There are already Java bindings for GTK/GNOME, and QT. With Java being GPLd I can see developers having more freedom to tweak these bindings, and making it work better. Also, I can see more distributions installing the Sun JVM by default, and this will improve Java as a desktop development language. Also, remember that GCJ can generate NATIVE binaries from Java sources... With the Sun Libraries GPL'd, GCJ can be the solution to boost the performance for desktop based Java applications.
At the same time, this can bring more developers to GNOME/KDE. Meaning more applications, and since Java is used a lot on the Enterprise and Server-Side applications, this can also mean that GNOME/KDE will be favored at the business-desktop arena.
The news here is that Symantec, and other AV vendors, are soooo desperated that they're faking menaces on MacOSX to see if they can grab some more market. Next we will see they apply the same flawed concepts on viruses for Linux and *BSD. Well, let Symantec and their kind die a horrible death, I don't care.
This almost make me believe that Vista will be secured by default, and will have the same kind of security that *NIX users always had. Almost.
Out of the box, PHP has a terrible performance. Really, it sucks.
Try installing a complex PHP application, like Horde3 for example, and trowing something like 600 simultaneous users at it. Your server will crawl, PHP4 parse every darned line of code every time it has to run the code! Result? 100% CPU all the time... and lots of dropped connections, and timeouts at client side.
The solution was use a third part tool to cache the parsed pages, and gain some performance... Zend does exactly this, but as we didn't had the option to buy anything the solution was the Turck-MMCache [http://turck-mmcache.sourceforge.net/]. It claims a performance boot around 6000%, year that is six thousand percent, and I confirm that.
My point is... If Microsoft begin to sell a PHP version optimized for IIS, and if it performs better (6000 times better) than a vanilla Linux running Apache+PHP... well, Microsoft might be able to take the "P" from LAMP.
I suppose that the ads are for the people who are watching the show while it's been aired. If you bored at home, and turn on your TV to watch some random stuff, there is no way to skip the ads.
When people record a show, using a VCR, TiVo or MithTV, even if they record the ads the usual behavior is to skip them using fast-forward.
..they drop this "Enterprize Linux" idea, and instead focus on a Appliance approach.
As I pointed before (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203218&cid=16 621458), Oracle did a very poor job cloning Fedora. And I really doubt that they have enought in-house knowledge to mantain a full fledged Linux distro.
Also, why on earth they want to offer a full distro anyways? It make a lot more sense to build a minimal distro, and wrap it around OracleDB! Every Oracle install out there already uses a dedicated machine, include a OS with the darned thing, and installation will be incredibly simplified. They should be teaming with RedHat, for support and R&D on this slimmed Linux!
Hell, even if they don't want to make business with RedHat, at least hire some CentOS developers to put together a decent distro!
This is the kind of arcane knowledge that you acquire only by suffering huge amounts of pain...
I once did a "rm -rf/etc" instead of "rm -rf/tmp/etc" on a running server that happened to be our main mail server. So I had to spend 4 hours manually reconstructing and checking all deleted files:-D
The amazing thing was: all the services kept on running just like nothing happened!! Gotta love Linux:-)
Also... why ship X11 at all? This Oracle Enterprize Linux should be focused at the server-side, shipping with a pre-installed Oracle DB, an Java EJB Container, and a nice web-based console to administrate all that.
It would be a much smarter move to partner with RH and a hardware vendor to push an Oracle Appliance to the market. Plug it, configure some basic parameters via web interface, and start using! This would add something to Oracle, simplicity, something that they currently lack, and that could make a difference aggainst the competing DB products.
I don't know if Oracle actually has the expertise to sell support, and mantain, a linux distribution. Their first attempt at putting one thogether is patetic.
Why dont setup some bootnets to authenticate every possible product key at Microsoft Site? This way rendering the registration process useless, as they wouldnt be able to differentiate the good ones from the fake ones!
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I can see a partnership with Oracle and Sun/Dell/HP/etc for pre configured, ready to use, OracleDB Appliances. Plug-it and its ready to use!
With a nice GUI to manage things like adding more storage, and clustering it could be a HUGE hit.
