Re:Bah, poorly written article
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Why KDE Rules
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· Score: 2, Informative
This part also goes into technicalities like database backends (WTF)
Dude, this article it's ABOUT "technicalities".
Following this, the obligatory chastising of readers that use the wrong browser
No, it's not the "obligatory chastising". My thumbnails use PNG transpareny. And IE DOES NOT support png transparency. So, duh, I'm a troll because I recomend readers to use a browser than can render the page properly?
Re:KDE more configurable ?
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Why KDE Rules
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Apparently you didn't really understan when I wrote "You can have a Mac OS-like menu bar";) There's no way Gnome can have a Mac OS-like menu bar. When I say "Mac OS-like menu bar" I mean: "Have a common file/edit/help menu bar at the top of the screen which changes when you switch between apps"
By the way, KDE also has a gdesklets equivalent called superkaramba which has been included by default in KDE 3.5.0 (I didn't put screenshots of that because I wanted to show "technology" not "eyecandy")
If I wanted to show eyecandy and aesthetics I'd have show something like this
...except that then the world was in risk, and that Hussein is FAR from being Hitler.
Bush and Blair have accepted publicaly that the reasons they gave to start the war (Alqaeda links, WWD) were WRONG. They have admitted it. In my book, that means "We fucked it up". That they've been able to convince people that they're the one fix to such fuckup - EEUU certainly can't abandone Irak until they fix the fuckup - is another problem.
In Spain the "right for private copy" allows you to get non-authorized movies and music as long as you don't redistribute or show it to anyone else and you don't gain money from it
My next notebook will not be constrainted to only running x86-32 software
"My next notebook will not be constrainted to only running a single core?" (and before you come with links, think for a minute that I do _not_ care about one of those crappy laptops with dual core desktop chips, I want a REAL laptop product, and intel is releasing that fual core laptop before amd)
I can live pretty well without 64 bits. Yonah looks like it's fast (damn, the same performance than X2 and without a in-die memory controller, I wonder what will happen the day they stop being assholes and they add it) & low power. Plus, intel-based laptops feature intel-based chipsets (good quality) with full linux support
"A 2 Ghz laptop processor sounds overkill to me"...
BTW, IIRC from some AMD slides 15% of the performance gains of opteron were due to the inclusion of the in-die memory controller. It'd be really interesting what'd happen if intel would add such in-die controller too
* New EXA acceleration architecture, with experimental support in sis(4), radeon(4), i128(4) (more to come)
* Individual extensions may be enabled or disabled on the command line using the -extension flag
* Improved chipset probing for IA64
* SecureRPC enabled on Linux by default
* Updated savage(4), including dualhead and DRI support
* Updated XRX support
* Fixes to rootless mode for Cygwin and Darwin ports
* Numerous K&R-to-ANSI C conversions
* Many Darwin fixes
* Updated XvMC support, enabling generic loading of hardware-specific drivers
* Added wsfb(4) video driver for OpenBSD and NetBSD framebuffer consoles
* Numerous ATI driver updates from the GATOS project, including TV input support
* More support for enhanced visuals like 12-bit PseudoColor and 30-bit TrueColor
* Improved ProPolice support
* Updates to nv(4) driver from XFree86 and nVIDIA
* via(4) updates from the Unichrome project, including DRI support
* i810(4) updates, including i915GM/E7721/i945G support and shadowfb support
* Improved module loader support for Alpha chips
* Added mingw port for native Win32 builds
* Updated PCI scanning
* Added DMA support to radeon(4) for Render and Xv operations
* Experimental DRI support for Radeon 9500 and above
* Updated xterm to #204 from [WWW]upstream
* Added evdev(4) input driver for generic input handling on Linux
* Switched to libdl-based module loader
* Improved acceleration for sunffb(4)
* MMX blending routines for the Render extension
* sis(4) updates
* New sisusb(4) driver for USB-attached video
* Tiled framebuffer support for radeon(4)
* Initial support for running the Xorg server without root privileges
* Improved acceleration for newport(4)
* Add DragonFly BSD support
* Update bundled Freetype to 2.1.9
* r128(4) dualhead support
* mach64(4) TV-OUT support
* ATI Theater 200 video decoder support
* SGI Altix support
* Disabled antique [WWW]DPS extension
* Support for FreeBSD/powerpc
* Enhanced software Render core
* Support for more than 12 buttons in the generic mouse(4) driver
* Better support for DRI on 64-bit platforms
* Solaris support updates: enhanced mouse driver, agpgart support, experimental AMD64 support, kbd(4) support,/dev/audio keyboard bell option
* Output-only windows
* Non-rectangular mergedfb desktops
* Update bundled fontconfig to 2.3.2
Remind me again where the country "Spanish" is located.
