I have to use Windows at work. And while the GUI is mostly smooth and responsive, there are times it's very jerky and slow. People have told me this is because the software that is installed puts too heavy of a load on the system. But not matter how much load I put on my FreeBSD+X.org system, I never get any stutter on the GUI.
The reason is known. It's name is nvidia. Seriously. This is one of the disadvantages of a closed driver. After one too many lockups under FreeBSD I dumped my card and got a Radeon. Its open source driver, while not perfect, is fairly decent and hasn't locked up once.
Funny, just yesterday a guy was complaining about a KDE story being in the BSD section. I think it's time to give every story its own section, that way no one will complain...
If you're not using Bitstream Vera, try it out. It's free (and mostly open) and not too bad. If that still doesn't rock your boat, there are the Microsoft "webfonts", which are slightly better. They're free, but not as open.
Hee hee. You'll never catch me proclaiming the infallibility of Slashdot posters or editors! But despite the title, where else would you put this story than under BSD and Linux? KDE is *not* a Linux-only desktop, so to consign it there is not correct.
Thanks for giving me something with which to fire back.
They're not doing it because anyone complained. Mostly they're doing it because they need a real actual genuine logo, and Beastie is only a mascot. There are no plans to get rid of the daemon. None. Read the article text.
Yes, you can find some people who think dressing up as a cowboy or princess on All Saint's Eve. You can even find some that will refuse to live in a house with an address of 666. And I'm certain there must be at least one or two people who get offended by Beastie. To assign the attributes of a small group of fringe cases to the demographic as a whole is nothing less than bigotry.
Except that there have been no whims from the right asking for its removal. None. Granted, there have been a few from Linux using Slashdot trolls, but there haven't been from any genuine FreeBSD users.
My mother is one of the most devout Christians I know. She also worked on the Bush campaign. Yet she cleans her house with a Dirt Devil (tm) vacumn and makes Underwood Deviled Ham sandwiches. She used to have a siamese cat named "Demon". Needless to say, she doesn't have a problem with Beastie the Daemon.
Got any handy links to a recent one of those questions? Specifically, one that is asking to remove it for religious reasons. Because I keep hearing this story that Christians are offended by it, but as a Christian myself, neither I nor my Christian friends and relatives are offended in any way by beastie.
p.s. GWB won the last election because 51% of the voters voted for him. It's that simple.
Seen in real life:/* IMPORTANT: comment out the following before release */
This was above a section of code that gave the developer a gaping back door into the system for debug purposes. The code in question had been out in the field for over five years.
It IS unser Linux. It's also under BSD (Free, Open, Net, et al). Why? Because KDE is a OS neutral desktop. Which means it runs just fine under BSD. Ditto for GNOME. Ditto for XFCE. Ditto for every other desktop and window manager.
Nothing is forcing you to click on the story if you're not interested in it, even it if happens to be incuded in the BSD section.
Because the Windows desktop sucks. Of all the desktops out there, Windows is the worst. Hear me out! I'm not talking about installing applications (even though I prefer package managers to installers), because that's not the "destkop". I'm not talking about the plethora of drivers for Windows, because that's not the desktop either. And I'm not talking about the feature packed-ness Word, Visual Studio or Outlook, because again, those are not the desktop.
There is not z-order control or snap-to in Windows. No shading. There are no multiple desktops. The "show desktop" button isn't a toggle. No network transparency. Primitive drag-n-drop. That's just for starters. Other than some new skins and new weirdass menus that keep changing and hiding entries, the Windows desktop hasn't progressed one month past 1995.
I'm a firm believer in surge protectors. Years ago (back when the Pentium 100MHz roamed the plains), a lightning storm decided to play havoc on the neighborhood.
When I came home from work, I smelled ozone and burnt plastic. Looking around I noticed that the surge protector power supply plug was melted and fused to the wall socket. Though ruined, the surge protector did its job. Nothing attached to it was affected by the lightning strike that hit the powerline outside.
They already have most of the world by the balls in terms of what they manufacture for us.
Or another way to look at it, is that we have China by the balls in terms of the money we send to them for their goods. Trade is always a two way street.
We have a multi-automobile world, a multi-toaster world and a multi-lightbulb world. Why can't we have a multi-browser world as well? But the IT industry can't get their head around that concept.
Last month I ran across an intranet site whose links only worked in IE. The reason was due to malformed URLs that IE could decipher but Firefox, Mozilla and Konqeror could not. Typos! Bloody typos! This mistake could have been caught with five seconds of testing on a different browser. I don't know what's worse, an IT industry that doesn't think there's more than one browser, or an IT industry that refuses to test its products.
When I called the webmaster to complain, and point out his typos, he response was, "just use explorer you dolt!"
I agree with you that the war metaphor is lousy. But it's used by pundits everywhere there is some sort of prize or ranking to be won. Cheesy example: Consumer Report's Battle of the Hybrids! In the real world it's okay to come in second or third place. There's nothing to be ashamed of if your car didn't make it to the top of the list.
