No need to apologize, KDE *IS* ugly! I think they've REALLY improved the icons lately, and some of the visual effects are improved(alpha blending,e tc.), but the one thing that still bothers me is how incredibly cluttered it is. Then there's all kinds of ugliness with menu text off center, ever look at the KDE desktop menu?!?!?
Every release I download it and try it again(just for fun) and spend a few hours trying to tweak it to make it look nice, then switch back to gnome immediately. Partly because of how ugly it is, partly because it is quite quirky. I think they need to spend more time squashing serious bugs, there are some things that simply don't work properly.
Not that Gnome is perfect or anything, it's got problems of it's own. For one, I'd really like to be able to use alpha blended tiles in the panel. Gnome could also use some more work in the window manager area, Sawfish is great, but it'd be nice if there would be a bug fix release some time within the next 10 years. An Office Suite would be nice too. At least KDE has Koffice, which is ok, but still extremely buggy.
I think this sounds perfectly reasonable. The least that could come of it is hopefully getting that manager fired so other people don't have to deal with him.
In my experience, Best Buy has really gone downhill over the last year, absolutely terrible service they have these days.
I am also a developer working on a project with the Torque Engine, and surprise, we've been working on it for a couple months now... almost entirely in Linux.
Well... all the programming anyway, we're doing modeling and mapping in vmware/windows.
I haven't tried Realm Wars yet, because it requires glibc2.2(still running 2.1), is it any good?
I'm not holding out too much hope that people using the Torque engine will build Linux versions of their games, but most seem pretty friendly and I'm sure some can be pursuaded.
UT2003 For Linux? - Wednesday Apr 17 18:53:54 2002 - Updated by AlKini
foser wrote in to point out a little bit of information regarding the possibility of UT2003 being ported to Linux. The information came from an IRC interview in which Mark Rein from Epic participated:
[19:35] DE/Epic: Will UT2003 make it to Linux? If so, server, client or both?
[19:35] Server for sure on Linux
[19:36] MarkRein[Epic]: any word on a client
[19:36] Irix--> Don't know yet about a client but it will probably happen eventually
[19:37] Irix--> We'd definitely like to see it and I know Dan Vogel is talking with some friends of his who would like to do it.
So, someone who could do it, wants to do it. I sure want him to do it;-)
Unfortuneately, I don't think there will be a Linux version of the next UT and Unreal games. I believe they are using a revamped UT engine, which only supports Direct3D(aka, DirectM$Lockin).
From the Unreal 2 site...
Q. For what platforms is Unreal II being developed?
A. At this time, the PC is the only announced platform.
Now that doesn't mean much, "announced platform"? It's been a while since I've read anything about it, but I am pretty sure I read that it is going to be D3D only;-( I can't find it right now though...
What is wrong with using the arrow, page up/down keys? So many vim lovers complain about this with other editors, but come on, that's ridiculous! I use the arrow keys so quick it's virtually like any other keystroke, perhaps twice the time maybe. And what is the big deal anyway, in vim you have to toggle your mode before you can move around, so it's about equal anyway, except in any other editor it's actually intuitive!
Simply put, vim/vi, is the worst, most user-unfriendly text editor... ever.
At least for a person like myself, who has a horrible memory. There are WAY to many different commands. I have learned to use vi on at LEAST 5 different occasions, everything from text selection, cut/past, regex search/replace, etc. Every single time, I come into the office the next day, try to continue using vi, and... I can't remember how to use the goddam thing!
Further, what is the damn reason for the different modes, command mode, visual mode? WTF? It basically serves no practical purpose. Other excellent text editors implement all the same features without resorting to such asinine things...
And on top of that, vim, being the de facto text editor on Linux/Unix, is seriously slowing down the adoption of Linux. When a newbie starts learning how to use a machine, and they're reading a manual or a book that tells them to edit a file using vi, how many times out of 100 do you think they're going to get extremely frustrated and say, "The hell with this, what the fuck?" My guess would be at least 95.
Simply put, I fucking hate that editor!;-)
I hate emacs too, BTW, it's a horribly bloated operating system. *ducks*
No, I don't like pico either.
For quick editing of simple config files I use pico, for everything else I use nedit(which is possibly the best text editor ever... if only it didn't use Motif).
All this talk about open standards etc. is really becoming nauseating, because while all that sounds nice on paper, the sad fact remains that you simply cannot, I repeat CANNOT, trust Microsoft.
It simply does not make good business sense to put any trust in MS, as history shows time and time again.
Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it...
