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Their player hijacked your system. At least RealOne played a little nicer. It still has that dynamic app that constantly wants to access the Internet. I have to kill it with ZoneAlarm quite frequently. I agree with this article. Real's problems aren't caused by Microsoft, it's REAL . . .
This is not to be a troll, because I hate being cast as one for being negative. But I've never ever liked Java. It never had the performance of native software and there are other ways of getting the code portability of Java. Qt and GTK (via dropline) are examples of this. Mono too has some great promise, but it's still a work in progress. I like the idea of portable code, but the code should still run without an interpreter/virtual machine/emulator. Those are my thoughts.
I had all kinds of trouble upgrading to 2.6. Sound and networking didn't work, as well as some of my filesystems. Luckily, I'm smart enough to setup lilo to run multiple kernels, so going back to 2.4 was no trouble to tweak my config file and recompile and try again. I never got everything totally working right. I was going to just wait until the next series of distro releases solved these problems for me, but maybe I should give it another shot.
I've never used FVWM, but isn't this the same as virtual desktops in any environment/WM? GNOME, KDE, CDE, and others have virtual desktops. KDE even has something called the Pager. FVWM? Maybe they came up with the idea, but it's all over I'd say.
I use open relays constructively. My ISP doesn't give me an SMTP server, I have to deliver all of my own mail via sendmail. This means that messages from my email account aren't directly from my domain's server. It irritates me when my email is seen as spam by unintelligent spam filters because this is a problem that I have had to deal with for years and I'm sure others are in a similar situation. I personally thing that a scheme like PGP is the only way to rid the world of spam and to authenticate all email messages.
Alright! Now we can see the stuff we left on the moon to prove to all of those skeptics. Seriously though, I was just reading about this a couple of weeks ago and they said that no current telescope technology can resolve objects as small as the lunar rover on the moon from earth.
I've kept all of the boxes the games came in in another box, a "box of boxes" per se. Maybe I'm an abnormal person, but I tend to take care of my stuff and I could repackage my games and give them to you in a state equivalent to the day I bought it (minus the shrink wrap of course). I guess if people just took better care of their stuff this problem wouldn't exist.
Whenever I read an SCO story, you never hear about the 2.6 kernel. Is this kernel so different that it lacks alleged "IP infringement?" I've heard of specific 2.4 kernels having problems, but none of the recent stuff. Is this an indication that maybe it is safest to go with 2.6 to get SCO off our back?
I'm sure the name recognition is what makes it so popular also. For instance, Mac users look forward to Microsoft announcing a new version of Office for Mac, because otherwise they might have a hard time getting new people on board. Yes, Office for Mac already exists, so why get in a tizzy? Well, it might look like support will be dropped. MS Office has always been a huge factor, regardless how great OpenOffice, GNOME Office, KOffice, WordPerfect, and others are.
If this program isn't available, they won't touch your platform. I know it's sort of dumb, but it is true.
I have been using Gnome for a while, so it's no surprise to me when it comes to the things discussed in this article. About the only new thing I learned is that you can drag and drop screenshots into another program.
I do think that Gnome developers have paid good attention to detail in the last two 2.x releases. Without KDE 3.2, I'd have to throw in some criticisms there, but KDE 3.2 just rocks. Very refined.
The Macintosh doesn't have the extensive game library that Windows does and it has a very refined and integrated desktop. Their only problem is that their systems are extremely expensive. Linux is free beer to those interested.
Your opinion is the common one I think. But I think that OOo tends to be bloated and slow on my system. It's a great suite with many features, don't get me wrong, but I think that a more integrated solution is necessary. I have been using Abiword because it's pretty light on startup time and looks good with my GNOME interface. Yes, OOo is going to be having the native widget set, but will that lead to reduced startup times? Probably not.
Yeah, Abiword has its problems, but I think it's better in the long run (for me). I think KOffice isn't as mature as GNOME Office (Maybe with 1.3, this statement is wrong), but I think people are putting a lot of stock in OpenOffice and I'm not totally impressed.
