Just tell me...why would I need this stuff, with Konqueror 3.1 and Phoenix around?
And why do stick for (IBM)PC's
on
Legacy-Free PCs
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Interesting that through it's eight pages the article goes pointing technology after technology that should have passed a way a while ago.
And, not so oddly, one could go pointing that each of these have actually passed away in Apple Computer's "personal computers". Apple first brought USB to the mainstream, and knocked out it's odler system - ADB - at once. And ADB itself were already more advanced than they keyboard ands mouse interfaces still in use. Floppies? also gone in 1987. Parallel ports? Don't make me laugh!
When it was time, the companny boldy changed the CPU architecture itself to RISC based machinnes, leaving behind M68K, also an architeture that has ever been far beyond anything x86 could ever be on a programmer point of view.
It was just because of market pressures taht APple had to adopt inferior x86 PC's teck like ATA, and PCI (ok, maybe not inferior to what Apple had at the time, but they could have done better than adopt a 33MHz standard in a time system buses where at 50MHz).
ANd if I point Apple as an example it's just because it is the sole survivor of the diversity of personal computers we used to have in the 80's. 0x86 PC's I count more as zombies than as survivors.
The IBM/Microsoft/Intel span who is the author of the artiucle should be put to rest in legacy hell, with the anacronismis he tries to point out, just for pointing out the prototype of the first IBM PC as "maybe as important as Bells' first Phone(...)", forgetting that Personnal Computers had been on their way for a lot more time.
You USAians got bombing Unisys when it first started these absurdties, instead of bombing other nations, maybe we would not be seeing things like this.
I just checked today these
10 top selling books in IT in
one of the largest bookstores here in
Brazil.
As you can see, not much for window~1 in there;
people are buying books on Java, Linux,
Operating Systens. And just one in 10
titles is specic to a M$ product - Excel.
It's sad, but it seens that some of us just get confortable with more and more situations that lead to good people, willing to help out mankind, getting prosecutted like this in behalf of all other of us. Even yesterday, I was making a lecture on the GPL, when the subject came to Palladium/ Longhorn: everyone seemed easy, when someone in the audience claimed that the security schemes would eventually be hacked away like in the case of the DVD's. What the heros that perform these hacks have to come through seemed to concern none at all.
"XML Co-Creator says XML Is Too Hard For Programmers"
Just GREAT. ANd now, what to do with the f**** xhtml standard which totaly f***** up web page authoring?
Would the author post a "mea culpa" to W3C, and ask for a withdrawal of xhtml? I guess not. And if that stuff catches on, there goes hand-crafted html down the toilet.
Or any of you ^It is easy to spend a few days getting used this java library to interface with XML" would likes to go typing
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
I just started reading the article to find
something as childish as:
Everything we've seen suggests that KHTML has a ways to go to catch up with rendering real web pages.
Not even a little bit biased. I use konqueror for
my day to day surfing - 3.0, and am yet to find a signle page it doesn't render as well as fatzilla. Moreover, at work I use Konqui 2.0 which actually does not render well a good deal of pages, but is still quite usable, and it's integration to the desktop make I prefer it as well.
As a matter of fact, the lawyer is quite right
about the matter of writting a non gpl-conformant
module to the kernel. You may consult a lawyer,
or you may read the GPL FAQ.
The apropriate solution would be one that made all
the software that use the kernel APIs open sourced
and GPL conformant - and, ona separte software layer,
make the proprietary calls to your device, without
touching the kernel API, but using an API on your
own GPLed layer, which license contains exceptions
of the GPL to allow the use of the proprietary part
of the software.
Actually, there is this whole session on the GPL FAQ dealing with these
issues.
(about 14 minutes 58 seconds faster than with earlier Linux kernels) . Ok, it is a genuine and serious question I have: Were these 15 minutes extra responsaible for the extra painfull long start times of apps like Mozilla, and Openoffice?
If so, as soon as I upgrade my distro, I will boot it into 2.5.
Drakfont comes standard only in Mandrake Linux distro, just as I forgot what it used to be configuring fonts before that.
No kidding. It's well over a year installing fonts in my desktop system is as easy as reading e-mail.
Now please, no hard feelings. I am pro free software, and had volunteered for an upcoming Debian install fest. My ego needed the distro boasting, but I am quite happy with this new achievement.
Here go ther numbers from the last re-install in my brother's box. (800Mhz/512MB Athlon) I am not making this up. Windows got all messed up with the two network cards.
