Oh, how wrong you are. I'm a journalist which writes one or two small news pieces daily, and one or two bigger articles a week. After several years of career my hardrive is full of texts i wrote in several different file formats (msword, openoffice, abiword, claris, rtf, txt - you name it).
Google desktop search i installed at work is a remedy to a lot of daily problems for me. Find what someone said three months ago, or six, i don't remember, maybe it's not in the text file, but rather in email, and i don't remember his name as well, and context, just that he said something like... oh, there you are, thank you google.
Before that i was starting serach, going for a walk, repeating search with different parameters, going for a walk...
Desktop serach is mission critical feature for me from day one it appeared.
I know, it's just a flamewar as usual, but for one accusation i must (as a Gnome user) reply. Two taskbars are really usefull. You have very similar solution in os-x: one taskbar for apps and system, and second for all current work. This makes Gnome desktop very intuitive, much more than KDE which sticks to Windows look'n'feel with everything hidden in folding menus. There are other issues - some apps are better in KDE, and some are better in Gnome. But i see most of them improving in both enviroments, so now it's not a big problem.
... simply visit stallman.org and follow tinyurl. What troubles me more is that in the very same moment he removed his cellurar phone number given for anonymous contact from illegal HP readers, and i'm not sure i have his web page in cache.
> From the geek perspective, there is technology > that is 10 times better than the stuff MS puts out. > The average person has never seen the alternatives and never will.
It's not the case. I'm not a geek - i'm pretty much an average user you will encounter in endless smal officess around a globe. I use GNU/Linux exclusively for three years now. Yesterday i decided to do an icredibly usefull, but scary procedure: setting up a small local network. You hear it right: what in Windows takes few mouseclicks on Ubuntu is a horrible task. Install NFS, edit etc/exports file, edit etc/init'd files, and so on. I'm pretty advanced user, i installed several GNU/Linux systems myself, but there i needed almost two hours long technical assitance. What is good for geeks is still a horrible experience for user. During that 3 years i saw incredible advance. Latest Ubuntu is like heaven comparing to my first Mandrake. But there is still a long way ahead, so don't blame users.
They do have larger ones in terms of hd capacity, they also have much smaller ones in terms of external size. Check all their product line, with smallest Data Bank: http://www.lacie.com/se/products/range.htm?id=1003 6 I get a chance to touch it, and this is really beatifull piece of hardware, i would choose just because of great esthetic value.
The situation in Hungary is almost the same as in Poland - our organisation is called ZAIKS, and it's known to send their tax-collectors (they don't call it tax, but that's what it is) even to weddings to charge live bands for popular songs they play.
Now Creative Commons Poland talks with ZAIKS to solve that problem, but we are making very slow progress.
What is worse - we have a law called "dead hand" which makes all public domain works a subject to another tax. Money collected from "dead hand" in theory goes to artist to stimulate creativity. Practically it get lost somwehere in the ministry of culture.
friend who is 20 years old and is one of those infoholics who accumulates data the way old women accumulate cats... he gets five or six movies a week, copies them all in a few hours, and sends back the originals without even watching them
Infoholism... You should tell me that 10 years ago... Or at least before RSS was invented...
That survey counts only servers (it's Apache based). You can't compare it with desktops, right? I don't say it's innacurate, it simply counts somethinmg else.
Both Thunderbird with Sunbird and Evolution are still lagging behind. Evolution is a wonderfully crafted client, with great UI, but it crashes way too often to be treated seriously. Few days ago i added new account, and didn't noticed that my email provider require SMTP atuthentification. With that option unmarked Evolution crashed whenever i tried to send an email. Bad. Thunderbird is no better - way it handles multiple accounts (and who doesn't have many accounts?) and SMTP's is unacceptable and really hard to setup. Those problems must be resolved before we could talk about being seriously competitive.
Yes, it is horribly expensive right now, but it's nothing surprising. Almost everything is horribly expensive while new to the market. But this idea is brilliant, and will be a success - if they will open specyfication and set some kind of standard. If you could buy several different laptop modules (from subnotebook size to ruggadized toughbook-likes), handheld modules etc _and_ different core units from different vendors you will have almost endless upgrade options. That may be true only on on very competitive market, so no vendor lock in. Does it sound smart? Definitly yes, for me.
I googled for license agreement, but found nothing. I would be very surprised, if Microsoft released it under one of OSI approved licenses. So, what license is this "open-source"?
