It's just not worth it ti wait 2 minutes or longer for this huge bloated StarOffice Suite to start up, just to read/edit a simple.doc. Abiword comes up like nothing and reads most of the.docs without a problem. I like that.
I want to be the first to pedantically point out that this is not going to be a compiler, but rather a Develpment Environment, or, as Borland puts it, a "Rapid Application Development (RAD) development tool".
The RedHat installation as far as I can tell is not that different from any other menu based installation. And their addition of Disk Druid might be a step up from fdisk (depending on who you talk to) but really isn't all that different from cfdisk.
Just today I installed Mandrake 7.0 for the first time on a system at work. It has a kick-ass graphical installer, IMHO. The partitions-tool is really helpful, I think, if you click on "auto-configure" (or something along the line), it "suggests" partition-sizes, which you can then, of course, change to your liking. You can go back and forth in the installation menu as you like, and I personally even like the colors.;-) Now I don't know in how far this graphical installer is related to the rpm-package-system, but it was the easiest install I ever did. And please consider that it was a dual boot with WinNT (though I already had two sufficiently sizes partitions and just had to move some stuff around), and I was done installing the entire system in 45 minutes. Go Mandrake!:)
Also, it's probably worth noting that on Offspring's home page, they are selling Napster shirts and caps for $10 each and stickers for $1. If they're even making a profit on this stuff (which I doubt 'cos that's pretty cheap for a shirt), it's sure as heck isn't a lot.
Do you know what it costs to produce a T-Shirt? I'd say they *do* make profit with this...
How are they gonna give each person an individual username? They gotta be awkward, and probably be revealing lots of personal information (ie firstnamelastname+anything that identifies them in a different way)... There are approximately 3,800,000 people living in Costa Rica after all...
Well, I don't know for a fact, but I'm sure that every girl of age 16 can get breast-implants if the parents agree and the the doctor sees no risk for the girls health.
Of course, every girl of pretty much any age has a right to *breast-reduction* if she has health-problems due to the weight of her jugs, but I guess that's not the case here, hmm?;-)
I certainly support girls getting implants if it makes them happy...
I played around with KDevelop 1.1 and had somegood experiences. But I also had one *very* frustrating experience: I set up a widget using the widget-editor (or whatever i's called) and added a few components. Lateron I decided to add more and just did it by hand. Then I started coding some function - unfortunately I was stupid enough to add all those functions into the widget_data file. I know, stupid. Shouldn't have done it. But anyway, so later I have about 5000 lines of code (again, I _know_ it was stupid to put everything in one file - but I'm still learning), and I want to check out the widgets again and open the wdiget-editor. I don't make any changes. But when I close the editor, it overrides the changes I made by hand earlier and overrides the file widget_data. All my code is lost. I'm pissed. I posted this story into a NG and was (of coruse) laughed at for putting all the code into one file, but alsosomebody from the Kdevelop-team mentioned that this was behaviour was pointed out somewhere. But IMHO it needs to be pointed out more clearly.
Another feature I'm *really* missing is automatic bracket-checking, as I'm used to from emacs or vim. In Kdevelop you can enable "auto brackets" or something like that, but this just creates the closing bracket whenever you open one. What I want is *checking* - so that it verifies if the bracket is in place and which one it closes.
Also, I wish the indention would work as in xemacs, automatically verifying where it's supposed to indent to - this way you can find lots of parsing-errors.
What I really like about Kdevelop is the creation of makefiles and configure scripts. Since I'm new to programming KDE/Qt, and am not too makefile-savvy, I really appreciate this.
I'm not sure if they work 100%, though. I tried to port my (incomplete) app to another machine that has KDE and Qt libraries installed, and the configure script creates a Makefile, but with the wrong includes (ie the include paths as they are on my local machine).
Anyway, I just downloaded and installed Kdevelop 1.2 and I can't really tell a big difference after fiddling around for 10 minutes. It nicely detected my last opened project and all looks just like the 1.1 version.
All in all, I think it's a great product, which could be improved with the, IMHO, essential features mentioned above.
