Usually I don't reply to ACs, but this somehow seems worth it.
If I change a font in the Gnome CC or KDE CC, I'd like it to change across all apps (IE, default text font, etc.). It's sometimes handy like that. QTCurve and Geramik will do that.
Just wondering, but has Ximian made a KDE version of their new industrial theme?
Ya see, the beauty of the KDE/Gnome thing is that some KDE apps you can't live without, and some Gnome/GTK apps you can't live without. Gaim and K3b/Kmail spring to mind right off the bat.
I like KDE themes like QTCurve and Keramik/Geramik because it makes the GTK/Gnome/KDE applications look the same. If using this Ximian desktop means that my KDE apps will look out of place, then it doesn't really seem that appealing.
A theme like this seems like it'd be simple to do, so I'd be very curious to see if Ximian has really done a complete job of it.
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Today's SCO News
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And it was just a coincidence that the announcement of the deal with SCO was made at this time?
Not a coincidence at all. But the original poster was quoting Cringely's bit about MSFT coming out with their own Linux distro.
I was merely point out that their licensing was more likely due to their existing unix software.
I have no doubt the timing was not a coincidence.
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I think that Microsoft's Unix license probably has more to do with the fact that they produce a "Services for Unix". See this for details.
The headline says it all...
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The headline pretty much says it all. "Today's SCO News". SCO is doing *everything* they can to keep themselves in the media/technology spotlight.
Of course, the Novell bit really hurt them, and now they're getting a bit desperate. If they had any dignity they'd just give up now, but we know they don't.
I dunno if I would have made this review a story on slashdot... the review it self seems really thin, doesn't mention anywhere that I saw (and if I missed it, my bad) the specifics (kernel revision, glibc version). It doesn't talk much about X at all (but then it was only tested on ATI so we wouldn't know if the NVidia drivers were included).
Anyhow, in case anybody is wondering, Mandrake includes...
Kernel 2.4.21
XFree86 4.3.0
Glibc 2.3.1
GCC 3.2.2
The Kernel 2.4.21 is a neat trick. Last I checked 2.4.20 was the current stable version.
Testing is more than making sure it works and is stable under load.
If they wanted to impress me, they should set up a seperate lab full of programmers emulating script kiddies, and trying to hack into the servers to get at their data. Kiddies trying to take advantage of IE holes to plant trojans and own the servers.
I like Macs and all. But claiming that the Mac II matched the Amiga is kinda... not at all true.
The Amiga is still used today for a lot of television special effects and production stuff. I don't know of any Mac IIs being used for this.
The Mac II had a 256 color display at 640x480. Heady stuff when the PCs of the day were stuck with EGA. The original Amiga, launched in 1986 featured 770x480. So we're higher res, right? And it also offered 4096 colors on the screen at once. So we're blowing that 256 limitation away.
I'm not doubting that the Quadra840AV and Centris 660AV may have matched the original Amiga. I dunno how they'd stack up against a comprable Amiga.
Oh yes! I'm so tired of hearing about how meat isn't healthy, how you can get all the protein you need from a plate of beans, how animals suffer, etc.
Yeah, animals suffer. It's sad. I'll agree with that. But we're human. We've been eating meat for thousands of years. We'll keep eating it. It tastes good. Deal with it.
Yeah... cos nothing like getright exists in Linux.
Oh wait, doesn't Konqueror have a built in download manager? KGet or something? Hrm.
Re:Journaling File System: for those who don't kno
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Actually, from what I remember, ReiserFS is far more mature and stable than ext3. Ext3 is the johnny come lately to the journaling scene, and it's still got a lot of kinks.
And the point about DriveImage/Ghost may not be true, as they actually just read the partition at a very low level.
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Actually, as far as I know, only RedHat uses ext3 as a default FS.
Most others use ReiserFS. And with good reason too. In just about every test I've read, ext3 is slower than reiser, and I think it also has scalibility issues.
If you download the.bin file from LimeWire, and you're running one of them modern desktops, you can right click on the file, give it execute, then click it to run it.
A pain, you say? Probably. But it's nice to know stuff you download won't get executed unless you want it to.
Re:OK, so maybe I'll give this "Linux" thing a try
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More rantings...
I dunno... as someone who learned the "windows way" secondary, I'm always amazed at how bad some "pure" windows folk are.
Ever see a VB coder not use Option Explicit? I sure have. Ever see odd variables defined in the scope of one loop then referenced waaaaay outside that loop in a VB program? I have. Does that work? Yes. Is that a good practice? No.
Not to say that you don't see that in other languages. You do. In some languages you dont' see that at all (Java), but those languages have their own problems. But at least with, say, Java, I can build a class and just slap it onto the classpath, put it in a jar, whatever, and it works. I don't need to logon to the box as an administrator, copy my object over, register it, and then set up my program. And I don't need to remember to do that if I upgrade it.
