I have to agree, I've been using Windows 2000 Pro at home since it came out in 1999, and I loved it, I still love it..
The problem is things are stopping working on it, drivers are coming out XP only and they bluescreen on Win2k..
Also things like Windows Messenger Live only work on XP and above, I just changed to XP Pro 2 weeks ago, it's ok so far with a bit of tweaking thankfully I can make it look nice and clean like Win2k..
Not like we have a WHOLE load of privacy online or offline now, your PC is under the jurisdiction of the government if they so wish to search it, what's the difference with storing it online?
Even if you encrypt it you have to give up the key or go to jail.
Why not just sit in your tin-foil hat with a copy of DBAN boot-and-nuke in the drive ready at all times..
Slashdot implement something like Digg so when the editors have a story in front of them it will tell them "Are you sure it's not a Dupe, these similar stories have been submitted recently..etc.etc"
I could never get to grips with Photoshop, I've tried a few times since Photoshop 4.0 was around..
I've always stuck with PaintShop Pro, I find it a lot easier to use and has masking, layers blah blah all that stuff, I guess it's 70% of Photoshop but I find it a lot more intuitive, until version 9 that was...then it went a bit like Photoshop and got harder to use, I'll be sticking with version 8.
I don't want to buy a $50 book or read a 800 page PDF just to learn how to use some software so I can create banners/buttons/edit photos/mess around with graphics etc..
I'm a geek, I just want to use it.
For non tech people I usually give them ACDSee or Picasa, it suites most of their needs.
As for the people recommending Paint, they should check out Paint next generation, Paint.NET!
I'm in Malaysia and I own a Canon Powershot A70...
And I had the CCD problem, it started about 6 months ago...first the backgrounds went slightly pink on bright shots, then it went a little fuzzy, then it went totally mangled and I couldn't see anything at all.
So I paid to get it fixed, it wasn't cheap...now they are saying they will pick the tab?
Of course you need to cover the different licences (preferably objectively), outlining the strenghts and weaknesses of each.
I think RMS is worth a mention.
Make sure you cover the free vs freedom (gratis vs libre) thing properly.
Introduce how OSS tools can make your development life easier (Flyspray, Bugzilla, gcc, gcc+, gdb etc. etc.)
Perhaps show how to make a minor change on an OSS app, and how this is good.
Maybe as an end of semester excercise, tell each group of students to find one OSS they particularly like, and submit one of the feature requests/bugs. Those whose patches get accepted get extra kudos.
It combines the creativity of art (in thinking outside the box and coming up with new ideas/concepts) to the technical solution to the problem (the science part).
Then art again can be applied to the science part in coding.
It's going to be an interesting battle between Microsofts 'Open' Document format and the real ODT, I'm sure MS's format uses Open in a very very very loose way...
Open Office is getting stronger and stronger, the new interface looks great, let's hope this persuades more people to use a truly open format.
The emphasis in Malaysia is the FREE part, not the open source part.
There is an organisation here called MAMPU who 'advocates' open source software and trains other government agencies, but they don't seem to be able to distinguish between Free as in Freedom and Free as in Free Beer..
There is an active open source community in Malaysia, one of the main problems is the prevalence of copied proprietary software, and the ease of it's availablility. Plus the schools are not yet educating the children on non proprietary software or operating systems.
Oh well, Symantec of course, riding on the proprietary platform of Microsloth is going to be biased.
There are many ways you can look at this..
In 2005, IE has already been around for YEARS, if you follow that perspective, it should have many less flaws...But that's not the case.
You could say FireFox is newer, so of course more flaws are expected, you could also say they should have learn from IE's mistakes, and avoided those pitfalls.
You can also say Firefox is open source, people who find the flaws don't have malicious intent, they are trying to improve the software and make it a viable option in the real world..
Those who find flaws in IE usually do it for fun and profit, spyware spam porn diallers etc, all strapped into the world of IE..there are XX number of unknown exploits in IE due to the closed source, and they are probably being exploited right now, case in point is Microsofts new Honeymonkey project discovered one in the first couple of days..
The article is basically a press release from Mozilla, but still, it's just numbers, numbers can be pulled from any generic poopshoot and manipulated anyway they want.
Yeah...there is a problem with Singaporeans and their attitude in general, they even admit it themselves, they are the worst travellers and tend to look down on other races/countries.
It's known as the 'Ugly Singaporean', some references here:
I recently got into a massive blogwar (almost 600 comments) because of this very attitude, potrayed on her blog by Xia Xue (She called someone a malay fucker, said she wanted to slap them with a pig and 'laughed' at the way Arabic people dressed amongst other things). Her post can be found here: KL Pretty much sucked!
This should give you an insight into the common attitude there..
Let me quality my position first, I am a Brit working in Malaysia for an MSC status company (Multimedia Super Corridor). I shall be shortly moving to my new office in the intelligent city..(CyberJaya).
