I used to use linux distributions all the time. But one thing that bugged me the most was sound issues. Since kernel 2.6.34 and above, my desktop machine never had sound (and this is a 4 year old machine). Plus other things that I hated. The best environment I ever had was Gnome 2. Gnome 3 was not my cup of tea.
It has gotten so bad (even Linux Mint doesn't solve my sound issue, and it's odd that older versions run my sound card perfectly) that I run linux instead as a guest on a windows environment. Besides, most of my development tools are in windows nowadays, and frankly, I'm getting a little too old in tinkling around with my system.
I agree that there are some who would claim that spine manipulation heals all sorts of sickness, are clearly bogus.
However, I have suffered from cervical slipped discs. I've tried going to the neurologist (who was conservative - doesn't like surgery unless really needed), then who recommended me to a physiatrist who insisted on letting me get on surgery. I told him I'll follow conservative care treatments - traction, which left me in a worse state than I was in (my hands were all numb and painful, aside from my back, and had me gasping for breath at certain times). Upon the suggestion of a friend I went to a chiro (who specializes in neck and back treatments - note that he doesn't claim he cures the world), and went into treatments (he did ask for my x-ray).
Now, I am able to do pretty much everything that I wasn't everything to do - I still got about year before I should be able to get back to normal (he said no strenous stuff to allow for me to heal), but practically, almost all of the muscle spasms and pain and leg problems are gone.
Moral of the story - don't go to chiros who promise the world.
Having made an ecommerce site from magento itself, I'd say that although it's way better than OSCommerce, it's slow, and very poorly documented. It is as if Varien wanted the poor documentation to happen so that you can hire them for helping set up your site.
It is slow because it practically uses EAV for most of it's data. To fetch manually for example, an order, you'd have to parse through different tables to find out what that order exactly is. And the whole system is one big object extension of the Zend framework! Adding APC and memcache makes it work better and faster, but it is still slow.
Also, the templating system is daunting, to say the least, for beginners.
Also, one big peeve of mine is that it has limited order statuses - shipped, processing, complete, among others, and so far, I haven't found a way to add this reliably (although you can add it to a drop down box in the admin panel, what happens is that you cannot call it through a class)
But once you get the hang on it (mostly, since looking at the huge amount of code without comments is very very overwhelming), it can be very flexible. So far, we've made a system to let it contact a fulfillment company for deliveries at the start of every day, and let the fulfillment company update us when those orders were delivered and shipped out. It mostly works too, and it's fairly automated, that we've just left it alone.
Don't get me wrong. I love linux - and I am on a 8.9" netbook running Ubuntu 8.10 (all the software are running well) - except for the fact that I CANNOT connect to my router in WPA secured mode. Until these issues get fixed - and the fact is that the ASUS eeepcs windows and linux versions here in my country have more or less the same price - people will choose the machine with Windows XP over linux. Btw, this machine is worth about $400 and comes with 120Gb, 1Gb RAM, Intel Atom N270 and Windows XP service Pack 3 - I'm just dual booting with Ubuntu here.
Sorry,
I don't care if linux boots faster than windows vista. What I care about is whether or not linux has the tools and applications I need, and basically works out of the box.
I've been wary of setting up my wireless on my laptop every time I try out a linux distro. X issues as well (letting me boot into a text screen because X failed to load a graphical screen). It are those little peeves that sometimes almost make me abandon linux on the desktop.
Don't get me wrong. I'm been using linux for over almost a decade already (I'm still using linux for servers). But I've gotten a bit tired already of setting hardware up, looking at docs for tweaking linux to work on this particular hardware, etc.
I can do this practically pretty quick in Windows or Mac (I have one) mind you, it's simple enough. But when you have to fiddle around doing a samba share or a printer in cups in linux, or have to tinker around with half-baked video/audio applications, I already have no more time for that, thank you.
Why not try out the Northtec Gecko UMPC?
http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=5&ArticleID=554
I have bought a rebranded one here in the Philippines named the Deep Blue H1 UMPC
It suits my needs very nicely (with my job, I need to bring practically my laptop almost anywhere to access linux servers on call). With 1Gb RAM and a 40Gb harddisk - it is basically priced the same as a eeePC 4G here.
And I love the 4.5 hours battery life - works as advertised.
Hi there,
As an Asian, I can tell you that Yahoo is big in Asia (at least in my country). Most people use yahoo messenger(msn, nope), and yahoo mail. So Microsoft buying out Yahoo would mean they would gain lots of users, not only in ym, but also groups.
Also, the LUG which I am a member of is in Yahoo Groups (in fact many of the Open source groups in my country are in yahoo groups); in fact some support groups for open source projects are in Yahoo Groups (twinklephone, for example, which is an excellent SIP softphone).
