Eh... Get a grip. RedHat doesn't own Gnome. They only employ a few of the developers. If you really think that everyone working on Gnome are RedHat employees, think again.
Besides, it usually takes a long time even for RPMs to shop up of the development series. These releases aren't for "ordinary" users.
And you won't get me to help start a new Gnome vs KDE flamewar. I'll leave it at saying that I've used Gnome development releases on my regular desktop since 0.22, and it has all the features that I want and need, and the few times I've used KDE, I haven't seen any features that have given me any reason to consider a switch. It's about taste, not about features or quality.
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One of the problems here is that GPL'ing a library doesn't just prevent use of it for proprietary apps, but for all apps under licenses not compatible with the GPL, which is essentially most licenses free and non-free alike.
I think what you'll see by going for the GPL for libraries too, is that you'll have multiple implementations of most interesting libraries - one GPL'd, and at least one under another license.
So what advantage would the free software world get? A lot of duplicated work, and less focus on filling new niches, while wealthy corporations easily can afford to buy third competing third party libraries to link their code against?
I don't want lots of apps linked against different libraries with the same functionality just because they're under different licenses.
Wired must have been there since long before '96... I remember reading the HotWired newsletter from issue #1, which coincided with the opening of their web site, I believe, and at that point I had e-mail only.
I guess that puts it before autumn '94 - I remember registering at Wired's website when I began at university autumn of '94. I don't remember what their interface looked like at that point, though.
It is interesting to see that in the last few decades, it has been increasingly touted that news sources should be impartial. It first affected newspapers with close afiliations with political parties, which in large numbers have claimed independence, and claimed being impartial.
It has spread out to all kinds of news sources.
But a news source is NEVER impartial.
It always to some extent reflect whatever the owners, and their appointed editors want it to. No matter how much they try to pretend they're impartial, what they do will always have a slant depending on their view of the world.
And claiming to be impartial just makes the bias harder to see. In that respect, claiming to be impartial does more harm than it does good: it make a lot of people swallow biased news because they aren't aware of the political or commercial afiliations of the news source.
If you want to look for an impartial news source, why don't you search for the fountain of youth while you're at it - you're just as likely to find either.
Solid state disks cab be bought from almost any self-respecting electronics manufacturer... They're typically delivered either as a single chip, or as a small unit with IDE interface. There's also lots of manufacturers of PCMCIA based solid state disks, up to about 300 MB I believe.
And most are non-volatile. Actually I can't remember seeing ads for anything but non-volatile solid state disks... After all, it's meant to replace a normal harddisk, not RAM.
Have you ever tried searching for scientific software? Then you'd know that there are huge amounts of Unix software out there written by scientists with a non-computer science background. For people with a long scientific career, you'll find a lot of Unix users, and a lot of Unix programmers.
Your whole argument is based on an assumption for which you have no foundation: That it is somehow a change of platform for the crew to use Unix or Linux. Do you know the crew? Do you KNOW what OSs they are most familiar with?
Preparing code for SMP in this regard is basically ensuring that the apps are multithreaded. That doesn't cause any problems for you even when running on a machine with just one CPU, so thats still not a reason not to prepare the applications to make use of SMP where sensible.
And the typical graphical web browser could certainly benefit from multithreading...
And how many customers have you lost because of your stupid protection? And how many customers never found out about your program, because they never saw a copy?
I know I routinely avoid all software that use copy protection schemes. I also know that I more than once have seen software because it pirated copies of it were widely available, and bought it as a result. It's been a few years, though, since I don't have a single commercial program on my Linux box:-)
Read the post he made to the GGI mailing list: He talks about a KGI driver, which would presumably let you run all GGI programs, all SVGALib programs (through SVGALib API for GGI - don't know what the status of that is currently, though), and X (through KGICON and the fbdev in Linux 2.2).
I just got a sudden urge to start reverse engineering a DVD driver... And luckily for me I live in a country where reverse engineering drivers to be able to interoperate with a product is a right that's protected by law... Hm:-)
Sm@rt Reseller has been fairly decent for a long time. They had a biased pro-Microsoft opinion article a while back about the Microsoft vs DOJ trial, and when I pointed it out, and wrote a rebuttal it took only a few hours before I got a really excited mail from the editor that wanted to print it...:) And I wasn't very nice to the guy who wrote the original article.
