Re:Breakout suggestion:
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Animate Your LILO
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Uptime and availability are not the same, though. I'd rather reboot a box daily (ok, I'm not running IIS, make that monthly) and have 99.9% availability than having a machine that is never rebooted but fails a couple of percents of requests.
Says the author of Uptimed, sigh. Nevermind, you're right, rebooting is evil.:-)
AOL has been giving freebies for ages now. You have to avoid snail mail and cereal with quite a passion not to have noticed.
Freebies are old news, Microsoft news isn't always exciting either.. they've had downloadable freebies (IE, web fonts) for ages now so even the combination isn't really new.
The German government just get it. First they send 52-page colour booklets promoting open source to all businesses in the country, then they give a large sum of money to add more security and encryption in mutt and KMail, and now this!
Do you, the consumer have more or less choice in desktop OS's, applications, and so-called "middleware" (what a stupid term) then you did in 1995, when MS first bundled IE and Windows?
Me the techie does. Me the consumer does not. In 1995, most major dummy computer stores (where regular consumers get their stuff) offered computers with either OS/2 Warp 3 or Windows 95 preinstalled. Now, it's just Windows.
So while Microsoft has no monopoly in the techie market, they do have one in the thousand times larger real consumer market.
The essence of the Ring -- and perhaps, metaphysically, the source of its evil -- is that it gives the Bearer exactly what he wants, with no constraints.
So basically I spent all those hours reading and watching for a Full House lecture that says "be careful what you wish for"? Darn!;-)
Bill the Pony now consistently appears in scenes between Rivendell and Moria.
Yah, this was a shame. I was just about to say "hey, they left him out completely" until they said byebye. I try to see it as a wink to insiders (erm, readers) to at least put in the byebye.
ThinkGeek has a nice LOTR set as well. I've seen many more versions, though. Of course the book is decades old, in which case several editions are more justified than planned marketing attempts.
Universal did some stupid stuff with their European movie rights. Basically they don't make any money on those because of a deal with Columbia and they will wait with some blockbuster Spielberg releases until the deal is expired.
Re:Issues with the euro in day-to-day life
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The Euro
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There's no 25 cents coin. Someone tell me why, because I don't understand it.
As much as I will miss quarters, research concluded that a 1-2-5 system for currency is most efficient.
Re:Issues with the euro in day-to-day life
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The Euro
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And many people (me, at least) need to know that equivalences in the first days, to make an idea about what you are paying.
No, no, no. Don't calculate back to pesetas, francs and guilders for the rest of your natural lifes.
Write down twenty things that you often buy: a weeks worth groceries, CDs, DVDs, whatever. Write down a resonable price in your old currency. Convert. Learn and remember the new decent euro price.
Instead of calculating back to guilders whenever I buy a DVD, I will have remembered that ?25 to ?30 is a reasonable price. That is by far the easiest way to get used to the new currency.
Re:Ireland *is* part of the Euro-Zone !
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The Euro
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Norway is not (yet) part of the Euro-zone. The Netherlands are. Byebye guilder.
If KDE vs. GNOME confuses you a single bit more than Netscape vs. IE, Mac vs. PC or even Linux vs. Windows in the first place, then that is simply pathetic.
I am not saying my mother should know the different, but we're talking about IT undergrads here. Apparently they understand the difference between Linux and Windows and that this gives them more choice. How hard is it to use the same analogy on KDE and GNOME?
Sounds like a chef who decides to base his next dessert on apples instead of oranges and then freaks out because there are different kinds of apples.
What a crapload of free advertising for something I 'm not interested in, dunno about the other slashdot readers but lately it seems that a lot of people and projects are getting unnecessary advertisements..
Doesn't it suck to visit a personal website, which Slashdot still is?
Demo: no go on Slackware 8.0
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Uplink
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cap@kira:~/uplink$./uplink
./uplink: error while loading shared libraries: cannot open shared object file:
cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory
That's 500,000-750,000 OS X desktops in nine months, how many people are running KDE or Gnome as a workstation?
Apple has the benefit of a larger existing user base. That doesn't mean KDE or GNOME cannot deliver a product of equal or superior quality and in time gain marketshare.
Even if KDE and GNOME miss the marketing to get a great marketshare, that doesn't justify Hubbard's claims that open source cannot deliver a quality UNIX desktop product.
Jordan Hubbard held a speech at a meeting of the Dutch UNIX Users Group which I attended. To be honest, he was quite arrogant.
His speech basically came down to "open source failed to do anything on the desktop, and without proprietary, commercial vendors like Apple it will never go anywhere either". He almost sounded like he ment to say "only Apple can make UNIX a success on the desktop", but he explained all he ment to say was open source couldn't, when I asked him about that.
Martin Konold, who like me was present to hold a speech about KDE, responded that KDE already deliver all the stuff Jordan Hubbard was talking about, even before OSX was on the shelves.
