Apple was about to open the TV shows download service in France but backed out at the last minute after a market analysis showed that nobody would care unless Apple offers all seasons of MacGyver in HD.
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This one bothered me for so long, I saw your comment and decided to look for the solution (one more time). Here it is (CTRL+Q)
I'm pretty sure 90% of the book is still relevant.
Sure there has been new features introduced since the book was written but there will also be some others after the book update will be published.
Regarding the real life examples, I guess it was the author choice to explain what the software does, not to teach TCP/IP again and let you deal with the use cases since there are several thousands of them.
I've been using Mozilla web and mail for a few month and decided to switch to Thunderbird for the mail to get rid of annoying mail bugs in Mozilla that were suppose to be fixed in TB 0.5 (new mail notification even if mail is junk is one of them).
Unfortunately the bugs are still here in TB and the many others you mentionned too. It seems that many problems are located in the core code and will be hard to fix soon. You can typically see those same bugs in Mozilla Mail.
I too wanted to use it, I love the excellent Enigmail extension, standard mbox storage and overall good GUI. I also think this project is very promising but at this point Firefox is much more usable than its mail buddy is.
I hope 1.0 will be as good as Mozilla first official stable release.
Same here, always got good things in return and helping people may actually build you a good social network.
So far I've managed to get a 2 month free rent for an house in SF (living in Europe) a few boxes of very good wine, several books and interesting conversations about things I would never have talked with anybody else - ancient damaged roof investigation for insurances made easier by digital cameras for a 70 years old expert is one of them.
Well, last time I used it Windows XP had this feature. Insert a CD and it will ask you what you want to do with it: Play in WMP, Browse, Copy and stuff like that. I'm not sure if it work the same for blank CDs.
I've been more impressed by the nice integration of CD burning capabilities in iTunes, the UI is as simple as it can be but it is IMHO the most convenient UI to play/rip/burn songs.
All Mandrake does is really "customize" RedHat's release with some more cutting edge tools and give nothing back to the community other then a few buggy GUI configuration tools.
For your information, MandrakeSoft has several important Open Source developers in its team, David Faure for the KDE project, Jay Beale for Bastille Linux, Mosfet again for KDE, several GNOME hackers, Yoann for Prelude (IDS), they maintain the Plex86 project. They have recently hired the maintainer of PHP-Nuke, created a free online training site (MandrakeCampus) and... and...
Do you want more ?
I really don't want Mandrake to "simply" add something to Redhat especially if it is just eye candies.
"Bill knows the importance of providing a consistent user interface. That is why he is happy to leave themeing outside of windows."
you are just _WRONG_, maybe you have not heard yet that one of the most awaited feature coming in the next Windows release (XP) is theme support (never heard about Luna, maybe you should read some IT/geeks website). They are just kicking Stardock out of the game just like they did with Real and others.
You seem to be very aware of what's in Linux and Windows but now you must admit you slept the 2 last years and have just woke up;-)
Unfortunatly, the use of jdk1.2 is not efficient under linux. For example, i tried to run jEdit which is simply a text editor based on swing widgets, it was really slow, letters appear 1 sec after i type it, and using menubar is similar to an X11 session across the atlantic. Sun is about to release jdk1.3 but under linux, we only have an incomplete java2 which is not efficient enough.
I know blackdown guys did a great job (many thanks to them), but i would really appreciate that sun become more implied in the development of its language under free OS. Ibm make a wonderful compiler (jikes), and a pretty good jvm but i don't understand why sun doesn't do that job.
My company (Solsoft) sell a software which is made for this kind of sysop as well for the ones who don't want to waste time configuring their firewall. Our product doesn't support FW1 but it can configure ipchain/ipfw/ipfilter boxes and the most common filtering devices.
I'm one of the GUI developers of Net Partitioner and i'll be very pleased if you can take a look to this tool and give me some feedbacks. Of course it works under linux (since the 1st release) because it is fully developed under linux.
Please don't consider this message as a add, i HATE marketing but i think commercial products have their place under linux too.
I would love to find interviews of kernel hackers each 2 weeks or each month. They would explain us the state of their work, why they did such or such a choice in their code, what they plan to do and how we can help.
Maybe it would help to find new hackers if the actual guys speak about their work.
We have learnt recently that 3 french senators proposed a law to require the use of open source software. AFAIK it's the first time officials are doing such a thing in the world. You have decided to use OSS in your daily work, can you give us the reasons of your choice (seems obvious:-) and tell us what you are thinking of the french idea ?
I noticed something strange, i often give support to newbies by answering their questions on nowonder, usenet, mailing-lists and i've never been asked about a problem with a caldera distro.
I wonder why there is so few problems with caldera : - is there a really good support ? - is it so simple to configure and use that even my grand ma can read her mail with it ? - or is it because there is less users of caldera ?
