I don't think so. There are too many Linux applications that are x86 specific. x86 architecture is fine, just, there needs to be a Linux equivilent to a Mac. (and no, OSX is not valid.)
I'm completely aware of the dire situation Linux is in. I also know that Linux is really in some pain right now. We really need the big boys in the Linux world to start playing some serious hardball. If I might ask, Where is Samba 4.0? Active Directory has had dominance for nearly ten years.
I think we have been focused on survival to long and need to start worrying about victory. Linux really needs to develops some killer applications that take Linux on the offensive.
This not only goes for the Eee, but alot of Laptop makers too. We have to find a way for XP to stop steamrolling every pro-Linux operation that shows up. OLPC, Classmate, EeePC, one way or another, Linux has to find away to bury XP. I'm serious. The Linux movement cannot continue to take losses like this.
I say that somehow, we find a way to make retailers lives a living Hell if they want to continue to shovel XP only models of stuff, and I want some way concieved of to REALLY damage MS's bottom line and make them bleed.
Technical, Legal, I don't care, find a way to win, and make it happen.
Amazing as it sounds, I still have very VERY old data that goes as far back as 7th grade when I started using computers. I know of no converter for Professional Write that will convert Professional Write documents into ODF, or even MS Word 97/2000/2003.
The only hope I have is that I can use strings to extract the text elements of the data.
You have confused SMB, NMB, and SMBX, which Microsoft calls CIFS.
SMB is not all that different in how it works from FTP. Its a TCP Protocol that operates on Port 139.
NMB (NetBios Message Block) is how Windows provides SMB with services like Name Resolution. It also handles things called Browser elections which determine who the Domain Controllers will be.
Windows NT4 and 9x is hard Coded to only allow use of NMB to resolve SMB names. This was a horrible lockin tactic for Windows NT4 Server. Windows 2000 on can use NMB or DNS.
SMBX operates on port 445, and acts independantly of NMB and SMB.
Linux machines from Samba 2.2 on could use DNS to resolve SMB paths. Even though Windows machines are hard coded not to allow that.
Another lockin tactic with SMB was the use of the UNC (Universal Name Convention) which was FAR from Universal. The proper URI for smb is smb://. Konqueror has it right.
So, that should clear that up.
The worst offense Microsoft ever did was when they added the PAC to Kerberos. If there is a beacon shining in the night why the GPL is superior to the BSD liscence, the Kerberos PAC that has kept Active Directory Dominant for almost ten years should be a becon in the night. MS Kerberos PAC is incompatible with virtually EVERY SINGLE Kerberos server out there.
Are you aware, that Vista did something that caused DHCP to break for many many home based residential gateway "routers" - and among one of the things that was broken was Linux's dhcpd?
I have one Vista Client. We can't use DHCP with it, we have to use static addressing just for that node to work.
More and more Vista boxes with broken DHCP clients get put out every day. And when I'm brought a Vista client with one of those horribly broken DHCP clients I'm told "Its Linux's problem, "fix" Linux's DHCP Server.
You need a professional IT staff with real experience with LDAP and Novell Groupwise. If you are a big university, don't fuck around with Exchange. Universities have serious IT Needs and require elite administrators.
My major concern is going to be Pulse Audio. When 2008.1 came out, I migrated from 2008.0. I found out there were patches made to SDL that broke compatibility with many Linux games. It took weeks of "digging them out." to solve the problems. Now sound works the way it should. I'm frightened that it will mean more digging up bad patches in SDL to stop annoying crackling effects in games.
Also, not every computer I own has a "nice" Nvidia FX5200. A few of them have older Sis, Matrox, Intel, and my Cooker Box which has one of the 2009.0 release candidates on it has a Voodoo 3. The Voodoo 3 card crashes when DRI is enabled. Not due to a proprietary driver, but due to some older cards development falling by the wayside.
I consider there to be a difference between "private" and "shut in". I am on Youtube, but I lie my ass off on my Profiles.
I don't run Windows due to security issues, as well as being a Linux fan, and really being opposed to MS in generally, wanting Windows to disappear from this world. I consider the fight for security and privacy to be a different fight than the fight against Windows, even thought they are distantly related. Much like my fight for Secularism against Religion, again, distantly related, but there are some related factors.
Yes you can still share some information (enough to be a social, approachable, kind person) and notbe a total shut in, nor completely open and vulnerable.
More Driver Manufacturers should go the DKMS route. Like in the case of Nvidia's driver. It has an open source component, and a closed source component. The Open Source Component is a Kernel SHIM that recompiles against the Kernel. Whenever DKMS detects that the Kernel has changed, the DKMS recompiles just the SHIM for that one reboot. This is a decent solution to that problem, but the distros have to pick it up.
Alright, couple things. Yes. It is true that the vast majority of the general public don't want to learn how a computer works.
But I see some fault by manufacturers too. Couple things.
Stop shipping laptops with relatively unknown "Lets evade the MS Tax" Linux distros with little support or documentation. This whole "Get a Linux computer so we can pirate Windows" thing has gotta stop.
