Actually, the new MSN search seems to be terribly badly biased towards standards-compliant pages. At least, that's the only reason I can find for my website's unjustifiably high ranking for a number of keywords.
Not that I think standards-compliance isn't important, but it shouldn't have that much influence.
Apart from RSS feeds, how can I use this data? I mean, I have RDF metadata available for pretty much every page on my website, but I haven't yet noticed anyone who actually reads it.
The semantic web seems like a good idea in principle, but I would really like to know just how I could use it in real life! Seriously, can anyone name a useful tool that relies on RDF feeds (again, aside from RSS-style stuff) or propose one that could? Perhaps if I saw a real application of the semantic web I would actually understand what RDF is actually all about.
Certainly not all BIOS limitations will reduce the accessible capacity of your disk. I have a VIA EPIA machine which is "stuck" at 136GB due (apparently) to the LBA32 address limit.
However, linux uses all the available space without question.
So, I guess I'm saying that you're quite possibly right.
A friend of mine came up with the idea that the set of laws should be restricted, by forcing them to fit inside a book of fixed length (say 200 pages of 12pt text). That way, when a new law gets brought in, they have to get rid of an old one (or make an old one simpler), and everyone gets a better chance of understanding the law.
Seriously, has anyone tried this with TransGaming's Cedega? I know it is supported by them, but are there any issues I should know before forking out for a) HL2 and b) cedaga?
But it does allow me to forward eclipse & firefox over my wireless LAN to my crappy old laptop, and use the apps that are running natively on the machine at the same time. I actually can't tell the difference between programs running locally and remotely.
That's the attraction of the large, community-supported distos like Debian and Gentoo - they have enormous package databases that make it _easier_ to install stuff than under Windows. The vast majority of programs that you'll ever want are only an "apt-get" or an "emerge" away. Dependencies are solved automatically. What is more, the package maintainers on these distributions typically work to a tight set of standards for file locations, documentation etc, and packages are only made available once they have been tested and marked stable (the standard for stability is rather higher on Debian, although I prefer Gentoo).
I have no experience of Fedora, but Redhat 8/9 suffered terribly from RH not packaging all that much software, and developers packaging software for it to their own standards and conventions. Redhat also couldn't solve dependencies automatically. It is my understanding that Fedora is an attempt to solve some of these issues, but as I say, I haven't tried it yet.
So I'd say that unifying distributions is unnecessary, so long as the community can continue to support distros such as Debian and Gentoo.
One area where unification _is_ important is interoperability on the desktop. The divide between Gnome and KDE is far more significant to the man-on-the-street than between distributions. This is the point of freedesktop.org, and I think they are making progress.
So as far as making it easy for the mass-market goes, no, Linux isn't there yet. However, it's moving rapidly in the right direction. Every year I see the gap in basic, out of the box usability between Windows and Linux shrinking faster and faster, and in many areas (such as package management) Linux is already streets ahead.
To be perfectly honest, if it just has to get there, I wouldn't rely on an email server that I run. I'm much happier entrusting my email to a company that employs people specifically to provide a reliable email service.
Having said that, I agree entirely that relying on a free service, where those who run it have no obligation to you, is perhaps not the best idea.
That's why I pay fastmail to do my email, and so far they haven't let me down.
Ye, I used to get that quite a lot under win2k too. I could also never get more than a weeks uptime out of it. I put it down to me meddling too much:)
But I'm afraid the biggest things I miss when I boot to windows now are a decent command line, being able to install apps with a single command (e.g. emerge, apt-get), and sometimes X-forwarding. Plus the little things, like not being able to use X2X to control my laptop and desktop from the same keyboard and mouse.
Oh, (flamebait I know:) ) mplayer is the best media player out there, and the windows builds are a little flakey.
I'm more than willing to admit that Linux isn't for everyone, but I don't think that I would go back to Windows out of choice.
Well, my (albeit small) experiments with web design have demonstrated that IE and Mozilla certainly interpret CSS in different ways. TBH I can't be arsed to find out which is correct.
However, I suspect you are in error when you say you are writing XHTML 1.1 compliant pages and serving them to IE. If my memory serves me rightly, XHTML 1.1 _requires_ you to serve using the application/xhtml+xml mime-type (or something similar at least), which IE doesn't have the faintest clue how to understand.