Yeah, but with fossil fuels you're releasing NEW CO2 on the atmosphere... For fuel cells you're using Methanol, that can be obtained from sugar-cane. So any CO2 released was once at the atmosphere anyway.
The real problem here is the space required by sugar-cane plantations. To be able to supply enougth methanol the plantations would have to grow over lands ocuppied today by other cultures (we still need food!), or the few preserved wild forrests that we have. Yes, I know we can harvest methanol from beats and other vegetables, but AFAIK sugar-cane is the most efficient.
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I used to run KDE 3.5.4 on a PIII 700MHz laptop, with only 128MB of RAM. And while I was using only K apps, everything went quite smooth... I could even let several konqueror windows open! Also, KOffice worked like a charm.
The real problem was Firefox and OpenOffice... these are real memory hogs. I couldn't belive how many memory Firefox eat, open a few tabs and it will use more memory than X and KDE combined! OpenOffice is also a mammoth, compare it to KOffice or Abiword + Gnumeric and you'll see what I'm talking about.
KDE is pretty lightweight, and it will run nicelly on a old machine. Firefox and OpenOffice won't.
You just gave me this idea... What if Google start using an open format, say OGG Theora, for better quality content? They could provide a player, as they already do for their flash format, or a plugin.
Then, they can just create an WebAppliance to store, catalog and stream video. And sell this to big media providers as a more reliable, cheaper alternative to WMA(spit!) and REAL(spit!). One that will be automagically compatible with Windows, Mac, Linux and every other platform out there, since it's based on a open format.
Can it be? Can Google put an end on the dominance of closed formats on the web?
Its not like there is only one wifi chipset vendor, Marvell was picked probably because they offered the lowest price at the beginning of the project. But I can see others offering even lower prices just to be able to profit from the good PR that comes from helping this project.
As Theo pointed out, there are several vendors that offer chipsets with similar functionality AND support open drivers.
And its important to keep this project as open as possible, because it should be like an standart platform. For example, if its cheaper for Brazil, or India, or Argentina, to build their laptops on their own they should be allowed to do so using ANY compatible parts. If you make the WiFi chipset closed, you're forcing everyone to buy from only one vendor.
It also applies to Brazil, iPods are really expensive here compared to the other alternatives... an order of magnitude more expensive. And we don't have access to the ITMS either.
So, I think the article is US/Europe/Japan centric... from their perspective the world is a much smaller place. Our countries are "secondary" markets, and they don't enven include us when they calculate the Digital Audio Players marketshare. It's sad, but is true.
I just pretend that everything they hear is EM interference on the ship radio, caused by the explosions and the other fighters engines.
But, I agree that a huge, soundless explosion scene could be very dramatic, if done correctly... but is George Lucas we're talking about here, not Stanley Kubric;-)
Google strategy probably is use the feedback from their public betas, and free services, to devellop an WebAppliance that can be easly deployed at a business network, such as their nice Search appliance.
I can see they releasing a document management system integrated with Google desktop, corporate Gmail,Search and their online office suite. Kind of a wiki were you can post webpages, documents an sheets that can be collaboratively edited online... everything nicely packaged on a 1U blue box;-)
Also, somewhere, someone is already thinking about an OpenOffice plugin, or KDE KioSlave, or Gnome GFSplugin, that will make it possible edit these online documents directly from Write/Calc, KWrite/KSpread and Abiword/Gnumeric... And this will be the killer feature that will make MSOffice obsolete.
Mark my words... Microsoft couldn't take Google out of the search business, but Google has a good chance of taking the corporate office business crown from Microsoft.
I'm just guessing, but, they look like 3D renders from the surface.
Since the other pictures are anaglyphs (the sort of image that looks 3D when you use that red-blue 3D glasses), one can guess that they already processed the images to extract topological info... So a 3D render, to examine Mars surface details, seems logical to me.
When I read the topic the first thing that came to my mind was "But they should be trying to reduce the bloat, not add more!".
What I really want to see from OpenOffice is the ability to install separated applications... I shouldn't be forced to install Impress and Calc if I only wanted Writer...
