From the article: It generates color using an entirely new driving method called sub-pixel unit driving methodology.
Entirely new makes it sound as if its a new technology, not a hardware implementation of an existing technology. The article is a press release reprinted by a lazy journalist.
Than someone with neither the talent to make that much money, and the heart to give so much of his resources and *time* away, being laughed at by some sad git on Slashdot?
On the freedesktop.org lists, there was talk of a VNC server that used X's new damage extension to work out what's changed on screen without crappy polling.
I'm just curious but... isn't it a flaw of the operating system that files generated by a user aren't automatically restricted to access by that user? This isn't google's fault, the same exact design ported to linux would work flawlessly.
No it wouldn't. The default permissions (umasks) in almost every Linux distribution allow 'others' read access on new files.
Whether this is a good thing is left up to the reader.
Red Hat has followed by splitting their Desktop Linux out to Fedora which is community driven
Er, no. Red Hat has a desktop product which includes both Gnome and KDE. Red Hat likes Gnome, and pays a lot of Gnome developers. IIRC, RHEL 4 will include Gnome 2.8, as will FC3.
Red Hat Desktop: http://www.apac.redhat.com/software/rhel/desktop/
PS - This isn't in reponse to your post - sorry about that. I wanted to get it up top tho, as its a common misconception.
Agreed - but its true they are indeed linked - the opposite way. Journalism cannot be effective without effective democracy. We've seen this repeatedly in the last year in Russia, Iraq (post Saddam, pre US censoring journalists) and the US itself trying to report on government prison camps.
Except that this really has nothing to do with software.
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Software == source.
Er, yes. Software is generally created from source. Not having source available doesn't make something not software. In fact, having source available doesn't make it Open Source either (eg, qmail, pine, Windows 2003).
This is not about binary only stuff. Read the article. It's clear you haven't.
Actually, RPM is the standard packaging format for LSB. Thank God for gentoo...
Why do you need a different packaging system to download and compile software and its dependencies based on your preferred compiler options?
Last time I checked, you don't. up2date can download source packages, rpmbuild can rebuild them, and you can use cflags with RPM just like anything else.
Sure, Gentoo automates that, but there's no reason they need a seperate packaging system to di it.
Additonally Suse, Red Hat and everyone else already use optimized bianries where it matters, automatically installing the right kernel and c libaries based on processor type. Multimedia sites for Fedora / RHEL and Suse also include optimized packages for totem / mplayer etc to, and up2date / yast automatically picks them out.
the LSB folks have thumbed their nose at Debian repeatedly, but for some reason they keep trying.
How? Last time I checked, it was Red Hat and Suse who had to make sure their init scripts were under the LSB decided standard location - not Debian, whose location was chosen as the standard.
Having software work consistently anywhere is a good thing.
And most Debian gripes about RPM are from people who think apt is a packaging system. It isn't - dpkg is. And most of your gripes are solved with up2date, yum, or apt (the RPM version).
> Basic stuff like quotas. How the kernel knows where the root partition is. What the difference between the exire time in an SOA record and the TTL in the zone file is.
Sorry, but you don't need to know any of that to be a sysadmin.
Don't apologize, that's only your opinion. It's existence doesn't prove my opinion wrong, nor do your arguments.
Do you think setting up a fileserver is or is not a common system adminsitration task?
Why does learning scripting tools make you a competant systems adminsitrator? Is awk required to be a good sysadmin? I know plenty of folk who know quite little awk and are very well regarded as admins.
There are things you may need in a "real job" that you might not learn at home, like how to set up a mail server, or how to set up a website.
Why would a potential administrator want to learn sed or awk more than how to set up a mail server? Since setting up a mail server has a practical outcome, whereas learning sed on its own doesn't, I doubt they'd find the motivation. My personal experience with lots of new admins (confession time: I train for Red Hat) shows that very few self taught admins have sed and awk skills, though they're much mroe likely to have tried setting up, say, Samba or Postfix.
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That's the news here, not the technology per se.
From the article:
It generates color using an entirely new driving method called sub-pixel unit driving methodology.
Entirely new makes it sound as if its a new technology, not a hardware implementation of an existing technology. The article is a press release reprinted by a lazy journalist.
Like what X on my screen is doing right now?
Than someone with neither the talent to make that much money, and the heart to give so much of his resources and *time* away, being laughed at by some sad git on Slashdot?
NX (www.nomachine.com) provides X compression that's competitive with Metaframe (ie, better than everything else).
On the freedesktop.org lists, there was talk of a VNC server that used X's new damage extension to work out what's changed on screen without crappy polling.
Go google for it. I have work to do.
Furthermore, what is this shit about putting everybody's name in the NY Times?
The best thing would be to have the names as light grey text on a white background, as a background to the whole ad.
Asides from the first sentence of your post not making sense, power users already know about Firefox from those same compuer magazines.
Oops, you're right. The umask thing is true, but I'd forgotten about the folder permissions.
