Longhorn will use a 3D buffer. There will be no shearing ever again, even for old apps. When will KDE or GNOME get this (serious question)?
KDE or Gnome would have nothing to do with this. It would be the job of the X server to buffer the display until the next vsync. In Windows, it would be the job of the display driver, or possibly very low in GDI. That's why older apps would not need code changes. My question is why bother for normal apps (not games, which already take care of this via DirectX). Are people moving windows around that much and staring at the window edges while they do it to see if there is shearing? Most people don't even notice shearing; I remember in the DOS days trying to get friends to see the shearing in 320x200x8 games like Wing Commander, and they just couldn't see it. It just seems like a large bit of work for maybe a 5% problem. Perhaps there are other benefits that I'm not seeing, however.
Anyway, I also wonder how LCDs affect this problem. I would expect they make it easier, since they only need 60Hz updates on analog lines (I'm assuming that the vsync gets shorter on 85Hz+ displays, and thus much harder to do a 1280x1024 blit in that timeframe). I have no idea how digital LCD would affect this, but they seem to be slowly disappearing in favor of analog units.
Also, implicit in this discussion, is the fact that double buffering introduces an extra step that will reduce performance as a cost for less flicker/shearing. Considering that most apps that need to reduce flicker already backbuffer, this may be an option you'll want to disable.
In general, X traffic is pretty lightweight. While using most apps, the traffic will range from 5K-150K/sec, with very brief spikes in the 1-2M range. Streaming NTSC video does sustain about 3-4M/sec, but if that is a normal activity, then remote connectivity is not the best configuration for that use.
In a production X-Term environment, you would likely keep the display and data networks on separate switches, so they shouldn't collide. In addition, I've found that once you get the applications working remotely, the amount of data traffic goes down tremendously, since the remote app running on the server can access data directly from the hard drive subsystem, rather than having a local client app accessing all its data over a network via file handles or sql queries.
I've seen this post so many times about how much X or XFree sucks. Please enlighten me because I seem to be living in an alternate dimension. Right now at my house, I have a large dual-Athlon basement machine running headless. My main X term upstairs is a $40 used PII with a good graphics card and no hard drive. I cannot perceive a performance difference between this machine with applications, scrolling, switching desktops, etc, with the 2GHz P4 running WinXP at work. I can play fullscreen NTSC quality videos over the network. Everything but page-flipping games run flawlessly, and I'm sure cheap gigabit would solve even that problem.
In the living room I have a 1GHz Athlon game box that runs all sorts of games and emus at 60 frames per second fullscreen with no problem.
My wife runs a PII system with a good Matrox card and other than slow load times for some apps, the graphics performance (scrolling, menuing, maximizing, etc) is superb.
Where is the horrible performance? Windows is supposed to be so much better, but I have yet to see a window that didn't shear when "Show Contents when moving/resizing" was turned on. That's why I turn it off and use the outline. And, by the way, no matter how fast your graphics updates are, you will always get shearing on a CRT, unless you blast your updates while the electron gun is returning to the top corner. I imagine that would add a great deal of complexity to the windowing system, which is probably why it hasn't been done on either platform, just so a tiny part of daily work will "look better".
I just wonder what I've been doing right with these systems (all running XFree), especially since I'm pretty picky about graphics performance.
I'm very sceptical about Linux Desktop (for non-corporate use), mainly because of the way linux people look at this - "I develop what I want and need, if you want something else, start coding" and "linux is on the desktop, it's easy, there are no problems, you're stupid and you're lying".
I think the non-corporate Linux desktop will follow the same trail DOS/Windows did: corporations will install and use them, and then employees will buy "compatible" machines for home. Even now, as the developer community grows and the tools evolve, you're seeing more user-centric developers start adding their code and skills to the mix, so Aunt Tillie will continue to get more software made for her under Linux. What baffles me is that software companies won't gamble a little bit by offering Linux versions of their consumer software now. By waiting, they only allow their OSS counterparts to grow.
Hopefully in the next ten years, file formats and other protocols will continue to standardize so that changing OS's will really be a moot point, but I imagine Microsoft will continue to disrupt this movement.
Actually, during the French Revolution they changed the calendar into a metric system. I can't remember the specifics, but I believe it had ten-day weeks with numbered days, no months, and the remaining days in the 365.4 day solar year would be reserved for holidays. It only lasted about 12 years (ironicly non-metric) and they went back to the old calendar.