In the few cases where I've seen FUD filled articles there, it has been opinion pieces, clearly marked as such, and they have been quick to include articles representing the opposing view.
Imagine, actual journalism from a ZD publication:-)
First of all, as someone else already suggested, DON'T use a harddisk, use flash. It's expensive, but not more expensive than it will be if you go with a harddisk and have to exchange it regularly because of malfunction.
Using flash also goes a long way in solving other problems: a flashdisk draw a lot less power than a regular harddisk, and thus also generate less heat.
Take a look at Jumptec's pages, too. They're the ones that produce the DIMM PC that was features on Slashdot some days ago (world smallest web server). They produce a whole range of PC's intended for industrial use.
Wrong. You can open US bank accounts anywhere. Some banks are difficult, though. For example Bank Of America... I'm from Norway, and sure, I could open an account with them withouth any SSN or other nonsense - if I would just visit any of their branch offices in the US. Yeah, right, as if I'd use $2000+ to visit the US just to open an account with them.
Chase Manhattan were much friendlier, though. After I mailed them, they called me to discuss what kind of account I wanted, gave me a contact person and mailed me an account opening kit to let me open an account by mail.
The only real prerequisite for a foreigner to open an account with a US bank (except for US banks being extremely paranoid, and having lots of stupid nonsensical policies) is to fill out an W-8 form if you're a non-resident (if you spend more than 30 days in the US during a year, you may need additional forms for documentation to the IRS, usually Form 1001).
If you're a US resident, but not a citizen, you can still fill out a W-9, but then you have to apply for a TIN, by filling out Form SS-5 (Application for a Social Security Number Card)
You may have to fill out forms SS-5 and/or W-9 even if you're a "non-resident alien individual" (as defined by the IRS), if you do business in the US, though.
The US tax and banking system is one of the most buerocratical I've ever seen, though... I've never been anywhere where it has been so difficult to get banking services done without having an account with the bank you go to.
Luckily, most of Europe have laws that are designed to stop things like that. In most European countries there are very strict rules about what data you can keep about a person, and many countries also have laws that make anyone that want to keep records about persons to submit an application with a detailed description of what information they will keep and why.
In Norway, for instance, the law says you have to file an application regardless of what information you want to keep. Then they've given a few exception, such as for registers of members in an organization, and customer registers etc., but only very limited information. And there's really strict rules about what information you can sell or exchange - only about 90 companies have licenses to broker information, and most of them only name, address and phone number.
And anyone who use the information, have to state clearly where they obtained it in any correspondence with you, and can only use it once or twice unless you initiate a customer relationship (order something from them, for instance). That way you can track down who sells info about you.
You also have the right to demand to be deleted from any register that haven't specifically been given a right to keep info against your will (police records etc.).
If you recall, there's a controversy between the EU and the US going on because most of Europe has a lot stronger laws for protecting personal information than USA, and a new EU directive forbid EU based companies to export personal information to any country without as strict or stricter regulations...
Maybe it's time US consumers demand some protection?
How do you know? Considering Corel was one of the best performers on both TSE and NASDAQ last year (THE best on TSE). And that is even including a rapid decline early last year - all of the gain they had came from september and out.
Corel stock is also doing great now... So why not cash in on both in one sweep? I'll be buying Corel stock too... They're finally starting to make money again.
Corel stocks is now higher than they've been since October 1997... With a sharp rise since september last year. I really wish I had money to buy Corel stocks the last time Corel stock prices were discussed on Slashdot... I remember how people ridiculed Corel, and adviced against buying Corel shares. Only a few of us believed they'd rise. Now Corel shares are worth almost 5 times as much as they did last September...
At least it shows that Corel management know a hell of a lot more about what they're doing than most of the people whining about Corel on Slashdot...
Uhm... Corel has had a hardware division for years and years... Corel Computer used to design SCSI solutions, but ASFAIK it was entirely geared towards OEMs - not end users, so I don't think any of their solution were sold under the Corel brand.
