HP has an excellent printer drivers project complete with a working GTK toolbox program:
http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/>
Just install CUPS and then follow the instructions here:
http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/install.php>
as for the Article.. Zern tends to write with his tongue in cheek.
Opera identifies itself as IE by default. Those 3 million downloads they claim on their website aren't trackable. Thing is, they've done it to themselves. The browser identifies as IE for increased website compatibility, but as a result, they're out of the running in the statistics race.
I know quite a few friends who are recording their bands using Garageband or Adobe Audition. They record the raw tracks and then after all the recording is done, they hire a local sound engineer on an hourly rate who will master the recordings you have done down to a decent demo using your software. But, we're lucky in this music scene (Niagara, Canada) to have a guy who does this (thanks Greg!).
There are barriers to this cheapest of cheap method for getting decent sound. 1. Many of the musicians I know don't have the computer skills or the space to record using their home PC. 2. and this is the big reason: MOST INDIE MUSICIANS BUY INTO THE MYTH THAT THEY HAVE TO SPEND $25000+ TO MAKE A DECENT RECORD. It's a myth, sure, but it don't matter as long as musicians believe it.
Well, this is a bummer... I guess all those rumors about HP selling a rebranded Intel based Mac really were just rumors. It's a shame too, because I personally think that Will from Maximum PC is right and Apple should release OSX through specific partners (ie: Dell and HP) well... I guess HP is out of the loop now!
Lycoris would have been one of those desktop-centric distros clearly in the OSX/x86 line of fire. Joseph Cheek must have seen the writing on the wall when he contacted Mandriva with an offer. With the newly combined features user friendly features from Conectiva (SMART package manager), Mandrake (drake config tools) and Lycoris (XP like control panels utilities etc and Iris software system that will probably give mandrakeclub a nice "click and run" like overhaul) Mandriva will have a strong chance to survive on the desktop.
This has since been fixed. The link is listed as "2005" not 10.2 although once Mandriva is installed, the new version identifies itself as "Mandrakelinux release 10.2 (Limited Edition 2005)"
It will never happen with the egos involved etc, but what should be done to prevent forking is have the Ubuntu source folded back into Sarge RIGHTNOW and then release Sarge already!
However, what we see happenning is a fork as significant as XFree being dropped by most major distros in favour of X.org.
Progeny and Debian can stop it, but they need to jump aboard. There is no excuse for even "new", "unstable" packages to be 8 months old or older. The development cycle is too long for the market. And like it or not, They are getting left behind.
So what?
You remind me of the Creative Director at a company I used to work at. He hated Windows. He nearly disowned his daughter for buying an intel PC instead of a Mac.
Listen to yourself. You sound like a Zealot. Okay, you hate Apple. So What?
Am I trying to flame you? So what if I am. Personally, I love Windows XP. But I don't see any reason to hack on Apple.
I won't argue that life +70 is too long etc, but the point that I wanted to make about opt-out verses opt-in copyright is that under the old system, a creative work was unprotected from plagiarism until the work was officially registered with the copyright office.
Here in Canada, I mail myself a copy of my work to prove date of creation (left unopened) and I'm done.
Maybe the current US copyright law went too far, but opt-out copyright as a system ain't all bad.
...is what I'm running already as a gui. It LOOKS sorta like MacOSX but FEELS just like KDE.
If they released an x86 edition of OSX I would switch in a second.
On the other hand, as has been mentioned above, it would kill their hardware business.
At the moment Apple is doing okay in the sense that their production is right around their demand. If you could throw together a system running OSX/x86 for $300 it may take on MS, but it would sink Apple's hardware division (except the ipod--they'll be selling gobs of those for the forseeable future)
Ya, I have Mac envy issues. I wanted an iMac Lamp for my next system, but couldn't afford to make the switch. So it's KDE with Baghira and Mosfit's Liquid running on Linux.
As an independent musician myself, I was interested in signing on. So I checked the contact link and (re)discovered The Orchard. For $49US and 5 copies of your demo, you too can be on emusic AND iTunes AND Napster AND Rhapsody AND MSN AND Musicmatch plus a whack of other legit pay music sites.
As someone who got in on the ground floor at www.mp3.com the first time (and has since had his music relegated to the basement ) because of MP3.com's sale, I find this very exciting. I remember when The Orchard was ONLY selling CDs from their own website and thinking "man that sucks, I'm better off setting up a server with my own stuff on Kazaa" but now that's all changed. If you want to market your indie music online (and get into the www.emusic.com family), The orchard is the way to go.
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with, nor have I ever been affliated with www.theorchard.com, but I will be joining now that I have found this link. Thanks Slashdot. I'm also not affiliated with Emusic (yet). Now my life has meaning.
