Can you point to a database program that is cross-platform? [ *BSD *Nix, Win*, MacOS 7.5+, Mac OS X, BeOS ]
MySQL is available cross-platform, as is R (statistics package). As easy, or easier to use than a spreadsheet, for Joe Sixpack?
For small stuff (for a DB - 100K numbers is small for a DB) SQLite is the silver bullet. It supports basic SQL and expressions like abs, sum, like, min, max, avg and count. The available java wrapper makes it pretty cross-platform. For bigger stuff, set up mysql and phpmyadmin and show Joe only the php frontend.
SQL is very easy to learn and is very powerful for "spreadsheet"-like operations.
If you need advanced math and a spreadsheet-like visualisation use some scientific package like Origin from OriginLabs or SPSS (both expensive). Or use R - it is cross-platform, powerful, but requires some learning...
(for example, data collected in the field can have millions upon millions of rows)
Use a numeric package. Also concider using a database for the data - for simple accounting SQL provides enough functionality....
Its usability is way low compared to spreadsheets.
Thats just wrong - it depends on the task. Spreadsheets are the right tools for a budget calulation resulting in a nice formatted table for the boss. If you have more then 64K lines of data, you should use something like R, mupad, mathematica or octave - simply because they are more useable for this task - 64k lines of data do not need a pretty layout - they will (almost) never get printed - they need a tool to be transparently processed. Spreadsheets dont do this well (for example, you will hardly ever notice it if a cell was left out in a "Edit->Fill->Down" maneuver or if the formula in a cell was accedently modified while moving over the sheet). A high-level numerical computation language is far superior here. And BTW, if someone claims to be unable to use these high-level tools, I would hardly trust his/her "research".
64k lines is enough for everybody - because speadsheets with more than 5-10k lines are not savely manageable. Use a numeric package for these, if you do science or a database if you do accouting.
Always use the right tools for the job.
can't someone figure out a smart solution for this without asking the user to modify the source themselves?
If you need more than 64k of data use a app made for scientific work, like R, mupad or Mathematica.
I really tried to like MC, but I always found it to cumbersome. If I am on a console only enviroment screen and a well-configured zsh were always doing MCs job faster..
One does not wonder if something exists for Emacs. One believes.
Same goes for vim: vimirc is quite usable and very "stealthy" for IRCing at work, because it is hidden in vim...
This should help the adoption rate of SUSE, much like it did for Red Hat.
This is not new: On SuSE's Ftp Server, you will find these ftp-installs are available at least since SuSE 8.0. The ftp-install has always been available a few weeks after the disc release.
This still won't prevent me from buying the cheaper copy and ripping it, er... backing it up... onto my hd for later viewing...
Actually it might lend people into making this a standard procedure - just in case. And once the image is on HDD, it is easier to decide to make a copy/reencode it (easy-to-use tools are available) - so this will propably actually promote piracy of rented DVDs.
Isn't CSU the biggest party in Bavaria (where Munich is)?
yes. Or is yet another case where the city is more progressive that the (rural) areas arround?
The country Bavaria was always ruled by the CSU. Munich is different... its current mayor is from the (left-wing) Green party, for example. source If they are against this Linux plan, have they the power to stop it?
Not right now - but four years is a long time.
nuances of OSS vs. ALSA vs. JACK or CUPS vs. LPR
OTOH, a good GUI hiding an ugly backend resulted in the Windows we have today. In your example at least OSS and LPR should be phased out quickly - it is easier to just make a better GUI for Jack on ALSA and CUPS then.
Really, what is kdeinit for? Why do I need a gnome-settings-daemon? Can't the settings be written to a file like every other program on the planet? Does your file manager need to run 24/7?
I would mod you up, if I could. "gnome-settings-daemon" and their friends are evil. Especially since gnome-apps rely on it and bloat the dependancies, even if you dont want to use the whole gnome-system. If everything is interdependant you also could go for a full integration like KDE. But these DE-services also promote the "hidden-from-user" mentality that went so awfully wrong in Windows. Some b0rked setting in gconf and apps dont start and you will never know why.... While I admit that I've been evaluating Gnome 2.6 the past few days, and I've tried out XFCE, my consistent favorite is WindowMaker.
