There are VERY persistant rumors that KDE 4 will be available in parts or as a whole for Windows. I would like to see at least Konqueror and KOffice for Windows, and that's exactly my biggest problem with KDE: they make so much more than just a DE nowadays, that they are overlate in porting it to Windows.
That's also a bit about the user who made the document (note that I mentioned "a bit"). PDF-documents are a tad harder to create (you'll need a quite heavy product which usually means that the doc is made by someone who knows what he is doing), or are made using a printer driver for the quick stuff. That means that usually you get a PDF which is compatible with readers from several version generations ago.
With MS Office you nowadays usually get a 2000 or 2003 document. That and the closed specification makes sure that all the OSS readers for Word docs are out of date for a large chunk of the functionality.
I've seen PDFs that required "new" technology that wouldn't load in KPDF. We are simply lucky that Adobe made Acrobat Pro expensive and professional enough to require decency in use.
I'm currently building a IM-application for bussiness websites (visitor clicks, talks to salesman / support). Please do tell how to do this without JavaScript while not having to fall back on a META-refresh every second (which is annoying enough for my clients not to buy the product and is more often prevented than JavaScript is)
Some apps depend on XMLHttpRequest by nature, not by design.
The exciting part of AJAX is solely the name. It's nothing more than two existing JavaScript methods combined: XMLHttpRequest (which essentially has nothing to do with XML) and responseXML (which in some cases can better be replaced by handling plain text or evalling JSON, the latter being a buzzword on its own).
Both aren't new. Only XMLHttpRequest is a bit stunning, but not even much. It's the fact that the use of both combined has gotten a name and that some intelligent folk (Google is an example) are now using it for making better web-applications (like email, chat, mapviewing etc).
It's not the next big thing in webdesign either. It is just a reminder to webdevs: hey! have you thought of using this()? And it has (sadly) become a buzzword (which is to remind us webdevs how stupid we were not to have thought of the uses of XMLHttpRequest earlier).
Now where did you get that screenshot from my bootloader?
I installed Vista on my second drive (or rather, I swapped drives for the install and swapped them back afterwards. Stupid installer.) and I use the FreeBSD 1st stage loader for selection. I previously used GAG, which I still love. The secondary partition on the first drive is FAT32 with FreeDOS (for when I need DOS) mainly used for sharing files between the OSses.
I really fail to see why I would need something like GRUB or BCD when I have this or GAG as alternatives.
Do you actually READ a comment before you reply? I mean, it's bad enough that folks don't RTFA, but replying to a comment without even READING what he said is just pathetic.
I suspect even the mods who modded GP down didn't read properly. He was QUOTING and then stating why he disagreed with said quote.
Now go read the GP's comment again, and take heed to spot the quotation marks.
Seconded, but only if you have spare time. I installed a FreeBSD-printserver half a year ago, and that took me a few days to tweak it and the network to my liking. Granted, that had to do with one of the printers that was attached to it that didn't like to be shared (HP OfficeJet), but that sort of things is to be expected with CUPS, especially with existing printers.
If the restriction on printsharing in Windows wasn't there, I would've grabbed one of the spare Windows-workstations, installed the printers, share them, done. Unfortunately, hardware manufacturers still think that providing 85% of their users with drivers is enough.
And because they know that, they'll settle out of court before the case is even into court.
MS has such vasts amounts of money that this won't threaten their reputation at all (among Average Joe's, mind you... they have no reputation to loose among geeks).
The point is: I trust that analogy between, say, the US and the USSR. Not between the US and NK. Not that I don't trust the US (well, I don't, but I do in this manner). I highly doubt if the minds of the higher NK's are sane enough to decide to wait with attacking before being attacked. I suspect them from using the nuke as soon as they have build one.
There are currently a few running OOo on their laptops, with consent of all. If I want to, I can install OOo on the Terminal Server, but he (and some others) have already stated that they won't be using it anyhow.
Even if we are going to gradually phase out, he will block the decision to do so. And it won't work, since most will continue to use MS Office (some because they don't want to use anything else, others out of convenience). So eventually there will be a "rip and replace" anyhow, albeit non-technical.
Believe me, I've given up hope after years (litterally) of trying. They want to take the risk with the licenses, stating that they will buy them "sometime". My only hope is that we will have to move on to a newer version eventually (there is a learning curve for MS-Office 2007), and by then I will enforce OOo, or die in the process:-)
I have a hard time at work trying to get OOo through. The MS-Office licences we hold aren't even valid and there is no money for buying new ones in budget (small company), but that still isn't enough reason. My boss wants to switch, but his dad (and co-owner) is STRONGLY opposed to it. Not for any particular reason, but only because "I never used anything else, and I'm not going to learn something new now".
I'm not suggesting Ubuntu should change. But an exploit in the Linux kernel that requires root-access is as serious as any other exploit. We geeks don't go root that easily, but the average user will.
