That is not actually true. I have 2 friends that I've known for a many years who work at ibm and there entire department is on linux or freebsd. Don't ask me why or how freebsd got its way onto the desktops but it is probably like how I'm using linux at my office a 2nd machine, wine, or a vm or any other access or means to a windows system (and have had no problems either).
So I'd have to say that your sysadmins are either pampering to the suits (who are all using win2k from what i understood) or a fairly small and narrow chunk of the real developers at IBM:)
That is perhaps the most elitist comment I've heard in a while. Some of us have wife and kids and can't go around pimping out our tv with such frivaleous hardware. And there is a world of difference between stereo and mono and anyone would notice that mono crap in an instant.
Roughly the same thing in theory. Difference is that sun applications are typically compiled using sun compilers and that sun hardware doesn't suck and the sun compiler actually knows when and how to make use of the threading benefits.
So no you shouldn'th ave problems at all with the Niagra proc unless you do something stupid like shove linux on it;)
I can't believe what I'm hearing. I saw the leaked fansub of it last weekend with a group of friends (all of us except 1 is a FFVII die hard loyalist) but that movie really just sucked.
Graphics superb Music great Action scenes good Story Line piece of crap
Yeah the chase scenes were good, the aeris and jack scenes were nestalgic, and the sephoroth fight was totally awesome but all in all about 66% of it was so bad that I wanted a refund on the time it wasted on my watching it.
Actually I used to think the same thing until I started doing real full scale enterprise sites using CSS correctly.
Turns out that colspans are not needed. It is very difficult to explain but the entire paradigm of site design changes and well honestly, it takes longer when you are not used to it (much longer) but once you get into the flow of it, whooweee talk about a speed increase and ease of maintainability.
There are a few IE gotchas but our hotshot team of verterans have all kinds of css/dhtml/ajx things that you just include on the page to work around them. That might be something others will not benefit from the same way I have but if you had access to those scripts life would be great and colspans are never needed.
Sound: Yes you are correct. Only Sound Blaster Lives will not have this problem out of the box because the Live drivers were written by the SB Live ppl themselves as to NOT lock the sound input device when applications wish to use sound.
There is a project called polyaudio which is a drop in replacement for ESD that solves just about everything. It is already superior to ESD in every way plus it does not block sound input at all no matter what driver is used. Faster as well and resolves a lot of latency issues that ESD had plus has a very clean API as well.
Synaptic: The point is that the average mom doesn't use this anyway since all the important things for everyday use is already installed by default.
Applications: This is actually gnome 2.10's fault not ubuntu. Gnome 2.10 is in the middle of a total menu redisign to the freedesktop.org standards. Ubunut is the ONLY DISTRO I know of that has actually addressed this issue by providing links in their forums to SMEG (http://www.realistanew.com/projects/smeg/) which allows you to edit the menus using a gui.
Firefox: Never had a problem with this on either the x86 or the amd64 versions of firefox. I've had issues with some poorly written flash applications chewing up the CPU but if you don't want that flash app (most pop-up adds) you can install adblock extention for firefox and block specific items very well. Perhaps this is why I have never noticed these problems. I've blocked pretty much every advertiser that exists meaning not even their flash stuff will even get downloaded muchless viewed.
Menus: They have done a wonderful addition here but they still have room for growth in my opinion. They have (in addition to all of linux) serious bluetooth issues and it would be nice if bluetooth would work and show up in the places menu as well. Just like their USB storage devices do.
Folder Navigation: Look in the lower-left corner of the window. You see that button which has the folder icon and the name of the current folder. Click it, it will let you choose ANY of the parent directories. Also the Ctrl-L is a very nice shortcut for doign tab-completable (zsh style) directory changing as well but for the new users clicking on that button is the way to do it. You are just PREPROGRAMMED into thinking the windows way of doing it is the best. Once you use spatial for a while correctly you'll quickly realize why I emphasize that comment. Spatial really is great and everyone hates it only because they don't bother to use it and assume that the old outdated ways are best. Also, double-clicking with the middle mouse button will open a folder in a new window rather then the current window.