CD ROM swapping: 2 for MDK, none for windows. Reboots:
Win98: 38
Mdk: 1 BSOD:
Win 98: 1
MDK: N/A Security Mode Reboots:
Win 98: 9
MDK: none Elapsed time:
Win98: 3h50; Unable to configure both network cards.
MDK: 1h35; NATting to the whole house.
I say one thing: the guy on the article was lucky with his windows install.
For those who, like me, think they don't need to know
the name of every other proprietary cute software around,
one can always check
here what is it that these people are talking about.
I didn't see in the article or anywere here one ofthe main motives to make
Linux more widespread. The fact that it is free.
Speech free, that is. No, I do not expect my mother to write plugins
for her mail client. But we do stick with free software, or we
will be left out. Left ou of the "misterious inner workings
of computers and prograns", and that will be very soon. Mr. Villanueva may have
a better written document on why we should stick with free software than
I could ever write. But if we are talking just of being better or worse than windows,
in this or that aspect, of being cheaper, we are kissing our freedon
goodbye. And I am not saying freedom to write or modify prograns. I am saying freedom
to use and produce culture, read books, using computers as typewritters without
the one maker of the one "trusted computing word processor knowing of everything we write. If you think I am over worried about this, remember that Microsoft media player
does send information on what you are watching or hearing to microsoft. Do you think
that when a non Palladium computer able to run Linux or other "untrusted" software sells for about 5 times the price of a "mainstrean
computer appliance", due to industry mass production prices
constraints.
I don't know about you, but my mom _is_ actually using Linux (allright, she lives with me and my brother), but she says she will not switch back, because the system from Redmond's got just 2 solitaire gamnes, while this Linux distro comes packed with over 200 variants of it in 4 different prograns.
Besides, there is one more reason, since we share the computers. We are no native language speakers. And most translations of computer prograns simply suck - less if made by vollunteers in a combined developemnt effort, more if by some underpaid guy with a dictionary in the basements of a big corporation - but if know to read English, that's the language you will want your desktop on. As a matter of fact, my mon doesn't read English.
In KDE choosing a different Language for each user is a matter of choosing the preferred one in the control center. In the other OS, it is not possible. Actually, I think that as the only version of windows sold here is in Portuguese, it is nearly ilegal for me to get an English copy of it.
Did I wait for that. As of late, they had not made available a copy of the beta 3.5 for Linux. And the old Betas had all expired. Win & Mac users had update beta's thought.
I started a couple scenes in 3.5 which I just had to freeze while I waited for this one.
Read the headline...take a glance at the milimiter thick crust of dirt over the keyboard. Decide to read along - these are not the news I am looking for.
And I guess they reiterated that the total market for computers int he world is of about 5 units, ain't it?
I don't know if my main interaction with my main computer I will ever want in voice. But I know how I'd like to turn lights on and off and switch televison channels, and it's not by pressing keys.
Also at newscientist
on
Paintable LCDs
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· Score: 2, Informative
I don't know about you, but this plataform is just sick. Do I get mad all the times I stop to think on what the home computer industry could have brought us. Instead, from the tenths of playfull, colorfull, imaginative toys from the early 80's, what did emerge as the "winner" for the 90's, and now, beyond?
The only "Personal Computer" of the time that was, ground up, designed for "serious businness", and thus could display 80 characters of green text in a row, and wow, it could even beep. Who would want pretty toys like the Apple II's, ZX Spectruns, Atari ST's, Amigas? SO much color capacity, sound, speed...it could not be possible fopr one to want to work with stuff like this.
You may be all happy and well with this crap, being refurbished over and over. Were it not for the other only alternative in the market, I doubt if today's almighty 80x86 PC's would ever had got advanced peripheralls like USB connection, 3'1/2 floppies, firewire --how? no firewire yet? sorry - and maybe even the mouse. After all...who would ever want such a toy on a Serious Machine like those sold by International Business Machines?
Be happy and party on. I am wearing black for this "Anniversary"!
Hey, I actually use P2P in a way I consider quite usefull, and I think I can achieve historical evidence of it helpiong the general advance of sciences, human knowledge and welfare in general.
The technology I am talking about is based in wireless peer to peer analogic audio streaming between two or more organic entities, known as "speech", and actually had its role in civilization development.
Well, but maybe the comunication between two individuals is in fact too dangerous a thing to be allowed, as they can infringe a lare number of copyrights, and there would be no one nearby to check if one of them happen to sing a copyrighted song, let alone the danger of hidden terrorist conspiracies against the corporate welfare.
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Just tell me...why would I need this stuff,
with Konqueror 3.1 and Phoenix around?
