All true football fans know that Pro Evolution Soccer is by far the better game, both in terms of realism and depth. Sure, FIFA may have the licenses, but PES is the most accurate simulation, and offers much more competitive and enjoyable multi-player. I for one can't wait for PES4, as I believe it'll be playable on XBox Live (and I may even be tempted to purchase an XBox just to play this single game). I could always stick to the PS2 version with a multi-tap and some beers with my mates...
--Jon
It's also in Debian.
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If you use Debian, you can just:
# su # apt-get install diveintopython
And the book will be downloaded and placed into/usr/share/doc/diveintopython/
I once wrote an article which summarises my experience with Linux on Apple hardware. It was published on OSNews. It's a little dated now (I wrote it a little over a year ago), but it offers my opinion on Yellow Dog Linux, which was overwhelmingly positive. Check it out here.
So, what, you've created a Linux monoculture? Why is that any better?
From any point of view (virus attacks, security compromises, usefulness of older hardware etc), having software diversity is a good thing. And yes, this includes Windows, just like it includes Linux, MacOS, BSD, BeOS and suchlike.
We already have Neverwinter Nights (and expansions), Quake 1-3, UT2004 (and no doubt all the sequels, because the UT engine supports Linux so well), we're getting Doom 3. Why do you need Windows compatibility? Sure, maybe you can't play your crappy licensed EA games, but all the really serious game developers have seen the light, and activly develop for Linux.
The only Windows games I'm going to want to run are Duke Nukem Forever and Half Life 2. Oh, wait... they don't exist...
You honestly think we'll be using USB in 2030? I very much doubt it. We'll probably be using some sort of wireless connectivity for all devices by then.
Most recent distributions have built-in USB support anyway (RH7.3 does, as do the Gentoo kernels), remember almost no users should have to recompile their kernel, ever.
If your distro doesn't include USB support, you shouldn't be forcing it on your friends/relatives/whatever.
...but I just carry a floppy disk around with a few text-files on it. A HTML bookmark page can be viewed on pretty much anything if you stick to HTML standards and don't use any dumb formatting.
I'm considering buying one of these. I'm a bit worried about the software requirements, though ("Requires Windows 98, ME 2000, Mac OS 8.6 or greater"; I guess my Linux box is greater...). They look like a nifty way to carry my stuff around with me. Until I lose it:-)
Regarding the direction of wheel movement when resizing text in Mozilla, I think it's more intuitive that way. It feels more like I'm 'pulling' the text towards me.
...considering Mozilla follows the kernel-style odd/even unstable/stable release numbering format, 1.2 should be a stable build.
Does this mean I'll be able to download a version with XFT anti-aliased font support, like I did with 1.0? I have 1.0 with XFT which I downloaded from here, and I've been waiting to upgrade but I couldn't bear to lose my AA fonts.
In case you haven't seen it, I have a screenshot of Mozilla with AA fonts here.
Those links are just for a quick scan at Alistapart. I'm sure a little more work and you could build up a huge directory of 'good weblogging' links (or just read Zeldman).
As for the blogging systems themselves, can the people who buy this book not deal with README files? I've used Blogger and MT in my weblogging time and both have had excellent online documentation or readme files respectively.
This seems to me like a book for people who really don't want to try to learn anything for themselves, and need it all presented for them. There is so much more to be gained by finding out stuff fo yourself.
The goal of GNU is to produce the world's best software and that includes ease of use.
Uh, Emacs? Not easy to use by any definition; it's not exactly intuitive. Sure, it may be easy after you've read a book on how to use it (and any editor which you have to read the documentation just to be able to open, create and save text files is just stupid. I include VI in this. I use Cream, a set of ([g]VIM modifications that makes it easy to use).
I think you're confusing 'ease of use' with 'well documented'.
... that a project like this, which claims to "implement high quality, anti-aliased and subpixel rendered text on a display" can have such an ugly website without any screenshots.
We have fought for our music to be free by supporting the P2P companies, we have fought for the record companies to eschew copy restrictions on their CD's, now we'll have to fight to keep the very format we use store our music.
Sure it will have it's problems, but right now it does not. More users and more bad or poorly written apps will cause bloat and decay.
I agree; which is part of the reason I quit using Mandrake and rolled my own LFS system. Anything I'm not sure about I make install to/opt/whatever, then add the/opt/whatever/lib path to ld.so.conf. This way I can check out new apps, and if they don't make the grade, I just rm -rf the whole directory. My whole system has stayed pretty clean this way.
