Yeah and a quickly made patch generally is a bad patch, some kind of a hack that doesn't really fix the cause of the problem.
That said, I don't know for that particular case, I just say that in general (and this rule has been proved right many many times for Micorsoft products).
"The internet will soon go spectaculary supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse" He promised to "eat his words" if he was wrong So, in early 1997, at a technical conference he ate (from "Computer Networks" by Tanenbaum)
anyway, my problem is that amsn has crashed a lot on me. the tcl/tk has had issues with 2.6.x kernel line and tended to deadlock after some point. amsn ran fine with 2.4.x kernel line, but since 2.6.x came along it has been rather unstable and thats why i use gaim right now.
I had the same problem. Reverting Tcl from version 8.4 to version 8.3 solved it. It's written somewhere but I don't remember where...
Hmmm right. Audio CDs can only do stereo 2 channels, whereas SACD can do 7.1. That's the argument my father always says to me when I tells him SACD doesn't have a bright future compared to the traditional CD (he owns a SACD player). I don't agree with that argument. I think 5.1 or 7.1 will seduce audiophiles, the kind of people that like to sit in an armchair and listen to music. Those people will likely be seduced by the superior audio quality SACD offers. Note that the early SACD players were 2 channels stereo only (dunno about DVD-AUDIO players).
But the average Joe isn't an audiophile, he only puts the CD in a low-end hifi or in a radio-CD player or in his car and listen to the music while doing something else. So he won't even notice the superior audio quality, which needs to concentrate a lot on to be noticed IMHO. If he's listening to an SACD while working, he won't notice the [5|7].1 either.
Does it really matter... these companies are in the business of making money; if Open Document projects become unpopular and can nolonger be used for attracting clients, profit and political footing, the idea will be dumped like DEC's PDP-2.
That's why I said *can* and not will. For OpenDocument format to become popular, it will IMHO also need government support. The best thing government could do is force Microsoft to adopt OpenDocument support for Office.
Sun support, Novell support, Google and many many less-known software vendors supports. Now you can add IBM support and see that Open Document can become a huge success.
You can read OpenOffice.org developpers' blog to see many simillar stories of companies or organizations adopting opendocument standard.
This is an audio CD but It's not a CD-audio though, this is just a CD-ROM with DRM'ed audio data on it. This means if I've understood correctly that you cannot even play this CD in your hifi, only on your computer, and only if it's running Windows.
And i also don't understand, to quote you, "Why anyone would purchase a CD under those terms to begin with ?". A possible reason is "by mistake". People aren't careful enough and then buy those copy protected "audio-CDs", then later complain the CD doesn't play correctly on their car CD player, if it plays at all.
I have also been tricked into buying copy protected CDs, not much but still too much. Now when I consider buying a CD, I'm very careful not to buy that crap. If everybody does the same, majors will see immediately the impact of DRM on their sales and stop using it. It has worked for me. I was buying every releases of "Solid Sounds", a belgian techno compilation. I stopped buying thoses CD when they introduced a copy protection mechaninsm. I suppose I wasn't the only one to do that because later they stopped protecting their CDs.
I know, I'm going slightly off-topic here but this kind of attitude from big companies that earn way too much money really disgusts me.
To bring it back to the topic, with the money saved on MS Office licenses, MA could easily hire a temp whose job it was to do nothing but open OpenDocument docs in OO and resave them in a Word format for the blind workers.
Or better IMHO, with the money saved on MS Office licenses, MA could easily hire a programmer who could work on improving accessibility on OOo. It would serve the whole community.
What's wrong with that ? MySQL A.B. is just a company that hires programmers who need to be payed at the end of the month. Why shouldn't it accept the job for the beauty of "OSS as development paradigm" ?
When asked whether his findings explain why CmdrTaco taked it up the ass, Dr. Sharkey paused and replied: "It does not explain the effects of smoked or inhaled or ingested substances."
Not sure about ubuntu, but I'm pretty sure you don't need a new install given that ubuntu is based on Debian SID. You know, when I first installed Sid, packages were compiled with gcc 2.95. Then Debian team changed their default compiler to gcc 3.2 then 3.3 then 4.0. I've never had to reinstall Debian at all, just apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. I've been using sid for more than three years now.
Maybe XP came six years ago, but don't forget that XP SP2 considerably slowed down the speed of windows, and SP2 is not that old (wasn't it released after the latest Xorg 6.8.2 ?)
I don't know Ubuntu very much since I've been using Debian as my main OS for more than three years and never felt like switching. Anyway, if you want to try openoffice.org2 from experimental (I assume that should also work with Ubuntu, but not at all sure of that) :
Maybe the only wrong part of this article is SuSE Linux. Why SuSE only ?
After all, linux is becoming more and more a viable alternative to Windows, which IMHO was not the case when XP got released. More and more companies (Intel for the kernel, IBM in various parts, Apple in KDE, Sun for OOo) are contributing code to the community.
I myself plan not to try to get this new ressource wasting operating system, that will add nothing (WinFS, Monad, where are you ?...) more that windows 2000 already does.
But yes I love new things, that's why Debian unstable/sid is my primary OS. It gets updated daily, it still runs very smoothly on my four-year-old athlon 900Mhz.
