Does it use DBUS yet? Thats what im waiting for... better hardware response.
I dont mean to complain, but everytime i try to unmount a usb drive, etc. my windows using friend makes snide remarks about Linux... its starting to drive me nuts.
Usually im not running anything that should be accessing it either (the most used command on my computer is pkill -9 konqueror, lol).
But useability is another matter entierly. I seriously doubt that Yahoo or MSN will come up with a fast, "user-friendly" searh tool. If theres advertisments, they had better be small, non-disruptive in nature, or it will piss everyone off and have a negative impact on society's productiveness.
There already is indexed searching stuff in Windows. Its not great, but it has the right idea. It runs a service in the background and it looks/feels like a normal search tool. Except, that animated dog should be disabled by default (for performance and relevance reasons).
These new file search tools are going in the wrong direction - theyre trying to make you, the user, conform to their interface (standards) - which were made for INTERNET searching - when you've already become accustomed to standard file search interfaces. It will also probably do unnessecarily disruptive things like run in the taskbar (slow your computer down) and prompt you for updates.
Though, there is definitely room for a better advanced search thing in Linux. Mayby we'll be able to use it in scripts to help find different locations of things, such as in source compiling (eg: cant find qtlibs dir, please use --qtlibs="dir" then recompile).
I like my own SSID: "SphinctorNET". It used to the name of my dialup connection at home. We all used to say "its so crappy and useless!", and thats where the name started.
Its like that Radeon IGP thing that most laptops have now! They only tell you that the thing has "512mb" of ram, and then you realize its using a lot of that for the video card, so when it runs out of ram on relatively simple games you have to buy more ram.
I can sort of understand doing that in a laptop where theres space/heat concerns, but in a desktop? Why not just use CHEAPER RAM? Instead, they stress out the PCI express subsystem, which will probably result in something horrible, like 4x less the performance, making it crappier than my GeForce 3. Oh wait...:P
Exactly!! 'But that would give the user too much control'. Then they could "choose" not to view embedded scripts like Flash AD's and thats "bad" (LOL, not really).
It would be nice if people would stop using PDF files altogether. Either use text or pictures, or both, or some other format (TeX). If you dont want to make html, then make a document w/ text+pictures and convert it to html. Anything is better than PDF. THe worst is when people make improper/erronious PDF's - ive encountered these - they take move than 15 minutes to print a SINGLE PAGE (my printer is a new Laser). When i converted them to pictures and resized them, it printed instantly!!
they should hire that Jeaprody Champion! Oh wait.. microsoft already hired him.. Okay, what about trivial pursuit champions? ANyway you could even make a show out of it!
Heres a solution everyone can enjoy. "Fink That Patent" - a fun crazy trivia show where the contestants try to name/list prior art to a given patent, and they have a research database on hand (the internet and access to the american patent database thing) to search/check things. Every show, they go though a few hundred patents of a dubious nature, getting points, and the winner wins something great, like a high paying job at the patent office (lol) or just a normal Prize, or something.
whoops, didnt notice it was the same guy who made snort
i never said this was bad, i questioned its sustainability.
in 4 years, for all we know, an advanced Debian might put Mandrake, Redhat, and Xandros out of buisness. in their wake, the company would probably only need to hire a skeleton support group/team so to speak, or more IT staff and get them trained in Debian.
the only thing preventing that is the current ease of use level of other free linux distros, and the lack of freelance software support groups - once those things gradually change the corperate heads will notice.
How can a company that makes a front-end for Snort be worth $100 million!
Anyways, there you have it folks. Free engineering from a large community. Thats what the buisnesspeople want out of open source. And the profit comes from making the interface.
But... is it possible for Interface design profit to sustain code design in the long run? Once open source interfaces catch up, will this niche remain?
I get about one spam every 2 days in gmail. Hotmail gets only twice that. Even if you got like 50 spams a day at 40kb each (after you gave out your email adress to all those gay porn sites) it would take 450 days for that much spam to accumulate.
Or if you wanted you could set up a normal email program to access Gmail though POP3; A REALLY GOOD OPTION THAT NO OTHER WEBMAIL HAS, and simply press ctrl+a then delete.
