I won't bother to discuss startup and page load speeds.
I'm a long time happy opera user, on linux (and windows on my brother's pc), but there is one strange thing: Startup takes about 3 seconds on Win XP, and it takes at least 10 seconds on my desktop Mandriva LE 2005 install. What gives?
(For those few times I used firefox on a friends pc, the page loads seemed slower with FF, but it did reload forum pages better than opera... It's a strage world we live in!)
It's a protocol, not a network like kazaa/eMule/eDonkey...
(Yes I know eMule/eDonkey uses specific servers to connect to, but with the UDP search technology you can search a lot of servers together, if they support it.)
Call me crazy, with all these critiques about ID having lost it, I still love them very much. At a time I did not realize that I installed Quake 1 every time I wanted to play it (it auto started after being installed, nice DOS GUI) it was the first game I really liked to play.
However, in the current linux-destop general useable world (for me over 1 year now), I love ID for having Timothee Besset on board. This dude ported ALL of ID's engines to linux.
I am happy to be able to download the doom 3 demo on linux, trying it, not buying it and spending my time playing RTCW:ET all the time.
Everybody say thanks to the one game company having linux ports for ALL their game engines! Do not forget this!!
Has the 4.0 DVD version (or any other) have NTFS writing support by now? Perhaps by checking out the partitions on a pc and look for win NT/XP/2k3 and rip out it's ntfs dll. Nothing illigal with that, and no risk of ruining the filesystem.
This seems to be the only serious missing element in knoppix for me when somebody's windows really got fucked up. I need to get really creative to solve some problems when I don't have write acces, and that mostly implies a lot of rebooting...:-(
When these matters end up in court, the rulings take a long time to be formulated and the eventual consequences seem to be on the long term only.
If Microsft was forced to install Quicktime & Realplayer on each install, we would actually get something usefull. The first thing users might see on a fresh Win XP N is a browser opening: "Sorry, playing this movie is not possible, but click this link to download a player! -> links to WMP.)
If somebody can enlighten me with a factual case where a court order got Microsoft to do anything good for the general public? (I know a lot of patent related lawsuits got settled, but those are mostly not for the general public but only for the lucky small companies threatened by the new big beast?)
Don't see me as a troll, I'm a happy Mandriva LE 2005 KDE user, but I remember the Gnome vs. KDE wars (as in talked about on slashdot, I use linux since Mandrake 8.2). It seems KDE wanted to start early and get to business, so they chose QT from trolltech, but Gnome wanted to stand completely on its own so they developed GTK to build the rest on.
How much is KDE tied to proprietary software? I'm getting scared now...
So high tech is dependant on the odds that your independent civilizations went in the same direction in their research and development, which statistically is likely implausible.
Well, actually, everything invented for communication technology simply tried to use the nature's methods to make transportation possible. For example: Electricity is simply moving atoms in metals, radio waves are just that, aliens even must find out too that microwaves (with the correct frequency) can make water molecules move and heat food.
My guess is that they invented/will invent the exact same methods, but only the protocols will be different. Same as file specifications:.doc (evil!),.txt, and so on.
I'm belgian, flemish. So my mother tongue is dutch.
But I have read the GPL at first in the english version, and only later found out translations existed. I never bothered again to read it that way, I knew enough of it already...
Nobody thinks of Monsanto grains which are genetically enhanced?
Normal farmers keep a certain amount of grains after the harvest to use it for the next year.
Monsanto forbids this. You must sell everything you harvested and buy a new set of grains from Monstanto at their prices. Farmers who would do the old way of keeping the cost down to run the farm will get sued hard...
Now that is a very good decision, if google (and others) comply.
This way both those examples will still show up when searching for generic terms, like cosmetica, health, fashion,... but they will not be able anymore to accurately target eachother. Which is nice!
I think langauges like GWBasic, QBasic, TurboPascal, Modula-3 are not on the chart, because:
-BASIC: Those programs have a very easy origin, they only implement the most basic elements of any programming language: loops, conditionals, variables,... and are not directly based on any of the languages on the chart. Also, BASIC was not used for anything strong, as in enterprise-class application developement. -TurboPascal: This is actually a program which implemented the pascal programming language, and on the chart the languages are listed, not programs or IDE's which use them. -Modula 3: That is an interesting matter though, perhaps it was forgotten to put on the map?
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I won't bother to discuss startup and page load speeds.
I'm a long time happy opera user, on linux (and windows on my brother's pc), but there is one strange thing:
Startup takes about 3 seconds on Win XP, and it takes at least 10 seconds on my desktop Mandriva LE 2005 install. What gives?
(For those few times I used firefox on a friends pc, the page loads seemed slower with FF, but it did reload forum pages better than opera... It's a strage world we live in!)
Via the bittorrent?
It's a protocol, not a network like kazaa/eMule/eDonkey...
(Yes I know eMule/eDonkey uses specific servers to connect to, but with the UDP search technology you can search a lot of servers together, if they support it.)
I guess he left the HTML formatting on and did not preview...
Poor bastard!