Nobody has yet to scream bloody murder that I'm aware of. I'm not a redhat user so I can't say if they do this or not but Debian, Ubuntu, and Gentoo make changes all the time especially to firefox (i can only presume mozilla as well but have not had that installed since the 1.3 days).
And yes every now and then they are security patches as well not just a "replaced firefox icon with debian ugly looking all-blue firefox icon" or "patched to work better with tls support" type things.
If it's any harder to install than booting a Knoppix CD, it's not for a novice.
You do of course realize that Knoppix IS a debain based system.
The original comment was probably not referring to the latest debian install which by the way is easier to install but not as pretty as fedora core 1 (yeah I know that isn't the latest fedora but I cannot imagine that much has changed in the installation area yet). My presumption is that knoppix and gnoppix are the debian based systems that was meant.
Um, actually debian unstable has had the X.org version in there for quite some time. They just changed the "version" number of the xfree86 to include a "dfsg" in it to prevent any migration problems by users.
If you've used unstable and have updated anytime within the last 2 or 3 months iirc then you've been using X.org.
While I do find it difficult to accept the concept of a web-based office application not all applications suck for the web.
The most popular example are webmail systems. They are applications and the fact that they are on the web is wonderful for many people as it allows them to have a centralized address book and the ability to safely check their email without having to install or do any work.
IBM is no fool however. I'm sure they know by now that nothing can beat office unless it truely outperforms MS Office in all aspects and thus having to refresh the page a 100 times because you wanted to bold every 3rd word isn't acceptable. Lets see what they release first before saying it sucks. They might just surprise you.
i develop in both c# and java and both ide's are excellent. java actually has the productivity advantage over c# though because of maven, junit, dbunit, apache commons, and jcoverage technologies that c# does not even come close to due to it being a new and immature language currently but i'm quite certain that c# will have tools to one day compete with java on a productivity level.
I have NEVER seen Microsoft even respond to a bug submission that fast, let alone release a working patch.
How many submissions have you made to microsoft?
I've used linux exclusively for 3+ years now and they have excellent (near immediate) responses to submission made and fixes which is superb and I cannot fathom Microsoft being able to do the same. However, I have never sent them anything and have no right to accuse them of anything.
No offense but it is not there mission goal nor has it ever been a mission goal to make windows an easier and better place to be.
You might as well blame the linus torvalds for not making the windows kernel more stable and usable or the authors of reiserfs for not making a windows journaling filesystem.
Perhaps you should try to instead blame windows for not making linux versions of your application instead. If microsoft suddenly decides to drop their mission goal in order to support the competition then I will support you 100% in your request for Ximian to drop their mission goal and support the competition.
If you went and baked your own Triple Chocolate Muffin yourself with your own recipe then it is not stealing. If you stole the companies recipe for Triple Chocolate Muffin and baked it then it is stealing.
If you rewrote the game on your own discs using your computer then no it isn't stealing. Since you are stealing the recipe for the game however it is.
See common sense works even with the most outrageous examples:-)
He was charged after an RCMP investigation found he was selling a line of 413 pirated video games and charging $30 to install "mod chips" in Sony PlayStation video game consoles.
Seems to me that the people saying 413 read the article or copied the correct people. Not sure where 417 came from but my guess is a typo. 430 probably came from somebody who saw the price of $30 and remembered over 400 games were pirated.
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Actually Xerox was responsible for smalltalk.
That is not actually true. I have 2 friends that I've known for a many years who work at ibm and there entire department is on linux or freebsd. Don't ask me why or how freebsd got its way onto the desktops but it is probably like how I'm using linux at my office a 2nd machine, wine, or a vm or any other access or means to a windows system (and have had no problems either).
