To some extent, I agree with Bill Gates and I go on to say...you know what? He's right! This is because all other software including software from the OSS world sucks big time.
Look at some of Open Source's so called success projects - Apache, it sucks to get locked down and requires a lot of technical knowledge to get properly setup.
Another one...OpenOffice.org. This one also sucks big time. After almost a decade in development, guys in the OSS wprld have not figured how to get the beast fast, and beautiful enough to grab one's attention.
I am happy to say that the KDE folks appear to get it with KDE 4.0. For the first time, I am happy to note that I will abandon Gnome for KDE after all, even staunch GNOME fan boys have pointed out that Gnome is living in an age of decadence.
To me, all this looks like Zimbra. Am I right? By the way, are all components Open source? Without an answer in the affirmative, I will not touch it even with a 10 foot pole.
My current beef with firefox concerns mailto: links. I wonder whether it can satisfactorily handle these links.
Once clicked in the current version of Firefox on windows without a default mail client defined, (I will not touch outlook!), the system fires up 48 instances of Internet Explorer, which in turn says it does not know how to handle the URL!
My hope and expectation is for Firefox to give me an option of defining a mail client or fire-up my GMail. Can anyone whose tested it inform a slashdoter? Thank you.
The ability to display a few days of my calendar at the bottom of the message text box (while typing) is what I really miss. This feature is available with Yahoo mail by default. If there are important events coming up, you see these as they scroll...sweet! I hope they will implement it.
What hurts me most about this Microsoft/Yahoo deal is what would happen to Zimbra. I fear the worst. Can someone tell me any serious contender to Zimbra that is just as good and free?
I'd like to know how Google will make its money on this particular service. How? Are the data feeds on prices free and a middleman has always ripped us off all this time?
I love Firefox. It is my default browser and has been so since its very early days. These two issues bring me headache bigtime.
1: Please let us be able to teach Firefox how to handle the mailto: links on Windows. This is a pain on Windows XP with all service packs installed (if this helps). In its current form, if one clicks any such link, Firefox will immediately hang, and the system will "resurrect" or come to life with 48 Internet Explorer windows open.
In these windows, will be an error message saying something to the effect that Windows could not find an appropriate program to handle the request.
I know some will say this is a windows problem but to me, I blame Firefox for not being able to handle such a link by loading my GMail log-on page. There used to be an extension for this but it sucked big time.
2: Video and specifically CNN live feeds together with the rtsp protocol are still not handled in a consistent way. RTSP will sometimes work but I have never been able to watch CNN live video feeds in Firefox! Ironically, the commercials preceding the feeds have no issues together with the captions. This applies to the sound as well.
If these issues are fixed, you devs will have made my year!
Otherwise, thank you for the good and solid Firefox browser.
I mean, what does it take to start our own "free" ISP service as slashdotters in the Canadian chapter? As a customer of Bell, I am sick and tired of the CAD$47.95 I pay to Bell monthly for a 5MB/sec connection which averages about 1.8MBits/sec. I find the rate rather high.
At first they (Bell) said it was because our Canadian dollar then was way below the US dollar. But even at parity or even greater value than the US currency, I still pay that same amount. What's going on here?
From the article...
"...The device cannot access personal details about a person's identity or contacts, but privacy campaigners expressed concern about potential intrusion..."
These folks expect us to believe that they would admit that these devices can indeed access peoples personal contacts? Who are they kidding? It's like expecting Bush to admit that he was wrong to invade Iraq.
My best feature is the slider to change font size "in real time". You move the slider and see the effects immediately. I love this. Your issue will be addressed in KDE 4.1, so be patient. In the meantime, submit those bug reports. KDE unlike the other environment, does not suck big time.
I will recount my I had trouble with the last Fedora Distro.
I bought myself a second hand Samsung ML-2510 printer that Samsung touted as "supported" under some Linux kernel version and later.
I connect power cables, power it up and connect it via USB expecting some prompt but nothing! I check....nothing!