Add a USBDrive to the mix, and you can save games, and custom preferences without messing with the local HD.
You know what, somebody should start such a distro. Knoppix already gives you good hardware detection, and Morphix adds modularity to the mix. A Nexuiz or EnemyTerritory LiveCD should be easy enought to setup... I can see one with small networked RTS too, such as Boson, Stratagus and NetPanzer.
If made right, you can make it dead simple to create your own customized LinuxUberGamerLiveDVD, as Morphix gives you all the modularity needed.
Also, this can have a huge impact on the distribuition of game demos. Today, we have to mess with our Windows installation, or with several wine issues, to test some game... But if they came on a bootable CD, it would be a much better experience!
Humm, seems that I have a reason to test that Google Project hosting now;-)
Quite often it prevents me from doing very stupid errors. Having another person looking at what you're doing, and making questions about that pice of code, and suggestions makes you pay more attention, and gives a precious feedback.
Also, when I'm co-piloting (not at the keyboard, that is) I feel this incredible urge to return to my desktop and code something. Watching other people code, and talking about his code makes me want to code, its weird, but I always feel more motivated after a pair programming session.
Of course there are times when I don't want anyone looking over my shoulder, but that's normally happens when I'm playing Nexuiz DeathMatch;-)
The problem for me is that I never heard of the most obscure units... so I realy dont know what they stand for. Some I know, because they theached me them at school, Farenheit for an example... but I seldon hear of inches, feet and miles on my everyday life, so when I see a unit like CFM I try to correlate it to the metric system.
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It will improve things on the Free Desktop arena,
There are already Java bindings for GTK/GNOME, and QT. With Java being GPLd I can see developers having more freedom to tweak these bindings, and making it work better. Also, I can see more distributions installing the Sun JVM by default, and this will improve Java as a desktop development language. Also, remember that GCJ can generate NATIVE binaries from Java sources... With the Sun Libraries GPL'd, GCJ can be the solution to boost the performance for desktop based Java applications.
At the same time, this can bring more developers to GNOME/KDE. Meaning more applications, and since Java is used a lot on the Enterprise and Server-Side applications, this can also mean that GNOME/KDE will be favored at the business-desktop arena.
These are good times for the Java community =D
The news here is that Symantec, and other AV vendors, are soooo desperated that they're faking menaces on MacOSX to see if they can grab some more market. Next we will see they apply the same flawed concepts on viruses for Linux and *BSD. Well, let Symantec and their kind die a horrible death, I don't care.
This almost make me believe that Vista will be secured by default, and will have the same kind of security that *NIX users always had. Almost.
This is serious.
Out of the box, PHP has a terrible performance. Really, it sucks.
Try installing a complex PHP application, like Horde3 for example, and trowing something like 600 simultaneous users at it. Your server will crawl, PHP4 parse every darned line of code every time it has to run the code! Result? 100% CPU all the time... and lots of dropped connections, and timeouts at client side.
The solution was use a third part tool to cache the parsed pages, and gain some performance... Zend does exactly this, but as we didn't had the option to buy anything the solution was the Turck-MMCache [http://turck-mmcache.sourceforge.net/]. It claims a performance boot around 6000%, year that is six thousand percent, and I confirm that.
My point is... If Microsoft begin to sell a PHP version optimized for IIS, and if it performs better (6000 times better) than a vanilla Linux running Apache+PHP... well, Microsoft might be able to take the "P" from LAMP.
Just my $0.02
I suppose that the ads are for the people who are watching the show while it's been aired. If you bored at home, and turn on your TV to watch some random stuff, there is no way to skip the ads.
When people record a show, using a VCR, TiVo or MithTV, even if they record the ads the usual behavior is to skip them using fast-forward.
..they drop this "Enterprize Linux" idea, and instead focus on a Appliance approach.
6 621458), Oracle did a very poor job cloning Fedora. And I really doubt that they have enought in-house knowledge to mantain a full fledged Linux distro.
As I pointed before (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203218&cid=1
Also, why on earth they want to offer a full distro anyways? It make a lot more sense to build a minimal distro, and wrap it around OracleDB! Every Oracle install out there already uses a dedicated machine, include a OS with the darned thing, and installation will be incredibly simplified. They should be teaming with RedHat, for support and R&D on this slimmed Linux!
