Anyone know how the new KDE 4.2 handles file sharing with other KDE 4.2 desktop environments? The file sharing in Windows 95 was pretty straight forward. Windows 98, not so much. Windows XP was not so easy. It's my hope that Windows 7 will be straight forward.
I think file sharing had a bug within Windows XP SP2 because until on edited the registry, things just did not work.
Now before I get labled as a troll, the registry setting I am talking about is this:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa {change restrictanonymous to 0 }
Some part of me thinks guaranteeing that once my account is deleted, Facebook and all its users lose access to them is unrealistic. After all, no ISP can say the same when it comes to email I delete. But I still would like to know what happens to my data once my account is closed. Can they guarantee that it will be gone for good?
But you know what? Facebook and the like will hardly see any of my business from now on.
Did you understand my comment? I know you did not. So let the standard be there for everyone to implement according to their abilities...but what Microsoft does, is to hide everything and put us on an upgrade treadmill. That should be illegal.
You will be called a troll...but I know you are saying the truth.
...Without going through this config and that config to change things just to get it to run. Linux is on the right track, and with more and more being handed to it by Microsoft, it needs to get on the ball and make changes. Distros need to agree on where they put config files, on all distros...
Now that's the truth...thank you!
But remember fellow slashdotter, Linux needs a beautiful interface. One that everyone or the majority of folks will look at and say "wow!" But when I suggested that Linux (read distros) needed a commonsense standard, one that will enable software to be installed from distro to distro, I was called a troll.
I am passionate GNOME user but I have looked at KDE 4.2 and what can be achieved with the QT toolkit. I must say QT is very capable and KDE 4.2 has lots of potential. When you look at the capabilities of the upcoming QT 4.5 release, you realize that Windows Vista and 7 can be given a run for their money without a lot of effort. So I supported KDE and have switched to it ever since.
Then the bombshell landed: I was informed by Linux zealots that what I call confusion on the Linux world is a feature that they, that use Linux, love to death. This is not helping us defeat Microsoft. Why is it so difficult to get?
It amazes me that folks that do the serious coding in Linux, create software that worries Microsoft and the like but cannot agree on a meaningful set of standard.
While I will not under estimate the problem this proposal would potentially solve, I thought the honorable commissioner should have started with file formats.
The issue of file formats has been around longer. We as users continue live with the consequences of what the commissioner does or does not do on this front.
For this kind of issues, make sure folks at Groklaw get to know fast. They are the only folks I know that will dig up facts fast. In the Novell/SCO case, One guy provided evidence dating back to 1971! By the way, SCO appears to have lost that case. Amazing.
Man, do you know what you are talking about? You link to *GM*. GM is of the USA period. Decisions about the so called General Motors Canada are made in the USA. Got it?
This might interest you. General Motors Canada refused the Canadian version of the Auto Industry bailout. You might want to know why....because the decision was made in (you guessed it)...the USA! This is the company you are saying is Canadian?
Secondly any Canadian bailout waited for the US version because the folks in the USA call the shots. Get your facts man.
I guess you will say that Toyota that has major manufacturing operations in Cambridge Ontario is Canadian! Give me a break and please be serious.
I just do not understand why a government "just mulling Open Source" as the headline says, is news worthy. It's just a gimmick. For this to even have a chance, Open Source Software would be alive and well in Canadian schools but this isn't the case.
Rem,ember this is one country without a domestic car concern...the only such country in the entire so called G8! Canada? Give me a break!
I am patiently waiting for these SSDs and plan to test them on a MythTV distro box. I will get a fully compatible Linux SSD notebook onto which a MythTV distro will be installed.
Then with 3 TV cards, I will see how these SSDs measure up on reading/writing/transcoding etc. My intention is to work the SSD for about a week. Watch this space for results.
I do not think that Intel will deliver the "golden" SSD. I think Samsung's SSD effort will bear results faster. Those videos say a lot.
It has been suggested before that the life of the relational DB is coming to an end. I must say that while I agree with this statement: -
Relational databases scale well, but usually only when that scaling happens on a single server node. When the capacity of that single node is reached, you need to scale out and distribute that load across multiple server nodes. This is when the complexity of relational databases starts to rub against their potential to scale.