I respect what the mono team is doing, they've done some really great work, but I think it's going to end up being a waste of time, I think it will come back and bite them in the ass.
But, I could be wrong. I _hope_ I'm wrong! If the CLR does become an unencumbered industry standard, well, that could only be good.
Personally, I never liked Java. I didn't mind the language, but every implementation I've seen has been quite dissapointing. And then... Swing?
The best thing that could happen is that the CLR turns out to be great, people freely use it, Sun loostens up, and Java switches to the CLR...
But these are my predictions...
1. Microsoft throws legal weight around and kills off more competition, completely destroys all competing implementations, stops supporting FreeBSD.
2. Sun loses lots of Java developers due to industry hype(aka, MS Marketing/FUD). Sun, being a stupid corp, becomes more controlling of Java and helps to kill off more developers.
3. Mono ends up being a complete waste of time. Miguel de Lcaza gets a job at Microsoft;-)
4. Linux remains a niche OS. ESR and RMS keep talking too much.
5. My Linux servers keep running without skipping a beat.
6. Wine continues to improve allowing Linux users to continue getting that much needed gaming fix.
Netscape 4.x was an utter piece of crap. You SHOULD rewrite software when said software would be easier to rewrite than fix. Rewriting software is only the wrong decision when it's actually harder.
Further, "good software takes ten years to write" is a silly generalization from a silly man. Software simply takes, as long as it takes... like Duke Nukem Forever, which may take 20 years;-)
Apparently, this program does not provide a replacement for MS Access. That is the only thing that I need so I can replace all our windows desktops with Linux.
We use Access to connect to MySQL for data entry. I do not know of a suitable replacement for Access.
On my Linux workstation at the office, when _I_ have to do data entry(for some things, my boss won't trust anyone else... *groan*), I do it all with SQL commands... that sure is getting old.
mod_perl is NOT slow, not slow by any means at all. If used properly, mod_perl can be about as quick as serving up static content... like the websites of the company I work for...
mod_perl allows you to quickly, and very easily, write custom Apache modules, allowing you to incorporate anything and everything available on CPAN, which is just about the most comprehensive library of... stuff... anywhere.
I've used ASP, seen how java servlets work, fuck AOLserver, and in the end decided to develop a custom solution. Our site is composed of over 200,000 documents, much of it dynamic content now, served up using my custom ASP-ish mod_perl module. On a single server, it performs perfectly and will saturate our network before overloading the server, the bottleneck being our database.
I have a question. How will Perl 6 affect mod_perl? I assume mod_perl will have to be rewritten, considering the Perl internals are completely different.
Will there be a mod_parrot that makes mod_perl redundant?
First off, they could stop the FUD machine towards Linux, and Unix in general. Second, they could release a version of Office, IE, Win Media Player, etc. for Linux. They could even require a Windows license to run the software by bundling some MS application libraries for Linux on Windows CDs and that would still be in the realm of acceptability.
Unfortuneately, their OS is their big money maker, and it's how they beat around competing software vendors. Unfortuneately for them, making money selling OSes probably can't last forever.
Basically, instead of fighting to the death, they could be a bit more conservative and not bet everything on their own inferior, proprietary OS, and develop for other OSes as well.
IMHO, it simply makes better business sense to embrace other OSes, in the long term they are currently risking becoming obsolete.
Exactly, that's how I browse these days. I normally have 5 - 10 tabs open in Mozilla, and I never have a problem speed-wise, or in any other way either.
And get this. My fiancee runs windows 2k on her 300 celeron and was getting really tired of IE crashing, being slow, etc. So, I installed Mozilla 0.9.9, setup tabbed browsing, and told her to try it out. She doesn't use IE anymore! She finds Mozilla to be faster, easier, and much much more stable. She also likes the tabbed browsing.
Mozilla may still lack in some areas where IE shines, I don't really know I don't use IE, but Mozilla sure has turned out to be a great contender.
Seriously, it's web developers like you who have totally and utterly ruined the web.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not actually defending Mozilla here, since I don't know if it's a bug or is properly following the standard. But, your attitude is really poor, and it's attitudes like yours that have made the web as lousy as it is today.
This could be a huge step, now we have a case of the DMCA being used as a weapon against your average citizen. Xecu.net is an informative site that helps people, average people, who come into contact with the CoS.
If the EFF would get involved in this, maybe the DMCA can be ruled unconstitutional. If there's any case so far that has a chance of going that far, it's this one.
Maybe at the same time, the CoS can be exposed for what it is, a cult, and have their religion status removed by the IRS...
I say they should be forcefully shut down and have a new committee based on elected representatives from different countries. Each country should be free to elect their representatives how they see fit.