If you can't say "spanish constitution" then english is crap:P It's a direct translation from "constitución española"
Unfortunately there's no way you can even come close to blaming Bush for the situation in Europe.
Of course I can. Bush politics have promoted terrorism with the irak war (and this antiterrorism laws proves exactly that). Fighting terrorism is the reason why this european law has been approved. If world leaders kept doing things right, there would be no need for such laws.
It is a relatively modern Idea that Freedom is equal to Privacy
I don't know about your country, but Spanish's constitution says:
"Article 18
[...]
3. Secrecy of communications is guaranteed, particularly of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications, except in the event of a court order to the contrary."
And this shit breaks that. I'm all for fighting terrorism. But it's NOT my fault if politicians are stupid. Fix it with politics. It was Bush and all those ultra-right-wing politicians who started all this crap, not "communications". I don't understand why they're limiting my freedom just because all those stupid people made lots of errors.
Agreed - the "personalized homepage" at google seems to be a very poor competitor WRT live.com. For example, adding or closing a "widget" in google.com/ig triggers a RELOAD of the page. live.com adds and removes them without reloading anything. Clicking in the "more content" in the content sidebar opens another web page. THe add buttons in that same side bar are ugly buttons not nice text links. live.com had a javascript RSS reader which supports images and google.com/ig added it later and it doesn't support images. Also, live.com is already translated to spanish
It's somewhat weird that being google the "ajax leader" microsoft has beaten google in this field.
Plus, I guess there're reasons why still it's not official - they may be preparing the servers for the load spike. But hey, this is slashdot, let's/. it before it's released so when it's released nobody can get their updates...
only one widgetset? why?
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KDE 3.5 Released
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· Score: 3, Insightful
Let's have one desktop/widgetset/toolkit be the standard for X on Linux
You don't need a "single widgetset/toolkit" to make a great "user experience".
Windows actually has several widget implementations. Access has its own widget set (don't remember the link, sorry), IE has its own widget set, office has its own widget set (noticed how the scrolling bar in office is like windows 98 instead of looking like in the XP theme? The same happens for messenger BTW)
They don't have a "single" widget implementation - they just have several widget implementations which LOOK THE SAME. In the same way, you don't need gtk OR qt - you want a way to make them look the same (the usability guidelines like menus etc are another matter). Implement the same theme for both desktops and make kde swwitch to a different look when you change the gnome theme and viceversa and you're done.
That's exactly one of the reasons why some people didn't like the msoffice format - the openoffice one doesn't allow you do that FAIK
Re:Masters of understatement
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GCC 4.1 Released
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· Score: 4, Informative
Hey, I like this: "GCC can now emit code for protecting applications from stack-smashing attacks. The protection is realized by buffer overflow detection and reordering of stack variables to avoid pointer corruption"
Yes, but it's the first time I see a company with a "don't be evil" slogan. I think google can become the "new microsoft", but I also think that google people may be aware of it and I bet they don't like it. Why can't a company be rich and "good" at the same time?
Why you need a duel? Intel has publically accepted that their dual-core design is not optimal for dual core CPUs.
The real competetion for AMD will be probably released in the first quarter of 2006. Why on earth do you need a duel? To confirm something that even intel has (indirectly) confirmed?
People who sells things in ebay doesn't neccesarily need to have them. Most of those xboxes will be probably bought in the next days (the minium bid period, etc) when the number of units delivered increases
As was reported previously here, Microsoft actually sent LESS units than they know they'd sell, so everybody would seay in the news "OMG! ALL XBOXES ARE SOLD OUT!"
IE hackers too busy trying to play catch up with firefox to fix non-critical bugs, maybe?
The good thing of all this is that since Microsoft only releases security patches on thursday - you know, "admins want predictability" and all that shit that some companies use and that lots of shitty admins believe - so you have a full week as minimum to exploit this on your web pages. Enjoy, IE users!
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This part also goes into technicalities like database backends (WTF)
Dude, this article it's ABOUT "technicalities".
Following this, the obligatory chastising of readers that use the wrong browser
No, it's not the "obligatory chastising". My thumbnails use PNG transpareny. And IE DOES NOT support png transparency. So, duh, I'm a troll because I recomend readers to use a browser than can render the page properly?