I was so impressed with Mandrake 10 Official that I bought the powerpack.
Upside? During install it autoloaded the Nvidia drivers with no configuration and the PC has been running smoothly since the last upgrade. All systems are go from DVD playback to CDr burning. It is my main desktop system and occasionally my wife uses it too.
Downside? Everything is running so smoothly that I don't dare break anything.
(sigh) At this point the only update I risk is KDE. I may upgrade to the KDE 3.3 MDK packages when they hit the kde.org download site (I'm running 3.2.3 and they are mostly stable) but I think I'll wait until Mandrake 11. It's too easy to get caught up in the frenzy. Linux can run for years without a restart, but I've yet to meet a linux geek who doesn't reformat and repartition his PC every two months. Mind you, with development in the F/OSS community constantly moving forward, and with nightly CVS snapshots, It's no wonder we have a whole lot of formating goin' on.
On a side note. I did get hit by the MBR bug BUT I installed Linux on a completely separate drive than WinXP. The MBR on my slave drive is completely messed. I haven't gotten around to fixing it because I can still boot into WinXP with no problems whatsoever. Besides, I'm just plain lazy.
"AMD motherboards with cheap, ultra-crappy VIA south/northbridges and the like -- just won't cut it. You will get crackles in the audio,
Professional Audio applications aren't running with onboard AC97."
ya.. and my AC97 crackles quite nicely on my P4 based PC (with Via Chipset) If you're going to use it in a studio, pony up for a real soundcard. As for me, it works quite nicely for hobby recording..quick pass with an FFT filter clears up the static. Don't mistake this for an AMD problem. Via makes Intel boards too.
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+5 Insightfull should be +5 Insightful, of course. Oops. Serves me right for posting on a bellyful of wine.
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My (lack of) intelligence is showing, but didn't the same thing happen around the turn of the last century with the automobile? There were a slew of patents written in such a manner to be vague enough to include all forms of motor carriages. One U.S. patent dragged on into the 1920s before being squashed. I can't remember the name of the patent holder, but it had been filed around 1893 or so and the ghist of the patent was that it detailed a 4 wheeled carriage that could travel on it's own power without the aid of a horse. (whoever can name this patent will get modded up to +5 Insightfull for sure...go to it slashdotters)
This happens with every new technology. What is unprecedented is the move to patenting ideas over things. Ask me and I'll tell ya that's scary.
OTOH, now is a good time to file a patent on a flying car.
Speed typing courses may be obsolete but I do feel that a component of learning to use a computer should involve learning to type. You may not need to know how to type to use a computer but it is a benefit.
It's the difference between learning to drive a car and taking the BMW performance driving course. You can still drive fast without the BMW course, but it would be preferable to take the course if you want to drive REALLY fast.
Two quick stories... About six months ago I declared to my dear wife that I was switching the PC to Linux full time... I set up a profile for her in KDE complete with a win2k theme.. widgets icons everything and pointed her to Mozilla... She logged in ONCE on her own.
Usually when she takes over my PC, the first thing she does is logout of Linux and reboot into Windows bitching the whole time about how complicated Linux is.
I have both Opera and Mozilla installed in both partitions and I suggested she use Mozilla, explaining that it's "the newest version of Netscape"... no good..She spends most of her time on the Win98 box (HER PC) and only uses IE.
My Brother-in-law has managed to infect his computer with so much malware that at this point whenever he clicks on a download link in IE, it takes him instead to one of those generated on the fly search pages..
When I was over there last month, I installed and ran spybot search and destroy and ran a system scan in Norton and installed Mozilla... and suggested he use it.
Two days ago he called me to tell me he couldn't look at any pictures in his Hotmail inbox. He said he was getting the fake searchengine site again instead.
"Oh, I didn't think that would happen in Mozilla," I said.
"I'm not using Mozilla."
"Okay.. try this... open Mozilla"
"Okay"
"Now type in wwwdothotmaildotcom in the address bar."
"Okay. Now what?"
"Log in." I said."Can you look at the attachments now?"
"Ya."
Now that said...I bet that right after I got off the phone he closed Mozilla and openned up another session of IE. Hey, what can you do?
"What killed it? Lack of driver support. (I'm looking at you Linux fanatics)"
Two things killed it: BeOS missed there oportunity to replace MacOS 9 on the Mac desktop because they asked for too much money from Apple when they were approached.
Then when it came time to fully launch 5.0, as much as they tried they couldn't get a single OEM to bundle BEOS 5 Pro with a new PC.