Our company is heavily adopting open source software as I believe many others are, we are using SAMBA 3.x as our PDC/File Server, FreeBSD as our Firewall/NAT/Router/Traffic Shaper, Another *nix machine in the DMZ as Tomcat/mail server, OpenOffice.org as the productivity suite for the Windows machine, Thunderbird as the mail client and so on.
As mentioned above piracy is predominant here, the main reason being cost, as a poster above explained the cost for many things here is higher than Europe or America (if you use economies of scale not a direct currency conversion). Cars are expensive, housing is reasonable, food is cheap, technology stuff is average, software is EXPENSIVE. Most SME's here don't have domains, they are still using workgroups as the cost of Win2k server is prohibitive (The salary per annum for an average employee). Pirated software is easy to get (within every decent sized housing area there is 2-3 places you can go) and cheap ($1-2USD per CD). People do buy orginal software, but usally only larger companies and people who want to play online games (for example Warcraft III you need an original, unique CD key to play on Battle.net).
People are finally realising using pirated software is bad, and that licenced software is too expensive to be economically viable and as open source awareness spreads these are becoming more realistic alternatives. As far as I know many small companies are adopting Linux and OSS software packages or at least conducting some kind of testing/integration. There are quite a few Open Source advocates and groups/mailing lists here:
From what I know the state of OSS looks good here, there are regular conferences, meetings and things going on towards the advancement of open source usage in the Malaysia I.T. community.
(P.S. frist psot as a non-AC)
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I have to agree, I've been using Windows 2000 Pro at home since it came out in 1999, and I loved it, I still love it..
The problem is things are stopping working on it, drivers are coming out XP only and they bluescreen on Win2k..
Also things like Windows Messenger Live only work on XP and above, I just changed to XP Pro 2 weeks ago, it's ok so far with a bit of tweaking thankfully I can make it look nice and clean like Win2k..
Let's all stick to VLC?
Thanks!
DivX has been pumping us full of Spyware for years, this is nothing new.
Really really must be a slow day, what a horribly shit excuse for a Slashdotting.
Still up for me?
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I have used most of the photoservices and Flickr is by far the best, the folksonomy system is just great.
The interface is nice and simple, the Organize tool is cool, sets are easy to create, and you can easily follow what your contacts are uploading.
Plus set your account to follow other groups/tags/people.
It's really neat, plus it's a great way to archive the photos you display on your site/blog/whatever.
A lot of people do upgrade to the pro account, as the free account only gives you 2 sets, and it's worth the upgrade if you do use flickr a lot.
Not like we have a WHOLE load of privacy online or offline now, your PC is under the jurisdiction of the government if they so wish to search it, what's the difference with storing it online?
Even if you encrypt it you have to give up the key or go to jail.
Why not just sit in your tin-foil hat with a copy of DBAN boot-and-nuke in the drive ready at all times..
Slashdot implement something like Digg so when the editors have a story in front of them it will tell them "Are you sure it's not a Dupe, these similar stories have been submitted recently..etc.etc"
Is he going to answer honestly though that's the big question?
Or give a load of buzzword mumbo-jumbo and thus avoid all the pertinent issues.
It's titled COMPARISON, not REVIEW, whoever posted it to /. got it wrong, not the adsense crazy Rojakpot.
I could never get to grips with Photoshop, I've tried a few times since Photoshop 4.0 was around..
I've always stuck with PaintShop Pro, I find it a lot easier to use and has masking, layers blah blah all that stuff, I guess it's 70% of Photoshop but I find it a lot more intuitive, until version 9 that was...then it went a bit like Photoshop and got harder to use, I'll be sticking with version 8.
I don't want to buy a $50 book or read a 800 page PDF just to learn how to use some software so I can create banners/buttons/edit photos/mess around with graphics etc..
I'm a geek, I just want to use it.
For non tech people I usually give them ACDSee or Picasa, it suites most of their needs.
As for the people recommending Paint, they should check out Paint next generation, Paint.NET!
http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/
I had a ZX-80, then a ZX-81, then a Spectrum 48k+ then a Spectrum 128k with a TAPE drive, that was awesome.
Having just watched Land of the Dead yesterday, I'd have to say if I saw this I'd probably shit my pants.
I've seen this coming for a while, it will get more common and cheaper and accessible to the common man..
1) Space Tourism, trip to The Moon Disneyland with the kids..
2) Profit!
Yeah a friend has an A10 with the same symptoms too, but it's not ont he list so bad luck eh?
Funny how they don't want to be liable for these 'older' cams.
I'm in Malaysia and I own a Canon Powershot A70...
And I had the CCD problem, it started about 6 months ago...first the backgrounds went slightly pink on bright shots, then it went a little fuzzy, then it went totally mangled and I couldn't see anything at all.
So I paid to get it fixed, it wasn't cheap...now they are saying they will pick the tab?
I wonder if I can get a refund...
To spread some love for OSS!
Of course you need to cover the different licences (preferably objectively), outlining the strenghts and weaknesses of each.
I think RMS is worth a mention.
Make sure you cover the free vs freedom (gratis vs libre) thing properly.