I disagree with the following statement: -
Try scaling to hundreds or thousands of nodes, rather than a few, and the complexities become overwhelming, and the characteristics that make RDBMS so appealing drastically reduce their viability as platforms for large distributed systems.
I submit that the complexity can be managed and that's why we have jobs.
I am an IT consultant at a major bank and we keep all kinds of data. Data that many find useless and is spread across 27 [major] nodes. Total records in our biggest table number about 57 million with 49 rows. I can tell you that data querying and integrity maintaining are a breeze if the schematic design is correct in the first place.
We are always designing and testing different scenarios. In cases where we have had to change the schema, it has been simple if one knows what to do.
I must say that Open Source DBs have worked for us though we rely on products from IBM and Oracle.
Our philosophy is: If it works in PostgreSQL, it will even do wonders on DB2 or Oracle. I do not see how we can do away with the relational DB. Whoever designed it in the beginning did a marvelous job.
And I will support Microsoft in its complaint if it ever materializes. Why should my tax dollars be used to purposefully enrich a private corporation? Microsoft no longer gets the limelight. Was there any bidding done in order to select YouTube? What's wrong with our public officials? I wonder what Steve Ballmer is thinking right now.
The trouble is packages are advertised as Linux packages. Now, Joe Public knows he has Linux in Ubuntu (and he's right), so he goes ahead to install the package. Why? Because Ubuntu does not have the package he's trying to install. He then runs into all sorts of trouble. Right?
...Let there be as many filesystems as can be because the availability of so many does not seem to affect interoperability. If we in the Linux world can resolve issues surrounding the location of files, naming schemes, versions, we could solve a ton of trouble for potential Linux converts.
There is no worse problem than being faced with an error like:
"...Installation of cannot continue...lib_XYZ_0.o not found..."
Joe Public then fires up "apt-get install..." a package that contains lib_XYZ_0.o.
He is informed that he needs a newer version...
On getting the newer version he is informed that installation of that package will break dependencies...
He removes the "offending software" then on trying again with the newer version, he's informed that lib_XYZ_0.o is already installed! Amazing isn't it?
What suprises me is that programmers who can create software that scares Microsoft with its money and resourses also adopts policies that do not do much for it in terms of penetration.
Joe Puiblic then forces the installation with a switch to appt-get...Then on trying to boot into the GUI, he's thrown back to the command line.
Conclusion by Joe Public: Linux suck big time. The trouble is, this Joe might be a major decision maker in a few years!
Am I far from what happens in the Linux world more often than not?
"Microsoft's decision to limit Windows 7 Starter Edition to running only three concurrent applications could force up the price of netbooks as many manufacturers opt for the more expensive Home Premium.
This is a call to hackers everywhere to release a tool that will defeat this nonsense the moment Windows 7 is released.
Or let's all help improve KDE 4.2 so that we can do what ever we want on the Windows platform. I see that the start of KDE on Windows was not bad at all.
I submit that Microsoft need not worry that much and here are my reasons:
Joe Six Pack tells Linux Programmers: " I need to double click to install my app. Programmers response: No! Just type "apt-get install ". Six Pack's idea is shot down!
Whatever happened to "The customer is always right!"
Joe Six Pack tells Linux Programmers: Where can I get help on this application? Programmers: RTFM! Or connect to #linuxhelp on irc.freenode.com. When Joe Six Pack gets there, he's asked to RTFM.
It's as simple as that folks!
Right now, my MythTV setup is spewing errosrs like hell...telling me that ivtv0 cannot record fast enough. Ity also says that "Mythtv mpeg buffers afe full...". This makes MythTV exit after about 8 minutes of playing cable TV. I have been asked to RTFM so many times that I am going to simply reformat and install.
This is because there is trouble in the Linux space. We can't agree on a way forward. Look, the other day, our benevolent leader Linus stated: "Multiple Distributions "Absolutely Required..," as if that would help in stemming Microsoft's progress.
Let me say this: There will always be multiple distributions of "Linux" but what we need is a fully functional desktop with a single supported desktop environment. Nobody...I repeat, nobody is saying there should be *one* Linux desktop or server. Nobody! Other distros can continue to exist but this particular desktop should get the bulk of resources to succeed.
