If you want to try out the latest 2.0 alpha version of Firefox without affecting your current 1.x installation, that they can run along each other, then you can check out this homepage for further detail (I have tried it, the tricks works for Linux version as well):
When the Justice Department and other anti-trust parties asked Microsoft to separate IE from the OS, Microsoft said the same thing on withdrawing Windows 98/2000 running out there. Well, back then Desktop Linux wasn't ready to challenge it (remember, OpenOffice.org and Mozilla/Firefox didn't reach 1.0 until 2002).
Now, Microsoft wants to pull the same feat again; should Korean government back down? Hmm, tough call. But if I were to make IT procurement decision for Korean government, it should be a sign that they should NOT upgrade to Windows Vista and instead forming a task force to strengthen desktop Linux development. No government should be prey to a mega-corporation of this type of blackmail. They are already striving to support Firefox/W3C standard in all government websites, maybe it's time to consider go further than that.
It is an excellent and well researched rebuttal to the disinformation in the grandparent thread. Don't jump the gun on spreading FUD of economic benefits every time.
After a clean install of Firefox 1.5 Beta 1, I tried to reinstall each extension I used, only to find out that Flash stops working after installing AdBlock, so for now the solution is to uninstall it until an update version comes out.
Well, this self-governing community is not exactly a new idea. Peter Drucker actually advised General Motors to do ths same back in 1946, as recorded in his first Management book Concept of the Corporation.
General Motors didn't buy this idea and even thought it was some sort of usurpation and opportunist bet. Its CEO back then, Alfred Sloan, wrote a book in response to these suggestions and requests - My Years with General Motors.
Even though American companies missed the boat in forming better corporate governance by creating such self-governance communities, the Japanese picked up the idea. Of course they had a somewhat different goal to what it means to start a business, but in general this helped many Japanese companies to rise and shine at the level of where they are today - many world class manufacturers and industrialists.
I agree with the grandparent post that the linked article is more of a blog comment than a review. In sum, I think he probably got it as a "Microsoft rip-off of Photoshop" not to be taken seriously.
Instead, I suggest you look at the following list. They are more professional and in-depth reviews of Microsoft Expression (formerly Creature House Expression - the basis of Acrylic) by various magazines online:
Notice that Mac version has always been available except for this Beta Acrylic release. So I bet Expression was designed to appeal to artists among the Mac community to begin with.
Expression has made use of a unique technology called Skeletal Stroke (the review by creative.com has some explanation), which adds substance & complexity of raster graphics along vector paths. So I believe this vector drawing & painting package, while not as popular as Adobe Illustrator, has always been targetting a niche market with its own appeal.
In fact, it can produce some of the amazing effect found in Chinese water painting and other fine art drawing handily, even easier than you can do with Illustrator. The downside is a steeper learning curve to tap the full power of this unique & different app.
You can find more tutorials & resources on Expression at Wikipedia
If you check the Yahoo! Expression3 mailing list (Yahoo! registration required), it seems that you can get around the installer by unpacking the file and install Acrylic on pre-SP2 machines including Windows 2000. Running the installer, however, would detect your system and prevent it from installing on pre-SP2 machines on purpose; so it may just be another lure for you to install SP2 =(.
Also, Expression 3.3 (click the Previous Versions on the Acrylic project page) can run under Linux with WINE:
I don't understand, while MSN and Yahoo! file transfer works now (and AIM for some lucky folks), ICQ file transfer is still _not_ working. Does Gaim developers plan on working on this?
I would have thought a 1.0 release will implement full file transfer support for the 4 or 5 major IM networks.
10) Finally, a compiler (or three... The next dozen installs after this one would include various other dev tools). Currently I still prefer Borland C 5.02, sadly not free. Although advancing technoology has already made it basically obsolete, it has what I consider the most straightforward IDE of any development suite out there.
Perhaps you can try Microsoft free commandline compiler Visual C++ Toolkit 2003?
However, it seems to me the source of "The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide" is screwed. I downloaded the file but there's nothing there about the actual content of the book, and there are 5 missing chapters from Samba.org.