I agree with you in some sense though; IE 6's shortcomings aren't all that difficult to deal with. The biggest problem I have faced is that with an all-linux system, I can't actually test pages in IE (actually, I have seen IE run under CrossOver, but I've had trouble making it run under plain ole' WINE). Since I don't manage anything critical, I just wait for people to complain:)
And being as the only petrol I can buy in this country is 95-98 RON, I suspect the people designing engines for use here don't bother testing with 87 octane:P
My nVIDIA drivers seem okay on x.org at the minute. To be honest, the only difference I can see (as an end-user, not as a coder) is the change in the name of the configuration file.
To be honest, the quality of the pictures from my cameraphone is so far short of a real digicam that I tend to just carry my Canon with me, and forget that the phone can take pictures.
I know that the quality of cameraphones will improve dramatically, but when you consider that even the smallest consumer digicams tend to be about the size of a phone, I think it'll be a while before phones catch up with the bottom end of the camera market (quality-wise). And until then I personally wouldn't want to trust taking pictures of friends, family and personal events to one.
As a user of an SMP system for the past 3 years, I have to say that dual CPUs do have a noticable advantage even for desktop use. The system is _always_ responsive, unless you do something really stupid. I guess this is because your cpu resources are partitioned - whilst running a single-threaded task that consumes one CPU, the other is free to run Mozilla for you. I certainly find this makes using my computer much more enjoyable.
You're probably right - look at the recent success of the VIA Epia. There is definitely a market for low-power, low-noise PCs for people who just send emails, browse the web and do a little word processing.
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Actually, the new MSN search seems to be terribly badly biased towards standards-compliant pages. At least, that's the only reason I can find for my website's unjustifiably high ranking for a number of keywords.
Not that I think standards-compliance isn't important, but it shouldn't have that much influence.
Please tell me how a bunch of FOSS hackers are going to set up a network so that I can call nearly any phone in the world at dirt cheap prices?
Ask these guys.
I would recommend it to anyone.
(If you want to see those pictures for more than about 5 minutes, mirror them please!)
Apart from RSS feeds, how can I use this data? I mean, I have RDF metadata available for pretty much every page on my website, but I haven't yet noticed anyone who actually reads it.
The semantic web seems like a good idea in principle, but I would really like to know just how I could use it in real life! Seriously, can anyone name a useful tool that relies on RDF feeds (again, aside from RSS-style stuff) or propose one that could? Perhaps if I saw a real application of the semantic web I would actually understand what RDF is actually all about.
Certainly not all BIOS limitations will reduce the accessible capacity of your disk. I have a VIA EPIA machine which is "stuck" at 136GB due (apparently) to the LBA32 address limit.
However, linux uses all the available space without question.
So, I guess I'm saying that you're quite possibly right.
Works for me with firefox 1.0 (gecko 1.7.5). I had to do _exactly_ what the instructions say though; no opening links in new tabs etc.
A friend of mine came up with the idea that the set of laws should be restricted, by forcing them to fit inside a book of fixed length (say 200 pages of 12pt text). That way, when a new law gets brought in, they have to get rid of an old one (or make an old one simpler), and everyone gets a better chance of understanding the law.
I reckon that's not a bad idea.
...does it run on Linux?
Seriously, has anyone tried this with TransGaming's Cedega? I know it is supported by them, but are there any issues I should know before forking out for a) HL2 and b) cedaga?
You mean...
"In Soviet Russia, Firefox is based on Netscape."
Oh wait.
But it does allow me to forward eclipse & firefox over my wireless LAN to my crappy old laptop, and use the apps that are running natively on the machine at the same time. I actually can't tell the difference between programs running locally and remotely.
I've yet to see a Windows box do that.
Yup, I've put a HDD in the fridge before after it failed, and it did indeed come back up for long enough to recover the data.
Of course, I can't tell if it would have been the same if I had just left it alone for the same amount of time, but it didn't hurt.
That's the attraction of the large, community-supported distos like Debian and Gentoo - they have enormous package databases that make it _easier_ to install stuff than under Windows. The vast majority of programs that you'll ever want are only an "apt-get" or an "emerge" away. Dependencies are solved automatically. What is more, the package maintainers on these distributions typically work to a tight set of standards for file locations, documentation etc, and packages are only made available once they have been tested and marked stable (the standard for stability is rather higher on Debian, although I prefer Gentoo).