On the desktop now, KDE 4.2 is good and it has always shown promise. By the way, I am a die hard GNOME user who contributes to the project from time to time, but I must say the truth. What troubles me is that folks sing "Linux is great" and so on then they go ahead to dedicate resources to other projects. This approach does not help.
Then we have those who I would say are almost bigots. Why? Because users tell them "...we need a single accepted API so that apps will install across Linux distros..." What happens is that these folks' ideas are shot down but these bigots.
Microsoft need not worry for now. Look at what Apple did. They broke compatibility...took another direction but because they have a single platform with unique names at every incarnation, they own more of the desktop then all the Linux combined.
We can beat Apple because we are open. Then we have folks that create multimedia files in Flash before putting up our very own.ogg files. These folks should at least put files up at the same time. We should at least be seen to eat our own food.
Folks. Let's listen to what the ordinary user is saying.
Does one ever wonder why we who use Linux still command a tiny percentage of the desktop despite having been around for almost a decade now?
...Now, according to Techworld, a security company that has examined the Tory plans has come out against the use of open source software, citing the number of security problems inherent in the software...
I think we need to be objective here. Software both closed source and open source is created by human beings.
By nature, these human beings make mistakes.
The question then becomes: Which model of software development fixes security issues faster? We should collect statistics here and convince these Britons that OSS is still the best model around.
We should also remind the skeptics about OSS, that more than 80% of internet traffic is handled by OSS systems, so if OSS were that insecure, it would show...fast.
I know he's a very accomplished person, but would like to know whether the new appointee is friendly to Open Source Software and Linux in particular. I am optimistic though because he's been "more open" as compared to the typical government official.
You know why? Because if this is indeed the case, Microsoft would have released the code for systems like DOS, Windows 3.1, 3.11 for Work Groups, 95, 98 or 98 SE.
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Anyone know how the new KDE 4.2 handles file sharing with other KDE 4.2 desktop environments? The file sharing in Windows 95 was pretty straight forward. Windows 98, not so much. Windows XP was not so easy. It's my hope that Windows 7 will be straight forward.
I think file sharing had a bug within Windows XP SP2 because until on edited the registry, things just did not work.
Now before I get labled as a troll, the registry setting I am talking about is this:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa {change restrictanonymous to 0 }
Then it worked.
I believe they believe Perl is dead...do they?
Some part of me thinks guaranteeing that once my account is deleted, Facebook and all its users lose access to them is unrealistic. After all, no ISP can say the same when it comes to email I delete. But I still would like to know what happens to my data once my account is closed. Can they guarantee that it will be gone for good?
But you know what? Facebook and the like will hardly see any of my business from now on.
Stimulus Could Kickstart US Battery Industry...
The stimulus *could* do this or that or else...
I am tired of that kind of language. Can someone tell us what the stimulus *will* actually do? Could this or that or else does not say much at all.
Did you understand my comment? I know you did not. So let the standard be there for everyone to implement according to their abilities...but what Microsoft does, is to hide everything and put us on an upgrade treadmill. That should be illegal.
You will be called a troll...but I know you are saying the truth.
...Without going through this config and that config to change things just to get it to run. Linux is on the right track, and with more and more being handed to it by Microsoft, it needs to get on the ball and make changes. Distros need to agree on where they put config files, on all distros...
Now that's the truth...thank you!
But remember fellow slashdotter, Linux needs a beautiful interface. One that everyone or the majority of folks will look at and say "wow!" But when I suggested that Linux (read distros) needed a commonsense standard, one that will enable software to be installed from distro to distro, I was called a troll.
I am passionate GNOME user but I have looked at KDE 4.2 and what can be achieved with the QT toolkit. I must say QT is very capable and KDE 4.2 has lots of potential. When you look at the capabilities of the upcoming QT 4.5 release, you realize that Windows Vista and 7 can be given a run for their money without a lot of effort. So I supported KDE and have switched to it ever since.
Then the bombshell landed: I was informed by Linux zealots that what I call confusion on the Linux world is a feature that they, that use Linux, love to death. This is not helping us defeat Microsoft. Why is it so difficult to get?
It amazes me that folks that do the serious coding in Linux, create software that worries Microsoft and the like but cannot agree on a meaningful set of standard.
Thank you for your comment.