Have you actually tried to run the Linux version bundled with LADSPA plugins?
It bundles with, by default, around 100 built-in plugins. No need for separate installation, and for Windows version, you will need to download and install new plugins on your own (which I do not even know, until I compare with the Linux version).
Yeah, there's always an 'catch-up' paradigm going around, but 100 plugins is a lot to play with (I am sure you can grab more if you are determined to, but that's another adventure on your own); one can keep saying Audacity needs to catch up to 'program XYZ' because that program is 'how much better', but the previous post was to illustrate the fact that plugin support is already there with Linux.
BTW, Kernel 2.6 + ALSA 1.0 + dmix software mixing will certainly put Linux audio recording in the picture. I don't think I will miss Cool Edit much longer.
If you compile audacity for oss you can select Line In or Mic In, which should not be affected by audio of other programs when recording.
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Plugins are working fine in Linux, if you got LADSPA installed. I got my mandrake rpm here and there are many built-in plugins which are not found in the Windows version:
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Interesting, but it's awefully slow to render in Bon Echo.
Inkscape has much better performance in rendering this SVG poetry you posted here.
If you want to try out the latest 2.0 alpha version of Firefox without affecting your current 1.x installation, that they can run along each other, then you can check out this homepage for further detail (I have tried it, the tricks works for Linux version as well):
f ox-versions
Running multiple Firefox versions concurrently
http://www.jeroencoumans.nl/journal/multiple-fire
When the Justice Department and other anti-trust parties asked Microsoft to separate IE from the OS, Microsoft said the same thing on withdrawing Windows 98/2000 running out there. Well, back then Desktop Linux wasn't ready to challenge it (remember, OpenOffice.org and Mozilla/Firefox didn't reach 1.0 until 2002).
Now, Microsoft wants to pull the same feat again; should Korean government back down? Hmm, tough call. But if I were to make IT procurement decision for Korean government, it should be a sign that they should NOT upgrade to Windows Vista and instead forming a task force to strengthen desktop Linux development. No government should be prey to a mega-corporation of this type of blackmail. They are already striving to support Firefox/W3C standard in all government websites, maybe it's time to consider go further than that.
Mod the parent up, guys.
It is an excellent and well researched rebuttal to the disinformation in the grandparent thread. Don't jump the gun on spreading FUD of economic benefits every time.
The Chinese translation of the 1st edition of Migration Guide can be found here:
http://www.fect.com.tw/Docs/Migration.pdf
The translation effort is sponsored by the FSOSS dEveloper Center @ Taiwan, aka FECT.
After a clean install of Firefox 1.5 Beta 1, I tried to reinstall each extension I used, only to find out that Flash stops working after installing AdBlock, so for now the solution is to uninstall it until an update version comes out.
Well, this self-governing community is not exactly a new idea. Peter Drucker actually advised General Motors to do ths same back in 1946, as recorded in his first Management book Concept of the Corporation.
General Motors didn't buy this idea and even thought it was some sort of usurpation and opportunist bet. Its CEO back then, Alfred Sloan, wrote a book in response to these suggestions and requests - My Years with General Motors.
Even though American companies missed the boat in forming better corporate governance by creating such self-governance communities, the Japanese picked up the idea. Of course they had a somewhat different goal to what it means to start a business, but in general this helped many Japanese companies to rise and shine at the level of where they are today - many world class manufacturers and industrialists.
Please take note that while Microsoft Acrylic is available for download as 180-day beta testing, the previous version of Acrylic - the Expression 3.3 Preview is actually free without any time limit AND is also available for Mac OS X.
It also runs well with WINE under Linux.
The info page for Expression at Wikipedia gives more detail on resources and tutorials for the powerful yet under-appreciated illustration package.
I agree with the grandparent post that the linked article is more of a blog comment than a review. In sum, I think he probably got it as a "Microsoft rip-off of Photoshop" not to be taken seriously.