Another usefull article from eweek with even more info:
s p?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1847756,00.a
Call me crazy, with all these critiques about ID having lost it, I still love them very much. At a time I did not realize that I installed Quake 1 every time I wanted to play it (it auto started after being installed, nice DOS GUI) it was the first game I really liked to play.
However, in the current linux-destop general useable world (for me over 1 year now), I love ID for having Timothee Besset on board. This dude ported ALL of ID's engines to linux.
I am happy to be able to download the doom 3 demo on linux, trying it, not buying it and spending my time playing RTCW:ET all the time.
Everybody say thanks to the one game company having linux ports for ALL their game engines! Do not forget this!!
Eclipse has been slashdotted!
...or has slashdot been eclipsed?
[/bad humour]
Has the 4.0 DVD version (or any other) have NTFS writing support by now? Perhaps by checking out the partitions on a pc and look for win NT/XP/2k3 and rip out it's ntfs dll. Nothing illigal with that, and no risk of ruining the filesystem.
:-(
This seems to be the only serious missing element in knoppix for me when somebody's windows really got fucked up. I need to get really creative to solve some problems when I don't have write acces, and that mostly implies a lot of rebooting...
When these matters end up in court, the rulings take a long time to be formulated and the eventual consequences seem to be on the long term only.
If Microsft was forced to install Quicktime & Realplayer on each install, we would actually get something usefull. The first thing users might see on a fresh Win XP N is a browser opening: "Sorry, playing this movie is not possible, but click this link to download a player! -> links to WMP.)
If somebody can enlighten me with a factual case where a court order got Microsoft to do anything good for the general public? (I know a lot of patent related lawsuits got settled, but those are mostly not for the general public but only for the lucky small companies threatened by the new big beast?)
Yeah indeed, got carried away there. Didn't think enough so it slipped my mind the PPC version gets pirated too...
Torrent for MAC OS X (tiger):+ os+x&Submit2=Search
http://search.bittorrent.com/search.jsp?query=mac
Check for "04.17.05.Mac.OS.X.10.4.Tiger-XiSO".
That's at least a dollar more than I paid for it
Well, actually, make that more like $ 10, 'cause I have used that same cd to install 10 computers or so...
Don't forget that one also has to buy a very expensive (hdtv) screen to get equal visual quality from the latest consoles, and those don't come cheap.
(Unless they planned to use their computer screen for that purpose...)
Not kidding, just didn't know the details. Long live trolltech and their GPL'led software! :-D
Don't see me as a troll, I'm a happy Mandriva LE 2005 KDE user, but I remember the Gnome vs. KDE wars (as in talked about on slashdot, I use linux since Mandrake 8.2). It seems KDE wanted to start early and get to business, so they chose QT from trolltech, but Gnome wanted to stand completely on its own so they developed GTK to build the rest on.
How much is KDE tied to proprietary software? I'm getting scared now...
Mirrordot mirror for the video mentioned:4 8a61bc5c74f/Elevator1.mpeg
http://mirrordot.org/stories/9c88d25a2a2d153850db
Google's first websitehttp://mirrordot.org/stories/022b166f579c51 7f9aa710acad5f0953/index.html 3 f90d560ad8dbc5d78/index.html
"We Moved"http://mirrordot.org/stories/0b37fdb012aef7
My guess is that they invented/will invent the exact same methods, but only the protocols will be different. Same as file specifications:
It's called commoditization of software. It's good.
Opera 8 beta1 on linux too!
/.)
(It did not work when it was first mentioned on
I'm belgian, flemish. So my mother tongue is dutch.
But I have read the GPL at first in the english version, and only later found out translations existed. I never bothered again to read it that way, I knew enough of it already...
A lot of EULA's are difficult to understand, a lot of technical/computer language, and not to forget legal/lawyer stuff.
Knowing so many open source lovers (like myself) are here on slashdot, how many of you have read the GNU GPL?
I had trouble understanding it all, but English is not my primary language...
Nobody thinks of Monsanto grains which are genetically enhanced?
Normal farmers keep a certain amount of grains after the harvest to use it for the next year.
Monsanto forbids this. You must sell everything you harvested and buy a new set of grains from Monstanto at their prices. Farmers who would do the old way of keeping the cost down to run the farm will get sued hard...
Now that is a very good decision, if google (and others) comply.
This way both those examples will still show up when searching for generic terms, like cosmetica, health, fashion,... but they will not be able anymore to accurately target eachother. Which is nice!
I think langauges like GWBasic, QBasic, TurboPascal, Modula-3 are not on the chart, because:
-BASIC: Those programs have a very easy origin, they only implement the most basic elements of any programming language: loops, conditionals, variables,... and are not directly based on any of the languages on the chart. Also, BASIC was not used for anything strong, as in enterprise-class application developement.
-TurboPascal: This is actually a program which implemented the pascal programming language, and on the chart the languages are listed, not programs or IDE's which use them.
-Modula 3: That is an interesting matter though, perhaps it was forgotten to put on the map?
Perhaps not too late to mention our cards (I'm right here in Antwerp) are java smart cards...
For people who speak dutch: http://www.tweakers.net/nieuws/35324