"In order for this game to run on Linux, you need to add a precompiled binary added to your kernel. Type your password to do that automatically."
Linux geek: yeah right...
Average Joe: OK!
I stand corrected in the Linspire case.
But in the Ubuntu case: doesn't that pave a way for this exploit? From an Avarage Joe POV (huh? password? sure...)?
And don't say "yeah but" or "if you want to run things like root you wouldn't use Linux anyway" or "no one would just execute or use said application, cause that would be foolish and they thus would not use Linux"...
It should be secure for Average Joe. He might not be running Linux now, but it should be the goal. If it isn't, we shouldn't bash Windows any longer and be happy with the niche-market we have as FOSS-lovers (right along with OS/2 and BeOS).
AFAIK, this isn't even a copy/paste karma-whore: both summaries list the same submitter. The only difference is an added link in this summary and a slightly different headline.
In Windows, even in XP, it is entirely possible to [ install crapware / mischange settings / delete the wrong file / catch a virus ] unknowingly, affecting the entire system. In *nix that is VERY hard to do.
The point is not that Joe Average can manage his own system (they often can't anyway, and I'm being serious here). The point is that computer-literate friends / family of Joe Average won't have to come over that much anymore, and then only for small tasks or non-initiated errors.
As the water rises, the dikes inland holding back the rivers are the first to have a problem. Maybe some will break, but it will never be able to cause 1/10th of the entire country to flood in one day.
It is even more likely that the gradual disappearance will be human-controlled: almost every single bit of shore (be it inland or sea) is watched continuesly here. When something becomes awkward, the government can decide to evacuate the region and return it to the water in a period of time. Indeed this has happened already at some inland strips near rivers.
Besides that, polders are unpoldered, ditches are broadened or reused, rivers are broadened, lakes are created etc. If that continues at the same pace as the rising of the sea, the Netherlands will gradually become a smaller country.
It has been predicted that half of the Netherlands (my homeland) will dissapear gradually during the next 100 years, unless we build better and higher dams all around the sea. Offcourse, parts of the NL are already under sea-level ("polders") but not nearly half of it.
Luckily, I live in the area which will be unaffected, so all I have to do to get rich is buy massive amounts of land here. Still, the implications would be enormous.
The more I think of it, the more I believe we should act, and act quick. But I'm not certain as to act upon WHAT exactly.
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No, there are just about a million of them. Or 1,048,576 (or 1.048.576) to avoid another flamewar.
Funny. In a topic about a webbrowser you forget the
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No offense
There are VERY persistant rumors that KDE 4 will be available in parts or as a whole for Windows. I would like to see at least Konqueror and KOffice for Windows, and that's exactly my biggest problem with KDE: they make so much more than just a DE nowadays, that they are overlate in porting it to Windows.
That's also a bit about the user who made the document (note that I mentioned "a bit"). PDF-documents are a tad harder to create (you'll need a quite heavy product which usually means that the doc is made by someone who knows what he is doing), or are made using a printer driver for the quick stuff. That means that usually you get a PDF which is compatible with readers from several version generations ago.
With MS Office you nowadays usually get a 2000 or 2003 document. That and the closed specification makes sure that all the OSS readers for Word docs are out of date for a large chunk of the functionality.
I've seen PDFs that required "new" technology that wouldn't load in KPDF. We are simply lucky that Adobe made Acrobat Pro expensive and professional enough to require decency in use.
I'm currently building a IM-application for bussiness websites (visitor clicks, talks to salesman / support). Please do tell how to do this without JavaScript while not having to fall back on a META-refresh every second (which is annoying enough for my clients not to buy the product and is more often prevented than JavaScript is)
Some apps depend on XMLHttpRequest by nature, not by design.
The exciting part of AJAX is solely the name. It's nothing more than two existing JavaScript methods combined: XMLHttpRequest (which essentially has nothing to do with XML) and responseXML (which in some cases can better be replaced by handling plain text or evalling JSON, the latter being a buzzword on its own).
Both aren't new. Only XMLHttpRequest is a bit stunning, but not even much. It's the fact that the use of both combined has gotten a name and that some intelligent folk (Google is an example) are now using it for making better web-applications (like email, chat, mapviewing etc).
It's not the next big thing in webdesign either. It is just a reminder to webdevs: hey! have you thought of using this()? And it has (sadly) become a buzzword (which is to remind us webdevs how stupid we were not to have thought of the uses of XMLHttpRequest earlier).
Now where did you get that screenshot from my bootloader?
I installed Vista on my second drive (or rather, I swapped drives for the install and swapped them back afterwards. Stupid installer.) and I use the FreeBSD 1st stage loader for selection. I previously used GAG, which I still love. The secondary partition on the first drive is FAT32 with FreeDOS (for when I need DOS) mainly used for sharing files between the OSses.
I really fail to see why I would need something like GRUB or BCD when I have this or GAG as alternatives.
Do you actually READ a comment before you reply? I mean, it's bad enough that folks don't RTFA, but replying to a comment without even READING what he said is just pathetic.
