Excuse me, I think you mean the Win32 version of Vim:)
Otherwise, I agree, Cygwin is pretty neat. The only thing that ticks me off when using Cygwin is that when you run bash (or another shell) it's still in a Windows command prompt, and they don't really resize that well (at least not in 2k, dunno 'bout xp). And yeah, you can run X with xterms, but at that point you might as well run *nix...
A friend's dad just got one for HIS Mac, and loves it, rejoicing in being able to get rid of his TiVo;)
Meh, I figure a TV tuner card, some well-placed cron jobs, a USB remote control and a bit of Perl glue could do a fine job. I think you can buy Linux compatible TV tuner cards for around $80. No hardware encoding, but most CPUs can handle realtime encoding these days.
I'm just sort of curious why we get a picture of an iPod for a QT announcement.. I mean you'd think an Apple logo or a QT logo would make more sense. Hoh well...
RedHat and SuSe and other distro vendors do patch their kernels, and sometimes these patches are for stability and security reasons, and are good to have. Sometimes they also royally fuck things up.
A while back a patched RedHat kernel had a pretty bad bug in it that caused hard locks in X with ATi chipsets (2.4.9-something, I think). This particular bug was specific only to the RedHat kernel.
So, maybe the distro vendors fix some bugs, but they also introduce bugs of their own. I've used both stock kernels and distro kernels in production environments and haven't noticed particularly more or less bugs in either type.
I pretty much agree with your opinion about Flash. Just today I needed to look at monitors on the Iiyama site (I dunno if they do anything in the states, I'm living in the UK at the moment) and it was this big flash app that was *really* annoying. Since I wanted to look at a few different monitors, it was necessary to go from page about a monitor, back to the index listing all their monitors, to click on a different one. But - lo and behold - if you click the back button you're right back that the main Iiyama "choose your location" page.
However, this kind of annoyance doesn't mean that Flash is bad in general. You can do some neat things with it (as you seem to agree since you say it should be used for small things, demos, etc.) I'd just like to make the distinction then, between the technology (in this case Flash) and how it's used. Used well, it can be almost seamless with standard (html, css, etc.) web content, which is when, IMO, it works best. If an entire site is Flash, that's when I find it works badly.
html (which can be dynamically generated) has worked for the web for a long time, and is particularly suited to the platform, so it seems to me that sites that use almost exclusively flash will miss out (at least partially) on one of the fundamental things that make a web site a web site. So far I've yet to see a really functional, informative and easy-to-navigate site done mostly in Flash.
Finally, one thing that's really annoying is the sound bug, where if you don't have a SB Live! or something that can take multiple inputs, your browser will hang when you come to a Flash page if you're using another sound-producing app (like Winamp or XMMS). I've seen this with Windows/IE as well as Linux/Mozilla, so I don't think it has to do with Linux. There may be more/easier ways to get around it in Windows though...
Well for $200 USD, it's not bad. No it's not gonna serve slashdot, but it'd easily do for an internal e-mail server in a small office (20 people) or an internal web server or small fileserver or something. Last I heard the Lindows boxes were still considerably more than $200 USD.
And think - with $1000 USD you could cluster 5 Xboxes and that might let you do some heavier things.. although I'm not sure if a cluster of 5 would be any better than a server you could buy for $1000; quite possibly though.
And it's not necessarily just for servers either. An Xbox with Linux would be useful for other things too; a central box in your living room where guests can check their e-mail or surf or what have you. And surf with very nice browsers too.
Is it possible to run X "rootless" in winblows like you can in OS X? It'd be really nice to be able to have X apps appear side by side with winblows ones. Plus maybe then I could convince people that they should use evolution instead of outlook. And having galeon in winblows would rock too.. its tabs are just plain better than moz's.
Did you see that? I actually used "its" instead of "it's" for possessive! It's really not that hard people...
Unfortunately I don't think this will really work too well. If the bogus files are simply repeated sections of a song or silence, then surely there's a pretty easy way to detect them and have them not listed in a search. I'm sure somebody will hack the P2P clients (kazaa, audiogalaxy, etc.) to do this. Or just have the client detect when it's downloaded the same x bytes 10 times and stick the file in a separate bogus folder, like incomplete files are usually stuck in an incomplete folder.