They made a great last ditch effort with the promo campaign of 5.0 PE, but it wasn't enough to get people to switch
(coincidently, I happen to have the June 2000 Maximum PC bonus cd that featured PE.. also included on the disk? Civilation: Call to Power! for BEos.. I still boot into PE just to play this game)
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HP has an excellent printer drivers project complete with a working GTK toolbox program: http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/> Just install CUPS and then follow the instructions here: http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/install.php> as for the Article.. Zern tends to write with his tongue in cheek.
Opera identifies itself as IE by default. Those 3 million downloads they claim on their website aren't trackable. Thing is, they've done it to themselves. The browser identifies as IE for increased website compatibility, but as a result, they're out of the running in the statistics race.
There are barriers to this cheapest of cheap method for getting decent sound. 1. Many of the musicians I know don't have the computer skills or the space to record using their home PC. 2. and this is the big reason: MOST INDIE MUSICIANS BUY INTO THE MYTH THAT THEY HAVE TO SPEND $25000+ TO MAKE A DECENT RECORD. It's a myth, sure, but it don't matter as long as musicians believe it.
He had an interview with Dick Gordon on The Connection on 9/5/2002: http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2002/09/2002090 5_b_main.asp/
(... another NPR show, sadly cancelled now..)
Well, this is a bummer... I guess all those rumors about HP selling a rebranded Intel based Mac really were just rumors. It's a shame too, because I personally think that Will from Maximum PC is right and Apple should release OSX through specific partners (ie: Dell and HP) well... I guess HP is out of the loop now!
Lycoris would have been one of those desktop-centric distros clearly in the OSX/x86 line of fire. Joseph Cheek must have seen the writing on the wall when he contacted Mandriva with an offer. With the newly combined features user friendly features from Conectiva (SMART package manager), Mandrake (drake config tools) and Lycoris (XP like control panels utilities etc and Iris software system that will probably give mandrakeclub a nice "click and run" like overhaul) Mandriva will have a strong chance to survive on the desktop.
Sure, it may not improve usability in itself, but having a consistent interface (say selecting Plastik in both Qt/KDE apps and GTKx) sure is pretty.
Wemmy
This has since been fixed. The link is listed as "2005" not 10.2 although once Mandriva is installed, the new version identifies itself as "Mandrakelinux release 10.2 (Limited Edition 2005)"
However, what we see happenning is a fork as significant as XFree being dropped by most major distros in favour of X.org.
Progeny and Debian can stop it, but they need to jump aboard. There is no excuse for even "new", "unstable" packages to be 8 months old or older. The development cycle is too long for the market. And like it or not, They are getting left behind.
So what? You remind me of the Creative Director at a company I used to work at. He hated Windows. He nearly disowned his daughter for buying an intel PC instead of a Mac. Listen to yourself. You sound like a Zealot. Okay, you hate Apple. So What? Am I trying to flame you? So what if I am. Personally, I love Windows XP. But I don't see any reason to hack on Apple.
I won't argue that life +70 is too long etc, but the point that I wanted to make about opt-out verses opt-in copyright is that under the old system, a creative work was unprotected from plagiarism until the work was officially registered with the copyright office. Here in Canada, I mail myself a copy of my work to prove date of creation (left unopened) and I'm done. Maybe the current US copyright law went too far, but opt-out copyright as a system ain't all bad.
If they released an x86 edition of OSX I would switch in a second.
On the other hand, as has been mentioned above, it would kill their hardware business.
At the moment Apple is doing okay in the sense that their production is right around their demand. If you could throw together a system running OSX/x86 for $300 it may take on MS, but it would sink Apple's hardware division (except the ipod--they'll be selling gobs of those for the forseeable future)
Ya, I have Mac envy issues. I wanted an iMac Lamp for my next system, but couldn't afford to make the switch. So it's KDE with Baghira and Mosfit's Liquid running on Linux.
yippee!
I hope my Karma holds out: I think I may be offtopic. Sorry Slashdot. I shall slink back into my corner in shame.
As someone who got in on the ground floor at www.mp3.com the first time (and has since had his music relegated to the basement ) because of MP3.com's sale, I find this very exciting. I remember when The Orchard was ONLY selling CDs from their own website and thinking "man that sucks, I'm better off setting up a server with my own stuff on Kazaa" but now that's all changed. If you want to market your indie music online (and get into the www.emusic.com family), The orchard is the way to go.
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with, nor have I ever been affliated with www.theorchard.com, but I will be joining now that I have found this link. Thanks Slashdot. I'm also not affiliated with Emusic (yet). Now my life has meaning.
Upside? During install it autoloaded the Nvidia drivers with no configuration and the PC has been running smoothly since the last upgrade. All systems are go from DVD playback to CDr burning. It is my main desktop system and occasionally my wife uses it too.