But the software world is different. It's a black and white world of monopolies. There's no room for a number two, only room for the winner and the utterly destroyed competition. While this is the attitude of Microsoft, it's ALSO the attitude of the industry as a whole. There can only be one operating system, one office suite, one music player, and one browser. Even the Free Software community is plagued by this attitude. Linus jokes about "world domination". There's the "war of the desktops" where the loser is being ingracious by not discontinuing development and wiping the CVS repository. Forking and duplication are considered harmful to the community.
Look it up in the s/key dictionary. There are several words in it that make me think that when the dictionary was made they pulled words out of a daily newspaper.
My first computer was a 8086 11Mhz. My very next computer was a Pentium 100Mhz. One of the first programs I ran on the Pentium was "The Two Towers" RPG.
Holy crap! The game was meant for the original 4.77MHz 8088, where you would get a nice slow plodding gait from the characters. But now it was so fast as to be unplayable. I think I managed to get Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli from Amon Hen to Fangorn in five seconds. "Look, there's a fallen leaf brooch, whoops, it's gone already..."
The GPL allows you to develop proprietary closed source software if you don't distribute it.
I might quibble with the term "proprietary closed source" in reference to unpublished software, but in any case this is a given. You can do anything you want with GPL software if you don't distribute it.
Trolltech has no say to limit your rights to do this.
They don't. However, this is only with regards to the Qt Open Source. Qt Commercial has different rules.
just tell them the truth... to keep development costs low until release was imminent.
That's exactly what they are trying to prevent. Qt Commercial is not shareware. You don't get to try out proprietary developement before you buy the proprietary license. They want their money early, not late, which is why you pay first for the licenses, not afterwards. That late sale will NOT be the exact same amount of money. If it turns out to be a year long development, then they're out one year's worth interest at the minimum.
If I were running the company, and someone came to me all arrogant demanding a license after they used the free version to cut their costs, if I were in a bad mood I would tell them to take a hike. If I were in a good mood I would charge them a "late fee".
You don't tell Microsoft that you'll pay them later for Visual Studio after you've finished using it. Why should Trolltech be any different?
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I have to use Windows at work. And while the GUI is mostly smooth and responsive, there are times it's very jerky and slow. People have told me this is because the software that is installed puts too heavy of a load on the system. But not matter how much load I put on my FreeBSD+X.org system, I never get any stutter on the GUI.
The reason is known. It's name is nvidia. Seriously. This is one of the disadvantages of a closed driver. After one too many lockups under FreeBSD I dumped my card and got a Radeon. Its open source driver, while not perfect, is fairly decent and hasn't locked up once.
I'm actually using X11R5 on an old codebase at work. It's mostly the same, except everytime you look up a X11 manpage online it says "deprecated".
Funny, just yesterday a guy was complaining about a KDE story being in the BSD section. I think it's time to give every story its own section, that way no one will complain...
If you're not using Bitstream Vera, try it out. It's free (and mostly open) and not too bad. If that still doesn't rock your boat, there are the Microsoft "webfonts", which are slightly better. They're free, but not as open.
Hee hee. You'll never catch me proclaiming the infallibility of Slashdot posters or editors! But despite the title, where else would you put this story than under BSD and Linux? KDE is *not* a Linux-only desktop, so to consign it there is not correct.
Thanks for giving me something with which to fire back.
Glad to be of service!
They're not doing it because anyone complained. Mostly they're doing it because they need a real actual genuine logo, and Beastie is only a mascot. There are no plans to get rid of the daemon. None. Read the article text.
Yes, you can find some people who think dressing up as a cowboy or princess on All Saint's Eve. You can even find some that will refuse to live in a house with an address of 666. And I'm certain there must be at least one or two people who get offended by Beastie. To assign the attributes of a small group of fringe cases to the demographic as a whole is nothing less than bigotry.
I was told by a friend of a friend who used to know a guy living next door to an IETF member that you're completely wrong.
Except that there have been no whims from the right asking for its removal. None. Granted, there have been a few from Linux using Slashdot trolls, but there haven't been from any genuine FreeBSD users.
My mother is one of the most devout Christians I know. She also worked on the Bush campaign. Yet she cleans her house with a Dirt Devil (tm) vacumn and makes Underwood Deviled Ham sandwiches. She used to have a siamese cat named "Demon". Needless to say, she doesn't have a problem with Beastie the Daemon.
Got any handy links to a recent one of those questions? Specifically, one that is asking to remove it for religious reasons. Because I keep hearing this story that Christians are offended by it, but as a Christian myself, neither I nor my Christian friends and relatives are offended in any way by beastie.
p.s. GWB won the last election because 51% of the voters voted for him. It's that simple.
I was going to submit their old one.
Funny, they don't have an old logo. Really, they don't. They do have a mascot, which isn't going to be changed, but they don't have a logo.
What's truly sad is that these people are so caught up in their paranoia that they don't realize that the daemon mascot is NOT GOING TO GO AWAY!
