These security companies should have seen this. I mean...the writing was on the wall.
Next victim? Adobe: with its PDF and Flash.
Open sourcing these products, and creating decent interfaces for their PDF reader are the only feasible things [for Adobe] to do in my opinion. QT would be better than using GTK. You might wonder why: I cannot type or paste a link in the file selector dialogue of Adobe's PDF reader, in this day and age!! Think of it.
As an American, I am disappointed in this story. If it's true, then we in the USA are not much different when compared to folks in third world countries. Why on earth, would a machine proven to be very prone to compromise, be allowed to be used in the conducting of free and fair elections.
What about the integrity of the elections?
Isn't this kind of stuff the kind of thing that a typical American would not be surprised if it were reported as having happened in the so called 3rd world countries?
What troubles me also is the fact that after all this, our government goes on preaching democracy. I am disappointed! Period
Well, I'd like someone to tell us about the potential drawbacks of having to depend so much on technology. I remember the time in the late eighties when cell phones were being touted as the next "big thing". Nobody knew that these cellphones, together with similar technology would contribute to the increase in our stress levels.
To make matters worse, there have been studies that support the fact that pregnant women stressed by all these gadgets/technology, are more likely to have kids with severe mental or psychotic problems. Do you know that the chances of a kid getting a brain disorder are just 1 in 166? It iused to be 1 in 11000 in the late sixties.
These studies are just rubbish. Whoever is behind them has some hidden motive. Do they think we have forgotten urguments by the tobacco companies about the lack of evidence that cigarettes and nicotine are harmful?
I am an African man from very humble roots, who excelled in maths, beating folks in rich and priveledged societies. As such, I landed a scholarship to a prestigious university where I came on top of the class, amazing my professors.
I even learnt the German and French languages and even got myself a partner. The French language was from the "street" and still continue to speak it. I consider myself very good in maths and very good with people. Partly because of that I am now working with the American government in the space field.
I know many many people who are good at maths and very very successful with people. I therefore take this study to be an insult to all of us who are pretty good at the subject and successful with our neighbors.
After that, they go arround the world preaching freedom with a colonialist attitude that makes them appear to be an utopia as compared to others. Hypocrites! Shame, shame, shame on them all.
I do not want t try out this release becasuse all my extensions do not work, and Firefox without those particular extensions is not worth the effort. However, I applaud their coding effort.
"We've come a long way in ten years, but where must we still improve?"
For me, it's the two major sub-items covered under one big one: Beauty.
The fonts are ugly. What does it take to make KDE display beautiful fonts. I am particularily impressed by this Kdevelop image. http://kdevelop.org/graphics/screenshots/3.0/full_ ide.png. If a product is touted as significantly better technologically, it should also be a pleasure to look at.
The interface by default, is full of huge buttons wasting screen real estate. Why won't these two toolbars be merged? There is so much space wasted above the lower toolbar. Just have a look at this image. http://kde.org/screenshots/images/3.5/02-systeminf o.png
They (KDE) should look at hiring a beautification expert. Xandros and Linspire should provide a hint. The point here is that KDE should be a pleasure to look at by default.
Thank you.
What disturbs me is that in KDE [all] apps can do it without any problem. And that they've had this ability for a long time.
Think of it: Why do I have to fire up Firefox in order that Firefox can call up Evince to view a PDF? If I have the URL some where, I should be able to call the associated app to do the needful.
Oh China! The Dragon Nation has surely grown teeth and is biting these days. Not like my president *cough* GWB *cough* who says something, issues strong warnings, and a stubborn country or countries go ahead and do their thing with impunity. Hello IRAN, DPRK! My president then moves goal posts *cough*, *cough*!
Will the common APIs solve the fact that I cannot paste a PDF web URL in Evince in GNOME and have Evince load it? This is one of the things that keeps me from using GNOME.
The other thing is that I cannot do the simplest file operations in the GNOME file selector. Will the common APIs solve this [burning] issue?
...Yes, Yahoo has every right to accept or refuse stuff that works on its products. Heck, where in Yahoo messenger's licence on "Terms of Use" does it say that it [Yahoo] should accept every sh*t with its products?
Come on Yahoo...is that authentication code really a crown jewel? I am no coder but really wonder whether that title fits what the subject is here. What if we find that most if not all of this authentication code was lifted from BSD?
Of late, I have encountered trouble logging into Yahoo Mail. In fact, this has been going on for three months. Before Yahoo begins talking about or even blowing their own trumpet about their "Crown Jewels", they should at least make their [mail] service as reliable as Google's Gmail. For the record, I am not impressed with their new email interface either.
The other thing I'd like to see is full support for Mozilla's Firefox browser as far as Yahoo's Launchcast service is concerned. Don't mention that GreaseMonkey extension. All I want to see is full support. They are doing a fiar job when it comes to video on their news service. But music is still wanting.