Interesting that through it's eight pages the article goes pointing technology after technology that should have passed a way a while ago.
:-)
And, not so oddly, one could go pointing that each of these have actually passed away in
Apple Computer's "personal computers". Apple first brought USB to the mainstream, and knocked out it's odler system - ADB - at once. And ADB itself were already more advanced than they keyboard ands mouse interfaces still in use.
Floppies? also gone in 1987. Parallel ports? Don't make me laugh!
When it was time, the companny boldy changed the CPU architecture itself to RISC based machinnes, leaving behind M68K, also an architeture that has ever been far beyond anything x86 could ever be on a programmer point of view.
It was just because of market pressures taht APple had to adopt inferior x86 PC's teck like ATA, and PCI (ok, maybe not inferior to what Apple had at the time, but they could have done better than adopt a 33MHz standard in a time system buses where at 50MHz).
ANd if I point Apple as an example it's just because it is the sole survivor of the diversity of personal computers we used to have in the 80's. 0x86 PC's I count more as zombies than as survivors.
The IBM/Microsoft/Intel span who is the author of the artiucle should be put to rest in legacy hell, with the anacronismis he tries to point out, just for pointing out the prototype of the first IBM PC as "maybe as important as Bells' first Phone(...)", forgetting that Personnal Computers had been on their way for a lot more time.
Enough bashing for now.
You USAians got bombing Unisys when it first
started these absurdties, instead of bombing
other nations, maybe we would not be seeing
things like this.
I just checked today these 10 top selling books in IT in one of the largest bookstores here in Brazil.
As you can see, not much for window~1 in there; people are buying books on Java, Linux, Operating Systens. And just one in 10 titles is specic to a M$ product - Excel.
It's sad, but it seens that some of us
just get confortable with more and more
situations that lead to good people, willing to
help out mankind, getting prosecutted like this in
behalf of all other of us.
Even yesterday, I was making a lecture on
the GPL, when the subject came to Palladium/
Longhorn: everyone seemed easy, when someone
in the audience claimed that the security schemes
would eventually be hacked away like in the case
of the DVD's.
What the heros that perform these hacks have to come
through seemed to concern none at all.
Just GREAT. ANd now, what to do with the f****
xhtml standard which totaly f***** up web page
authoring?
Would the author post a "mea culpa" to W3C, and
ask for a withdrawal of xhtml? I guess not. And
if that stuff catches on, there goes hand-crafted
html down the toilet.
Or any of you ^It is easy to spend a few days
getting used this java library to interface
with XML" would likes to go typing
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
instead of
<hmtl>
???
It has just become a matter of Micros~1 and MPAA allowing free replication and distribution of their so beloved Intelectual Property.
Terrorist organizations will therefore go bankrupt.
I just started reading the article to find something as childish as:
Everything we've seen suggests that KHTML has a ways to go to catch up with rendering real web pages.
Not even a little bit biased. I use konqueror for my day to day surfing - 3.0, and am yet to find a signle page it doesn't render as well as fatzilla. Moreover, at work I use Konqui 2.0 which actually does not render well a good deal of pages, but is still quite usable, and it's integration to the desktop make I prefer it as well.
As a matter of fact, the lawyer is quite right about the matter of writting a non gpl-conformant module to the kernel. You may consult a lawyer, or you may read the GPL FAQ.
The apropriate solution would be one that made all the software that use the kernel APIs open sourced and GPL conformant - and, ona separte software layer, make the proprietary calls to your device, without touching the kernel API, but using an API on your own GPLed layer, which license contains exceptions of the GPL to allow the use of the proprietary part of the software.
Actually, there is this whole session on the GPL FAQ dealing with these issues.
United States of America, you've been 0wn3d by
them CORPS.
(about 14 minutes 58 seconds faster than with earlier Linux kernels)
. Ok, it is a genuine and serious question I have:
Were these 15 minutes extra responsaible for the extra painfull
long start times of apps like Mozilla, and Openoffice?
If so, as soon as I upgrade my
distro, I will boot it into 2.5.
Drakfont comes standard only in Mandrake Linux distro, just
as I forgot what it used to be configuring fonts before that.
No kidding. It's well over a year installing fonts in my desktop
system is as easy as reading e-mail.
Now please, no hard feelings. I am pro free software, and had volunteered
for an upcoming Debian install fest. My ego needed the distro
boasting, but I am quite happy with this new achievement.
Here go ther numbers from the last re-install in my
brother's box. (800Mhz/512MB Athlon)
I am not making this up. Windows got all messed up
with the two network cards.
