So, how do I painlessly make RH7 use the 4.0 server instead of the 3.3.6 one, which it installed by default? My card does a fair bit better in 4 than it did in 3...
I was just looking around Diamond's site and found this page describing some new Rio product they are working on. It sounds like it will do much of what you are looking for. However, it seems that it works over phone lines, which has always seemed a little odd to me... Either way, it might be worth looking into.
I've got a little pentium 166 that is serving as my mp3 jukebox, and it is doing well. It is running Linux as its OS, has a 200 meg hard drive to hold the basic stuff to get it running and uses Samba to mount my mp3s from my main linux box. Why samba instead of nfs? So I can easily mount other peoples mp3s too. It then has thttpd running on it with a few scripts serve up a listing of what mp3s I have available, as well as the tracks on any CD that may be in the cdrom (looked up with cddb). Xmms running in a VNC session does the actual playing of the music, meaning I can control it from anywhere I want, and the nice Xmms::Perl module allows complete control of it from a perl program. Sometime I plan to put some icecast abilities into it so it can stream to other people, which would make the multi-room thing possible. In the end, it all works rather well for random hardware I managed to pull up.
Actually, I thought dejanews (or deja, or whatever) had gone dramaticaly down hill until a couple weeks or so ago when I found that they now have www.deja.com point at their portal-thingy, but www.dejanews.com now points directly to their usenet search. Of course, that doesn't fix everything, but it sure makes things nicer...
...That with Linux, the source code is there for anybody to look through and find bugs in, meaning all of the little things can be found, documented, and fixed. On the other hand, with Windows, all of the little things just act as annoyances because you can't see where they are coming from. If I reported every BSOD I got using Windows, I am sure the number of bugs would be much higher...
Keep in mind too that Linux distributions tend to have lots of software written by lots of people, not one complany (like Micros~1). So, that is actually 100+ bugs for 100+ pieces of software, not necessarily for just the Linux kernel. On the otherhand, everything in Windows is written (in general) by one company to interact at the same time (Stick a web browser in the OS?), so one bug in an application is one bug in the whole system.
If I had to live in a world dominated by one browser, I would want it to be Mozilla. Why?
It is very cross-platform. That means any OS that it exists for can read the web. That includes Windows, Mac, Linux/many other Unix-like OSes, and BeOS, OS2, etc by the time it is all finished.
It is open sourced. That way they almost have to implement all tags and such, because if they don't somebody else can. You can't rule the world with an iron fist when everybody has access to the blacksmith.
It is written to be flexible, strong, and light. Unlike IE, which is written to be so deeply imbeded in the OS that people are almost forced to use it (leading the Windows and Mac versions to stray dramatically), Mozilla is meant to be used just as the tool it is. Sure, you can write more tools using its widgets and such, but it is meant to be a browser/mail type client, and that is what it is doing.
So, in the end I don't think a one browser market would be good. But if it was going to happen, I would surly want that browser to be Mozilla.
Actually, I don't mind building my own apps. The big reason I like rpm is its ability to upgrade and uninstall the stuff I have installed without leaving too much extras lying about. In fact, I tend to build many things I donload into rpms to install them just for that reason
Well, it isn's just newbies that use Redhat. I have been using Linux for a few years now and don't think of myself as too new with it anymore (although, I am quite certain I could be classified as that if compared to some people...) and I still use Redhat. And the biggest reasons are: I like RPM (Yes, I know Debian has apt-get and all, but I have come to know more about rpm and how it does things), and, the bigger reason, Redhat does full FTP installs with no need for installing anything off disks (save the boot disk). That FTP install thing is really what keeps me coming back and what has kept me from switching to something like Debian or Slack full time.
I must at least somewhat agree to this. I am a somewhat color blind person, and many themes must rely on some color scheme that looks great with full color vision, but blends together into an ugly mass to me. Themes are pretty cool to show off, but I myself prefer a nice grey/black/white theme, like the default GTK theme. I really hope widget set designers keep that in mind when designing their default looks: A flat grey is in general faster, more easily recognized, and easier to use than a wild eye candy theme. Adding theme support is great, as people can do what they want after getting things going, but the default look should be clean and easy to see...
That whole article gave me the feeling of reading a very abstract sci-fi novel. There is an incredible difference between dreaming up cyberbodies that everybody uses to do everything and actually making such a thing work. In the same way, there is a big difference between the sleek metallic hovercrafts people predicted 50 years ago and the loud, smoking, rusting planes we ride around in today. Perhaps if people looked beyond the idea and into the implementation more, things would be a little more realistic...