One of my professors does research in nanotechnology. He is currently growing nanotubes in his lab and one of the applications of this technology is as a detector, such as what this plant does, only at the nano-scale. Apparently when the technology matures, detectors of certain types of illnesses can be made. By a drop of blood on the detector, one can learn the results instantly instead of waiting for human analysis. Very cool.
Rhythmbox is set for inclusion in GNOME 2.6. My guess is that Rhythmbox 0.7/0.8 will ship at that point (I'm not sure if 0.7 is their CVS or will be the next stable) and if you read the article, you will notice that a lot right now is going into GStreamer 0.8 for GNOME integration. The current CVS of Rhythmbox depends on the current development version of GStreamer also.
In an effort to get China away from Linux, they have attempted to lower prices or simply look the other way when it comes to piracy. It's a good strategy in the shortrun, but I'm not sure it will work in the long haul. What's interesting is that when dealing with China, it's more like a negotiation where here in the US, a company will try to enforce the law, even if it has to be very oppressive.
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Their player hijacked your system. At least RealOne played a little nicer. It still has that dynamic app that constantly wants to access the Internet. I have to kill it with ZoneAlarm quite frequently. I agree with this article. Real's problems aren't caused by Microsoft, it's REAL . . .
Do I smell another visit to the DoJ?
Windows RG
This is not to be a troll, because I hate being cast as one for being negative. But I've never ever liked Java. It never had the performance of native software and there are other ways of getting the code portability of Java. Qt and GTK (via dropline) are examples of this. Mono too has some great promise, but it's still a work in progress. I like the idea of portable code, but the code should still run without an interpreter/virtual machine/emulator. Those are my thoughts.
And a 2.4.26 prerelease is out too!
I had all kinds of trouble upgrading to 2.6. Sound and networking didn't work, as well as some of my filesystems. Luckily, I'm smart enough to setup lilo to run multiple kernels, so going back to 2.4 was no trouble to tweak my config file and recompile and try again. I never got everything totally working right. I was going to just wait until the next series of distro releases solved these problems for me, but maybe I should give it another shot.
I've never used FVWM, but isn't this the same as virtual desktops in any environment/WM? GNOME, KDE, CDE, and others have virtual desktops. KDE even has something called the Pager. FVWM? Maybe they came up with the idea, but it's all over I'd say.
I use open relays constructively. My ISP doesn't give me an SMTP server, I have to deliver all of my own mail via sendmail. This means that messages from my email account aren't directly from my domain's server. It irritates me when my email is seen as spam by unintelligent spam filters because this is a problem that I have had to deal with for years and I'm sure others are in a similar situation. I personally thing that a scheme like PGP is the only way to rid the world of spam and to authenticate all email messages.
Alright! Now we can see the stuff we left on the moon to prove to all of those skeptics. Seriously though, I was just reading about this a couple of weeks ago and they said that no current telescope technology can resolve objects as small as the lunar rover on the moon from earth.
I've kept all of the boxes the games came in in another box, a "box of boxes" per se. Maybe I'm an abnormal person, but I tend to take care of my stuff and I could repackage my games and give them to you in a state equivalent to the day I bought it (minus the shrink wrap of course). I guess if people just took better care of their stuff this problem wouldn't exist.
Whenever I read an SCO story, you never hear about the 2.6 kernel. Is this kernel so different that it lacks alleged "IP infringement?" I've heard of specific 2.4 kernels having problems, but none of the recent stuff. Is this an indication that maybe it is safest to go with 2.6 to get SCO off our back?
I'm sure the name recognition is what makes it so popular also. For instance, Mac users look forward to Microsoft announcing a new version of Office for Mac, because otherwise they might have a hard time getting new people on board. Yes, Office for Mac already exists, so why get in a tizzy? Well, it might look like support will be dropped. MS Office has always been a huge factor, regardless how great OpenOffice, GNOME Office, KOffice, WordPerfect, and others are.
If this program isn't available, they won't touch your platform. I know it's sort of dumb, but it is true.
Wasn't it supposed to be released on the 2nd?
http://gtk.org/plan/2.4/
New file selector, yum.