I attempt to use the included driver CD-ROM, so I load it, and nothing happens. This is as disturbing as it is amazing in this USB 2.0 world. Not being timid, I fire up the terminal, navigate to/mnt as suggested by Samsung and I see nothing in there! I note that Samsung might have made a mistake so I navigate to the actual device and there, I see some files. I follow the directions as if I were at/mnt earlier suggested by Samsung and the system fires up some "error 2. Unexpected end of command."
Not really being a Linux newbie, I fix that error and the system then complains of missing SANE, Ghostscript and CUPS packages. I install two of them and on trying again, the system complains of a wrong SANE version.
I then do what I will call an update via YUM to install the latest SANE then I try again. I succeed this time but my printer, which is still powered and connected, cannot be found on any usb ports! Restarting the system did not help at all!
What bothers me are the Linux zealots who think Fedora and Linux are doing wonders in today's world. If I were working on that "other" platform, I would not need any software downloads whatsoever, and the printer would be churning out print work in less than 12 seconds.
Guys, it's [still] pathetic in the Linux world and progress is very very slow. As usual, people are going to blame the distro in question as if that helps mitigate the problem Linux faces.
My verdict on the released Fedora will be out by the end of this week. I hope I will be [pleasantly] surprised.
Can someone convince me that these devices are [very] useful to the point of replacing the notebook? You see, I will be returning to this September and would like to consider one of these devices as a replacement for a notebook. Can I for example, load OpenOffice.org on the Eee PC?
In this mininotebooks market segment, standards have been ignored. That is, one cannot grab memory from the Eee, stick it into the OLPC system and still expect the system to boot! It's pathetic, just like in the Linux world.
Sadly, just like on the Linux front, things on this front will get worse before they get better. It's my hope that there emerges a difference as compared to the Linux world where things are well into a decade [of serious Linux use] and we still have no standards on which package manager to use, and which file, with which version should be where on the system...let alone the [version] numbering.
By the way, I expect to be labeled troll or even worse but that is the truth.
Specifically, he's using GrandCentral in combination with Gizmo5 to make free VoiP calls
He's making free phone calls to the USA. I am pretty sure he cannot call Benin or Nepal free of charge. That is the nature of the industry. Once this Google product is out, free calls will not be to every device that can receive them all over the world. Free calls will be to USA and Canada.
By the way, can anyone tell me what determines the cost of an international call? My provider (Sprint Canada) charges an average of 49 cents/min for a call to Asia though you can use some of the many pre-paid phone cards and make a call at about 7 cents/min to the same destination.
Where as most distros I have tried will recognize and work well with the mentioned card, my efforts to have those distros recognize and fully utilize the remote control which comes with the card have failed at best! The whole exercise was full of frustrations culminating in giving up.
It's my hope that someone can tell me that "Yes, Slackware will work for you."
But will will not be surprised if Slackware turns out to be just like the distros I have tried.
If you asked me whether Linux sucks, I'd unequivocally say..."Yes it does, and it does so big time." All because of a remote control that does not work.
Before I get flamed, I would like to say I read and followed all howtos I could google and yes I am no newbie to Linux's command line.
I tried Joomla and mambo once and was somewhat impressed. may be Drupal is better, but is it? How easy is its installation? What advantages does it have over the other two? A slashdotter wants to know.
"Microsoft downplays a recent DNS vulnerability in all Microsoft operating systems (XP, Vista, 2000, and 2003), claims Amit Klein, the security researcher who published the original vulnerability description (PDF) earlier this month.
Question is, what would any other company do?
Now, for those Linux zealots, please just get [Desktop] Linux to just work. Doing this will give us a reference point from which to start seriously competing on the desktop. My hope is in the upcoming KDE. Let's wait and see.
I agree with you. What can be done is to grow the sugar cane in the southern states. There are conducive conditions in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi and tens of thousands of acres of [empty] land.
Not only is Ethanol shortsighted it is exactly the wrong direction for us to take.
Tell that to the Brazillians who are reportedly 100% free of oil, and are running all their vehicles off ethanol. The problems you sight are legitimate but not insurmountable. If we divert just one-third of the monthly expenditures in Iraq to solving the problems you highlight we will be very far.