Thanks. But I'm confused: The Layer-tags that I use should not confuse the browser, if it can handle the examples on http://www.dynamicdrive.com/. I fact, I use this one mouse-trailor script that I found somewhere else, but now I found out that it's also on dynamicdrive.com. If you say that konquerer can handle the scripts on dynamicdrive.com, then I don't know why it wouldn't be able to handle mine...
If you see the page in NS or IE (>4.0) and view the source, you see that both versions handle the layers well...
In this context we should mention h2g2.com - which aims to be the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, "Earth Edition". Personally, I don't think it's too good. People are desperately trying to be funny (even though they're specifically told not to).
Well, I guess the "bgproperties="fixed"" confused Konquerer. That's this one thing I really like about IE - you can specify the background to be fixed, so that it doesn't scroll with the foreground. I always thought that this one feature from IE should be included in NS (or Mozilla or other browsers) - just so you have the option...
Anyway, I changed a few things on the netmeister.org and would appreciate it if somebody could check the page with Konquerer (I'm not at home so I can't install it and check it myself).
Thanks for the effort. I will try to make it better. But the validator gave me a weird error:
Line 398, column 369: ... images/planet_on.gif" height="19" width="22" name="left_link1" border=... Error: there is no attribute "NAME"
This is an image. Why does it complain about this one image and not about the others (all of them have names - which, AFAIK, is a valid attribute for an image)?
How does Konquerer handle layers and DHTML? It says that it supports JavaScript standards, but how does it display pages that rely heavily on DHTML (like my own (http://www.netmeister.org) or anything from http://www.dynamicdrive.com/)?
I second that. I just got my domainname from joker.com and since they are so cheap, I actually let them do DNS, too. Domain+Primary DNS+Secondary DNS = $24
If so, there's an ariticel on heise.de about this. It also mentions that Miriamax makes Internet Explorer 5.0 and Media Player 6.4 the minimum requirements... I wonder how long it'd take the Linux-community to find a workaround.
yeah - I fooled around with gnut for a while. it's not bad. But in this case I do like having a gui, but I gotta check again, if you say that they have a gtk-interface... Thanks for the update.
Just wanted to point out that Gnotella 0.1 ( Gnutella Unix clone) is out. (I mirrored the tar.gz, since I couldn't find it on the webpage anymore) Or you can, of course, use web-based gnutella-searches like this to search for your strawberry-rhubarb pie recipes.
That rocks! I'm glad to hear that there will be (yet) another StarTrek, I'm sure it's gonna be good (after the initial 10 episodes or so). Only thing I'm concerned about is the look fo the starships - the old one's looked crappy compared to the new slick ones, but they can hardly show stylish starships if this is supposed to be earlier than Next Generation... Also, will Seven of Nine appear? Please? I know the story-line would not allow it, but who ever followed the laws of physics and logis in ST anyway. So please, put Seven of Nine in this show as well.:)
I've gotta come to the defence of Guiness here;) It's not beer, it's Stout,...
Stout (und thus Guinness) IS a beer. Compare http://beerhunter.com/beerstyles.html. Of course, the guinness, served here in the US does differentiate in taste from the original guinness quite a lot, I've been told. I don't know about guinness, but Beck's (also a beer, though a Pilsener) for example DOES taste quite different in the US than it does in Germany.
Unfortunately for me, the americans seem to prefer ale and lager (both beer's as well) to Pilsener, so that beck's had to adjust their beer to the american market. Heineken is ok over here, not much better or worse than in the Netherlands and probably the best Pilsener you can get in the US is Pilsener Urquell.
I find it importantto mention that the *original* Budweiser, a czech Pilsener, is a _delicous_ beer, while the beer commonly known under the name "Budweiser" is HORSEPISS!
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Amen!
.doc. Abiword comes up like nothing and reads most of the .docs without a problem. I like that.
It's just not worth it ti wait 2 minutes or longer for this huge bloated StarOffice Suite to start up, just to read/edit a simple
-Jan
I want to be the first to pedantically point out that this is not going to be a compiler, but rather a Develpment Environment, or, as Borland puts it, a "Rapid Application Development (RAD) development tool".
-Jan
The RedHat installation as far as I can tell is not that different from any other menu based installation. And their addition of Disk Druid might be a step up from fdisk (depending on who you talk to) but really isn't all that different from cfdisk.
