters, but none of them are ok. instead i use the extra one under my "kitchen-sink-light" that happens to be the only one with three wires (=grounded) and from that i take all the power I need (through a large surge protector, never trust anyone) for my elecronics. Granted, I take power through the other outlets also, but the main issue here (this being slashdot) is for electronics(in one form or other). So I would say here in Sweden, atleast, the amount of outlets with three wires is limited. And that is really what you want. I seem to recall that quite many electrical appliances are out side their terms of warranty (including computers) if installed to an electrical outlet without three wires.
Ummhmm... Some feel the call in the same way as those in Jean d'Arc (or how it is spelled). Now Linus may not be as appealing to rallying around as she was, but there is always a mixed feeling...in some kind of way. What is the difference between like and follow?
Managaing transactions you can do by going to the bank, but the thing with this category of software is to keep track of your assets, spending and other information.
I'm not sure about you, but my bank does not offer me the same flexibility.
It seems to me I have a different understanding of the term "re-invent the wheel".
As described in the whitepaper available from unitedlinux.com section 2.3 lists all the standards it tries to comply with. Listed there are FHS, LSB and others.
What comes to all RFC and POSIX, I simply fail to see how a common base for distributions will constitute to reinventing the wheel.
Or to snip from the FAQ: "UnitedLinux is a standards-based,...", the use of the word based doesn't in my opinion imply much of reinventing.
I was thinking on the lines of implementing a new set of benchmarks that are heavily optimized for the specific processor they run on. In the lines of writing an office benchmark optimized for Athlons/PIII/P4/AMR, etc. and counting highest achieved words-per-minute or other productivity related metric.
Seriously though, writing a set of benchmarks that fully exploit the possibilities of a specific processor would be something that I would find interesting.
Primarily what anyone looks for in a userinterface(be it for a whole system or just individual programs) is usability. What is usable or not depends on the skills of the user and how familiar the user is with the interface. (Some of the aforementioned may require som training). Nowadays most people expect a graphical type of interface to call it a decent userinterface and this certainly more and more developers take into account and provide frontends of all kinds to different programs. What I find most sad is that not many of these frontends provide any more than similiar non-graphical(i.e. text) interfaces do and, thinking about the usability, some are close to user-hostile in their behaviour. Yes, they may be in alpha/beta stage, but still.
Ok, now I seem to be getting off my original intent.
The userinterface. The big thing I still have not seen much of is userinterfaces with intelligence. Sure things are changing with new features in for example Microsoft Office 2000 where less frequently used menu-alternatives don't show up and the assistant asking nice questions every now and then. The intelligence I am lacking is, well, so much more than that. It could be some automated behaviour of some kind. Software that grows with the skills of the user. And more.
Some of the more interesting things I see on where good/bad UI design is matters are games. Several games that have been released may be altereations of another one and the ones that get popular are those with good user-interfaces(may not be true for games with pointless running around shooting eachother).
How about all people running ipmasq stuff and such. 2.3.x comes with netfilter, the new way of doing these things. I don't know much about existing modules and such, but have been running my own little subnet with it for a few months now.
I was wondering if anyone has had some trouble migrating from 2.2.x to 2.3.x and if there are some great lessons to learn.
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Here in sweden/lulea, I live in a quite small apartment nearby the University. I have 6 outlets on approximately 25 square meters, but none of them are ok. instead i use the extra one under my "kitchen-sink-light" that happens to be the only one with three wires (=grounded) and from that i take all the power I need (through a large surge protector, never trust anyone) for my elecronics. Granted, I take power through the other outlets also, but the main issue here (this being slashdot) is for electronics(in one form or other). So I would say here in Sweden, atleast, the amount of outlets with three wires is limited. And that is really what you want. I seem to recall that quite many electrical appliances are out side their terms of warranty (including computers) if installed to an electrical outlet without three wires.
Ummhmm...
Some feel the call in the same way as those in Jean d'Arc (or how it is spelled). Now Linus may not be as appealing to rallying around as she was, but there is always a mixed feeling...in some kind of way. What is the difference between like and follow?
Managaing transactions you can do by going to the bank, but the thing with this category of software is to keep track of your assets, spending and other information.
I'm not sure about you, but my bank does not offer me the same flexibility.
It seems to me I have a different understanding of the term "re-invent the wheel".
...", the use of the word based doesn't in my opinion imply much of reinventing.
As described in the whitepaper available from unitedlinux.com section 2.3 lists all the standards it tries to comply with. Listed there are FHS, LSB and others.
What comes to all RFC and POSIX, I simply fail to see how a common base for distributions will constitute to reinventing the wheel.
Or to snip from the FAQ:
"UnitedLinux is a standards-based,
I was thinking on the lines of implementing a new set of benchmarks that are heavily optimized for the specific processor they run on. In the lines of writing an office benchmark optimized for Athlons/PIII/P4/AMR, etc. and counting highest achieved words-per-minute or other productivity related metric.
Seriously though, writing a set of benchmarks that fully exploit the possibilities of a specific processor would be something that I would find interesting.
Primarily what anyone looks for in a userinterface(be it for a whole system or just individual programs) is usability. What is usable or not depends on the skills of the user and how familiar the user is with the interface. (Some of the aforementioned may require som training). Nowadays most people expect a graphical type of interface to call it a decent userinterface and this certainly more and more developers take into account and provide frontends of all kinds to different programs. What I find most sad is that not many of these frontends provide any more than similiar non-graphical(i.e. text) interfaces do and, thinking about the usability, some are close to user-hostile in their behaviour. Yes, they may be in alpha/beta stage, but still.
Ok, now I seem to be getting off my original intent.
The userinterface.
The big thing I still have not seen much of is userinterfaces with intelligence. Sure things are changing with new features in for example Microsoft Office 2000 where less frequently used menu-alternatives don't show up and the assistant asking nice questions every now and then. The intelligence I am lacking is, well, so much more than that. It could be some automated behaviour of some kind. Software that grows with the skills of the user. And more.
Some of the more interesting things I see on where good/bad UI design is matters are games. Several games that have been released may be altereations of another one and the ones that get popular are those with good user-interfaces(may not be true for games with pointless running around shooting eachother).
Ok, I guess some of that made sense, maybe, or?
How about all people running ipmasq stuff and such. 2.3.x comes with netfilter, the new way of doing these things. I don't know much about existing modules and such, but have been running my own little subnet with it for a few months now.
I was wondering if anyone has had some trouble migrating from 2.2.x to 2.3.x and if there are some great lessons to learn.