I am afraid that actual incompetence on the part of CNN is being overlooked here. I ask CNN not to look for a scapegoat on this issue.
There are ways to mitigate the effects of a DoS attack. Knowing how US companies have exhibited incompetence in the past, I will not be surprised if it is the case this time round.
When it comes to the remote control, I tried. Trust me. It just did not work. I know about lirc. I tinkered all I could but it did not work! There is community support for the WinTV-PVR-150 at http://ivtvdriver.org/ and I can tell you that it did not work for me. By the way, I am no Linux newbie but I must admit I failed on this.
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Look at some of Open Source's so called success projects - Apache, it sucks to get locked down and requires a lot of technical knowledge to get properly setup.
Another one...OpenOffice.org. This one also sucks big time. After almost a decade in development, guys in the OSS wprld have not figured how to get the beast fast, and beautiful enough to grab one's attention.
I am happy to say that the KDE folks appear to get it with KDE 4.0. For the first time, I am happy to note that I will abandon Gnome for KDE after all, even staunch GNOME fan boys have pointed out that Gnome is living in an age of decadence.
Hauppauge cards are supported to some extent but getting their remote controls to work is a pain in the butt, even on MythTV based distros!
In fact, getting the remote control to work is more of an exercise in frustration than anything else.
To me, all this looks like Zimbra. Am I right? By the way, are all components Open source? Without an answer in the affirmative, I will not touch it even with a 10 foot pole.
Why won't it be "T plus two weeks?" What's wrong with that?
Once clicked in the current version of Firefox on windows without a default mail client defined, (I will not touch outlook!), the system fires up 48 instances of Internet Explorer, which in turn says it does not know how to handle the URL!
My hope and expectation is for Firefox to give me an option of defining a mail client or fire-up my GMail. Can anyone whose tested it inform a slashdoter? Thank you.
The ability to display a few days of my calendar at the bottom of the message text box (while typing) is what I really miss. This feature is available with Yahoo mail by default. If there are important events coming up, you see these as they scroll...sweet! I hope they will implement it.
What hurts me most about this Microsoft/Yahoo deal is what would happen to Zimbra. I fear the worst. Can someone tell me any serious contender to Zimbra that is just as good and free?
I'd like to know how Google will make its money on this particular service. How? Are the data feeds on prices free and a middleman has always ripped us off all this time?
1: Please let us be able to teach Firefox how to handle the mailto: links on Windows. This is a pain on Windows XP with all service packs installed (if this helps). In its current form, if one clicks any such link, Firefox will immediately hang, and the system will "resurrect" or come to life with 48 Internet Explorer windows open.
In these windows, will be an error message saying something to the effect that Windows could not find an appropriate program to handle the request.
I know some will say this is a windows problem but to me, I blame Firefox for not being able to handle such a link by loading my GMail log-on page. There used to be an extension for this but it sucked big time.
2: Video and specifically CNN live feeds together with the rtsp protocol are still not handled in a consistent way. RTSP will sometimes work but I have never been able to watch CNN live video feeds in Firefox! Ironically, the commercials preceding the feeds have no issues together with the captions. This applies to the sound as well.
If these issues are fixed, you devs will have made my year!
Otherwise, thank you for the good and solid Firefox browser.
At first they (Bell) said it was because our Canadian dollar then was way below the US dollar. But even at parity or even greater value than the US currency, I still pay that same amount. What's going on here?
These folks expect us to believe that they would admit that these devices can indeed access peoples personal contacts? Who are they kidding? It's like expecting Bush to admit that he was wrong to invade Iraq.
Maybe I should also write an article so that I can be quoted as "...Bogaboga supports Coordinated Linux release proposal..."
My best feature is the slider to change font size "in real time". You move the slider and see the effects immediately. I love this. Your issue will be addressed in KDE 4.1, so be patient. In the meantime, submit those bug reports. KDE unlike the other environment, does not suck big time.
I bought myself a second hand Samsung ML-2510 printer that Samsung touted as "supported" under some Linux kernel version and later.