Hey man, I would like to open MS Office 2007 documents with any office suite of my choice with 100% fidelity. Got it?
While I will not under estimate the problem this proposal would potentially solve, I thought the honorable commissioner should have started with file formats.
The issue of file formats has been around longer. We as users continue live with the consequences of what the commissioner does or does not do on this front.
Am I being unreasonable?
For this kind of issues, make sure folks at Groklaw get to know fast. They are the only folks I know that will dig up facts fast. In the Novell/SCO case, One guy provided evidence dating back to 1971! By the way, SCO appears to have lost that case. Amazing.
Man, do you know what you are talking about? You link to *GM*. GM is of the USA period. Decisions about the so called General Motors Canada are made in the USA. Got it?
This might interest you. General Motors Canada refused the Canadian version of the Auto Industry bailout. You might want to know why....because the decision was made in (you guessed it)...the USA! This is the company you are saying is Canadian?
Secondly any Canadian bailout waited for the US version because the folks in the USA call the shots. Get your facts man.
I guess you will say that Toyota that has major manufacturing operations in Cambridge Ontario is Canadian! Give me a break and please be serious.
Oh yes it is.
Just tell me one that is Canadian own like GM of U.S.A.
I just do not understand why a government "just mulling Open Source" as the headline says, is news worthy. It's just a gimmick. For this to even have a chance, Open Source Software would be alive and well in Canadian schools but this isn't the case.
Rem,ember this is one country without a domestic car concern...the only such country in the entire so called G8! Canada? Give me a break!
I am patiently waiting for these SSDs and plan to test them on a MythTV distro box. I will get a fully compatible Linux SSD notebook onto which a MythTV distro will be installed.
Then with 3 TV cards, I will see how these SSDs measure up on reading/writing/transcoding etc. My intention is to work the SSD for about a week. Watch this space for results.
I do not think that Intel will deliver the "golden" SSD. I think Samsung's SSD effort will bear results faster. Those videos say a lot.
Yes! Thank you!
It has been suggested before that the life of the relational DB is coming to an end. I must say that while I agree with this statement: -
Relational databases scale well, but usually only when that scaling happens on a single server node. When the capacity of that single node is reached, you need to scale out and distribute that load across multiple server nodes. This is when the complexity of relational databases starts to rub against their potential to scale.
I disagree with the following statement: -
Try scaling to hundreds or thousands of nodes, rather than a few, and the complexities become overwhelming, and the characteristics that make RDBMS so appealing drastically reduce their viability as platforms for large distributed systems.
I submit that the complexity can be managed and that's why we have jobs.
I am an IT consultant at a major bank and we keep all kinds of data. Data that many find useless and is spread across 27 [major] nodes. Total records in our biggest table number about 57 million with 49 rows. I can tell you that data querying and integrity maintaining are a breeze if the schematic design is correct in the first place.
We are always designing and testing different scenarios. In cases where we have had to change the schema, it has been simple if one knows what to do.
I must say that Open Source DBs have worked for us though we rely on products from IBM and Oracle.
Our philosophy is: If it works in PostgreSQL, it will even do wonders on DB2 or Oracle. I do not see how we can do away with the relational DB. Whoever designed it in the beginning did a marvelous job.
In such instances there is *serious* bidding/competition but not *secret* negotiations, right?
And I will support Microsoft in its complaint if it ever materializes. Why should my tax dollars be used to purposefully enrich a private corporation? Microsoft no longer gets the limelight. Was there any bidding done in order to select YouTube? What's wrong with our public officials? I wonder what Steve Ballmer is thinking right now.
The trouble is packages are advertised as Linux packages. Now, Joe Public knows he has Linux in Ubuntu (and he's right), so he goes ahead to install the package. Why? Because Ubuntu does not have the package he's trying to install. He then runs into all sorts of trouble. Right?
...Let there be as many filesystems as can be because the availability of so many does not seem to affect interoperability. If we in the Linux world can resolve issues surrounding the location of files, naming schemes, versions, we could solve a ton of trouble for potential Linux converts.
There is no worse problem than being faced with an error like:
"...Installation of cannot continue...lib_XYZ_0.o not found..."
Joe Public then fires up "apt-get install..." a package that contains lib_XYZ_0.o.
He is informed that he needs a newer version...
