3. Please, give us the option of a double-click interface.
you actually haven't played with KDE a lot recently have you? You can quite easily (couple of clicks) convert KDE to be a double click interface, single click interface or just a mouse over interface.
2. Faster file access and directory listing in Konquerer. Comparison:
Windows - to view C:\mp3 takes 3 seconds.
Mandrake - to view \mnt\Windows\mp3 takes 9 seconds.
What's more, in KDE the files display one-by-one as they are "found". My "Jazz" folder might appear first, but by the time I go to click on it, more folders have appeared and it has moved. Ugly.
agreed, Konquerer could access local files a little better(although if you organise your files a little better it certainly helps). The problem here, ihmo, is that Konquerer is no where near as embedded in the OS as explorer is and thus it can't benefit from low level reads like explorer can. On the other hand you have the adventage of being able to change out konquerer for a new version with out having to upgrade the whole OS. Or you can upgraded your kernel and keep that version of konquerer if you like it.
1. Drag-and-drop menus. In Windows, the Start menu is really just a directory structure, and a special case of the Explorer view. You can drag and drop new items into the Start menu / Taskbar and they appear there instantly. You can "Explore" the Start menu and arrange / delete / add items as you please. Compare and contrast with the latest version of KDE that I've tried, where you essentially need a "menu edit" application to set up new shortcuts. Painfully old-fashioned.
You can drag and drop to the kicker (taskbar) in KDE from the (start) menu, and I feel pretty sure that you can go the other way. but why do you need to add to the (start) menu when atl+f2 and then program name (search as you type) is a lot faster way of start apps than adding them to the (start) menu.
I agree with you, Sendmail is extremly powerful if you know how to use it properly IE understand the config file.
That being said, not a lot of people really understand the config file at all (thus leaving open email relays for spammers etc) where as postfix, although not as powerful, is a hell of a lot easier to configure. Most people I know swap out sendmail for postfix becuase they can use all of the features of postfix and none of the features of sendmail(or very few).
What is the point of having really powerful software if you are unable to use it.
Yeah, I'm going to go with a no on this one. Everyone said the same thing when ATMs came around, "Oh no, they're going to replace actual tellers!" But it didn't, banks still hire quite frequently for bank tellers.
Good point but I going to have to disagree with you there. Having worked for a bank I can safely that the idea is to close as many branches as they can get away with. Of the branches that they do have they are only keeping bare minium staffing levels.
Having previously worked in many service related jobs I know that people (especially older adults) will not allow this to occur.
Yes but older adults only live for a certain while, once they have moved on who is going to care if they get served by a machine or human?(remember we are talking about 2050 here) IE when was the last time you had your car filled up for you?
He manages to sum up the whole open source movement for me in a couple of sentences
"It's not good to charge people for using something which is like a social infrastructure. It also inhibits the development of the computer industry. The very basic infrastructure should be free,"
I don't necessarly agree with the guy about camping out for 30 plus hours for just a computer store. But I think the idea of live blogging from a news event or activity is actually kinda cool.
Think of it as unfiltered and uncensored (excluding personal view here) news report by the people who are actually experencing it first hand (not but some news caster that wants to win the next big award so adjusts the story accordingly) and it is made available to world.
Ok an opening of an apple store is not something to shout about but imagin this at more serious events, protestes, rallies, wars etc.... open source journalism in a way
Correct me if I am wrong. don't really need to say that here now do I!!! But arent the other versions of the linux kernel IE ones for alpha, power4 high end hardware etc.. maintained by people other that linus and his cronies?
I also seem to remenber that Linus mentioning that the linux kernel in its current state doesn't scale well past 4 cpus?
and it has been running completely stable at a load average of 2 for about 8 months now, the thing that is buggy is X but the kernel, file system etc stays up even after X has decide that is enough for tonight
I don't know if this is the same as the US but this is how it works in some of Australia's largest government organisations.
They go for the lowest Development/Support cost out of all the tenders. That is if it makes to tender rather than just been given to a existing contracting company.