I connect power cables, power it up and connect it via USB expecting some prompt but nothing! I check....nothing!
I attempt to use the included driver CD-ROM, so I load it, and nothing happens. This is as disturbing as it is amazing in this USB 2.0 world. Not being timid, I fire up the terminal, navigate to /mnt as suggested by Samsung and I see nothing in there! I note that Samsung might have made a mistake so I navigate to the actual device and there, I see some files. I follow the directions as if I were at /mnt earlier suggested by Samsung and the system fires up some "error 2. Unexpected end of command."
Not really being a Linux newbie, I fix that error and the system then complains of missing SANE, Ghostscript and CUPS packages. I install two of them and on trying again, the system complains of a wrong SANE version.
I then do what I will call an update via YUM to install the latest SANE then I try again. I succeed this time but my printer, which is still powered and connected, cannot be found on any usb ports! Restarting the system did not help at all!
What bothers me are the Linux zealots who think Fedora and Linux are doing wonders in today's world. If I were working on that "other" platform, I would not need any software downloads whatsoever, and the printer would be churning out print work in less than 12 seconds.
Guys, it's [still] pathetic in the Linux world and progress is very very slow. As usual, people are going to blame the distro in question as if that helps mitigate the problem Linux faces.
My verdict on the released Fedora will be out by the end of this week. I hope I will be [pleasantly] surprised.
Can someone convince me that these devices are [very] useful to the point of replacing the notebook? You see, I will be returning to this September and would like to consider one of these devices as a replacement for a notebook. Can I for example, load OpenOffice.org on the Eee PC?
I am kind of tired of this OpenOffice.org beta stuff. In my opinion, this beta business is taking too long. Am I alone?
Sadly, just like on the Linux front, things on this front will get worse before they get better. It's my hope that there emerges a difference as compared to the Linux world where things are well into a decade [of serious Linux use] and we still have no standards on which package manager to use, and which file, with which version should be where on the system...let alone the [version] numbering.
By the way, I expect to be labeled troll or even worse but that is the truth.
He's making free phone calls to the USA. I am pretty sure he cannot call Benin or Nepal free of charge. That is the nature of the industry. Once this Google product is out, free calls will not be to every device that can receive them all over the world. Free calls will be to USA and Canada.
By the way, can anyone tell me what determines the cost of an international call? My provider (Sprint Canada) charges an average of 49 cents/min for a call to Asia though you can use some of the many pre-paid phone cards and make a call at about 7 cents/min to the same destination.
It's my hope that someone can tell me that "Yes, Slackware will work for you."
But will will not be surprised if Slackware turns out to be just like the distros I have tried.
If you asked me whether Linux sucks, I'd unequivocally say..."Yes it does, and it does so big time." All because of a remote control that does not work.
Before I get flamed, I would like to say I read and followed all howtos I could google and yes I am no newbie to Linux's command line.
I tried Joomla and mambo once and was somewhat impressed. may be Drupal is better, but is it? How easy is its installation? What advantages does it have over the other two? A slashdotter wants to know.
Question is, what would any other company do?
Now, for those Linux zealots, please just get [Desktop] Linux to just work. Doing this will give us a reference point from which to start seriously competing on the desktop. My hope is in the upcoming KDE. Let's wait and see.
I agree with you. What can be done is to grow the sugar cane in the southern states. There are conducive conditions in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi and tens of thousands of acres of [empty] land.
Tell that to the Brazillians who are reportedly 100% free of oil, and are running all their vehicles off ethanol. The problems you sight are legitimate but not insurmountable. If we divert just one-third of the monthly expenditures in Iraq to solving the problems you highlight we will be very far.
There are ways to mitigate the effects of a DoS attack. Knowing how US companies have exhibited incompetence in the past, I will not be surprised if it is the case this time round.
When it comes to the remote control, I tried. Trust me. It just did not work. I know about lirc. I tinkered all I could but it did not work! There is community support for the WinTV-PVR-150 at http://ivtvdriver.org/ and I can tell you that it did not work for me. By the way, I am no Linux newbie but I must admit I failed on this.