KDE's webbrowser Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org) has I think the best soloution of anything.
Configureable search keyword shortcuts allow me to do things like this: "gg:motorola phones" will search google for those keywords. "ggl: warm mittens" will likewise do the same, only using google's 'I'm feeling lucky'.
These are all configureable, and Konqie comes with a whole bunch of search engines already configured.
And with the run dialog, I can search google waaaaaaay faster than you can with your IE googlebar, or deskbar. I just hit type in "gg:my keywords" and hit and preso!
Suggesting that a specialized distro like Gentoo should be able to please both "newbies" and "hard core" users alike is akin to wanting a Formula1 racecar to provide enough seating for your family, to be able to start itself (Formula1 cars usually have an external starter motor that is attached to the crankshaft by the pit crew at the beginning of the race to start the engine and later removed IIRC) and run with minimal maintenance for as long as your regular street-legal car can.
You're totally missing the point of Gentoo. Gentoo is not supposed to have a frilly graphical install.
Or hardware installation. Or default settings.
Gentoo is all about customization, optimization, and complete control of your system. Gentoo is not, and will never be a distro for newbies, or people who just want to "use" their system. It is for people who want to constantly tweak, and optimize, and upgrade. For these people, it has merit in spades.
Why? I mean... why does RedHat have to be all corporate and crap now?
... perhaps because Redhat is a Corporation. They are out to make money, and if disconinuing support for Rh 7 and 8 means they can obtain a greater profit margin overall, power to them, in a business sense.
The title, "Thanksgiving in space", quite erked me when I read it.
I am at a loss as to what the article writers were thinking. Its called the "International Space Station", but they've made such a blatant disregard for any other culture than US culture here.
Sure, Americans celebrate thanksgiving on November 27'th... but does any other nationality?
Canada celebrates it more than a month earlier, on October 13'th.
And I'm willing to wager a hefty sum that Russian culture DOES NOT CELEBRATE THANKSGIVING on *either* of those dates, if at all.
I work for Convergys, one of the biggest customer management/contact center companies in the world. (Or so we're led to believe)
We've got a couple call centers in India. I remember when the one in New Delhi opened. They started off doing tech support chat for one of our contracts (AT&T Broadband, I think it was) and I remember the stupidest thing was that all the agents' customer viewable names were extremeley sterotypical American names, like Bob, Bill, and Jake. (I always thought this to be insulting, and always refered to their real names when corresponding with them.)
Some time ago, the New Delhi center stopped doing chat. I'm not sure what they're doing now.
Ridiculous? I think not.
Have you ever actually seen SVG document that includes embedded Python?
The KSVG team hooked in ECMAScript for the simple reason that it is actually used in real SVG's from the wild. IIRC Adobe's SVG impl. also does javascript, for the same reason.
As a uni-tier phone tech for Comcast, we can tell who knows what they're doing, and who doesnt.
We do find some situations quite comical, like all the people who claim to be certified in something or other (usually MCSE) and know jackall. Literally. Like, "Its not working for you because its not plugged in."
People who know what they're doing make our lives easier, because we don't have to spell out "i-p-c-o-n-f-i-g forwardslash same as questionmark r-e-n-e-w" (Many 30 year old adults cant seem to spell), and we can just say "Yeah, try renewing your ip again."
To install the eyecandy/themes, you need current kde and qt dev. libs/headers installed. Basically you just unpack and make && make install the packages, they install into the kde prefix. (/usr/local usually)
Just follow the INSTALL instructions in the packages and you should be fine.
Finally the Linux desktop has a quality word processor that is faster to load than OpenOffice.org and includes proper footnotes. It also no longer uses its own font directory.
Koffice Loads faster than OO, has proper footnotes, has never had its "own" font directory, and is properly integrated into the rest of KDE.
I utterly fail to see why any one highschool anywhere would need a tech budget that high.
That even seems high for a University computer budget.
I mean, with $46 million you sure could buy some serious extreme high-end hardware, but who the hell in a highschool is going to make use of teraflop supercomputing?