Perhaps this is redundant, although I did skim the comments already posted to try to make sure it wasn't.
You should really check out xine -- it's a great video player for Linux. It handles lots of avis, mpgs and movs. Just recently Sorenson support was added to it. I reckon that soon the qt support will be near perfect; Sorenson is the first step, all they need now are the sound codecs, which mPlayer has. So since mPlayer and xine are both OSS, it shouldn't be too hard to get the sound codecs into xine.
In any case, video playback in Linux is certainly quite good these days. I enjoy watching DivX encoded Cowboy Bebop episodes in Linux trouble-free, on a 266MHz laptop!
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Well, sort of. But in Windows I don't think the file save dialog is actually an Explorer window. It's hooked up with OLE so that cut/copy/paste works but as far as I know it's not an Explorer window. I'm sure somebody will correct me if I'm wrong. It sure doesn't look like it embeds Explorer...
I know what you mean. Especially a pain in the ass when downloading in Galeon. I have different subdirs in my ~/downloads dir -- sources, images, videos, mp3s, etc. So when I download and image, and before that downloaded a tarball, I have to change dirs. And in so doing the filename disappears. I curse it every time it happens...
So thank you, thank you very *very* much whoever is responsible for fixing it. You've made a lot of people happy!
I dunno, I installed Winblows a while ago to play WC3 beta, and used Winamp when I did so. Yeah sure it had the fade-outs, but during the actual song it would pop and crack and sound like shit. I don't think it was a sound driver problem either, since WC3 beta (and other stuff) sounded ok. My soundcard is a SB PCI 128. Works fine in XMMS/Linux.
Just my experience with Winamp. Of course I took Winblows off again after I'd had enough WC3...
A while ago I was building a dualie athlon box and yeah, NewEgg had good prices and so on, but they couldn't handle orders to Canada. The problem wasn't the delivery; it was the credit card. For some reason they wouldn't take a Canadian credit card. I don't know why, when I had been in China a few weeks earlier and my credit card had worked fine there. It seems that if evil communists can process my credit card then surely the bastions of capitalism (US) would be able to. But nope. Just one of those things I guess...
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I'm just wondering why nobody's suggested a similar scheme to that used in Mac OS X. It seems to be very, very elegant and work really well. I haven't used OS X much, unfortunately, but from what I understand their packages are really clever and mean that a given application has a directory, and within that directory has everything it needs. Somehow.
Could anybody explain it a bit further? How realistic is an implementation of the same thing on Linux?
I agree.. I started using Linux back in '94 with Slack. I then flirted with RH and SuSe for a bit and went back to Slack. RH/SuSe pissed me off too much and I didn't know which config utility to use to change a given setting. There are so many of them! It's impossible to figure out the "right" way to do something in those distros.
However, I've recently moved to Gentoo on my laptop and I'm loving it. It's like Slack in that it lacks some of the bells and whistles of the other distros, it's blazingly fast and has a very elegant startup script system that's easy to use if you're used to Slack. Plus, portage just plain rules.
If you're a big Slack fan, but looking for a real bleeding edge, blazing fast distro, given Gentoo a shot. It's a lot of fun...
You should be able to set the fonts to something decent. Try the helvetica and times fonts included with RH 7.2; they look decent. Also, I think RH 7.2 doesn't have X set up to use all the fonts it comes with, for some reason.
Try this from a terminal (Gnome Terminal or Konsole): ls/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
That should list some directories; if you see one called truetype (or something like that) try running
chkfontpath -a/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype
as root. That'll make those fonts availble to X windows.
Oh, and IMO Galeon does the best job for fonts. It has a fairly easy-to-use dialog for changing them in the preferences too.
We use the CrossOver plugin stuff at my work. It works very well and reliably and lets Linux users view those pesky.docs with the Word viewer plugin. SO/OO are working very well for Word these days but some things still aren't imported perfectly, and for the times when all you need to do is look at an e-mail attachment (not edit it) the plugin works great.
