I find it odd, Hanzo, that you're complaining about the prices of CDs, yet you have a link to transgaming in your sig (or did, you may remove it at some point).
Let me explain. I won't diagree that CDs are expensive. Sometimes you find some really good CDs that are worth the price and sometimes you find crap.
My tastes aside, I'd much rather spend 2 or 3 dollars downloading the tolerable songs from, oh say, Radiohead's Kid A, than spending the $20 to buy the whole CD. See, I don't MIND paying for the music. But only if it's the music I want.
Now onto my transgaming thing... you're complaining about the costs of CDs, but if I can infer from your link that you use WineX, I have to assume you're spending money on some windows games. So, the $40 you've spent on the Win Game Of The Month could buy you roughly 40 music tracks.
Wow.
So stop complaining about the price of music if it's not what YOU want to spend your money on. And leave the rest of us, who wouldn't mind having a legitimate service to actually pay for our music, to use that service.
That is a really good point. Could IBM countersue if they could prove a loss of revenue from this? It shouldn't be that hard to prove, really. Trust me, this lawsuit *IS* having that effect.
And if they did countersue, and won, how much could they possibly pick from sco's corpse?
Does anyone from Caldera/SCO read this? Is there anyone there who used to work there back when you produced a decent linux distro and were pretty good community members? Care to chime in at all?
Someone should remind SCO that their United Linux offering is built on SuSE. Hell, SuSE is United Linux. Everyone else in the group is just along for the ride.
Believe me, all the feedback in the world won't matter to the SCO folks. They want attention. They want everyone up in arms. They want this to hinder the adoption of Linux in business.
Why? They want to be bought. SCO figures that if IBM's linux related sales start to drop (and IBM makes a fair amount of cash on linux related sales) IBM may just buy SCO to shut them up and end the lawsuit. It's pretty slimy on SCO's part. It's downright microsoftish.
I'm not saying don't send SCO feedback. I'm saying that whatever you send won't matter to them. They're not interested in using linux for anything other than making a quick buck and exiting the market. They're like LinuxONE was, just a lot more insidious and poisonous.
Swing is slow. 4 years ago. Swing today isn't bad at all, especially with JDK 1.4.1. I seriously wish the "java is slow" bigots would get over it and try a modern version with java with a modern application. JEdit perhaps?
And you're spot on about JBuilder. IT's fantastic for actually writing code. The only thing I don't like about it the fact that it wants to name everything for you (JMenuItem1, JPanel4). I'd like it much better if you could toggle settings to have it prompt you for the names of such things when you're building stuff.
Your response is pretty typical tho. A lot of people, when they hear you need to run Outlook, just spaz out about Evolution/Connector.
Evolution/Connector really isn't worth it. In the cases where you can use it, you can use the web access. It's a nice product, and if they got it working without the need for OWA, I'd spring for it.
Well, obviously you didn't read my post at all, did you?
You can't use Ximian Connector and Evolution to get your outlook mail unless your mail server has OWA (outlook web access) enabled. I stated mine does not, so therefore I can't use Evolution/Connector.
Believe me, Evolution was the first place I went to. But it just isn't an option.
It's necessary because, for the time being, my company uses Exchange as it's mail server.
And they don't have web access enabled. If they did, I'd use that. And because they don't have web access enabled, Evolution won't work, as it uses that as it's protocol.
Hancom Office is dreadful. Try importing something with a few tables and bullets. Seriously... it just doesn't cut it.
Opera is good. It's even better on my Psion tho.
Battery life on the Zaurus is, and continues to be, a weak point. My psion can go weeks between chargings. Palms do the same (last I checked). I can go into double digits for hours of straight usage, same for palms (same disclaimer). I know I can't do that with my Zaurus.
And there's nearly as much stuff available for the Psion as there is for the zaurus. I don't know what those apps are which you're talking about, but there may be similar apps. If there aren't, you can run Linux on the Psion. 'Tho I wouldn't do that.
I run Linux on my desktop. I love it. I tried it on my handheld and discovered it just isn't ready yet.
However, the next version will suck just as much as this version. Throwing RAM/CPU at it won't make up for the fact that the onboard applications just suck.
Yes, the newton had some very good handwriting recognition... well, good in the OS 2.x incarnations, it was supposedly crap in the 1.x (never tried the 1.x versions).
And, the newton was a tablet! Seriously, the thing was huge. Heston could have come down from the mountain in that movie he did carrying two of these as stand-ins for the rocks (painted grey of course), and nobody would have noticed.
Isn't it ironic that after years of going for small and slimmer(palm, psion), we're now going for bigger and larger(Tablet PC)?
Does anyone know just why Intervideo won't sell LinDVD? I'd gladly buy a copy....