I dont really know how anyone could dislike gmail; its very easy to use, incredibly fast, simple, clean, and very organized. The advertisements are either _beneficial_, or non-intrusive. Gmail is fantastic in all aspects, period.
THeir desktop search thing is most likely NOT that much of a security risk if you're carefull with your system anyway, and it too is another attempt by google to make peoples computer experiences easier, faster, simpler, and more effective; just like their email; just like their browser.
THis is what happens whe you dont pay mathematicians or engineers enough. THey go and do something insane, and everyone else doesnt know what to make of it, heheheh.
Seriously though, developing that kind of program - to calculate the precise number of rotations on a spinning wheel - is the perfect example of high level engineering. I've done many questions like that only instead of Gambling wheels, it was vehicle wheels. Once you know the accelleration and the velocity at time 0, you just use standard energy equations. If you want to get fancy with your program you could figure out the oil used and the shaft used, and add in the known values for friction, etc (all this is available in charts/tables). THen all you need is the time for one full rotation, the size of the wheel and its weight (initial conditions) which you could find after two test runs with the laser velocity/accelleration finder. After that, you could make, say, a device that all you do is click a button when it starts spinning, click again after half a rotation or a full rotation, then it displays the winning number on a screen. Then, if you have an electrical engineer around, you could make into its own embedded device with a screen, about the size of a watch. Voila - El Cheaterwatch.
The best thing since the Black Box. Who needs the ability to make free phone calls when you can win millions of dollars gambling, booyah.
Is it just me, or is there some connection between this patent and the $100 PC (http://linuxpr.com/releases/7357.html), which mentions its use as an educational tool in schools, possibly using networks/internet to create or find educational tools for use on these DSL computers?
Whats next, will microsoft be telling developing China that it cannot buy/use these computers for educational purposes (whatsoever, due to the broadnes of that patent) without the danger of patent litigation?
It seems Microsoft is a sore looser.
and theres a lot of good quality Television out there too! Taxi, The Odd Couple, Sharpe's Rifles, Lovejoy, discovery channel/Nova specials
theres also a lot of TV shows worth watching again, that just arent _readily available_ to obtain a copy of, without file sharing. i know this isnt a TV show but, for example, the original Hitchhikers Guide radio series cannot be shipped to anywhere in North America.
Exactly - this is just a front to appease/fool large companies, and also to send some sort of message to the "Public". Nothing more. Its like the Jedi Mind Trick, except it only works on idiots.
That kind of funding just doesnt warrant any "Real" progress - i mean, were talking about a governmental Entity here, those things are notorious guzzlers. They'll probably spend most of their money on "American" office supplies and non-pirated, high cost software. LOL.
Its a network built to utilize for research, so they should (as many Universities have done) just warn/and/or block people who are sharing files of a copyrighted/unshareable nature, or the programs used. There should be file sharing allowed, but not high volume sharing of copyrighted material.
Letting in a third party whose purpose in that network is irrellevant in the first place, is irresponsible, and harmfull.
They will still record your information when you try to return it, and then your entered into some system, which might not include info on all that you buy - which probably makes it even worse.
If you dont give them information they wont let you return it. The best thing to do is buy stuff from a variety of places that arent high tech:
ive had a tiny computer like that for a while, and its a heating nightmare... ive had it overheat so much i had to pull out the ol' dremmel and saw a hole in the side, to add a fan. but now its all noisy, and still is quite hot.
my question is, with one of those new 3.6 pentiums (the heat kings), and a new radeon or geforce, can this thing sustain long gaming parties without melting down? especially when it has so little fans and such a cramped case?
Exactly, stating the information that he did implies that its more important that we know his credentials than he remain completely safe. If he did work there its likely he would have come up with a scapegoat information source, and try to validate its authenticity, rather than using himself.
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Does it use DBUS yet? Thats what im waiting for... better hardware response. I dont mean to complain, but everytime i try to unmount a usb drive, etc. my windows using friend makes snide remarks about Linux... its starting to drive me nuts. Usually im not running anything that should be accessing it either (the most used command on my computer is pkill -9 konqueror, lol).