Hell, even if they don't want to make business with RedHat, at least hire some CentOS developers to put together a decent distro!
This is the kind of arcane knowledge that you acquire only by suffering huge amounts of pain...
/etc" instead of "rm -rf /tmp/etc" on a running server that happened to be our main mail server. So I had to spend 4 hours manually reconstructing and checking all deleted files :-D
:-)
I once did a "rm -rf
The amazing thing was: all the services kept on running just like nothing happened!! Gotta love Linux
There is this little file called
And Oracle didn't made a good job copying RHEL either...
c reenshots/scaled/Oracle%20Enterprise%20Linux%20R4- U4/36.gif
From the screenshots I've looked at, they couldn't even manage to get the icons right: http://www.thecodingstudio.com/opensource/linux/s
Also... why ship X11 at all? This Oracle Enterprize Linux should be focused at the server-side, shipping with a pre-installed Oracle DB, an Java EJB Container, and a nice web-based console to administrate all that.
It would be a much smarter move to partner with RH and a hardware vendor to push an Oracle Appliance to the market. Plug it, configure some basic parameters via web interface, and start using! This would add something to Oracle, simplicity, something that they currently lack, and that could make a difference aggainst the competing DB products.
I don't know if Oracle actually has the expertise to sell support, and mantain, a linux distribution. Their first attempt at putting one thogether is patetic.
Better,
Why dont setup some bootnets to authenticate every possible product key at Microsoft Site? This way rendering the registration process useless, as they wouldnt be able to differentiate the good ones from the fake ones!
I can see a partnership with Oracle and Sun/Dell/HP/etc for pre configured, ready to use, OracleDB Appliances. Plug-it and its ready to use!
With a nice GUI to manage things like adding more storage, and clustering it could be a HUGE hit.
Yeah, but with fossil fuels you're releasing NEW CO2 on the atmosphere... For fuel cells you're using Methanol, that can be obtained from sugar-cane. So any CO2 released was once at the atmosphere anyway.
The real problem here is the space required by sugar-cane plantations. To be able to supply enougth methanol the plantations would have to grow over lands ocuppied today by other cultures (we still need food!), or the few preserved wild forrests that we have. Yes, I know we can harvest methanol from beats and other vegetables, but AFAIK sugar-cane is the most efficient.
Take a look here --> http://kubuntu.org/announcements/koffice-16.php
/etc/sources.list :
- 1.6.0/kubuntu dapper mainb /kde/stable/koffice-1.6.0/kubuntu dapper mainf ice-1.6.0/kubuntu dapper main
or, add these to you
* deb ftp://bolugftp.uni-bonn.de/pub/kde/stable/koffice
* deb http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.kde.org/pu
* deb http://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/kde/stable/kof
* deb http://kubuntu.org/packages/koffice-16 dapper main
One word:
Godzilla
Well,
I used to run KDE 3.5.4 on a PIII 700MHz laptop, with only 128MB of RAM. And while I was using only K apps, everything went quite smooth... I could even let several konqueror windows open! Also, KOffice worked like a charm.
The real problem was Firefox and OpenOffice... these are real memory hogs. I couldn't belive how many memory Firefox eat, open a few tabs and it will use more memory than X and KDE combined! OpenOffice is also a mammoth, compare it to KOffice or Abiword + Gnumeric and you'll see what I'm talking about.
KDE is pretty lightweight, and it will run nicelly on a old machine. Firefox and OpenOffice won't.
You just gave me this idea... What if Google start using an open format, say OGG Theora, for better quality content? They could provide a player, as they already do for their flash format, or a plugin.
Then, they can just create an WebAppliance to store, catalog and stream video. And sell this to big media providers as a more reliable, cheaper alternative to WMA(spit!) and REAL(spit!). One that will be automagically compatible with Windows, Mac, Linux and every other platform out there, since it's based on a open format.
Can it be? Can Google put an end on the dominance of closed formats on the web?
Agreed!