Also good for watching QuickTime trailers of the next Matrix flick:)
Anyway, I'd definitely recommend the CrossOver plugin stuff; it's not very expensive, it's easy to set up and it's very reliable.
Just thought I'd contribute my two cents. I know everybody else and their dog wants to...
Overall, it was better than Ep I. But, in my opinion, some of the acting was so bad that it left an aftertaste in my mouth strong enough to numb some of the action scenes.
Very close to the beginning, when Anakin and Obi Wan are in an elevator, Obi Wan does a laugh that's so unnatural and amateur that I felt like I was in the audience of a high school play! Very disappointing for Ewan McGreggor.
Then, as with Ep I, so much of the plot seemed implausible. How on earth was the clone army kept a secret when whoever built them (didn't catch the name of the race) are so damned stupid? All you have to do is show up in a Jedi costume and they'll tell you everything!
Finally, Yoda with the lightsaber was cool. Nobody will deny that. But it was treated too much like a joke. So many people in the audience were laughing, and the scene in general did smack a bit of mockery. The way he did the little "kung-fu" stance at the beginning and then proceeded to "bounce" around during the fight, in a way sometimes reminscent of a basketball.
Don't get me wrong, the scene with Yoda did kick ass. But it could have kicked so much more ass if they hadn't been dinks about it and tried to make Yoda all "badass." Don't get me wrong, Yoda has some badass skills, but he's a serious character. When he mentors Luke he's always rational, demanding concentration and discipline. He's not some yoke who plays around with lame kung-fu stances. (That's Keannu Reeves' job, dontcha know?)
I'm not sure this flick is worth the $12 most places charge these days, although it probably is better than any of the other crap that's coming out this summer.
"I hear Linux fans praising Mac all the time, they arent open source."
Not entirely, no. But they play nice. Their OS supports true, honest-to-god, standards. I can plop down on a Mac and ssh into my machine. The things do NFS and apache. Apple doesn't really "embrace and extend" anything. Their mp3 player/ripper plays and rips (you guessed it) mp3s! Not some Apple-only music format. Microsoft's built-in music stuff only rips to wmfs. It'll play mp3s, sure, but if you want to rip music you have to use wmfs. So many other things work in the same way with Microsoft too; make something compatible with a standard and then add extensions so that only Microsoft users can access it.
As for open source, Apple's OS is mostly open source; the GUI isn't. All the devel tools are free, too, and the reason you'll find Linux people praising the Mac is because it really plays nice with open source. If you want you can download all the GNU utils and run GNOME apps right alongside close-source Apple apps. You can sorta do a bit of that on Windows with Cygwin, but it's not nearly as nice.
Finally, if you look at the source code available from Apple, you aren't essentially barred from participating in other, similar, open source projects (like you are if you look at the shared source.NET stuff).
So there yah go: just because Apple makes some closed source stuff does not make them synonomous with Microsoft; there are a lot of differences between the two companies, the primary one being that Apple is willing to cooperate and is willing to embrace (but not extend) standards.
So basically you're telling me that all of ST:TNG will be $700? That's $1050 Canadian, which is a fuck of a lot to pay. ST:TNG is good, but over $1k for the series?
Am I missing something? I mean surely they can put more than 2 episodes on 1 DVD. Double side the damn things and get 8 or 12 on each one.
This is so, so very clearly just Paramount trying to fuck us over, a la George Lucas with the constant re-releasing of Star Wars. Somehow I thought Paramount might be a bit better about it. Obviously I was mistaken. Sigh...
That's all well and good, when it's a desktop box. I've been coveting an iBook for a while now but the single-button touchpad really is holding me back. x86 laptops are decent (though many have some annoying traits, which I won't discuss in detail) these days and for Linux, 2/3 buttons really is a must.
And yeah, I probably would slap Linux on the iBook considering that Apple charges 3 arms and 2 legs to add some RAM to the thing, so OS X is outta the question.