Apparently you didn't really understan when I wrote "You can have a Mac OS-like menu bar" ;) There's no way Gnome can have a Mac OS-like menu bar. When I say "Mac OS-like menu bar" I mean: "Have a common file/edit/help menu bar at the top of the screen which changes when you switch between apps"
If you look at the screenshot closely, you'll see it.
By the way, KDE also has a gdesklets equivalent called superkaramba which has been included by default in KDE 3.5.0 (I didn't put screenshots of that because I wanted to show "technology" not "eyecandy")
If I wanted to show eyecandy and aesthetics I'd have show something like this
...except that then the world was in risk, and that Hussein is FAR from being Hitler.
Bush and Blair have accepted publicaly that the reasons they gave to start the war (Alqaeda links, WWD) were WRONG. They have admitted it. In my book, that means "We fucked it up". That they've been able to convince people that they're the one fix to such fuckup - EEUU certainly can't abandone Irak until they fix the fuckup - is another problem.
really want to give another foreign and presumably malignant military power the ability to bomb down to one meter accuracy?
May be we should also shutdown internet, spy phone talks, and stop scientific research - since that research can be used for evil purposes.
The only thing is we just don't do crazy things like that (shame on the first person to replay using Iraq as an example)
So wait - you do what you did in Iraq, and then you expect to have any credibility outside your country?
YOU suckf
In Spain the "right for private copy" allows you to get non-authorized movies and music as long as you don't redistribute or show it to anyone else and you don't gain money from it
My next notebook will not be constrainted to only running x86-32 software
"My next notebook will not be constrainted to only running a single core?" (and before you come with links, think for a minute that I do _not_ care about one of those crappy laptops with dual core desktop chips, I want a REAL laptop product, and intel is releasing that fual core laptop before amd)
I can live pretty well without 64 bits. Yonah looks like it's fast (damn, the same performance than X2 and without a in-die memory controller, I wonder what will happen the day they stop being assholes and they add it) & low power. Plus, intel-based laptops feature intel-based chipsets (good quality) with full linux support
It looks like a decent platform for me.
"A dual-core laptop processor sounds overkill"
...
"A 1 Ghz laptop processor sounds overkill to me"
"A 2 Ghz laptop processor sounds overkill to me"
BTW, IIRC from some AMD slides 15% of the performance gains of opteron were due to the inclusion of the in-die memory controller. It'd be really interesting what'd happen if intel would add such in-die controller too
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALF_programming_langu age
This new x.org version is not just about autotooling the server
/dev/audio keyboard bell option
From http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/ChangesSince68
* New EXA acceleration architecture, with experimental support in sis(4), radeon(4), i128(4) (more to come)
* Individual extensions may be enabled or disabled on the command line using the -extension flag
* Improved chipset probing for IA64
* SecureRPC enabled on Linux by default
* Updated savage(4), including dualhead and DRI support
* Updated XRX support
* Fixes to rootless mode for Cygwin and Darwin ports
* Numerous K&R-to-ANSI C conversions
* Many Darwin fixes
* Updated XvMC support, enabling generic loading of hardware-specific drivers
* Added wsfb(4) video driver for OpenBSD and NetBSD framebuffer consoles
* Numerous ATI driver updates from the GATOS project, including TV input support
* More support for enhanced visuals like 12-bit PseudoColor and 30-bit TrueColor
* Improved ProPolice support
* Updates to nv(4) driver from XFree86 and nVIDIA
* via(4) updates from the Unichrome project, including DRI support
* i810(4) updates, including i915GM/E7721/i945G support and shadowfb support
* Improved module loader support for Alpha chips
* Added mingw port for native Win32 builds
* Updated PCI scanning
* Added DMA support to radeon(4) for Render and Xv operations
* Experimental DRI support for Radeon 9500 and above
* Updated xterm to #204 from [WWW]upstream
* Added evdev(4) input driver for generic input handling on Linux
* Switched to libdl-based module loader
* Improved acceleration for sunffb(4)
* MMX blending routines for the Render extension
* sis(4) updates
* New sisusb(4) driver for USB-attached video
* Tiled framebuffer support for radeon(4)
* Initial support for running the Xorg server without root privileges
* Improved acceleration for newport(4)
* Add DragonFly BSD support
* Update bundled Freetype to 2.1.9
* r128(4) dualhead support
* mach64(4) TV-OUT support
* ATI Theater 200 video decoder support
* SGI Altix support
* Disabled antique [WWW]DPS extension
* Support for FreeBSD/powerpc
* Enhanced software Render core
* Support for more than 12 buttons in the generic mouse(4) driver
* Better support for DRI on 64-bit platforms
* Solaris support updates: enhanced mouse driver, agpgart support, experimental AMD64 support, kbd(4) support,
* Output-only windows
* Non-rectangular mergedfb desktops
* Update bundled fontconfig to 2.3.2
Remind me again where the country "Spanish" is located.