Calendars are very hard to change. Check out the excellent book _The Discoverers_ by Boorstin for more info.
But I'll wait until Monday... see if any more Slashdotters come back with even more cool ideas I didn't even know were options.
You've only scratched the surface of the cool things you can do with Linux. X11, the graphics subsystem used by Linux and Unix, is totally network transparent, so you can take a relatively slow box with a good video card and make it a dumb terminal (X Term) to a bigger box. Sort of like a mainframe, except graphical and with sound. My wife's first system was actually a used P100 I turned into an X-Term and linked it to my desktop, so her slow system felt just as fast as mine. Since Linux has a really good process scheduler, you can have lots of different users and tasks going at one time; the only time you can feel slowdown is when the disk gets saturated, unlike Windows, which pretty much cannot multitask properly on a single CPU system (but runs nicely on a dual-cpu box).
The PII-350 I bought from retrobox is my primary terminal, that has no hard drive. It boots over the network from my dual athlon downstairs in the basement. Silent operation, and no heat. Sweet! X-Terms aren't very good at games, however, because games tend to page-flip and saturate the network by slinging too many pixels. Next year, I'm going to see if gigabit can keep up these types of apps.
This is going to be fun.
That's what it's all about. Just remember that you're stepping into a deep pool; not everything will work the way you expect, and some things may just not work, but the answers are Out There (groups.google is your friend!). It helps to remember how clueless you were when you first ran Win 3.1. Remember: you've been using Windows for years, so lots of things seem natural to you.
Enjoy!
You can always dual-boot. If you're a newbie and just want to try it out, download the Knoppix iso and burn it to a CD. You can boot to a CD, and you can "anchor" your saved files and such to the hard drive (I think FAT drives can be used for this, too). It's amazing how much they can fit on a 650MB image. Knoppix has better hardware detection than any OS ever. I keep a copy around for a rescue disk and for detecting hardware for new installs.
If she's a newbie but you're not, then it really doesn't matter as long as you set up the desktop for her. My wife has been using KDE 2.1, StarOffice, Netscape, KMail, and KPilot for two years with no problems (WindowMaker before that). Just keep in mind that newer Linux software like KDE are designed with 1GHz+ systems in mind, and a PII-350 is not a beast, so don't expect a speed demon. Linux is fast on older hardware, but only if you trim down to leaner desktop environments (WindowMaker, IceWM, XFCE, etc) and applications.
Maybe I'll put Windows on this box and put Linux on the old box, for the sake of the marriage...
(chuckle) A couple of years ago I was fighting with a cranky Windows box install, and my wife commented that she's glad I discovered Linux before we were married, because I'm much calmer when dealing with it. It saved our marriage:)
Just to let you know, I bought my first box from RetroBox which arrived yesterday. FedEx put a small crack in the faceplate, but it works great. They cleaned it quite well... the keyboard and mouse look new. I'm using it as an X-Term to my big box downstairs. You can't beat $35 (they charge a flat shipping rate of $27.50) for a PII-350 w/ H/D, CD, and floppy.
Just one data point, but they seem like a good outfit.
Anybody building a business, though, on this software is just a fool.
If they were the only provider for this software, you could be right. The fact that many alternate vendors exist alleviates that. If we can ever get the software industry past the Standard Oil phase, this will be as normal as a construction company changing from Caterpillar equipment to Hitachi. Mr. Gates has kept this from happening, though, so it's Black Model T's for another decade or so, it seems.
If you didn't make money doing this, would you still do it? RedHat didn't make enough money providing updates for their desktop distribution, so they stopped doing it. Seems rational to me.
I find it hard to believe that I used up $60 of bandwidth and service per year. I can fully agree with their move into the enterprise space, and in many ways I applaud a slow-release distro (perhaps we can improve vendor driver support this way?), but I hope they offer a similar $60/yr program for non-enterprise use for Fedora. Maybe Fedora will fulfill my needs, but I wonder why they threw away my almost-guaranteed $60/yr revenue?
The problem is that any developers who want direct input into a distro are already doing that for Gentoo or Debian, two distros that will not be changed or go away in a couple of years due to the decisions of a marketing team. Redhat is a corporate product/distro, run by a corporation, which is not a bad thing in itself. But I wonder if a corporate-sponsored distro will get the grass-roots appeal with so many others filling that niche already.
