On the other hand, there is also a benefit that IRC has for translations: nobody would notice incomplete sentences or 'odd' words (words that didn't translate too well). Native talk on IRC is already so full of bullshit that even Babelfish could not make it worse.
I've used a script in bitchX and I've spoken spanish and never ever got the feeling the other person knew I do not speak spanish at all. In fact, he wanted to visit me when he would come to Madrid.
IRC is the definition of low quality: thus translators make a lot of sense there!
Every now and then the KDE website has an article about the future of KDE, usually pointing at the would-be's in KDE 2.0. Now that KDE2 is getting more and more mature with lots of future idea's implemented, I'd like to know what the current future ideas for KDE are. What can we expect in KDE2.1/3.0 ??
A while ago I catched a message from the RealPlayer makers how they could integrate RealPlayer with KDE. What happened to that? Are there other companies/products that request such info and can we actually see things happening here? (think of drag-and-drop, theming, docking, etc)
If you have a couple of hundred megs free disk space, just go ahead-compile-smile. I've compiled M6-9 on libc5 and M9-10 on glibc2.0 (same machine, upgraded libc on Slack 3.5 manually) and Mozilla works just fine. Perhaps less stable than glibc2.1, but enough to get an impression of the progress and fast rendering.
The random crashes on startup do occur, but rm -rf ~/.mozilla/ resolves everything. Not a big problem for alpha software (although, the precompiled M11 ran great under NT at school, beta quality is not far away anymore).
There are webservices that keep your passwords for you, I think Microsoft launched one not so long ago. I keep _all_ my root passwords on their servers!;-)
Also, Mozilla will be able to remember them for you in your 'wallet', I don't know how it's encrypted locally but the wallet and your profile should be (and can be) password protected themselves. Internet Explorer also does this.
I must agree that using passwords is simply the best was to remember them. Using a password is almost a habit. The positioning of the fingers, the order of the keystrokes... how often did you type your old password out of habit when you knew very well you changed it recently?
But there is more you can do than using them a lot. Make passwords that make sense. This doesn't necessarily make them insecure, but easier to remember. For example: noone would guess w3/.org is the password for Rob's server. But it's darn easy to remember.
All my passwords have some sort of connection to my life, servers, what's running on them, etc etc. But be careful not to make them too easy. My password is most definitely not my girlfriends name.
Also, use your old passwords (that you are familiar with) for all those stupid Web-accounts. Who cares! Of course make exceptions when you start ordering stuff, especially with one-click-buying.
Because patents and NDAs are not necessarily a bad thing. Whatever it is that Transmeta produces and might even realize some day, as long as there is documentation and openness about it once you have to decide whether to buy it and once you are fiddling to get your kernel working on it, there is no problem. (sorry if I took your post too seriously)
As the questionmark indicates, this is not flamebait but something I would really like to see some opinions on.
Has the AOL/Sun/Netscape deal screwed up a lot of things? Mozilla has been a fiasco for a year until they basically started over. Things look better now, but nevertheless Mozilla is still not there while Netscape 4.x series is dead. And now StarOffice gets delayed as well.
I know this is pure speculation and very coincidential and perhaps not at all related. But it worries me a bit.
I tend to agree a breakup of Microsoft might even prove beneficial to them in the long term. I don't think the judge or the government will go for that however.
It's irrelevant whether any of all this is beneficial to Microsoft. The real issue is whether it is for the consumer.
It is hard to tell whether we would be better off without Microsoft. Perhaps we would have better products right now, for lower prices. More innovation. On the other hand: maybe Microsoft _did_ the industry a lot of good. Without their marketing and practises personal computing might not be where it is today.
So far for the emotional aspect.
No matter whether the laws are really for our own benefit here, Microsoft did break the law. And although a lot of focus is on how to punish Microsoft, it's more important how to create an outcome that is beneficial for the public. If we go out of our way to find a solution that hurts Microsoft badly, yet doesn't benefit the average consumer; then what's gained?
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KDE2 is, or will be, great. Every now and then I compile the snaps to see what's happening and every time there's more functionality and eye candy. Those new themes/styles make Linux a hot rod.