I know, I know, we have Xine... but the UI is pretty bad. I do like Ogle, it does what I need, but having the bells and whistles of LinDVD would be pretty awesome.
I know they used to preload it on thinkpads a few years back, and I'm kicking myself for not archiving a copy.
I'm unsatisfied by the idea that hardware is cheaper than developer time. Word Perfect alledgedly attempted to make a version in java, but scrapped it because of speed concerns.
Sigh. Corel did this back in the mid 90s... Java was still very raw. I don't think Swing existed at the time. Half the tools necessary to do the port weren't around.
I'm tired of seeing Java taken to task for the half assed port Corel tried to do almost a decade ago. Let it go people. Let it go.
There are millions and millions of copies of microsoft software out there. What if you, the developer, had to respond to everyone and their mother that had a problem with something you wrote?
You don't think that there are more than a few copies of Linux out there?
See, it's this kind of stuff that gets me. There's NO reason that problems like these can't be pushed up to the development level. There's obviously a reason that there's hidden registry setting nonsense in LDAP/Sql Server/whatever. But getting that answer is a closely guarded secret.
Look, I'm not bashing the people. I'm bashing the methods. They just don't work well enough.
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I won't dispute the anti-MS tone here.
However, you seemed to be at the other end of the spectrum. Singing the praises of MSFT support will likely get you snorts and giggles from most MSFT developers.
The fact is, anybody who pushes the limits of the system (as we did) is going to run into trouble. And as you said in an earlier post, you guys (MSFT support) don't have access to the source. You basically have what the developers have. In that case, which I have to imagine happens quite a bit, support is useless, no matter how "bright" the people reading the scripts are.
And ya know what, I will sing some praises here. I find bugs in Resin that I can't track down, and I post a message to the developers, and it's fixed. You just don't get that kind of interaction with MSFT. And maybe I've gone off on a tangent here (okay, I have), but that's what's really lacking with MSFT. A pipeline to the developers.
ADO was, at times, my nemesis. I could never understand why ADO on a NT + SP4 + IE4.02 system would have exhibit slightly different behaviour than NT + SP4 + IE4.03 (or whatever).
I ran into most of my trouble when I was using ADO with LDAP. I won't go into in depth, but I saw some bizarre stuff. Sometimes.eof (is it.eof? I forget these days) didn't work, and you'd have to do a for loop thru the recordset based on the number of items in it. Sometimes the number of items wasn't returned properly, and you'd just have to try to catch the error.
ADO was a nightmare. I hear it's better these days, but I'm not about to try it again anytime soon.
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Well, when you say stuff like...
Any problems with NT or Exchange you could POSSIBLY have and we'd be able to fix them.
I feel compelled to point out the flaw. While, yes, Site Server CE wasn't really a NT or Exchange problem, it did ride the SQL Server engine, so you'd figure you guys knew how to work problems out on that one.
And anyway, I see I'm not alone in thinking this way.
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I respectfully disagree.
Back a few years ago (okay, 4) MSFT seemed to be primarily run by lower primates.
Example... we were using Site Server Commerce Edition. (BTW -- Does anyone still use this? Or is it mercifully out of it's misery). It used some sort of LDAP->SQL Server abstraction to store all of it's membership information. We ran a pretty high volume website, and after a while, the site wouldn't allow us to create new profiles. At all.
We went thru all sorts of tests, rollbacks, etc. Finally verified it wasn't our code. Called MSFT. Went thru tests and rollbacks with them. This all happened over a week or two... finally one of the higher level techs talked to a developer and figured out it was a hidden registry setting (Thanks guys!) that controlled the number of objects we could store in the LDAP database. Almost two weeks of lost time, thanks to MSFT.
My point is, none of those "brightest people" you waxed on about had any clue how to fix this. This was supposed to be the MSFT flagship products as far as ecommerce went. You'd think they'd know how to get around a pretty huge issue like this. Or at least notch it up and talk to a developer earlier. They sure seemed like people reading off a script to us.
5 years ago, and the last time I ever worked as a MSFT platform developer.
I may be wrong, but whatever. It seems to me that Linux *really* needs a decent stream mixer.
I hate not being able to play more than 2 sounds at once (and that's only because that's supported in hardware by my card, my old card could only play 1). Neither esd (does anyone use this anymore) or artsd cut it. They're too laggy to be usable for games, and in order to increase their response time, you have to increase their priority, thus slowing everything else down.
Say what you want about Windows, but at least it gets this right.
So, anyone know a soundcard that will let me play mutiple streams WITHOUT having to use esd/artsd, and is decently well supported under Linux? Anyone? BTW, can we keep it under $100 (USD) if possible?
Eugenia seemed to take the fall of BeOS very hard.