I am so tired of seeing all of the shortsighted IT people bitching in these comments. They all come down to, "I was getting something really good for free or close to it. I based my company's infrastructure on it. Now it's going away.
I'm not whining, but I do wonder what I'm going to do for my home box. I currently pay $60/year for updates and ISO's. That's what I feel like is a fair price, and I'm pretty sure that I don't use $60 of service or bandwidth. After April, I'll either have to start paying $179/year or find another distro. Many of the complaints are similar: Redhat seems to be abandoning the low-end market.
The interface is kind of crowded and clunky, but so was the original version of Kylix. IMO it's miles ahead of KDevelop.
The newest versions of designer are trying to be a full IDE, but the latest KDevelop looks more promising. They are very easily used in tandem. For instance, just name your designer form frmSearchBase (if you were creating a search form), and add the frmsearchbase.ui file to your kdevelop project. This will generate a frmsearchbase.cpp and.h. You then subclass this with New Class in KDevelop (make sure you check the QObject checkbox), and put your code and signal/slot connections in the subclass (frmSearch).
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I haven't had a chance to look at QT Designer or Anjuta, but KDevelop isn't a true visual (RAD) environment. Maybe I'm just spoiled, but I like being able to click on a component and drop it on my form. I'm not aware of any IDE on Linux that is as easy to use as Kylix.
Well, the Kylix 1.0 install I had was quite unstable. It was at that point that I discovered that i could get 80% RAD using KDevelop and QT designer, rock-solid, and free (beer and speech). The only thing KDevelop lacks IMO is good code completion.
It makes you wonder if Borland is migrating from a tools vendor to simply an IDE vendor.
No, this is MS pulling the Windows paradigm shift v2.0. Borland survived the last one in the early 90's, so they're mopping up. Soon there will be only one significant development tool for Windows.
Re:Linux users are cheap
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This basicly means, you don't want to pay as long as you get the "service" from the company. That means, as long as you can USE the tool... as long as it helps you to make profit, or have fun... you dont want to pay?
But when the product is discontinued or orphaned, you suddenly want to pay for the service? For one fixing or keeping it running? Strange.
You're missing the whole point. He's not talking about cost or money. What he's saying is that OSS products will never be orphaned as long as they have users. A proprietary product is viable only as long as the product's marketing team decides it is. I have developed in Delphi for years, and I tried Kylix 1.0 when it came out, but for professional development C++/Qt or C/Gnome are a safer choice, since there is no private product to cancel. Those who chose to go with Kylix are now stuck with orphaned code.
This whole notion of being able to orphan a product is similar to how vendor lockin is achieved... "If you can destroy a thing, you can control a thing."
Read down the article for details on how they can now do things like mount the registry as a drive and walk it like a filesystem. Yegads!
I can do this in bash:
#>cd/etc
:)
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Does anyone know where I can get document templates for OOO and the like?
The easiest way is to just buy StarOffice for $79 USD (I believe the license still allows 5 users to use a single "network install"). It comes with lots of clip art, doc templates, presentation templates, etc. Buy it here.
If you want less stuff, but for free, I believe you can find files here and here.
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I've read about half of it. So far, the gist is that Trusted Computing will require digital certificates for all executables, documents, emails, and web pages (along with images). He claims that since a repository system of certificates will need to be formed (much like we have SSL certs like Thawte now), the power to deny publishing will be concentrated in the hands of the certificate repositories, which presumably will be large corps and governments. He claims this is the "Good Old Days" of producer/consumer media that the entrenched powers prefer, unlike the supposed new era of peer-to-peer internet publishing, whereby anyone can create their own web pages.
Actually, having signed certificates on documents and email is not a bad thing. I've wondered for years why the US Postal service hasn't created a trusted email system for a small postage fee. I use PGP signatures all the time to verify downloads from the Internet. A certificate/signature repository is just a convenience so I don't have to constantly email or call people asking for their public keys. In all likelyhood these repositories will be competitive-but-cooperative databases like DNS, so there will probably always be alternative or bargain signature repositories.
Yes, things will likely get buckled down as the Internet gets more mainstream and govts get their heads around it, but I don't see the gloomy future he does. Maybe he just had too idealistic dreams of the future. The bottom line is that most people don't want to publish their own content, and wouldn't even if they knew how. Blocking inbound port 80 to consumers is not the equivalent of book-burning or censorship, especially if port 80 is largely unused by consumers except as a vector for worms. If you want to publish, you'll just have to find a plan that allows you to do so. The fact the the large ISPs are figuring out that they can charge an extra $10-20/month for this is not the end of world, so long as more than one competing ISP exists.
