I tried to upgrade to the Thac packages, firstly manually, which borked up my system completely. Then I tried using urmpi, but there's some dependancy problem that I can't get around.
I read an eye witness reports about the tidal wave in Asia and the guy said what saved him was the fact that he was *close* to the shore. Most people were actually killed by being stuck by rubble that was carried by the wave. As the wave travels inland it picks up more rubble.
I look on it a different way. For me Linux is Developer unfriendly. Because Linux makes things more difficult for the developer, this in turn, makes it more difficult for the user. For instance, in Linux it's more difficult to make an installation program for your application, which means usually that the developer doesn't bother, just let the users build the application. Also, there is no unified desktop, which means the developer has no function to "launch default browser", so the user has to manually specify the browser from the application.
It should definetly cover the pros and cons of using xhtml. Some of the disadvantages of XHTML are that you can't embed flash movies straight forwardly (http://blog.deconcept.com/2004/10/14/web-standard s-compliant-javascript-flash-detect-and-embed/). You cannot make tables streach to bottom of page, because html, body {width: 100%} is not supported and I think you cannot use the target= attribute. The only advantage that I can see is that you web page will have street cred (this is useful if you are selling web design services)
Very interesting artical. It also says that the IDL descriptions would be extreemly useful. If Microsoft was only concerned about sharing the source code then they would be happy to give these so called IDL descriptions.
"There is information that the Samba developers want to see: the IDL descriptions for remote procedure calls. These underpin tasks such as adding users, and adding quotas and shares, and Samba developers have successfully decoded them over the wire. But it's hard work.
"These IDL descriptions are *key* for providing interoperability with Microsoft clients," wrote the team in a submission to the EU commissioners earlier this year. "If these IDL descriptions were published, open and equal interoperability with Microsoft products would be greatly enhanced (although still not perfect)."
Allison says the Samba team has requested the IDL definitions from Microsoft annually, most recently at the 2001 CIFS conference, without success."
"For one thing, it will contain two cores, instead of the single core on current notebook chips. The two separate cores will also share a 2MB cache. Current dual-core desktop chips from Advanced Micro Devices and Intel come with similar sized caches, but each core accesses only 1MB of cache memory dedicated to it. Sharing the cache will significantly boost performance. (The chips communicate with the cache through a single bus embedded in the chip.)"
Yes, takes only 2 hours to port... but how long to test that every feature works correctly? Until you test you don't know if it ported correctly. porting large applications to a different platform will never be a trivial task.
5. Windowz user finds PC formated, thinks "Oh, no not AGAIN!" 6. Sticks Windows XP disk into PC 7. 5 seconds after coonecting to internet, compromised by virus 8. Welcome back to the Botnet!
The problem with that approach is that there is a lot of stuff not specified completely by the standards. A web page will look different in two different browsers, even if they are both compliant. For instance, if you only test your web page with Firefox, there is a probablity that it will not look good in Opera, or Konqueror. Also, it could be that you made a mistake in your web design, but by chance it still looks good in Firefox, however when you view in another browser, it's not so forgiving. You never know til you test.
Well, it is possible show an alternative menu if flash isn't detected, unfortunately there are far to many people making web sites that don't care about usability.
Flash is available on Linux & Mac, and about to release a symbian version for Nokia. I presume they will be forced to release a version for 64-bit windows anyway. Maybe these guys could invest their time more productively making a Linux version of Flash studio. That would be useful.
Well, they say it's going to be open. Let's just wait and see. I remember Microsoft saying something about the Windows media format going to be open too.
I know there is a "smooth edges of screen fonts feature". It makes the font appear blured on my TFT screen. KDE fonts still beat Windows XP fonts hands down.
Try clicking on the link "customize" then the details of the processor change to 1.5Ghz. The price also changes... from $69.99 to "Price after discount $219.99 USD"!!!
Actually Microsoft is so slow at releasing new versions that Windows XP is quite dated and showing it's age compared to desktops like KDE that have a new release every few months. The biggest avantage of Linux desktops for me is the clear fonts. Windows XP fonts are ugly and non-aliased. This may not seem important, but you suffer considerably less eye strain reading on screen.
they compare a 2.8 GHz intel chip with a 2.2-GHz 4200+ AMD, which is undoubtable faster. That's not really a fair comparison. On top of that the AMD dual cores share memory in a more effient manner that Intel. Also, the AMD runs much cooler, so basically you are paying more for an all round better chip.
"Netscape's latest browser appears to break the XML rendering capabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer"... while Microsoft themselves are responsible for the broken the CSS rendering capabilties in IE.
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I tried to upgrade to the Thac packages, firstly manually, which borked up my system completely. Then I tried using urmpi, but there's some dependancy problem that I can't get around.
I read an eye witness reports about the tidal wave in Asia and the guy said what saved him was the fact that he was *close* to the shore. Most people were actually killed by being stuck by rubble that was carried by the wave. As the wave travels inland it picks up more rubble.
I look on it a different way. For me Linux is Developer unfriendly. Because Linux makes things more difficult for the developer, this in turn, makes it more difficult for the user.
