I can confidently assure Bill Gates and his colleagues that the M$ corporation will have difficult time getting any penny from me this time round. With the impending release of KDE 3.5 and KDE 4.0 coming up fine, I really see no need for M$.
And ohh the KDE guys have done it again. We now have "klik" http://dot.kde.org/1126867980/ that promises to simplify package installation on Linux systems. I have my dissatisfactions though. The biggest are:
the ugly default Linux desktop in most distros,
the ugly fonts (emphasizing the above), and
the seemingly slow response times for Linux apps.
OpenOffice.org Linux's flagship application, encompasses all the above - sadly!
What about video? I know they have http://video.google.com/, but I'd like them to put it on the front page along with "Web", "Images", "Groups", "News" and so on.
What I think will happen is that Google will break into more specific searches like cronyism, nepotism, corruption and the like especially in governments around the world.
Cronyism is especially why the former FEMA boss did not perform. The trouble is that this is happening in America and could still happen again. Those in the 3rd world must be breathing a sigh of relief about this very fact. They are not alone!
> (Granted some of GM's cars are dull, but Toyota etc. doesn't make a single exciting car,...
The best judge on this i.e. the American public does not agree with you...sorry. GM and *all* cough...*all* American based auto companies have been losing market share at the hands of the Japanese and especially Toyota for some time now. In fact decades.
The best selling car in the US is the Camry...again a Japanese brand. It beats the next best selling American brand almost four to one! And these is no indication that things will change soon. Heck, the best selling and known hybrid is (you guessed it), - Japanese and that is the Prius.
Let GMC repair its reputation on the quality of its vehicles. first Sincerely speaking, the GMs quality is still way below its Japanese counterparts. Going for features without improving quality will not help that much.
Who wants to have this feature if the vehicle will keep on breaking down? And of late, getting GMC to "own" problems with its vehicles has not been easy at all! Contrast that with Toyota, who say [juat like the Samba Team], something to the effect that..."A disfunctional Toyota is their responsibility..."
Could this be a case of too little too late? I think so - but I'm no lawyer either. Why has this company taken more than a year to lay claim as they are doing now? Or is it that I have been living under some rock?
> Help a poor college student. Send a couple cents via paypal to chucks86@gmail.com
I'd rather send those cents to the folks in New Orleans that are suffering as though they are in some third world country. A shame, a shame, a shame that what happened down there *actually* happened on US soil! To make matters worse, it could still happen - again!
Like I contributed some time ago, "never trust the Russians." These guys are technologically gifted. They achieve so much with very little, and with no fanfare at all. If it were we the Americans, all major networks would be carrying this story as if we have no troubles of our own.
There was a saying that if the Russians had not participated in the ISS. I will never forget the day I came up-close to an Antonov-124. I have never seen a bigger aircraft.
Years when the US air-force was trumpeting the stealth fighter as unstoppable, the Russians said there is nothing that takes in air and dissipates heat that cannot be detected. This was proven when one of our fighters was downed in the Balkan's war. The air-force attributed the downing to a technical fault. Of course this was not correct.
There is also this piece: When time came to retire the MIR, we put a spin on where its fragments would fall - mostly negative. But not only did MIR's fragments land in the correct spot, they landed with an accuracy we as Americans can only dream of for an un-manned craft. There is so much these guys can do. I wish we could emulate some of their achievements.
While I understood what you were trying to put across, and I believe other slashdotters did, I'd beg you to learn when to use "there" and "their". In your post, you should have replaced every occurrence of "there" with "their".
Out googling google will not be easy unless M$ creates the following environment:
Here it is:
M$ MUST make sure that the services Google and Yahoo provide at present do not work very well with IE. So in this situation if one wants to use Google's virtual Earth, it becomes impossible making this individual resort to Microsoft's offerings.
On the other hand, Google could fight back this way: It could create a utility that makes the dependence on IE for most of Microsoft's services irrelevant. I am still looking for a way to remove IE from my Windows box in a sane and neat way.
