various third world (to use an obsolete term) nations are far more egregious offenders than the US
In what terms? Absolute? Per captia?
Third world countries economies are generally tiny. Even if each car is more poluting than the average american SUV, it doesn't matter much cause they don't have many cars.
Really america should be comparing itself with the developed world though. Saying 'we are better than bangladesh' doesn't have much impact with me.
Can you come up with one example which makes KDE so unusable that it has to be thrown out?
under windows i can browse all the machines on my network without having to know any cryptic commands and without having to know the names of the machines beforehand.
So if the KDE panel displayed a copyright and license notice in response to some command (such as a click on a menu choice), and Red Hat took it out, that may be a GPL violation.
KDE applications have two Help/About boxes.
They have Help/About KDE and Help/About application name (e.g. "About Konqueror")
"About KDE" displays information about what the KDE project is, where you can view their webpages etc. This is the one redhat removed.
"About application-name" displays information about the application including who wrote it and the license aggreement.
So, no, redhat did not remove the thing that displayed the license agreement, they removed the annoying redundant one.
Welcome to the wonderful world of KDE development - answerable to TrollTech 100%.
Correction:
Welcome to the wonderful world of commercial closed source developement. Answerable to TrollTech 100% if you choose to use their libraries as the basis for your commercial application.
QT is GPLed so if you are opensource there are no worries.
I imagine just pressing play or changing the volume on that thing would be a challange while driving. Let alone trying to pick a new album.
empeg and similar designs have put much more thought into making something that is actually usable in a car, rather than just something that looks cool.
The biggest issue is space, most new cars aren't designed for the type of space requirements something like this needs.
For the last 20 years or so (depending on brand/model) most cars come with an industry standard DIN slot. That is all the space you need for something like this.
Granted, that guys particular implementation needs more space, but then that guy hasn't put much thought into his implementation. Imagine trying to choose an album from all the 10000+ MP3s files you have installed, while driving. I don't think the standard WinAMP UI was designed for embedded in car use.
A DIN slot is plenty of space for a small integrated motherboard, laptop harddrive or two, a car radio sized display, and a few buttons.
The difference is, MSs patch is a widely tested fix that is now available to the end user, and is easily installed by the end user.
The X patch, is a few changes in some source code.
The opensource "3 day" solution is absolutely of no use to the vast majority of end users.
You need to wait for Mandrake or whichever vendor you track to released updated binaries and then measure how long it took.
Of course the opensource solution is superior, in that if security is really really important then you can download all the source, download all the development libraries it depends on, apply the patch, and spend half a day compiling your own copy of X. But the majority of people will wait for the binary RPMS/Debs/whatever.
If they shaved 20mm from the width it could have been installed in the Dash like a proper car stereo.
Anyone got any experience running normall desktop drives in a car? The shock tolerences are way lower than a laptop drives which would seem to be the better choice for an in-car unit.
Yeah, one could probably build a net-booting (no hd, silent) PC for a lot less money, and have some change left over for a sleek black case. My ideal mp3s-on-the-stereo setup most definitely has the files stored on a server in the other room, and doesn't have a noisy hard disk in the living room.
The device you want is called the Rio Receiver, it has no internal storage, but connects to a file server instead. Much cheaper too.
The Rio Central is a new product for people who want a standalone player.
http://www.kde.org/announcements/k3c-announce.ht ml
In addition to native KDE2 themes, we are pleased to announce that KDE now supports pixmap GTK themes. For importing a GTK theme into KDE, you just need to use the 'klegacyimport' wizard, available as a little standalone GUI application. However, while GTK themes are displayed faster and more efficiently than even native GTK itself, we do not recommend using this format for creating new themes. Theme developers should prefer KDE2's native widget theming which yields superior results both in terms of quality and speed. A nice HowTo and some documentation on KDE2 theming is available here.
a new clipboard system to satisfy the preferences of all users:
KDE continues to offer the standard X-type clipboard; selected text is copied to this clipboard, and clicking the middle mouse button pastes the contents of this clipboard; and
KDE also offers a complementary, independent Windows/Mac-type clipboard; text is inserted in the clipboard using an application's cut/copy (or generally Ctrl-x, Ctrl-c) function, and the application's paste (or generally Ctrl-v) function pastes the contents of this clipboard;
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various third world (to use an obsolete term) nations are far more egregious offenders than the US
In what terms? Absolute? Per captia?