Also, no matter how much the Internet falls under control of central authorities, new technologies will arise for the tech elite to go about their business as always. After all, we somehow managed to build the Internet and BBS's in spite of the fact that publishers and the media had total control of print and the airwaves. History will repeat.
Odd. I was never taught anything in school about China's exploration. In fact, I remember learning that while Europe was going power-crazy and grasping for more land, China minded its own business...
Me too, until I read Landes' _The Wealth and Poverty Of Nations_, which is a fascinating economic view of history of the past thousand years. The Chinese pretty much had the Europeans beaten in shipbuilding:
"[...] The biggest were about 400 feet long, 160 feet wide (compare the 85 feet of Columbus's Santa Maria), had nine staggered masts and twelve square sails of red silk."
"[...] The first of these fleets, that of the eunuch admiiral Zheng He (Cheng-ho) in 1405, consisted of 317 vessels and carried 28,000 men. [...] In this way, over a period of three years [1404-1407], the Chinese built or refitted some 1,681 ships. Medieval Europe could not have conceived of such an armada."
After this, they pulled inward, but I never learned about the previous achievements until adulthood.
So I don't recommend using Samba at all unless you're looking for Windows compatibility.
Actually, I use Samba on Linux to share automounted removeable devices (floppy, zip, cdrom) over the network to my Linux machines. NFS locks removeable devices and doesn't let them go, so you can't reliably share them and then change the media since the automounter won't know they can be unmounted.
not practical until _everybody's_ parents (not just yours) can set up a Linux box
I shouldn't feed a tired old troll, but just in case this one is legit:
I guarantee you that my parents could not "set up" (my definition: install from scratch) any computer system on their own, including any version of Windows, Linux, MacOS, or even DOS, for that matter. If your meaning of "set up" is to plug in a box from Dell or Gateway, then you're correct. Unfortunately, the big PC vendors are heavily pressured by Mr. Gates and Co. to not offer alternative operating systems. The only vendors that are trying are those that can afford to lose in this segment (e.g. Wal-Mart).
Also, the home user is a slim market compared to the corporate market, and the corporate market is the only way to get home users on board. People generally buy machines to match those they have at work, even if it costs them extra or they lose functionality.
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Longhorn will use a 3D buffer. There will be no shearing ever again, even for old apps. When will KDE or GNOME get this (serious question)?
KDE or Gnome would have nothing to do with this. It would be the job of the X server to buffer the display until the next vsync. In Windows, it would be the job of the display driver, or possibly very low in GDI. That's why older apps would not need code changes. My question is why bother for normal apps (not games, which already take care of this via DirectX). Are people moving windows around that much and staring at the window edges while they do it to see if there is shearing? Most people don't even notice shearing; I remember in the DOS days trying to get friends to see the shearing in 320x200x8 games like Wing Commander, and they just couldn't see it. It just seems like a large bit of work for maybe a 5% problem. Perhaps there are other benefits that I'm not seeing, however.
Anyway, I also wonder how LCDs affect this problem. I would expect they make it easier, since they only need 60Hz updates on analog lines (I'm assuming that the vsync gets shorter on 85Hz+ displays, and thus much harder to do a 1280x1024 blit in that timeframe). I have no idea how digital LCD would affect this, but they seem to be slowly disappearing in favor of analog units.
Also, implicit in this discussion, is the fact that double buffering introduces an extra step that will reduce performance as a cost for less flicker/shearing. Considering that most apps that need to reduce flicker already backbuffer, this may be an option you'll want to disable.
In general, X traffic is pretty lightweight. While using most apps, the traffic will range from 5K-150K/sec, with very brief spikes in the 1-2M range. Streaming NTSC video does sustain about 3-4M/sec, but if that is a normal activity, then remote connectivity is not the best configuration for that use.
In a production X-Term environment, you would likely keep the display and data networks on separate switches, so they shouldn't collide. In addition, I've found that once you get the applications working remotely, the amount of data traffic goes down tremendously, since the remote app running on the server can access data directly from the hard drive subsystem, rather than having a local client app accessing all its data over a network via file handles or sql queries.