Instead, I suggest you look at the following list. They are more professional and in-depth reviews of Microsoft Expression (formerly Creature House Expression - the basis of Acrylic) by various magazines online:
Notice that Mac version has always been available except for this Beta Acrylic release. So I bet Expression was designed to appeal to artists among the Mac community to begin with.
Expression has made use of a unique technology called Skeletal Stroke (the review by creative.com has some explanation), which adds substance & complexity of raster graphics along vector paths. So I believe this vector drawing & painting package, while not as popular as Adobe Illustrator, has always been targetting a niche market with its own appeal.
In fact, it can produce some of the amazing effect found in Chinese water painting and other fine art drawing handily, even easier than you can do with Illustrator. The downside is a steeper learning curve to tap the full power of this unique & different app.
You can find more tutorials & resources on Expression at Wikipedia
Enjoy!If you check the Yahoo! Expression3 mailing list (Yahoo! registration required), it seems that you can get around the installer by unpacking the file and install Acrylic on pre-SP2 machines including Windows 2000. Running the installer, however, would detect your system and prevent it from installing on pre-SP2 machines on purpose; so it may just be another lure for you to install SP2 =( .
Also, Expression 3.3 (click the Previous Versions on the Acrylic project page) can run under Linux with WINE:
http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=expression3
Before we start to discuss on creating a FreeBIOS, I would like to ask, how do you flash your motherboard BIOS in a GNU/Linux Operating system?
Do we have a UniFlash counterpart in GNU/Linux?
(Btw, UniFlash is a DOS utility.)
Because AFAIK, I still have to boot a DOS floppy in order to have my motherboard BIOS flashed; or rely on tricks like creating a Bootable USB flashdrive wilth DOS on it.
I don't understand, while MSN and Yahoo! file transfer works now (and AIM for some lucky folks), ICQ file transfer is still _not_ working. Does Gaim developers plan on working on this? I would have thought a 1.0 release will implement full file transfer support for the 4 or 5 major IM networks.
Linux PPC version is available here:
https://player.helixcommunity.org/2004/downloads/
https://helixcommunity.org/projects/player
This trick is no longer needed after upgrading to version 7. The plugin will work fine with both gtk1 and gtk2 version of Mozilla / Firefox.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003
Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003
http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit
Windows 2003 Evaluation edition can be grabbed as a free ISO download as well:
u at ion/trial/evalkit.mspx. com/windowsserver2003eva ldl/
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/eval
https://microsoft.order-5
Bruce, I checked the page for accessing the source of the books under Open Content License:
http://phptr.com/Perens
However, it seems to me the source of "The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide" is screwed. I downloaded the file but there's nothing there about the actual content of the book, and there are 5 missing chapters from Samba.org.
Have you actually tried to run the Linux version bundled with LADSPA plugins?
It bundles with, by default, around 100 built-in plugins. No need for separate installation, and for Windows version, you will need to download and install new plugins on your own (which I do not even know, until I compare with the Linux version).
Yeah, there's always an 'catch-up' paradigm going around, but 100 plugins is a lot to play with (I am sure you can grab more if you are determined to, but that's another adventure on your own); one can keep saying Audacity needs to catch up to 'program XYZ' because that program is 'how much better', but the previous post was to illustrate the fact that plugin support is already there with Linux.
BTW, Kernel 2.6 + ALSA 1.0 + dmix software mixing will certainly put Linux audio recording in the picture. I don't think I will miss Cool Edit much longer.
If you compile audacity for oss you can select Line In or Mic In, which should not be affected by audio of other programs when recording.
Plugins are working fine in Linux, if you got LADSPA installed. I got my mandrake rpm here and there are many built-in plugins which are not found in the Windows version:
http://rpm.nyvalls.se/sound9.2.html
UT2004 Demo for GNU/Linux and MacOS X now available:
http://icculus.org/news/news.php?id=1879
Once again the wonderful job by Ryan Gordon:
http://icculus.org/news/news.php?id=1879
The ChangeLog is a long one, I wonder if the patches will be ported to 2.6 as well....
It is obvious the folks at IBM don't use Mozilla. :)