Microsoft needs to realize that Google's success is on its simplicity and lack of obtrusiveness. MSN's web site is the antithesis of this. If they are spending all of these research dollars to find out that less is better, then it seems like a waste of money to me.
That's what I thought. C# is really no better than Java at that level, but I'm sure that it is a lot faster (on Windows) for obvious reasons.
I like Mono because they are accepting.NET as a future de facto standard and are dealing with it as pertaining to the *nix community.
I have been in support of standardizing application programming because small firms can't afford to port software. This is where Qt comes in, but Trolltech licenses are very expensive and since Qt isn't a native API, it won't ever give you the true look and feel of your system.
It would be nice to have one set of code that would work with various APIs on different systems. That is at least how I view Mono, but if it relies on a VM, we aren't any further ahead of Java.
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Of course we all know that we aren't tied to MS products with.NET! That's what the Mono project is for. I believe that having one standardized framework is an excellent concept. That way you can maintain one set of source files and portability issues are left to the developers of the framework. This is what Java is, but it runs on a virtual machine, and I think it's slow. I also hear that C# has a runtime environment. Any insight on that is much appreciated. But I still think that compiled source is the best, just one framework for writing applications would be nice.
OK, I'm glad you mentioned this. I just purchased a Dell Dimension 8300 and I share the same sentiment that the factory defaults suck, so I reformatted it right away. However, I also noted the 35 MB partition right at the beginning of the hard drive.
So, you say that this isn't needed and that it's just for the first run? I left it there in case it was needed, but it's not of a recognized file system.
Thanks, I will delete it next time.
BTW, I hope this isn't too far off topic to get moderated as such. I think that what this person pointed out was useful to me, and perhaps other Dell users. I have to say though, on the topic of this article, that I would not see any agreement because I reformatted before I could even accept a license.
Every day I say "when this comes out, Linux will be ready" and then that thing comes out and I find something else to do just that same thing with. The problem is that if we say that coming to the latest advancements of proprietary OSes is all we need, as we have been there many times, then they (proprietary companies) come out with something else.
I say Linux will be ready for the desktop when it can outpace the development of its competition. With as many people working on Linux as there is, I think that this shows good promise. I have seen so much in the two years I have used Linux, it is amazing that we have come this far in only two years.
In the short term, I think that Linux 2.6 is very important and if you want to know why, then just read some of the articles on 2.6 and that will explain a lot.
I think that the freedesktop.org standards need to be fully implemented and now the the linux standard base seems to have eliminated a lot of the RPM incompatibilities, we are on the road to easy software use and installation.
Kolab and Kontact, I'm confused.
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OK, so the KDE project started Kontact, which merges KMail, KOrganizer, KNotes, and KAddressBook. I was just at the Kontact web site and it doesn't mention Kolab. My thought was that Kroupware was supposed to merge at some point with Kontact, is this true? But Kolab screenshots look different than Kontact's. Is this going into KDE?
I wouldn't say that governments need "affirmative action" for open source. It has one great thing going for itself in this downed global economy: cost effectiveness.
But we've seen many stories like this in the past here on/.
I like what the German government is doing in terms of funding open source. This way, you can get something just as good as proprietary for a nominal cost to everybody (government, by the people that is) and it gives something back to the people, just like any other government program.
Get it while it lasts, whatever your motive is, because it is only time before this becomes controversial. I'm surprised that the company is willing to risk it. I'm sure the EFF is on their side, which is a great thing.
First of all, the SR-71 was not a bomber, it was a reconnaissance aircraft. Secondly, it is no longer operational. My web site (www.sr-71.org), details the history and operation of this magnificent aircraft.
I see that it runs Qtopia from Trolltech. Is that GPL or not? I didn't think it was, of course I could be wrong. It's great to see KDE's portable cousin on this thing.
I am so happy that this book is out. I love regular expressions (first saw them in Perl and JavaScript), and I considered buying the first edition from O'Reilly last year, but I thought that it would be best to wait and get the next edition (plus I had about 5 other O'Reilly titles to read at the time).