Fact is, developing on windows isn't very good. And around here (NYC area) there are as manyJ2EE/java jobs as there are VB jobs. And VB jobs tend to pay less. Simple economics there.
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This is semi-related, but the latest JBuilder lets you build native wrappers around your Java applications. So you can compile your Java app to a.exe, or a.bin, or what have you...
Kinda neat.
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Well, the install takes about a half hour. Maybe more, maybe less, depends on your hardware. This will install the OS, OpenOffice.org's office suite, multimedia stuff, etc. If you want a DVD player, thanks to our friend the DMCA, you'll have to go grab some rpm's and install them, about 5 minutes of your time.
Installing a copy of Tribes 2 or UT2003 will take a few minutes. There are other games. Does that answer the gaming question?
Of course, you'll want to install other stuff, and whatnot. Roughly setting up, timewise, is going to be a little less than setting up with windows.//Rant Now, as a developer, who's done both Win and *nix development, you couldn't really find any way to put a nice spin on Windows development. And, by development, I'm not talking about writing some cute little VB database front ends.
I'm talking about writing backend stuff. Data handling stuff. Servers. Things where windows just doesn't do well. Need to share objects? COM? Who came up with that horrible idea. regsvr32? WTF is up with that?//End Rant
Well, like the other posters have said, it could be a kernel or graphics problem.
Try booting into runlevel 3 and see if that helps.
I'll also throw another theory out there.. Do you, by chance, have a VIA IDE chipset? If you do, you probably know they're really, REALLY buggy but you can work around that. Anyhow, if you do have a via chipset, how do you have your system configured (drives-wise)?
Here's the deal. It's cheap. But will it play Doom III and Half Life 2 acceptably when they're released? If it can, then it's worth buying. If it can't, it's nothing more than a card for the IBMs, Compaqs, Dells, etc. who want to list "Graphics by NVidia" as one of their bulletpoints.
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What does redcarpet offer that a nice apt repository doesn't?
Not asking as a troll, just curious.
Usually I don't reply to ACs, but this somehow seems worth it.
If I change a font in the Gnome CC or KDE CC, I'd like it to change across all apps (IE, default text font, etc.). It's sometimes handy like that. QTCurve and Geramik will do that.
Just wondering, but has Ximian made a KDE version of their new industrial theme?
Ya see, the beauty of the KDE/Gnome thing is that some KDE apps you can't live without, and some Gnome/GTK apps you can't live without. Gaim and K3b/Kmail spring to mind right off the bat.
I like KDE themes like QTCurve and Keramik/Geramik because it makes the GTK/Gnome/KDE applications look the same. If using this Ximian desktop means that my KDE apps will look out of place, then it doesn't really seem that appealing.
A theme like this seems like it'd be simple to do, so I'd be very curious to see if Ximian has really done a complete job of it.
And it was just a coincidence that the announcement of the deal with SCO was made at this time?
Not a coincidence at all. But the original poster was quoting Cringely's bit about MSFT coming out with their own Linux distro.
I was merely point out that their licensing was more likely due to their existing unix software. I have no doubt the timing was not a coincidence.
I think that Microsoft's Unix license probably has more to do with the fact that they produce a "Services for Unix". See this for details.
The headline pretty much says it all. "Today's SCO News". SCO is doing *everything* they can to keep themselves in the media/technology spotlight.
Of course, the Novell bit really hurt them, and now they're getting a bit desperate. If they had any dignity they'd just give up now, but we know they don't.
OH, sure, that's easy.
But what about the less obvious windows programs?
Like WinAMP? If you didn't know what it was beforehand, the name wouldn't tell you.
Opera? It's multiplatform, and it's name has nothing to do with web browsing.
NERO? What's that? A lot of CDRW drives include that as part of their bundle, and not Easy CD Creator. But what does Nero mean?
I mean, does the name "Internet Explorer" convey a web browser to you?
If you can honestly say that Windows apps are intuitively named, then you are obviously blinded by zealotry.
Sad.
I dunno... it seems kind of important to me.
When you see a windows review, you know by virtue of the name which version of the "windows kernel" you're dealing with.
If you look at hardware reviews for computer systems, they *always* mention the OS + revision level (Windows 2000 + SP3).
Putting that kind of information into a "products specs" table would hurt nobody and help quite a few people.
I dunno if I would have made this review a story on slashdot... the review it self seems really thin, doesn't mention anywhere that I saw (and if I missed it, my bad) the specifics (kernel revision, glibc version). It doesn't talk much about X at all (but then it was only tested on ATI so we wouldn't know if the NVidia drivers were included).
Anyhow, in case anybody is wondering, Mandrake includes...
Kernel 2.4.21
XFree86 4.3.0
Glibc 2.3.1
GCC 3.2.2
The Kernel 2.4.21 is a neat trick. Last I checked 2.4.20 was the current stable version.
Exactly.
Testing is more than making sure it works and is stable under load.
