I completely agree but I think most of the features you have mentioned there (generally network based thin-client use) are really starting to look very unnecessary.
With storage, RAM and CPU power being so cheap (and network bandwidth being the only expensive thing), central font servers really aren't economical for anyone other that a huge company.
Also, X11 needs to look as good as Aqua. We need shadows, expose and other cool stuff - I think the vast majority of users will be more interested in those more than thin client setups.
I agree. While rewrites are usually a bad, bad thing, I think Mozilla has kind of bucked the trend - it took them 6 years to get to where they are now, and now they have a full compliment of great, Gecko based browsers. More and more are popping up for all sorts of niche markets.
Of course, IE overtook Netscape but really Netscape 4 was a terrible browser compared to IE5 (IMO). Only now with Mozilla 1.6 and FireFox we are looking good to start taking back the losses.
I think a similar thing coudl work out for Xfree, especially if the current Xfree86 4.4-based forks can progress fairly stably and let the more 'extreme' forks get the cool stuff implemented.
I'm hoping in 2010 we will look back and laugh at Xfree86:)..
Sorry, you are plain insane - 19.2mbit/sec is way better than the rest of the world's DTT (digital terristrial television) bitrates. In the UK, we have stat-muxed channels which means that each channel on each multiplex can take more or less bandwidth requiring on it's use (ie: if the news is on an it's just a presenter reading it, you can probably drop to 2.5mbit/sec with no noticeable loss and give the extra 1.5mbit to a channel with high-motion and high-action - each channel has a 'default' of 4mbit/sec).
4mbit/sec is more than good enough for a normal standard def. TV. 19.2mbit is also great for a high def. TV.
What I want to see is the use of MPEG4 in TV - it would be great to see 24 channels instead of the 6 we have in 1mbit/sec xVid;).
Linux is GREAT for servers. It just works. However, for desktop it's a big pain in the ass.
I always try out every new version of Fedora and Mandrake, and every time I have problems. It has got better, but generally there are so may niggles in the software I just give up and go back to WinXP.
For example: Licensing problems. Fedora can't use mp3s and NTFS. Fine. Why can't an error message be put it to say why (esp. for mp3). When I load Rythmnbox and try to play an mp3, i get 'Cannot create MAD object'. A simple message saying that mp3 decoders are patentented and if you want it go and download it would save a lot of users a lot of time. (This is a smaller problem compared to some, as a quick use of apt-rpm will solve it)
I'd say that Linux has a lot of potential. Linux also is making strides in stuff - but still not enough to coax users away from Windows and Mac OSX. apt-rpm is a great example of this. Back in the RedHat 6 days dependency hell was a very common issue - urpmi for mandrake and apt for redhat/fedora/debian has solved this. GNOME and KDE have matured into great desktops now.
That has to be the worst announcement ever. It's virtually unreadable because of the basic grammar errors and the whole release just doesn't seem to flow.
It took me 5 reads to actually understand what it was - a band of people who will do the boring jobs such as documentation, screenshots and bug triaging.
Also, the KDE website is in a serious need of a makeover. It's so bland and just plain boring...
I completely agree. Servermatrix, amongst others, provide basic management services (ie: enough so you don't have to pay $39 'restore fee' whenever they reboot the server and SSHd won't come up) and also charge less.
On another note, Neowin.net suffered about 3 weeks downtime because EV1 'accidently' wiped both their hard drives (they should of done the server in the next rack along) and needless to say, neowin isn't with EV1 anymore...
Thanks to NAT, push will never be used. It's too much trouble for most users to set up NAT and most of the time they are not allowed (ie: at work). This means the internet will continue to develop as a pull medium, but sadly push is a long way off...
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It does seem than web based content (on adverts alone) is unprofitable. I think micropayments will solve this - maybe PayPal could easily expand into this area by dropping the 39c transaction fee for transactions under a dollar...
What have you been doing with mySQL? There is nothing super-complex that really belongs with mySQL, even if 'mySQL AB' tells you so.
mySQL is perfect for dynamic websites, but not much else.