...The Chinese will be in position to tell us what we can and cannot do.
This is a very serious development. The Chinese can launch satelites, put men into orbit, have nuclear weapons, are financing most of our balance or payments thanks to Bush
The other day, their defense minister asked the US to "shut up!"
Pretty soon, they will stare us in the face and say..."Do whatever you will...knowing full well that we just cannot!" They just won't care. May be Bush should threaten to bomb them.
You know why I chose that as the subject line? Well, it's because if it were the Russians, then American slashdotters would already have posted comments doubting Russian technology.
Never mind that fact that the Russain Soyuz craft was the main lifeline of the International Space Station (when the shuttle exploded), which space station, would not have been a reality if it were not for Russian participation.
The sentence should read, "Munich Finally Starts Implementing Linux."
The embrace happened a few years ago. It's (Linux) implementation is what has just happened. By the way...does anyone know whether it's KDE or GNOME at the forefront here?
Once this is out, is will impress lots of folks including myself. That will be its time. I know that for others, some found on slashdot, KDE will always be a non starter.
On a side note, the Morris Minor had its time too. Here it is:
As for pasting a URL into a file selector, I have no idea how that makes any sense -- how about just opening your browser and pasting it in there?
You think every URL to open must be associated with the browser? Think again. Sometimes, I want to open a PDF file using Evince. Why can't I simply paste the URL in the file selector? If I can do it in KDE...why not GNOME? I know I can have Adobe's Acrobat reader integrated into Mozilla Firefox with a plug-in, but I want to use the smaller and "better" Evince.
...why not just move straight to Linux and save the complete redesign and recoding?
Here's why:
No one is interested in spending hours making the Linux desktop useable from default settings. Even now, one cannot click on a multimedia link and expect to listen or watch the content by default!
The [Linux] desktops are simply ugly, slow and not user friendly! I wonder why I cnnot rename a file in GNOME's file selector. I cannot paste a URL in its file selector and expect GNOME to call the appropriate program to handle the content either. I must say KDE does this by default. Kudos to them.
This is the most important: Application portability between distros.
Confusion reigns on this one....An application gets advertised as Linux ready...an ambitious slashdotter downloads it and tries to install it. But first, this poor man must know in which format its packaged (tar, deb, rpm etc). Then he must know whether it's for his particular distro. Even when it is, on trying to get it installed, he's warned that there are dependencies to be met, and as such, some files must be downloaded from the internet. The poor guy hooks up on the internet, downloads the necessary files but while in the process of installing, he's informed that there are conflicts...Guys, this madness must stop if Linux is to get anywhere.
There are solutions to all this but how many folks can stomach this confusion? I was faced with a similar problem while trying to get the latest version of VLC installed. I satisfied all dependencies and was installing from source. The whole process failed at the `make' command, and being no programmer, I could not figure out what `error 2' meant!
To make matters worse, the older version of VLC is very unstable now. Re-installation does not make a difference.
But it was advertised as Linux ready...including being ready and downloadable for my distro (Ubuntu Dapper).
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Next victim? Adobe: with its PDF and Flash.
Open sourcing these products, and creating decent interfaces for their PDF reader are the only feasible things [for Adobe] to do in my opinion. QT would be better than using GTK. You might wonder why: I cannot type or paste a link in the file selector dialogue of Adobe's PDF reader, in this day and age!! Think of it.
What about the integrity of the elections?
Isn't this kind of stuff the kind of thing that a typical American would not be surprised if it were reported as having happened in the so called 3rd world countries?
What troubles me also is the fact that after all this, our government goes on preaching democracy. I am disappointed! Period
To make matters worse, there have been studies that support the fact that pregnant women stressed by all these gadgets/technology, are more likely to have kids with severe mental or psychotic problems. Do you know that the chances of a kid getting a brain disorder are just 1 in 166? It iused to be 1 in 11000 in the late sixties.
I am an African man from very humble roots, who excelled in maths, beating folks in rich and priveledged societies. As such, I landed a scholarship to a prestigious university where I came on top of the class, amazing my professors.
I even learnt the German and French languages and even got myself a partner. The French language was from the "street" and still continue to speak it. I consider myself very good in maths and very good with people. Partly because of that I am now working with the American government in the space field.
I know many many people who are good at maths and very very successful with people. I therefore take this study to be an insult to all of us who are pretty good at the subject and successful with our neighbors.
After that, they go arround the world preaching freedom with a colonialist attitude that makes them appear to be an utopia as compared to others. Hypocrites! Shame, shame, shame on them all.
The solution is pretty simple:
Register the site in the Bahamas and bingo! Or better still, keep it registered in the EU and get content from abroad. Problem solved, period.