So to say that Yahoo isn't used anymore is simply wrong, and naive.
I like eclipse. It's plugin architecture is quite good, the code completion stuff great. The thing that really irks me though it's too bloated and slow.
I have a laptop with 1.5Gb RAM and the truth of the matter is, eclipse sometimes hangs my laptop, or slows it down to a crawl, and there are instances where I run out of memory just editing a bunch of java classes which I made (after which I have to restart my computer because it seems to suck all resources even when it's closed).
The thing needs optimization on this end. Other than that, it works great, even as a php editor.
For professional applications, in my case, thats dreamweaver and the macromedia studio suite.
I've tried dreamweaver, plus a host of other freeware, opensource tools. Those who say that WYSIWYG editors are evil and text editors are better should better think twice before going into the web design arena - Dreamweaver's interface is very suited for whipping up webpages when you're in a deadline.
And don't get me started with nvu as a replacement. I tell you, it is more suited for quick html fixes than a replacement for dreamweaver (killer features are templates, code completion, real-time data preview, etc.).
I use tools which get the job done - and fast (in my line of work, this is necessary). But I'm also a linux geek, so I use Dreamweaver (MX version, not 2004, I heard it works for Dreameaver 8) in wine:) - and it works pretty well in it too.
Oh yes, I don't like gimp's interface - although I use it sometimes, I find fireworks faster in getting the job done in a few clicks (also running in wine)
Well, I do think the other projects that depend on it will just continue to move on using the older versions of BDB.
Projects that use BDB are:
Openoffice/Staroffice
Apache
OpenLDAP
rpm
Moveable Type
Linux, BSDs, etc.
and so on...
In fact BDB is actually very integrated into distros and BSDs...
As you can see, only a small part of MYSQL use BDB, In fact, I don't use BDB in my web apps.
I do use the linux version of epsxe. However:
1. The opengl plugin doesn't run in my distro (It crashes it), so I'm forced to use the software video plugin. Epsxe is more of a programming curiousity for me. Psx plugins in linux are unfortunately more unstable than their windows counterparts in this case. Microsoft has gotten their direct3d and directx api right in this rare instance.
2. Since I'm the application maintainer of dreamweaver mx in winehq, I test other windows programs in my spare time in wine as a hobby. This includes some of the more unknown windows programs, including emulators such as epsxe.
As for Visual Basic 6.0 (I have the Standard Edition), you can install and run it as you would in windows. I've had more experience however installing Macromedia Studio MX, and practically all work as expected, except for some display refresh quirks in Fireworks and Dreamweaver (however Fireworks has more refresh quirks). I have since rarely used windows more or less at home because of this, since I run these tools already in linux.
As for the wine version I used... those tools have been tested in 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.9.5 and 0.9.6
Interestingly, emulation programs which use opengl run as fast or faster(!) than when using windows (epsxe - a psx emulator is an example).
Very correct.
For those who think that Firefox is safe because Eolas said they won't hit opensource projects, think of this...
Mozilla has already a corporate entity now, aside from the Mozilla Foundation. Who knows what they will think?
Hmm... This reminds me of that Stargate SG-1 episode, where some aliens (can't remember), introduce age-longetivity in humans in the future, but in the process, destroy fertility rates of humans, thereby killing the whole human race in a generation.
Isn't it possible that by introducing longer ages for humans, we destroy ourselves?
To tell you frankly...
Two of my friends tried installing Solaris 10 on their hardware... Both went back to their linux distros.
Why?
1. It's bloat. More than 4 cds is quite a huge download.
2. One of my friend has his resolution stuck in 640x480 mode, even when he changed the X settings. The other one even can't install the software due to hardware not supported.
3. The thing that has it going is that it is snappy, and fast.
4. Most of my admin friends (of big companies) are switching from solaris to redhat/debian variants. And I'm coming from a developing country.
Moral lesson? Folks, if you want to try this baby, use it on supported hardware (which is quite small compared to linux).
I'm not an OS specific guy. I use whatever works for me. Tell you, I've tried OSX, Linux, and Windows.
I use windows for Macromedia MX software (web design), Linux (slackware and derivative) for server programming, I've tried OSX (from my point of view, it's Gnomeish!) sometime in the past for imaging software.
Using those things, I'm most comfortable in Linux and windows... Windows because they have the software I need for my work/job description (Macromedia works in wine, but it's a bit slow for my taste), and Linux for server purposes - I like cli. OSX distracts me - don't get me wrong... it looks nice, but the eye candy really does get to me.
