It's not Konqueror that needs fixing. The problem is that Safari doesn't put KHTML in its user-agent string, so when Google added Safari's UA to their whitelist, Konqueror didn't get added. Konqueror will likely work fine with GMail - they just have to actually add it to the whitelist. I submitted a bug report to them a couple months ago... we'll see how long it takes them to fix it.
Red Hat has four enterprise products: Advanced Server, Enterprise Server, Workstation, and Desktop (IA64 also has Advanced Workstation but let's ignore that). We don't "only" focus on the server. Our desktop team is new and growing. But we have quite a bit less Desktop deployments than Server; it would seem that it is the customers that are focusing on the server.
What Paul likely meant was that we are shying away from the consumer (I hate that word) desktop for now. For one reason, it would multiply our support overhead significantly. When you sell 100 "consumer" licenses, you have 100 people coming after you when the software breaks. When you sell 100 "enterprise" licenses, you just talk to that business' point-man. Another reason is that we are more committed to Free/Open Source Software than we are to the "consumer" desktop space. If that's a problem for you, you're probably an Apple user:)
Red Hat dropped our "consumer" product because it was a money sink. We couldn't afford to sell 100 licenses and promise support to 100 different people. Now, our enterprise customers usually funnel their support through a few people. We get better bug reports, they get better service.
We sell a Desktop flavor of RHEL3, and we will with RHEL4. It's quite nice.
But the fact is, GNU/Linux isn't ready for the "consumer" desktop - there are far too many things that don't "just work" and nobody has fixed them yet. That includes Debian, SuSe, Mandrake and all the rest. We'll be a step closer when ACPI is reliable and users don't ever have to unmount a filesystem manually.
Also, a lot of the importance of RHEL is that it is certified by ISVs. That costs a lot of money. If Debian was certified, that would certainly help.
...Oops, OS X won't work on any of my machines: I have an i386, an amd64, a sparc64, an s390, an ARM and an m68k. I'm willing to port it to all of the above architectures for Apple. All I need is the source.
What's that? I can't have it? Exactly. Fucking troll.
Just an example: no U.S. Linux vendor can distribute livdvdcss or LAME. That means Red Hat, Sun JDS, Ximian Desktop, SuSe, Debian, etc. cannot legally be ready to play DVDs out of the box. Or mp3s.
This isn't including the fun stuff the DMCA gives us to play with.
Either way, the five members of the FCC should not define moral codes for the entire country, deciding which words and ideas are fit for consumers and which are not.
Granted, this is not strictly a console application, but bitlbee is perfect for those of you who like to use various IM accounts along with IRC. It acts as an IRC server relay to Jabber, AIM, MSN, ICQ, etc. What this means is you set up your favorite IRC client (if it's not irssi it should be;) and connect to the bitlbee server. There's only one channel there, #bitlbee, and @root will help you set your accounts up. Once you've done so, your contacts will join the channel. To talk to them, you/msg them. It's pretty cool.
I don't know who originally said this, so I guess I'm totally stealing credit.
You can't control innocent people... but you can control criminals. What do you do with a large group of innocents that you want to control? You make them criminals. You pass so many ridiculous and confusing laws that it's impossible for one to lead any kind of reasonable life on the good side of the law.
Okay, that's old news. I guess the newish part they're tacking onto this time-tested tactic is to simultaneously scare the piss out of people using various methods such as erosion of privacy, and study them statistically with the information gained as a result of the former. Know your enemy, scare your enemy, own your enemy. Just like bullies on the playground.
Well, I don't really like juK... I use amaroK.
Gaim sucks. Kopete's better.
Evolution is slow. Kontact is fast.
All these programs, though, use KDE technologies that made them a *lot* easier to develop and a pleasure to use.
I guess the real question is: Why not?
Yes, blogs do have their uses - say, group collaboration. FLOSS. But there are a fascinating number of them that are just self-important rant-books with no real direction.
Q: Why the name 'Theora?'
A: Like other Xiph.org Foundation codec projects such as Vorbis or Tarkin, Theora is named after a fictional character. Theora Jones was the name of Edison Carter's 'controller' on the television series Max Headroom. She was played by Amanda Pays.