My response to this: Subaru.com [subaru.com]. You stand corrected.
You can't generalize based on one single site. Hell, even msn.com looks nearly perfect in Mozilla 1.0, so you can't base your view of the whole corporate web because of maybe 20-25 really bad sites.
This is, er, total rubbish. While a lot of smaller web designers may be MS focused, most large sites will try very hard to make their sites work across platforms. Just check out most of the discussion on alistapart, which primarily deals with new web technologies, and how to implement them in a cross-platform manner. While a lot of the 'amature' web may be strewn with proprietary tags, a lot of the larger sites really do care about users who use different browsers; from Netscape 4 to WebTV.
--jon
Re:problem no 1.: lack of tutorials and beginner d
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There is a simple solution to this; help out yourself. This isn't directed at you personally of course, but at the whole GNU/Linux community.
Reading through Slashdot, there are so many people who can write fluently enough to write a few good tutorials. Whenever I figure out something which I consider badly documented, I try to at least put together a little HOWTO-style list of the steps I went through to get program X to preform action Y. Most of these are for my own personal use, but if I've had to spend a lot of time working on a solution, I at least try to clean up my little lists and release it. Most of the time, this takes only about half an hour at the most, and even if you only help out a few people it's worth it.
Most people report bugs to help out with free software, and this is an excellent way to help out, but writing little FAQs and tutorials are just as important. Indeed, lots of open-source development teams hold bug-days, I don't see why every now and again they don't hold 'doc-days'; fifty people writing a few thousand words of documentation for say, Mozilla could make a huge difference in one day.
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Why oh why are they playing FIFA?
All true football fans know that Pro Evolution Soccer is by far the better game, both in terms of realism and depth. Sure, FIFA may have the licenses, but PES is the most accurate simulation, and offers much more competitive and enjoyable multi-player. I for one can't wait for PES4, as I believe it'll be playable on XBox Live (and I may even be tempted to purchase an XBox just to play this single game). I could always stick to the PS2 version with a multi-tap and some beers with my mates...
--Jon
--Jon
This'll only be useful when 95% of computers support booting from USB. Right now, only 5% do, so you'd just be pissing away the $219.
--Jon
I once wrote an article which summarises my experience with Linux on Apple hardware. It was published on OSNews. It's a little dated now (I wrote it a little over a year ago), but it offers my opinion on Yellow Dog Linux, which was overwhelmingly positive. Check it out here.
--Jon
That's a very good point, I didn't really consider that.
--Jon
So, what, you've created a Linux monoculture? Why is that any better?
From any point of view (virus attacks, security compromises, usefulness of older hardware etc), having software diversity is a good thing. And yes, this includes Windows, just like it includes Linux, MacOS, BSD, BeOS and suchlike.
--Jon
Civ: Call to Power has been ported to Linux by the now defunct Loki Games. It's quite easy to find copies of it online, however.
Their whole catalogue is also listed on their site, here.
--Jon
We already have Neverwinter Nights (and expansions), Quake 1-3, UT2004 (and no doubt all the sequels, because the UT engine supports Linux so well), we're getting Doom 3. Why do you need Windows compatibility? Sure, maybe you can't play your crappy licensed EA games, but all the really serious game developers have seen the light, and activly develop for Linux.
The only Windows games I'm going to want to run are Duke Nukem Forever and Half Life 2. Oh, wait... they don't exist...
--Jon
I noticed someone has already set up a SourceForge project for WASTE.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/waste/
Now go and help out! I want a cleanly building Linux port.
--Jon
Get the source here.
--Jon
Damn, with the DRM on MS media files, how the hell am I supposed to splice in single frames of hardcore porn?
--Jon
You mean like the GNU Hello, World! software?
--Jon
You honestly think we'll be using USB in 2030? I very much doubt it. We'll probably be using some sort of wireless connectivity for all devices by then.
Most recent distributions have built-in USB support anyway (RH7.3 does, as do the Gentoo kernels), remember almost no users should have to recompile their kernel, ever.
If your distro doesn't include USB support, you shouldn't be forcing it on your friends/relatives/whatever.
--Jon
...but I just carry a floppy disk around with a few text-files on it. A HTML bookmark page can be viewed on pretty much anything if you stick to HTML standards and don't use any dumb formatting.