Seriously tho, OSNews has really degenerated into an even bigger troll hangout than slashdot. These days it's not really worth looking at. I keep looking tho, hoping for a glimpse of intelligent discussion, but I'm not finding any.
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I find it odd, Hanzo, that you're complaining about the prices of CDs, yet you have a link to transgaming in your sig (or did, you may remove it at some point).
Let me explain. I won't diagree that CDs are expensive. Sometimes you find some really good CDs that are worth the price and sometimes you find crap.
My tastes aside, I'd much rather spend 2 or 3 dollars downloading the tolerable songs from, oh say, Radiohead's Kid A, than spending the $20 to buy the whole CD. See, I don't MIND paying for the music. But only if it's the music I want.
Now onto my transgaming thing... you're complaining about the costs of CDs, but if I can infer from your link that you use WineX, I have to assume you're spending money on some windows games. So, the $40 you've spent on the Win Game Of The Month could buy you roughly 40 music tracks.
Wow.
So stop complaining about the price of music if it's not what YOU want to spend your money on. And leave the rest of us, who wouldn't mind having a legitimate service to actually pay for our music, to use that service.
Now if only it were linux friendly....
That is a really good point. Could IBM countersue if they could prove a loss of revenue from this? It shouldn't be that hard to prove, really. Trust me, this lawsuit *IS* having that effect.
And if they did countersue, and won, how much could they possibly pick from sco's corpse?
Does anyone from Caldera/SCO read this? Is there anyone there who used to work there back when you produced a decent linux distro and were pretty good community members? Care to chime in at all?
You're probably right.
However SCO is trying to reduce IBM's revenue and force them into action (buying SCO, potentially). That seems (denial of revenue) to be MSFT-ish.
It's hard to tell if they're right when they won't talk about what parts of Linux they have a problem with.
Someone should remind SCO that their United Linux offering is built on SuSE. Hell, SuSE is United Linux. Everyone else in the group is just along for the ride.
Believe me, all the feedback in the world won't matter to the SCO folks. They want attention. They want everyone up in arms. They want this to hinder the adoption of Linux in business.
Why? They want to be bought. SCO figures that if IBM's linux related sales start to drop (and IBM makes a fair amount of cash on linux related sales) IBM may just buy SCO to shut them up and end the lawsuit. It's pretty slimy on SCO's part. It's downright microsoftish.
I'm not saying don't send SCO feedback. I'm saying that whatever you send won't matter to them. They're not interested in using linux for anything other than making a quick buck and exiting the market. They're like LinuxONE was, just a lot more insidious and poisonous.
Thank you!
Swing is slow. 4 years ago. Swing today isn't bad at all, especially with JDK 1.4.1. I seriously wish the "java is slow" bigots would get over it and try a modern version with java with a modern application. JEdit perhaps?
And you're spot on about JBuilder. IT's fantastic for actually writing code. The only thing I don't like about it the fact that it wants to name everything for you (JMenuItem1, JPanel4). I'd like it much better if you could toggle settings to have it prompt you for the names of such things when you're building stuff.
Ah well, small issues really.
It's okay, no harm done.
Your response is pretty typical tho. A lot of people, when they hear you need to run Outlook, just spaz out about Evolution/Connector.
Evolution/Connector really isn't worth it. In the cases where you can use it, you can use the web access. It's a nice product, and if they got it working without the need for OWA, I'd spring for it.
But until then, it's kinda half-baked.
Well, obviously you didn't read my post at all, did you?
You can't use Ximian Connector and Evolution to get your outlook mail unless your mail server has OWA (outlook web access) enabled. I stated mine does not, so therefore I can't use Evolution/Connector.
Believe me, Evolution was the first place I went to. But it just isn't an option.
Well...
If you want to look at it this way...
(SuSe (Personal) + Crossover Office + Office) is roughly equal to (Windows XP + Office).
And I know you get a hell of a lot more software with SuSe than you do with XP.
It's necessary because, for the time being, my company uses Exchange as it's mail server.
And they don't have web access enabled. If they did, I'd use that. And because they don't have web access enabled, Evolution won't work, as it uses that as it's protocol.
Here goes...
Hancom Office is dreadful. Try importing something with a few tables and bullets. Seriously... it just doesn't cut it.
Opera is good. It's even better on my Psion tho.
Battery life on the Zaurus is, and continues to be, a weak point. My psion can go weeks between chargings. Palms do the same (last I checked). I can go into double digits for hours of straight usage, same for palms (same disclaimer). I know I can't do that with my Zaurus.
And there's nearly as much stuff available for the Psion as there is for the zaurus. I don't know what those apps are which you're talking about, but there may be similar apps. If there aren't, you can run Linux on the Psion. 'Tho I wouldn't do that.