I've seen this post so many times about how much X or XFree sucks. Please enlighten me because I seem to be living in an alternate dimension. Right now at my house, I have a large dual-Athlon basement machine running headless. My main X term upstairs is a $40 used PII with a good graphics card and no hard drive. I cannot perceive a performance difference between this machine with applications, scrolling, switching desktops, etc, with the 2GHz P4 running WinXP at work. I can play fullscreen NTSC quality videos over the network. Everything but page-flipping games run flawlessly, and I'm sure cheap gigabit would solve even that problem.
In the living room I have a 1GHz Athlon game box that runs all sorts of games and emus at 60 frames per second fullscreen with no problem.
My wife runs a PII system with a good Matrox card and other than slow load times for some apps, the graphics performance (scrolling, menuing, maximizing, etc) is superb.
Where is the horrible performance? Windows is supposed to be so much better, but I have yet to see a window that didn't shear when "Show Contents when moving/resizing" was turned on. That's why I turn it off and use the outline. And, by the way, no matter how fast your graphics updates are, you will always get shearing on a CRT, unless you blast your updates while the electron gun is returning to the top corner. I imagine that would add a great deal of complexity to the windowing system, which is probably why it hasn't been done on either platform, just so a tiny part of daily work will "look better".
I just wonder what I've been doing right with these systems (all running XFree), especially since I'm pretty picky about graphics performance.
I'm very sceptical about Linux Desktop (for non-corporate use), mainly because of the way linux people look at this - "I develop what I want and need, if you want something else, start coding" and "linux is on the desktop, it's easy, there are no problems, you're stupid and you're lying".
I think the non-corporate Linux desktop will follow the same trail DOS/Windows did: corporations will install and use them, and then employees will buy "compatible" machines for home. Even now, as the developer community grows and the tools evolve, you're seeing more user-centric developers start adding their code and skills to the mix, so Aunt Tillie will continue to get more software made for her under Linux. What baffles me is that software companies won't gamble a little bit by offering Linux versions of their consumer software now. By waiting, they only allow their OSS counterparts to grow.
Hopefully in the next ten years, file formats and other protocols will continue to standardize so that changing OS's will really be a moot point, but I imagine Microsoft will continue to disrupt this movement.
Actually, during the French Revolution they changed the calendar into a metric system. I can't remember the specifics, but I believe it had ten-day weeks with numbered days, no months, and the remaining days in the 365.4 day solar year would be reserved for holidays. It only lasted about 12 years (ironicly non-metric) and they went back to the old calendar. Calendars are very hard to change. Check out the excellent book _The Discoverers_ by Boorstin for more info.
But I'll wait until Monday... see if any more Slashdotters come back with even more cool ideas I didn't even know were options.
You've only scratched the surface of the cool things you can do with Linux. X11, the graphics subsystem used by Linux and Unix, is totally network transparent, so you can take a relatively slow box with a good video card and make it a dumb terminal (X Term) to a bigger box. Sort of like a mainframe, except graphical and with sound. My wife's first system was actually a used P100 I turned into an X-Term and linked it to my desktop, so her slow system felt just as fast as mine. Since Linux has a really good process scheduler, you can have lots of different users and tasks going at one time; the only time you can feel slowdown is when the disk gets saturated, unlike Windows, which pretty much cannot multitask properly on a single CPU system (but runs nicely on a dual-cpu box).
The PII-350 I bought from retrobox is my primary terminal, that has no hard drive. It boots over the network from my dual athlon downstairs in the basement. Silent operation, and no heat. Sweet! X-Terms aren't very good at games, however, because games tend to page-flip and saturate the network by slinging too many pixels. Next year, I'm going to see if gigabit can keep up these types of apps.
This is going to be fun.
That's what it's all about. Just remember that you're stepping into a deep pool; not everything will work the way you expect, and some things may just not work, but the answers are Out There (groups.google is your friend!). It helps to remember how clueless you were when you first ran Win 3.1. Remember: you've been using Windows for years, so lots of things seem natural to you.
Enjoy!
Its a nice touch.. something worth copying a little more directly.
:)
Haven't used KDE in a few years, eh?
You can always dual-boot. If you're a newbie and just want to try it out, download the Knoppix iso and burn it to a CD. You can boot to a CD, and you can "anchor" your saved files and such to the hard drive (I think FAT drives can be used for this, too). It's amazing how much they can fit on a 650MB image. Knoppix has better hardware detection than any OS ever. I keep a copy around for a rescue disk and for detecting hardware for new installs.