:-)
I'm considering buying one of these. I'm a bit worried about the software requirements, though ("Requires Windows 98, ME 2000, Mac OS 8.6 or greater"; I guess my Linux box is greater...). They look like a nifty way to carry my stuff around with me. Until I lose it
--Jon
Regarding the direction of wheel movement when resizing text in Mozilla, I think it's more intuitive that way. It feels more like I'm 'pulling' the text towards me.
Ah well, different folks, strokes etc.
--Jon
I should have checked my facts on those versioning numbers. My bad, sorry :-)
--Jon
...considering Mozilla follows the kernel-style odd/even unstable/stable release numbering format, 1.2 should be a stable build.
Does this mean I'll be able to download a version with XFT anti-aliased font support, like I did with 1.0? I have 1.0 with XFT which I downloaded from here, and I've been waiting to upgrade but I couldn't bear to lose my AA fonts.
In case you haven't seen it, I have a screenshot of Mozilla with AA fonts here.
For
--Jon
... because there are plenty of free hints/tips for writing 'effective' weblogs.
Write the Living Web by Mark Bernstein
How to Write a Better Weblog by Dennis A. Mahoney
How to be Soopafamous by W.K. Lang
A Case for Web Storytelling by Curt Cloninger
Those links are just for a quick scan at Alistapart. I'm sure a little more work and you could build up a huge directory of 'good weblogging' links (or just read Zeldman).
As for the blogging systems themselves, can the people who buy this book not deal with README files? I've used Blogger and MT in my weblogging time and both have had excellent online documentation or readme files respectively.
This seems to me like a book for people who really don't want to try to learn anything for themselves, and need it all presented for them. There is so much more to be gained by finding out stuff fo yourself.
--Jon
The goal of GNU is to produce the world's best software and that includes ease of use.
Uh, Emacs? Not easy to use by any definition; it's not exactly intuitive. Sure, it may be easy after you've read a book on how to use it (and any editor which you have to read the documentation just to be able to open, create and save text files is just stupid. I include VI in this. I use Cream, a set of ([g]VIM modifications that makes it easy to use).
I think you're confusing 'ease of use' with 'well documented'.
--Jon
... that a project like this, which claims to "implement high quality, anti-aliased and subpixel rendered text on a display" can have such an ugly website without any screenshots.
--Jon (watches karma burn)
You can fight this.
- Mirror copies of XMMS/Winamp and put them on your web site. Put them in your shared Gnutella directory. Keep some copies on CD-R's.
- Refuse to pay. Boycott any players that have paid this fee.
- Convert your collection to Ogg.
We have fought for our music to be free by supporting the P2P companies, we have fought for the record companies to eschew copy restrictions on their CD's, now we'll have to fight to keep the very format we use store our music.
--Jon
Sure it will have it's problems, but right now it does not. More users and more bad or poorly written apps will cause bloat and decay.
/opt/whatever, then add the /opt/whatever/lib path to ld.so.conf. This way I can check out new apps, and if they don't make the grade, I just rm -rf the whole directory. My whole system has stayed pretty clean this way.
I agree; which is part of the reason I quit using Mandrake and rolled my own LFS system. Anything I'm not sure about I make install to
--Jon
--jon
This is, er, total rubbish. While a lot of smaller web designers may be MS focused, most large sites will try very hard to make their sites work across platforms. Just check out most of the discussion on alistapart, which primarily deals with new web technologies, and how to implement them in a cross-platform manner. While a lot of the 'amature' web may be strewn with proprietary tags, a lot of the larger sites really do care about users who use different browsers; from Netscape 4 to WebTV.
--jon
There is a simple solution to this; help out yourself. This isn't directed at you personally of course, but at the whole GNU/Linux community.
Reading through Slashdot, there are so many people who can write fluently enough to write a few good tutorials. Whenever I figure out something which I consider badly documented, I try to at least put together a little HOWTO-style list of the steps I went through to get program X to preform action Y. Most of these are for my own personal use, but if I've had to spend a lot of time working on a solution, I at least try to clean up my little lists and release it. Most of the time, this takes only about half an hour at the most, and even if you only help out a few people it's worth it.
Most people report bugs to help out with free software, and this is an excellent way to help out, but writing little FAQs and tutorials are just as important. Indeed, lots of open-source development teams hold bug-days, I don't see why every now and again they don't hold 'doc-days'; fifty people writing a few thousand words of documentation for say, Mozilla could make a huge difference in one day.
--jon