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Excuse me, I think you mean the Win32 version of Vim :)
Otherwise, I agree, Cygwin is pretty neat. The only thing that ticks me off when using Cygwin is that when you run bash (or another shell) it's still in a Windows command prompt, and they don't really resize that well (at least not in 2k, dunno 'bout xp). And yeah, you can run X with xterms, but at that point you might as well run *nix...
I'm just sort of curious why we get a picture of an iPod for a QT announcement.. I mean you'd think an Apple logo or a QT logo would make more sense. Hoh well...
RedHat and SuSe and other distro vendors do patch their kernels, and sometimes these patches are for stability and security reasons, and are good to have. Sometimes they also royally fuck things up.
A while back a patched RedHat kernel had a pretty bad bug in it that caused hard locks in X with ATi chipsets (2.4.9-something, I think). This particular bug was specific only to the RedHat kernel.
So, maybe the distro vendors fix some bugs, but they also introduce bugs of their own. I've used both stock kernels and distro kernels in production environments and haven't noticed particularly more or less bugs in either type.
I pretty much agree with your opinion about Flash. Just today I needed to look at monitors on the Iiyama site (I dunno if they do anything in the states, I'm living in the UK at the moment) and it was this big flash app that was *really* annoying. Since I wanted to look at a few different monitors, it was necessary to go from page about a monitor, back to the index listing all their monitors, to click on a different one. But - lo and behold - if you click the back button you're right back that the main Iiyama "choose your location" page.
However, this kind of annoyance doesn't mean that Flash is bad in general. You can do some neat things with it (as you seem to agree since you say it should be used for small things, demos, etc.) I'd just like to make the distinction then, between the technology (in this case Flash) and how it's used. Used well, it can be almost seamless with standard (html, css, etc.) web content, which is when, IMO, it works best. If an entire site is Flash, that's when I find it works badly.
html (which can be dynamically generated) has worked for the web for a long time, and is particularly suited to the platform, so it seems to me that sites that use almost exclusively flash will miss out (at least partially) on one of the fundamental things that make a web site a web site. So far I've yet to see a really functional, informative and easy-to-navigate site done mostly in Flash.
Finally, one thing that's really annoying is the sound bug, where if you don't have a SB Live! or something that can take multiple inputs, your browser will hang when you come to a Flash page if you're using another sound-producing app (like Winamp or XMMS). I've seen this with Windows/IE as well as Linux/Mozilla, so I don't think it has to do with Linux. There may be more/easier ways to get around it in Windows though...
Well for $200 USD, it's not bad. No it's not gonna serve slashdot, but it'd easily do for an internal e-mail server in a small office (20 people) or an internal web server or small fileserver or something. Last I heard the Lindows boxes were still considerably more than $200 USD.
And think - with $1000 USD you could cluster 5 Xboxes and that might let you do some heavier things.. although I'm not sure if a cluster of 5 would be any better than a server you could buy for $1000; quite possibly though.
And it's not necessarily just for servers either. An Xbox with Linux would be useful for other things too; a central box in your living room where guests can check their e-mail or surf or what have you. And surf with very nice browsers too.
Meh, just my 2bits, as Taco would say.
Is it possible to run X "rootless" in winblows like you can in OS X? It'd be really nice to be able to have X apps appear side by side with winblows ones. Plus maybe then I could convince people that they should use evolution instead of outlook. And having galeon in winblows would rock too.. its tabs are just plain better than moz's.
Did you see that? I actually used "its" instead of "it's" for possessive! It's really not that hard people...
Unfortunately I don't think this will really work too well. If the bogus files are simply repeated sections of a song or silence, then surely there's a pretty easy way to detect them and have them not listed in a search. I'm sure somebody will hack the P2P clients (kazaa, audiogalaxy, etc.) to do this. Or just have the client detect when it's downloaded the same x bytes 10 times and stick the file in a separate bogus folder, like incomplete files are usually stuck in an incomplete folder.
Perhaps this is redundant, although I did skim the comments already posted to try to make sure it wasn't.