If they wanted to impress me, they should set up a seperate lab full of programmers emulating script kiddies, and trying to hack into the servers to get at their data. Kiddies trying to take advantage of IE holes to plant trojans and own the servers.
Just like the real world.
Actually, watch Babylon 5.
That's all done with Amiga.
And you don't think an Ami could be upgraded past it's base limitations?
Bottom line. The original Mac II didn't blow an Amiga away. It could keep up, but for lots of cash.
Dude....
I like Macs and all. But claiming that the Mac II matched the Amiga is kinda... not at all true.
The Amiga is still used today for a lot of television special effects and production stuff. I don't know of any Mac IIs being used for this.
The Mac II had a 256 color display at 640x480. Heady stuff when the PCs of the day were stuck with EGA. The original Amiga, launched in 1986 featured 770x480. So we're higher res, right? And it also offered 4096 colors on the screen at once. So we're blowing that 256 limitation away.
I'm not doubting that the Quadra840AV and Centris 660AV may have matched the original Amiga. I dunno how they'd stack up against a comprable Amiga.
Dude.
That's so wrong.
I have a copy of Windows 95, on CD.
There is no IE.
This is great.
Except it's wrong.
It wasn't until IE4 came along that the browser was bundled with the OS. It wasn't until IE4 came along that netscape started their downward spiral.
Oh yes! I'm so tired of hearing about how meat isn't healthy, how you can get all the protein you need from a plate of beans, how animals suffer, etc.
Yeah, animals suffer. It's sad. I'll agree with that. But we're human. We've been eating meat for thousands of years. We'll keep eating it. It tastes good. Deal with it.
And beans give ya gas. That's so nasty.
Yeah... cos nothing like getright exists in Linux.
Oh wait, doesn't Konqueror have a built in download manager? KGet or something? Hrm.
Actually, from what I remember, ReiserFS is far more mature and stable than ext3. Ext3 is the johnny come lately to the journaling scene, and it's still got a lot of kinks.
And the point about DriveImage/Ghost may not be true, as they actually just read the partition at a very low level.
Actually, as far as I know, only RedHat uses ext3 as a default FS.
Most others use ReiserFS. And with good reason too. In just about every test I've read, ext3 is slower than reiser, and I think it also has scalibility issues.
Well, no.
.bin file from LimeWire, and you're running one of them modern desktops, you can right click on the file, give it execute, then click it to run it.
If you download the
A pain, you say? Probably. But it's nice to know stuff you download won't get executed unless you want it to.
More rantings...
I dunno... as someone who learned the "windows way" secondary, I'm always amazed at how bad some "pure" windows folk are.
Ever see a VB coder not use Option Explicit? I sure have. Ever see odd variables defined in the scope of one loop then referenced waaaaay outside that loop in a VB program? I have. Does that work? Yes. Is that a good practice? No.
Not to say that you don't see that in other languages. You do. In some languages you dont' see that at all (Java), but those languages have their own problems. But at least with, say, Java, I can build a class and just slap it onto the classpath, put it in a jar, whatever, and it works. I don't need to logon to the box as an administrator, copy my object over, register it, and then set up my program. And I don't need to remember to do that if I upgrade it.
Fact is, developing on windows isn't very good. And around here (NYC area) there are as manyJ2EE/java jobs as there are VB jobs. And VB jobs tend to pay less. Simple economics there.
This is semi-related, but the latest JBuilder lets you build native wrappers around your Java applications. So you can compile your Java app to a
Kinda neat.
Well, the install takes about a half hour. Maybe more, maybe less, depends on your hardware. This will install the OS, OpenOffice.org's office suite, multimedia stuff, etc. If you want a DVD player, thanks to our friend the DMCA, you'll have to go grab some rpm's and install them, about 5 minutes of your time.
Installing a copy of Tribes 2 or UT2003 will take a few minutes. There are other games. Does that answer the gaming question?
Of course, you'll want to install other stuff, and whatnot. Roughly setting up, timewise, is going to be a little less than setting up with windows.
Now, as a developer, who's done both Win and *nix development, you couldn't really find any way to put a nice spin on Windows development. And, by development, I'm not talking about writing some cute little VB database front ends.
I'm talking about writing backend stuff. Data handling stuff. Servers. Things where windows just doesn't do well. Need to share objects? COM? Who came up with that horrible idea. regsvr32? WTF is up with that?
Well, like the other posters have said, it could be a kernel or graphics problem.
Try booting into runlevel 3 and see if that helps.
I'll also throw another theory out there.. Do you, by chance, have a VIA IDE chipset? If you do, you probably know they're really, REALLY buggy but you can work around that. Anyhow, if you do have a via chipset, how do you have your system configured (drives-wise)?
Try adding disableapic to your boot options.
Here's the deal. It's cheap. But will it play Doom III and Half Life 2 acceptably when they're released? If it can, then it's worth buying. If it can't, it's nothing more than a card for the IBMs, Compaqs, Dells, etc. who want to list "Graphics by NVidia" as one of their bulletpoints.