I'd guess that 99% of Linux users (myself included) do not hack away at the X source code.
On the other hand, I'd guess that for the 1% who do hack X, this will make thier lives easier. Heck, it might even mean more people decide to work on X, which OSS dogma tells us is a Good Thing(TM), and it probably is.
how appropriate that this reads like an obituary. he's dead to the community.
I must have missed the memo; do you speak for the community?
robbins should be called out for what he is.
Yeah... employed. The bastard.;-)
imagine if robbins spent a couple years protesting against baby seal clubbing, and then decided he'd done his part and took a lucrative job clubbing baby seals.
No, no, don't stop... This is too funny. I also hear that Microsoft programmers occasionally club baby seals outside of work hours, just for fun.
hooking up with microsoft destroys any credibility and good will one may have developed during their association with F/OSS.
Um, actually, I think it hasn't. Only a very few crackpots, like yourself, have the incredible arrogance to criticize Robbins for this. Most everyone else either doesn't care, or is saying, good for him.
i refuse to believe that the only job he could get is with microsoft.
So, O pure and holy F/OSS guru, one should only work at Microsoft if it were the last place on earth? Let me guess; you still live in your parents' basement and haven't paid a bill in your life, right?
Thankfully, just like not every Gentoo user is a funroll-loops-1337-h4xx0r-type, not every Linux user is arrogant and ignorant enough to blast someone for taking a job.
I love CSS and use it at every opportunity, but everyone is probably aware that the big CSS headache is browswer compatibility for features like positioning, and so forth. The worst offendor of modern browsers seems to be IE for Mac; why it is even worse than normal IE, I don't know, but it seems to be.
Does XSL suffer the same cross-browser incompatibilities? This I don't know, and while I love CSS, if XSL was better at cross-browser homogenity(sic?) I could see that being a big feature.
As a previous poster noted, though, a better solution would be for Microsoft to fix IE so it supported the wc3 recommendations....
Why is this moderated to zero? The anonymous coward is correct; if you add the user to the admin group, install the Palm Software, and then take user out of the admin group after the first sync, it will continue to work.
At least, this was my experience after many experiments.
My closest call was riding home from work in Tulsa. A lot of Tulsa streets have virtually no shoulder at all, but 61st, west of Mingo (aren't Tulsa street names great?) has about a foot of shoulder. It was dark, I had a headlight but no tail-light at all (which is bad, I know).
It's a long straight road, so some guy in a sporty little thing was speeding right by me and didn't even notice me. His side-view mirror slapped the back of my calf (it was a pretty low car, and my left leg must have been near the top of a pedal arc or something), but I was more shocked than hurt -- I got wobbly for a minute, but never quite fell over.
He realized after the fact that he hit something, so he stopped, and was apologizing up a storm. I think he was afraid I'd try to sue him, but I just told him to forget about it.
Give me break. The very fact (okay, not a fact, a guess) that while probably close to 99% of home users run Windows as Administrator, and probably 99% of home Linux users do not (as root), would make a linux system less vulnerable by default.
I didn't say invulnerable -- security holes are found all the time. But less vulnerable, yes. There is no question. IMHO.
This is just a guess, but I think the Windows Update thing is probably deliberate blocking, rather than a bug
That makes sense, except the one "update" that was always listed seemed to be a sort of dummy or test update; I presumed it was there for testing, just to ensure everything was working.
As a postscript: after rebooting my SP2-free machine on the following Monday, explorer crashed every on every log in, even as local admin, and even in safe mode. My bad for uninstalling beta software that reached over my entire OS...
That's actually a bit of a relief. I thought I was going nuts when I was downloading point2play-small-1.3.1 the other day and every single download had a different md5sum.
I don't actually use point2play, though, it was just updating as part of `emerge -u world'... so I just removed it. Your workaround will come in handy when I upgrade cedega, though.
at work for about a month (RC 2, anyway, the beta version). Windows update has not worked since I installed it.
Obviously, the windows update issue should be fixed in the released version, and it must not be effecting everyone, or I presume they would not release it. But my sp2-rc2 had never done windows update properly (that is to say, it failed to install any available updates consistently, every time).
I uninstalled sp2 from that machine today, and I won't be putting it back till I hear some pretty rave reviews. Okay, maybe not rave reviews, but I at least want to hear that it works.:-)
I mostly agree, except that I downloaded Crossover Office last night and tried to install Macromedia Flash MX 2004. Wouldn't work, unfortunately, though I've read reports of others successfully using it.
WineX has always worked well for me, but Crossover has always been a little buggy. Perhaps it's more usable on other distributions (I use gentoo).
Flash and my checkpoint VPN client are the only things I boot to windows for right now. I expect eventually there will be a reliable way to run them, or I will cave in and buy VM-ware...
Those are all good examples; if I hadn't already posted to this thread I'd be modding them informative.
There are a few others, of course. I guess Oracle runs on linux (?) and Macromedia's Coldfusion server has a linux version (probably to compete with PHP, I'm guessing). Another poster mentioned Codeweavers, another good example.
The only problem is trying to project how a give product would sell for Linux based on examples like these. I can't really see macromedia looking at the sales figures for say, Matlab for Linux, and deciding that this means people will buy Flash. Not necessarily the same target market...
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Did you want me to say that Google was a search engine and that Python was a programming language?
On the other hand, I'd guess that for the 1% who do hack X, this will make thier lives easier. Heck, it might even mean more people decide to work on X, which OSS dogma tells us is a Good Thing(TM), and it probably is.