You should really check out xine -- it's a great video player for Linux. It handles lots of avis, mpgs and movs. Just recently Sorenson support was added to it. I reckon that soon the qt support will be near perfect; Sorenson is the first step, all they need now are the sound codecs, which mPlayer has. So since mPlayer and xine are both OSS, it shouldn't be too hard to get the sound codecs into xine.
In any case, video playback in Linux is certainly quite good these days. I enjoy watching DivX encoded Cowboy Bebop episodes in Linux trouble-free, on a 266MHz laptop!
Well, sort of. But in Windows I don't think the file save dialog is actually an Explorer window. It's hooked up with OLE so that cut/copy/paste works but as far as I know it's not an Explorer window. I'm sure somebody will correct me if I'm wrong. It sure doesn't look like it embeds Explorer...
I know what you mean. Especially a pain in the ass when downloading in Galeon. I have different subdirs in my ~/downloads dir -- sources, images, videos, mp3s, etc. So when I download and image, and before that downloaded a tarball, I have to change dirs. And in so doing the filename disappears. I curse it every time it happens...
So thank you, thank you very *very* much whoever is responsible for fixing it. You've made a lot of people happy!
Ok the mplayer people and the xine people need to get together here because the video is working in xine 0.9.11a
Just smack the two together and we'd have a perfectly good native Linux QuickTime player...
I dunno, I installed Winblows a while ago to play WC3 beta, and used Winamp when I did so. Yeah sure it had the fade-outs, but during the actual song it would pop and crack and sound like shit. I don't think it was a sound driver problem either, since WC3 beta (and other stuff) sounded ok. My soundcard is a SB PCI 128. Works fine in XMMS/Linux.
Just my experience with Winamp. Of course I took Winblows off again after I'd had enough WC3...
Wow.. free trade sure is great, isn't it? This trade sure sounds "free" to me...
A while ago I was building a dualie athlon box and yeah, NewEgg had good prices and so on, but they couldn't handle orders to Canada. The problem wasn't the delivery; it was the credit card. For some reason they wouldn't take a Canadian credit card. I don't know why, when I had been in China a few weeks earlier and my credit card had worked fine there. It seems that if evil communists can process my credit card then surely the bastions of capitalism (US) would be able to. But nope. Just one of those things I guess...
I'm just wondering why nobody's suggested a similar scheme to that used in Mac OS X. It seems to be very, very elegant and work really well. I haven't used OS X much, unfortunately, but from what I understand their packages are really clever and mean that a given application has a directory, and within that directory has everything it needs. Somehow.
Could anybody explain it a bit further? How realistic is an implementation of the same thing on Linux?
What surprises me..
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..is that the parent is modded "4, flamebait."
I didn't even know that was possible. I always thought "flamebait" was a negative thing to mod a comment.
Learn something new every day, I guess
I agree.. I started using Linux back in '94 with Slack. I then flirted with RH and SuSe for a bit and went back to Slack. RH/SuSe pissed me off too much and I didn't know which config utility to use to change a given setting. There are so many of them! It's impossible to figure out the "right" way to do something in those distros.
However, I've recently moved to Gentoo on my laptop and I'm loving it. It's like Slack in that it lacks some of the bells and whistles of the other distros, it's blazingly fast and has a very elegant startup script system that's easy to use if you're used to Slack. Plus, portage just plain rules.
If you're a big Slack fan, but looking for a real bleeding edge, blazing fast distro, given Gentoo a shot. It's a lot of fun...
You should be able to set the fonts to something decent. Try the helvetica and times fonts included with RH 7.2; they look decent. Also, I think RH 7.2 doesn't have X set up to use all the fonts it comes with, for some reason.
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype
Try this from a terminal (Gnome Terminal or Konsole):
ls
That should list some directories; if you see one called truetype (or something like that) try running
chkfontpath -a
as root. That'll make those fonts availble to X windows.
Oh, and IMO Galeon does the best job for fonts. It has a fairly easy-to-use dialog for changing them in the preferences too.
We use the CrossOver plugin stuff at my work. It works very well and reliably and lets Linux users view those pesky .docs with the Word viewer plugin. SO/OO are working very well for Word these days but some things still aren't imported perfectly, and for the times when all you need to do is look at an e-mail attachment (not edit it) the plugin works great.