Now I don't wanna hear another fewl asking about it;P
now that's just pedantic. it's a fucking example, man, not the be-all end-all of the point the grandparent was trying to make. besides, how do you think mldonkey got started? oh, you don't know what that is? it ties 7 different p2p networks together. far from useless to thousands of people.
- They aren't really interested in learning new stuff.
*sigh* - If said users don't want to learn anything new, installing a new operating system might not be the best choice. I'd like to see less instances of people being forced to use the CLI because there's no other way to do what they want, but if you think that GUIs will always keep up with the CLI in terms of capability, you are sorely mistaken. Fact is, if you want me to hack together a new P2P system, you can have it in a week in CLI form or a month in GUI form. Whether or not you wait for the GUI, there will be many who use the CLI version for the time being.
With regard to games and gamers: There are distros out there that include both nVidia's and ATI's drivers that give 3D acceleration. With older ATI boards such as the 9200, any distro less than around 2 years old will have Free drivers that provide 3D acceleration out of the box. MEPIS, for example, is a Knoppix-based distro that includes 3D drivers and works without any trouble, even for a n00b.
That said, I play Enemy Territory, a kick-ass class-based multiplayer game based on Return to Castle Wolfenstein, every day (lately) and I love it. It's free as in beer, and it only takes a visit to their website to download the 260MB sh-based installer, run it, and begin playing.
It's possible to not be a newbie in general while still being a Unix or GNU/Linux newbie. For example, I'm not a driving "newbie" but I really suck at driving standard. Taken very loosely, I think that's a decent analogy.
With regard to Samba, you're right: it sucks to set it up. Do yourself a favor and install Webmin and its Samba module (Debian: apt-get install webmin-samba will do it all at once). Then point a browser to https://localhost:10000 and find the Samba module under Servers. What you'll get is a web-based GUI that makes it a couple orders of magnitude easier to set it up.
That wouldn't really make much sense, as part of the point of XML is to be human-readable. Your example adds a fair amount of overhead and very little human-readable information.
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It sure will be sweet when it's mainstream to know what the term 'OS' means.
It's not Konqueror that needs fixing. The problem is that Safari doesn't put KHTML in its user-agent string, so when Google added Safari's UA to their whitelist, Konqueror didn't get added. Konqueror will likely work fine with GMail - they just have to actually add it to the whitelist. I submitted a bug report to them a couple months ago... we'll see how long it takes them to fix it.
Red Hat has four enterprise products: Advanced Server, Enterprise Server, Workstation, and Desktop (IA64 also has Advanced Workstation but let's ignore that). We don't "only" focus on the server. Our desktop team is new and growing. But we have quite a bit less Desktop deployments than Server; it would seem that it is the customers that are focusing on the server.
What Paul likely meant was that we are shying away from the consumer (I hate that word) desktop for now. For one reason, it would multiply our support overhead significantly. When you sell 100 "consumer" licenses, you have 100 people coming after you when the software breaks. When you sell 100 "enterprise" licenses, you just talk to that business' point-man. Another reason is that we are more committed to Free/Open Source Software than we are to the "consumer" desktop space. If that's a problem for you, you're probably an Apple user :)
Red Hat dropped our "consumer" product because it was a money sink. We couldn't afford to sell 100 licenses and promise support to 100 different people. Now, our enterprise customers usually funnel their support through a few people. We get better bug reports, they get better service.
We sell a Desktop flavor of RHEL3, and we will with RHEL4. It's quite nice.
But the fact is, GNU/Linux isn't ready for the "consumer" desktop - there are far too many things that don't "just work" and nobody has fixed them yet. That includes Debian, SuSe, Mandrake and all the rest. We'll be a step closer when ACPI is reliable and users don't ever have to unmount a filesystem manually.
Also, a lot of the importance of RHEL is that it is certified by ISVs. That costs a lot of money. If Debian was certified, that would certainly help.
...Oops, OS X won't work on any of my machines: I have an i386, an amd64, a sparc64, an s390, an ARM and an m68k. I'm willing to port it to all of the above architectures for Apple. All I need is the source.
What's that? I can't have it? Exactly. Fucking troll.
Qt is demonstrably faster when used through an SSH tunnel.