Exactly what prevent you from installing KDE rpms even if it's not included by default?
And as for Gnome vs KDE, it's no problems getting Gnome to look as "clean and sleek" as KDE if that's what you want. Personally I think that's boring. I run a fairly clean look, and I just love the draggable screen functionality in Enlightenment, and the look of themed GTK...
As for functionality and stability, the only piece of Gnome (0.99.1) I've had problems with is gmc (the Gnome frontend for Midnight Commander) - but I've not enjoyed using a GUI file manager since the Amiga Workbench and Disk Manager II anyways;).. Even though TkDesk gets close for a Disk Manager replacement.
Hmm... That's a first:-) Not that I don't think that the cooperation between RedHat and Corel is great - it is. But RedHat is still dwarfed by Corel, so it is a bit funny to see someone talking about Corel being backed by RedHat, instead of the other way around.
From full steam ahead to nothing may be unrealistic... But look at what happened to IBM in about 20 years:
They went from totally dominating the entire computer industry, to be smaller than a startup run by a college dropout...
And with Netscape in 3-4 years: Going from being the fastest growing software company ever, to becoming a struggling software/services/portal company worth a fraction of what it was worth after their IPO.
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Besides, it usually takes a long time even for RPMs to shop up of the development series. These releases aren't for "ordinary" users.
And you won't get me to help start a new Gnome vs KDE flamewar. I'll leave it at saying that I've used Gnome development releases on my regular desktop since 0.22, and it has all the features that I want and need, and the few times I've used KDE, I haven't seen any features that have given me any reason to consider a switch. It's about taste, not about features or quality.
I think what you'll see by going for the GPL for libraries too, is that you'll have multiple implementations of most interesting libraries - one GPL'd, and at least one under another license.
So what advantage would the free software world get? A lot of duplicated work, and less focus on filling new niches, while wealthy corporations easily can afford to buy third competing third party libraries to link their code against?
I don't want lots of apps linked against different libraries with the same functionality just because they're under different licenses.
I guess that puts it before autumn '94 - I remember registering at Wired's website when I began at university autumn of '94. I don't remember what their interface looked like at that point, though.
And why should they be impartial?
It is interesting to see that in the last few decades, it has been increasingly touted that news sources should be impartial. It first affected newspapers with close afiliations with political parties, which in large numbers have claimed independence, and claimed being impartial.
It has spread out to all kinds of news sources.
But a news source is NEVER impartial.
It always to some extent reflect whatever the owners, and their appointed editors want it to. No matter how much they try to pretend they're impartial, what they do will always have a slant depending on their view of the world.
And claiming to be impartial just makes the bias harder to see. In that respect, claiming to be impartial does more harm than it does good: it make a lot of people swallow biased news because they aren't aware of the political or commercial afiliations of the news source.
If you want to look for an impartial news source, why don't you search for the fountain of youth while you're at it - you're just as likely to find either.
Yeah, everyone release 3d systems... But this is the first version I've seen where you don't wear glasses.
And most are non-volatile. Actually I can't remember seeing ads for anything but non-volatile solid state disks... After all, it's meant to replace a normal harddisk, not RAM.
Have you ever tried searching for scientific software? Then you'd know that there are huge amounts of Unix software out there written by scientists with a non-computer science background. For people with a long scientific career, you'll find a lot of Unix users, and a lot of Unix programmers.
Your whole argument is based on an assumption for which you have no foundation: That it is somehow a change of platform for the crew to use Unix or Linux. Do you know the crew? Do you KNOW what OSs they are most familiar with?
And the typical graphical web browser could certainly benefit from multithreading...
I know I routinely avoid all software that use copy protection schemes. I also know that I more than once have seen software because it pirated copies of it were widely available, and bought it as a result. It's been a few years, though, since I don't have a single commercial program on my Linux box :-)
In addition he mentioned OpenGL support
I just got a sudden urge to start reverse engineering a DVD driver... And luckily for me I live in a country where reverse engineering drivers to be able to interoperate with a product is a right that's protected by law... Hm :-)
In the few cases where I've seen FUD filled articles there, it has been opinion pieces, clearly marked as such, and they have been quick to include articles representing the opposing view.