:)
So I'd have to say that your sysadmins are either pampering to the suits (who are all using win2k from what i understood) or a fairly small and narrow chunk of the real developers at IBM
Doesn't work so well when you normally open 4 terminals to the same remote server.
That is perhaps the most elitist comment I've heard in a while. Some of us have wife and kids and can't go around pimping out our tv with such frivaleous hardware. And there is a world of difference between stereo and mono and anyone would notice that mono crap in an instant.
Roughly the same thing in theory. Difference is that sun applications are typically compiled using sun compilers and that sun hardware doesn't suck and the sun compiler actually knows when and how to make use of the threading benefits.
;)
So no you shouldn'th ave problems at all with the Niagra proc unless you do something stupid like shove linux on it
Works superbly with 64-bit JVM (sun java5) on Linux though ^_^
1. highlight text
2. move mouse to firefox's google search box
3. middle mouse click (pastes things that are highlighted)
4. enter
don't even need to click anything on the search results. the title has the answer.
I can't believe what I'm hearing. I saw the leaked fansub of it last weekend with a group of friends (all of us except 1 is a FFVII die hard loyalist) but that movie really just sucked.
Graphics superb
Music great
Action scenes good
Story Line piece of crap
Yeah the chase scenes were good, the aeris and jack scenes were nestalgic, and the sephoroth fight was totally awesome but all in all about 66% of it was so bad that I wanted a refund on the time it wasted on my watching it.
Google Web Search: http://www.google.com/
Google Image Search: http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi&q=
Google Sets: http://labs.google.com/sets
Google Compute: http://toolbar.google.com/dc/offerdc.html
I'm sure there are others as well.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/roadmap.ht ml
1.5 is a major update in the mozilla world. 1.1 is a minor update.
Actually I used to think the same thing until I started doing real full scale enterprise sites using CSS correctly.
Turns out that colspans are not needed. It is very difficult to explain but the entire paradigm of site design changes and well honestly, it takes longer when you are not used to it (much longer) but once you get into the flow of it, whooweee talk about a speed increase and ease of maintainability.
There are a few IE gotchas but our hotshot team of verterans have all kinds of css/dhtml/ajx things that you just include on the page to work around them. That might be something others will not benefit from the same way I have but if you had access to those scripts life would be great and colspans are never needed.
just follow these steps after installing the debian nvidia-source package.
/usr/src
cd
tar xvfz nvidia-source-version.tar.gz
module-assistant a-i nvidia-source
DONE! works like a charm on debian stable/testing/unstable
Sound: Yes you are correct. Only Sound Blaster Lives will not have this problem out of the box because the Live drivers were written by the SB Live ppl themselves as to NOT lock the sound input device when applications wish to use sound.
There is a project called polyaudio which is a drop in replacement for ESD that solves just about everything. It is already superior to ESD in every way plus it does not block sound input at all no matter what driver is used. Faster as well and resolves a lot of latency issues that ESD had plus has a very clean API as well.
Synaptic: The point is that the average mom doesn't use this anyway since all the important things for everyday use is already installed by default.
Applications: This is actually gnome 2.10's fault not ubuntu. Gnome 2.10 is in the middle of a total menu redisign to the freedesktop.org standards. Ubunut is the ONLY DISTRO I know of that has actually addressed this issue by providing links in their forums to SMEG (http://www.realistanew.com/projects/smeg/) which allows you to edit the menus using a gui.
Firefox: Never had a problem with this on either the x86 or the amd64 versions of firefox. I've had issues with some poorly written flash applications chewing up the CPU but if you don't want that flash app (most pop-up adds) you can install adblock extention for firefox and block specific items very well. Perhaps this is why I have never noticed these problems. I've blocked pretty much every advertiser that exists meaning not even their flash stuff will even get downloaded muchless viewed.