However, even more important are all the seperate applications. I recently saw a page with Ksendmail, Kbind and soon to come Kapache. It looks like soon you can rely on KDE for everything and theoratically would not need a text console at all anymore. KDE is setting standards. It compiles, even KDE2 for the most part and it's not even done yet. It's purty. It works and gets the job done.
Of course: KDE is bloated. And perhaps a bit too much like Windows for some.
Nevertheless it's definitely part of my wishlist for Spring 2000: Linux 2.4, Xfree 4.0, KDE2.0, Koffice, Mozilla... I can hardly wait.
(off-topic) Actually, 0 Fahrenheit is when mercury freezes and 100 Fahrenheit is the temperature of your blood. So it's based on two different things, one of them not even really precise.
(on-topic) Like all good stuff this will be totally over-prized for a long time. And I still doubt the usability. Nobody ever liked watching TV on one of those small LCD screens. And Internet? It might be handy for e-mail, instant messaging and perhaps a stripped down version of Lynx;-) but it's useless for any other purpose. And don't tell me that you can hook up a laptop to it because that's not exactly something new.
Looks to me this thing is just a smaller version of Nokia's Communicator or the Philips Velo.
The average Slackware user is not the average Red Hat or SuSE user and usually able to compile and upgrade from source him/herself.
With a little help from/usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs/Glibc2-HOWTOI installed glibc2 on my Slackware 3.5 box _without_ any problems. Recompiled (and upgraded while I was busy) a bunch of other libs and programs and voila, my system is glibc2 based. Without having to reboot.
Sure, there's libc5 binaries left but they'll dissapear as I continue to upgrade packages. I thought this was the true Slackware way.. do it yourself. I've heard people with perfect Internet connections say: "I am going to buy the new RH because it has a newer version of SomeProg" while most of them could have easily downloaded and compiled the latest version themselves, and I know they have the skills.
I don't think a shell account in.au would make it legal for you to reverse engineer in South Africa, unless you write a program that does the reverse engineering for you and let it run in Australia. If you don't write such a program, you'd still do the reverse engineering in South Africa where/dev/brain is located, you just use the Australian account as a medium to store your results.
However, I think that this _is_ great news for open source software. I don't agree with the thought that it will make open source less important because you're allowed to make compatible products without it. I think it might even have the opposite effect: proprietary software becomes less and less useful because one of its main 'benefits', preventing others to make compatible products without your conscent, is no longer there.
I'm not convinced this will actually have a major impact on anything, but it definitely creates opportunities.
This is all great of course (new releases always are), but would it have been too hard to post a little note with upgrade consequences with this announcement?
Will it break my system? What are the requirements? Will the kernels compile with it? how about other large projects such as X, Apache, Gnome, KDE.
The compiler is one of the core programs if you don't use binaries so the over-all stability of your Linux box greatly depends on a good combination of compiler, libraries, includes etc etc.
Is there a HOW-TO available on this? (not just saying: "old goes with old and new with new" or providing upgrade instructions for a specific compiler but more a general document describing how some parts of the system work together and how to make optimal use of that)
This would be even more useful if it was archived somewhere outside of Slashdot. No hard feelingsRob;-), but Slashdot is a news and opinion site to me.
Somehow an archive of open source thoughts seems to make more sense on a seperate site or at least seperate section.
Are there any open source FAQ's other than this one on www.opensource.org?
Yes, there is a large traditional software company making a commendable move. Unfortunately, I can't tell you who they are yet. It's not nice for me to pre-empt other people's announcements - I did that to Troll Tech once and they got (justifiably) very annoyed with me.
You'd almost not notice this, but this might be something big? I myself am already wondering who it could be... somehow I think it's unlikely it will be Microsoft - if it is I will reconsider many of my opinions though.
Wishful thinking would let me hope Macromedia because they have some great tools. Is Macromedia 'traditional' though?
Remind me to stay cool though. This commendable move might have so little impact on me myself. I should not lure myself into dissapointment for making the error to think that (open source == Linux port).
Maybe EA Sports will open source their game engine and get rich by selling data and image files to us.;-)
Or does anyone else have better guesses/views/opinions/rants?