The "open source developers can only developer for themselves and never think of end-users" view is just not true. GNOME and KDE prove that every day. Knowing these projects only exist respectively 5 and 4 years, while Apple (and Microsoft) have been in the desktop market for a much longer time gives me plenty of confidence and hope that open source can definitely bring UNIX to the desktop. Just imagine what KDE X (pun: OS X) and GNOME XP (pun: Windows XP) will look like.
,i>You also have to remember that the applications themselves are already written, they only need to be ported to the new API, so it's not like they are going to be rewritten from scratch or anything.
That largely depends on the API changes. I thought GNOME 2.0 was a huge improvement over 1.4 in several core areas, so porting applications might be painful.
I suspect that most of the applications are already up-to-date with the API though, usually applications in CVS change directly after the API changes. I don't think they rewrote the API first without touching any of the applications.
Maybe this is a big difference between GNOME and KDE (I'm mostly used to the KDE development model). Within KDE most applications that come with the main packages are maintained by the same people who maintain the libs, or at least people who closely follow the libs. Therefore the API freeze is at the same time as the application freeze.
GNOME possibly has a somewhat more loose connection between main applications (they're packahed seperately for example), so that might require an API freeze before the application freeze. Makes sense to me now.:-)
Not a platform beta. The platform beta means that they've got all of the pieces of the platform together, and they are testing the API's to make _them_ production quality. The DESKTOP betas are scheduled for next year, in which case end-user functionality will be tested.
Hm, if only the API's are Beta and the UI isn't even that level, I have a hard time believing they have a realistic time schedule. Apparently there isn't room for "desktop" alphas and they Beta's are awfully close to each other. Two weeks between Beta 1 and Beta 2 is too short if you want a decent amount of feedback and time to actually fix problems that will be reported as well.
I seriously hope the GUI is also near Beta quality already.
Omg, jeez. 3 weeks between KDE 2.2.2 and KDE 3.0 beta 1? Holy shiat, that's fast.
It's been longer since KDE 2.2.0, which is what you should look at. KDE 3.0 development started after the 2.2 release. Thank the support for different branches in CVS that 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 were bugfixed and release simultaneously to KDE 3.0.
I've been waiting for GNOME 2 for over a year and a half:A
The difference between KDE 2.2 and KDE 3.0 is not much bigger than the difference between 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2; except for the port to Qt3 (not dramatically changed from Qt2) and some binary incompatble changes.
GNOME is in the same phase as KDE was with the 1.1.2 to 2.0 transition: a drastically changed underlying toolkit and a redesign or reimplementation of many core features. Don't forget it took KDE a long time as well until 2.0 was released. It was worth it, as the new framework allowed for many successful 2.x releases. Hopefully the same will be true for the GNOME 2.x series.
It's not like there are many options...Konqueror and Mozilla aren't all there yet
Neither is IE, so what's your point? Although individual characteristics differ (speed, rendering results, features), I don't think that in total these three browsers differ a whole lot. They are all very usable and pleasant (or not) in their own way.
I must admit that I haven't tried Mozilla or Konqueror under Windows yet, even though both are available (Mozilla by default, Konqueror as part of KDE Cygwin. On the other hand, I haven't tried IE under UNIX either, be it the Solaris/HPUX port or through Wine.
Actually, a Beta should be suitable for general use. Maybe not Joe Sixpack, but a Beta traditionally is a release ment for savvy end-users, to find the last remaining bugs. A release candidate is ment to be suitable for a even larger public.
It is Alpha releases that are not ment for end-users and developers only. Beta releases are not ment for all end-users, but certainly they are suitable for the savvy ones (you know, the ones that write useful bug reports).
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Says the author of Uptimed, sigh. Nevermind, you're right, rebooting is evil.
Revamping the arts/KDE video stuff is planned, in fact, there is an IRC meeting this Saturday.
Freebies are old news, Microsoft news isn't always exciting either.. they've had downloadable freebies (IE, web fonts) for ages now so even the combination isn't really new.
Move on, nothing to see here.
The German government just get it. First they send 52-page colour booklets promoting open source to all businesses in the country, then they give a large sum of money to add more security and encryption in mutt and KMail, and now this!
Yes there is. Techies buy computer parts or at least computers without preinstalled OSes. Consumers do not. Two different products.
Me the techie does. Me the consumer does not. In 1995, most major dummy computer stores (where regular consumers get their stuff) offered computers with either OS/2 Warp 3 or Windows 95 preinstalled. Now, it's just Windows.
So while Microsoft has no monopoly in the techie market, they do have one in the thousand times larger real consumer market.
So basically I spent all those hours reading and watching for a Full House lecture that says "be careful what you wish for"? Darn!
the storyline is rushed
That's obviously what you get when you rush storylines: long movies.
Do you mean The
Yah, this was a shame. I was just about to say "hey, they left him out completely" until they said byebye. I try to see it as a wink to insiders (erm, readers) to at least put in the byebye.
ThinkGeek has a nice LOTR set as well. I've seen many more versions, though. Of course the book is decades old, in which case several editions are more justified than planned marketing attempts.
See also the Back To The Future DVD page.
As much as I will miss quarters, research concluded that a 1-2-5 system for currency is most efficient.