I know that there is a VNC viewer that runs under BeOS, so in the very least you can use that to display X stuff from another box (as well as stuff from many other OSes too...)
Why was it that you killed everybody off in the end of Mostly Harmless? Was it so you would have no way to write yet another book in the trilogy? I was quite sad to see them go...
Ahhh, but without a single extra line I can read news and mail and author a web page with my version, as well as a whole slew of other things. How's your version coming along?:)
Perl is very much based in manipulating text. It slices and dices and makes fries out of any text you give it, meaning it is great for programs that use strings of characters. Now, what does the web depend on? Text! So, the obvious choice for writing a web-based program (like slashdot's posting, for instance) is a powerful text based language. Perl fits the bill nicely.
Well, people seem to be a little hostile towards Gnome, so I thought I would add my thoughts on the matter...
In my opinion, Gnome is much more developer-friendly than KDE. I see KDE as a desktop for complete newbies up to general computer use, but see Gnome as more of a power-user desktop. It uses the Gtk widget set, which was written to be open source by open source people. It is all GLPed, and always has been. It is not quite so take-over-the-desktop oriented as KDE is, giving much more flexibility (never had a specific window manager, parts can easily run without the whole). So, while everybody says "A is better than B" back and forth, one has to realize that the two are as different as apples and tuesday. They act differently, look differently, and are just plain different. If you like one, wht difference does it make if I like the other? I think they both serve their purpose quite well and am happy they are both there.
By the way, I run neither Gnome nor KDE. I do have Gnome installed on my system, as I like it better in general and sometimes play with the latest toys, but usually I just run FVWM as a window manager and use XEmacs to do my coding.
I got one of these for Christmas! I plan to plant it next week when i go back to school. Let me know if anybody wants me to post regular updates on a web page somewhere. (cluening@hotmail.com)
Slashdot Mirror
So, how do I painlessly make RH7 use the 4.0 server instead of the 3.3.6 one, which it installed by default? My card does a fair bit better in 4 than it did in 3...
I was just looking around Diamond's site and found this page describing some new Rio product they are working on. It sounds like it will do much of what you are looking for. However, it seems that it works over phone lines, which has always seemed a little odd to me... Either way, it might be worth looking into.
RioReciever
I've got a little pentium 166 that is serving as my mp3 jukebox, and it is doing well. It is running Linux as its OS, has a 200 meg hard drive to hold the basic stuff to get it running and uses Samba to mount my mp3s from my main linux box. Why samba instead of nfs? So I can easily mount other peoples mp3s too. It then has thttpd running on it with a few scripts serve up a listing of what mp3s I have available, as well as the tracks on any CD that may be in the cdrom (looked up with cddb). Xmms running in a VNC session does the actual playing of the music, meaning I can control it from anywhere I want, and the nice Xmms::Perl module allows complete control of it from a perl program. Sometime I plan to put some icecast abilities into it so it can stream to other people, which would make the multi-room thing possible. In the end, it all works rather well for random hardware I managed to pull up.
Take a look at it at: arlo.dhs.org
Actually, I thought dejanews (or deja, or whatever) had gone dramaticaly down hill until a couple weeks or so ago when I found that they now have www.deja.com point at their portal-thingy, but www.dejanews.com now points directly to their usenet search. Of course, that doesn't fix everything, but it sure makes things nicer...
> from the SELECT-*-FROM-quickies-WHERE-humor--0; dept
What? Grabbing all quickies with humor less than 0? That seems pretty bad...
...That with Linux, the source code is there for anybody to look through and find bugs in, meaning all of the little things can be found, documented, and fixed. On the other hand, with Windows, all of the little things just act as annoyances because you can't see where they are coming from. If I reported every BSOD I got using Windows, I am sure the number of bugs would be much higher...
Keep in mind too that Linux distributions tend to have lots of software written by lots of people, not one complany (like Micros~1). So, that is actually 100+ bugs for 100+ pieces of software, not necessarily for just the Linux kernel. On the otherhand, everything in Windows is written (in general) by one company to interact at the same time (Stick a web browser in the OS?), so one bug in an application is one bug in the whole system.
If I had to live in a world dominated by one browser, I would want it to be Mozilla. Why?
It is very cross-platform. That means any OS that it exists for can read the web. That includes Windows, Mac, Linux/many other Unix-like OSes, and BeOS, OS2, etc by the time it is all finished.
It is open sourced. That way they almost have to implement all tags and such, because if they don't somebody else can. You can't rule the world with an iron fist when everybody has access to the blacksmith.
