Looking at javascript speed tests, it seems it is going to be slower. The test reported here show that javascript in Firefox 3 is 20% slower compared to Firefox 2, and 4.4 times when compared to Opera.
http://celtickane.com/projects/jsspeed2007.php
I don't know where Mozilla is spending all its money.
Is OpenOffice planning to include OOXML translator anytime soon. It is required, as more and more people are now using Office 2007 (and they are sharing their documents with us Linux users).
The name was changed to IceWeasel and not Firebird. Editors please correct.
PS: Anyway this story is running late, IceWeasel 2.0 was released on Oct 24rd.
Govt of India never banned all blogs. After terrorist attack in Mumbai, 22 sites were ordered to be blocked to prevent communal hatred and riots. The order was misinterpreted by ISPs who blocked blogspot.com (this was just a mistake).
I am against all kind of govt censoring (including this). But this ban should not be compared to one in China. The two are fundamentally different as India is a democracy and Indian Constitution provides freedom of expression. But this ban was not unconstitutional as freedom of expression does not allow one to spread opinions of hatred.
Here in India, most cybercafes and personal machines still run win98. Windows is free in India (no one ever purchases a copy. pirated version is available for free.). The reasons for running win98 are:
1. Users say, why upgrade? Win98 does all that they want it to do. They don't want to learn anything new.
2. Old hardware with low RAM can not run windows XP (with all its fancy effects).
> main reason you don't see many machines running that vintage of Linux is
most Linux users are geeks.
That hardly proves that it can't be done; people used to see no way that a plane could possibly go faster than sound.
Well, if we can slow light further, may be someday, planes will go faster than light;)
All I care about is myself. And I want to use software I like. If everyone uses MS Office, I am forced to use their dc/xls/ppt file formats. If eveyone else is using Windows I will have to deal with wmv files. Many properitory plugins are not available on platform I want to use (because of small user base). As 90% people use IE website will refuse to work with browser I use.
I dont care what other people use. I just want everyone to follow (open) standards. If MS Office supports open document format, IE is standards compliant and wmv is replaced by ogg I dont care.
Try kpdf 0.4 (one that comes with KDE 3.4)? This is what a pdf viewer should look like.
1. Type ahead search.
2. Easy copy-paste. With acrobat reader it is not possible to select/copy a paragraph in 2 column format document, but with kpdf one can easily do that.
3. Can watch for changes in the viewed file and update the view accordingly.
4. Presentation mode.
5. KDE app. Native look and feel. Can use kio_slaves.
6. No bloat. Open source.
One reason for prefering MySQL over Postgres is that MySQL has more (fancy) features. For example MySQL supports unicode while Postgres does not (this was the case 1 year back, I don't know about present status of Postgres).
Use Ogg (Theora + Vorbis). Codec for windows are available. Real player
supports it. VLC can also be used. On *nix, all players (mplayer/xine) support it. And most importantly, its Open Source. As its adoption increases, its support will grow automatically.
Does this new prototype also allow switching beetween MSHTML and Geeko. If yes, is there any incentive for user (who dont know benefits of Geeko over MSHTML) to use Geeko, like, one of the following
1. Netscape will always start in Geeko mode by default.
2. When running in MSHTML mode, it will display some (pop-up) message saying please switch to Geeko as that is more secure
3......
Or it does not care what html-rendering-engine user is using as long as the browser is Netscape.
"most of the major OSS projects (from Linux on down) are developed principally by a small number of commercial concerns, who have those same reasonable economic drivers for doing it."
"Unfortunately, it just isn't realistic for a handful of individuals who haven't been involved for a long time to pick up projects on this scale and carry on development."
Look at KDE. A great-well-managed giant project which is not driven by some commercial interest. Study KDE project, and you will start believing in poer of OSS.
OGM is not a codec. Ogg and OGM are media container formats. Ogg Media Container is developed by Xiph as the framework of a larger initiative aimed at developing a set of components for the coding and decoding of multimedia content which are both freely available and freely re-implementable in software. OGM is kind of extension to Ogg to allow encoding DVDs to XviD+Vorbis.
Note that Xiph does not support OGM. The problem is that the OGM is an extension to the Ogg Multimedia Framework that lies outside of the Ogg specification and it is important to maintain control of the specification in these matters.
Main difference between the is the first header in each stream. OGM uses several standardised header formats, audio, video and text, in order to make identifying unknown codecs easier in directshow (and subsequently other frameworks). ie with those three headers you can use any audio or video format you choose without have to write custom header parsing routines for each codec in the demuxer. In other words ogmtools provides the standard du jeur for encapsulating various common-in-avi codecs in an Ogg bitstream, like 'divx', 'mp3' and so on.
What BBC is developing is a codec or a video compression algorithm like Theora and Xvid. Ogg Can be used to package Dirac and Vorbis for some media file.
Can I use apt (apt4rpm) in suse 9.1 to install KDE 3.3 now? Presently I am using http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/ as repository.
How can I update all kde packages using apt? And which repository has all the 3.3 packages?
SuSE is best desktop distro.
Just try SuSE 9.1
Automatically configures everything for you (unlike fedora which will not play mp3s, you wont have to spend time installing flashplayer and java and lot of other small things which can not be ignored.)
Although HP is selling some Turbolinux installed systems in India, all their ads(in newspaper) show "HP recommends MS windows XP".
They are selling preinstalled-linux just to save XP's license fee, which they otherwise have to pay if they sell windows pre-installed machines.
Slashdot Mirror
thats the other half..
> I thought the complaint was that KDE looked like Windows?
>> but half of KDE looks like it was lifted from the Mac.