But really, they both have their strengths and weaknesses. Fucking troll.
Rawhide has 3.3RC2, which is almost identical to 3.3.0. The latter will be in very soon (yes this means FC3 will have it). Can't speak for Mandrake.
Any particular reason you're still on RHL9?
Don't forget SPARC64 and the unofficial amd64 port. 11 official, 1 unofficial.
They were bought by Novell, which is an American company. So no, not really.
Just an example: no U.S. Linux vendor can distribute livdvdcss or LAME. That means Red Hat, Sun JDS, Ximian Desktop, SuSe, Debian, etc. cannot legally be ready to play DVDs out of the box. Or mp3s.
This isn't including the fun stuff the DMCA gives us to play with.
I think it's spelled "citizens," not "consumers".
GRRRR, I hate that.Do you really want to trust the packages of someone who can't even figure out how to set up their repository correctly, though?
Sure, Fedora supports package managers such as yum, apt, and urpmi. But what really matters is the quantity and quality of packages.
With Debian, we have apt, more packages than any other distro, and a more thorough and sane policy.
Before you decry me as biased, do some research and find out for yourself.
I didn't see that one coming. I have been using SA for about three years, I think... well, since whenever I heard about it anyway :)
Granted, this is not strictly a console application, but bitlbee is perfect for those of you who like to use various IM accounts along with IRC. It acts as an IRC server relay to Jabber, AIM, MSN, ICQ, etc. What this means is you set up your favorite IRC client (if it's not irssi it should be ;) and connect to the bitlbee server. There's only one channel there, #bitlbee, and @root will help you set your accounts up. Once you've done so, your contacts will join the channel. To talk to them, you /msg them. It's pretty cool.
I don't know who originally said this, so I guess I'm totally stealing credit.
You can't control innocent people... but you can control criminals. What do you do with a large group of innocents that you want to control? You make them criminals. You pass so many ridiculous and confusing laws that it's impossible for one to lead any kind of reasonable life on the good side of the law.
Okay, that's old news. I guess the newish part they're tacking onto this time-tested tactic is to simultaneously scare the piss out of people using various methods such as erosion of privacy, and study them statistically with the information gained as a result of the former. Know your enemy, scare your enemy, own your enemy. Just like bullies on the playground.
Well, I don't really like juK... I use amaroK.
Gaim sucks. Kopete's better.
Evolution is slow. Kontact is fast.
All these programs, though, use KDE technologies that made them a *lot* easier to develop and a pleasure to use.
I guess the real question is: Why not?
Yes, blogs do have their uses - say, group collaboration. FLOSS. But there are a fascinating number of them that are just self-important rant-books with no real direction.
Now I don't wanna hear another fewl asking about it
now that's just pedantic. it's a fucking example, man, not the be-all end-all of the point the grandparent was trying to make. besides, how do you think mldonkey got started? oh, you don't know what that is? it ties 7 different p2p networks together. far from useless to thousands of people.
With regard to games and gamers: There are distros out there that include both nVidia's and ATI's drivers that give 3D acceleration. With older ATI boards such as the 9200, any distro less than around 2 years old will have Free drivers that provide 3D acceleration out of the box. MEPIS, for example, is a Knoppix-based distro that includes 3D drivers and works without any trouble, even for a n00b.
That said, I play Enemy Territory, a kick-ass class-based multiplayer game based on Return to Castle Wolfenstein, every day (lately) and I love it. It's free as in beer, and it only takes a visit to their website to download the 260MB sh-based installer, run it, and begin playing.
It's possible to not be a newbie in general while still being a Unix or GNU/Linux newbie. For example, I'm not a driving "newbie" but I really suck at driving standard. Taken very loosely, I think that's a decent analogy.
With regard to Samba, you're right: it sucks to set it up. Do yourself a favor and install Webmin and its Samba module (Debian: apt-get install webmin-samba will do it all at once). Then point a browser to https://localhost:10000 and find the Samba module under Servers. What you'll get is a web-based GUI that makes it a couple orders of magnitude easier to set it up.
That wouldn't really make much sense, as part of the point of XML is to be human-readable. Your example adds a fair amount of overhead and very little human-readable information.