BULLSHIT.
In the UK over 52% supported the war (including me, now i'm not so sure) - look up the facts.
I'm sure most people won't even read this post and read the first few as correct and take the rest as gospel.
I disagree. Some of the best open source coders are employed by the big Linux companies and other such tech companies. As Linux gets bigger (which it will do), the companies that distrobute it will also employ developers in a linear fashion. Therefore, there should be no problems.
We got LCD projectors installed in every room (around 70) in my school, 2 years ago roughly.
Now most of them are broken/dim/have a color missing, and also nearly every one of them has had to have a bulb replaced. There is about 15 of them sitting in the IT admin dept. all waiting to be replaced/fixed.
Not only that, most teachers don't use them, and the ones that do completely overuse them (endless powerpoint slides in Comic Sans, anyone? - some teachers just make a quick powerpoint presentation and read it out for a lesson).
MacSoft is the worst company for making sloppy ports, that are very late. Take for example Age of Mythology. Came out in mid-Nov for Mac, and about 18 months ago for PC.
The mac version is so sloppy. It refers to 'The Windows Control panel'. It can't play with PC clients on multiplayer and generally it sucks.
Thank god for downloading games - if I had spent $50 on that peice of crap I would be serverly annoyed.
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I completely agree but I think most of the features you have mentioned there (generally network based thin-client use) are really starting to look very unnecessary.
With storage, RAM and CPU power being so cheap (and network bandwidth being the only expensive thing), central font servers really aren't economical for anyone other that a huge company.
Also, X11 needs to look as good as Aqua. We need shadows, expose and other cool stuff - I think the vast majority of users will be more interested in those more than thin client setups.
I agree. While rewrites are usually a bad, bad thing, I think Mozilla has kind of bucked the trend - it took them 6 years to get to where they are now, and now they have a full compliment of great, Gecko based browsers. More and more are popping up for all sorts of niche markets.
:)..
Of course, IE overtook Netscape but really Netscape 4 was a terrible browser compared to IE5 (IMO). Only now with Mozilla 1.6 and FireFox we are looking good to start taking back the losses.
I think a similar thing coudl work out for Xfree, especially if the current Xfree86 4.4-based forks can progress fairly stably and let the more 'extreme' forks get the cool stuff implemented.
I'm hoping in 2010 we will look back and laugh at Xfree86
No, because the Xfree license change didn't happen until a late RC - most of the work that the 4.4 branch is under the 'old' license.
Personally I think this Xfree86 license shambles needs sorted soon - otherwise I am 100% sure that Xfree86 will disappear like Corel Linux...
Was this a GNOME bounty? I seem to remember something to do with ipod but i think it could be evloution, not rythmnbox...
Sorry, you are plain insane - 19.2mbit/sec is way better than the rest of the world's DTT (digital terristrial television) bitrates. In the UK, we have stat-muxed channels which means that each channel on each multiplex can take more or less bandwidth requiring on it's use (ie: if the news is on an it's just a presenter reading it, you can probably drop to 2.5mbit/sec with no noticeable loss and give the extra 1.5mbit to a channel with high-motion and high-action - each channel has a 'default' of 4mbit/sec).
;).
4mbit/sec is more than good enough for a normal standard def. TV. 19.2mbit is also great for a high def. TV.
What I want to see is the use of MPEG4 in TV - it would be great to see 24 channels instead of the 6 we have in 1mbit/sec xVid
Assuming a kWh rate of 5c, it would only be $5/hour - I know I paid more for my dialup internet access when it was all 'new'...
672mbits is a LOT, LOT more than the combined DSL and cable backlink for a city of 50,000 people.
It would be contened (like DSL and cable modem services) to a high rate...
gnumeric - quite possibly the best open source office app...
I hate to say it, but I agree.
Linux is GREAT for servers. It just works. However, for desktop it's a big pain in the ass.
I always try out every new version of Fedora and Mandrake, and every time I have problems. It has got better, but generally there are so may niggles in the software I just give up and go back to WinXP.