I miss the old days, where Windows 95 ran fast on a P133 with 4Mb :-)
Seen in real life: /* IMPORTANT: comment out the following before release */
This was above a section of code that gave the developer a gaping back door into the system for debug purposes. The code in question had been out in the field for over five years.
It IS unser Linux. It's also under BSD (Free, Open, Net, et al). Why? Because KDE is a OS neutral desktop. Which means it runs just fine under BSD. Ditto for GNOME. Ditto for XFCE. Ditto for every other desktop and window manager.
Nothing is forcing you to click on the story if you're not interested in it, even it if happens to be incuded in the BSD section.
I see that one all the time in the proprietary code base at work.
But why KDE the desktop environment?
Because the Windows desktop sucks. Of all the desktops out there, Windows is the worst. Hear me out! I'm not talking about installing applications (even though I prefer package managers to installers), because that's not the "destkop". I'm not talking about the plethora of drivers for Windows, because that's not the desktop either. And I'm not talking about the feature packed-ness Word, Visual Studio or Outlook, because again, those are not the desktop.
There is not z-order control or snap-to in Windows. No shading. There are no multiple desktops. The "show desktop" button isn't a toggle. No network transparency. Primitive drag-n-drop. That's just for starters. Other than some new skins and new weirdass menus that keep changing and hiding entries, the Windows desktop hasn't progressed one month past 1995.
I'm pissed that not everyone wears the same brand of clothing.
I'm a firm believer in surge protectors. Years ago (back when the Pentium 100MHz roamed the plains), a lightning storm decided to play havoc on the neighborhood.
When I came home from work, I smelled ozone and burnt plastic. Looking around I noticed that the surge protector power supply plug was melted and fused to the wall socket. Though ruined, the surge protector did its job. Nothing attached to it was affected by the lightning strike that hit the powerline outside.
They already have most of the world by the balls in terms of what they manufacture for us.
Or another way to look at it, is that we have China by the balls in terms of the money we send to them for their goods. Trade is always a two way street.
We have a multi-automobile world, a multi-toaster world and a multi-lightbulb world. Why can't we have a multi-browser world as well? But the IT industry can't get their head around that concept.
Last month I ran across an intranet site whose links only worked in IE. The reason was due to malformed URLs that IE could decipher but Firefox, Mozilla and Konqeror could not. Typos! Bloody typos! This mistake could have been caught with five seconds of testing on a different browser. I don't know what's worse, an IT industry that doesn't think there's more than one browser, or an IT industry that refuses to test its products.
When I called the webmaster to complain, and point out his typos, he response was, "just use explorer you dolt!"
I agree with you that the war metaphor is lousy. But it's used by pundits everywhere there is some sort of prize or ranking to be won. Cheesy example: Consumer Report's Battle of the Hybrids! In the real world it's okay to come in second or third place. There's nothing to be ashamed of if your car didn't make it to the top of the list.
But the software world is different. It's a black and white world of monopolies. There's no room for a number two, only room for the winner and the utterly destroyed competition. While this is the attitude of Microsoft, it's ALSO the attitude of the industry as a whole. There can only be one operating system, one office suite, one music player, and one browser. Even the Free Software community is plagued by this attitude. Linus jokes about "world domination". There's the "war of the desktops" where the loser is being ingracious by not discontinuing development and wiping the CVS repository. Forking and duplication are considered harmful to the community.
Look it up in the s/key dictionary. There are several words in it that make me think that when the dictionary was made they pulled words out of a daily newspaper.
For your edification, here's a link to one copy.
My first computer was a 8086 11Mhz. My very next computer was a Pentium 100Mhz. One of the first programs I ran on the Pentium was "The Two Towers" RPG.
Holy crap! The game was meant for the original 4.77MHz 8088, where you would get a nice slow plodding gait from the characters. But now it was so fast as to be unplayable. I think I managed to get Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli from Amon Hen to Fangorn in five seconds. "Look, there's a fallen leaf brooch, whoops, it's gone already..."
The GPL allows you to develop proprietary closed source software if you don't distribute it.
I might quibble with the term "proprietary closed source" in reference to unpublished software, but in any case this is a given. You can do anything you want with GPL software if you don't distribute it.
Trolltech has no say to limit your rights to do this.
They don't. However, this is only with regards to the Qt Open Source. Qt Commercial has different rules.
just tell them the truth... to keep development costs low until release was imminent.
That's exactly what they are trying to prevent. Qt Commercial is not shareware. You don't get to try out proprietary developement before you buy the proprietary license. They want their money early, not late, which is why you pay first for the licenses, not afterwards. That late sale will NOT be the exact same amount of money. If it turns out to be a year long development, then they're out one year's worth interest at the minimum.
If I were running the company, and someone came to me all arrogant demanding a license after they used the free version to cut their costs, if I were in a bad mood I would tell them to take a hike. If I were in a good mood I would charge them a "late fee".
You don't tell Microsoft that you'll pay them later for Visual Studio after you've finished using it. Why should Trolltech be any different?