I dont really know why Eugenias problem with Xandros Update is. But as a Xandros beta tester for at least 6 months now, I can tell you it works perfect.
Basically It is a front end to apt-get, so it works just as well as apt-get does. You use a search feature to find the package name, or a word in the package discription. Then you select all the packages you want to install, and click the "install/update/remove" button. It will then fetch them all, install them, and install any dependencies (prompting you if it's alright to install the dependencies)
The slight confusion that some people seem to be having it that it also supports installing rpms and downloaded.deb files. What this means is that you can use it as a normal rpm installer, but there is no dependency installing. Same goes for if you download manual, then try to install it. So it works perfect for everything it's intended to do.
Also complaining about the selection of packages? It's the exact same selection you get with debians apt-get, cause they are useing the same package sources.
A few people of complained that xandros isn't running all the latest stable version of some applications, this is also because they install them useing Xandros Update, and debian hasen't provided.debs of those latest versions yet.
And yeah as the previous poster said, There is no way they'll change over to kde 3 for beta 1, we (the beta testers) were telling them 6months ago they needed kde3 to have a chance when they released, but i guess they didnt agree!
Mpeg-4 is the format that DIVX movies use.
Mpeg4 is the format developed by Mpeg-la that apple is includeing in quicktime 6.
2 totaly different standards that have similar names
Re:the interesting part is right at then end
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I doubt the court really has an understanding of open source software, i think what they ment by this order was to prevent him from downloading "exploit code"
From what i got from the artcile the moral of the story (beyond not being a script kiddie)
Is to only attack one site then totaly change your methods/location.
Even after they knew it was mafiaboy, they still had to wait tell he did another attack to capture real-time evidence..
I recommend Mozilla to block popunder adds
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Just goto Edit > Prefrences > Advanced > Scripts and Windows > and disable the checkbox that says "open unrequested windows"
No actually it is avaliable right now, i'm downloading it from the official ftp right now. Most of the mirrors arn't updated yet though.
I believe that apple also started the Beige trend
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I remember reading in my "Fire in the Valley" book (the book that pirates of silicon valley is based off) That the apple ][ was the first computer to be put in it's own plastic case, which just happened to be beige.
I have wished for many years that porn sites where forced to use.xxx domains. I dont see how it would effect their business at all. And it would make it very easy to firewall out all.xxx domains to places that didnt want their users to have access to porn. such as schools and offices. And dont complain that blocking.xxx would be unfair, office workers and schools are useing someone elses internet connection, and should have to live by it's rules
The article basically says that no pc company could consider breaking the agrement and not getting the $10 per copy discount.
As far as i understood Microsoft cuts them off the discount if they are EVEN offering non MS solutions, not just dual boot situations
scary
The beta versions of 7.3 have to have release numbers, so they use something high in the previous release, like 7.2.92 in this case, that leaves them 8 more beta versions before it's called 7.3
That wouldn't really make any sense, MS dosen't want people sending you spam, it just increases their bandwidth usage.
They've even gone to the effort of creating good spam filters and the ability to block hosts that have spammed you in the past
Well If you notice the crossover plugin is useing windows media player 6 (i belive) and the reasion they cant run a newer version is because Microsoft added a line in the EULA of media player, saying it can only be installed on a system with MS windows.
So how long untill windows media player 6 just wont cut it? I think the best hope for linux media is MPEG4 and quicktime 6. Even if apple dosent release Quicktime 6 for linux, MPEG4 is an open standard and it will be easier to port something.
The author of the article seems to think that windows compatablity played a part in the death os os/2.
He argues that because programmers could make just one version that one run on both os's, they didnt bother marketing an os/2 only version, which would have be optimized for the os/2 platform.
I hope this isn't going to happen with wine/linux. Its quite obvious that windows programs will never quite work perfect in wine, and I hope developers dont use wine as an excuse to not bother developing linux applications.
I can understand that Apple needs to make sure it's stores are profitable in order rationalize opening more. In some ways it's the independant retailers that have failed the apple comunity by not properly pushing Mac's over Pc's. This is why apple thinks it's necessary to open their own stores!