I have to say that redhat and mandrake are the most problematic common distros but i'm not sure newbies are using debian or slackware.
btw, what i would appreciate is optimization of packages compilation. That's what mandrake is trying to do but it works only on i?86 platforms.
Hope someone will tell me more about caldera, if it's really cool i'll buy one to every newbie who badge me:)
This is not why we want open source softwares in our administration. We want it for the same reasons you would. We don't want our government to pay commercial progs when they are not needed, when they don't do better then OS ones.
We want gov to use standard formats to communicate, i don't want to use msword to read official documents.
There is no difference between the way a gov use computers, and the way a big company use it. So no, it's not a nationalistic choice.
I thought there was no need for that, but a friend of mine which has just tried irc asked me : " can i do irc with communicator ?". So ok there is a need, it's just that i did not consider the thing like you did:-)
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This solution is only available for websites which agree to be mirrored. If slashdot must wait the authorization to mirror, stories won't be plublished so quick.
The matter isn't to get the agreement but to get it quick. I suppose that websites which don't want to be mirrored know what they do and have suffisant ressources to support the slashdot effect.
I don't think mozilla's irc client will have better fonctionnalities than xchat, bitchX nor mIrc. I don't understand the goals of this code integration.
Did someone try to start an install of this distro ? It seems that the big fight between distros will be the userfriendliness of the installation : Mandrake has lothar, RedHat has Lorax what about Caldera ?
If a comment has a negative score it fell into the "unwanted area" where posts can't be replied but can be viewed. It's easy to implement (hum seems to easy, i must be wrong:-)
If a comment has a negative score it fell into the "unwanted area" where posts can't be replied but can be viewed. It's easy to implement (hum seems to easy, i must be wrong:-)
I prefer to read printed books because girls (especially blondes one) who look at me are thinking : "God ! This cute guy is smart too...". Ok it's bad for my geek's score but sometime we need to do sacrifices.
Reading electronic books has the opposite consequence : "This guy looks stupid ! Why is he reading a book on a so tiny screen."
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Apple was about to open the TV shows download service in France but backed out at the last minute after a market analysis showed that nobody would care unless Apple offers all seasons of MacGyver in HD.
This one bothered me for so long, I saw your comment and decided to look for the solution (one more time). Here it is (CTRL+Q)
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http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/gui_w32.htm
So?
I'm pretty sure 90% of the book is still relevant.
Sure there has been new features introduced since the book was written but there will also be some others after the book update will be published.
Regarding the real life examples, I guess it was the author choice to explain what the software does, not to teach TCP/IP again and let you deal with the use cases since there are several thousands of them.
I've been using Mozilla web and mail for a few month and decided to switch to Thunderbird for the mail to get rid of annoying mail bugs in Mozilla that were suppose to be fixed in TB 0.5 (new mail notification even if mail is junk is one of them).
Unfortunately the bugs are still here in TB and the many others you mentionned too. It seems that many problems are located in the core code and will be hard to fix soon. You can typically see those same bugs in Mozilla Mail.
I too wanted to use it, I love the excellent Enigmail extension, standard mbox storage and overall good GUI. I also think this project is very promising but at this point Firefox is much more usable than its mail buddy is.
I hope 1.0 will be as good as Mozilla first official stable release.
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gcalctool
gtoaster
gstreamer
gclipboard
ggDeskCal
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gboard-edit
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Same here, always got good things in return and helping people may actually build you a good social network.
So far I've managed to get a 2 month free rent for an house in SF (living in Europe) a few boxes of very good wine, several books and interesting conversations about things I would never have talked with anybody else - ancient damaged roof investigation for insurances made easier by digital cameras for a 70 years old expert is one of them.
Well, last time I used it Windows XP had this feature. Insert a CD and it will ask you what you want to do with it: Play in WMP, Browse, Copy and stuff like that. I'm not sure if it work the same for blank CDs.
I've been more impressed by the nice integration of CD burning capabilities in iTunes, the UI is as simple as it can be but it is IMHO the most convenient UI to play/rip/burn songs.
Did you tell the same thing when they were "working" with Real ?
All Mandrake does is really "customize" RedHat's release with some more cutting edge tools and give nothing back to the community other then a few buggy GUI configuration tools.
... and ...
;-)
For your information, MandrakeSoft has several important Open Source developers in its team, David Faure for the KDE project, Jay Beale for Bastille Linux, Mosfet again for KDE, several GNOME hackers, Yoann for Prelude (IDS), they maintain the Plex86 project. They have recently hired the maintainer of PHP-Nuke, created a free online training site (MandrakeCampus) and
Do you want more ?
I really don't want Mandrake to "simply" add something to Redhat especially if it is just eye candies.
