Nobodys going to use this thing as a mobile unless it's small enough to fit in your pocket. Also, the screen should be oriented horizontaly, not vertically
I think this guide is too much lacking in specific details to be any use to some one who's migrating, for instance some advice about apt-get and where to find rpms would be useful. I have just switched myself. One of the most fustrating part of it is installing apps, not because of the dependancy problems that's easy to solve. The real problems occured for me because you need to use two user accounts, one to install and one to run the app. Windows users aren't used to this, so get it all mixed up and end up with half the configuration settings in the root directory and half in their regular home directory.
"I did not write the grandparent post but it is well known on the qt-interest mailing list (run by Trolltech) that the reason there's no GPL'ed version of Qt for Windows is exactly the reason given in the grandparent post."
But why doesnt Eirik say this in the interview? He gives reasons that don't really make sense.
The headphone socket receives more wear and tear than any other part of the player, because the jack is constantly moving around in the socket. That's why I always tape the cord onto the case, a makeshift strain relief.
There have been dozens of nuclear powered satellites launched by both USSR and USA. When the satellite reaches its end of life, the core is ejected into a higher orbit. The result of all this is there are several tonnes of nuclear waste and a few hunderd pounds of enriched uranium orbiting the Earth.
You can read more about it here
Nuclear Powered Space Missions
I agree. But if they are targeting only companies that have a linux expert as system administrator, then why do they even need Linux pre-installed? The sys admin can make his own pre-configured system and install on PCs with no OS.
true you need WMV codecs to play WMV files, but still doesn't mean you need WMP. BSPlayer and Winamp will work quite happly with no WMP installed, because they access the WMV codecs directly. Some apps that call the WMP ActiveX control (or whatever) will break. But I really hate those apps anyway, because they don't respect the setting for my prefered media player.
"Windows Media Player is more than just a player. It's a critical part of Windows. It contains the libraries that let Windows know about different audio files (playlength, bitrate, etc.). It generates the preview thumbnails in your folders, and populates the extra columns in explorer (ID3 tag reading)." Oh, yes, Windows becomes completely unusable if the tag info isn't displayed in explorer. Anyways it's probably fairly simple to make the code that reads the tag info independant to WMP.
It's not as if Quicktime or Real Player are good players anyway. The only thing out there that's any good is Zoom Player, and that uses the Media Player's libraries to play.
Ahumm... Winamp? BSPlayer for avi files.
Claiming Microsoft are stopping people integrating their browsers over IE is plain ridiculous.
Correct, but I wonder why we don't see OEMs pre-installing Mozilla. Part of the licensing terms?
We will soon see a new set of installation dependancies for.NET framework, MSXML, etc.: "Requires Microsoft Media Player 9.0, greater to run". Well, it worked the last time!
I use photoshop, but only for the ability to cut things out of one photo and paste it into another, then you can do all sorts of amusing things like these guys: www.b3ta.com. Does the Gimp have this feature?
"they should be full of bacterial fossils" On earth it took billions of years for multicelluar organisms to evolve. Single cell organisms may take significantly less time, but nobodys sure because single cell organisms don't leave any fossil remains. What this means is that the water would have to exist for a long time before you would see any fossils.
How much faster in comparision to other releases? What I want to know is if Mozilla is progressively getting faster, or is this just to compensate for performance regressions when they went from 1.4 - 1.5, etc.
On top of that there is an entire industry dependant on Apple. If you are in the graphic design business (I mean the printed variety not web design) then you have to use Apple.
"Anyone have some insight?" Different architectures. Intel chips have longer instruction pipes that allow them to run faster, but have the penalty of worse branch prediction. Compilers have a lot of branches, which automatically favour AMD chips (same for Office apps). Intel will do better in MP3 encoding, video encoding, etc, where the raw processer speed gives it the edge.