Hotmail is merely the interface. You cannot send mail through it: you can generate and read mail that is being sent and received through a MTA.
In Hotmail's case that's qmail [wow, MS uses the same software as I do... qmail on Hotmail, Apache on parts of MSN] which you can easily see when reading the headers:
Message-ID: <19990723040816.91017.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 209.26.94.126 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 21:08:16 PDT
Wow, that works. This is the first time mozilla compiled for me on my humble old Slackware 3.5 with libc5. Too bad it registers, creates a neat profile, loads the main window and... POOF! Gone. I'm looking forward to M9, getting closer all the time I guess.
A sequel makes a lot of sense. Neo might be God in side the Matrix, but in the real world we are all still chained and used. And Neo cannot do shit about that, as the Matrix is part of that reality and not the other way around. His Godlike powers cannot stop the squids, the breeding, etc.
Things I'd like to see in a prequel/sequel:
the building of the Matrix, and perhaps a better explanation of why to use humans as energy together with the fusion. A good writer can still write sense into that, maybe it was just ironic. We always enslaved AI, now they enslaved us.
City of Zeon.
an explanation of the scene in the car where Trinity tells Neo "you don't want to go that road, you've been there before and you didn't like it". That is one of the things that didn't completely make sense yet, although a prequel could do the trick.
More "Misssterrrr Anderrrsssoonnnn" chilly voices from Smith. Gosh I loved that guy.
Ultimately, the destruction of the Matrix itself so we can live a real life again. Or at least a long philisophical debate on whether that would be preferable to a Matrix we have under control.
More insider jokes like the 303 that was hidden in the final screen with all the numbers and the "System failure". The first three was covered by a 6 on top of it, and was so in the middle of the screen that it must have been intentional. Still, I was the only one to see it (first time already).
I really hope they make one prequel and one sequel and have a re-release of the original in between. And then of course for sale, boxed, on DVD.
Slightly off-topic, I know. But: due to some bug which makes it hang after 2^32 microseconds, Win* hangs over 49 days, 17:02m. See Server Uptimes and see for yourself.
Back to on-topic: I am not concerned what Microsoft will do with their products and how they will try and force everyone to use it. Microsoft _is_ evil, but I don't fear what they do.
I fear what won't be done _against_ them. As long as the DOJ doesn't know what to do really and as long as the general public thinks it's all so cool, Microsoft will be able to rule.
You cannot blames Microsoft for their tactics. Blame the rest of the world for accepting it too easily.
Whenever I see a benchmark I am amazed how many people just don't realize that speed alone is not the issue.
Give me some cash and I will upgrade your hardware for you and you'll have better performance. But no, I cannot increase stability (perhaps a little by picking the right hardware, but there's plenty of stuff in any OS'es kernel that relates to stability and has nothing to do with drivers etc).
As long as Linux is stable, it doesn't matter whether if it is a little slower.
In the highly unlikely event that this would actually be a problem, sed s/fuck/mess/g woyld probably be simple cure.
I'm a bit shocked to find out that words such as tattoo, pierced and even Pamela are on the to-be-blocked lists though. I see the relation between those words and the filthy material.. but then we could block almost every word including Bill, Monica, cigar, president, beach... and of course all biological references to certain bodyparts.
Censorship based on words only is not only wrong, but also stupid.
How ridiculous. And I thought I was pathetic for wearing the suit at conventions.. I guess some people are messed up in a much worse way. *no Star Trek/Wars flames here, both are cool*
Without being too fanatic, I think that we all should inform any magazine publishing the Netcraft results (and thus concluding Linux is sh** compared to NT) of the facts and unreliability of this survey.
Admit, "M$ guilty of consumer fraud" is a better headline than "NT beats Linux on all fronts".
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I've used a script in bitchX and I've spoken spanish and never ever got the feeling the other person knew I do not speak spanish at all. In fact, he wanted to visit me when he would come to Madrid.
IRC is the definition of low quality: thus translators make a lot of sense there!