If Google can create such a utility, I can see most users removing IE. The trouble at present is even after making Firefox the default browser for example, looking at some link in some applications would still "call" IE. I guess this young man called "DVD Jon" can help here.
I submit that there has been progress made already on this front with TCP/IP for the Internet and Internet communications. What I should add is that what Massachusetts has done is a very good start in this direction. But with the enormous dependency on proprietary formats already with us, this call's success seems to be a pipe dream to me.
While I agree with you, I will hasten to add that just like what electronic gadgets and lack of focus have done to our kids in school, the heavy dependence on the Internet will help produce pretty confident kids but who cannot deliver in real world environments.
I know because I was a teacher at one time. Today's kids are pretty confident. They go:..."I can do this...I can do that"...mostly as end users. Just see how kids play the PS2s and XBoxes of this world. They are pretty good at this. When more serious problems come up at their places of work, they cannot deliver. Their companies resort to outsourcing. Little wonder that not much in America seems to be done right these days.
Just imagine for a second how we handled the Katrina hurricane after knowing that it was coming, it was big, it was headed for a city below sea level and that thousands could not evacuate. For the 5 or 6 days we had to prepare, shame is what we have to endure now. Generations to come will be embarrassed with this generation.
> First of all you've downloaded the wrong file...you need OOo_2.0beta2_Win32Intel_install.zip.
Huh!
If you were a bit observant while reading, you'd have realized that I am dealing with Linux and a Debian based distro in particular. Are you saying that these days, the file you mention above installs smoothly on Debian based distros? I have not touched Windows in a loooong time.
Please explain to a lay man (myself), how LGPL is different as compared to the GPL. A side by side explanation on key terms and points would be very useful and much appreciated. Thanks.
Linspire is free? I doubt it even matters now since Linspire, like other distros, has always been freely available on the eDonkey network.
One thing I like about it is that apart from being Debian based, and therefore easier to manage as compared to rpm based distros, it's one distro that is beautiful (especially the fonts), and has everything about it working *as* advertised - out-of-the-box.
As an American, I am disappointed and ashamed by what Katrina has exposed. Katrina has shown that America is no different or is even worse than a banana republic when it comes to disasters. One can hardly believe that the scenes exposed in New Orleans are on American soil.
This is why I think we need to take a deeper look at ourselves:
1: We knew Katrina was coming...
2: We knew it was big...really huge and as such, the
damage would be enormous...
3: We knew that some residents would not beat the time
required to vacate Louisiana, may be because of complacency or the traffic mess...
4: We had numbers of those who had managed to escape.
We even knew where they were to be found...
5: We even knew the geography of New Orleans, so we could know where to go and how to get there...
6: We knew much more via satellites...since we take ourselves as being the most advanced country on earth...!
But...
1: There was 100% chaos in Louisiana...
2:...because we seem to have been caught off guard...!
3: Dead bodies lying on the streets?
4: Desperate people walking in s**t?
5: Looting as if this is Somalia?
6: Despite all this, we have politicians ranting up their rhetoric...heck...folks are dying...all you hear is "we are doing all we can..." And this is AMERICA the great?
Can some one tell me how a similar catastrophe would be any different in a third world country?
As a non resident of Massachusetts, I'd like to know from you the resident, why it is Massachusetts alone in the union (USA) that appears to be pushing for doing away with proprietary formats. Why? Can you throw more light on this?
What I find troubling with the Linux eDonkey clones (aMule, xMule) is that they:
1: Do not offer as many features as their Windows counterparts,
2: Not as stable on Linux as they are on Windows,
3: Are plain ugly and
4: Are damn slow on Linux.
The only software I find a pleasure to look at and also exists for the Windows platform is OpenOffice.org and the GIMP. There are more open source softwares out there but I haven't found them.
