As far as I know, there is a huge difference between Koffice 1 and 2. The development team made a contest to create a different UI (aimed at inovative interaction) and started to rewrite stuff.
But I also didn't see the alpha release. I don't want to spoil the surprise:)
Thank God somebody gets it. I can't live with Windows focus system, so I always change it. I may lose a few seconds every time I am on a new system and can't access my home disk, but it pays on a matter of minutes.
Some people have differen tastes, so they'd prefer to change some other obscure setting. They'll also spend seconds changing it, but it you take the setting away from them they'll be less pleasured about the system (and probably less productive too). All this people together add up to the entire KDE userbase:)
Now, excuse-me where I find out where do I activate that "stay on top" button.
Well, I don't plan to switch from KDE 3 until KDE 4.1 is out. Or at least until Debian is known to work properly with it.
But I want to install KDE 4.0 at work (Windows) as soon as it is available.
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people used to create fonts by putting such kind of data at specific memory positions at old Z80 architectures. That was how most games used to do their graphics.
I'm only sad because it is not an 8x8 matrix:( I couldn't put that character at my TK90X
People don't like change, but most people will weight that against improved functionality. If you have a new design that is much better than the old one, it will be accepted. If your new design is just marginaly better (or even worse) than the old one, people won't change.
Well, I always thought it killed... You know, every kind of new substance produced seems to be radioactive. But after that article, I may agree with you.
How do you propose that I run an anti-virus on my file-server? Ok, it just plugs at the process that servers the files. But how do you propose that this other process should run? Hint, it must write files as any user.
Also, I have a backup solution running nightly. It is quite possible that nightly only backups are too far away, and users want user-initiated backups. Now, what would I do on that situation?
Stay with nightly backups, and less security;
make the backup tool run as a user process, what will need user access to the bacup area and reduce security;
Make a backup daemon (running as root) that receives requests, or simply make it a suid program.
There are lots of situations where you want normal users to interface superuser processes. Proof of that is that there were no system where it was not permitted, and there are several hacks on several systems that just provide that functionality (and yes, some of those hacks are troublemakers).
Well, there are systems where there is no superuser, but even then there are functions that give more power to users and fill the same need.
By the way... Sorry for any grammar or spelling mistake. My english is not perfect.
"There's a brand of kitchen towels in Brazil I think called "Linux"..."
I never saw one of them.
Anyway, ReactOS can't be renamed Linux because Linux is a valid trademark. It is far from clear that you'd have troubles if you name "Online Office" your online office suite, because it isn't clear that office is a valid trademark.
You find those RPM here, but you'll have to pass them trough alien. Anyway, I don't recommend using those packages, since they are normaly too old for testing and too unstable for stable;)
"That's irrelevant, since you don't need the source code to find buffer overflows. It just reduces the time needed to find them."
Yeah, and with infinite time a monkey can also be as good as Shakespeare.
"And a patch has been applied by... everyone?"
Pretty much. Most distros make it easy to update, and most people do it often because it is common to have that bug that is annoying you fixed by just doing it. If the bug was on a library used by servers, we'd have a longer delay, but most servers don't use libFlac.
"We all know users don't install plugins or take actions. Stupid actions, even"
Well, it is better than the computer taking stupid actions automaticaly...
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I simply had to read a "-1 Interesting" post :)
Well, I guess some mods are too coward to call somebody a troll or flamebat.
People are complaining that by doing that Microsoft will slow the switch to Linux. As far as I know, that is a compliment.
As far as I know, there is a huge difference between Koffice 1 and 2. The development team made a contest to create a different UI (aimed at inovative interaction) and started to rewrite stuff.
But I also didn't see the alpha release. I don't want to spoil the surprise :)
Thank God somebody gets it. I can't live with Windows focus system, so I always change it. I may lose a few seconds every time I am on a new system and can't access my home disk, but it pays on a matter of minutes.
Some people have differen tastes, so they'd prefer to change some other obscure setting. They'll also spend seconds changing it, but it you take the setting away from them they'll be less pleasured about the system (and probably less productive too). All this people together add up to the entire KDE userbase :)
Now, excuse-me where I find out where do I activate that "stay on top" button.
There is a big jump in that. Yes, you SHOULDN'T have to edit MIME types. Now, that doesn't mean that you DON'T have to.
AmaroK was also quite unstable until shortly ago. Now it seems much better, but I did not widely test it yet.
Well, I don't plan to switch from KDE 3 until KDE 4.1 is out. Or at least until Debian is known to work properly with it.
But I want to install KDE 4.0 at work (Windows) as soon as it is available.
people used to create fonts by putting such kind of data at specific memory positions at old Z80 architectures. That was how most games used to do their graphics.
I'm only sad because it is not an 8x8 matrix :( I couldn't put that character at my TK90X
It was Microsoft who defined the requeriments and fiscalised the stics anyway.
Yes, and that same computer was slow as hell running a (bare) XWindow system. Every GUI for Linux was just unusable because of such slowness.
Well, the committee should be more concerned if the marked had adopted it.
People don't like change, but most people will weight that against improved functionality. If you have a new design that is much better than the old one, it will be accepted. If your new design is just marginaly better (or even worse) than the old one, people won't change.
Well, I always thought it killed... You know, every kind of new substance produced seems to be radioactive. But after that article, I may agree with you.
Yep, daemons. At least you are consistent :)
How do you propose that I run an anti-virus on my file-server? Ok, it just plugs at the process that servers the files. But how do you propose that this other process should run? Hint, it must write files as any user.
Also, I have a backup solution running nightly. It is quite possible that nightly only backups are too far away, and users want user-initiated backups. Now, what would I do on that situation?
There are lots of situations where you want normal users to interface superuser processes. Proof of that is that there were no system where it was not permitted, and there are several hacks on several systems that just provide that functionality (and yes, some of those hacks are troublemakers).
Well, there are systems where there is no superuser, but even then there are functions that give more power to users and fill the same need.
By the way... Sorry for any grammar or spelling mistake. My english is not perfect.
Yes, we have DOS/Windows here to prove your point.
That is ok. We have thousands of distros, one of them can be exclusive for idiots.
But that doesn't really apply to Ubuntu. It is (yet) so customizable that non-idiots can use it too.
Everybody around here would stop if we lose network connection. People wouldn't even be able to log on their systems and access their documents.
So, please, explain why office software is that big a deal.
I never saw one of them.
Anyway, ReactOS can't be renamed Linux because Linux is a valid trademark. It is far from clear that you'd have troubles if you name "Online Office" your online office suite, because it isn't clear that office is a valid trademark.
And about deamons? Should they?
You find those RPM here, but you'll have to pass them trough alien. Anyway, I don't recommend using those packages, since they are normaly too old for testing and too unstable for stable ;)
Not so easy, since MsOOXML is neither documented, complete, nor XML.
The article is talking about documents sent to ECMA by ISO.
But, maybe ISO did condense them a bit.
When was the last time you saw a bridge standing up after a willfull, informed, and competent attempt to put it down?
Yeah, and with infinite time a monkey can also be as good as Shakespeare.
Pretty much. Most distros make it easy to update, and most people do it often because it is common to have that bug that is annoying you fixed by just doing it. If the bug was on a library used by servers, we'd have a longer delay, but most servers don't use libFlac.
Well, it is better than the computer taking stupid actions automaticaly...
The only problem with your argument is that cars are reequired by law to be armored, since they colide every time.
If coders used half the number of techniques the car industry is required to use to avoid problems, we'd have much less problems.