The random crashes on startup do occur, but rm -rf ~/.mozilla/ resolves everything. Not a big problem for alpha software (although, the precompiled M11 ran great under NT at school, beta quality is not far away anymore).
Also, Mozilla will be able to remember them for you in your 'wallet', I don't know how it's encrypted locally but the wallet and your profile should be (and can be) password protected themselves. Internet Explorer also does this.
But there is more you can do than using them a lot. Make passwords that make sense. This doesn't necessarily make them insecure, but easier to remember. For example: noone would guess w3/.org is the password for Rob's server. But it's darn easy to remember.
All my passwords have some sort of connection to my life, servers, what's running on them, etc etc. But be careful not to make them too easy. My password is most definitely not my girlfriends name.
Also, use your old passwords (that you are familiar with) for all those stupid Web-accounts. Who cares! Of course make exceptions when you start ordering stuff, especially with one-click-buying.
Because patents and NDAs are not necessarily a bad thing. Whatever it is that Transmeta produces and might even realize some day, as long as there is documentation and openness about it once you have to decide whether to buy it and once you are fiddling to get your kernel working on it, there is no problem. (sorry if I took your post too seriously)
Has the AOL/Sun/Netscape deal screwed up a lot of things? Mozilla has been a fiasco for a year until they basically started over. Things look better now, but nevertheless Mozilla is still not there while Netscape 4.x series is dead. And now StarOffice gets delayed as well.
I know this is pure speculation and very coincidential and perhaps not at all related. But it worries me a bit.
It's irrelevant whether any of all this is beneficial to Microsoft. The real issue is whether it is for the consumer.
It is hard to tell whether we would be better off without Microsoft. Perhaps we would have better products right now, for lower prices. More innovation. On the other hand: maybe Microsoft _did_ the industry a lot of good. Without their marketing and practises personal computing might not be where it is today.
So far for the emotional aspect.
No matter whether the laws are really for our own benefit here, Microsoft did break the law. And although a lot of focus is on how to punish Microsoft, it's more important how to create an outcome that is beneficial for the public. If we go out of our way to find a solution that hurts Microsoft badly, yet doesn't benefit the average consumer; then what's gained?
However, even more important are all the seperate applications. I recently saw a page with Ksendmail, Kbind and soon to come Kapache. It looks like soon you can rely on KDE for everything and theoratically would not need a text console at all anymore. KDE is setting standards. It compiles, even KDE2 for the most part and it's not even done yet. It's purty. It works and gets the job done.
Of course: KDE is bloated. And perhaps a bit too much like Windows for some.
Nevertheless it's definitely part of my wishlist for Spring 2000: Linux 2.4, Xfree 4.0, KDE2.0, Koffice, Mozilla... I can hardly wait.
Actually, 0 Fahrenheit is when mercury freezes and 100 Fahrenheit is the temperature of your blood. So it's based on two different things, one of them not even really precise.
(on-topic) ;-) but it's useless for any other purpose. And don't tell me that you can hook up a laptop to it because that's not exactly something new.
Like all good stuff this will be totally over-prized for a long time. And I still doubt the usability. Nobody ever liked watching TV on one of those small LCD screens. And Internet? It might be handy for e-mail, instant messaging and perhaps a stripped down version of Lynx
Looks to me this thing is just a smaller version of Nokia's Communicator or the Philips Velo.
The average Slackware user is not the average Red Hat or SuSE user and usually able to compile and upgrade from source him/herself.
/usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs/Glibc2-HOWTOI installed glibc2 on my Slackware 3.5 box _without_ any problems. Recompiled (and upgraded while I was busy) a bunch of other libs and programs and voila, my system is glibc2 based. Without having to reboot.
With a little help from
Sure, there's libc5 binaries left but they'll dissapear as I continue to upgrade packages. I thought this was the true Slackware way.. do it yourself. I've heard people with perfect Internet connections say: "I am going to buy the new RH because it has a newer version of SomeProg" while most of them could have easily downloaded and compiled the latest version themselves, and I know they have the skills.
But perhaps I'm just plain old-fashioned.