Windows Vista will only feed the need of buying a new PC. The reason might be that no one at Microsoft seem to care of writing optimized code (``Everybody will get a faster PC by the time anyway...'').
I often read various blogs (XOrg, Qt for example), where I can see that many developpers work on making their softwares faster on current hardware.
You know, if everybody was honnest, SSL wouldn't exist, as no one would use your credit card number to do unauthorized things, you could leave your car's or your house's doors open all the time as no one would enter it if not allowed to.
People who create worms are not obliged to be sick or jerks or whatever. Most people create 'em because they find it is fun to do. People who are not computer illetrates usually know how to avoid being infected by those worms, and people who aren't... Well they shouldn't use Windows, rather an operating system. Windows has never been designed to be used over a network !
It's just a beta product. All flaws are not fixed yet.
I suppose you all remember when Whistler (codename for windows XP) came out, it was full of bugs and security holes. This is normal, it's a beta. Now we all know that Windows XP is stable and secure as hell *cough cough*
Well this is just my opinion, but I think this new mouse is not unrelated to recent Apple decision to move to Intel. If the new Mac are able to run Windows, they *have* to support at least a 2-button-plus-wheel-mouse.
If I had mod points I'd mod you up because I agree with you. Gates is probably the man who says the most bullshits a day, but you know he is rich he has somewhat the power. He is admired by a lot of people; most of them don't read Slashdot, but some do...
And what is more, M$ bashing is one of the favourite subjects here. So lots of people will click on the story so Slashdot team will earn money from ad revenues. It's all about money in this world...
I've used smoothwall for a while and I was very satisfied with it. But at some moment, it stopped working. The ADSL connection couldn't be established anymore.
While I think it was rather a hard disk crash and not a direct smoothwall problem, it made me feel like replacing my smoothwall with ipcop, another firewall dedicated linux distro (forked from smoothwall).
I'm very happy with ipcop at the moment, it's a bit more "customizable" than smoothwall. I know both are GPL'ed so they can both be customized to fit any purpose, but as ipcop is a 100% community-based distro, it is a bit more designed to be tweaked than smoothwall.
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Yeah and a quickly made patch generally is a bad patch, some kind of a hack that doesn't really fix the cause of the problem.
That said, I don't know for that particular case, I just say that in general (and this rule has been proved right many many times for Micorsoft products).
"The internet will soon go spectaculary supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse"
He promised to "eat his words" if he was wrong
So, in early 1997, at a technical conference he ate
(from "Computer Networks" by Tanenbaum)
anyway, my problem is that amsn has crashed a lot on me. the tcl/tk has had issues with 2.6.x kernel line and tended to deadlock after some point. amsn ran fine with 2.4.x kernel line, but since 2.6.x came along it has been rather unstable and thats why i use gaim right now.
I had the same problem. Reverting Tcl from version 8.4 to version 8.3 solved it. It's written somewhere but I don't remember where ...
Hmmm right. Audio CDs can only do stereo 2 channels, whereas SACD can do 7.1. That's the argument my father always says to me when I tells him SACD doesn't have a bright future compared to the traditional CD (he owns a SACD player). I don't agree with that argument. I think 5.1 or 7.1 will seduce audiophiles, the kind of people that like to sit in an armchair and listen to music. Those people will likely be seduced by the superior audio quality SACD offers. Note that the early SACD players were 2 channels stereo only (dunno about DVD-AUDIO players).
But the average Joe isn't an audiophile, he only puts the CD in a low-end hifi or in a radio-CD player or in his car and listen to the music while doing something else. So he won't even notice the superior audio quality, which needs to concentrate a lot on to be noticed IMHO. If he's listening to an SACD while working, he won't notice the [5|7].1 either.
Does it really matter... these companies are in the business of making money; if Open Document projects become unpopular and can nolonger be used for attracting clients, profit and political footing, the idea will be dumped like DEC's PDP-2.
That's why I said *can* and not will. For OpenDocument format to become popular, it will IMHO also need government support. The best thing government could do is force Microsoft to adopt OpenDocument support for Office.
GP should check his spelling. Ahhh the famous first-post race :)
Sun support, Novell support, Google and many many less-known software vendors supports. Now you can add IBM support and see that Open Document can become a huge success.
You can read OpenOffice.org developpers' blog to see many simillar stories of companies or organizations adopting opendocument standard.
This is an audio CD but It's not a CD-audio though, this is just a CD-ROM with DRM'ed audio data on it. This means if I've understood correctly that you cannot even play this CD in your hifi, only on your computer, and only if it's running Windows.
And i also don't understand, to quote you, "Why anyone would purchase a CD under those terms to begin with ?". A possible reason is "by mistake". People aren't careful enough and then buy those copy protected "audio-CDs", then later complain the CD doesn't play correctly on their car CD player, if it plays at all.
I have also been tricked into buying copy protected CDs, not much but still too much. Now when I consider buying a CD, I'm very careful not to buy that crap. If everybody does the same, majors will see immediately the impact of DRM on their sales and stop using it. It has worked for me. I was buying every releases of "Solid Sounds", a belgian techno compilation. I stopped buying thoses CD when they introduced a copy protection mechaninsm. I suppose I wasn't the only one to do that because later they stopped protecting their CDs.