I live in Canada, so our socialist healthcare covers everything that happens at the hospital.
I am curious however. In the US, what happens if you need major surgery *tomorrow*, and as it is you can barely afford to stay afloat. You have negative credit rating, and nothing to go on.
Do you just die, wishing you were living just a little farther north?
I work as technical support for Comcast (www.comcast.net) and we get quite a few calls (especially from Texas) from people who claim to be freelance tech support, and are helping customers to "fix their computer".
The truth of the matter is, these guys generally know absolutely dick all about anything, and its no better than walking the customer through the same troubleshooting. The manage to get by by pretending to know something, and then just calling tech support. Its really sad.
They must enjoy the money though.. all those ritch Texans.;-)
I work at a call center, which amounts to a huge field of cubicles and machines, most of which are pretty decent hardware.
As far as I know, we are entirely windows here. But a few of us have joked about how cool it would be to install linux on all the machines in the department, start them up as an auto-balancing mosix cluster, and then run vmware on top of it all, installing all the tools everyone expects, so noone is the wiser.
We'd then use the uber-cluster to take over the world or something. Would be cool.
Well, experiences with non tech savvy people that I've had have been interesting:
I had some friends over for the evening a while ago. People who are familiar enough to know how to surf the web, send email, and chat on IM.
These friends had never used anything other than Windows. And yet without a word they'd found my machine running KDE, opened up a web browser, logged in to AMSN, and were surfing. It was almost as if they didn't know they were using anything different.
Why not spend $0 and install an operating system that doesn't need to be reimaged (network boot), or locked down because of proper user permissions. KDE actually includes a "kiosk" mode, that does not permit any desktop configuration changes.
Administration is about 100x easier because you can do it remotely in your underwear at home.
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I don't understand how afraid people can be to try out new kernels..
Reboot, boot your new kernel, and you're done!
If it doesnt work, its not the end of the world. Look at the output, see where it's failing, and go back and change your config.
KDE's webbrowser Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org) has I think the best soloution of anything.
Configureable search keyword shortcuts allow me to do things like this: "gg:motorola phones" will search google for those keywords. "ggl: warm mittens" will likewise do the same, only using google's 'I'm feeling lucky'.
These are all configureable, and Konqie comes with a whole bunch of search engines already configured.
And with the run dialog, I can search google waaaaaaay faster than you can with your IE googlebar, or deskbar. I just hit type in "gg:my keywords" and hit and preso!
Suggesting that a specialized distro like Gentoo should be able to please both "newbies" and "hard core" users alike is akin to wanting a Formula1 racecar to provide enough seating for your family, to be able to start itself (Formula1 cars usually have an external starter motor that is attached to the crankshaft by the pit crew at the beginning of the race to start the engine and later removed IIRC) and run with minimal maintenance for as long as your regular street-legal car can.
It just isn't done.
You're totally missing the point of Gentoo. Gentoo is not supposed to have a frilly graphical install.
Or hardware installation. Or default settings.
Gentoo is all about customization, optimization, and complete control of your system. Gentoo is not, and will never be a distro for newbies, or people who just want to "use" their system. It is for people who want to constantly tweak, and optimize, and upgrade. For these people, it has merit in spades.
You might have better luck looking into Suse.One of the main tools I use is CSG's ACSR, which I run over a Citrix session.
I was unable to log in initally yesterday because the SSL certificate had expired, it seemed.
Setting the date back on my station seemed to fix the problem though!
The title, "Thanksgiving in space", quite erked me when I read it.
/. reader.
I am at a loss as to what the article writers were thinking. Its called the "International Space Station", but they've made such a blatant disregard for any other culture than US culture here.
Sure, Americans celebrate thanksgiving on November 27'th... but does any other nationality?
Canada celebrates it more than a month earlier, on October 13'th.
And I'm willing to wager a hefty sum that Russian culture DOES NOT CELEBRATE THANKSGIVING on *either* of those dates, if at all.