I credit slashdotters for predicting this way back when the iPOD was still the new kid on the block. I remember one slashdotter who specifically said this was expected. This [news] proves him right.
Yes, Google talk is still a beta release. Implementing S2S is a no brainer for Google programmers. I am sure we'll have it the moment we are out of beta. The problem is Google software never seems to leave the beta stage...or takes a looong time to leave the beta stage to put it another way.
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And ohh the KDE guys have done it again. We now have "klik" http://dot.kde.org/1126867980/ that promises to simplify package installation on Linux systems. I have my dissatisfactions though. The biggest are:
the ugly default Linux desktop in most distros,
the ugly fonts (emphasizing the above), and
the seemingly slow response times for Linux apps.
OpenOffice.org Linux's flagship application, encompasses all the above - sadly!
Disclaimer: English is not my 1st language!
Is the snappiest distro out there in terms of overall responsiveness?
True that it is the oldest Linux distro?
If so why does it not seem to have the mind share that Fedora, SuSE, Mandriva and [K]ubuntu appear to enjoy?
What I think will happen is that Google will break into more specific searches like cronyism, nepotism, corruption and the like especially in governments around the world.
Cronyism is especially why the former FEMA boss did not perform. The trouble is that this is happening in America and could still happen again. Those in the 3rd world must be breathing a sigh of relief about this very fact. They are not alone!
The best judge on this i.e. the American public does not agree with you...sorry. GM and *all* cough...*all* American based auto companies have been losing market share at the hands of the Japanese and especially Toyota for some time now. In fact decades.
The best selling car in the US is the Camry...again a Japanese brand. It beats the next best selling American brand almost four to one! And these is no indication that things will change soon. Heck, the best selling and known hybrid is (you guessed it), - Japanese and that is the Prius.
Dou you drive a BUICK?
Who wants to have this feature if the vehicle will keep on breaking down? And of late, getting GMC to "own" problems with its vehicles has not been easy at all! Contrast that with Toyota, who say [juat like the Samba Team], something to the effect that..."A disfunctional Toyota is their responsibility..."
Could this be a case of too little too late? I think so - but I'm no lawyer either. Why has this company taken more than a year to lay claim as they are doing now? Or is it that I have been living under some rock?
I'd rather send those cents to the folks in New Orleans that are suffering as though they are in some third world country. A shame, a shame, a shame that what happened down there *actually* happened on US soil! To make matters worse, it could still happen - again!
There was a saying that if the Russians had not participated in the ISS. I will never forget the day I came up-close to an Antonov-124. I have never seen a bigger aircraft.
Years when the US air-force was trumpeting the stealth fighter as unstoppable, the Russians said there is nothing that takes in air and dissipates heat that cannot be detected. This was proven when one of our fighters was downed in the Balkan's war. The air-force attributed the downing to a technical fault. Of course this was not correct.
There is also this piece: When time came to retire the MIR, we put a spin on where its fragments would fall - mostly negative. But not only did MIR's fragments land in the correct spot, they landed with an accuracy we as Americans can only dream of for an un-manned craft. There is so much these guys can do. I wish we could emulate some of their achievements.
I've just heard of IE Eradicator...I guess this can do the job. Have a look: http://www.litepc.com/ieradicator.html
That's my piece. Thanx
Here it is:
M$ MUST make sure that the services Google and Yahoo provide at present do not work very well with IE. So in this situation if one wants to use Google's virtual Earth, it becomes impossible making this individual resort to Microsoft's offerings.On the other hand, Google could fight back this way: It could create a utility that makes the dependence on IE for most of Microsoft's services irrelevant. I am still looking for a way to remove IE from my Windows box in a sane and neat way.
If Google can create such a utility, I can see most users removing IE. The trouble at present is even after making Firefox the default browser for example, looking at some link in some applications would still "call" IE. I guess this young man called "DVD Jon" can help here.