Duncan Booth is supporting Nethack port for Psion computers (do you remeber them?) for years. Only small fraction of people (Psion users which are Nethack lovers too) will ever notice value of his work. But for us, Nethack addicts which happen to be also Psion users, he is an ultimate hero. Check it: http://www.suttoncourtenay.org.uk/duncan/Nethack.h tm
I'm sure you can find such people everywhere. Whatever obscure activity you undertake, or whatever strange problem happens to you, you sooner or later meet your hero. I mean - this is how free software works, isn't it?
> Paramount would eagerly pick up anything with the slightest chance of turning a profit.
If Paramount is afraid about losing money - it's problem with Paramount, not Star Trek. I'm sure there is a lot of producers around to find somenone with capabilities of making another season or two. But Paramonut will not sell rights (for obvious reasons) and will not produce it (for less obvious reasons). Don't you think shorter copyright time would solve the problem? Star Trek could be in public domain now, and anyone could pick this up.
Being courteous and cooperating with officials is always a good idea no matter where you go, of course.
I'm a 30 years old guy from Poland, and i do remember - i was a child in that time, but i do - December 1981, when polish military junta delegalised Solidarity, inprisoned thousands of people and, basically, took away from us most of freedoms. My fahter, journalist, was fired and couldn't find any job because of strictly political reasons. I do remember, that much of the help for my family came from abroad: people from Germany and France, people we didn't know, and never met, were sending us food, hygienics, clothes and books prohibited in Poland. My faher was working for independent, illegal publishing house, and much of the money, equipment and supply came from abroad. Obviously those foreign individuals helping us were not cooperating with officials in no way. Hell, they were breaking polish law, and were facing more or less dangerous prosecutons. So please, shut up, go back to your room and think about it again.
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Oh, how wrong you are. I'm a journalist which writes one or two small news pieces daily, and one or two bigger articles a week. After several years of career my hardrive is full of texts i wrote in several different file formats (msword, openoffice, abiword, claris, rtf, txt - you name it).
Google desktop search i installed at work is a remedy to a lot of daily problems for me. Find what someone said three months ago, or six, i don't remember, maybe it's not in the text file, but rather in email, and i don't remember his name as well, and context, just that he said something like... oh, there you are, thank you google.
Before that i was starting serach, going for a walk, repeating search with different parameters, going for a walk...
Desktop serach is mission critical feature for me from day one it appeared.
Is this mature enough to include it as standard? Desktop search is key missing feature in Linux...
I know, it's just a flamewar as usual, but for one accusation i must (as a Gnome user) reply.
Two taskbars are really usefull. You have very similar solution in os-x: one taskbar for apps and system, and second for all current work.
This makes Gnome desktop very intuitive, much more than KDE which sticks to Windows look'n'feel with everything hidden in folding menus.
There are other issues - some apps are better in KDE, and some are better in Gnome. But i see most of them improving in both enviroments, so now it's not a big problem.
... simply visit stallman.org and follow tinyurl. What troubles me more is that in the very same moment he removed his cellurar phone number given for anonymous contact from illegal HP readers, and i'm not sure i have his web page in cache.
> From the geek perspective, there is technology
> that is 10 times better than the stuff MS puts out.
> The average person has never seen the alternatives and never will.
It's not the case. I'm not a geek - i'm pretty much an average user you will encounter in endless smal officess around a globe. I use GNU/Linux exclusively for three years now. Yesterday i decided to do an icredibly usefull, but scary procedure: setting up a small local network.
You hear it right: what in Windows takes few mouseclicks on Ubuntu is a horrible task. Install NFS, edit etc/exports file, edit etc/init'd files, and so on. I'm pretty advanced user, i installed several GNU/Linux systems myself, but there i needed almost two hours long technical assitance.
What is good for geeks is still a horrible experience for user. During that 3 years i saw incredible advance. Latest Ubuntu is like heaven comparing to my first Mandrake. But there is still a long way ahead, so don't blame users.
Ooops! Data Bank is USB only...
They do have larger ones in terms of hd capacity, they also have much smaller ones in terms of external size. Check all their product line, with smallest Data Bank:3 6
http://www.lacie.com/se/products/range.htm?id=100
I get a chance to touch it, and this is really beatifull piece of hardware, i would choose just because of great esthetic value.
The situation in Hungary is almost the same as in Poland - our organisation is called ZAIKS, and it's known to send their tax-collectors (they don't call it tax, but that's what it is) even to weddings to charge live bands for popular songs they play.