Third world countries economies are generally tiny. Even if each car is more poluting than the average american SUV, it doesn't matter much cause they don't have many cars.
Really america should be comparing itself with the developed world though. Saying 'we are better than bangladesh' doesn't have much impact with me.
Can you come up with one example which makes KDE so unusable that it has to be thrown out?
under windows i can browse all the machines on my network without having to know any cryptic commands and without having to know the names of the machines beforehand.
So if the KDE panel displayed a copyright and license notice in response to some command (such as a click on a menu choice), and Red Hat took it out, that may be a GPL violation.
KDE applications have two Help/About boxes.
They have Help/About KDE
and Help/About application name (e.g. "About Konqueror")
"About KDE" displays information about what the KDE project is, where you can view their webpages etc. This is the one redhat removed.
"About application-name" displays information about the application including who wrote it and the license aggreement.
So, no, redhat did not remove the thing that displayed the license agreement, they removed the annoying redundant one.
Welcome to the wonderful world of KDE development - answerable to TrollTech 100%.
Correction:
Welcome to the wonderful world of commercial closed source developement. Answerable to TrollTech 100% if you choose to use their libraries as the basis for your commercial application.
QT is GPLed so if you are opensource there are no worries.
Too right brother, his work is still doing it's stuff on my box at home
/proc/scsi/BusLogic/0
cat
***** BusLogic SCSI Driver Version 2.1.15 of 17 August 1998 *****
Copyright 1995-1998 by Leonard N. Zubkoff <lnz@dandelion.com>
Configuring BusLogic Model BT-930 PCI Ultra SCSI Host Adapter
Firmware Version: 5.02, I/O Address: 0xDC00, IRQ Channel: 10/Level
PCI Bus: 0, Device: 10, Address: 0xDFFFF000, Host Adapter SCSI ID: 7
Parity Checking: Enabled, Extended Translation: Enabled
Synchronous Negotiation: FUUFFFF#, Wide Negotiation: Disabled
Disconnect/Reconnect: Enabled, Tagged Queuing: Enabled
Driver Queue Depth: 255, Scatter/Gather Limit: 128 segments
Tagged Queue Depth: Automatic, Untagged Queue Depth: 3
Error Recovery Strategy: Default, SCSI Bus Reset: Enabled
SCSI Bus Termination: Enabled, SCAM: Disabled
*** BusLogic BT-930 Initialized Successfully ***
Target 2: Queue Depth 3, Synchronous at 20.0 MB/sec, offset 8
Target 3: Queue Depth 3, Synchronous at 6.67 MB/sec, offset 15
Current Driver Queue Depth: 255
Currently Allocated CCBs: 28
[snip]
The japanese have had remote controled toliets for years...
Where in the defenition of "emulate" does it say the word only pertains to computer hardware?
Wine doesn't emulate a piece of hardware, it emulates an operating system.
Just as a CPU emulator allows you to run code compiled for CPU X on CPU Y, Wine allows you to run code compiled for OS A on OS B.
I hope I never run into this guy in heavy traffic
I imagine just pressing play or changing the volume on that thing would be a challange while driving. Let alone trying to pick a new album.
empeg and similar designs have put much more thought into making something that is actually usable in a car, rather than just something that looks cool.
The biggest issue is space, most new cars aren't designed for the type of space requirements something like this needs.
For the last 20 years or so (depending on brand/model) most cars come with an industry standard DIN slot. That is all the space you need for something like this.
Granted, that guys particular implementation needs more space, but then that guy hasn't put much thought into his implementation. Imagine trying to choose an album from all the 10000+ MP3s files you have installed, while driving. I don't think the standard WinAMP UI was designed for embedded in car use.