Rox with one of the *box WMs is also a strong combo....
I used to run a GUI on 0.5 megs of RAM on the Amiga. And I even did run a GUI on 64K of RAM on the C64 (although there wasnt anything useful that could be done with it...)
The Dell website is a great example.
I went to dell.com pressed on the "Premier Login" button and Firefox rotates in a endless loop of:
Waiting for dell.com....
Waiting for signin.dell.com....
Transferring data from premier.dell.com....
Waiting for signin.dell.com....
Stopped.
Waiting for dell.com.... ...
They seem to be begging for a slashdotting *evilgrin*
I dont have any Windows installation left at home. But I now have a job where I need to work on windows. I needed to generate documents/pdfs from a php DB-frontend. With linux I would simply use latex, which is rock-solid on linux. I didnt even try to convince my boss to install latex on windows - He got big eyes of panic when I told him we might need to recompile php to enable some options (gd-support).
Other software I like to use isnt that stable on windows (gimp for example).
The little webserver i run on an old AMD K6-200 would be a no-go on windows - and a security nightmare.
And I would never be able to "customize" a desktop the way I did with my system. "Customization" like using a WM like fluxbox and a shell like zsh gives me fautures Joe average might not want but help me alot (tabbed windows).
Last, but not least: At work I was told to code using TAPI-interface from MS on VB6. Even a badly documented open source project has better documentation, at least one working example and a better design than this crap. If the rest of the APIs look the same, I know why there are less and less good freeware tools available for windows....
could someone explain why Gentoo made this move at this time?
Because gentoo only flies because of its community reporting bugs (esp. on bug days, generating ebuilds, helping newbies on IRC and in the forums. The community felt (rightly) part of gentoo belonging to them and feared it might be taken away from them someday.
It is sad that Daniel Robbins moved on to other projects - however he got quite a farewell gift, lets hope he will return someday...
How about charging people for Gentoo [...] instead of a non-quantifiable warm & fuzzy feeling?
Because the warm and fuzzy feeling in the community has been and will be the key to gentoos success.
The only thing that was discussed was charging for the services of a security enhanced gentoo with longer ebuild lifetimes etc... However, this might come someday as a addon to the existing gentoo infrastructure...
Good, complete and easy to navigate configuration tools.
less integration, more modularisation (it should be easier to use another wm for example)
Gnome aims to be a complete DE and thus to also be an option for beginners - it has to takes care that is is not squeezed between a clean small DE like xfce on one side and an fully bloated KDE in all its might on the other. Advanced users also tend sometimes to go for the leaner wm-only solutions like *box, fvwm and the like.
I think this comptition explains the above list. The first point is essential for beginners and advanced users alike. The second a result of gnomes obscure usage of gconf and essential for beginners, while the third was always the unique selling point of gnome over KDE.
Yes they are. The post you reference is talking about practicalities, not theoretics. It describes a communication system using two channels: a quantum one and a public one. Information describing which attributes of the quantum stream should be read are transmitted publiclly.
You cant use QC using only the QC-channel, so the is public channel is part of the theory.
However you are right: In theory a MIM is possible if the MIM has access to the public channel, can inpersonate the sender/reciever and intercept any attempted communication between the sender and the reciever. There are various means of commutication where this practically is hardly possible: radio, p2p networks (just ask the RIAA) for example. You could even require the reciever to reply via multiple channels - the MIM has to intercept all communication on all channels. The more channels you add the harder it gets - at some point, it will be easier to brute-force the onetime pad (if it is shorter than the message, every cryto is breakable in theory).
Social engineering or physical access to the sender/reciever are far bigger vulnerabilities at this point.
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Can you point to a database program that is cross-platform? [ *BSD *Nix, Win*, MacOS 7.5+, Mac OS X, BeOS ] ...
MySQL is available cross-platform, as is R (statistics package).
As easy, or easier to use than a spreadsheet, for Joe Sixpack?