I have been using Gnome for a while, so it's no surprise to me when it comes to the things discussed in this article. About the only new thing I learned is that you can drag and drop screenshots into another program.
I do think that Gnome developers have paid good attention to detail in the last two 2.x releases. Without KDE 3.2, I'd have to throw in some criticisms there, but KDE 3.2 just rocks. Very refined.
The Macintosh doesn't have the extensive game library that Windows does and it has a very refined and integrated desktop. Their only problem is that their systems are extremely expensive. Linux is free beer to those interested.
Darlux: A sophisticated distro run by derelicts.
I never heard of this before. Really cool. I also like MathML as an XML format, too bad its support isn't great all over.
Your opinion is the common one I think. But I think that OOo tends to be bloated and slow on my system. It's a great suite with many features, don't get me wrong, but I think that a more integrated solution is necessary. I have been using Abiword because it's pretty light on startup time and looks good with my GNOME interface. Yes, OOo is going to be having the native widget set, but will that lead to reduced startup times? Probably not.
Yeah, Abiword has its problems, but I think it's better in the long run (for me). I think KOffice isn't as mature as GNOME Office (Maybe with 1.3, this statement is wrong), but I think people are putting a lot of stock in OpenOffice and I'm not totally impressed.
One of my professors does research in nanotechnology. He is currently growing nanotubes in his lab and one of the applications of this technology is as a detector, such as what this plant does, only at the nano-scale. Apparently when the technology matures, detectors of certain types of illnesses can be made. By a drop of blood on the detector, one can learn the results instantly instead of waiting for human analysis. Very cool.
AdBlock rules! Here's my adblock filter. Look at it, poke at it, make it better, please!
n g.com*k ag.net/* a lueclick.com/*a nners/*
* /adsserver/*/ *u inst.com/*d server*.*.com/*. zdnet.com/chkpt/gs_pre_sawflash/www.gamespo t.com/promos/*. 1d/Ads/*t p://g.fool.com/art/free/ibd/*g lesyndication.com/* m g.com/us.yimg.com/a/*b ox?*g if*t heinq uirer.pl
Maybe we can condense this down to a reg expr.
[Adblock]
*.ad-flow.com/*
*.ad.*
*.advertisi
*.banner.*.*/*
*.bluestreak.com/*
*.fal
*.fastclick.net/*
*.instacontent.net/*
*.qksrv.net/*
*.ru4.com/*
*.spinbox.net/*
*.v
*/*.advertising.com/*
*/CurrentB
*/ad/*
*/ads.*
*/ads/*
*/adserver/*
*/advert*
*/banner.*.*/*
*/banner
*/bannerads/*
*/banners/*
*/marketing/*
*/q
*://*.*/*468x60.jpg
*_banner.gif
*a
*atdmt.com*
*banner.swf
*chkpt
*doubleclick.*
*i.i.com.com/cnwk
*mediaplex.com*
*tribalfusion.com*
ht
http://pagead2.goo
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?*
http://stats.cashring.com/ads?*
http://us.a1.yi
http://us.imdb.com/google/
http://www.distrowatch.com/images/kokoku/*.
http://www.resellerratings.com/price-direct-
Rhythmbox is set for inclusion in GNOME 2.6. My guess is that Rhythmbox 0.7/0.8 will ship at that point (I'm not sure if 0.7 is their CVS or will be the next stable) and if you read the article, you will notice that a lot right now is going into GStreamer 0.8 for GNOME integration. The current CVS of Rhythmbox depends on the current development version of GStreamer also.
I am feeling particularly offtopic today. Sorry for my stupid rant.
Are you gay? Are you a nigger? Then Join the GNAA! blah
In an effort to get China away from Linux, they have attempted to lower prices or simply look the other way when it comes to piracy. It's a good strategy in the shortrun, but I'm not sure it will work in the long haul. What's interesting is that when dealing with China, it's more like a negotiation where here in the US, a company will try to enforce the law, even if it has to be very oppressive.
What will that stand for? Kool Network Object Model Enhanced Desktop Environment? hehe.