Looking at javascript speed tests, it seems it is going to be slower. The test reported here show that javascript in Firefox 3 is 20% slower compared to Firefox 2, and 4.4 times when compared to Opera. http://celtickane.com/projects/jsspeed2007.php
I don't know where Mozilla is spending all its money.
Facebook is expensive. You can not buy it for $2.6 billion.
Is OpenOffice planning to include OOXML translator anytime soon. It is required, as more and more people are now using Office 2007 (and they are sharing their documents with us Linux users).
The name was changed to IceWeasel and not Firebird. Editors please correct.
PS: Anyway this story is running late, IceWeasel 2.0 was released on Oct 24rd.
Here is the tech talk on Human Computation by Luis von Ahn (Asst Prof, CMU) describing the concept.
In that case Google.com will be ranked last. google.com W3C compliance.
Govt of India never banned all blogs. After terrorist attack in Mumbai, 22 sites were ordered to be blocked to prevent communal hatred and riots. The order was misinterpreted by ISPs who blocked blogspot.com (this was just a mistake).
I am against all kind of govt censoring (including this). But this ban should not be compared to one in China. The two are fundamentally different as India is a democracy and Indian Constitution provides freedom of expression. But this ban was not unconstitutional as freedom of expression does not allow one to spread opinions of hatred.
Here in India, most cybercafes and personal machines still run win98. Windows is free in India (no one ever purchases a copy. pirated version is available for free.). The reasons for running win98 are:
1. Users say, why upgrade? Win98 does all that they want it to do. They don't want to learn anything new.
2. Old hardware with low RAM can not run windows XP (with all its fancy effects).
> main reason you don't see many machines running that vintage of Linux is
most Linux users are geeks.
That hardly proves that it can't be done; people used to see no way that a plane could possibly go faster than sound. ;)
Well, if we can slow light further, may be someday, planes will go faster than light
All I care about is myself. And I want to use software I like. If everyone uses MS Office, I am forced to use their dc/xls/ppt file formats. If eveyone else is using Windows I will have to deal with wmv files. Many properitory plugins are not available on platform I want to use (because of small user base). As 90% people use IE website will refuse to work with browser I use. I dont care what other people use. I just want everyone to follow (open) standards. If MS Office supports open document format, IE is standards compliant and wmv is replaced by ogg I dont care.
Google will now show me relevent text ads based on my search history?
Try kpdf 0.4 (one that comes with KDE 3.4)? This is what a pdf viewer should look like. 1. Type ahead search. 2. Easy copy-paste. With acrobat reader it is not possible to select/copy a paragraph in 2 column format document, but with kpdf one can easily do that. 3. Can watch for changes in the viewed file and update the view accordingly. 4. Presentation mode. 5. KDE app. Native look and feel. Can use kio_slaves. 6. No bloat. Open source.
You are forgetting the *new* Splash Screen
One reason for prefering MySQL over Postgres is that MySQL has more (fancy) features. For example MySQL supports unicode while Postgres does not (this was the case 1 year back, I don't know about present status of Postgres).
There are differences between Music and Telivision industry. You watch a TV show only once (or a few times), while you listen to a song many times.
Use Ogg (Theora + Vorbis). Codec for windows are available. Real player supports it. VLC can also be used. On *nix, all players (mplayer/xine) support it. And most importantly, its Open Source. As its adoption increases, its support will grow automatically.
The licence file says
Helix DNA Technology Binary Research Use License
REDISTRIBUTION NOT PERMITTED
Rad Complete license.
Does this new prototype also allow switching beetween MSHTML and Geeko. If yes, is there any incentive for user (who dont know benefits of Geeko over MSHTML) to use Geeko, like, one of the following .....
1. Netscape will always start in Geeko mode by default.
2. When running in MSHTML mode, it will display some (pop-up) message saying please switch to Geeko as that is more secure
3.
Or it does not care what html-rendering-engine user is using as long as the browser is Netscape.
OGM is not a codec. Ogg and OGM are media container formats. Ogg Media Container is developed by Xiph as the framework of a larger initiative aimed at developing a set of components for the coding and decoding of multimedia content which are both freely available and freely re-implementable in software. OGM is kind of extension to Ogg to allow encoding DVDs to XviD+Vorbis.
Note that Xiph does not support OGM. The problem is that the OGM is an extension to the Ogg Multimedia Framework that lies outside of the Ogg specification and it is important to maintain control of the specification in these matters.
Main difference between the is the first header in each stream. OGM uses several standardised header formats, audio, video and text, in order to make identifying unknown codecs easier in directshow (and subsequently other frameworks). ie with those three headers you can use any audio or video format you choose without have to write custom header parsing routines for each codec in the demuxer. In other words ogmtools provides the standard du jeur for encapsulating various common-in-avi codecs in an Ogg bitstream, like 'divx', 'mp3' and so on.
What BBC is developing is a codec or a video compression algorithm like Theora and Xvid. Ogg Can be used to package Dirac and Vorbis for some media file.
Can I use apt (apt4rpm) in suse 9.1 to install KDE 3.3 now? Presently I am using http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/ as repository. How can I update all kde packages using apt? And which repository has all the 3.3 packages?
SuSE is best desktop distro. Just try SuSE 9.1 Automatically configures everything for you (unlike fedora which will not play mp3s, you wont have to spend time installing flashplayer and java and lot of other small things which can not be ignored.)
Although HP is selling some Turbolinux installed systems in India, all their ads(in newspaper) show "HP recommends MS windows XP". They are selling preinstalled-linux just to save XP's license fee, which they otherwise have to pay if they sell windows pre-installed machines.