-Just a pissed off non-us
I work for Convergys, one of the biggest customer management/contact center companies in the world. (Or so we're led to believe) We've got a couple call centers in India. I remember when the one in New Delhi opened. They started off doing tech support chat for one of our contracts (AT&T Broadband, I think it was) and I remember the stupidest thing was that all the agents' customer viewable names were extremeley sterotypical American names, like Bob, Bill, and Jake. (I always thought this to be insulting, and always refered to their real names when corresponding with them.) Some time ago, the New Delhi center stopped doing chat. I'm not sure what they're doing now.
Switch from a widely used IMHO excellent toolkit to one written in c?
:-)
No thanks, I'll stick with my beloved QT
Ridiculous? I think not. Have you ever actually seen SVG document that includes embedded Python? The KSVG team hooked in ECMAScript for the simple reason that it is actually used in real SVG's from the wild. IIRC Adobe's SVG impl. also does javascript, for the same reason.
I dissagree.
As a uni-tier phone tech for Comcast, we can tell who knows what they're doing, and who doesnt.
We do find some situations quite comical, like all the people who claim to be certified in something or other (usually MCSE) and know jackall. Literally. Like, "Its not working for you because its not plugged in."
People who know what they're doing make our lives easier, because we don't have to spell out "i-p-c-o-n-f-i-g forwardslash same as questionmark r-e-n-e-w" (Many 30 year old adults cant seem to spell), and we can just say "Yeah, try renewing your ip again."
KDE Control center is 'kcontrol'.
To install the eyecandy/themes, you need current kde and qt dev. libs/headers installed. Basically you just unpack and make && make install the packages, they install into the kde prefix. (/usr/local usually)
Just follow the INSTALL instructions in the packages and you should be fine.
The quoted statement was a general statement about word processors on Linux. It mentioned OO and Abiword, and nothing else.
Aqua widget and WM theme: Here
OSX animated panel SuperKaramba theme: Here
Koffice Loads faster than OO, has proper footnotes, has never had its "own" font directory, and is properly integrated into the rest of KDE.
I utterly fail to see why any one highschool anywhere would need a tech budget that high. That even seems high for a University computer budget. I mean, with $46 million you sure could buy some serious extreme high-end hardware, but who the hell in a highschool is going to make use of teraflop supercomputing?
I live in Canada, so our socialist healthcare covers everything that happens at the hospital. I am curious however. In the US, what happens if you need major surgery *tomorrow*, and as it is you can barely afford to stay afloat. You have negative credit rating, and nothing to go on. Do you just die, wishing you were living just a little farther north?
I work as technical support for Comcast (www.comcast.net) and we get quite a few calls (especially from Texas) from people who claim to be freelance tech support, and are helping customers to "fix their computer". The truth of the matter is, these guys generally know absolutely dick all about anything, and its no better than walking the customer through the same troubleshooting. The manage to get by by pretending to know something, and then just calling tech support. Its really sad. They must enjoy the money though.. all those ritch Texans. ;-)
I work at a call center, which amounts to a huge field of cubicles and machines, most of which are pretty decent hardware.
As far as I know, we are entirely windows here. But a few of us have joked about how cool it would be to install linux on all the machines in the department, start them up as an auto-balancing mosix cluster, and then run vmware on top of it all, installing all the tools everyone expects, so noone is the wiser.
We'd then use the uber-cluster to take over the world or something. Would be cool.
Well, experiences with non tech savvy people that I've had have been interesting:
I had some friends over for the evening a while ago. People who are familiar enough to know how to surf the web, send email, and chat on IM.
These friends had never used anything other than Windows. And yet without a word they'd found my machine running KDE, opened up a web browser, logged in to AMSN, and were surfing. It was almost as if they didn't know they were using anything different.
Why not spend $0 and install an operating system that doesn't need to be reimaged (network boot), or locked down because of proper user permissions. KDE actually includes a "kiosk" mode, that does not permit any desktop configuration changes. Administration is about 100x easier because you can do it remotely in your underwear at home.