"Extreme Gaming Edition", "Hyperthreading" Also they're in danger of running out of superlatives. What do they call the next one? "Super-Extreme Gaming Endition", then "Super-fucking-shit-your-pants-really-fast Gaming Edition"
I think the problems are not due to the need for Linux requiring a standard distribution, but that Linux seems to provide no backwards compatablity for it's system dlls. Program binaries are linked against a particular version of Linux and will only work on that version - for instance a rpm for 2.40.22 won't install on 2.40.20. I presume this is because some kernal dll that the program depends on has changed (I'm not too familiar with Linux, so correct me if I'm wrong). With Windows all old dlls are kept from previous versions. That's why you need only one setup program and it will normally install on all versions of Windows.
.NET applications are totaly invincible to security holes? What does a.NET app use to render HTML?... the IE browser component... no security holes there at all.;)
Out of curiousity I looked up the web site of the place where I bought my PC. Windows 98 and Windows ME OEM both sell for more than Windows XP (91.25 versus 84.53 )! Surely that should be the other way around?
A program with a huge memory footprint will always be slower than a smaller one, even if you have so many gigs of memory that it can run without paging. Moving huge amounts of data in main memory is slow. A smaller footprint means more of your program can fit into the L2 cache.
My guess is when they say "insecure applications have to be re-written", they really mean applications that depend on Microsoft components such as MSHTML. They probably have changed IE to block certain functions for security, which means anyone foolish enough to have based their product around IE now have to invest a lot of money in releasing a version that is compatible with SP2. This process will be repeated probably again when MS release Longhorn. It's amazing that most software houses simply accept this without thinking and continue using MS technologies without thinking about how MS are screwing them around.
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Nobodys going to use this thing as a mobile unless it's small enough to fit in your pocket. Also, the screen should be oriented horizontaly, not vertically
I think this guide is too much lacking in specific details to be any use to some one who's migrating, for instance some advice about apt-get and where to find rpms would be useful.
I have just switched myself. One of the most fustrating part of it is installing apps, not because of the dependancy problems that's easy to solve. The real problems occured for me because you need to use two user accounts, one to install and one to run the app. Windows users aren't used to this, so get it all mixed up and end up with half the configuration settings in the root directory and half in their regular home directory.
"I did not write the grandparent post but it is well known on the qt-interest mailing list (run by Trolltech) that the reason there's no GPL'ed version of Qt for Windows is exactly the reason given in the grandparent post."
But why doesnt Eirik say this in the interview?
He gives reasons that don't really make sense.
The headphone socket receives more wear and tear than any other part of the player, because the jack is constantly moving around in the socket. That's why I always tape the cord onto the case, a makeshift strain relief.
There have been dozens of nuclear powered satellites launched by both USSR and USA. When the satellite reaches its end of life, the core is ejected into a higher orbit. The result of all this is there are several tonnes of nuclear waste and a few hunderd pounds of enriched uranium orbiting the Earth. You can read more about it here Nuclear Powered Space Missions
I agree. But if they are targeting only companies that have a linux expert as system administrator, then why do they even need Linux pre-installed? The sys admin can make his own pre-configured system and install on PCs with no OS.
just humour...have another beer and maybe it'll sound funnier
You convinced me. I downloaded the Gimp and it looks good. The "intellegent scissors" seems to work even better than what was in Frontpage.
true you need WMV codecs to play WMV files, but still doesn't mean you need WMP.
BSPlayer and Winamp will work quite happly with no WMP installed, because they access the WMV codecs directly. Some apps that call the WMP ActiveX control (or whatever) will break. But I really hate those apps anyway, because they don't respect the setting for my prefered media player.
"Windows Media Player is more than just a player. It's a critical part of Windows. It contains the libraries that let Windows know about different audio files (playlength, bitrate, etc.). It generates the preview thumbnails in your folders, and populates the extra columns in explorer (ID3 tag reading)."
Oh, yes, Windows becomes completely unusable if the tag info isn't displayed in explorer.