Apple really does need to increase their production capacity, this kinda back log happens after every major release, it's just been worse with the imac cause it's so DAMN cool:)
I dont really think it's all that surpriseing that more people know how to use a tv then a computer, first of all one has been around for 50 years as opposed to 10 in most homes, and also there are so many more fuctions in the computer, it can do more, therefore is harder to learn.
As I read alot of these post, i'm not sure if everyone relises that when people say he discovered america they mean the contient, Columbis himself never actually set food in the land now owned by the U.S.A:)
and i'm pretty sure that the vikings landed in what is now Canada
Another program that does the same thing but FREE
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I ran across this link at www.macnn.com
apparently it's a free (for prersonal user) program that is basically exactuly the same.
http://www.kohlenbach.de/prod_ipoadress_engl.htm
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I think you guys need to read the FAQ on the webpage, it's not a GUI for linux or freebsd. It's a clonse of the BeOS. It dosent use x11, and is based on the NewOS kernel, not linux.
I remember reading an article back, (one linked to from sun.com) that said they liked to call staroffice a "no-cost" download, not a free download, basically meaning that it's costing sun mega bucks to even offer the download (and we all know that sun dosent like to mirror stuff, they want everything to go threw them so that they can control it)
anyway, in the article they said they were thinking of chargeing a small fee for staroffice 6, mostly to cover their costs, not to make a profit.
so i would expect maybe $20 for the download version, and $50 for a box set?
I totaly see why is he worried, but couldnt the agreement be that if it's GPL before, you have to release it as GPL, if it's BSD before, release it as BSD, or if you are codeing from scratch, you can choose which open source license you want.
obviously we're not asking you to open source non open source software, or relicense exsisting open source software.
Sounds very similar to the digital hub that apple keeps talking about, i think i'd personaly take the apple, but it is interesting that they have tv and radio tuners, kinda like the sony vios... hmm sounds like alot of this stuff has been done before:)
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Not EVERYONE reads the articles!!
it's about replacing the guts of a nes with normal pc parts, and does not mention running linux at all
I dont really know why Eugenias problem with Xandros Update is. But as a Xandros beta tester for at least 6 months now, I can tell you it works perfect.
.deb files. What this means is that you can use it as a normal rpm installer, but there is no dependency installing. Same goes for if you download manual, then try to install it. So it works perfect for everything it's intended to do.
.debs of those latest versions yet.
Basically It is a front end to apt-get, so it works just as well as apt-get does. You use a search feature to find the package name, or a word in the package discription. Then you select all the packages you want to install, and click the "install/update/remove" button. It will then fetch them all, install them, and install any dependencies (prompting you if it's alright to install the dependencies)
The slight confusion that some people seem to be having it that it also supports installing rpms and downloaded
Also complaining about the selection of packages? It's the exact same selection you get with debians apt-get, cause they are useing the same package sources.
A few people of complained that xandros isn't running all the latest stable version of some applications, this is also because they install them useing Xandros Update, and debian hasen't provided
And yeah as the previous poster said, There is no way they'll change over to kde 3 for beta 1, we (the beta testers) were telling them 6months ago they needed kde3 to have a chance when they released, but i guess they didnt agree!
Mpeg-4 is the format that DIVX movies use. Mpeg4 is the format developed by Mpeg-la that apple is includeing in quicktime 6. 2 totaly different standards that have similar names
I doubt the court really has an understanding of open source software, i think what they ment by this order was to prevent him from downloading "exploit code"
From what i got from the artcile the moral of the story (beyond not being a script kiddie) Is to only attack one site then totaly change your methods/location. Even after they knew it was mafiaboy, they still had to wait tell he did another attack to capture real-time evidence..
Just goto Edit > Prefrences > Advanced > Scripts and Windows > and disable the checkbox that says "open unrequested windows"
No actually it is avaliable right now, i'm downloading it from the official ftp right now. Most of the mirrors arn't updated yet though.
I remember reading in my "Fire in the Valley" book (the book that pirates of silicon valley is based off) That the apple ][ was the first computer to be put in it's own plastic case, which just happened to be beige.