I submit that there has been progress made already on this front with TCP/IP for the Internet and Internet communications. What I should add is that what Massachusetts has done is a very good start in this direction. But with the enormous dependency on proprietary formats already with us, this call's success seems to be a pipe dream to me.
This applies to my part of the US.
While I agree with you, I will hasten to add that just like what electronic gadgets and lack of focus have done to our kids in school, the heavy dependence on the Internet will help produce pretty confident kids but who cannot deliver in real world environments.
I know because I was a teacher at one time. Today's kids are pretty confident. They go:..."I can do this...I can do that"...mostly as end users. Just see how kids play the PS2s and XBoxes of this world. They are pretty good at this. When more serious problems come up at their places of work, they cannot deliver. Their companies resort to outsourcing. Little wonder that not much in America seems to be done right these days.
Just imagine for a second how we handled the Katrina hurricane after knowing that it was coming, it was big, it was headed for a city below sea level and that thousands could not evacuate. For the 5 or 6 days we had to prepare, shame is what we have to endure now. Generations to come will be embarrassed with this generation.
Oh those Japanese! This is yet another innovation from the Japanese. Shall we ever catch up?
Huh!
If you were a bit observant while reading, you'd have realized that I am dealing with Linux and a Debian based distro in particular. Are you saying that these days, the file you mention above installs smoothly on Debian based distros? I have not touched Windows in a loooong time.
I recently downloaded OpenOffice.org from http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/appl/openoffice/st able/2.0beta2/OOo_2.0beta2_src.tar.gz. After extracting it, I could not see the "configure" script! Therefore, I could not install the beast! Neither do they have Debian packages. I was stuck and decided to delete every thing.
Question is: What should I have done here to get it installed?
Please explain to a lay man (myself), how LGPL is different as compared to the GPL. A side by side explanation on key terms and points would be very useful and much appreciated. Thanks.
One thing I like about it is that apart from being Debian based, and therefore easier to manage as compared to rpm based distros, it's one distro that is beautiful (especially the fonts), and has everything about it working *as* advertised - out-of-the-box.
This is why I think we need to take a deeper look at ourselves:
1: We knew Katrina was coming...
2: We knew it was big...really huge and as such, the damage would be enormous...
3: We knew that some residents would not beat the time required to vacate Louisiana, may be because of complacency or the traffic mess...
4: We had numbers of those who had managed to escape. We even knew where they were to be found...
5: We even knew the geography of New Orleans, so we could know where to go and how to get there...
6: We knew much more via satellites...since we take ourselves as being the most advanced country on earth...!
But...
1: There was 100% chaos in Louisiana...
2: ...because we seem to have been caught off guard...!
3: Dead bodies lying on the streets?
4: Desperate people walking in s**t?
5: Looting as if this is Somalia?
6: Despite all this, we have politicians ranting up their rhetoric...heck...folks are dying...all you hear is "we are doing all we can..." And this is AMERICA the great? Can some one tell me how a similar catastrophe would be any different in a third world country?
Are they to also insist that those who wish to communicate (read do business) with Massachusetts also do it in Open formats? How will this be handled?
As a non resident of Massachusetts, I'd like to know from you the resident, why it is Massachusetts alone in the union (USA) that appears to be pushing for doing away with proprietary formats. Why? Can you throw more light on this?
1: Do not offer as many features as their Windows counterparts,
2: Not as stable on Linux as they are on Windows,
3: Are plain ugly and
4: Are damn slow on Linux.
The only software I find a pleasure to look at and also exists for the Windows platform is OpenOffice.org and the GIMP. There are more open source softwares out there but I haven't found them.
I credit slashdotters for predicting this way back when the iPOD was still the new kid on the block. I remember one slashdotter who specifically said this was expected. This [news] proves him right.
Yes, Google talk is still a beta release. Implementing S2S is a no brainer for Google programmers. I am sure we'll have it the moment we are out of beta. The problem is Google software never seems to leave the beta stage...or takes a looong time to leave the beta stage to put it another way.