Introduce how OSS tools can make your development life easier (Flyspray, Bugzilla, gcc, gcc+, gdb etc. etc.)
Perhaps show how to make a minor change on an OSS app, and how this is good.
Maybe as an end of semester excercise, tell each group of students to find one OSS they particularly like, and submit one of the feature requests/bugs. Those whose patches get accepted get extra kudos.
It's neither specifically it's both.
It combines the creativity of art (in thinking outside the box and coming up with new ideas/concepts) to the technical solution to the problem (the science part).
Then art again can be applied to the science part in coding.
Hacking = Art + Science
It's going to be an interesting battle between Microsofts 'Open' Document format and the real ODT, I'm sure MS's format uses Open in a very very very loose way...
Open Office is getting stronger and stronger, the new interface looks great, let's hope this persuades more people to use a truly open format.
The emphasis in Malaysia is the FREE part, not the open source part.
There is an organisation here called MAMPU who 'advocates' open source software and trains other government agencies, but they don't seem to be able to distinguish between Free as in Freedom and Free as in Free Beer..
This was demonstrated well by the spokesperson for MAMPU in a recent talk on Software Freedom in Malaysia by Richard Stallman.
There is an active open source community in Malaysia, one of the main problems is the prevalence of copied proprietary software, and the ease of it's availablility. Plus the schools are not yet educating the children on non proprietary software or operating systems.
Other places of interest:
OSSIG - http://www.mncc.com.my/ossig/
MyOpenSource - http://www.my-opensource.org/
MyOSS - http://myoss.bytebot.net/
1. Change something minor on your product
2. Get loads more free publicity
3. PROFIT!
Oh well, Symantec of course, riding on the proprietary platform of Microsloth is going to be biased.
There are many ways you can look at this..
In 2005, IE has already been around for YEARS, if you follow that perspective, it should have many less flaws...But that's not the case.
You could say FireFox is newer, so of course more flaws are expected, you could also say they should have learn from IE's mistakes, and avoided those pitfalls.
You can also say Firefox is open source, people who find the flaws don't have malicious intent, they are trying to improve the software and make it a viable option in the real world..
Those who find flaws in IE usually do it for fun and profit, spyware spam porn diallers etc, all strapped into the world of IE..there are XX number of unknown exploits in IE due to the closed source, and they are probably being exploited right now, case in point is Microsofts new Honeymonkey project discovered one in the first couple of days..
The article is basically a press release from Mozilla, but still, it's just numbers, numbers can be pulled from any generic poopshoot and manipulated anyway they want.
So now IBM Websphere = Open Source? Haven't heard about that one..
Yeah...there is a problem with Singaporeans and their attitude in general, they even admit it themselves, they are the worst travellers and tend to look down on other races/countries.
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It's known as the 'Ugly Singaporean', some references here:
http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/magazine/2000/02
http://sg.polls.yahoo.com/public/archives/9590009
http://www.singapore-window.org/sw03/031120af.htm
Along with Mr Miyagi, other famous singaporean Bloggers are Mr Brown and Xia Xue (Another new one is http://rockson.blogspot.com/).
I recently got into a massive blogwar (almost 600 comments) because of this very attitude, potrayed on her blog by Xia Xue (She called someone a malay fucker, said she wanted to slap them with a pig and 'laughed' at the way Arabic people dressed amongst other things). Her post can be found here: KL Pretty much sucked! This should give you an insight into the common attitude there..
Our company is heavily adopting open source software as I believe many others are, we are using SAMBA 3.x as our PDC/File Server, FreeBSD as our Firewall/NAT/Router/Traffic Shaper, Another *nix machine in the DMZ as Tomcat/mail server, OpenOffice.org as the productivity suite for the Windows machine, Thunderbird as the mail client and so on.
As mentioned above piracy is predominant here, the main reason being cost, as a poster above explained the cost for many things here is higher than Europe or America (if you use economies of scale not a direct currency conversion). Cars are expensive, housing is reasonable, food is cheap, technology stuff is average, software is EXPENSIVE. Most SME's here don't have domains, they are still using workgroups as the cost of Win2k server is prohibitive (The salary per annum for an average employee). Pirated software is easy to get (within every decent sized housing area there is 2-3 places you can go) and cheap ($1-2USD per CD). People do buy orginal software, but usally only larger companies and people who want to play online games (for example Warcraft III you need an original, unique CD key to play on Battle.net).
People are finally realising using pirated software is bad, and that licenced software is too expensive to be economically viable and as open source awareness spreads these are becoming more realistic alternatives. As far as I know many small companies are adopting Linux and OSS software packages or at least conducting some kind of testing/integration. There are quite a few Open Source advocates and groups/mailing lists here:
- OSSIG
- MyOSS
- Planet MyOSS Community
- ASIAOSC
- Alphaque
- IOSN
From what I know the state of OSS looks good here, there are regular conferences, meetings and things going on towards the advancement of open source usage in the Malaysia I.T. community. (P.S. frist psot as a non-AC)-------------