A DIN slot is plenty of space for a small integrated motherboard, laptop harddrive or two, a car radio sized display, and a few buttons.
Exactly, he opted in when he choose to put his content up onto the public internet.
The difference is, MSs patch is a widely tested fix that is now available to the end user, and is easily installed by the end user.
The X patch, is a few changes in some source code.
The opensource "3 day" solution is absolutely of no use to the vast majority of end users.
You need to wait for Mandrake or whichever vendor you track to released updated binaries and then measure how long it took.
Of course the opensource solution is superior, in that if security is really really important then you can download all the source, download all the development libraries it depends on, apply the patch, and spend half a day compiling your own copy of X. But the majority of people will wait for the binary RPMS/Debs/whatever.
Yeah, so when i spend 200K on a house all i am buying is a bit of paper and a key.
>Ever remember the Ozone hole craze?
Yes i remember it every summer when i have to put truck loads of sun screen on because the is a big hole in the ozone down here by new zealand.
MS steals intellectual property. And this is news?
It's been a well known fact for decades that MS does not respect other people IP.
Take a look at the whole DOS 6.2 6.21 6.22 fiasco when MS stole stacs compression technology.
No the problem is likely the IDE controller in those "cheap" Suns. Doesn't do DMA = performance sucks.
If sun had put a real IDE host controller in there things would have been better.
Native compilers support a subset of the 1.4 API.
If they shaved 20mm from the width it could have been installed in the Dash like a proper car stereo.
Anyone got any experience running normall desktop drives in a car? The shock tolerences are way lower than a laptop drives which would seem to be the better choice for an in-car unit.
Step 6) Spend several months full time developing a comparable UI.
Or
6b) If you are not a programmer, contract a software firm to develop a comparable UI.
Yeah, one could probably build a net-booting (no hd, silent) PC for a lot less money, and have some change left over for a sleek black case. My ideal mp3s-on-the-stereo setup most definitely has the files stored on a server in the other room, and doesn't have a noisy hard disk in the living room.
The device you want is called the Rio Receiver, it has no internal storage, but connects to a file server instead. Much cheaper too.
The Rio Central is a new product for people who want a standalone player.
Which tittles fail to run due to new patches?
That latest fsgs server has been updated to work with the recent 1.09 patch for starcraft.
The fsgs server was originally a windows port of bnetd.
Nowdays fsgs runs on windows, linux, and FreeBSD.
While it's not GPLed, the battle net server that everyone actually uses is still available.
There's no sign on their homepage that they have received nasty letters.
http://www.fsgs.com
KDE has supported GTK themes for a long time now.
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http://www.kde.org/announcements/k3c-announce.h
In addition to native KDE2 themes, we are pleased to announce that KDE now supports pixmap GTK themes. For importing a GTK theme into KDE, you just need to use the 'klegacyimport' wizard, available as a little standalone GUI application. However, while GTK themes are displayed faster and more efficiently than even native GTK itself, we do not recommend using this format for creating new themes. Theme developers should prefer KDE2's native widget theming which yields superior results both in terms of quality and speed. A nice HowTo and some documentation on KDE2 theming is available here.
KDE1 had it's own drag and drop, in KDE2 it uses the same XDnD protocol as gnome. I can drag and drop between konqueror and GTK apps.
The clipboard is fixed in QT3/KDE3
With QT3 / KDE3 the clipboard will work like it works in most X apps (like GTK based ones).
t a1 .html
http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.0be
a new clipboard system to satisfy the preferences of all users:
KDE continues to offer the standard X-type clipboard; selected text is copied to this clipboard, and clicking the middle mouse button pastes the contents of this clipboard; and
KDE also offers a complementary, independent Windows/Mac-type clipboard; text is inserted in the clipboard using an application's cut/copy (or generally Ctrl-x, Ctrl-c) function, and the application's paste (or generally Ctrl-v) function pastes the contents of this clipboard;