Better behaved, better looking, and less '1995' than OO.o 3. Still uses much of the same code, still shows up as 'swriter', but smoothed out a little, so's it won't kill yo sef, but it sho will make yo ugly.
I think some of the questions about feature availability, costs, etc. have been answered by Nat & Team, and should be available in channel logs, along with a bunch of other good stuff.
I have been using this through Alpha and Beta, and it is the answer to many of the challenges I have faced when using tools like Debian's live-helper.
Less need to roll your own solutions to things like setting up repos, setting up a virtualization server, routines to handle changes/versioning (to some extent), storage, etc.
I have used it to pull out some demo environments to land a job (or intimidate the interviewers out of one), and grease the wheels on personal projects - things like a Live environment for Retail POS terminals, a LiveCD that boots into a 68K Mac emulator, and a playground for virtualized IBM s/390 and zSeries hardware with Hercules.
Seriously great tool. Nat Friedman and team have put a tremendous amount of effort and energy into this project, and they continue to be willing and open to lend a hand on IRC.
Hooray! I'd tele-cheers with a beer if I could!
This tool will hopefully end up on someone's short list of major Linux-related innovations of 2009.
$1,000,000,000 / $4,500 / 7 days = 31,746 cars sold per day
The average number of new cars sold in the US over the period from 1999 through 2006 is 22,156 (according to Ward's, Motor Vehicle Facts & Figures 2007 (Southfield, MI: 2007), p. 22)
To burn through a billion dollars in one week, when the global auto industry has had one of the absolute worst years on record should make major headlines.
"Sales figures through roof as result of C.A.R.S. program"
"Auto makers sell record in record numbers, in excess of 31,000, surpassing the historic average by 25%"
Even at $800,000,000, they would need to sell in excess 25,000 vehicles - EVERY DAY for ONE WEEK to make the numbers work.
There's a hole in my bucket, Dear Liza, Dear Liza..
Every organization needs their own, up to date version of .
But seriously, process the SQL dump when you retreive a monthly (quarterly?) update. Generate a set of strings that are relevant to your organization, and strip articles that don't match.
Someone can always visit the upstream site, or you can use the interwiki facilities, as mentioned elsewhere.
The specialized hardware is what makes a z/Series machine appealing. If you wanted to run Z/OS for any real purposes, you still need licenses, and good luck talking IBM into selling one without a bundled HW/SW/support contract.
Now, if what you're talking about is a migration strategy in preparation for real iron, I can dig it. I even put together a Live environment to that end.
I want the 300mm area in front of my eyes to be as sharp on a $300 LCS as what I can see on an obsolete laptop.
I'm grouchy and disappointed that it's taken this long to get "high resolution" 17" wide aspect desktop displays, which can't quite compare with my secondary market IBM.
eleventy billion? care to share one under 19"? Preferably closer to 14"?
I have been on this search for three or four years, and all I can come up with is that there's a conspiracy in effect, in order to promote this 'HD' thing the commoners are obsessed with lately.
I'm posting this from a four year old Thinkpad T43, with 15" display, at 1400x1050. As long as I've had it, I've been searching for a complimentary display for my desk. Nothing comes close. I don't want a 19", 24", or 30" monitor to get this pixel count, and I sure don't want to dodge the reflections on one of those glossy, color pop displays. If I have to move my head, there's a serious ergonomics problem.
I have been doing some research, and I can't find anything satisfactory. Samsung doesn't make a panel capable of what I want, nevermind a finished display.. I thought surely IBM would provide an engineering-quality display @ > 116 PPI, but if they do, I can't find it.
What I may do, and some others may explore as well, is to follow in the tracks of the homebrew projection TV people, and rig up an old laptop display with a converter and new backlight.
Some light reading on the subject:
An interesting paper on high pixel density LCD panels from 2005; why there likely are none, and why there likely won't be any.
Manufacturers, listen up; For every one of those business class notebooks you've been selling for 5 years, you have changed the work habits of at least one person. Sell them a capable desktop display for a third to half the cost of the notebook, and garner a tidy profit. Just don't put one of those stinking shine panels on the front. Stick it in the box with some double-sided tape, if the focus group says you have to.