For small stuff (for a DB - 100K numbers is small for a DB) SQLite is the silver bullet. It supports basic SQL and expressions like abs, sum, like, min, max, avg and count. The available java wrapper makes it pretty cross-platform. For bigger stuff, set up mysql and phpmyadmin and show Joe only the php frontend.
SQL is very easy to learn and is very powerful for "spreadsheet"-like operations.
If you need advanced math and a spreadsheet-like visualisation use some scientific package like Origin from OriginLabs or SPSS (both expensive). Or use R - it is cross-platform, powerful, but requires some learning
... it is published under the LGPL-2 and the Sun Industry Standards Source License.
(for example, data collected in the field can have millions upon millions of rows) ....
Use a numeric package. Also concider using a database for the data - for simple accounting SQL provides enough functionality
Its usability is way low compared to spreadsheets.
Thats just wrong - it depends on the task. Spreadsheets are the right tools for a budget calulation resulting in a nice formatted table for the boss. If you have more then 64K lines of data, you should use something like R, mupad, mathematica or octave - simply because they are more useable for this task - 64k lines of data do not need a pretty layout - they will (almost) never get printed - they need a tool to be transparently processed. Spreadsheets dont do this well (for example, you will hardly ever notice it if a cell was left out in a "Edit->Fill->Down" maneuver or if the formula in a cell was accedently modified while moving over the sheet). A high-level numerical computation language is far superior here. And BTW, if someone claims to be unable to use these high-level tools, I would hardly trust his/her "research".
64k lines is enough for everybody - because speadsheets with more than 5-10k lines are not savely manageable. Use a numeric package for these, if you do science or a database if you do accouting.
Always use the right tools for the job.
I guess you cannot take OOo sources and license it proprietary...
... unless you are SUN ...
can't someone figure out a smart solution for this without asking the user to modify the source themselves?
If you need more than 64k of data use a app made for scientific work, like R, mupad or Mathematica.
Its amazing they overlooked this as competition.
Maybe it is too good?
I really tried to like MC, but I always found it to cumbersome. If I am on a console only enviroment screen and a well-configured zsh were always doing MCs job faster ..
One does not wonder if something exists for Emacs. One believes. ...
Same goes for vim: vimirc is quite usable and very "stealthy" for IRCing at work, because it is hidden in vim
This should help the adoption rate of SUSE, much like it did for Red Hat.
This is not new: On SuSE's Ftp Server, you will find these ftp-installs are available at least since SuSE 8.0. The ftp-install has always been available a few weeks after the disc release.
This still won't prevent me from buying the cheaper copy and ripping it, er... backing it up... onto my hd for later viewing...
Actually it might lend people into making this a standard procedure - just in case. And once the image is on HDD, it is easier to decide to make a copy/reencode it (easy-to-use tools are available) - so this will propably actually promote piracy of rented DVDs.
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Isn't CSU the biggest party in Bavaria (where Munich is)? ... its current mayor is from the (left-wing) Green party, for example.
yes.
Or is yet another case where the city is more progressive that the (rural) areas arround?
The country Bavaria was always ruled by the CSU. Munich is different
source
If they are against this Linux plan, have they the power to stop it?
Not right now - but four years is a long time.
because the last 9 * 2 ....
I hate to rain on your parade, but there is no "last 9 * 2"
nuances of OSS vs. ALSA vs. JACK or CUPS vs. LPR
OTOH, a good GUI hiding an ugly backend resulted in the Windows we have today. In your example at least OSS and LPR should be phased out quickly - it is easier to just make a better GUI for Jack on ALSA and CUPS then.
Really, what is kdeinit for? Why do I need a gnome-settings-daemon? Can't the settings be written to a file like every other program on the planet? Does your file manager need to run 24/7? ....
I would mod you up, if I could. "gnome-settings-daemon" and their friends are evil. Especially since gnome-apps rely on it and bloat the dependancies, even if you dont want to use the whole gnome-system. If everything is interdependant you also could go for a full integration like KDE. But these DE-services also promote the "hidden-from-user" mentality that went so awfully wrong in Windows. Some b0rked setting in gconf and apps dont start and you will never know why....
