You're missing the point... in the real world, each country has had their own domain since year .... so we have.uk,.es,.de etc etc. Why the f*ck do u yanks think you have the divine right to not have one for your country, and can just clog up the.com/.net domains.
Nonsense. Those are the typical estimates that I hear in the industry, yet with experience it IS possible to make sensible estimates of timescales. The problems come in when
1. you are dealing with "unknown" areas... e.g where you have never written such and such a feature, and are making a total guess.
2. when you make estimates based on yourself, and someone else ends up doing the work, and they havent got the necessary experience.
The estimates I give to clients are always with the proviso that it is how long it would take me to do the work to meet the necessary spec - this gets over the second area, and the first one I can always narrow down to within say 20% of what in practice it takes me.... but then again my estimates are based on 15 years in the industry.
By "adding more Crap", I would take that as adding all sorts of unnecessary addons into the core services that the majority of people would never need and would have the effect of increasing the memory footprint.
The whole future emphasis has to be on (IMHO)
a). small footprint
b). modular design so that if people want themes they can be added etc, yet if you dont want them it doesnt impact the footprint
c). ease of use
d). applications to fulfil the majority of tasks users perform
e). speed (gcc mods necessary to enhance performance)
I use KDE 2.2 and am very happy with their efforts so far. Keep it up.
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> That's very, very odd. First of all, almost > anything interesting third party stuff nowadays > is as simple as:./configure; make install; on > both Solaris and Linux (or xmkmf; make install > for X stuff). Well the point I think he/she was making is that Linux stuff comes in RPM's etc and you just install the RPM. No need to build etc. Solaris stuff very rarely comes prebuilt, and even more rarely comes with dependency-based packaging. Linux is simply more advanced in this respect.
But what I want to know is what is the dial/login sequence so I can set up PPP to connect ? Doesn't see mto just accept a (Windoze generated) login and password.
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You're missing the point ... in the real world, each country has had their own domain since year . ... so we have .uk, .es, .de etc etc. Why the f*ck do u yanks think you have the divine right to not have one for your country, and can just clog up the .com/.net domains.
Nonsense. Those are the typical estimates that I hear in the industry, yet with experience it IS possible to make sensible estimates of timescales. The problems come in when
... e.g where you have never written such and such a feature, and are making a total guess.
.... but then again my estimates are based on 15 years in the industry.
1. you are dealing with "unknown" areas
2. when you make estimates based on yourself, and someone else ends up doing the work, and they havent got the necessary experience.
The estimates I give to clients are always with the proviso that it is how long it would take me to do the work to meet the necessary spec - this gets over the second area, and the first one I can always narrow down to within say 20% of what in practice it takes me
By "adding more Crap", I would take that as adding all sorts of unnecessary addons into the core services that the majority of people would never need and would have the effect of increasing the memory footprint.
The whole future emphasis has to be on (IMHO)
a). small footprint
b). modular design so that if people want themes they can be added etc, yet if you dont want them it doesnt impact the footprint
c). ease of use
d). applications to fulfil the majority of tasks users perform
e). speed (gcc mods necessary to enhance performance)
I use KDE 2.2 and am very happy with their efforts so far. Keep it up.
> That's very, very odd. First of all, almost > anything interesting third party stuff nowadays > is as simple as: ./configure; make install; on > both Solaris and Linux (or xmkmf; make install > for X stuff). Well the point I think he/she was making is that Linux stuff comes in RPM's etc and you just install the RPM. No need to build etc. Solaris stuff very rarely comes prebuilt, and even more rarely comes with dependency-based packaging. Linux is simply more advanced in this respect.
There has been a JIT around for well over a year. Probably more like 2 years. It's on Blackdown's Java page - 'TYA' is its name.
well ?
Well try to get a braincell and work out that you don't need to download absolutely every kernel. Get one that works for your hardware and *use* it.
But what I want to know is what is the dial/login sequence so I can set up PPP to connect ? Doesn't see mto just accept a (Windoze generated) login and password.
Anyone done it ?