I run Linux on my desktop. I love it. I tried it on my handheld and discovered it just isn't ready yet.
My Zaurus has that too....
However, the next version will suck just as much as this version. Throwing RAM/CPU at it won't make up for the fact that the onboard applications just suck.
Somewhere a timelord's TARDIS has gone missing...
(Some nerds you lot are... 300+ postings and no TARDIS references)
Yes, the newton had some very good handwriting recognition... well, good in the OS 2.x incarnations, it was supposedly crap in the 1.x (never tried the 1.x versions).
And, the newton was a tablet! Seriously, the thing was huge. Heston could have come down from the mountain in that movie he did carrying two of these as stand-ins for the rocks (painted grey of course), and nobody would have noticed.
Isn't it ironic that after years of going for small and slimmer(palm, psion), we're now going for bigger and larger(Tablet PC)?
Does anyone know just why Intervideo won't sell LinDVD? I'd gladly buy a copy....
I know, I know, we have Xine... but the UI is pretty bad. I do like Ogle, it does what I need, but having the bells and whistles of LinDVD would be pretty awesome.
I know they used to preload it on thinkpads a few years back, and I'm kicking myself for not archiving a copy.
Hey....
Don't forget Empire of the Sun!
Sigh. Corel did this back in the mid 90s... Java was still very raw. I don't think Swing existed at the time. Half the tools necessary to do the port weren't around.
I'm tired of seeing Java taken to task for the half assed port Corel tried to do almost a decade ago. Let it go people. Let it go.
I won't dispute the anti-MS tone here.
However, you seemed to be at the other end of the spectrum. Singing the praises of MSFT support will likely get you snorts and giggles from most MSFT developers.
The fact is, anybody who pushes the limits of the system (as we did) is going to run into trouble. And as you said in an earlier post, you guys (MSFT support) don't have access to the source. You basically have what the developers have. In that case, which I have to imagine happens quite a bit, support is useless, no matter how "bright" the people reading the scripts are.
And ya know what, I will sing some praises here. I find bugs in Resin that I can't track down, and I post a message to the developers, and it's fixed. You just don't get that kind of interaction with MSFT. And maybe I've gone off on a tangent here (okay, I have), but that's what's really lacking with MSFT. A pipeline to the developers.
Yes. A thousand times, YES!
ADO was, at times, my nemesis. I could never understand why ADO on a NT + SP4 + IE4.02 system would have exhibit slightly different behaviour than NT + SP4 + IE4.03 (or whatever).
I ran into most of my trouble when I was using ADO with LDAP. I won't go into in depth, but I saw some bizarre stuff. Sometimes
ADO was a nightmare. I hear it's better these days, but I'm not about to try it again anytime soon.
I respectfully disagree.
Back a few years ago (okay, 4) MSFT seemed to be primarily run by lower primates.
Example... we were using Site Server Commerce Edition. (BTW -- Does anyone still use this? Or is it mercifully out of it's misery). It used some sort of LDAP->SQL Server abstraction to store all of it's membership information. We ran a pretty high volume website, and after a while, the site wouldn't allow us to create new profiles. At all.
We went thru all sorts of tests, rollbacks, etc. Finally verified it wasn't our code. Called MSFT. Went thru tests and rollbacks with them. This all happened over a week or two... finally one of the higher level techs talked to a developer and figured out it was a hidden registry setting (Thanks guys!) that controlled the number of objects we could store in the LDAP database. Almost two weeks of lost time, thanks to MSFT.
My point is, none of those "brightest people" you waxed on about had any clue how to fix this. This was supposed to be the MSFT flagship products as far as ecommerce went. You'd think they'd know how to get around a pretty huge issue like this. Or at least notch it up and talk to a developer earlier. They sure seemed like people reading off a script to us.
5 years ago, and the last time I ever worked as a MSFT platform developer.
I may be wrong, but whatever. It seems to me that Linux *really* needs a decent stream mixer.
I hate not being able to play more than 2 sounds at once (and that's only because that's supported in hardware by my card, my old card could only play 1). Neither esd (does anyone use this anymore) or artsd cut it. They're too laggy to be usable for games, and in order to increase their response time, you have to increase their priority, thus slowing everything else down.
Say what you want about Windows, but at least it gets this right.
So, anyone know a soundcard that will let me play mutiple streams WITHOUT having to use esd/artsd, and is decently well supported under Linux? Anyone? BTW, can we keep it under $100 (USD) if possible?
I'm so paranoid, I can't tell if this is another April Fools or not!
Eugenia seemed to take the fall of BeOS very hard.
Seriously tho, OSNews has really degenerated into an even bigger troll hangout than slashdot. These days it's not really worth looking at. I keep looking tho, hoping for a glimpse of intelligent discussion, but I'm not finding any.