From now on, contract with the BIG BOYS in Linux, Red Hat, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Suse. No more gOS. no more *insert Bizzare distro no one has ever heard of here* distro.
Make sure all your drivers for your cards work and can survive things like Kernel patches.
Stop shipping broken configurations. If my Screen can support 1200x800, it better not be set to 1024x768.
Stop Advertising Linux as "Almost Windows" or "Sort of Windows" - Advertise Linux as - Linux. Put a big Penguin sign up next to the row of Linux Laptops, and say "These are Linux Laptops." and if they are
Install Wine on Linux Laptops. Show customers that they can take their Windows applications with them where Applicable.
Because its not. The Chinese Government wants the source code for themselves, not to share it with the public. So don't you dare try and compare this to anything RMS would say. More than likely, the Chinese government is going to use this to spy on its users.
It sorta makes me sick. Makes me really wish the Chinese government would fall.
DRM has no right to exist. I've said it before and I'll say it again. People should weork to destroy any and all DRM by any means possible. DRM is to dangerous to be allowed to survive. All DRM must be terminated for there to be a future in fair use for computing. If some content producer business must perish, then so be it.
Well, here's the thing. The version of Mugen for Linux that exists today was made in 2002, and supports no necessary SDL features or OpenGL for Video accelleration.
The Japanese version of WinMugen works better in Wine some cases because of better support for more content.
(That said Playing as the Green Ranger is a thousand times more fun on Mugen rather than the Sega Genesis game he came from.)
Would it not be better to send them SkyNet, a few hundred T-800 Endoskeletons? You know, the kind with the plasma cannons that shoot at anything that moves?
Linux's ability to emulate other applications platform must be perfected. Linux must work on every hardware device perfectly the first time with as little interaction as possible.
If this kind of effort were to go into fixing all the problems with Linux, making Linux capable of running every application from every platform ever concieved, we could install a Mac Skin and tell Apple and MS to eat OSX and Windows.
Seriously. Why waste your time with the futile. At least with Linux you have a chance of survival.
Boycotts don't work in this industry. They never have. The closest things to a successful boycott was the Mortal Kombat issue between the Sega Genesis and Super NES. Which was easily corrected by the time Mortal Kombat 2 rolled around.
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I don't think so. There are too many Linux applications that are x86 specific. x86 architecture is fine, just, there needs to be a Linux equivilent to a Mac. (and no, OSX is not valid.)
I'm completely aware of the dire situation Linux is in. I also know that Linux is really in some pain right now. We really need the big boys in the Linux world to start playing some serious hardball. If I might ask, Where is Samba 4.0? Active Directory has had dominance for nearly ten years.
I think we have been focused on survival to long and need to start worrying about victory. Linux really needs to develops some killer applications that take Linux on the offensive.
This not only goes for the Eee, but alot of Laptop makers too. We have to find a way for XP to stop steamrolling every pro-Linux operation that shows up. OLPC, Classmate, EeePC, one way or another, Linux has to find away to bury XP. I'm serious. The Linux movement cannot continue to take losses like this.
I say that somehow, we find a way to make retailers lives a living Hell if they want to continue to shovel XP only models of stuff, and I want some way concieved of to REALLY damage MS's bottom line and make them bleed.
Technical, Legal, I don't care, find a way to win, and make it happen.
I was 13 at the time, give me a break. Actually, Professional Write will run under Dosbox.
Amazing as it sounds, I still have very VERY old data that goes as far back as 7th grade when I started using computers. I know of no converter for Professional Write that will convert Professional Write documents into ODF, or even MS Word 97/2000/2003.
The only hope I have is that I can use strings to extract the text elements of the data.
Use Kerberos to authenticate. I do.
You have confused SMB, NMB, and SMBX, which Microsoft calls CIFS.
SMB is not all that different in how it works from FTP. Its a TCP Protocol that operates on Port 139.
NMB (NetBios Message Block) is how Windows provides SMB with services like Name Resolution. It also handles things called Browser elections which determine who the Domain Controllers will be.
Windows NT4 and 9x is hard Coded to only allow use of NMB to resolve SMB names. This was a horrible lockin tactic for Windows NT4 Server. Windows 2000 on can use NMB or DNS.
SMBX operates on port 445, and acts independantly of NMB and SMB.
Linux machines from Samba 2.2 on could use DNS to resolve SMB paths. Even though Windows machines are hard coded not to allow that.
Another lockin tactic with SMB was the use of the UNC (Universal Name Convention) which was FAR from Universal. The proper URI for smb is smb://. Konqueror has it right.
So, that should clear that up.
The worst offense Microsoft ever did was when they added the PAC to Kerberos. If there is a beacon shining in the night why the GPL is superior to the BSD liscence, the Kerberos PAC that has kept Active Directory Dominant for almost ten years should be a becon in the night. MS Kerberos PAC is incompatible with virtually EVERY SINGLE Kerberos server out there.
I saw that and couldn't help but think, are they trying to make a filesystem based on the B-tree concept?