Now Creative Commons Poland talks with ZAIKS to solve that problem, but we are making very slow progress.
What is worse - we have a law called "dead hand" which makes all public domain works a subject to another tax. Money collected from "dead hand" in theory goes to artist to stimulate creativity. Practically it get lost somwehere in the ministry of culture.
friend who is 20 years old and is one of those infoholics who accumulates data the way old women accumulate cats... he gets five or six movies a week, copies them all in a few hours, and sends back the originals without even watching them
Infoholism... You should tell me that 10 years ago... Or at least before RSS was invented...
...is fully operational death s^[[3~^[[3~^[[3~ partly working. You can even run GNOME on the top of it:1 09.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2005/05/msg00
Then the author and examiner can come to an arrangement... ..."2000 bucks for me for every year extra for you"?
...is avalaible in plain html _and_ .pdf.
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/
That survey counts only servers (it's Apache based). You can't compare it with desktops, right? I don't say it's innacurate, it simply counts somethinmg else.
Both Thunderbird with Sunbird and Evolution are still lagging behind.
Evolution is a wonderfully crafted client, with great UI, but it crashes way too often to be treated seriously. Few days ago i added new account, and didn't noticed that my email provider require SMTP atuthentification. With that option unmarked Evolution crashed whenever i tried to send an email. Bad.
Thunderbird is no better - way it handles multiple accounts (and who doesn't have many accounts?) and SMTP's is unacceptable and really hard to setup.
Those problems must be resolved before we could talk about being seriously competitive.
Yes, it is horribly expensive right now, but it's nothing surprising. Almost everything is horribly expensive while new to the market.
But this idea is brilliant, and will be a success - if they will open specyfication and set some kind of standard. If you could buy several different laptop modules (from subnotebook size to ruggadized toughbook-likes), handheld modules etc _and_ different core units from different vendors you will have almost endless upgrade options. That may be true only on on very competitive market, so no vendor lock in.
Does it sound smart? Definitly yes, for me.
I googled for license agreement, but found nothing. I would be very surprised, if Microsoft released it under one of OSI approved licenses. So, what license is this "open-source"?
Better world is a world without software patents, not a world where some companies gratefully give us what is ours anyway.
Duncan Booth is supporting Nethack port for Psion computers (do you remeber them?) for years. Only small fraction of people (Psion users which are Nethack lovers too) will ever notice value of his work. But for us, Nethack addicts which happen to be also Psion users, he is an ultimate hero. Check it: http://www.suttoncourtenay.org.uk/duncan/Nethack.h tm
I'm sure you can find such people everywhere. Whatever obscure activity you undertake, or whatever strange problem happens to you, you sooner or later meet your hero. I mean - this is how free software works, isn't it?
> Paramount would eagerly pick up anything with the slightest chance of turning a profit.
If Paramount is afraid about losing money - it's problem with Paramount, not Star Trek. I'm sure there is a lot of producers around to find somenone with capabilities of making another season or two. But Paramonut will not sell rights (for obvious reasons) and will not produce it (for less obvious reasons). Don't you think shorter copyright time would solve the problem? Star Trek could be in public domain now, and anyone could pick this up.
Being courteous and cooperating with officials is always a good idea no matter where you go, of course.
I'm a 30 years old guy from Poland, and i do remember - i was a child in that time, but i do - December 1981, when polish military junta delegalised Solidarity, inprisoned thousands of people and, basically, took away from us most of freedoms. My fahter, journalist, was fired and couldn't find any job because of strictly political reasons. I do remember, that much of the help for my family came from abroad: people from Germany and France, people we didn't know, and never met, were sending us food, hygienics, clothes and books prohibited in Poland. My faher was working for independent, illegal publishing house, and much of the money, equipment and supply came from abroad. Obviously those foreign individuals helping us were not cooperating with officials in no way. Hell, they were breaking polish law, and were facing more or less dangerous prosecutons. So please, shut up, go back to your room and think about it again.
Full content of website is archived at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.phrack.org /
It's not insightful - it's funny.
Note to moderators:
"Nothing..." is a standard web page reply for vistors, which followed dead link (i think) on websites using slashcode. So it's perfectly on-topic.
My firefox refused to download plugin for viewing photos on patent office page. Do you know what kind of weird format that is?
Her name is Leni Riefenstahl! And it's not that hard to find both "Olympia" and "Triumph des willens" on-line.
Blondies were popular two or three years ago, now most of that jokes doesn't seem to be funny at all. But not for all.