I'm just curious but... isn't it a flaw of the operating system that files generated by a user aren't automatically restricted to access by that user? This isn't google's fault, the same exact design ported to linux would work flawlessly.
No it wouldn't. The default permissions (umasks) in almost every Linux distribution allow 'others' read access on new files.
Whether this is a good thing is left up to the reader.
There is a market for kernels.
There is not a market for Linux kernels.
The Linux kernel still has value in the earlier market.
There is a market for paintings.
There is not a market for Mono Lisas.
The Mona Lisa still has value in the earlier market.
Aye. It's much faster on my 2.2Ghz lappie though - enough to test OSX out, and actually get a feel for what it's like running it.
m l?doc1=695 99
Here's an Xbench benchmark of PearPC against native apps (/. URLs are broken):
http://ladd.dyndns.org/xbench/merge.xht
Red Hat has followed by splitting their Desktop Linux out to Fedora which is community driven
Er, no. Red Hat has a desktop product which includes both Gnome and KDE. Red Hat likes Gnome, and pays a lot of Gnome developers. IIRC, RHEL 4 will include Gnome 2.8, as will FC3.
Red Hat Desktop: http://www.apac.redhat.com/software/rhel/desktop/
PS - This isn't in reponse to your post - sorry about that. I wanted to get it up top tho, as its a common misconception.
You can use group policy with OpenLDAP and Samba 3 with Nitrobit Group Policy.
For a Windows server to run it on. Plus more for additional client access licenses. Which is fine if you've already spent that money.
For the rest of us, grab WindowsUpdate Cache. Runs on Squid, the world's most popular proxy server.
Agreed - but its true they are indeed linked - the opposite way. Journalism cannot be effective without effective democracy. We've seen this repeatedly in the last year in Russia, Iraq (post Saddam, pre US censoring journalists) and the US itself trying to report on government prison camps.
I reckon this browser needs one last rename.
Firefox Aye Bro.
They won't license to us, so we won't license to them. Nyah.
Except if you read the article (hell, its on this page, you didn't have to click) where he explicitly says he'd be happy to license Real's technology.
Sheesh...
His point is:
a) Companies should license their technology.
b) Real would do so if it were in Apple's shoes.
c) Hence Apple would never need to R/E Real formats.
Except that this really has nothing to do with software.
!
Software == source.
Er, yes. Software is generally created from source. Not having source available doesn't make something not software. In fact, having source available doesn't make it Open Source either (eg, qmail, pine, Windows 2003).
This is not about binary only stuff. Read the article. It's clear you haven't.
Actually, RPM is the standard packaging format for LSB. Thank God for gentoo...
Why do you need a different packaging system to download and compile software and its dependencies based on your preferred compiler options?
Last time I checked, you don't. up2date can download source packages, rpmbuild can rebuild them, and you can use cflags with RPM just like anything else.
Sure, Gentoo automates that, but there's no reason they need a seperate packaging system to di it.
Additonally Suse, Red Hat and everyone else already use optimized bianries where it matters, automatically installing the right kernel and c libaries based on processor type. Multimedia sites for Fedora / RHEL and Suse also include optimized packages for totem / mplayer etc to, and up2date / yast automatically picks them out.
Indeed. Red Hat Suse, and Debian are all fringe distros. Unless Yggdrasil gets on board, I say the project is doomed.
Ideally, they'd have a test suite for systems available
/. fucked that URL up, though my HTML is fine, here it is...
Since
http://www.linuxbase.org/download...
Ideally, they'd have a test suite for systems available
Like this?
the LSB folks have thumbed their nose at Debian repeatedly, but for some reason they keep trying.
How? Last time I checked, it was Red Hat and Suse who had to make sure their init scripts were under the LSB decided standard location - not Debian, whose location was chosen as the standard.
Having software work consistently anywhere is a good thing.
And most Debian gripes about RPM are from people who think apt is a packaging system. It isn't - dpkg is. And most of your gripes are solved with up2date, yum, or apt (the RPM version).
> Basic stuff like quotas. How the kernel knows where the root partition is. What the difference between the exire time in an SOA record and the TTL in the zone file is.
Sorry, but you don't need to know any of that to be a sysadmin.
Don't apologize, that's only your opinion. It's existence doesn't prove my opinion wrong, nor do your arguments.
Do you think setting up a fileserver is or is not a common system adminsitration task?
Why does learning scripting tools make you a competant systems adminsitrator? Is awk required to be a good sysadmin? I know plenty of folk who know quite little awk and are very well regarded as admins.
There are things you may need in a "real job" that you might not learn at home, like how to set up a mail server, or how to set up a website.
Why would a potential administrator want to learn sed or awk more than how to set up a mail server? Since setting up a mail server has a practical outcome, whereas learning sed on its own doesn't, I doubt they'd find the motivation. My personal experience with lots of new admins (confession time: I train for Red Hat) shows that very few self taught admins have sed and awk skills, though they're much mroe likely to have tried setting up, say, Samba or Postfix.