I wish that there was better support for regular expressions in languages like C/C++. Does anyone know of a good library for it because there is no support for it in the language that I know of? Thanks.
Yes they are around, in fact some more recent news about them came out of the JavaOne conference:
http://rcrnews.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?newsId=13840
They are going to be integrating IBMâ(TM)s WebSphere Micro Environment.
Mandrake??? Ximian currently doesn't support Mandrake for XD2, only for Evolution 1.4.
If anything, he should have said SuSE, who is officially supported.
Either way, you are right that the distros do a great job already. However, I have installed Evolution 1.4 via Ximian's network software installer and found it to be an absolute dream.
I assume XD2 is the same, but I am a Mandrake user, so I haven't tried it.
If both systems are Linux Standard Base, then I don't see why it shouldn't work, though.
The Mandrake kernels are always heavily modified versions of the official kernels.
The one packaged with Mandrake 9.1 is a pre-release of the stable 2.4.21 kernel, hence the quotes I used.
According to Mandrake, they make so many modifications to the kernel that the difference in waiting for the final.21 isn't worth the time, and probably wouldn't make much of a difference.
I'm sure there are many bug fixes in waiting around, but they have to get this product to market.
My point in saying that it is irrelevant (to me, anyways), is that I like using the modified Mandrake kernel. I trust that they have done what's best for my system and when I recompile the kernel, I use that one.
I am really looking forward to 2.6, though. I am hoping that the incorporation of the ALSA drivers will eliminate all of the sound server mumbo jumbo.
Yeah, especially since all the hype on 2.6. But, this comes so late it's at a state of irrelevance. For instance, Mandrake has already put the "2.4.21" kernel in their 9.1 release, which was 3 months ago!
I just hope that 2.6 would pick up some momentum and be out by the next series of distro releases.
Probably not though . . .
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Microsoft needs to realize that Google's success is on its simplicity and lack of obtrusiveness. MSN's web site is the antithesis of this. If they are spending all of these research dollars to find out that less is better, then it seems like a waste of money to me.
That's what I thought. C# is really no better than Java at that level, but I'm sure that it is a lot faster (on Windows) for obvious reasons. I like Mono because they are accepting .NET as a future de facto standard and are dealing with it as pertaining to the *nix community.
I have been in support of standardizing application programming because small firms can't afford to port software. This is where Qt comes in, but Trolltech licenses are very expensive and since Qt isn't a native API, it won't ever give you the true look and feel of your system.
It would be nice to have one set of code that would work with various APIs on different systems. That is at least how I view Mono, but if it relies on a VM, we aren't any further ahead of Java.
Of course we all know that we aren't tied to MS products with .NET! That's what the Mono project is for. I believe that having one standardized framework is an excellent concept. That way you can maintain one set of source files and portability issues are left to the developers of the framework. This is what Java is, but it runs on a virtual machine, and I think it's slow. I also hear that C# has a runtime environment. Any insight on that is much appreciated. But I still think that compiled source is the best, just one framework for writing applications would be nice.
OK, I'm glad you mentioned this. I just purchased a Dell Dimension 8300 and I share the same sentiment that the factory defaults suck, so I reformatted it right away. However, I also noted the 35 MB partition right at the beginning of the hard drive.
So, you say that this isn't needed and that it's just for the first run? I left it there in case it was needed, but it's not of a recognized file system.
Thanks, I will delete it next time.
BTW, I hope this isn't too far off topic to get moderated as such. I think that what this person pointed out was useful to me, and perhaps other Dell users. I have to say though, on the topic of this article, that I would not see any agreement because I reformatted before I could even accept a license.