On getting the newer version he is informed that installation of that package will break dependencies...
He removes the "offending software" then on trying again with the newer version, he's informed that lib_XYZ_0.o is already installed! Amazing isn't it?
What suprises me is that programmers who can create software that scares Microsoft with its money and resourses also adopts policies that do not do much for it in terms of penetration.
Joe Puiblic then forces the installation with a switch to appt-get...Then on trying to boot into the GUI, he's thrown back to the command line.
Conclusion by Joe Public: Linux suck big time. The trouble is, this Joe might be a major decision maker in a few years!
Am I far from what happens in the Linux world more often than not?
"Microsoft's decision to limit Windows 7 Starter Edition to running only three concurrent applications could force up the price of netbooks as many manufacturers opt for the more expensive Home Premium.
This is a call to hackers everywhere to release a tool that will defeat this nonsense the moment Windows 7 is released.
Or let's all help improve KDE 4.2 so that we can do what ever we want on the Windows platform. I see that the start of KDE on Windows was not bad at all.
I submit that Microsoft need not worry that much and here are my reasons:
Joe Six Pack tells Linux Programmers: " I need to double click to install my app. Programmers response: No! Just type "apt-get install ". Six Pack's idea is shot down!
Whatever happened to "The customer is always right!"
Joe Six Pack tells Linux Programmers: Where can I get help on this application?
Programmers: RTFM! Or connect to #linuxhelp on irc.freenode.com. When Joe Six Pack gets there, he's asked to RTFM.
It's as simple as that folks!
Right now, my MythTV setup is spewing errosrs like hell...telling me that ivtv0 cannot record fast enough. Ity also says that "Mythtv mpeg buffers afe full...". This makes MythTV exit after about 8 minutes of playing cable TV. I have been asked to RTFM so many times that I am going to simply reformat and install.
Microsoft worry? I do not think so.
This is because there is trouble in the Linux space. We can't agree on a way forward. Look, the other day, our benevolent leader Linus stated: "Multiple Distributions "Absolutely Required..," as if that would help in stemming Microsoft's progress.
Let me say this: There will always be multiple distributions of "Linux" but what we need is a fully functional desktop with a single supported desktop environment. Nobody...I repeat, nobody is saying there should be *one* Linux desktop or server. Nobody! Other distros can continue to exist but this particular desktop should get the bulk of resources to succeed.
On the desktop now, KDE 4.2 is good and it has always shown promise. By the way, I am a die hard GNOME user who contributes to the project from time to time, but I must say the truth. What troubles me is that folks sing "Linux is great" and so on then they go ahead to dedicate resources to other projects. This approach does not help.
Then we have those who I would say are almost bigots. Why? Because users tell them "...we need a single accepted API so that apps will install across Linux distros..." What happens is that these folks' ideas are shot down but these bigots.
Microsoft need not worry for now. Look at what Apple did. They broke compatibility...took another direction but because they have a single platform with unique names at every incarnation, they own more of the desktop then all the Linux combined.
We can beat Apple because we are open. Then we have folks that create multimedia files in Flash before putting up our very own .ogg files. These folks should at least put files up at the same time. We should at least be seen to eat our own food.
Folks. Let's listen to what the ordinary user is saying.
Does one ever wonder why we who use Linux still command a tiny percentage of the desktop despite having been around for almost a decade now?
Microsoft need not worry for now.
...Now, according to Techworld, a security company that has examined the Tory plans has come out against the use of open source software, citing the number of security problems inherent in the software...
I think we need to be objective here. Software both closed source and open source is created by human beings.
By nature, these human beings make mistakes.
The question then becomes: Which model of software development fixes security issues faster? We should collect statistics here and convince these Britons that OSS is still the best model around.
We should also remind the skeptics about OSS, that more than 80% of internet traffic is handled by OSS systems, so if OSS were that insecure, it would show...fast.
I know he's a very accomplished person, but would like to know whether the new appointee is friendly to Open Source Software and Linux in particular. I am optimistic though because he's been "more open" as compared to the typical government official.
Now get us the facts about this man.
You know why? Because if this is indeed the case, Microsoft would have released the code for systems like DOS, Windows 3.1, 3.11 for Work Groups, 95, 98 or 98 SE.