This activity then leads to clauses in the support contract that state when things going wrong or there needs to be a change to the system the supporting companies charge a arm a leg for the change. IE $60k AUD for an automated ftp job that took 2 days to write and test!!!! This then leads to the Government Deptartment/Orgisation often deciding that the bug/extra requirement is not worth the big $$$$ to fix, hence you end up with a buggy system that is relied apon. Often these bugs are quite small but the contract makes them too costly to fix
With Apple's announcing that beige G3s won't be supported for Panther, that's probably an indication of Apple moving away from the six year old processor.
There is nothing wrong with a 6 year old processor. Look at the Alpha for a good example, despite compaq's and HP's best efforts it is still a fast and a worthy processor.
IBM to there credit have been updating the powerpc processor. I think that for a small laptop you really can't how past the powerpc, look at what else is out there and decide which one you would like to have sitting on you lap for a few hours???
The answer to your problem is really quite simple don't buy every update they release. I presume you are not running mission critical servers so you can afford to wait a while between upgrades.
10.1 is still a great and very useable OS (I am still on it, I will be upgrading straight to panther).
Apple does not force you to upgrade (every now and then there is a software update for the older versions). You only have yourself to blame if you buy every upgrade to get the latest functions and gizmos
Hmm ok, and where is your site detaling your prefect contributions to the BYOM scene??? Really you don't have one, how surpriseing.
hmmm, no rocket science here folks.
Really!!! and here am I thinking that the artical had the head line of Rocket Sciencest Designs New Mac Caseing
Personally unless you(and the rest) can prove that you can do better then appreaciate the idea for what it is (and inventive idea for those you who couldn't pick it up on the first pass) and get over it.
if you read the artical you will notice a quote like this
He conceded readily that the Dell numbers would be higher with the Intel compiler, but that the Apple numbers could be higher with a different compiler too.
I would take this as they were only using GCC because it was across platforms and it would "normalize the complier out of the question." I think that they would use a completely different complier to complie OSX (notice not saying darwin) quite possibly one from IBM
I know I am probably going to get flamed for this but don't you think that is has gone too far when public money is spent on something like this? I mean while we are at it why don't we just employ translators for every factious language, hell I had a secret language when I was 3 maybe they can employ someone to translate that.
you will see that this looks like a planed thing used to testing certian functions, probably auto bug reporting when it crashes for real.
Also have you ever considered why MS software makes the front page when another bug comes out and OSS doesn't? Maybe it is because we pay large sums of money for MS software and OSS is free? Or maybe it is because MS tends to lie and cover up it's bugs where as OSS, by its very own nature, doesn't?
Now when you get asked that age old question "is a in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?" you can reply "neither it is my personal mp3 streaming sever!!!"
actually if you read the artical it has at the bottom.
the GT3/K is only in limited production from Sony and you will need to contact them directly if you are serious about buying. (800-711-6277 or sales@dynamism.com)
I like your point, but I don't think you have considered the fact that most people don't want to buy a whole CD from one artist (hense compilation CD's are some of the fastest selling CD's in OZ).
Most people just want one or two songs from a particular artist. Given that, a CD single in Australia is $6-10 (nearly a third of the purchase price of a whole CD for 1 song. Yes I know there is more than one track but I only want one of them not 6 crap re-edits) I can see the benefits of this system.
Also even if it a whole CD download costs you the same as a one from store at least you where able to pick every track to go on that CD and that way you know you are happy with every track. I think that is better value than buying a CD where you are only happy with only 5 out of 10 tracks on the CD.
now if only i can fake US address we will be in business
I have to agree with you here. We use Solaris as a our primary OS and linux as as our secondary OS (It runs things like email gateways while solaris runs DB's). What we have found is that most software we run on one platform will run just as happily on the other with a little recompile.
I don't think sun is as doom as everyone thinks but I do think they are in trouble and need a little creative thinking to see them through
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Correction, you had two V880
3. Please, give us the option of a double-click interface.
you actually haven't played with KDE a lot recently have you? You can quite easily (couple of clicks) convert KDE to be a double click interface, single click interface or just a mouse over interface.