Imagine, actual journalism from a ZD publication :-)
Using flash also goes a long way in solving other problems: a flashdisk draw a lot less power than a regular harddisk, and thus also generate less heat.
Take a look at Jumptec's pages, too. They're the ones that produce the DIMM PC that was features on Slashdot some days ago (world smallest web server). They produce a whole range of PC's intended for industrial use.
It has a flash disk on board. It has 16MB of storage.
Chase Manhattan were much friendlier, though. After I mailed them, they called me to discuss what kind of account I wanted, gave me a contact person and mailed me an account opening kit to let me open an account by mail.
The only real prerequisite for a foreigner to open an account with a US bank (except for US banks being extremely paranoid, and having lots of stupid nonsensical policies) is to fill out an W-8 form if you're a non-resident (if you spend more than 30 days in the US during a year, you may need additional forms for documentation to the IRS, usually Form 1001).
If you're a US resident, but not a citizen, you can still fill out a W-9, but then you have to apply for a TIN, by filling out Form SS-5 (Application for a Social Security Number Card)
You may have to fill out forms SS-5 and/or W-9 even if you're a "non-resident alien individual" (as defined by the IRS), if you do business in the US, though.
The US tax and banking system is one of the most buerocratical I've ever seen, though... I've never been anywhere where it has been so difficult to get banking services done without having an account with the bank you go to.
And they seem obsessed with forms :-)
In Norway, for instance, the law says you have to file an application regardless of what information you want to keep. Then they've given a few exception, such as for registers of members in an organization, and customer registers etc., but only very limited information. And there's really strict rules about what information you can sell or exchange - only about 90 companies have licenses to broker information, and most of them only name, address and phone number.
And anyone who use the information, have to state clearly where they obtained it in any correspondence with you, and can only use it once or twice unless you initiate a customer relationship (order something from them, for instance). That way you can track down who sells info about you.
You also have the right to demand to be deleted from any register that haven't specifically been given a right to keep info against your will (police records etc.).
If you recall, there's a controversy between the EU and the US going on because most of Europe has a lot stronger laws for protecting personal information than USA, and a new EU directive forbid EU based companies to export personal information to any country without as strict or stricter regulations...
Maybe it's time US consumers demand some protection?
How do you know? Considering Corel was one of the best performers on both TSE and NASDAQ last year (THE best on TSE). And that is even including a rapid decline early last year - all of the gain they had came from september and out.
Damn you :-) Well.. I'll buy some Corel stock real soon now(tm)... Just waiting one some of my consulting fees to come in :)
Corel stock is also doing great now... So why not cash in on both in one sweep? I'll be buying Corel stock too... They're finally starting to make money again.
At least it shows that Corel management know a hell of a lot more about what they're doing than most of the people whining about Corel on Slashdot...
Uhm... Corel has had a hardware division for years and years... Corel Computer used to design SCSI solutions, but ASFAIK it was entirely geared towards OEMs - not end users, so I don't think any of their solution were sold under the Corel brand.
And as for Gnome vs KDE, it's no problems getting Gnome to look as "clean and sleek" as KDE if that's what you want. Personally I think that's boring. I run a fairly clean look, and I just love the draggable screen functionality in Enlightenment, and the look of themed GTK...
As for functionality and stability, the only piece of Gnome (0.99.1) I've had problems with is gmc (the Gnome frontend for Midnight Commander) - but I've not enjoyed using a GUI file manager since the Amiga Workbench and Disk Manager II anyways ;).. Even though TkDesk gets close for a Disk Manager replacement.
Hmm... That's a first :-) Not that I don't think that the cooperation between RedHat and Corel is great - it is. But RedHat is still dwarfed by Corel, so it is a bit funny to see someone talking about Corel being backed by RedHat, instead of the other way around.
They went from totally dominating the entire computer industry, to be smaller than a startup run by a college dropout...
And with Netscape in 3-4 years: Going from being the fastest growing software company ever, to becoming a struggling software/services/portal company worth a fraction of what it was worth after their IPO.