But useability is another matter entierly. I seriously doubt that Yahoo or MSN will come up with a fast, "user-friendly" searh tool. If theres advertisments, they had better be small, non-disruptive in nature, or it will piss everyone off and have a negative impact on society's productiveness. There already is indexed searching stuff in Windows. Its not great, but it has the right idea. It runs a service in the background and it looks/feels like a normal search tool. Except, that animated dog should be disabled by default (for performance and relevance reasons). These new file search tools are going in the wrong direction - theyre trying to make you, the user, conform to their interface (standards) - which were made for INTERNET searching - when you've already become accustomed to standard file search interfaces. It will also probably do unnessecarily disruptive things like run in the taskbar (slow your computer down) and prompt you for updates. Though, there is definitely room for a better advanced search thing in Linux. Mayby we'll be able to use it in scripts to help find different locations of things, such as in source compiling (eg: cant find qtlibs dir, please use --qtlibs="dir" then recompile).
I like my own SSID: "SphinctorNET". It used to the name of my dialup connection at home. We all used to say "its so crappy and useless!", and thats where the name started.
Its like that Radeon IGP thing that most laptops have now! They only tell you that the thing has "512mb" of ram, and then you realize its using a lot of that for the video card, so when it runs out of ram on relatively simple games you have to buy more ram. I can sort of understand doing that in a laptop where theres space/heat concerns, but in a desktop? Why not just use CHEAPER RAM? Instead, they stress out the PCI express subsystem, which will probably result in something horrible, like 4x less the performance, making it crappier than my GeForce 3. Oh wait... :P
Exactly!! 'But that would give the user too much control'. Then they could "choose" not to view embedded scripts like Flash AD's and thats "bad" (LOL, not really). It would be nice if people would stop using PDF files altogether. Either use text or pictures, or both, or some other format (TeX). If you dont want to make html, then make a document w/ text+pictures and convert it to html. Anything is better than PDF. THe worst is when people make improper/erronious PDF's - ive encountered these - they take move than 15 minutes to print a SINGLE PAGE (my printer is a new Laser). When i converted them to pictures and resized them, it printed instantly!!
they should hire that Jeaprody Champion! Oh wait.. microsoft already hired him.. Okay, what about trivial pursuit champions? ANyway you could even make a show out of it!
Heres a solution everyone can enjoy.
"Fink That Patent" - a fun crazy trivia show where the contestants try to name/list prior art to a given patent, and they have a research database on hand (the internet and access to the american patent database thing) to search/check things. Every show, they go though a few hundred patents of a dubious nature, getting points, and the winner wins something great, like a high paying job at the patent office (lol) or just a normal Prize, or something.
whoops, didnt notice it was the same guy who made snort i never said this was bad, i questioned its sustainability. in 4 years, for all we know, an advanced Debian might put Mandrake, Redhat, and Xandros out of buisness. in their wake, the company would probably only need to hire a skeleton support group/team so to speak, or more IT staff and get them trained in Debian. the only thing preventing that is the current ease of use level of other free linux distros, and the lack of freelance software support groups - once those things gradually change the corperate heads will notice.
How can a company that makes a front-end for Snort be worth $100 million!
Anyways, there you have it folks. Free engineering from a large community. Thats what the buisnesspeople want out of open source. And the profit comes from making the interface.
But... is it possible for Interface design profit to sustain code design in the long run? Once open source interfaces catch up, will this niche remain?
uh - typo - i meant to say search engine
I get about one spam every 2 days in gmail. Hotmail gets only twice that. Even if you got like 50 spams a day at 40kb each (after you gave out your email adress to all those gay porn sites) it would take 450 days for that much spam to accumulate. Or if you wanted you could set up a normal email program to access Gmail though POP3; A REALLY GOOD OPTION THAT NO OTHER WEBMAIL HAS, and simply press ctrl+a then delete. I dont really know how anyone could dislike gmail; its very easy to use, incredibly fast, simple, clean, and very organized. The advertisements are either _beneficial_, or non-intrusive. Gmail is fantastic in all aspects, period. THeir desktop search thing is most likely NOT that much of a security risk if you're carefull with your system anyway, and it too is another attempt by google to make peoples computer experiences easier, faster, simpler, and more effective; just like their email; just like their browser.