Why engineer and implement this stuff at all, if there's so much stink swirling around? Is anything based on or leveraged from C# really worth all the hassle and in-fighting?
Does Mono address the biggest issues with (pick your slant here) software development, FOSS/Linux acceptance, or provide the Holy Grail of application implementation?
Are there not bigger challenges and better ways to get there than by riding on the coat tails of an organization of such questionable repute (when looking at business, programmatic, protective and innovative methodologies) as Microsoft?
The whole Novell/Mono/Tomboy/Ububtu drama is spreading everything more thinly and creating bitter factions - developers, users, distributions, observers.
Flamebait, maybe. These kids today do not respect a healthy, if inflammatory point. Makes sites like Digg a nightmare.
The reason GNOME was started is nearly the same the reason it should fade away. Because KDE relied upon (the then closed) Qt, GNOME was started, as a workaround using the GIMP Tool Kit. It's a similar situation with Mono, but hairier.
This is actually something to remember, thanks!
"I mailed Richard Stallman to let him know that this interesting project existed. KDE was licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL. I got a reply back from both Erik and Richard pointing out that KDE dependency on Qt resulted in a piece of non-free software. Qt did not end users the right to modify, redistribute nor distribute modifed copies of the code and violated the terms of the GNU GPL."
The phone is fragile. Less fragile, but it has considerably more chinks than my SIM card. If the phone numbers are the important thing, keep them on the SIM. They cost what - $0.02? $0.05?
I can't understand why, aside from status, anyone would need this particular phone. Granted, it's a ruggedized phone with GPS, but the screen is something from 2002, barely pocketizable, and has glitzy buttons. What kind of GPS could it be packing, if it's (A:) a proprietary phone, (B:) has 600 pixels to work with? If location was so important to me, and I were driving my Land Rover, or my Hyundai (and pretending it's more than it is), why wouldn't I put my eggs in more baskets, and bring along my Suunto watch, TomTom, or traditional GPS unit?
If the ability to make a phone call after leaving your phone in a pint (or similarly brown, wet, and bubbly environment) is the question, how is this better than my SIM alone, with a spare clunker phone/charger in the glovebox?
I bet an average SIM could tolerate 3 tonnes of compression without a sneeze.
If you don't have goals set (even if you have allowed them to slide), setting them with the use of some type of tool can get you inspired again.
Ask yourself:
What is the itch you're scratching? Do you still have it? Am I on track with the goals I have set for myself, no matter how soft? Do I need to refactor and "Do Things Better" (TM)?
If you haven't relit your fire, it may not be time. Something in your life may be wedging in.
Do *NOT* make an attempt to work any local bar scene into your social portfolio. Waste of time, money, and analgesics (no goatse joke, please >0 )!
Users groups, flea markets, swap meets, meetup get-togethers, garage sales, coffee shops, etc., are the way to go.
Get comfortable around humans, observe their behavior from a safe distance, until you are comfortable interfacing with them. By the time you work up to a comfortable level, remember that all women want to be talked to/approached (if not by you).
Knock on doors until someone invites you in for tea.
Slashdot Mirror
Which is better anyway.
Better behaved, better looking, and less '1995' than OO.o 3. Still uses much of the same code, still shows up as 'swriter', but smoothed out a little, so's it won't kill yo sef, but it sho will make yo ugly.
http://en.opensuse.org/SUSE_Studio_API
http://susestudio.com/help/api/v1
You can do pretty much everything with curl.
Also, you can export to KIWI from Studio.
I think some of the questions about feature availability, costs, etc. have been answered by Nat & Team, and should be available in channel logs, along with a bunch of other good stuff.
I have been using this through Alpha and Beta, and it is the answer to many of the challenges I have faced when using tools like Debian's live-helper.
Less need to roll your own solutions to things like setting up repos, setting up a virtualization server, routines to handle changes/versioning (to some extent), storage, etc.
I have used it to pull out some demo environments to land a job (or intimidate the interviewers out of one), and grease the wheels on personal projects - things like a Live environment for Retail POS terminals, a LiveCD that boots into a 68K Mac emulator, and a playground for virtualized IBM s/390 and zSeries hardware with Hercules.
