GTK and wxWindows are cross platform widgets. GTK is very popular on linux, and it has a windows lookalike skin when you install it.
gaim thats thats ok, why doesn't mozilla
A couple of years ago, when i used windows, i was ripping cd's, and i was given the choice of mp3/wma as the file format. i didn't know if there was any difference in quality/size ratio's, but i (before trying it) hated wma. i dont know why. are there technical reasons why its better? (and is my subconcious smarter than me)
I have never seen the point in these miniscule media formats
why not just take a PCM or WAV file and tarball it and gzip or bzip it, then the player can decode it to a temporary location (/tmp) until its finished playing, then delete it. Surely tar.bz2'ing a WAV is better quality/compression ratio than an mp3.
what license is GCC under, and do SCO use it? that would piss on their chips, so to speak. I haven't got time to look into this, but does anybody else know?
ive been waiting for this for months, when there was a slashdot article about samba being distrobuted with one of SCO's products (a new one). it might have been an article about the new version of samba being released, but i dont know. anyway - boycott YEAH!!!
it took microsoft 8 years (ish) to work out that defragging isn't reliable unless the partition is unmounted. i dont think they implemented defragging on bootup (after selecting defrag and resetting) until XP (but i might be wrong)
if they can make such a huge blunder with defrag, would you trust their AV software?
it would make removing virus's much simpler if they implemented the unix system of copying a file and opening that, rather than opening the file itself (i think its called copy-on-write executables but i might be completely wrong on that)
linux distrobutions dont force you to install anything (except the obvious stuff like the kernel, etc)
Microsoft are charging more for their os's because they pay their programmers to write ie, wmp etc.
wmp also is actually an income for microsoft - you can buy from them through it, now microsoft sell digital music - thats not fair, what about apples online music store and all the others.
Microsoft are trying to become the only software vendor, so if something says "apple" or "mccaffe" or "winamp" or anything other than "microsoft" then people think its crap.
Microsoft know how stupid people think, and they want to strengthen this.
Who is to say microsoft definately wont start charging for their new AV or wmp or IE once there is no more market for these products and theyve killed off the competition. thats one reason why they shouldn't be allowed to do this.
(sorry about the crap spelling if there was any)
Why do companies look for RedHat as an example of linux?
I dont like RedHat because they're commercialising a non-commercial OS. Whats wrong with SUSE if you want support.
If you want a TCO of 0 (excluding internal support staff) then how about a non-commercial distro that has fast updates like debian or even gentoo (install once and copy the image to every machine).
Yes - gentoo. Compaies dont buy machines one at a time - they buy lots with the same specs. Gentoo could be compiled on one, and a copy of the hd could be put on every machine from the same batch.
The increased speed from compiling everything for the hardware would make crappy corporate workstations faster too. Updating is easy with gentoo (isn't it just emerge dist-upgrade or have i mixed emerge with apt-get there?)
Now everybody is happy - Mr Security Man is happy because he's got his updates nightly by a cron-job, Mr I Want A Better Workstation is happy because the operating system is compiled specifically for his hardware. Mrs I'm A Bimbo is happy because she can use KDE or GNOME still,...etc.
I know gentoo is a pain in the arse to install, but like i said about the copying of hard drive images.
(im not trying to start a disto-war, i use slack and i didn't mention it once, except here, actually, ignore this last bit about slackware.)
although if you use a corporate serial number, it assumes that your just another workstation at that company and lets you update - everybody in the world could use that serial and it wouldn't be blocked (until microshit realised)
The Athlon XP was named just that because AMD worked with microsoft, when microsoft were working on XP.
In benchmarks i read at the time showed the AMD Ath XP to completely blow away any other processor at the time (running XP) because XP was optimised for it.
although not really a good spin-off, viagra was descovered during heart research. im sure that this happens the other way round too, with different research projects (waste > good spin off)
i dont know about that. i think IBM's current goal could be just to raise awareness rather than get anyone installing it. If people say "whats this linux thing, that that big gorilla IBM is friends with", then they've heard of it at least. its upto the vendors themselves who have the money (ie redhat + novel) , to advertise their own product. at this stage i think it would confuse people more if they saw a SUSE ad and a RedHat ad, and then the one from IBM too.
did you miss IBM's first Linux TV ad? im not sure what they have planned, but i dont imagine they will stop there. Once linux gains some popularity by people spreading the word, i believe other big compaines (Red Hat, Novel, whoever else jumps on the bandwagon) will start advertising too. You can already buy Linux distro's down at PC World in england (although i imagine they dont sell that many)
like my dad. i forced him to stop using ie, he uses opera now. he's a typical windows user (probably wouldn't userstant outlook if i let him use it anyway).