For example: Licensing problems. Fedora can't use mp3s and NTFS. Fine. Why can't an error message be put it to say why (esp. for mp3). When I load Rythmnbox and try to play an mp3, i get 'Cannot create MAD object'. A simple message saying that mp3 decoders are patentented and if you want it go and download it would save a lot of users a lot of time. (This is a smaller problem compared to some, as a quick use of apt-rpm will solve it)
I'd say that Linux has a lot of potential. Linux also is making strides in stuff - but still not enough to coax users away from Windows and Mac OSX. apt-rpm is a great example of this. Back in the RedHat 6 days dependency hell was a very common issue - urpmi for mandrake and apt for redhat/fedora/debian has solved this. GNOME and KDE have matured into great desktops now.
That has to be the worst announcement ever. It's virtually unreadable because of the basic grammar errors and the whole release just doesn't seem to flow.
It took me 5 reads to actually understand what it was - a band of people who will do the boring jobs such as documentation, screenshots and bug triaging.
Also, the KDE website is in a serious need of a makeover. It's so bland and just plain boring...
I completely agree. Servermatrix, amongst others, provide basic management services (ie: enough so you don't have to pay $39 'restore fee' whenever they reboot the server and SSHd won't come up) and also charge less.
On another note, Neowin.net suffered about 3 weeks downtime because EV1 'accidently' wiped both their hard drives (they should of done the server in the next rack along) and needless to say, neowin isn't with EV1 anymore...
Thanks to NAT, push will never be used. It's too much trouble for most users to set up NAT and most of the time they are not allowed (ie: at work). This means the internet will continue to develop as a pull medium, but sadly push is a long way off...
It does seem than web based content (on adverts alone) is unprofitable. I think micropayments will solve this - maybe PayPal could easily expand into this area by dropping the 39c transaction fee for transactions under a dollar...
It won't take long before MS does that too. They do it with 'Windows Installer' (putting InstallShield out) and they will do it for virus protection.
I agree.
However, pretty much every USB mouse works and OSX is great with USB - better than Windows and Linux by far.
So get yourself a nice 5 button mouse like me and click away to heaven.
What have you been doing with mySQL? There is nothing super-complex that really belongs with mySQL, even if 'mySQL AB' tells you so. mySQL is perfect for dynamic websites, but not much else.
BULLSHIT. In the UK over 52% supported the war (including me, now i'm not so sure) - look up the facts. I'm sure most people won't even read this post and read the first few as correct and take the rest as gospel.
I disagree. Some of the best open source coders are employed by the big Linux companies and other such tech companies. As Linux gets bigger (which it will do), the companies that distrobute it will also employ developers in a linear fashion. Therefore, there should be no problems.
I hope.
Surely you mean "baisez cela!", en francais.
Yup - thats what concorde has been doing all this time. Ferrying people from car crashes to India in only 5 hours!
I think he is referring to the issue of the windows source code being leaked.
Until the person at receptiopn ejects the CD to play her new xyz-pop album...
We got LCD projectors installed in every room (around 70) in my school, 2 years ago roughly.
Now most of them are broken/dim/have a color missing, and also nearly every one of them has had to have a bulb replaced. There is about 15 of them sitting in the IT admin dept. all waiting to be replaced/fixed.
Not only that, most teachers don't use them, and the ones that do completely overuse them (endless powerpoint slides in Comic Sans, anyone? - some teachers just make a quick powerpoint presentation and read it out for a lesson).
http://www.tekwar.net/FirefoxSetup-0.8.exe
Absolutley.
MacSoft is the worst company for making sloppy ports, that are very late. Take for example Age of Mythology. Came out in mid-Nov for Mac, and about 18 months ago for PC.
The mac version is so sloppy. It refers to 'The Windows Control panel'. It can't play with PC clients on multiplayer and generally it sucks.
Thank god for downloading games - if I had spent $50 on that peice of crap I would be serverly annoyed.