Seriously great tool. Nat Friedman and team have put a tremendous amount of effort and energy into this project, and they continue to be willing and open to lend a hand on IRC.
Hooray! I'd tele-cheers with a beer if I could!
This tool will hopefully end up on someone's short list of major Linux-related innovations of 2009.
$1,000,000,000 / $4,500 / 7 days = 31,746 cars sold per day
The average number of new cars sold in the US over the period from 1999 through 2006 is 22,156 (according to Ward's, Motor Vehicle Facts & Figures 2007 (Southfield, MI: 2007), p. 22)
To burn through a billion dollars in one week, when the global auto industry has had one of the absolute worst years on record should make major headlines.
"Sales figures through roof as result of C.A.R.S. program"
"Auto makers sell record in record numbers, in excess of 31,000, surpassing the historic average by 25%"
Even at $800,000,000, they would need to sell in excess 25,000 vehicles - EVERY DAY for ONE WEEK to make the numbers work.
There's a hole in my bucket, Dear Liza, Dear Liza..
Because people are content with the status quo, same as always, and just as sad.
1: We would be whooshing around in solid fuel powered Jet Packs, and global warming would be a non-issue.
2: We would be whooshing around in liquid hydrocarbon Jet Cars, and global warming would be tripled.
3: We would be whooshing around on in intergalactic cruise ships, reclining in hovering lounge chairs, clapping for robot-delivered lunch-in-a-cup.
Every organization needs their own, up to date version of .
But seriously, process the SQL dump when you retreive a monthly (quarterly?) update. Generate a set of strings that are relevant to your organization, and strip articles that don't match.
Someone can always visit the upstream site, or you can use the interwiki facilities, as mentioned elsewhere.
The specialized hardware is what makes a z/Series machine appealing. If you wanted to run Z/OS for any real purposes, you still need licenses, and good luck talking IBM into selling one without a bundled HW/SW/support contract.
Now, if what you're talking about is a migration strategy in preparation for real iron, I can dig it. I even put together a Live environment to that end.
This is like saying touch-enabled applications have made great gains in iPhone application share.
Or that there are more MFC apps than Java equivalents for Windows productivity.
Heh? Someone bought tickets to the spin train.
about aspect ratio.
I want the 300mm area in front of my eyes to be as sharp on a $300 LCS as what I can see on an obsolete laptop.
I'm grouchy and disappointed that it's taken this long to get "high resolution" 17" wide aspect desktop displays, which can't quite compare with my secondary market IBM.
eleventy billion? care to share one under 19"? Preferably closer to 14"?
He's out of his namesake!
I have been on this search for three or four years, and all I can come up with is that there's a conspiracy in effect, in order to promote this 'HD' thing the commoners are obsessed with lately.
I'm posting this from a four year old Thinkpad T43, with 15" display, at 1400x1050. As long as I've had it, I've been searching for a complimentary display for my desk. Nothing comes close. I don't want a 19", 24", or 30" monitor to get this pixel count, and I sure don't want to dodge the reflections on one of those glossy, color pop displays. If I have to move my head, there's a serious ergonomics problem.
I have been doing some research, and I can't find anything satisfactory. Samsung doesn't make a panel capable of what I want, nevermind a finished display.. I thought surely IBM would provide an engineering-quality display @ > 116 PPI, but if they do, I can't find it.
What I may do, and some others may explore as well, is to follow in the tracks of the homebrew projection TV people, and rig up an old laptop display with a converter and new backlight.
Some light reading on the subject:
An interesting paper on high pixel density LCD panels from 2005; why there likely are none, and why there likely won't be any.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_displays_by_pixel_density
Manufacturers, listen up; For every one of those business class notebooks you've been selling for 5 years, you have changed the work habits of at least one person. Sell them a capable desktop display for a third to half the cost of the notebook, and garner a tidy profit. Just don't put one of those stinking shine panels on the front. Stick it in the box with some double-sided tape, if the focus group says you have to.
Why engineer and implement this stuff at all, if there's so much stink swirling around? Is anything based on or leveraged from C# really worth all the hassle and in-fighting?
Does Mono address the biggest issues with (pick your slant here) software development, FOSS/Linux acceptance, or provide the Holy Grail of application implementation?