2. Faster file access and directory listing in Konquerer. Comparison: Windows - to view C:\mp3 takes 3 seconds. Mandrake - to view \mnt\Windows\mp3 takes 9 seconds. What's more, in KDE the files display one-by-one as they are "found". My "Jazz" folder might appear first, but by the time I go to click on it, more folders have appeared and it has moved. Ugly.
agreed, Konquerer could access local files a little better(although if you organise your files a little better it certainly helps). The problem here, ihmo, is that Konquerer is no where near as embedded in the OS as explorer is and thus it can't benefit from low level reads like explorer can. On the other hand you have the adventage of being able to change out konquerer for a new version with out having to upgrade the whole OS. Or you can upgraded your kernel and keep that version of konquerer if you like it.
1. Drag-and-drop menus. In Windows, the Start menu is really just a directory structure, and a special case of the Explorer view. You can drag and drop new items into the Start menu / Taskbar and they appear there instantly. You can "Explore" the Start menu and arrange / delete / add items as you please. Compare and contrast with the latest version of KDE that I've tried, where you essentially need a "menu edit" application to set up new shortcuts. Painfully old-fashioned.
You can drag and drop to the kicker (taskbar) in KDE from the (start) menu, and I feel pretty sure that you can go the other way. but why do you need to add to the (start) menu when atl+f2 and then program name (search as you type) is a lot faster way of start apps than adding them to the (start) menu.
I agree with you, Sendmail is extremly powerful if you know how to use it properly IE understand the config file.
That being said, not a lot of people really understand the config file at all (thus leaving open email relays for spammers etc) where as postfix, although not as powerful, is a hell of a lot easier to configure. Most people I know swap out sendmail for postfix becuase they can use all of the features of postfix and none of the features of sendmail(or very few).
What is the point of having really powerful software if you are unable to use it.
Windows XP, Sharing your Data with the world!!
Yeah, I'm going to go with a no on this one. Everyone said the same thing when ATMs came around, "Oh no, they're going to replace actual tellers!" But it didn't, banks still hire quite frequently for bank tellers.
Good point but I going to have to disagree with you there. Having worked for a bank I can safely that the idea is to close as many branches as they can get away with. Of the branches that they do have they are only keeping bare minium staffing levels.
Having previously worked in many service related jobs I know that people (especially older adults) will not allow this to occur.
Yes but older adults only live for a certain while, once they have moved on who is going to care if they get served by a machine or human?(remember we are talking about 2050 here) IE when was the last time you had your car filled up for you?
He manages to sum up the whole open source movement for me in a couple of sentences
"It's not good to charge people for using something which is like a social infrastructure. It also inhibits the development of the computer industry. The very basic infrastructure should be free,"
I don't necessarly agree with the guy about camping out for 30 plus hours for just a computer store. But I think the idea of live blogging from a news event or activity is actually kinda cool.
Think of it as unfiltered and uncensored (excluding personal view here) news report by the people who are actually experencing it first hand (not but some news caster that wants to win the next big award so adjusts the story accordingly) and it is made available to world.
Ok an opening of an apple store is not something to shout about but imagin this at more serious events, protestes, rallies, wars etc.... open source journalism in a way
The problem lies in the inability to restart if you get caught using the cheat codes. Plus the be somebodies b*tch 1.0 module really sucks
Correct me if I am wrong. don't really need to say that here now do I!!! But arent the other versions of the linux kernel IE ones for alpha, power4 high end hardware etc.. maintained by people other that linus and his cronies?
I also seem to remenber that Linus mentioning that the linux kernel in its current state doesn't scale well past 4 cpus?
The Reason I say this is because I have
Linux 2.4.18 smp #1 SMP Wed Sep 4 11:55:37 EDT 2002 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linuxand it has been running completely stable at a load average of 2 for about 8 months now, the thing that is buggy is X but the kernel, file system etc stays up even after X has decide that is enough for tonight
I don't know if this is the same as the US but this is how it works in some of Australia's largest government organisations.
They go for the lowest Development/Support cost out of all the tenders. That is if it makes to tender rather than just been given to a existing contracting company.