My definition of better: Same Quality + Lower Price
Exactly,
Its not like there is only one wifi chipset vendor, Marvell was picked probably because they offered the lowest price at the beginning of the project. But I can see others offering even lower prices just to be able to profit from the good PR that comes from helping this project.
As Theo pointed out, there are several vendors that offer chipsets with similar functionality AND support open drivers.
And its important to keep this project as open as possible, because it should be like an standart platform. For example, if its cheaper for Brazil, or India, or Argentina, to build their laptops on their own they should be allowed to do so using ANY compatible parts. If you make the WiFi chipset closed, you're forcing everyone to buy from only one vendor.
It also applies to Brazil, iPods are really expensive here compared to the other alternatives... an order of magnitude more expensive. And we don't have access to the ITMS either.
So, I think the article is US/Europe/Japan centric... from their perspective the world is a much smaller place. Our countries are "secondary" markets, and they don't enven include us when they calculate the Digital Audio Players marketshare. It's sad, but is true.
I just pretend that everything they hear is EM interference on the ship radio, caused by the explosions and the other fighters engines.
;-)
But, I agree that a huge, soundless explosion scene could be very dramatic, if done correctly... but is George Lucas we're talking about here, not Stanley Kubric
Well,
;-)
Google strategy probably is use the feedback from their public betas, and free services, to devellop an WebAppliance that can be easly deployed at a business network, such as their nice Search appliance.
I can see they releasing a document management system integrated with Google desktop, corporate Gmail,Search and their online office suite. Kind of a wiki were you can post webpages, documents an sheets that can be collaboratively edited online... everything nicely packaged on a 1U blue box
Also, somewhere, someone is already thinking about an OpenOffice plugin, or KDE KioSlave, or Gnome GFSplugin, that will make it possible edit these online documents directly from Write/Calc, KWrite/KSpread and Abiword/Gnumeric... And this will be the killer feature that will make MSOffice obsolete.
Mark my words... Microsoft couldn't take Google out of the search business, but Google has a good chance of taking the corporate office business crown from Microsoft.
I'm just guessing, but, they look like 3D renders from the surface.
Since the other pictures are anaglyphs (the sort of image that looks 3D when you use that red-blue 3D glasses), one can guess that they already processed the images to extract topological info... So a 3D render, to examine Mars surface details, seems logical to me.
I agree with you.
When I read the topic the first thing that came to my mind was "But they should be trying to reduce the bloat, not add more!".
What I really want to see from OpenOffice is the ability to install separated applications... I shouldn't be forced to install Impress and Calc if I only wanted Writer...
I'm with you.
;-)
Add a USBDrive to the mix, and you can save games, and custom preferences without messing with the local HD.
You know what, somebody should start such a distro. Knoppix already gives you good hardware detection, and Morphix adds modularity to the mix. A Nexuiz or EnemyTerritory LiveCD should be easy enought to setup... I can see one with small networked RTS too, such as Boson, Stratagus and NetPanzer.
If made right, you can make it dead simple to create your own customized LinuxUberGamerLiveDVD, as Morphix gives you all the modularity needed.
Also, this can have a huge impact on the distribuition of game demos. Today, we have to mess with our Windows installation, or with several wine issues, to test some game... But if they came on a bootable CD, it would be a much better experience!
Humm, seems that I have a reason to test that Google Project hosting now
I enjoy pair programming, really.
;-)
Quite often it prevents me from doing very stupid errors. Having another person looking at what you're doing, and making questions about that pice of code, and suggestions makes you pay more attention, and gives a precious feedback.
Also, when I'm co-piloting (not at the keyboard, that is) I feel this incredible urge to return to my desktop and code something. Watching other people code, and talking about his code makes me want to code, its weird, but I always feel more motivated after a pair programming session.
Of course there are times when I don't want anyone looking over my shoulder, but that's normally happens when I'm playing Nexuiz DeathMatch
The problem for me is that I never heard of the most obscure units... so I realy dont know what they stand for. Some I know, because they theached me them at school, Farenheit for an example... but I seldon hear of inches, feet and miles on my everyday life, so when I see a unit like CFM I try to correlate it to the metric system.