:)
Also good for watching QuickTime trailers of the next Matrix flick
Anyway, I'd definitely recommend the CrossOver plugin stuff; it's not very expensive, it's easy to set up and it's very reliable.
Just thought I'd contribute my two cents. I know everybody else and their dog wants to...
:)
Overall, it was better than Ep I. But, in my opinion, some of the acting was so bad that it left an aftertaste in my mouth strong enough to numb some of the action scenes.
Very close to the beginning, when Anakin and Obi Wan are in an elevator, Obi Wan does a laugh that's so unnatural and amateur that I felt like I was in the audience of a high school play! Very disappointing for Ewan McGreggor.
Then, as with Ep I, so much of the plot seemed implausible. How on earth was the clone army kept a secret when whoever built them (didn't catch the name of the race) are so damned stupid? All you have to do is show up in a Jedi costume and they'll tell you everything!
Finally, Yoda with the lightsaber was cool. Nobody will deny that. But it was treated too much like a joke. So many people in the audience were laughing, and the scene in general did smack a bit of mockery. The way he did the little "kung-fu" stance at the beginning and then proceeded to "bounce" around during the fight, in a way sometimes reminscent of a basketball.
Don't get me wrong, the scene with Yoda did kick ass. But it could have kicked so much more ass if they hadn't been dinks about it and tried to make Yoda all "badass." Don't get me wrong, Yoda has some badass skills, but he's a serious character. When he mentors Luke he's always rational, demanding concentration and discipline. He's not some yoke who plays around with lame kung-fu stances. (That's Keannu Reeves' job, dontcha know?)
I'm not sure this flick is worth the $12 most places charge these days, although it probably is better than any of the other crap that's coming out this summer.
Just my two cents
"I hear Linux fans praising Mac all the time, they arent open source."
.NET stuff).
Not entirely, no. But they play nice. Their OS supports true, honest-to-god, standards. I can plop down on a Mac and ssh into my machine. The things do NFS and apache. Apple doesn't really "embrace and extend" anything. Their mp3 player/ripper plays and rips (you guessed it) mp3s! Not some Apple-only music format. Microsoft's built-in music stuff only rips to wmfs. It'll play mp3s, sure, but if you want to rip music you have to use wmfs. So many other things work in the same way with Microsoft too; make something compatible with a standard and then add extensions so that only Microsoft users can access it.
As for open source, Apple's OS is mostly open source; the GUI isn't. All the devel tools are free, too, and the reason you'll find Linux people praising the Mac is because it really plays nice with open source. If you want you can download all the GNU utils and run GNOME apps right alongside close-source Apple apps. You can sorta do a bit of that on Windows with Cygwin, but it's not nearly as nice.
Finally, if you look at the source code available from Apple, you aren't essentially barred from participating in other, similar, open source projects (like you are if you look at the shared source
So there yah go: just because Apple makes some closed source stuff does not make them synonomous with Microsoft; there are a lot of differences between the two companies, the primary one being that Apple is willing to cooperate and is willing to embrace (but not extend) standards.
Go waterloo!
So basically you're telling me that all of ST:TNG will be $700? That's $1050 Canadian, which is a fuck of a lot to pay. ST:TNG is good, but over $1k for the series?
Am I missing something? I mean surely they can put more than 2 episodes on 1 DVD. Double side the damn things and get 8 or 12 on each one.
This is so, so very clearly just Paramount trying to fuck us over, a la George Lucas with the constant re-releasing of Star Wars. Somehow I thought Paramount might be a bit better about it. Obviously I was mistaken. Sigh...
That's all well and good, when it's a desktop box. I've been coveting an iBook for a while now but the single-button touchpad really is holding me back. x86 laptops are decent (though many have some annoying traits, which I won't discuss in detail) these days and for Linux, 2/3 buttons really is a must.
And yeah, I probably would slap Linux on the iBook considering that Apple charges 3 arms and 2 legs to add some RAM to the thing, so OS X is outta the question.