he's a typical windows user. he does think of security. he doesn't do anything stupid outright. he insists on running a virus scanner, although he doesn't know how or why to update it, so he never does. he runs a firewall but again, does'nt update.
he's a typical home windows user. typical people are scared of virus's (because of the news coverage) but do not now how to protect themselves, nor know where to find information. He doesn't ever update windows because he doesn't have time / doesn't know how. he runs windows 98 because it 'just works'.
no matter how fast microsoft patch things, if they dont release a product thats secure upon release, whats the point to home users? thats a good reason why people should use alternatives.
but you forget to mention that apache is much more secure than IIS. think back a few years. IIS (3?) had a flaw that would let you run any command (eg format) if you just typed it in at the end of the url - ah the good old days. ok, back to today, linux and *bsd's are secure from the ground up. windows is secure from the top down. which is more secure?
in light of what happened this week (NT4 & Win2k's source being leaked (therefore much of XP and longhorn), microsoft cant claim that their source isn't available to 'bad people' anymore. My friend downloaded the source himself a couple of days ago, i didn't have a look because to be honest, i dont care. Microsoft's source being available is far worse for security than linux/BSD etc source being available because microsoft chose "security through obscurity" - OSS OS's dont. Since NO Firewall/Virus scanner can prevent you from holes in services that are supposed to run (MSN Messenger for example [was that leaked?]) there's going to be some bad stuff happening this week to companies running windows. Hopefully, this will give them reason to choose a more secure platform next time they change software, instead of just upgrading to the latest windows.
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GTK and wxWindows are cross platform widgets. GTK is very popular on linux, and it has a windows lookalike skin when you install it. gaim thats thats ok, why doesn't mozilla
YEAH!!! beowulf cluster of printers and other periferals
will this code be win32 code only? bit of a pain in the arse for unix users
A couple of years ago, when i used windows, i was ripping cd's, and i was given the choice of mp3/wma as the file format. i didn't know if there was any difference in quality/size ratio's, but i (before trying it) hated wma. i dont know why. are there technical reasons why its better? (and is my subconcious smarter than me)
fine, sorry i pissed you off so much - it was just a suggestion no i haven't ever tried it - it was just a suggestion arsehole
I have never seen the point in these miniscule media formats
why not just take a PCM or WAV file and tarball it and gzip or bzip it, then the player can decode it to a temporary location (/tmp) until its finished playing, then delete it. Surely tar.bz2'ing a WAV is better quality/compression ratio than an mp3.
from what i read, this doesn't apply to WMA's. Definately not OGG's. Just convert all your songs to OGG's (or wma if you have to).
And how long till this gets hacked anyway?
what license is GCC under, and do SCO use it? that would piss on their chips, so to speak. I haven't got time to look into this, but does anybody else know?
ive been waiting for this for months, when there was a slashdot article about samba being distrobuted with one of SCO's products (a new one). it might have been an article about the new version of samba being released, but i dont know. anyway - boycott YEAH!!!
also, think of this:
it took microsoft 8 years (ish) to work out that defragging isn't reliable unless the partition is unmounted. i dont think they implemented defragging on bootup (after selecting defrag and resetting) until XP (but i might be wrong)
if they can make such a huge blunder with defrag, would you trust their AV software?
it would make removing virus's much simpler if they implemented the unix system of copying a file and opening that, rather than opening the file itself (i think its called copy-on-write executables but i might be completely wrong on that)
ah yes, what happened to that. i remember before the internet was widespread we could go around mugging, stealing, killing, raping etc.
i miss the good old days when we had freedom
(for those who cant remember, this was never the case, laws are there for a reason and yes, online laws are there for a reason too)
linux distrobutions dont force you to install anything (except the obvious stuff like the kernel, etc) Microsoft are charging more for their os's because they pay their programmers to write ie, wmp etc. wmp also is actually an income for microsoft - you can buy from them through it, now microsoft sell digital music - thats not fair, what about apples online music store and all the others. Microsoft are trying to become the only software vendor, so if something says "apple" or "mccaffe" or "winamp" or anything other than "microsoft" then people think its crap. Microsoft know how stupid people think, and they want to strengthen this. Who is to say microsoft definately wont start charging for their new AV or wmp or IE once there is no more market for these products and theyve killed off the competition. thats one reason why they shouldn't be allowed to do this. (sorry about the crap spelling if there was any)
Why do companies look for RedHat as an example of linux?