Every day I say "when this comes out, Linux will be ready" and then that thing comes out and I find something else to do just that same thing with. The problem is that if we say that coming to the latest advancements of proprietary OSes is all we need, as we have been there many times, then they (proprietary companies) come out with something else. I say Linux will be ready for the desktop when it can outpace the development of its competition. With as many people working on Linux as there is, I think that this shows good promise. I have seen so much in the two years I have used Linux, it is amazing that we have come this far in only two years. In the short term, I think that Linux 2.6 is very important and if you want to know why, then just read some of the articles on 2.6 and that will explain a lot. I think that the freedesktop.org standards need to be fully implemented and now the the linux standard base seems to have eliminated a lot of the RPM incompatibilities, we are on the road to easy software use and installation.
OK, so the KDE project started Kontact, which merges KMail, KOrganizer, KNotes, and KAddressBook. I was just at the Kontact web site and it doesn't mention Kolab. My thought was that Kroupware was supposed to merge at some point with Kontact, is this true? But Kolab screenshots look different than Kontact's. Is this going into KDE?
http://kolab.kde.org/
http://kontact.kde.org/
In other words, is Kontact dead?
I wouldn't say that governments need "affirmative action" for open source. It has one great thing going for itself in this downed global economy: cost effectiveness.
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But we've seen many stories like this in the past here on
I like what the German government is doing in terms of funding open source. This way, you can get something just as good as proprietary for a nominal cost to everybody (government, by the people that is) and it gives something back to the people, just like any other government program.
Get it while it lasts, whatever your motive is, because it is only time before this becomes controversial. I'm surprised that the company is willing to risk it. I'm sure the EFF is on their side, which is a great thing.
First of all, the SR-71 was not a bomber, it was a reconnaissance aircraft. Secondly, it is no longer operational. My web site (www.sr-71.org), details the history and operation of this magnificent aircraft.
I see that it runs Qtopia from Trolltech. Is that GPL or not? I didn't think it was, of course I could be wrong. It's great to see KDE's portable cousin on this thing.
http://www.etechkorea.info/articles/20020501001.ph p
Don't know if this constitutes what everyone is looking for, but you can see that there is no border in the center portion where it folds.
I am so happy that this book is out. I love regular expressions (first saw them in Perl and JavaScript), and I considered buying the first edition from O'Reilly last year, but I thought that it would be best to wait and get the next edition (plus I had about 5 other O'Reilly titles to read at the time). I wish that there was better support for regular expressions in languages like C/C++. Does anyone know of a good library for it because there is no support for it in the language that I know of? Thanks.
Yes they are around, in fact some more recent news about them came out of the JavaOne conference: http://rcrnews.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?newsId=13840 They are going to be integrating IBMâ(TM)s WebSphere Micro Environment.
Mandrake??? Ximian currently doesn't support Mandrake for XD2, only for Evolution 1.4.
If anything, he should have said SuSE, who is officially supported.
Either way, you are right that the distros do a great job already. However, I have installed Evolution 1.4 via Ximian's network software installer and found it to be an absolute dream.
I assume XD2 is the same, but I am a Mandrake user, so I haven't tried it.
If both systems are Linux Standard Base, then I don't see why it shouldn't work, though.
The Mandrake kernels are always heavily modified versions of the official kernels.
.21 isn't worth the time, and probably wouldn't make much of a difference.
The one packaged with Mandrake 9.1 is a pre-release of the stable 2.4.21 kernel, hence the quotes I used.
According to Mandrake, they make so many modifications to the kernel that the difference in waiting for the final
I'm sure there are many bug fixes in waiting around, but they have to get this product to market.
My point in saying that it is irrelevant (to me, anyways), is that I like using the modified Mandrake kernel. I trust that they have done what's best for my system and when I recompile the kernel, I use that one.
I am really looking forward to 2.6, though. I am hoping that the incorporation of the ALSA drivers will eliminate all of the sound server mumbo jumbo.
Yeah, especially since all the hype on 2.6. But, this comes so late it's at a state of irrelevance. For instance, Mandrake has already put the "2.4.21" kernel in their 9.1 release, which was 3 months ago! I just hope that 2.6 would pick up some momentum and be out by the next series of distro releases. Probably not though . . .
Gaim rocks, especially the latest versions. Also, monetary support from Lindows.com can't hurt.