I have wished for many years that porn sites where forced to use .xxx domains. I dont see how it would effect their business at all. And it would make it very easy to firewall out all .xxx domains to places that didnt want their users to have access to porn. such as schools and offices. And dont complain that blocking .xxx would be unfair, office workers and schools are useing someone elses internet connection, and should have to live by it's rules
Thats kinda like my mom, she heard that sending forwards can spread virii, so she prints out chain letters and snail mails them to people i'm serious
The article basically says that no pc company could consider breaking the agrement and not getting the $10 per copy discount. As far as i understood Microsoft cuts them off the discount if they are EVEN offering non MS solutions, not just dual boot situations scary
Ah whats a cool billion between friends
The beta versions of 7.3 have to have release numbers, so they use something high in the previous release, like 7.2.92 in this case, that leaves them 8 more beta versions before it's called 7.3
That wouldn't really make any sense, MS dosen't want people sending you spam, it just increases their bandwidth usage. They've even gone to the effort of creating good spam filters and the ability to block hosts that have spammed you in the past
Well If you notice the crossover plugin is useing windows media player 6 (i belive) and the reasion they cant run a newer version is because Microsoft added a line in the EULA of media player, saying it can only be installed on a system with MS windows.
So how long untill windows media player 6 just wont cut it? I think the best hope for linux media is MPEG4 and quicktime 6. Even if apple dosent release Quicktime 6 for linux, MPEG4 is an open standard and it will be easier to port something.
The author of the article seems to think that windows compatablity played a part in the death os os/2.
He argues that because programmers could make just one version that one run on both os's, they didnt bother marketing an os/2 only version, which would have be optimized for the os/2 platform.
I hope this isn't going to happen with wine/linux. Its quite obvious that windows programs will never quite work perfect in wine, and I hope developers dont use wine as an excuse to not bother developing linux applications.
I can understand that Apple needs to make sure it's stores are profitable in order rationalize opening more. In some ways it's the independant retailers that have failed the apple comunity by not properly pushing Mac's over Pc's. This is why apple thinks it's necessary to open their own stores! Apple really does need to increase their production capacity, this kinda back log happens after every major release, it's just been worse with the imac cause it's so DAMN cool :)
I dont really think it's all that surpriseing that more people know how to use a tv then a computer, first of all one has been around for 50 years as opposed to 10 in most homes, and also there are so many more fuctions in the computer, it can do more, therefore is harder to learn.
As I read alot of these post, i'm not sure if everyone relises that when people say he discovered america they mean the contient, Columbis himself never actually set food in the land now owned by the U.S.A :)
and i'm pretty sure that the vikings landed in what is now Canada
I ran across this link at www.macnn.com apparently it's a free (for prersonal user) program that is basically exactuly the same. http://www.kohlenbach.de/prod_ipoadress_engl.htm
I think you guys need to read the FAQ on the webpage, it's not a GUI for linux or freebsd. It's a clonse of the BeOS. It dosent use x11, and is based on the NewOS kernel, not linux.
I remember reading an article back, (one linked to from sun.com) that said they liked to call staroffice a "no-cost" download, not a free download, basically meaning that it's costing sun mega bucks to even offer the download (and we all know that sun dosent like to mirror stuff, they want everything to go threw them so that they can control it)
anyway, in the article they said they were thinking of chargeing a small fee for staroffice 6, mostly to cover their costs, not to make a profit.
so i would expect maybe $20 for the download version, and $50 for a box set?
not really that big of a deal
anyone have a copy of the text? i couldnt find the page on google's cache
I totaly see why is he worried, but couldnt the agreement be that if it's GPL before, you have to release it as GPL, if it's BSD before, release it as BSD, or if you are codeing from scratch, you can choose which open source license you want. obviously we're not asking you to open source non open source software, or relicense exsisting open source software.
Sounds very similar to the digital hub that apple keeps talking about, i think i'd personaly take the apple, but it is interesting that they have tv and radio tuners, kinda like the sony vios... hmm sounds like alot of this stuff has been done before:)