I am guessing that Google plans on using the Star Office blogging add-on to bridge the gap between desktop app and web-app.
Imagine writing a document and telling it to save to your Google account online and then being able to work with it remotely via Google Docs and blogger (also owned by Google).
Then again, maybe Sun has an aqua-native Mac OS X port that they have been secretly working on? That would make it much more attractive too.
Eric Schmidt is no dope. Seeing a Google-Sun collaboration does make me think of all of the old Apple-Sun rumors. And, Schmidt is on the Apple Board.
Basically, Star Office is OpenOffice.org + extras. So, if he could make a deal to distribute that for free, why bother with Star Office - "extras" at all?
Oh, if only Apple would license their cross-platform DRM! I know this will be modded as off-topic BUT I wish Apple would license its DRM to the BBC! That way, the BEEB would have an easy way of distributing their content in a non-Windows environment and still satisfy their perceived DRM need. It still would not make a native Linux method of playing BBC content, but it is pretty easy to get iTunes (for example) to run under wine. So, though it is not a perfect solution, at least it would be better than what the BEEB is doing now
So, go ahead, mod me off-topic, but I am hoping to at least also get to be modded as interesting as well.
Since Google tests and refines it's search using http://www.searchmash.com/, maybe they should be trying to out-do Google's future instead of trying to keep up with it's present?
Until there is a real NEED for this, I don't see it happening.
That said, I would think that true VR will come to game consoles long before it comes to any generic computer. In the Console market, this seems like a natural evolution and not just some NEAT-O idea being added on for the sake of change.
The Opensource virus scanner ClamXav (based on ClamAV) already scans for this. I simply set it to watch my desktop and mail downloads folders. I even tested it by downloading the sample file and sure enough, it warns me both in Safari and in Mail.app
Apple has supported GIMP-print this way for a while now. Granted, they weren't giving them laptops. But, people working on GIMP-print got iMacs and were given special discounts on buying other macs for personal use.
It's a great model. Hopefully, they will continue to do it for years to come.
Since the leaked version of MacOSX for x86 processors seems to run well on non-Intel hardware, what if Google uses Darwin (maintained by Apple) with a non-aqua GUI (KDE/Gnome/GNUstep... whatever)?
Why Darwin? Well... that way they get Apple maintaining the OS for them. If they install the KDE (v4) and GNUstep libraries, they get even more of OSXs featureset. And, without Aqua, they are not an Apple competitor since they could not run OSX apps.
The hacked OSX86 seems to run well on AMD chips even though Apple has an "Intel at the Core" mindset. So, a Google Cube could be a set-top MacMini with Firefox or Konqueror accessing data stored at GoogleBase.
I remember when IE mac came out. It was just a hacked version of Mosaic. Yes, they were able to do a lot with that bit of vintage code, but it would just take too much work to bring it up to date.
When Apple abandoned development of its first web browser, Cyberdog, there was a plug-in to get it to use mac IE's rendering engine.
An unoptimized site is the equivalent of Spanglish. Yes, it's written in a way the audience can understand, but it isn't written with proper Spanish grammar. So, going through a site and making all the verbs and nouns agree and removing all of the slang is really all optimization is:
-make it valid HTML
-add your metatags
-link to other valid sources of similar data
-get them to link to you
-add yourself to http://dmoz.org/
While, yes, I admit that the skill is in getting the site to be standards compliant while not breaking the design, and in knowing how to write the best metatags, anyone offering anything more than that might as well be selling the Brooklyn Bridge.
Just place it near an air vent or run a fan near the unit.
I bet MS did not test the power supply sitting on a carpet. And, I would bet that the failing units are either sitting on a carpet, or sitting somewhere else where they collect a lot of heat.
Now that we know the crash is a heat problem, this one is an easy "fix" until MS reworks the power supply.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19074/
The Iridium theme for MacOSX 10.4 can make all of those different kinds of windows (including the ones from the new iTunes) match each other.
Wouldn't it be nice if Apple would provide us with a unified GUI!
(BTW: This is a shameless plug. I wrote Iridium.)
All you had to do to illegally copy MS Word back in the days of DOS was to duplicate the files in the same dir structure on a new machine. back in the days of Single and Double density disks, this took a bit of time, but it worked.