While I admit that I've been evaluating Gnome 2.6 the past few days, and I've tried out XFCE, my consistent favorite is WindowMaker.
Rox with one of the *box WMs is also a strong combo
I used to run a GUI on 0.5 megs of RAM on the Amiga. And I even did run a GUI on 64K of RAM on the C64 (although there wasnt anything useful that could be done with it ...)
Ahh, almost forgot: And I liked it!
The Dell website is a great example. .... .... .... .... ....
...
I went to dell.com pressed on the "Premier Login" button and Firefox rotates in a endless loop of:
Waiting for dell.com
Waiting for signin.dell.com
Transferring data from premier.dell.com
Waiting for signin.dell.com
Stopped.
Waiting for dell.com
They seem to be begging for a slashdotting *evilgrin*
I dont have any Windows installation left at home. But I now have a job where I need to work on windows. I needed to generate documents/pdfs from a php DB-frontend. With linux I would simply use latex, which is rock-solid on linux. I didnt even try to convince my boss to install latex on windows - He got big eyes of panic when I told him we might need to recompile php to enable some options (gd-support).
Other software I like to use isnt that stable on windows (gimp for example).
The little webserver i run on an old AMD K6-200 would be a no-go on windows - and a security nightmare.
And I would never be able to "customize" a desktop the way I did with my system. "Customization" like using a WM like fluxbox and a shell like zsh gives me fautures Joe average might not want but help me alot (tabbed windows).
Last, but not least: At work I was told to code using TAPI-interface from MS on VB6. Even a badly documented open source project has better documentation, at least one working example and a better design than this crap. If the rest of the APIs look the same, I know why there are less and less good freeware tools available for windows....
could someone explain why Gentoo made this move at this time? ...
Because gentoo only flies because of its community reporting bugs (esp. on bug days, generating ebuilds, helping newbies on IRC and in the forums. The community felt (rightly) part of gentoo belonging to them and feared it might be taken away from them someday.
It is sad that Daniel Robbins moved on to other projects - however he got quite a farewell gift, lets hope he will return someday
How about charging people for Gentoo [...] instead of a non-quantifiable warm & fuzzy feeling? ...
Because the warm and fuzzy feeling in the community has been and will be the key to gentoos success.
The only thing that was discussed was charging for the services of a security enhanced gentoo with longer ebuild lifetimes etc... However, this might come someday as a addon to the existing gentoo infrastructure
- more stability.
- Good, complete and easy to navigate configuration tools.
- less integration, more modularisation (it should be easier to use another wm for example)
Gnome aims to be a complete DE and thus to also be an option for beginners - it has to takes care that is is not squeezed between a clean small DE like xfce on one side and an fully bloated KDE in all its might on the other. Advanced users also tend sometimes to go for the leaner wm-only solutions like *box, fvwm and the like.I think this comptition explains the above list. The first point is essential for beginners and advanced users alike. The second a result of gnomes obscure usage of gconf and essential for beginners, while the third was always the unique selling point of gnome over KDE.
Yes they are. The post you reference is talking about practicalities, not theoretics. It describes a communication system using two channels: a quantum one and a public one. Information describing which attributes of the quantum stream should be read are transmitted publiclly.
You cant use QC using only the QC-channel, so the is public channel is part of the theory.
However you are right: In theory a MIM is possible if the MIM has access to the public channel, can inpersonate the sender/reciever and intercept any attempted communication between the sender and the reciever. There are various means of commutication where this practically is hardly possible: radio, p2p networks (just ask the RIAA) for example. You could even require the reciever to reply via multiple channels - the MIM has to intercept all communication on all channels. The more channels you add the harder it gets - at some point, it will be easier to brute-force the onetime pad (if it is shorter than the message, every cryto is breakable in theory).
Social engineering or physical access to the sender/reciever are far bigger vulnerabilities at this point.
You transmit onetime pads via the QC channel for a transmission via a public channel. If you are being snooped, you just dont use the onetime pad..
Maybe some old post from me might help you getting the basic idea.