THis is what happens whe you dont pay mathematicians or engineers enough. THey go and do something insane, and everyone else doesnt know what to make of it, heheheh. Seriously though, developing that kind of program - to calculate the precise number of rotations on a spinning wheel - is the perfect example of high level engineering. I've done many questions like that only instead of Gambling wheels, it was vehicle wheels. Once you know the accelleration and the velocity at time 0, you just use standard energy equations. If you want to get fancy with your program you could figure out the oil used and the shaft used, and add in the known values for friction, etc (all this is available in charts/tables). THen all you need is the time for one full rotation, the size of the wheel and its weight (initial conditions) which you could find after two test runs with the laser velocity/accelleration finder. After that, you could make, say, a device that all you do is click a button when it starts spinning, click again after half a rotation or a full rotation, then it displays the winning number on a screen. Then, if you have an electrical engineer around, you could make into its own embedded device with a screen, about the size of a watch. Voila - El Cheaterwatch. The best thing since the Black Box. Who needs the ability to make free phone calls when you can win millions of dollars gambling, booyah.
Is it just me, or is there some connection between this patent and the $100 PC (http://linuxpr.com/releases/7357.html), which mentions its use as an educational tool in schools, possibly using networks/internet to create or find educational tools for use on these DSL computers? Whats next, will microsoft be telling developing China that it cannot buy/use these computers for educational purposes (whatsoever, due to the broadnes of that patent) without the danger of patent litigation? It seems Microsoft is a sore looser.
and theres a lot of good quality Television out there too! Taxi, The Odd Couple, Sharpe's Rifles, Lovejoy, discovery channel/Nova specials
theres also a lot of TV shows worth watching again, that just arent _readily available_ to obtain a copy of, without file sharing. i know this isnt a TV show but, for example, the original Hitchhikers Guide radio series cannot be shipped to anywhere in North America.
Exactly - this is just a front to appease/fool large companies, and also to send some sort of message to the "Public". Nothing more. Its like the Jedi Mind Trick, except it only works on idiots. That kind of funding just doesnt warrant any "Real" progress - i mean, were talking about a governmental Entity here, those things are notorious guzzlers. They'll probably spend most of their money on "American" office supplies and non-pirated, high cost software. LOL.
"You are receiving this information due to your advertising relationship with download.com To remove..."
LOL - it looks almost like a weird automailer that thought their mailing list was some guys email adress!
It could have been worse tho...
"Dear Mr Gnome. my name is David DeLanoy. I work with 180Solutions Inc., and would like to present you with a financial offer..."
see? now it looks exactly like spam!
Do the Debian.
Exactly.
Its a network built to utilize for research, so they should (as many Universities have done) just warn/and/or block people who are sharing files of a copyrighted/unshareable nature, or the programs used. There should be file sharing allowed, but not high volume sharing of copyrighted material.
Letting in a third party whose purpose in that network is irrellevant in the first place, is irresponsible, and harmfull.
there is an even greater shortage of expertise in closed source software!
500 big ones could fit a lot of porno!
ive seen a trend in technology where many things tend to break way before their functionality becomes outdated.
They will still record your information when you try to return it, and then your entered into some system, which might not include info on all that you buy - which probably makes it even worse.
If you dont give them information they wont let you return it. The best thing to do is buy stuff from a variety of places that arent high tech:
Flea Markets
Auction Sales
Yard Sales
Low tech stores in market districts
Better prices anyways.
ive had a tiny computer like that for a while, and its a heating nightmare... ive had it overheat so much i had to pull out the ol' dremmel and saw a hole in the side, to add a fan. but now its all noisy, and still is quite hot.
my question is, with one of those new 3.6 pentiums (the heat kings), and a new radeon or geforce, can this thing sustain long gaming parties without melting down? especially when it has so little fans and such a cramped case?
2 years? i know of an OS that hasnt released a new version for 2 years and counting...
Debian!
and a few OSs that never did really release something i consider to be fully stable...
Gentoo! SuSE! Mandrake! Windoze!
stability takes a lot of time i guess.
Mayby some view working in buisness the same way you build boats, or hobbies.
Once youve fixed up one nice old boat (Novell), its a job well done. Time to seek another fixer upper boat! Or even build your own from scratch!
Exactly, stating the information that he did implies that its more important that we know his credentials than he remain completely safe. If he did work there its likely he would have come up with a scapegoat information source, and try to validate its authenticity, rather than using himself.