...etc.
I dont like RedHat because they're commercialising a non-commercial OS. Whats wrong with SUSE if you want support.
If you want a TCO of 0 (excluding internal support staff) then how about a non-commercial distro that has fast updates like debian or even gentoo (install once and copy the image to every machine).
Yes - gentoo. Compaies dont buy machines one at a time - they buy lots with the same specs. Gentoo could be compiled on one, and a copy of the hd could be put on every machine from the same batch.
The increased speed from compiling everything for the hardware would make crappy corporate workstations faster too. Updating is easy with gentoo (isn't it just emerge dist-upgrade or have i mixed emerge with apt-get there?)
Now everybody is happy - Mr Security Man is happy because he's got his updates nightly by a cron-job, Mr I Want A Better Workstation is happy because the operating system is compiled specifically for his hardware. Mrs I'm A Bimbo is happy because she can use KDE or GNOME still,
I know gentoo is a pain in the arse to install, but like i said about the copying of hard drive images.
(im not trying to start a disto-war, i use slack and i didn't mention it once, except here, actually, ignore this last bit about slackware.)
although if you use a corporate serial number, it assumes that your just another workstation at that company and lets you update - everybody in the world could use that serial and it wouldn't be blocked (until microshit realised)
in resonse to your sig:
sex would be a never ending loop
sex > undo > sex > undo etc
The Athlon XP was named just that because AMD worked with microsoft, when microsoft were working on XP.
In benchmarks i read at the time showed the AMD Ath XP to completely blow away any other processor at the time (running XP) because XP was optimised for it.
or something like "block sites younger than 2 months" option would be nice.
problem is with keeping a list like this:
-penis -enlargement -buy -shop -whatever
is that you can only search for 256 chars at once, i think (after glancing quickly at the source)
although not really a good spin-off, viagra was descovered during heart research. im sure that this happens the other way round too, with different research projects (waste > good spin off)
i dont know about that. i think IBM's current goal could be just to raise awareness rather than get anyone installing it. If people say "whats this linux thing, that that big gorilla IBM is friends with", then they've heard of it at least. its upto the vendors themselves who have the money (ie redhat + novel) , to advertise their own product. at this stage i think it would confuse people more if they saw a SUSE ad and a RedHat ad, and then the one from IBM too.
did you miss IBM's first Linux TV ad? im not sure what they have planned, but i dont imagine they will stop there. Once linux gains some popularity by people spreading the word, i believe other big compaines (Red Hat, Novel, whoever else jumps on the bandwagon) will start advertising too. You can already buy Linux distro's down at PC World in england (although i imagine they dont sell that many)
like my dad. i forced him to stop using ie, he uses opera now. he's a typical windows user (probably wouldn't userstant outlook if i let him use it anyway).
he's a typical windows user. he does think of security. he doesn't do anything stupid outright. he insists on running a virus scanner, although he doesn't know how or why to update it, so he never does. he runs a firewall but again, does'nt update.
he's a typical home windows user. typical people are scared of virus's (because of the news coverage) but do not now how to protect themselves, nor know where to find information. He doesn't ever update windows because he doesn't have time / doesn't know how. he runs windows 98 because it 'just works'.
no matter how fast microsoft patch things, if they dont release a product thats secure upon release, whats the point to home users? thats a good reason why people should use alternatives.
it can
think back a few years. IIS (3?) had a flaw that would let you run any command
but you forget to mention that apache is much more secure than IIS. think back a few years. IIS (3?) had a flaw that would let you run any command (eg format) if you just typed it in at the end of the url - ah the good old days. ok, back to today, linux and *bsd's are secure from the ground up. windows is secure from the top down. which is more secure?
in light of what happened this week (NT4 & Win2k's source being leaked (therefore much of XP and longhorn), microsoft cant claim that their source isn't available to 'bad people' anymore. My friend downloaded the source himself a couple of days ago, i didn't have a look because to be honest, i dont care. Microsoft's source being available is far worse for security than linux/BSD etc source being available because microsoft chose "security through obscurity" - OSS OS's dont. Since NO Firewall/Virus scanner can prevent you from holes in services that are supposed to run (MSN Messenger for example [was that leaked?]) there's going to be some bad stuff happening this week to companies running windows. Hopefully, this will give them reason to choose a more secure platform next time they change software, instead of just upgrading to the latest windows.
goto options - you can set freshmeat to be on your homepage on slashdot - i have, i downloaded mldonkey yesterday because of a link that was there.