"Bill knows the importance of providing a consistent user interface. That is why he is happy to leave themeing outside of windows."
you are just _WRONG_, maybe you have not heard yet that one of the most awaited feature coming in the next Windows release (XP) is theme support (never heard about Luna, maybe you should read some IT/geeks website). They are just kicking Stardock out of the game just like they did with Real and others.
You seem to be very aware of what's in Linux and Windows but now you must admit you slept the 2 last years and have just woke up
Unfortunatly, the use of jdk1.2 is not efficient under linux. For example, i tried to run jEdit which is simply a text editor based on swing widgets, it was really slow, letters appear 1 sec after i type it, and using menubar is similar to an X11 session across the atlantic. Sun is about to release jdk1.3 but under linux, we only have an incomplete java2 which is not efficient enough.
I know blackdown guys did a great job (many thanks to them), but i would really appreciate that sun become more implied in the development of its language under free OS. Ibm make a wonderful compiler (jikes), and a pretty good jvm but i don't understand why sun doesn't do that job.
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I'm just a frustrated java linux developer
My company (Solsoft) sell a software which is made for this kind of sysop as well for the ones who don't want to waste time configuring their firewall. Our product doesn't support FW1 but it can configure ipchain/ipfw/ipfilter boxes and the most common filtering devices.
I'm one of the GUI developers of Net Partitioner and i'll be very pleased if you can take a look to this tool and give me some feedbacks. Of course it works under linux (since the 1st release) because it is fully developed under linux.
Please don't consider this message as a add, i HATE marketing but i think commercial products have their place under linux too.
http://www.solsoft.com
I would love to find interviews of kernel hackers each 2 weeks or each month. They would explain us the state of their work, why they did such or such a choice in their code, what they plan to do and how we can help.
Maybe it would help to find new hackers if the actual guys speak about their work.
Hi Mick,
:-) and tell us what you are thinking of the french idea ?
We have learnt recently that 3 french senators proposed a law to require the use of open source software. AFAIK it's the first time officials are doing such a thing in the world. You have decided to use OSS in your daily work, can you give us the reasons of your choice (seems obvious
Definetly yes it does, i use to be a firewall sysop, and my log files were full of real players connections to the real.com servers.
Hopefully for my users, the firewall didn't let packets pass.
I noticed something strange, i often give support to newbies by answering their questions on nowonder, usenet, mailing-lists and i've never been asked about a problem with a caldera distro.
:)
I wonder why there is so few problems with caldera :
- is there a really good support ?
- is it so simple to configure and use that even my grand ma can read her mail with it ?
- or is it because there is less users of caldera ?
I have to say that redhat and mandrake are the most problematic common distros but i'm not sure newbies are using debian or slackware.
btw, what i would appreciate is optimization of packages compilation. That's what mandrake is trying to do but it works only on i?86 platforms.
Hope someone will tell me more about caldera, if it's really cool i'll buy one to every newbie who badge me
NO !
This is not why we want open source softwares in our administration. We want it for the same reasons you would. We don't want our government to pay commercial progs when they are not needed, when they don't do better then OS ones.
We want gov to use standard formats to communicate, i don't want to use msword to read official documents.
There is no difference between the way a gov use computers, and the way a big company use it. So no, it's not a nationalistic choice.
I thought there was no need for that, but a friend of mine which has just tried irc asked me : " can i do irc with communicator ?". So ok there is a need, it's just that i did not consider the thing like you did :-)
This solution is only available for websites which agree to be mirrored. If slashdot must wait the authorization to mirror, stories won't be plublished so quick.
The matter isn't to get the agreement but to get it quick. I suppose that websites which don't want to be mirrored know what they do and have suffisant ressources to support the slashdot effect.
I don't think mozilla's irc client will have better fonctionnalities than xchat, bitchX nor mIrc. I don't understand the goals of this code integration.
Do you have some answers ?
Did someone try to start an install of this distro ? It seems that the big fight between distros will be the userfriendliness of the installation :
...
Mandrake has lothar, RedHat has Lorax what about Caldera ?
I would prefer more and more fonctionnalities
What do you think of that ? :
:-)
If a comment has a negative score it fell into the "unwanted area" where posts can't be replied but can be viewed. It's easy to implement (hum seems to easy, i must be wrong
What do you think of this ? :
:-)
If a comment has a negative score it fell into the "unwanted area" where posts can't be replied but can be viewed. It's easy to implement (hum seems to easy, i must be wrong
I prefer to read printed books because girls (especially blondes one) who look at me are thinking : "God ! This cute guy is smart too...". Ok it's bad for my geek's score but sometime we need to do sacrifices.
Reading electronic books has the opposite consequence : "This guy looks stupid ! Why is he reading a book on a so tiny screen."