Screw ICANN, who the hell made them the Gods of the Internet anyway?
Honestly, I know absolutely NOTHING about the technical merits of NTFS. I know only slightly more about ext2/3 and reiserfs.
However(!), in my personal experience, NTFS has been absolutely TERRIBLE! I have run both workstations and servers with NTFS and disk access is always abismally slow, permissions never work as expected, and corruption is a recurring problem. This is on a number of different machines with different hardware and different versions of Windows.
Does anyone have an explaination for this? Were there serious problems that have recently been addressed?
You fucking idiot. This is an opinion piece, it's not even supposed to be "fair and balanced".
And let me tell you something else, there is NO SUCH THING as "fair and balanced".
If you want "fair and balanced", your going to have to read both liberal and conservative opinions and information sources and come to your own conclusions without letting any silly rhetoric of any kind influence your opinion.
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Every release I download it and try it again(just for fun) and spend a few hours trying to tweak it to make it look nice, then switch back to gnome immediately. Partly because of how ugly it is, partly because it is quite quirky. I think they need to spend more time squashing serious bugs, there are some things that simply don't work properly.
Not that Gnome is perfect or anything, it's got problems of it's own. For one, I'd really like to be able to use alpha blended tiles in the panel. Gnome could also use some more work in the window manager area, Sawfish is great, but it'd be nice if there would be a bug fix release some time within the next 10 years. An Office Suite would be nice too. At least KDE has Koffice, which is ok, but still extremely buggy.
In my experience, Best Buy has really gone downhill over the last year, absolutely terrible service they have these days.
Well... all the programming anyway, we're doing modeling and mapping in vmware/windows.
I haven't tried Realm Wars yet, because it requires glibc2.2(still running 2.1), is it any good?
I'm not holding out too much hope that people using the Torque engine will build Linux versions of their games, but most seem pretty friendly and I'm sure some can be pursuaded.
damn
UT2003 For Linux? - Wednesday Apr 17 18:53:54 2002 - Updated by AlKini
foser wrote in to point out a little bit of information regarding the possibility of UT2003 being ported to Linux. The information came from an IRC interview in which Mark Rein from Epic participated:
[19:35] DE/Epic: Will UT2003 make it to Linux? If so, server, client or both?
[19:35] Server for sure on Linux
[19:36] MarkRein[Epic]: any word on a client
[19:36] Irix--> Don't know yet about a client but it will probably happen eventually
[19:37] Irix--> We'd definitely like to see it and I know Dan Vogel is talking with some friends of his who would like to do it.
So, someone who could do it, wants to do it. I sure want him to do it ;-)
So, I take my previous comment back ;-)
From the Unreal 2 site...
Q. For what platforms is Unreal II being developed?
A. At this time, the PC is the only announced platform.
Now that doesn't mean much, "announced platform"? It's been a while since I've read anything about it, but I am pretty sure I read that it is going to be D3D only ;-( I can't find it right now though...
Bah! People who like vim are weird ;-)
At least for a person like myself, who has a horrible memory. There are WAY to many different commands. I have learned to use vi on at LEAST 5 different occasions, everything from text selection, cut/past, regex search/replace, etc. Every single time, I come into the office the next day, try to continue using vi, and... I can't remember how to use the goddam thing!
Further, what is the damn reason for the different modes, command mode, visual mode? WTF? It basically serves no practical purpose. Other excellent text editors implement all the same features without resorting to such asinine things...
And on top of that, vim, being the de facto text editor on Linux/Unix, is seriously slowing down the adoption of Linux. When a newbie starts learning how to use a machine, and they're reading a manual or a book that tells them to edit a file using vi, how many times out of 100 do you think they're going to get extremely frustrated and say, "The hell with this, what the fuck?" My guess would be at least 95.
Simply put, I fucking hate that editor! ;-)
I hate emacs too, BTW, it's a horribly bloated operating system. *ducks*
No, I don't like pico either.
For quick editing of simple config files I use pico, for everything else I use nedit(which is possibly the best text editor ever... if only it didn't use Motif).
It simply does not make good business sense to put any trust in MS, as history shows time and time again.
Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it...
I respect what the mono team is doing, they've done some really great work, but I think it's going to end up being a waste of time, I think it will come back and bite them in the ass.
But, I could be wrong. I _hope_ I'm wrong! If the CLR does become an unencumbered industry standard, well, that could only be good.
Personally, I never liked Java. I didn't mind the language, but every implementation I've seen has been quite dissapointing. And then... Swing?