This activity then leads to clauses in the support contract that state when things going wrong or there needs to be a change to the system the supporting companies charge a arm a leg for the change. IE $60k AUD for an automated ftp job that took 2 days to write and test!!!! This then leads to the Government Deptartment/Orgisation often deciding that the bug/extra requirement is not worth the big $$$$ to fix, hence you end up with a buggy system that is relied apon. Often these bugs are quite small but the contract makes them too costly to fix
There is nothing wrong with a 6 year old processor. Look at the Alpha for a good example, despite compaq's and HP's best efforts it is still a fast and a worthy processor.
IBM to there credit have been updating the powerpc processor. I think that for a small laptop you really can't how past the powerpc, look at what else is out there and decide which one you would like to have sitting on you lap for a few hours???
The answer to your problem is really quite simple don't buy every update they release. I presume you are not running mission critical servers so you can afford to wait a while between upgrades.
10.1 is still a great and very useable OS (I am still on it, I will be upgrading straight to panther).
Apple does not force you to upgrade (every now and then there is a software update for the older versions). You only have yourself to blame if you buy every upgrade to get the latest functions and gizmos
this is the first sensible thing I have heard anybody say all day
Hmm ok, and where is your site detaling your prefect contributions to the BYOM scene??? Really you don't have one, how surpriseing.
hmmm, no rocket science here folks. Really!!! and here am I thinking that the artical had the head line of Rocket Sciencest Designs New Mac Caseing
Personally unless you(and the rest) can prove that you can do better then appreaciate the idea for what it is (and inventive idea for those you who couldn't pick it up on the first pass) and get over it.
if you read the artical you will notice a quote like this
I would take this as they were only using GCC because it was across platforms and it would "normalize the complier out of the question." I think that they would use a completely different complier to complie OSX (notice not saying darwin) quite possibly one from IBM
Did you ready the whole artical?
if you did you would notice that it is not a computer screen but rather a TV that can be used as a computer screen hences the low resolution.
I know I am probably going to get flamed for this but don't you think that is has gone too far when public money is spent on something like this? I mean while we are at it why don't we just employ translators for every factious language, hell I had a secret language when I was 3 maybe they can employ someone to translate that.
Yes Slashdot is pro-P2P. But this is not "music theft". itunes 4 is only capable of streaming, you can only
this is no more music theft than you and a bunch of friends listening to one of your CD's
Hmm if you actually view the source of the page.....
"<html>
<fieldset style="position:fixed;">
<legend>Crash</legend>
</fieldset>
</html>"
you will see that this looks like a planed thing used to testing certian functions, probably auto bug reporting when it crashes for real.
Also have you ever considered why MS software makes the front page when another bug comes out and OSS doesn't?
Maybe it is because we pay large sums of money for MS software and OSS is free? Or maybe it is because MS tends to lie and cover up it's bugs where as OSS, by its very own nature, doesn't?
Now when you get asked that age old question "is a in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?" you can reply "neither it is my personal mp3 streaming sever!!!"
how is that for classey
actually if you read the artical it has at the bottom.
the GT3/K is only in limited production from Sony and you will need to contact them directly if you are serious about buying. (800-711-6277 or sales@dynamism.com)I like your point, but I don't think you have considered the fact that most people don't want to buy a whole CD from one artist (hense compilation CD's are some of the fastest selling CD's in OZ).
Most people just want one or two songs from a particular artist. Given that, a CD single in Australia is $6-10 (nearly a third of the purchase price of a whole CD for 1 song. Yes I know there is more than one track but I only want one of them not 6 crap re-edits) I can see the benefits of this system.
Also even if it a whole CD download costs you the same as a one from store at least you where able to pick every track to go on that CD and that way you know you are happy with every track. I think that is better value than buying a CD where you are only happy with only 5 out of 10 tracks on the CD.
now if only i can fake US address we will be in business
Please read this. Also it is a bit harsh to criticize taco for not reading the site when you haven't.
I have to agree with you here. We use Solaris as a our primary OS and linux as as our secondary OS (It runs things like email gateways while solaris runs DB's). What we have found is that most software we run on one platform will run just as happily on the other with a little recompile.
I don't think sun is as doom as everyone thinks but I do think they are in trouble and need a little creative thinking to see them through
I may be wrong but is this not the same as this