I know, I'm going slightly off-topic here but this kind of attitude from big companies that earn way too much money really disgusts me.
How does that differ from ipw2200 drivers ?
BTW, here's a coral link for the kernel changelog.
To bring it back to the topic, with the money saved on MS Office licenses, MA could easily hire a temp whose job it was to do nothing but open OpenDocument docs in OO and resave them in a Word format for the blind workers.
Or better IMHO, with the money saved on MS Office licenses, MA could easily hire a programmer who could work on improving accessibility on OOo. It would serve the whole community.
What's wrong with that ? MySQL A.B. is just a company that hires programmers who need to be payed at the end of the month. Why shouldn't it accept the job for the beauty of "OSS as development paradigm" ?
Parent is right, GP is a troll. Last sentance is :
When asked whether his findings explain why CmdrTaco taked it up the ass, Dr. Sharkey paused and replied: "It does not explain the effects of smoked or inhaled or ingested substances."
Not sure about ubuntu, but I'm pretty sure you don't need a new install given that ubuntu is based on Debian SID. You know, when I first installed Sid, packages were compiled with gcc 2.95. Then Debian team changed their default compiler to gcc 3.2 then 3.3 then 4.0. I've never had to reinstall Debian at all, just apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. I've been using sid for more than three years now.
Maybe XP came six years ago, but don't forget that XP SP2 considerably slowed down the speed of windows, and SP2 is not that old (wasn't it released after the latest Xorg 6.8.2 ?)
Companies will keep their installed versions of Office and won't even care of upgrading to Office 12 ?
I don't know Ubuntu very much since I've been using Debian as my main OS for more than three years and never felt like switching. Anyway, if you want to try openoffice.org2 from experimental (I assume that should also work with Ubuntu, but not at all sure of that) :
Add to your /etc/apt/sources.list :
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ ../project/experimental main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ ../project/experimental main contrib non-free
Then apt-get -t experimental install openoffice.org2 should do the trick
Check http://packages.debian.org/experimental/editors/op enoffice.org2 for more infos
I'm using debian unstable (sid) and OOo2 packages from experimental. While I still find loading time a bit slow, it's still faster than OOo 1.1 IMHO.
Maybe the only wrong part of this article is SuSE Linux. Why SuSE only ?
After all, linux is becoming more and more a viable alternative to Windows, which IMHO was not the case when XP got released. More and more companies (Intel for the kernel, IBM in various parts, Apple in KDE, Sun for OOo) are contributing code to the community.
I myself plan not to try to get this new ressource wasting operating system, that will add nothing (WinFS, Monad, where are you ? ...) more that windows 2000 already does.
But yes I love new things, that's why Debian unstable/sid is my primary OS. It gets updated daily, it still runs very smoothly on my four-year-old athlon 900Mhz.
Windows Vista will only feed the need of buying a new PC. The reason might be that no one at Microsoft seem to care of writing optimized code (``Everybody will get a faster PC by the time anyway...'').
I often read various blogs (XOrg, Qt for example), where I can see that many developpers work on making their softwares faster on current hardware.
You know, if everybody was honnest, SSL wouldn't exist, as no one would use your credit card number to do unauthorized things, you could leave your car's or your house's doors open all the time as no one would enter it if not allowed to.
People who create worms are not obliged to be sick or jerks or whatever. Most people create 'em because they find it is fun to do. People who are not computer illetrates usually know how to avoid being infected by those worms, and people who aren't ... Well they shouldn't use Windows, rather an operating system. Windows has never been designed to be used over a network !
It's just a beta product. All flaws are not fixed yet.
I suppose you all remember when Whistler (codename for windows XP) came out, it was full of bugs and security holes. This is normal, it's a beta. Now we all know that Windows XP is stable and secure as hell *cough cough*
Well this is just my opinion, but I think this new mouse is not unrelated to recent Apple decision to move to Intel. If the new Mac are able to run Windows, they *have* to support at least a 2-button-plus-wheel-mouse.
If I had mod points I'd mod you up because I agree with you. Gates is probably the man who says the most bullshits a day, but you know he is rich he has somewhat the power. He is admired by a lot of people; most of them don't read Slashdot, but some do ...
And what is more, M$ bashing is one of the favourite subjects here. So lots of people will click on the story so Slashdot team will earn money from ad revenues. It's all about money in this world ...
Just my 2 cents
I've used smoothwall for a while and I was very satisfied with it. But at some moment, it stopped working. The ADSL connection couldn't be established anymore.
While I think it was rather a hard disk crash and not a direct smoothwall problem, it made me feel like replacing my smoothwall with ipcop, another firewall dedicated linux distro (forked from smoothwall).
I'm very happy with ipcop at the moment, it's a bit more "customizable" than smoothwall. I know both are GPL'ed so they can both be customized to fit any purpose, but as ipcop is a 100% community-based distro, it is a bit more designed to be tweaked than smoothwall.
Check out IPCOP site
Unix/Linux has decided to cut virus support.