;-) :)
Just today I installed Mandrake 7.0 for the first time on a system at work. It has a kick-ass graphical installer, IMHO. The partitions-tool is really helpful, I think, if you click on "auto-configure" (or something along the line), it "suggests" partition-sizes, which you can then, of course, change to your liking. You can go back and forth in the installation menu as you like, and I personally even like the colors.
Now I don't know in how far this graphical installer is related to the rpm-package-system, but it was the easiest install I ever did. And please consider that it was a dual boot with WinNT (though I already had two sufficiently sizes partitions and just had to move some stuff around), and I was done installing the entire system in 45 minutes. Go Mandrake!
-Jan
Also, it's probably worth noting that on Offspring's home page, they are selling Napster shirts and caps for $10 each and stickers for $1. If they're even making a profit on this stuff (which I doubt 'cos that's pretty cheap for a shirt), it's sure as heck isn't a lot.
Do you know what it costs to produce a T-Shirt? I'd say they *do* make profit with this...
-Jan
How are they gonna give each person an individual username? They gotta be awkward, and probably be revealing lots of personal information (ie firstnamelastname+anything that identifies them in a different way)...
There are approximately 3,800,000 people living in Costa Rica after all...
Well, I don't know for a fact, but I'm sure that every girl of age 16 can get breast-implants if the parents agree and the the doctor sees no risk for the girls health.
;-)
Of course, every girl of pretty much any age has a right to *breast-reduction* if she has health-problems due to the weight of her jugs, but I guess that's not the case here, hmm?
I certainly support girls getting implants if it makes them happy...
-Jan
Yep, indeed. How smart to come up with this. And so shortly after they invented the symbolic links (remember?)!!
Could somebody help me - I forgot the details: Didn't Al Gore also work for M$ when he invented the Internet?
Oh, and what about the wheel? I hope everybody's paying M$ for that, too.
Say, does anybody know if anybody actually holds a patent on the wheel?
-Jan
I played around with KDevelop 1.1 and had somegood experiences. But I also had one *very* frustrating experience:
I set up a widget using the widget-editor (or whatever i's called) and added a few components. Lateron I decided to add more and just did it by hand. Then I started coding some function - unfortunately I was stupid enough to add all those functions into the widget_data file. I know, stupid. Shouldn't have done it.
But anyway, so later I have about 5000 lines of code (again, I _know_ it was stupid to put everything in one file - but I'm still learning), and I want to check out the widgets again and open the wdiget-editor. I don't make any changes. But when I close the editor, it overrides the changes I made by hand earlier and overrides the file widget_data. All my code is lost. I'm pissed.
I posted this story into a NG and was (of coruse) laughed at for putting all the code into one file, but alsosomebody from the Kdevelop-team mentioned that this was behaviour was pointed out somewhere.
But IMHO it needs to be pointed out more clearly.
Another feature I'm *really* missing is automatic bracket-checking, as I'm used to from emacs or vim. In Kdevelop you can enable "auto brackets" or something like that, but this just creates the closing bracket whenever you open one. What I want is *checking* - so that it verifies if the bracket is in place and which one it closes.
Also, I wish the indention would work as in xemacs, automatically verifying where it's supposed to indent to - this way you can find lots of parsing-errors.
What I really like about Kdevelop is the creation of makefiles and configure scripts. Since I'm new to programming KDE/Qt, and am not too makefile-savvy, I really appreciate this.
I'm not sure if they work 100%, though. I tried to port my (incomplete) app to another machine that has KDE and Qt libraries installed, and the configure script creates a Makefile, but with the wrong includes (ie the include paths as they are on my local machine).
Anyway, I just downloaded and installed Kdevelop 1.2 and I can't really tell a big difference after fiddling around for 10 minutes. It nicely detected my last opened project and all looks just like the 1.1 version.
All in all, I think it's a great product, which could be improved with the, IMHO, essential features mentioned above.
Just my $.02
-Jan
Thanks. But I'm confused: The Layer-tags that I use should not confuse the browser, if it can handle the examples on http://www.dynamicdrive.com/. I fact, I use this one mouse-trailor script that I found somewhere else, but now I found out that it's also on dynamicdrive.com. If you say that konquerer can handle the scripts on dynamicdrive.com, then I don't know why it wouldn't be able to handle mine...