Downside? Everything is running so smoothly that I don't dare break anything.
(sigh) At this point the only update I risk is KDE. I may upgrade to the KDE 3.3 MDK packages when they hit the kde.org download site (I'm running 3.2.3 and they are mostly stable) but I think I'll wait until Mandrake 11. It's too easy to get caught up in the frenzy. Linux can run for years without a restart, but I've yet to meet a linux geek who doesn't reformat and repartition his PC every two months. Mind you, with development in the F/OSS community constantly moving forward, and with nightly CVS snapshots, It's no wonder we have a whole lot of formating goin' on.
On a side note. I did get hit by the MBR bug BUT I installed Linux on a completely separate drive than WinXP. The MBR on my slave drive is completely messed. I haven't gotten around to fixing it because I can still boot into WinXP with no problems whatsoever. Besides, I'm just plain lazy.
"AMD motherboards with cheap, ultra-crappy VIA south/northbridges and the like -- just won't cut it. You will get crackles in the audio, Professional Audio applications aren't running with onboard AC97." ya.. and my AC97 crackles quite nicely on my P4 based PC (with Via Chipset) If you're going to use it in a studio, pony up for a real soundcard. As for me, it works quite nicely for hobby recording..quick pass with an FFT filter clears up the static. Don't mistake this for an AMD problem. Via makes Intel boards too.
+5 Insightfull should be +5 Insightful, of course. Oops. Serves me right for posting on a bellyful of wine.
My (lack of) intelligence is showing, but didn't the same thing happen around the turn of the last century with the automobile? There were a slew of patents written in such a manner to be vague enough to include all forms of motor carriages. One U.S. patent dragged on into the 1920s before being squashed. I can't remember the name of the patent holder, but it had been filed around 1893 or so and the ghist of the patent was that it detailed a 4 wheeled carriage that could travel on it's own power without the aid of a horse.
(whoever can name this patent will get modded up to +5 Insightfull for sure...go to it slashdotters)
This happens with every new technology. What is unprecedented is the move to patenting ideas over things. Ask me and I'll tell ya that's scary.
OTOH, now is a good time to file a patent on a flying car.
So if 0wnership is a measure of the number of zombie machines controlled by your exploit, than windows is the clear winner? That is hilarious!
There is one.. it's called Ktouch and is part of the KDE "K"education Suite
Speed typing courses may be obsolete but I do feel that a component of learning to use a computer should involve learning to type. You may not need to know how to type to use a computer but it is a benefit.
It's the difference between learning to drive a car and taking the BMW performance driving course. You can still drive fast without the BMW course, but it would be preferable to take the course if you want to drive REALLY fast.
Two quick stories... About six months ago I declared to my dear wife that I was switching the PC to Linux full time... I set up a profile for her in KDE complete with a win2k theme.. widgets icons everything and pointed her to Mozilla... She logged in ONCE on her own.
Usually when she takes over my PC, the first thing she does is logout of Linux and reboot into Windows bitching the whole time about how complicated Linux is.
I have both Opera and Mozilla installed in both partitions and I suggested she use Mozilla, explaining that it's "the newest version of Netscape"... no good..She spends most of her time on the Win98 box (HER PC) and only uses IE.
My Brother-in-law has managed to infect his computer with so much malware that at this point whenever he clicks on a download link in IE, it takes him instead to one of those generated on the fly search pages..
When I was over there last month, I installed and ran spybot search and destroy and ran a system scan in Norton and installed Mozilla... and suggested he use it.
Two days ago he called me to tell me he couldn't look at any pictures in his Hotmail inbox. He said he was getting the fake searchengine site again instead.
"Oh, I didn't think that would happen in Mozilla," I said.
"I'm not using Mozilla."
"Okay.. try this... open Mozilla"
"Okay"
"Now type in wwwdothotmaildotcom in the address bar."
"Okay. Now what?"
"Log in." I said."Can you look at the attachments now?"
"Ya."
Now that said...I bet that right after I got off the phone he closed Mozilla and openned up another session of IE. Hey, what can you do?
"What killed it? Lack of driver support. (I'm looking at you Linux fanatics)"
Two things killed it: BeOS missed there oportunity to replace MacOS 9 on the Mac desktop because they asked for too much money from Apple when they were approached.
Then when it came time to fully launch 5.0, as much as they tried they couldn't get a single OEM to bundle BEOS 5 Pro with a new PC.
They made a great last ditch effort with the promo campaign of 5.0 PE, but it wasn't enough to get people to switch
(coincidently, I happen to have the June 2000 Maximum PC bonus cd that featured PE.. also included on the disk? Civilation: Call to Power! for BEos.. I still boot into PE just to play this game)