:P It's a direct translation from "constitución española"
If you can't say "spanish constitution" then english is crap
Unfortunately there's no way you can even come close to blaming Bush for the situation in Europe.
Of course I can. Bush politics have promoted terrorism with the irak war (and this antiterrorism laws proves exactly that). Fighting terrorism is the reason why this european law has been approved. If world leaders kept doing things right, there would be no need for such laws.
It is a relatively modern Idea that Freedom is equal to Privacy
I don't know about your country, but Spanish's constitution says:
"Article 18
[...]
3. Secrecy of communications is guaranteed, particularly of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications, except in the event of a court order to the contrary."
And this shit breaks that. I'm all for fighting terrorism. But it's NOT my fault if politicians are stupid. Fix it with politics. It was Bush and all those ultra-right-wing politicians who started all this crap, not "communications". I don't understand why they're limiting my freedom just because all those stupid people made lots of errors.
Agreed - the "personalized homepage" at google seems to be a very poor competitor WRT live.com. For example, adding or closing a "widget" in google.com/ig triggers a RELOAD of the page. live.com adds and removes them without reloading anything. Clicking in the "more content" in the content sidebar opens another web page. THe add buttons in that same side bar are ugly buttons not nice text links. live.com had a javascript RSS reader which supports images and google.com/ig added it later and it doesn't support images. Also, live.com is already translated to spanish
It's somewhat weird that being google the "ajax leader" microsoft has beaten google in this field.
Plus, I guess there're reasons why still it's not official - they may be preparing the servers for the load spike. But hey, this is slashdot, let's /. it before it's released so when it's released nobody can get their updates...
Let's have one desktop/widgetset/toolkit be the standard for X on Linux
You don't need a "single widgetset/toolkit" to make a great "user experience".
Windows actually has several widget implementations. Access has its own widget set (don't remember the link, sorry), IE has its own widget set, office has its own widget set (noticed how the scrolling bar in office is like windows 98 instead of looking like in the XP theme? The same happens for messenger BTW)
They don't have a "single" widget implementation - they just have several widget implementations which LOOK THE SAME. In the same way, you don't need gtk OR qt - you want a way to make them look the same (the usability guidelines like menus etc are another matter). Implement the same theme for both desktops and make kde swwitch to a different look when you change the gnome theme and viceversa and you're done.
That's exactly one of the reasons why some people didn't like the msoffice format - the openoffice one doesn't allow you do that FAIK
Hey, I like this: "GCC can now emit code for protecting applications from stack-smashing attacks. The protection is realized by buffer overflow detection and reordering of stack variables to avoid pointer corruption"
Yes, but it's the first time I see a company with a "don't be evil" slogan. I think google can become the "new microsoft", but I also think that google people may be aware of it and I bet they don't like it. Why can't a company be rich and "good" at the same time?
No dynamic effect layers, the drawing tools are from CCCP, the color management still has got a lot to do, pdf importing isn't very good afaik
But they're adding a new splash screen!
You won't be getting a dollar from me then.
Just wait until the Xbox 360 Service Pack 1 is released. It's Microsoft after all.
Why you need a duel? Intel has publically accepted that their dual-core design is not optimal for dual core CPUs.
The real competetion for AMD will be probably released in the first quarter of 2006. Why on earth do you need a duel? To confirm something that even intel has (indirectly) confirmed?
People who sells things in ebay doesn't neccesarily need to have them. Most of those xboxes will be probably bought in the next days (the minium bid period, etc) when the number of units delivered increases
As was reported previously here, Microsoft actually sent LESS units than they know they'd sell, so everybody would seay in the news "OMG! ALL XBOXES ARE SOLD OUT!"
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CAN-2005-1790
"Phase: Assigned (20050601)"
IE hackers too busy trying to play catch up with firefox to fix non-critical bugs, maybe?
The good thing of all this is that since Microsoft only releases security patches on thursday - you know, "admins want predictability" and all that shit that some companies use and that lots of shitty admins believe - so you have a full week as minimum to exploit this on your web pages. Enjoy, IE users!