Are you aware, that Vista did something that caused DHCP to break for many many home based residential gateway "routers" - and among one of the things that was broken was Linux's dhcpd?
I have one Vista Client. We can't use DHCP with it, we have to use static addressing just for that node to work.
More and more Vista boxes with broken DHCP clients get put out every day. And when I'm brought a Vista client with one of those horribly broken DHCP clients I'm told "Its Linux's problem, "fix" Linux's DHCP Server.
You need a professional IT staff with real experience with LDAP and Novell Groupwise. If you are a big university, don't fuck around with Exchange. Universities have serious IT Needs and require elite administrators.
My major concern is going to be Pulse Audio. When 2008.1 came out, I migrated from 2008.0. I found out there were patches made to SDL that broke compatibility with many Linux games. It took weeks of "digging them out." to solve the problems. Now sound works the way it should. I'm frightened that it will mean more digging up bad patches in SDL to stop annoying crackling effects in games.
Also, not every computer I own has a "nice" Nvidia FX5200. A few of them have older Sis, Matrox, Intel, and my Cooker Box which has one of the 2009.0 release candidates on it has a Voodoo 3. The Voodoo 3 card crashes when DRI is enabled. Not due to a proprietary driver, but due to some older cards development falling by the wayside.
I consider there to be a difference between "private" and "shut in". I am on Youtube, but I lie my ass off on my Profiles.
I don't run Windows due to security issues, as well as being a Linux fan, and really being opposed to MS in generally, wanting Windows to disappear from this world. I consider the fight for security and privacy to be a different fight than the fight against Windows, even thought they are distantly related. Much like my fight for Secularism against Religion, again, distantly related, but there are some related factors.
Yes you can still share some information (enough to be a social, approachable, kind person) and notbe a total shut in, nor completely open and vulnerable.
Do you remember Stratagus? The guys who made all those enhancements to Warcraft II? They started on a Warcraft 1 Mod before they disbanded.
This will never happen, but I'd like to see the first Warcraft Open Sourced. I'm referring to the DOS warcraft I from 1994.
More Driver Manufacturers should go the DKMS route. Like in the case of Nvidia's driver. It has an open source component, and a closed source component. The Open Source Component is a Kernel SHIM that recompiles against the Kernel. Whenever DKMS detects that the Kernel has changed, the DKMS recompiles just the SHIM for that one reboot. This is a decent solution to that problem, but the distros have to pick it up.
This is why we have stuff like the GPL to prevent these very issues. I don't like attempts like this to undermine the F/OSS movement.
Alright, couple things. Yes. It is true that the vast majority of the general public don't want to learn how a computer works.
But I see some fault by manufacturers too. Couple things.
Stop shipping laptops with relatively unknown "Lets evade the MS Tax" Linux distros with little support or documentation. This whole "Get a Linux computer so we can pirate Windows" thing has gotta stop.
From now on, contract with the BIG BOYS in Linux, Red Hat, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Suse. No more gOS. no more *insert Bizzare distro no one has ever heard of here* distro.
Make sure all your drivers for your cards work and can survive things like Kernel patches.
Stop shipping broken configurations. If my Screen can support 1200x800, it better not be set to 1024x768.
Stop Advertising Linux as "Almost Windows" or "Sort of Windows" - Advertise Linux as - Linux. Put a big Penguin sign up next to the row of Linux Laptops, and say "These are Linux Laptops." and if they are
Install Wine on Linux Laptops. Show customers that they can take their Windows applications with them where Applicable.
Because its not. The Chinese Government wants the source code for themselves, not to share it with the public. So don't you dare try and compare this to anything RMS would say. More than likely, the Chinese government is going to use this to spy on its users.
It sorta makes me sick. Makes me really wish the Chinese government would fall.
DRM has no right to exist. I've said it before and I'll say it again. People should weork to destroy any and all DRM by any means possible. DRM is to dangerous to be allowed to survive. All DRM must be terminated for there to be a future in fair use for computing. If some content producer business must perish, then so be it.
Well, here's the thing. The version of Mugen for Linux that exists today was made in 2002, and supports no necessary SDL features or OpenGL for Video accelleration.
The Japanese version of WinMugen works better in Wine some cases because of better support for more content.
(That said Playing as the Green Ranger is a thousand times more fun on Mugen rather than the Sega Genesis game he came from.)
Mugen is problematic on Linux right now.
Would it not be better to send them SkyNet, a few hundred T-800 Endoskeletons? You know, the kind with the plasma cannons that shoot at anything that moves?
Linux's ability to emulate other applications platform must be perfected. Linux must work on every hardware device perfectly the first time with as little interaction as possible.
If this kind of effort were to go into fixing all the problems with Linux, making Linux capable of running every application from every platform ever concieved, we could install a Mac Skin and tell Apple and MS to eat OSX and Windows.
Seriously. Why waste your time with the futile. At least with Linux you have a chance of survival.
Boycotts don't work in this industry. They never have. The closest things to a successful boycott was the Mortal Kombat issue between the Sega Genesis and Super NES. Which was easily corrected by the time Mortal Kombat 2 rolled around.