Menus: They have done a wonderful addition here but they still have room for growth in my opinion. They have (in addition to all of linux) serious bluetooth issues and it would be nice if bluetooth would work and show up in the places menu as well. Just like their USB storage devices do.
Folder Navigation: Look in the lower-left corner of the window. You see that button which has the folder icon and the name of the current folder. Click it, it will let you choose ANY of the parent directories. Also the Ctrl-L is a very nice shortcut for doign tab-completable (zsh style) directory changing as well but for the new users clicking on that button is the way to do it. You are just PREPROGRAMMED into thinking the windows way of doing it is the best. Once you use spatial for a while correctly you'll quickly realize why I emphasize that comment. Spatial really is great and everyone hates it only because they don't bother to use it and assume that the old outdated ways are best. Also, double-clicking with the middle mouse button will open a folder in a new window rather then the current window.
Nobody has yet to scream bloody murder that I'm aware of. I'm not a redhat user so I can't say if they do this or not but Debian, Ubuntu, and Gentoo make changes all the time especially to firefox (i can only presume mozilla as well but have not had that installed since the 1.3 days).
And yes every now and then they are security patches as well not just a "replaced firefox icon with debian ugly looking all-blue firefox icon" or "patched to work better with tls support" type things.
You do of course realize that Knoppix IS a debain based system.
The original comment was probably not referring to the latest debian install which by the way is easier to install but not as pretty as fedora core 1 (yeah I know that isn't the latest fedora but I cannot imagine that much has changed in the installation area yet). My presumption is that knoppix and gnoppix are the debian based systems that was meant.
Um, actually debian unstable has had the X.org version in there for quite some time. They just changed the "version" number of the xfree86 to include a "dfsg" in it to prevent any migration problems by users.
If you've used unstable and have updated anytime within the last 2 or 3 months iirc then you've been using X.org.
While I do find it difficult to accept the concept of a web-based office application not all applications suck for the web.
The most popular example are webmail systems. They are applications and the fact that they are on the web is wonderful for many people as it allows them to have a centralized address book and the ability to safely check their email without having to install or do any work.
IBM is no fool however. I'm sure they know by now that nothing can beat office unless it truely outperforms MS Office in all aspects and thus having to refresh the page a 100 times because you wanted to bold every 3rd word isn't acceptable. Lets see what they release first before saying it sucks. They might just surprise you.
eclipse.org
i develop in both c# and java and both ide's are excellent. java actually has the productivity advantage over c# though because of maven, junit, dbunit, apache commons, and jcoverage technologies that c# does not even come close to due to it being a new and immature language currently but i'm quite certain that c# will have tools to one day compete with java on a productivity level.
They are already going to have tabbed browsing in their longhorn browser. They are not going to give it to any prior version of windows.
How many submissions have you made to microsoft?
I've used linux exclusively for 3+ years now and they have excellent (near immediate) responses to submission made and fixes which is superb and I cannot fathom Microsoft being able to do the same. However, I have never sent them anything and have no right to accuse them of anything.
No offense but it is not there mission goal nor has it ever been a mission goal to make windows an easier and better place to be.
You might as well blame the linus torvalds for not making the windows kernel more stable and usable or the authors of reiserfs for not making a windows journaling filesystem.
Perhaps you should try to instead blame windows for not making linux versions of your application instead. If microsoft suddenly decides to drop their mission goal in order to support the competition then I will support you 100% in your request for Ximian to drop their mission goal and support the competition.
It is the theft of intellectual property.
:-)
If you went and baked your own Triple Chocolate Muffin yourself with your own recipe then it is not stealing. If you stole the companies recipe for Triple Chocolate Muffin and baked it then it is stealing.
If you rewrote the game on your own discs using your computer then no it isn't stealing. Since you are stealing the recipe for the game however it is.
See common sense works even with the most outrageous examples
Or the sensible option of install mozilla and never read email or visit websites with microsoft products :-p
That is beta as you can clearly see if you actually try using it.