I suspect even the mods who modded GP down didn't read properly. He was QUOTING and then stating why he disagreed with said quote.
Now go read the GP's comment again, and take heed to spot the quotation marks.
Seconded, but only if you have spare time. I installed a FreeBSD-printserver half a year ago, and that took me a few days to tweak it and the network to my liking. Granted, that had to do with one of the printers that was attached to it that didn't like to be shared (HP OfficeJet), but that sort of things is to be expected with CUPS, especially with existing printers.
If the restriction on printsharing in Windows wasn't there, I would've grabbed one of the spare Windows-workstations, installed the printers, share them, done. Unfortunately, hardware manufacturers still think that providing 85% of their users with drivers is enough.
And because they know that, they'll settle out of court before the case is even into court.
MS has such vasts amounts of money that this won't threaten their reputation at all (among Average Joe's, mind you... they have no reputation to loose among geeks).
Time to demand a forced split-up.
The point is: I trust that analogy between, say, the US and the USSR. Not between the US and NK. Not that I don't trust the US (well, I don't, but I do in this manner). I highly doubt if the minds of the higher NK's are sane enough to decide to wait with attacking before being attacked. I suspect them from using the nuke as soon as they have build one.
There are currently a few running OOo on their laptops, with consent of all. If I want to, I can install OOo on the Terminal Server, but he (and some others) have already stated that they won't be using it anyhow.
:-)
Even if we are going to gradually phase out, he will block the decision to do so. And it won't work, since most will continue to use MS Office (some because they don't want to use anything else, others out of convenience). So eventually there will be a "rip and replace" anyhow, albeit non-technical.
Believe me, I've given up hope after years (litterally) of trying. They want to take the risk with the licenses, stating that they will buy them "sometime". My only hope is that we will have to move on to a newer version eventually (there is a learning curve for MS-Office 2007), and by then I will enforce OOo, or die in the process
I have a hard time at work trying to get OOo through. The MS-Office licences we hold aren't even valid and there is no money for buying new ones in budget (small company), but that still isn't enough reason. My boss wants to switch, but his dad (and co-owner) is STRONGLY opposed to it. Not for any particular reason, but only because "I never used anything else, and I'm not going to learn something new now".
I'm not suggesting Ubuntu should change. But an exploit in the Linux kernel that requires root-access is as serious as any other exploit. We geeks don't go root that easily, but the average user will.
"In order for this game to run on Linux, you need to add a precompiled binary added to your kernel. Type your password to do that automatically."
Linux geek: yeah right...
Average Joe: OK!
I stand corrected in the Linspire case. But in the Ubuntu case: doesn't that pave a way for this exploit? From an Avarage Joe POV (huh? password? sure...)?
Linspire.
And don't say "yeah but" or "if you want to run things like root you wouldn't use Linux anyway" or "no one would just execute or use said application, cause that would be foolish and they thus would not use Linux"...
It should be secure for Average Joe. He might not be running Linux now, but it should be the goal. If it isn't, we shouldn't bash Windows any longer and be happy with the niche-market we have as FOSS-lovers (right along with OS/2 and BeOS).
And we all know that account is never, or only rarely used...
That would be Dutch, not German.
AFAIK, this isn't even a copy/paste karma-whore: both summaries list the same submitter.
The only difference is an added link in this summary and a slightly different headline.
That's not the point.
In Windows, even in XP, it is entirely possible to [ install crapware / mischange settings / delete the wrong file / catch a virus ] unknowingly, affecting the entire system. In *nix that is VERY hard to do.
The point is not that Joe Average can manage his own system (they often can't anyway, and I'm being serious here). The point is that computer-literate friends / family of Joe Average won't have to come over that much anymore, and then only for small tasks or non-initiated errors.
Thanks. That clarified it.
That won't easily happen.
As the water rises, the dikes inland holding back the rivers are the first to have a problem. Maybe some will break, but it will never be able to cause 1/10th of the entire country to flood in one day.
It is even more likely that the gradual disappearance will be human-controlled: almost every single bit of shore (be it inland or sea) is watched continuesly here. When something becomes awkward, the government can decide to evacuate the region and return it to the water in a period of time. Indeed this has happened already at some inland strips near rivers.
Besides that, polders are unpoldered, ditches are broadened or reused, rivers are broadened, lakes are created etc. If that continues at the same pace as the rising of the sea, the Netherlands will gradually become a smaller country.
Exactly my point.
It has been predicted that half of the Netherlands (my homeland) will dissapear gradually during the next 100 years, unless we build better and higher dams all around the sea. Offcourse, parts of the NL are already under sea-level ("polders") but not nearly half of it.
Luckily, I live in the area which will be unaffected, so all I have to do to get rich is buy massive amounts of land here. Still, the implications would be enormous.
The more I think of it, the more I believe we should act, and act quick. But I'm not certain as to act upon WHAT exactly.