The best thing that could happen is that the CLR turns out to be great, people freely use it, Sun loostens up, and Java switches to the CLR...
But these are my predictions... ;-)
1. Microsoft throws legal weight around and kills off more competition, completely destroys all competing implementations, stops supporting FreeBSD.
2. Sun loses lots of Java developers due to industry hype(aka, MS Marketing/FUD). Sun, being a stupid corp, becomes more controlling of Java and helps to kill off more developers.
3. Mono ends up being a complete waste of time. Miguel de Lcaza gets a job at Microsoft
4. Linux remains a niche OS. ESR and RMS keep talking too much.
5. My Linux servers keep running without skipping a beat.
6. Wine continues to improve allowing Linux users to continue getting that much needed gaming fix.
Further, "good software takes ten years to write" is a silly generalization from a silly man. Software simply takes, as long as it takes... like Duke Nukem Forever, which may take 20 years ;-)
The point of war is to kill people till the other side decides it is in their best interest to capitulate.
Sadly, wars will always be a fact of human existence until people stop either evolve, or kill themselves off.
We use Access to connect to MySQL for data entry. I do not know of a suitable replacement for Access.
On my Linux workstation at the office, when _I_ have to do data entry(for some things, my boss won't trust anyone else... *groan*), I do it all with SQL commands... that sure is getting old.
mod_perl is NOT slow, not slow by any means at all. If used properly, mod_perl can be about as quick as serving up static content... like the websites of the company I work for...
mod_perl allows you to quickly, and very easily, write custom Apache modules, allowing you to incorporate anything and everything available on CPAN, which is just about the most comprehensive library of... stuff... anywhere.
I've used ASP, seen how java servlets work, fuck AOLserver, and in the end decided to develop a custom solution. Our site is composed of over 200,000 documents, much of it dynamic content now, served up using my custom ASP-ish mod_perl module. On a single server, it performs perfectly and will saturate our network before overloading the server, the bottleneck being our database.
So please, go fuck yourself.
Will there be a mod_parrot that makes mod_perl redundant?
Unfortuneately, their OS is their big money maker, and it's how they beat around competing software vendors. Unfortuneately for them, making money selling OSes probably can't last forever.
Basically, instead of fighting to the death, they could be a bit more conservative and not bet everything on their own inferior, proprietary OS, and develop for other OSes as well.
IMHO, it simply makes better business sense to embrace other OSes, in the long term they are currently risking becoming obsolete.
The bug was difficult to reproduce, and I just happened to find the conditions under which it would happen.
Anyway, it was only a small effort on my part but it was helpful.
And get this. My fiancee runs windows 2k on her 300 celeron and was getting really tired of IE crashing, being slow, etc. So, I installed Mozilla 0.9.9, setup tabbed browsing, and told her to try it out. She doesn't use IE anymore! She finds Mozilla to be faster, easier, and much much more stable. She also likes the tabbed browsing.
Mozilla may still lack in some areas where IE shines, I don't really know I don't use IE, but Mozilla sure has turned out to be a great contender.
That is all.
Seriously, it's web developers like you who have totally and utterly ruined the web.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not actually defending Mozilla here, since I don't know if it's a bug or is properly following the standard. But, your attitude is really poor, and it's attitudes like yours that have made the web as lousy as it is today.
So, thanks, we all appreciate it.
If the EFF would get involved in this, maybe the DMCA can be ruled unconstitutional. If there's any case so far that has a chance of going that far, it's this one.
Maybe at the same time, the CoS can be exposed for what it is, a cult, and have their religion status removed by the IRS...
Am I just being too optimistic?
I'd like to point out that they are not using slashdot content, they are using written speach.
Do you want to have to ask every time before saying, "So and so said, 'such and such'"?
I didn't think so...
At least I hope not, Gawd!!
Screw ICANN, who the hell made them the Gods of the Internet anyway?
However(!), in my personal experience, NTFS has been absolutely TERRIBLE! I have run both workstations and servers with NTFS and disk access is always abismally slow, permissions never work as expected, and corruption is a recurring problem. This is on a number of different machines with different hardware and different versions of Windows.
Does anyone have an explaination for this? Were there serious problems that have recently been addressed?
Did you even RTFA?
Maybe you should also consider that fair.org is biased as well?
But that thought probably didn't cross your mind... you probably just pick a side and close your mind...
And let me tell you something else, there is NO SUCH THING as "fair and balanced".
If you want "fair and balanced", your going to have to read both liberal and conservative opinions and information sources and come to your own conclusions without letting any silly rhetoric of any kind influence your opinion.