No, no, no. Don't calculate back to pesetas, francs and guilders for the rest of your natural lifes.
Write down twenty things that you often buy: a weeks worth groceries, CDs, DVDs, whatever. Write down a resonable price in your old currency. Convert. Learn and remember the new decent euro price.
Instead of calculating back to guilders whenever I buy a DVD, I will have remembered that ?25 to ?30 is a reasonable price. That is by far the easiest way to get used to the new currency.
Norway is not (yet) part of the Euro-zone. The Netherlands are. Byebye guilder.
I am not saying my mother should know the different, but we're talking about IT undergrads here. Apparently they understand the difference between Linux and Windows and that this gives them more choice. How hard is it to use the same analogy on KDE and GNOME?
Sounds like a chef who decides to base his next dessert on apples instead of oranges and then freaks out because there are different kinds of apples.
What a crapload of free advertising for something I 'm not interested in, dunno about the other slashdot readers but lately it seems that a lot of people and projects are getting unnecessary advertisements..
:)
Doesn't it suck to visit a personal website, which Slashdot still is?
So who do I pay to get my site mentioned ?
Read the FAQ.
./uplink: error while loading shared libraries: cannot open shared object file:
cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory
cap@kira:~/uplink$ file
./uplink: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (Linux), statically
Odd. As if it can't make up whether it using statically linked libraries or shared ones.
Shame I can't play the demo, this is a game that would look nice next to my Loki collection.
Apple has the benefit of a larger existing user base. That doesn't mean KDE or GNOME cannot deliver a product of equal or superior quality and in time gain marketshare.
Even if KDE and GNOME miss the marketing to get a great marketshare, that doesn't justify Hubbard's claims that open source cannot deliver a quality UNIX desktop product.
His speech basically came down to "open source failed to do anything on the desktop, and without proprietary, commercial vendors like Apple it will never go anywhere either". He almost sounded like he ment to say "only Apple can make UNIX a success on the desktop", but he explained all he ment to say was open source couldn't, when I asked him about that.
Martin Konold, who like me was present to hold a speech about KDE, responded that KDE already deliver all the stuff Jordan Hubbard was talking about, even before OSX was on the shelves.
The "open source developers can only developer for themselves and never think of end-users" view is just not true. GNOME and KDE prove that every day. Knowing these projects only exist respectively 5 and 4 years, while Apple (and Microsoft) have been in the desktop market for a much longer time gives me plenty of confidence and hope that open source can definitely bring UNIX to the desktop. Just imagine what KDE X (pun: OS X) and GNOME XP (pun: Windows XP) will look like.
That largely depends on the API changes. I thought GNOME 2.0 was a huge improvement over 1.4 in several core areas, so porting applications might be painful.
I suspect that most of the applications are already up-to-date with the API though, usually applications in CVS change directly after the API changes. I don't think they rewrote the API first without touching any of the applications.
Maybe this is a big difference between GNOME and KDE (I'm mostly used to the KDE development model). Within KDE most applications that come with the main packages are maintained by the same people who maintain the libs, or at least people who closely follow the libs. Therefore the API freeze is at the same time as the application freeze.
GNOME possibly has a somewhat more loose connection between main applications (they're packahed seperately for example), so that might require an API freeze before the application freeze. Makes sense to me now.
Hm, if only the API's are Beta and the UI isn't even that level, I have a hard time believing they have a realistic time schedule. Apparently there isn't room for "desktop" alphas and they Beta's are awfully close to each other. Two weeks between Beta 1 and Beta 2 is too short if you want a decent amount of feedback and time to actually fix problems that will be reported as well.
I seriously hope the GUI is also near Beta quality already.
It's been longer since KDE 2.2.0, which is what you should look at. KDE 3.0 development started after the 2.2 release. Thank the support for different branches in CVS that 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 were bugfixed and release simultaneously to KDE 3.0.
I've been waiting for GNOME 2 for over a year and a half
The difference between KDE 2.2 and KDE 3.0 is not much bigger than the difference between 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2; except for the port to Qt3 (not dramatically changed from Qt2) and some binary incompatble changes.
GNOME is in the same phase as KDE was with the 1.1.2 to 2.0 transition: a drastically changed underlying toolkit and a redesign or reimplementation of many core features. Don't forget it took KDE a long time as well until 2.0 was released. It was worth it, as the new framework allowed for many successful 2.x releases. Hopefully the same will be true for the GNOME 2.x series.
Neither is IE, so what's your point? Although individual characteristics differ (speed, rendering results, features), I don't think that in total these three browsers differ a whole lot. They are all very usable and pleasant (or not) in their own way.
I must admit that I haven't tried Mozilla or Konqueror under Windows yet, even though both are available (Mozilla by default, Konqueror as part of KDE Cygwin. On the other hand, I haven't tried IE under UNIX either, be it the Solaris/HPUX port or through Wine.
It is Alpha releases that are not ment for end-users and developers only. Beta releases are not ment for all end-users, but certainly they are suitable for the savvy ones (you know, the ones that write useful bug reports).