For instance, in Linux it's more difficult to make an installation program for your application, which means usually that the developer doesn't bother, just let the users build the application.
Also, there is no unified desktop, which means the developer has no function to "launch default browser", so the user has to manually specify the browser from the application.
It should definetly cover the pros and cons of using xhtml. Some of the disadvantages of XHTML are that you can't embed flash movies straight forwardly (http://blog.deconcept.com/2004/10/14/web-standard s-compliant-javascript-flash-detect-and-embed/) .
You cannot make tables streach to bottom of page, because html, body {width: 100%} is not supported and I think you cannot use the target= attribute.
The only advantage that I can see is that you web page will have street cred (this is useful if you are selling web design services)
Very, funny. I would have put something in the last box about them finally getting the extra mouse button ;)
Me too! The only organisation task that I need is simple reminders.
Very interesting artical. It also says that the IDL descriptions would be extreemly useful. If Microsoft was only concerned about sharing the source code then they would be happy to give these so called IDL descriptions.
"There is information that the Samba developers want to see: the IDL descriptions for remote procedure calls. These underpin tasks such as adding users, and adding quotas and shares, and Samba developers have successfully decoded them over the wire. But it's hard work.
"These IDL descriptions are *key* for providing interoperability with Microsoft clients," wrote the team in a submission to the EU commissioners earlier this year. "If these IDL descriptions were published, open and equal interoperability with Microsoft products would be greatly enhanced (although still not perfect)."
Allison says the Samba team has requested the IDL definitions from Microsoft annually, most recently at the 2001 CIFS conference, without success."
With 1 million spams, any sane person would just have got a new email address long ago. Sounds like he just wants a challange.
Yes, but they were talking about the dual core P4.
t he+next+notebook+chip/2100-1006_3-5729925.html?par t=rss&tag=5729925&subj=news
according to this artical: http://news.com.com/Intel+spills+beans+on+Yonah,+
the dual core Pentium M will be different.
"For one thing, it will contain two cores, instead of the single core on current notebook chips. The two separate cores will also share a 2MB cache. Current dual-core desktop chips from Advanced Micro Devices and Intel come with similar sized caches, but each core accesses only 1MB of cache memory dedicated to it. Sharing the cache will significantly boost performance. (The chips communicate with the cache through a single bus embedded in the chip.)"
Well, I never used Mathematica, but generally automated testing would be a complement to normal testing, not a replacement
Yes, takes only 2 hours to port... but how long to test that every feature works correctly?
Until you test you don't know if it ported correctly.
porting large applications to a different platform will never be a trivial task.
5. Windowz user finds PC formated, thinks "Oh, no not AGAIN!"
6. Sticks Windows XP disk into PC
7. 5 seconds after coonecting to internet, compromised by virus
8. Welcome back to the Botnet!
The problem with that approach is that there is a lot of stuff not specified completely by the standards. A web page will look different in two different browsers, even if they are both compliant.
For instance, if you only test your web page with Firefox, there is a probablity that it will not look good in Opera, or Konqueror. Also, it could be that you made a mistake in your web design, but by chance it still looks good in Firefox, however when you view in another browser, it's not so forgiving. You never know til you test.
Well, it is possible show an alternative menu if flash isn't detected, unfortunately there are far to many people making web sites that don't care about usability.
Flash is available on Linux & Mac, and about to release a symbian version for Nokia.
I presume they will be forced to release a version for 64-bit windows anyway.
Maybe these guys could invest their time more productively making a Linux version of Flash studio. That would be useful.
Well, they say it's going to be open. Let's just wait and see. I remember Microsoft saying something about the Windows media format going to be open too.
Slightly off-topic... but do you realise that the Doj - Microsoft settlement is due to expire next year?
Source: http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f9400/9462.htm
"V.Termination
1. Unless this Court grants an extension, this Final Judgment will expire on the fifth anniversary of the date it is entered by the Court."
"They also appear to have added native XML support. Will this speed up the development of AJAX applications"
Actually, if you can use the XMLHttpRequest method you do not need to use XML at all. You can send & receive plain text data.
I know about that setting, it makes the fonts look blurred, not clear.
I know there is a "smooth edges of screen fonts feature". It makes the font appear blured on my TFT screen. KDE fonts still beat Windows XP fonts hands down.
Try clicking on the link "customize" then the details of the processor change to 1.5Ghz. The price also changes... from $69.99 to "Price after discount $219.99 USD"!!!
Actually Microsoft is so slow at releasing new versions that Windows XP is quite dated and showing it's age compared to desktops like KDE that have a new release every few months. The biggest avantage of Linux desktops for me is the clear fonts. Windows XP fonts are ugly and non-aliased. This may not seem important, but you suffer considerably less eye strain reading on screen.
they compare a 2.8 GHz intel chip with a 2.2-GHz 4200+ AMD, which is undoubtable faster. That's not really a fair comparison. On top of that the AMD dual cores share memory in a more effient manner that Intel. Also, the AMD runs much cooler, so basically you are paying more for an all round better chip.
"Netscape's latest browser appears to break the XML rendering capabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer"... while Microsoft themselves are responsible for the broken the CSS rendering capabilties in IE.
pity, no adblock :/