If you tried to do the same with Word Perfect, it did not work.
So, MS Word gained market share through piracy.
In the same way, MacOS X x86 will gain marketshare. If Apple does nothing to stop the geek community running OSX on non-Apple hardware, eventually the IT people among us will start to reccommend OSX to the schools and businesses that we work for.
We may also reccommend macs to friends that we don't have time to build machines for.
So, if Apple learns from old MS strategy on this one, I say they win.
Don't forget that the WebKit behind Safari is KHTML from the KDE Project.
Wouldn't it make sense to build an office suite based upon something that works well with it?
Well, KOffice integrates so well into the KDE environment, it is incredible!
KOffice always felt more like AppleWorks than MS Office to me (not sure why). I, for one, would love to see Apple take this promising piece of software and use its underlying libraries as the basis of iWork.
Apple has been great about submitting KHTML changes back to the project tree. KOffice would benefit so much from Apple taking up their code.
http://www.metacard.com/ (although sold to runrev for commercial development, getting the old metacard IDE and heading over to yahoo groups, you will find some nice geeks continuing development of the free version)
http://www.hyperstudio.com/ It's been forever since they released a new version, and there is no Linux version of the software.
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That would be GNUstep http://gnustep.org/
It's got a long way to go, but eventually, they intend to make .apps from OSX run natively. Remember mac OSX is really NeXTstep 5 (or something).
Archive and install!
It's the safest way to upgrade. Yes, it's less convenient, but way better than finding out that some 3rd party tweak is not compatible the hard way...
I am guessing that Google plans on using the Star Office blogging add-on to bridge the gap between desktop app and web-app.
Imagine writing a document and telling it to save to your Google account online and then being able to work with it remotely via Google Docs and blogger (also owned by Google).
Then again, maybe Sun has an aqua-native Mac OS X port that they have been secretly working on? That would make it much more attractive too.
Eric Schmidt is no dope. Seeing a Google-Sun collaboration does make me think of all of the old Apple-Sun rumors. And, Schmidt is on the Apple Board.
Basically, Star Office is OpenOffice.org + extras. So, if he could make a deal to distribute that for free, why bother with Star Office - "extras" at all?
Oh, if only Apple would license their cross-platform DRM! I know this will be modded as off-topic BUT I wish Apple would license its DRM to the BBC! That way, the BEEB would have an easy way of distributing their content in a non-Windows environment and still satisfy their perceived DRM need. It still would not make a native Linux method of playing BBC content, but it is pretty easy to get iTunes (for example) to run under wine. So, though it is not a perfect solution, at least it would be better than what the BEEB is doing now
So, go ahead, mod me off-topic, but I am hoping to at least also get to be modded as interesting as well.
This method is pretty damned close to the method they "use" in the series to communicate INSTANTANEOUSLY over distances of MANY lightyears.
Come on guys! Keep your geek-references straight!
Since Google tests and refines it's search using http://www.searchmash.com/, maybe they should be trying to out-do Google's future instead of trying to keep up with it's present?
I nominate Jes Hall. KDE Developer, photographer, and all around ubergeek!
This sounds like change for the sake of change.
Until there is a real NEED for this, I don't see it happening.
That said, I would think that true VR will come to game consoles long before it comes to any generic computer. In the Console market, this seems like a natural evolution and not just some NEAT-O idea being added on for the sake of change.
Vegetarians subvert the life cycles of plant-based life forms everyday ;)
Under 10.4.7, set Safari to Mozilla 1.1 as its User Agent (in the debug menu). Writely works great then, even though it is listed as unsupported.
The Opensource virus scanner ClamXav (based on ClamAV) already scans for this. I simply set it to watch my desktop and mail downloads folders. I even tested it by downloading the sample file and sure enough, it warns me both in Safari and in Mail.app
...for the company that named one of it's System Beeps Sosumi (pronounced "So Sue Me") when Apple Records tried to shut them down a while back.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SosumiApple has supported GIMP-print this way for a while now. Granted, they weren't giving them laptops. But, people working on GIMP-print got iMacs and were given special discounts on buying other macs for personal use.