CD ROM swapping: 2 for MDK, none for windows.
Reboots:
Win98: 38
Mdk: 1
BSOD:
Win 98: 1
MDK: N/A
Security Mode Reboots:
Win 98: 9
MDK: none
Elapsed time:
Win98: 3h50; Unable to configure both network cards.
MDK: 1h35; NATting to the whole house.
I say one thing: the guy on the article was lucky with his windows
install.
For those who, like me, think they don't need to know the name of every other proprietary cute software around, one can always check here what is it that these people are talking about.
I didn't see in the article or anywere here one ofthe main motives to make Linux more widespread. The fact that it is free. Speech free, that is.
No, I do not expect my mother to write plugins for her mail client. But we do stick with free software, or we will be left out. Left ou of the "misterious inner workings of computers and prograns", and that will be very soon.
Mr. Villanueva may have a better written document on why we should stick with free software than I could ever write.
But if we are talking just of being better or worse than windows, in this or that aspect, of being cheaper, we are kissing our freedon goodbye. And I am not saying freedom to write or modify prograns. I am saying freedom to use and produce culture, read books, using computers as typewritters without the one maker of the one "trusted computing word processor knowing of everything we write.
If you think I am over worried about this, remember that Microsoft media player does send information on what you are watching or hearing to microsoft. Do you think that when a non Palladium computer able to run Linux or other "untrusted" software sells for about 5 times the price of a "mainstrean computer appliance", due to industry mass production prices constraints.
I don't know about you, but my mom _is_ actually using Linux
(allright, she lives with me and my brother), but she says she will not
switch back, because the system from Redmond's got just
2 solitaire gamnes, while this Linux distro comes packed with over
200 variants of it in 4 different prograns.
Besides, there is one more reason, since we share the computers.
We are no native language speakers. And most translations
of computer prograns simply suck - less if made by vollunteers
in a combined developemnt effort, more if by some underpaid
guy with a dictionary in the basements of a big corporation - but
if know to read English, that's the language you will want your desktop on.
As a matter of fact, my mon doesn't read English.
In KDE choosing a different
Language for each user is a matter of choosing the preferred one
in the control center. In the other OS, it is not possible.
Actually,
I think that as the only version of windows sold here is in Portuguese,
it is nearly ilegal for me to get an English copy of it.
Did I wait for that. As of late, they had not made available
a copy of the beta 3.5 for Linux. And the old Betas had
all expired. Win & Mac users had update beta's thought.
I started a couple scenes in 3.5 which I just had to freeze
while I waited for this one.
Read the headline...take a glance at the milimiter thick
crust of dirt over the keyboard. Decide to read along -
these are not the news I am looking for.
And I guess they reiterated that the total market
for computers int he world is of about 5 units, ain't it?
I don't know if my main interaction with my main
computer I will ever want in voice. But I know how I'd like to
turn lights on and off and switch televison channels,
and it's not by pressing keys.
Here.
Here it is.
Thought I would still prefer the breaking m$ in 5 pieces
and force open the APIs solution.
2944 + 160 = 3328 ?
I just wonder...these must be those first
generation Pentiuns with faulty math
anyway.
Just check this link.
The only "Personal Computer" of the time that was, ground up, designed for "serious businness", and thus could display 80 characters of green text in a row, and wow, it could even beep. Who would want pretty toys like the Apple II's, ZX Spectruns, Atari ST's, Amigas? SO much color capacity, sound, speed...it could not be possible fopr one to want to work with stuff like this.
You may be all happy and well with this crap, being refurbished over and over. Were it not for the other only alternative in the market, I doubt if today's almighty 80x86 PC's would ever had got advanced peripheralls like USB connection, 3'1/2 floppies, firewire --how? no firewire yet? sorry - and maybe even the mouse. After all...who would ever want such a toy on a Serious Machine like those sold by International Business Machines?
Be happy and party on. I am wearing black for this "Anniversary"!
Hey, I actually use P2P in a way I consider quite usefull, and I think I can achieve historical evidence of it helpiong the general advance of sciences, human knowledge and welfare in general.
The technology I am talking about is based in wireless peer to peer analogic audio streaming between two or more organic entities, known as "speech", and actually had its role in civilization development.
Well, but maybe the comunication between two individuals is in fact too dangerous a thing to be allowed, as they can infringe a lare number of copyrights, and there would be no one nearby to check if one of them happen to sing a copyrighted song, let alone the danger of hidden terrorist conspiracies against the corporate welfare.