I don't think a shell account in .au would make it legal for you to reverse engineer in South Africa, unless you write a program that does the reverse engineering for you and let it run in Australia. If you don't write such a program, you'd still do the reverse engineering in South Africa where /dev/brain is located, you just use the Australian account as a medium to store your results.
However, I think that this _is_ great news for open source software. I don't agree with the thought that it will make open source less important because you're allowed to make compatible products without it. I think it might even have the opposite effect: proprietary software becomes less and less useful because one of its main 'benefits', preventing others to make compatible products without your conscent, is no longer there.
I'm not convinced this will actually have a major impact on anything, but it definitely creates opportunities.
Will it break my system? What are the requirements? Will the kernels compile with it? how about other large projects such as X, Apache, Gnome, KDE.
The compiler is one of the core programs if you don't use binaries so the over-all stability of your Linux box greatly depends on a good combination of compiler, libraries, includes etc etc.
Is there a HOW-TO available on this? (not just saying: "old goes with old and new with new" or providing upgrade instructions for a specific compiler but more a general document describing how some parts of the system work together and how to make optimal use of that)
Somehow an archive of open source thoughts seems to make more sense on a seperate site or at least seperate section.
Are there any open source FAQ's other than this one on www.opensource.org?
You'd almost not notice this, but this might be something big? I myself am already wondering who it could be... somehow I think it's unlikely it will be Microsoft - if it is I will reconsider many of my opinions though.
Wishful thinking would let me hope Macromedia because they have some great tools. Is Macromedia 'traditional' though?
Remind me to stay cool though. This commendable move might have so little impact on me myself. I should not lure myself into dissapointment for making the error to think that (open source == Linux port).
Maybe EA Sports will open source their game engine and get rich by selling data and image files to us. ;-)
Or does anyone else have better guesses/views/opinions/rants?
In Hotmail's case that's qmail [wow, MS uses the same software as I do... qmail on Hotmail, Apache on parts of MSN] which you can easily see when reading the headers:
Message-ID: <19990723040816.91017.qmail@hotmail.com>
Received: from 209.26.94.126 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 21:08:16 PDT
#include " userfriendly.h"
Yes he is, except that Crud Puppy is not 10ft tall. ;-)
Wow, that works. This is the first time mozilla compiled for me on my humble old Slackware 3.5 with libc5. Too bad it registers, creates a neat profile, loads the main window and... POOF! Gone. I'm looking forward to M9, getting closer all the time I guess.
Things I'd like to see in a prequel/sequel:
I really hope they make one prequel and one sequel and have a re-release of the original in between. And then of course for sale, boxed, on DVD.
Back to on-topic: I am not concerned what Microsoft will do with their products and how they will try and force everyone to use it. Microsoft _is_ evil, but I don't fear what they do.
I fear what won't be done _against_ them. As long as the DOJ doesn't know what to do really and as long as the general public thinks it's all so cool, Microsoft will be able to rule.
You cannot blames Microsoft for their tactics. Blame the rest of the world for accepting it too easily.
Give me some cash and I will upgrade your hardware for you and you'll have better performance. But no, I cannot increase stability (perhaps a little by picking the right hardware, but there's plenty of stuff in any OS'es kernel that relates to stability and has nothing to do with drivers etc).
As long as Linux is stable, it doesn't matter whether if it is a little slower.
I am not sure whether it is heritage, but fi usually is up to date.
In the highly unlikely event that this would actually be a problem, sed s/fuck/mess/g woyld probably be simple cure.
I'm a bit shocked to find out that words such as tattoo, pierced and even Pamela are on the to-be-blocked lists though. I see the relation between those words and the filthy material.. but then we could block almost every word including Bill, Monica, cigar, president, beach... and of course all biological references to certain bodyparts.
Censorship based on words only is not only wrong, but also stupid.
How ridiculous. And I thought I was pathetic for wearing the suit at conventions.. I guess some people are messed up in a much worse way. *no Star Trek/Wars flames here, both are cool*
Without being too fanatic, I think that we all should inform any magazine publishing the Netcraft results (and thus concluding Linux is sh** compared to NT) of the facts and unreliability of this survey.
Admit, "M$ guilty of consumer fraud" is a better headline than "NT beats Linux on all fronts".