Are there not bigger challenges and better ways to get there than by riding on the coat tails of an organization of such questionable repute (when looking at business, programmatic, protective and innovative methodologies) as Microsoft?
The whole Novell/Mono/Tomboy/Ububtu drama is spreading everything more thinly and creating bitter factions - developers, users, distributions, observers.
My question is, honestly, is it really worth it?
When I was unfortunately and temporarily employed by AT&T Wireless, some people activated phones using Tax ID or EIN numbers.
"Sorry, that one's no good."
"OK, well, try this one.."
"Nope."
"OK, then try..."
"Hey! It liked that one! Enjoy your new, shadily acquired telecommunications device"
Same digits, different format. Multiple lookups on the backend?
Unless I'm wrong, you'd be running on (and pinging to) the server node, rather than the display client.
The big deal will be display lag.
Sell out?
Who'd buy these guys, a gaming company or a streaming media company?
Flamebait, maybe. These kids today do not respect a healthy, if inflammatory point. Makes sites like Digg a nightmare.
The reason GNOME was started is nearly the same the reason it should fade away. Because KDE relied upon (the then closed) Qt, GNOME was started, as a workaround using the GIMP Tool Kit. It's a similar situation with Mono, but hairier.
This is actually something to remember, thanks!
"I mailed Richard Stallman to let him know that this interesting project existed. KDE was licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL. I got a reply back from both Erik and Richard pointing out that KDE dependency on Qt resulted in a piece of non-free software. Qt did not end users the right to modify, redistribute nor distribute modifed copies of the code and violated the terms of the GNU GPL."
From The Story of the GNOME project.
Can you name three apps that are available for Maemo that you would honestly miss?
The mail app blows, the browser sucks, the media player is lousy, and the application manager is beta-quality, at best.
Don't get me wrong, I love my n810, mostly for the hardware - Maemo is a drag.
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Qt vs GTK: http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/01/11/21/0227206.shtml
I was really liking the Debian chroot environment, but the Maemo overhead put the squeeze on.
That was StarKist.
buh-dum-pum
The phone is fragile. Less fragile, but it has considerably more chinks than my SIM card. If the phone numbers are the important thing, keep them on the SIM. They cost what - $0.02? $0.05?
I can't understand why, aside from status, anyone would need this particular phone. Granted, it's a ruggedized phone with GPS, but the screen is something from 2002, barely pocketizable, and has glitzy buttons. What kind of GPS could it be packing, if it's (A:) a proprietary phone, (B:) has 600 pixels to work with? If location was so important to me, and I were driving my Land Rover, or my Hyundai (and pretending it's more than it is), why wouldn't I put my eggs in more baskets, and bring along my Suunto watch, TomTom, or traditional GPS unit?
If the ability to make a phone call after leaving your phone in a pint (or similarly brown, wet, and bubbly environment) is the question, how is this better than my SIM alone, with a spare clunker phone/charger in the glovebox?
I bet an average SIM could tolerate 3 tonnes of compression without a sneeze.
Get in 5 sets during a 12-hour shift.
Increase by as many as possible each day.
Also, some cow-orkers may react unfavorably, but grab a carpeted corner somewhere, and do some basic yoga.
Worked for me!
A Hacker with the proven ability to create and execute a project plan should be seriously employable.
Know what pieces overlap, understand how they impact the business, and what it takes to get from A to Z.
If you don't have goals set (even if you have allowed them to slide), setting them with the use of some type of tool can get you inspired again.
Ask yourself:
What is the itch you're scratching? Do you still have it?
Am I on track with the goals I have set for myself, no matter how soft?
Do I need to refactor and "Do Things Better" (TM)?
If you haven't relit your fire, it may not be time. Something in your life may be wedging in.
Do *NOT* make an attempt to work any local bar scene into your social portfolio. Waste of time, money, and analgesics (no goatse joke, please >0 )!
Users groups, flea markets, swap meets, meetup get-togethers, garage sales, coffee shops, etc., are the way to go.
Get comfortable around humans, observe their behavior from a safe distance, until you are comfortable interfacing with them. By the time you work up to a comfortable level, remember that all women want to be talked to/approached (if not by you).
Knock on doors until someone invites you in for tea.