It's a great model. Hopefully, they will continue to do it for years to come.
Since the leaked version of MacOSX for x86 processors seems to run well on non-Intel hardware, what if Google uses Darwin (maintained by Apple) with a non-aqua GUI (KDE/Gnome/GNUstep... whatever)?
Why Darwin? Well... that way they get Apple maintaining the OS for them. If they install the KDE (v4) and GNUstep libraries, they get even more of OSXs featureset. And, without Aqua, they are not an Apple competitor since they could not run OSX apps.
The hacked OSX86 seems to run well on AMD chips even though Apple has an "Intel at the Core" mindset. So, a Google Cube could be a set-top MacMini with Firefox or Konqueror accessing data stored at GoogleBase.
I remember when IE mac came out. It was just a hacked version of Mosaic. Yes, they were able to do a lot with that bit of vintage code, but it would just take too much work to bring it up to date.
When Apple abandoned development of its first web browser, Cyberdog, there was a plug-in to get it to use mac IE's rendering engine.
Oh, how times have changed!
An unoptimized site is the equivalent of Spanglish. Yes, it's written in a way the audience can understand, but it isn't written with proper Spanish grammar. So, going through a site and making all the verbs and nouns agree and removing all of the slang is really all optimization is:
-make it valid HTML
-add your metatags
-link to other valid sources of similar data
-get them to link to you
-add yourself to http://dmoz.org/
While, yes, I admit that the skill is in getting the site to be standards compliant while not breaking the design, and in knowing how to write the best metatags, anyone offering anything more than that might as well be selling the Brooklyn Bridge.
This would be great for TuxKart http://tuxkart.sourceforge.net/ and SuperTux http://supertux.berlios.de/! Or would these be more appropriate on a hacked Revolution http://www.nintendo.com/revolution?
I bet MS did not test the power supply sitting on a carpet. And, I would bet that the failing units are either sitting on a carpet, or sitting somewhere else where they collect a lot of heat.
Now that we know the crash is a heat problem, this one is an easy "fix" until MS reworks the power supply.
So, Creative Commons? Not GPL or BSD? http://creativecommons.org/
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19074/ The Iridium theme for MacOSX 10.4 can make all of those different kinds of windows (including the ones from the new iTunes) match each other. Wouldn't it be nice if Apple would provide us with a unified GUI! (BTW: This is a shameless plug. I wrote Iridium.)
All you had to do to illegally copy MS Word back in the days of DOS was to duplicate the files in the same dir structure on a new machine. back in the days of Single and Double density disks, this took a bit of time, but it worked.
If you tried to do the same with Word Perfect, it did not work.
So, MS Word gained market share through piracy.
In the same way, MacOS X x86 will gain marketshare. If Apple does nothing to stop the geek community running OSX on non-Apple hardware, eventually the IT people among us will start to reccommend OSX to the schools and businesses that we work for.
We may also reccommend macs to friends that we don't have time to build machines for.
So, if Apple learns from old MS strategy on this one, I say they win.
They are making a video iPod with a touch screen interface.
They just added video capabilities to iTunes. Now they need to expand the iPod accordingly, before they launch the online Movie Store.
Wouldn't it make sense to build an office suite based upon something that works well with it?
Well, KOffice integrates so well into the KDE environment, it is incredible!
KOffice always felt more like AppleWorks than MS Office to me (not sure why). I, for one, would love to see Apple take this promising piece of software and use its underlying libraries as the basis of iWork.
Apple has been great about submitting KHTML changes back to the project tree. KOffice would benefit so much from Apple taking up their code.
Don't forget about GNUWIN II!
All your favorite OSS stuff, but get them there for windows. All SPYWARE FREE!
You will also find a few apps that are *gasp* Windows Only! (Like Miranda IM which I wish would go cross platform.)
Anyway, its always great to find more sources for clean software.
http://www.metacard.com/
(although sold to runrev for commercial development, getting the old metacard IDE and heading over to yahoo groups, you will find some nice geeks continuing development of the free version)
http://www.hyperstudio.com/
It's been forever since they released a new version, and there is no Linux version of the software.
http://www.squeak.org/