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I used to use linux distributions all the time. But one thing that bugged me the most was sound issues. Since kernel 2.6.34 and above, my desktop machine never had sound (and this is a 4 year old machine). Plus other things that I hated. The best environment I ever had was Gnome 2. Gnome 3 was not my cup of tea. It has gotten so bad (even Linux Mint doesn't solve my sound issue, and it's odd that older versions run my sound card perfectly) that I run linux instead as a guest on a windows environment. Besides, most of my development tools are in windows nowadays, and frankly, I'm getting a little too old in tinkling around with my system.
I agree that there are some who would claim that spine manipulation heals all sorts of sickness, are clearly bogus. However, I have suffered from cervical slipped discs. I've tried going to the neurologist (who was conservative - doesn't like surgery unless really needed), then who recommended me to a physiatrist who insisted on letting me get on surgery. I told him I'll follow conservative care treatments - traction, which left me in a worse state than I was in (my hands were all numb and painful, aside from my back, and had me gasping for breath at certain times). Upon the suggestion of a friend I went to a chiro (who specializes in neck and back treatments - note that he doesn't claim he cures the world), and went into treatments (he did ask for my x-ray). Now, I am able to do pretty much everything that I wasn't everything to do - I still got about year before I should be able to get back to normal (he said no strenous stuff to allow for me to heal), but practically, almost all of the muscle spasms and pain and leg problems are gone. Moral of the story - don't go to chiros who promise the world.
Having made an ecommerce site from magento itself, I'd say that although it's way better than OSCommerce, it's slow, and very poorly documented. It is as if Varien wanted the poor documentation to happen so that you can hire them for helping set up your site. It is slow because it practically uses EAV for most of it's data. To fetch manually for example, an order, you'd have to parse through different tables to find out what that order exactly is. And the whole system is one big object extension of the Zend framework! Adding APC and memcache makes it work better and faster, but it is still slow. Also, the templating system is daunting, to say the least, for beginners. Also, one big peeve of mine is that it has limited order statuses - shipped, processing, complete, among others, and so far, I haven't found a way to add this reliably (although you can add it to a drop down box in the admin panel, what happens is that you cannot call it through a class) But once you get the hang on it (mostly, since looking at the huge amount of code without comments is very very overwhelming), it can be very flexible. So far, we've made a system to let it contact a fulfillment company for deliveries at the start of every day, and let the fulfillment company update us when those orders were delivered and shipped out. It mostly works too, and it's fairly automated, that we've just left it alone.
Don't get me wrong. I love linux - and I am on a 8.9" netbook running Ubuntu 8.10 (all the software are running well) - except for the fact that I CANNOT connect to my router in WPA secured mode. Until these issues get fixed - and the fact is that the ASUS eeepcs windows and linux versions here in my country have more or less the same price - people will choose the machine with Windows XP over linux. Btw, this machine is worth about $400 and comes with 120Gb, 1Gb RAM, Intel Atom N270 and Windows XP service Pack 3 - I'm just dual booting with Ubuntu here.
Sorry, I don't care if linux boots faster than windows vista. What I care about is whether or not linux has the tools and applications I need, and basically works out of the box. I've been wary of setting up my wireless on my laptop every time I try out a linux distro. X issues as well (letting me boot into a text screen because X failed to load a graphical screen). It are those little peeves that sometimes almost make me abandon linux on the desktop. Don't get me wrong. I'm been using linux for over almost a decade already (I'm still using linux for servers). But I've gotten a bit tired already of setting hardware up, looking at docs for tweaking linux to work on this particular hardware, etc. I can do this practically pretty quick in Windows or Mac (I have one) mind you, it's simple enough. But when you have to fiddle around doing a samba share or a printer in cups in linux, or have to tinker around with half-baked video/audio applications, I already have no more time for that, thank you.
Why not try out the Northtec Gecko UMPC? http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=5&ArticleID=554 I have bought a rebranded one here in the Philippines named the Deep Blue H1 UMPC It suits my needs very nicely (with my job, I need to bring practically my laptop almost anywhere to access linux servers on call). With 1Gb RAM and a 40Gb harddisk - it is basically priced the same as a eeePC 4G here. And I love the 4.5 hours battery life - works as advertised.
Hi there, As an Asian, I can tell you that Yahoo is big in Asia (at least in my country). Most people use yahoo messenger(msn, nope), and yahoo mail. So Microsoft buying out Yahoo would mean they would gain lots of users, not only in ym, but also groups. Also, the LUG which I am a member of is in Yahoo Groups (in fact many of the Open source groups in my country are in yahoo groups); in fact some support groups for open source projects are in Yahoo Groups (twinklephone, for example, which is an excellent SIP softphone). So to say that Yahoo isn't used anymore is simply wrong, and naive.