:)
If she's a newbie but you're not, then it really doesn't matter as long as you set up the desktop for her. My wife has been using KDE 2.1, StarOffice, Netscape, KMail, and KPilot for two years with no problems (WindowMaker before that). Just keep in mind that newer Linux software like KDE are designed with 1GHz+ systems in mind, and a PII-350 is not a beast, so don't expect a speed demon. Linux is fast on older hardware, but only if you trim down to leaner desktop environments (WindowMaker, IceWM, XFCE, etc) and applications.
Maybe I'll put Windows on this box and put Linux on the old box, for the sake of the marriage...
(chuckle) A couple of years ago I was fighting with a cranky Windows box install, and my wife commented that she's glad I discovered Linux before we were married, because I'm much calmer when dealing with it. It saved our marriage
Just to let you know, I bought my first box from RetroBox which arrived yesterday. FedEx put a small crack in the faceplate, but it works great. They cleaned it quite well... the keyboard and mouse look new. I'm using it as an X-Term to my big box downstairs. You can't beat $35 (they charge a flat shipping rate of $27.50) for a PII-350 w/ H/D, CD, and floppy.
Just one data point, but they seem like a good outfit.
What's painful about OpenOffice? If you want more fonts and clip art, buy StarOffice, which uses compatible file formats with OOo.
Anybody building a business, though, on this software is just a fool.
If they were the only provider for this software, you could be right. The fact that many alternate vendors exist alleviates that. If we can ever get the software industry past the Standard Oil phase, this will be as normal as a construction company changing from Caterpillar equipment to Hitachi. Mr. Gates has kept this from happening, though, so it's Black Model T's for another decade or so, it seems.
If you didn't make money doing this, would you still do it? RedHat didn't make enough money providing updates for their desktop distribution, so they stopped doing it. Seems rational to me.
I find it hard to believe that I used up $60 of bandwidth and service per year. I can fully agree with their move into the enterprise space, and in many ways I applaud a slow-release distro (perhaps we can improve vendor driver support this way?), but I hope they offer a similar $60/yr program for non-enterprise use for Fedora. Maybe Fedora will fulfill my needs, but I wonder why they threw away my almost-guaranteed $60/yr revenue?
The problem is that any developers who want direct input into a distro are already doing that for Gentoo or Debian, two distros that will not be changed or go away in a couple of years due to the decisions of a marketing team. Redhat is a corporate product/distro, run by a corporation, which is not a bad thing in itself. But I wonder if a corporate-sponsored distro will get the grass-roots appeal with so many others filling that niche already.
I am so tired of seeing all of the shortsighted IT people bitching in these comments. They all come down to, "I was getting something really good for free or close to it. I based my company's infrastructure on it. Now it's going away.
I'm not whining, but I do wonder what I'm going to do for my home box. I currently pay $60/year for updates and ISO's. That's what I feel like is a fair price, and I'm pretty sure that I don't use $60 of service or bandwidth. After April, I'll either have to start paying $179/year or find another distro. Many of the complaints are similar: Redhat seems to be abandoning the low-end market.
The interface is kind of crowded and clunky, but so was the original version of Kylix. IMO it's miles ahead of KDevelop.
.h. You then subclass this with New Class in KDevelop (make sure you check the QObject checkbox), and put your code and signal/slot connections in the subclass (frmSearch).
The newest versions of designer are trying to be a full IDE, but the latest KDevelop looks more promising. They are very easily used in tandem. For instance, just name your designer form frmSearchBase (if you were creating a search form), and add the frmsearchbase.ui file to your kdevelop project. This will generate a frmsearchbase.cpp and
I haven't had a chance to look at QT Designer or Anjuta, but KDevelop isn't a true visual (RAD) environment. Maybe I'm just spoiled, but I like being able to click on a component and drop it on my form. I'm not aware of any IDE on Linux that is as easy to use as Kylix.
Well, the Kylix 1.0 install I had was quite unstable. It was at that point that I discovered that i could get 80% RAD using KDevelop and QT designer, rock-solid, and free (beer and speech). The only thing KDevelop lacks IMO is good code completion.
It makes you wonder if Borland is migrating from a tools vendor to simply an IDE vendor.
No, this is MS pulling the Windows paradigm shift v2.0. Borland survived the last one in the early 90's, so they're mopping up. Soon there will be only one significant development tool for Windows.
This basicly means, you don't want to pay as long as you get the "service" from the company. That means, as long as you can USE the tool ... as long as it helps you to make profit, or have fun... you dont want to pay?