I have no experience of Fedora, but Redhat 8/9 suffered terribly from RH not packaging all that much software, and developers packaging software for it to their own standards and conventions. Redhat also couldn't solve dependencies automatically. It is my understanding that Fedora is an attempt to solve some of these issues, but as I say, I haven't tried it yet.
So I'd say that unifying distributions is unnecessary, so long as the community can continue to support distros such as Debian and Gentoo.
One area where unification _is_ important is interoperability on the desktop. The divide between Gnome and KDE is far more significant to the man-on-the-street than between distributions. This is the point of freedesktop.org, and I think they are making progress.
So as far as making it easy for the mass-market goes, no, Linux isn't there yet. However, it's moving rapidly in the right direction. Every year I see the gap in basic, out of the box usability between Windows and Linux shrinking faster and faster, and in many areas (such as package management) Linux is already streets ahead.
Indeed, the poster is correct; I've run RTCW over the network a couple of times.
Actually...
To be perfectly honest, if it just has to get there, I wouldn't rely on an email server that I run. I'm much happier entrusting my email to a company that employs people specifically to provide a reliable email service.
Having said that, I agree entirely that relying on a free service, where those who run it have no obligation to you, is perhaps not the best idea.
That's why I pay fastmail to do my email, and so far they haven't let me down.
> Terrorism is not something to sit on the fence about.
Except that the US has turned a blind eye to those in its country supporting terrorism for some time now.
Many people really don't care about terrorism until it actually affects them.
Ye, I used to get that quite a lot under win2k too. I could also never get more than a weeks uptime out of it. I put it down to me meddling too much :)
:) ) mplayer is the best media player out there, and the windows builds are a little flakey.
But I'm afraid the biggest things I miss when I boot to windows now are a decent command line, being able to install apps with a single command (e.g. emerge, apt-get), and sometimes X-forwarding. Plus the little things, like not being able to use X2X to control my laptop and desktop from the same keyboard and mouse.
Oh, (flamebait I know
I'm more than willing to admit that Linux isn't for everyone, but I don't think that I would go back to Windows out of choice.
Well, my (albeit small) experiments with web design have demonstrated that IE and Mozilla certainly interpret CSS in different ways. TBH I can't be arsed to find out which is correct.
:)
:P
However, I suspect you are in error when you say you are writing XHTML 1.1 compliant pages and serving them to IE. If my memory serves me rightly, XHTML 1.1 _requires_ you to serve using the application/xhtml+xml mime-type (or something similar at least), which IE doesn't have the faintest clue how to understand.
I agree with you in some sense though; IE 6's shortcomings aren't all that difficult to deal with. The biggest problem I have faced is that with an all-linux system, I can't actually test pages in IE (actually, I have seen IE run under CrossOver, but I've had trouble making it run under plain ole' WINE). Since I don't manage anything critical, I just wait for people to complain
And being as the only petrol I can buy in this country is 95-98 RON, I suspect the people designing engines for use here don't bother testing with 87 octane
Is it only me that had gnome 2.6 set up out of the box to run _both_ a spacial nautilus _and_ a "normal" nautilus, depending on which icons I click?
I quite like having this choice, and I use both the browser-mode and spacial versions to perform different tasks.
My nVIDIA drivers seem okay on x.org at the minute. To be honest, the only difference I can see (as an end-user, not as a coder) is the change in the name of the configuration file.
To be honest, the quality of the pictures from my cameraphone is so far short of a real digicam that I tend to just carry my Canon with me, and forget that the phone can take pictures.
I know that the quality of cameraphones will improve dramatically, but when you consider that even the smallest consumer digicams tend to be about the size of a phone, I think it'll be a while before phones catch up with the bottom end of the camera market (quality-wise). And until then I personally wouldn't want to trust taking pictures of friends, family and personal events to one.
Gotta love Furbies. After I dissected mine, drilled its eyes out and put red leds in them, it responded "Me love you!".
It now spends its time as an extra brakelight for my car.
The first time I saw this post, I really thought it must be a poem of some kind...
As a user of an SMP system for the past 3 years, I have to say that dual CPUs do have a noticable advantage even for desktop use. The system is _always_ responsive, unless you do something really stupid. I guess this is because your cpu resources are partitioned - whilst running a single-threaded task that consumes one CPU, the other is free to run Mozilla for you. I certainly find this makes using my computer much more enjoyable.
You're probably right - look at the recent success of the VIA Epia. There is definitely a market for low-power, low-noise PCs for people who just send emails, browse the web and do a little word processing.