If you see the page in NS or IE (>4.0) and view the source, you see that both versions handle the layers well...
In this context we should mention h2g2.com - which aims to be the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, "Earth Edition".
Personally, I don't think it's too good. People are desperately trying to be funny (even though they're specifically told not to).
Well, I guess the "bgproperties="fixed"" confused Konquerer. That's this one thing I really like about IE - you can specify the background to be fixed, so that it doesn't scroll with the foreground.
I always thought that this one feature from IE should be included in NS (or Mozilla or other browsers) - just so you have the option...
Anyway, I changed a few things on the netmeister.org and would appreciate it if somebody could check the page with Konquerer (I'm not at home so I can't install it and check it myself).
-Jan
Thanks for the effort. I will try to make it better. But the validator gave me a weird error:
... images/planet_on.gif" height="19" width="22" name="left_link1" border= ...
Line 398, column 369:
Error: there is no attribute "NAME"
This is an image. Why does it complain about this one image and not about the others (all of them have names - which, AFAIK, is a valid attribute for an image)?
How does Konquerer handle layers and DHTML? It says that it supports JavaScript standards, but how does it display pages that rely heavily on DHTML (like my own (http://www.netmeister.org) or anything from http://www.dynamicdrive.com/)?
trying to get to ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/snapshots/ I discover that the server is down - has it been /.ed already?
I second that. I just got my domainname from joker.com and since they are so cheap, I actually let them do DNS, too. Domain+Primary DNS+Secondary DNS = $24
Well, we also need Britney Spears!
By the way, that is an interesting article there in your sig...
1) XFree86 4.0 (How can the Mandrake page get away with saying their 3.0 is the "latest"?)
From the mandrake website:
Now includes brand new XFree 4.0 servers, with new modular architecture.
If so, there's an ariticel on heise.de about this. It also mentions that Miriamax makes Internet Explorer 5.0 and Media Player 6.4 the minimum requirements... I wonder how long it'd take the Linux-community to find a workaround.
yeah - I fooled around with gnut for a while. it's not bad. But in this case I do like having a gui, but I gotta check again, if you say that they have a gtk-interface...
Thanks for the update.
And if you want a Unix-clone and can't find it on gnutella.wego.com, then you download gnotella as a tar.gz from here, or search on this php-form.
Just wanted to point out that Gnotella 0.1 ( Gnutella Unix clone) is out. (I mirrored the tar.gz, since I couldn't find it on the webpage anymore)
Or you can, of course, use web-based gnutella-searches like this to search for your strawberry-rhubarb pie recipes.
That rocks! :)
I'm glad to hear that there will be (yet) another StarTrek, I'm sure it's gonna be good (after the initial 10 episodes or so).
Only thing I'm concerned about is the look fo the starships - the old one's looked crappy compared to the new slick ones, but they can hardly show stylish starships if this is supposed to be earlier than Next Generation...
Also, will Seven of Nine appear? Please? I know the story-line would not allow it, but who ever followed the laws of physics and logis in ST anyway. So please, put Seven of Nine in this show as well.
I've gotta come to the defence of Guiness here ;)
It's not beer, it's Stout,...
Stout (und thus Guinness) IS a beer. Compare http://beerhunter.com/beerstyles.html.
Of course, the guinness, served here in the US does differentiate in taste from the original guinness quite a lot, I've been told. I don't know about guinness, but Beck's (also a beer, though a Pilsener) for example DOES taste quite different in the US than it does in Germany.
Unfortunately for me, the americans seem to prefer ale and lager (both beer's as well) to Pilsener, so that beck's had to adjust their beer to the american market.
Heineken is ok over here, not much better or worse than in the Netherlands and probably the best Pilsener you can get in the US is Pilsener Urquell.
I find it importantto mention that the *original* Budweiser, a czech Pilsener, is a _delicous_ beer, while the beer commonly known under the name "Budweiser" is HORSEPISS!
is it just me, or does linuxchiq look an aweful lot like christina applegate?
I think the daemon is cooler, but Tux is prety dammn cool himself, especially since he just got laid...
much more amusing than the cnn-report is this report on salon.com (even though it's not a list)...