With this news, I better get rid of my Redhat stock. This news cannot be good news for ReaHat or any other Linux vendor. I hope I am not too late.
I do not want t try out this release becasuse all my extensions do not work, and Firefox without those particular extensions is not worth the effort. However, I applaud their coding effort.
I think a I mentioned that KDE should be a pleasure to look at by default. I wonder whether its default look satisfies anyone. Do you know?
Where is it mentioned that a pleaseure to look at *is* a requirement? I simply, as the subject noted, had my take on KDE.
For me, it's the two major sub-items covered under one big one: Beauty.
Think of it: Why do I have to fire up Firefox in order that Firefox can call up Evince to view a PDF? If I have the URL some where, I should be able to call the associated app to do the needful.
Oh China! The Dragon Nation has surely grown teeth and is biting these days. Not like my president *cough* GWB *cough* who says something, issues strong warnings, and a stubborn country or countries go ahead and do their thing with impunity. Hello IRAN, DPRK! My president then moves goal posts *cough*, *cough*!
The other thing is that I cannot do the simplest file operations in the GNOME file selector. Will the common APIs solve this [burning] issue?
...Yes, Yahoo has every right to accept or refuse stuff that works on its products. Heck, where in Yahoo messenger's licence on "Terms of Use" does it say that it [Yahoo] should accept every sh*t with its products?
Isn't this an old rant? Sorry if I come out as a troll!
Come on Yahoo...is that authentication code really a crown jewel? I am no coder but really wonder whether that title fits what the subject is here. What if we find that most if not all of this authentication code was lifted from BSD?
The other thing I'd like to see is full support for Mozilla's Firefox browser as far as Yahoo's Launchcast service is concerned. Don't mention that GreaseMonkey extension. All I want to see is full support. They are doing a fiar job when it comes to video on their news service. But music is still wanting.
This is a very serious development. The Chinese can launch satelites, put men into orbit, have nuclear weapons, are financing most of our balance or payments thanks to Bush
The other day, their defense minister asked the US to "shut up!"
Pretty soon, they will stare us in the face and say..."Do whatever you will...knowing full well that we just cannot!" They just won't care. May be Bush should threaten to bomb them.
Never mind that fact that the Russain Soyuz craft was the main lifeline of the International Space Station (when the shuttle exploded), which space station, would not have been a reality if it were not for Russian participation.
The sentence should read, "Munich Finally Starts Implementing Linux."
The embrace happened a few years ago. It's (Linux) implementation is what has just happened. By the way...does anyone know whether it's KDE or GNOME at the forefront here?
http://www.abclinuxu.cz/images/clanky/kratky/kde4- plasma-2.png
http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/4884/filebrowser0 ql.jpg
Once this is out, is will impress lots of folks including myself. That will be its time. I know that for others, some found on slashdot, KDE will always be a non starter.
On a side note, the Morris Minor had its time too. Here it is:
http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/classic-car-images/ morris3.jpg
I'll never forget my ride in one of these as a kid.
You think every URL to open must be associated with the browser? Think again. Sometimes, I want to open a PDF file using Evince. Why can't I simply paste the URL in the file selector? If I can do it in KDE...why not GNOME? I know I can have Adobe's Acrobat reader integrated into Mozilla Firefox with a plug-in, but I want to use the smaller and "better" Evince.
Here's why:
No one is interested in spending hours making the Linux desktop useable from default settings. Even now, one cannot click on a multimedia link and expect to listen or watch the content by default!
The [Linux] desktops are simply ugly, slow and not user friendly! I wonder why I cnnot rename a file in GNOME's file selector. I cannot paste a URL in its file selector and expect GNOME to call the appropriate program to handle the content either. I must say KDE does this by default. Kudos to them.
This is the most important: Application portability between distros.
Confusion reigns on this one....An application gets advertised as Linux ready...an ambitious slashdotter downloads it and tries to install it. But first, this poor man must know in which format its packaged (tar, deb, rpm etc). Then he must know whether it's for his particular distro. Even when it is, on trying to get it installed, he's warned that there are dependencies to be met, and as such, some files must be downloaded from the internet. The poor guy hooks up on the internet, downloads the necessary files but while in the process of installing, he's informed that there are conflicts...Guys, this madness must stop if Linux is to get anywhere.
There are solutions to all this but how many folks can stomach this confusion? I was faced with a similar problem while trying to get the latest version of VLC installed. I satisfied all dependencies and was installing from source. The whole process failed at the `make' command, and being no programmer, I could not figure out what `error 2' meant!
To make matters worse, the older version of VLC is very unstable now. Re-installation does not make a difference.
But it was advertised as Linux ready...including being ready and downloadable for my distro (Ubuntu Dapper).
Food for thought guys.
This is not a troll. Where are we on this front? How many jobs or how much economic activity would Linux have produced by now?