It is written to be flexible, strong, and light. Unlike IE, which is written to be so deeply imbeded in the OS that people are almost forced to use it (leading the Windows and Mac versions to stray dramatically), Mozilla is meant to be used just as the tool it is. Sure, you can write more tools using its widgets and such, but it is meant to be a browser/mail type client, and that is what it is doing.
So, in the end I don't think a one browser market would be good. But if it was going to happen, I would surly want that browser to be Mozilla.
Actually, I don't mind building my own apps. The big reason I like rpm is its ability to upgrade and uninstall the stuff I have installed without leaving too much extras lying about. In fact, I tend to build many things I donload into rpms to install them just for that reason
Well, it isn's just newbies that use Redhat. I have been using Linux for a few years now and don't think of myself as too new with it anymore (although, I am quite certain I could be classified as that if compared to some people...) and I still use Redhat. And the biggest reasons are: I like RPM (Yes, I know Debian has apt-get and all, but I have come to know more about rpm and how it does things), and, the bigger reason, Redhat does full FTP installs with no need for installing anything off disks (save the boot disk). That FTP install thing is really what keeps me coming back and what has kept me from switching to something like Debian or Slack full time.
I must at least somewhat agree to this. I am a somewhat color blind person, and many themes must rely on some color scheme that looks great with full color vision, but blends together into an ugly mass to me. Themes are pretty cool to show off, but I myself prefer a nice grey/black/white theme, like the default GTK theme. I really hope widget set designers keep that in mind when designing their default looks: A flat grey is in general faster, more easily recognized, and easier to use than a wild eye candy theme. Adding theme support is great, as people can do what they want after getting things going, but the default look should be clean and easy to see...
> As if you couldn?t tell from his name,
> and while you?re making sure
Is Slashdot being attacked by the killer Micros~1 ? == ' feature too?
That whole article gave me the feeling of reading a very abstract sci-fi novel. There is an incredible difference between dreaming up cyberbodies that everybody uses to do everything and actually making such a thing work. In the same way, there is a big difference between the sleek metallic hovercrafts people predicted 50 years ago and the loud, smoking, rusting planes we ride around in today. Perhaps if people looked beyond the idea and into the implementation more, things would be a little more realistic...
I know that there is a VNC viewer that runs under BeOS, so in the very least you can use that to display X stuff from another box (as well as stuff from many other OSes too...)
Why was it that you killed everybody off in the end of Mostly Harmless? Was it so you would have no way to write yet another book in the trilogy? I was quite sad to see them go...
Ahhh, but without a single extra line I can read news and mail and author a web page with my version, as well as a whole slew of other things. How's your version coming along? :)
I think I can do that same thing in even less lines:
int main()
{
system("/usr/bin/netscape");
return 0;
}
I am not sure how that proves developer-friendliness, but apparently it does...
Go Dan and JP and Remy and everybody else doing stuff with Chiba!
-Cory
Perl is very much based in manipulating text. It slices and dices and makes fries out of any text you give it, meaning it is great for programs that use strings of characters. Now, what does the web depend on? Text! So, the obvious choice for writing a web-based program (like slashdot's posting, for instance) is a powerful text based language. Perl fits the bill nicely.
I like to code to the soothing sounds of "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" and debug to the more insane "Dark Side of the Moon"...
Well, people seem to be a little hostile towards Gnome, so I thought I would add my thoughts on the matter...
In my opinion, Gnome is much more developer-friendly than KDE. I see KDE as a desktop for complete newbies up to general computer use, but see Gnome as more of a power-user desktop. It uses the Gtk widget set, which was written to be open source by open source people. It is all GLPed, and always has been. It is not quite so take-over-the-desktop oriented as KDE is, giving much more flexibility (never had a specific window manager, parts can easily run without the whole). So, while everybody says "A is better than B" back and forth, one has to realize that the two are as different as apples and tuesday. They act differently, look differently, and are just plain different. If you like one, wht difference does it make if I like the other? I think they both serve their purpose quite well and am happy they are both there.
By the way, I run neither Gnome nor KDE. I do have Gnome installed on my system, as I like it better in general and sometimes play with the latest toys, but usually I just run FVWM as a window manager and use XEmacs to do my coding.
...which of those big "link hubs" is Slashdot?
Wonderful tag line...
I got one of these for Christmas! I plan to plant it next week when i go back to school. Let me know if anybody wants me to post regular updates on a web page somewhere. (cluening@hotmail.com)