Anyways it's probably fairly simple to make the code that reads the tag info independant to WMP.
It's not as if Quicktime or Real Player are good players anyway. The only thing out there that's any good is Zoom Player, and that uses the Media Player's libraries to play.
Ahumm... Winamp?
BSPlayer for avi files.
Claiming Microsoft are stopping people integrating their browsers over IE is plain ridiculous.
Correct, but I wonder why we don't see OEMs pre-installing Mozilla. Part of the licensing terms?
We will soon see a new set of installation dependancies for .NET framework, MSXML, etc.:
"Requires Microsoft Media Player 9.0, greater to run".
Well, it worked the last time!
I use photoshop, but only for the ability to cut things out of one photo and paste it into another, then you can do all sorts of amusing things like these guys: www.b3ta.com.
Does the Gimp have this feature?
"they should be full of bacterial fossils"
On earth it took billions of years for multicelluar organisms to evolve. Single cell organisms may take significantly less time, but nobodys sure because single cell organisms don't leave any fossil remains. What this means is that the water would have to exist for a long time before you would see any fossils.
How much faster in comparision to other releases? What I want to know is if Mozilla is progressively getting faster, or is this just to compensate for performance regressions when they went from 1.4 - 1.5, etc.
On top of that there is an entire industry dependant on Apple. If you are in the graphic design business (I mean the printed variety not web design) then you have to use Apple.
"Anyone have some insight?"
Different architectures. Intel chips have longer instruction pipes that allow them to run faster, but have the penalty of worse branch prediction. Compilers have a lot of branches, which automatically favour AMD chips (same for Office apps). Intel will do better in MP3 encoding, video encoding, etc, where the raw processer speed gives it the edge.
"Extreme Gaming Edition", "Hyperthreading"
Also they're in danger of running out of superlatives. What do they call the next one? "Super-Extreme Gaming Endition", then "Super-fucking-shit-your-pants-really-fast Gaming Edition"
I think the problems are not due to the need for Linux requiring a standard distribution, but that Linux seems to provide no backwards compatablity for it's system dlls. Program binaries are linked against a particular version of Linux and will only work on that version - for instance a rpm for 2.40.22 won't install on 2.40.20.
I presume this is because some kernal dll that the program depends on has changed (I'm not too familiar with Linux, so correct me if I'm wrong).
With Windows all old dlls are kept from previous versions. That's why you need only one setup program and it will normally install on all versions of Windows.
Yes, this should be the case, but far as I remember the agreement only is enforced for 5 years
"Laptop vendors do not see the market for Linux on a laptop as large enough to be worth investing the R+D"
So, why can't manufactures supply laptops with a choice of no OS, or Windows???
"Most of the times, these libraries are not cross platform"
Well, duh, the claim is c++ is portible not "all libraries that c++ uses are portable"
Having said that I would say that there are degrees of cross-platform-ness. Java being much closer to the ideal than c++.
.NET applications are totaly invincible to security holes? .NET app use to render HTML?... the IE browser component... no security holes there at all. ;)
What does a
Out of curiousity I looked up the web site of the place where I bought my PC. Windows 98 and Windows ME OEM both sell for more than Windows XP (91.25 versus 84.53 )!
Surely that should be the other way around?
A program with a huge memory footprint will always be slower than a smaller one, even if you have so many gigs of memory that it can run without paging. Moving huge amounts of data in main memory is slow. A smaller footprint means more of your program can fit into the L2 cache.
My guess is when they say "insecure applications have to be re-written", they really mean applications that depend on Microsoft components such as MSHTML. They probably have changed IE to block certain functions for security, which means anyone foolish enough to have based their product around IE now have to invest a lot of money in releasing a version that is compatible with SP2. This process will be repeated probably again when MS release Longhorn. It's amazing that most software houses simply accept this without thinking and continue using MS technologies without thinking about how MS are screwing them around.