I think it would be (1 * 2 * 3 * ... * Yahoo), but your version looks funnier.
"Rising Republican majority"... In Minnesota? Haven't visited Minneapolis/St. Paul, lately, have you? A Republican stronghold it ain't.
Maybe Coleman simply changed his mind. Reagan was a democrat, too, when he first ran for office. It happens. Sheesh.
Winston Churchill (allegedly) said: "Anyone under 30 who is not a liberal has no heart. Anyone over 30 who is not a conservative has no brains."
People change their minds. Always have, always will. It doesn't make them windsocks.
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec.
how appropriate that this reads like an obituary. he's dead to the community.
;-)
I must have missed the memo; do you speak for the community?
robbins should be called out for what he is.
Yeah... employed. The bastard.
imagine if robbins spent a couple years protesting against baby seal clubbing, and then decided he'd done his part and took a lucrative job clubbing baby seals.
No, no, don't stop... This is too funny. I also hear that Microsoft programmers occasionally club baby seals outside of work hours, just for fun.
hooking up with microsoft destroys any credibility and good will one may have developed during their association with F/OSS.
Um, actually, I think it hasn't. Only a very few crackpots, like yourself, have the incredible arrogance to criticize Robbins for this. Most everyone else either doesn't care, or is saying, good for him.
i refuse to believe that the only job he could get is with microsoft.
So, O pure and holy F/OSS guru, one should only work at Microsoft if it were the last place on earth? Let me guess; you still live in your parents' basement and haven't paid a bill in your life, right?
Thankfully, just like not every Gentoo user is a funroll-loops-1337-h4xx0r-type, not every Linux user is arrogant and ignorant enough to blast someone for taking a job.
HAND.
But I agree, that's probably still fairly rare.
I read rasterman's post expecting to find whining about how enlightenment isn't getting enough attention, blah, blah, blah....
Instead I want to go install it when I get home. Weird. I suppose I could try something new... :-)
Does XSL suffer the same cross-browser incompatibilities? This I don't know, and while I love CSS, if XSL was better at cross-browser homogenity(sic?) I could see that being a big feature.
As a previous poster noted, though, a better solution would be for Microsoft to fix IE so it supported the wc3 recommendations....
Oops, I'm redundant. But at least it validates my "orbiting giant walnut" theory I intend to submit to the astronomic community next month.
I thought it looked more like a walnut.
I disagree completely. It's the other way around.
Not recently, actually. My bad. :-(
And though it does work (and is the only way I've found to install palm software for users), it is definitely a goofy way to have to do it.
At least, this was my experience after many experiments.
It's a long straight road, so some guy in a sporty little thing was speeding right by me and didn't even notice me. His side-view mirror slapped the back of my calf (it was a pretty low car, and my left leg must have been near the top of a pedal arc or something), but I was more shocked than hurt -- I got wobbly for a minute, but never quite fell over.
He realized after the fact that he hit something, so he stopped, and was apologizing up a storm. I think he was afraid I'd try to sue him, but I just told him to forget about it.
And then I bought a tail-light the next day. :-)
Give me break. The very fact (okay, not a fact, a guess) that while probably close to 99% of home users run Windows as Administrator, and probably 99% of home Linux users do not (as root), would make a linux system less vulnerable by default.
I didn't say invulnerable -- security holes are found all the time. But less vulnerable, yes. There is no question. IMHO.
But I wanted a link to "How to write intelligible code in Perl..." Caveat: I like perl. :-)
This is just a guess, but I think the Windows Update thing is probably deliberate blocking, rather than a bug That makes sense, except the one "update" that was always listed seemed to be a sort of dummy or test update; I presumed it was there for testing, just to ensure everything was working. As a postscript: after rebooting my SP2-free machine on the following Monday, explorer crashed every on every log in, even as local admin, and even in safe mode. My bad for uninstalling beta software that reached over my entire OS...
That's actually a bit of a relief. I thought I was going nuts when I was downloading point2play-small-1.3.1 the other day and every single download had a different md5sum. I don't actually use point2play, though, it was just updating as part of `emerge -u world'... so I just removed it. Your workaround will come in handy when I upgrade cedega, though.
at work for about a month (RC 2, anyway, the beta version). Windows update has not worked since I installed it.
:-)
Obviously, the windows update issue should be fixed in the released version, and it must not be effecting everyone, or I presume they would not release it. But my sp2-rc2 had never done windows update properly (that is to say, it failed to install any available updates consistently, every time).
I uninstalled sp2 from that machine today, and I won't be putting it back till I hear some pretty rave reviews. Okay, maybe not rave reviews, but I at least want to hear that it works.
That's rather harsh.
WineX has always worked well for me, but Crossover has always been a little buggy. Perhaps it's more usable on other distributions (I use gentoo).
Flash and my checkpoint VPN client are the only things I boot to windows for right now. I expect eventually there will be a reliable way to run them, or I will cave in and buy VM-ware...
Until then, was the joke funny AND not funny?
Wait, when did we start talking about outsourcing?
There are a few others, of course. I guess Oracle runs on linux (?) and Macromedia's Coldfusion server has a linux version (probably to compete with PHP, I'm guessing). Another poster mentioned Codeweavers, another good example.
The only problem is trying to project how a give product would sell for Linux based on examples like these. I can't really see macromedia looking at the sales figures for say, Matlab for Linux, and deciding that this means people will buy Flash. Not necessarily the same target market...