But when the product is discontinued or orphaned, you suddenly want to pay for the service? For one fixing or keeping it running? Strange.
You're missing the whole point. He's not talking about cost or money. What he's saying is that OSS products will never be orphaned as long as they have users. A proprietary product is viable only as long as the product's marketing team decides it is. I have developed in Delphi for years, and I tried Kylix 1.0 when it came out, but for professional development C++/Qt or C/Gnome are a safer choice, since there is no private product to cancel. Those who chose to go with Kylix are now stuck with orphaned code.
This whole notion of being able to orphan a product is similar to how vendor lockin is achieved... "If you can destroy a thing, you can control a thing."
Read down the article for details on how they can now do things like mount the registry as a drive and walk it like a filesystem. Yegads! /etc
:)
I can do this in bash:
#>cd
Keep your job. ;)
Does anyone know where I can get document templates for OOO and the like?
The easiest way is to just buy StarOffice for $79 USD (I believe the license still allows 5 users to use a single "network install"). It comes with lots of clip art, doc templates, presentation templates, etc. Buy it here.
If you want less stuff, but for free, I believe you can find files here and here.
I've read about half of it. So far, the gist is that Trusted Computing will require digital certificates for all executables, documents, emails, and web pages (along with images). He claims that since a repository system of certificates will need to be formed (much like we have SSL certs like Thawte now), the power to deny publishing will be concentrated in the hands of the certificate repositories, which presumably will be large corps and governments. He claims this is the "Good Old Days" of producer/consumer media that the entrenched powers prefer, unlike the supposed new era of peer-to-peer internet publishing, whereby anyone can create their own web pages.
Actually, having signed certificates on documents and email is not a bad thing. I've wondered for years why the US Postal service hasn't created a trusted email system for a small postage fee. I use PGP signatures all the time to verify downloads from the Internet. A certificate/signature repository is just a convenience so I don't have to constantly email or call people asking for their public keys. In all likelyhood these repositories will be competitive-but-cooperative databases like DNS, so there will probably always be alternative or bargain signature repositories.
Yes, things will likely get buckled down as the Internet gets more mainstream and govts get their heads around it, but I don't see the gloomy future he does. Maybe he just had too idealistic dreams of the future. The bottom line is that most people don't want to publish their own content, and wouldn't even if they knew how. Blocking inbound port 80 to consumers is not the equivalent of book-burning or censorship, especially if port 80 is largely unused by consumers except as a vector for worms. If you want to publish, you'll just have to find a plan that allows you to do so. The fact the the large ISPs are figuring out that they can charge an extra $10-20/month for this is not the end of world, so long as more than one competing ISP exists.
Also, no matter how much the Internet falls under control of central authorities, new technologies will arise for the tech elite to go about their business as always. After all, we somehow managed to build the Internet and BBS's in spite of the fact that publishers and the media had total control of print and the airwaves. History will repeat.
Me too, until I read Landes' _The Wealth and Poverty Of Nations_, which is a fascinating economic view of history of the past thousand years. The Chinese pretty much had the Europeans beaten in shipbuilding:
After this, they pulled inward, but I never learned about the previous achievements until adulthood.
Heh, I getting ready to hit reply and mention CUPS to you when I read your second paragraph. CUPS has come a long way in the last two years.
So I don't recommend using Samba at all unless you're looking for Windows compatibility.
Actually, I use Samba on Linux to share automounted removeable devices (floppy, zip, cdrom) over the network to my Linux machines. NFS locks removeable devices and doesn't let them go, so you can't reliably share them and then change the media since the automounter won't know they can be unmounted.
not practical until _everybody's_ parents (not just yours) can set up a Linux box
I shouldn't feed a tired old troll, but just in case this one is legit:
I guarantee you that my parents could not "set up" (my definition: install from scratch) any computer system on their own, including any version of Windows, Linux, MacOS, or even DOS, for that matter. If your meaning of "set up" is to plug in a box from Dell or Gateway, then you're correct. Unfortunately, the big PC vendors are heavily pressured by Mr. Gates and Co. to not offer alternative operating systems. The only vendors that are trying are those that can afford to lose in this segment (e.g. Wal-Mart).
Also, the home user is a slim market compared to the corporate market, and the corporate market is the only way to get home users on board. People generally buy machines to match those they have at work, even if it costs them extra or they lose functionality.