I like eclipse. It's plugin architecture is quite good, the code completion stuff great. The thing that really irks me though it's too bloated and slow. I have a laptop with 1.5Gb RAM and the truth of the matter is, eclipse sometimes hangs my laptop, or slows it down to a crawl, and there are instances where I run out of memory just editing a bunch of java classes which I made (after which I have to restart my computer because it seems to suck all resources even when it's closed). The thing needs optimization on this end. Other than that, it works great, even as a php editor.
For professional applications, in my case, thats dreamweaver and the macromedia studio suite.
:) - and it works pretty well in it too.
I've tried dreamweaver, plus a host of other freeware, opensource tools. Those who say that WYSIWYG editors are evil and text editors are better should better think twice before going into the web design arena - Dreamweaver's interface is very suited for whipping up webpages when you're in a deadline.
And don't get me started with nvu as a replacement. I tell you, it is more suited for quick html fixes than a replacement for dreamweaver (killer features are templates, code completion, real-time data preview, etc.).
I use tools which get the job done - and fast (in my line of work, this is necessary). But I'm also a linux geek, so I use Dreamweaver (MX version, not 2004, I heard it works for Dreameaver 8) in wine
Oh yes, I don't like gimp's interface - although I use it sometimes, I find fireworks faster in getting the job done in a few clicks (also running in wine)
Well, I do think the other projects that depend on it will just continue to move on using the older versions of BDB. Projects that use BDB are: Openoffice/Staroffice Apache OpenLDAP rpm Moveable Type Linux, BSDs, etc. and so on... In fact BDB is actually very integrated into distros and BSDs... As you can see, only a small part of MYSQL use BDB, In fact, I don't use BDB in my web apps.
I do use the linux version of epsxe. However: 1. The opengl plugin doesn't run in my distro (It crashes it), so I'm forced to use the software video plugin. Epsxe is more of a programming curiousity for me. Psx plugins in linux are unfortunately more unstable than their windows counterparts in this case. Microsoft has gotten their direct3d and directx api right in this rare instance. 2. Since I'm the application maintainer of dreamweaver mx in winehq, I test other windows programs in my spare time in wine as a hobby. This includes some of the more unknown windows programs, including emulators such as epsxe.
As for Visual Basic 6.0 (I have the Standard Edition), you can install and run it as you would in windows. I've had more experience however installing Macromedia Studio MX, and practically all work as expected, except for some display refresh quirks in Fireworks and Dreamweaver (however Fireworks has more refresh quirks). I have since rarely used windows more or less at home because of this, since I run these tools already in linux. As for the wine version I used... those tools have been tested in 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.9.5 and 0.9.6 Interestingly, emulation programs which use opengl run as fast or faster(!) than when using windows (epsxe - a psx emulator is an example).
Very correct. For those who think that Firefox is safe because Eolas said they won't hit opensource projects, think of this... Mozilla has already a corporate entity now, aside from the Mozilla Foundation. Who knows what they will think?
Well, gnome has some great features... but I was really agrieved when they removed the menu editor in an earlier release. I'm just glad its back.
Hmm... This reminds me of that Stargate SG-1 episode, where some aliens (can't remember), introduce age-longetivity in humans in the future, but in the process, destroy fertility rates of humans, thereby killing the whole human race in a generation.
Isn't it possible that by introducing longer ages for humans, we destroy ourselves?
Hmm... I noticed Andrew Tridgell as one of the wine developers in the picture. Isn't he the SAMBA guy who made that BK interoperability hack?
To tell you frankly... Two of my friends tried installing Solaris 10 on their hardware... Both went back to their linux distros. Why? 1. It's bloat. More than 4 cds is quite a huge download. 2. One of my friend has his resolution stuck in 640x480 mode, even when he changed the X settings. The other one even can't install the software due to hardware not supported. 3. The thing that has it going is that it is snappy, and fast. 4. Most of my admin friends (of big companies) are switching from solaris to redhat/debian variants. And I'm coming from a developing country. Moral lesson? Folks, if you want to try this baby, use it on supported hardware (which is quite small compared to linux).
I'm not an OS specific guy. I use whatever works for me. Tell you, I've tried OSX, Linux, and Windows. I use windows for Macromedia MX software (web design), Linux (slackware and derivative) for server programming, I've tried OSX (from my point of view, it's Gnomeish!) sometime in the past for imaging software. Using those things, I'm most comfortable in Linux and windows... Windows because they have the software I need for my work/job description (Macromedia works in wine, but it's a bit slow for my taste), and Linux for server purposes - I like cli. OSX distracts me - don't get me wrong... it looks nice, but the eye candy really does get to me.