That means Windows will have the same context switching performance hit when resizing windows that anti-X11 trolls rant about on *nix now.
Actually this problem is being worked on. With the combination of a few modules like composite and damage, dragging windows becomes a simple a simple buffer operation instead of switching between the window manager and the X app constantly for screen updates. I believe this has already been fixed a few releases ago, maybe XF4.3 or the initial xorg release.
Resizing could be fixed by using scaling and reducing the redraw requests to the X app by an order of magnitude. With composite the switch between scaled and the last update can be faded in to prevent a jerkyness being visible if the window contents change.
The second paragraph is just arm-chair speculation, so others should have already thought of that. Err damn. There goes a patent opportunity...
MS Office isn't running on most PC's because the consumers chose to use it, but because the PC manufactures preinstalled it.
Bullshit.
Every time I do an install at an office, they want word and excel. When alternatives are suggested, they flat out refuse them.
OOo needs to use less memory, and processor to get its job done. That and some marketing (which they're working on) might do it. The problem now is mindshare. MS has it, and OOo doesn't at the moment.
I'd choose Bill Gates. In game, he would have the same abilities (movement, accuracy, etc) as Conan, but would present a smaller profile and therefore be harder to hit.
I agree with you. In fact you can see that in a lot of video games back in the 2d days. The boss was huge compared to your character.
That is one of the things that appeals about DragonBallZ. You don't have to be big to be powerful. Which allows the young and small to identify. Reminds me of the Jedi, and zelda. Small, but with powerful & agile/big swords.
What I'd like to see is something that allows the agility of human body movement and the power of a tank. That is what was compelling about Exo-Squad
Hmm, just think of what would happen if X-Men, DBZ, WoW, Jedi, Exo-Squad were all merged into one world in a death match type of environment? Hmm, the possibilities...
IIRC only one antivirus program detected and removed it, everyone else was afraid to tangle with Sony. All I remember is that it wasn't Symantec. Some of them remove the rookit part but not the DRM.
all corporate networks that have no windows domain fully deployed yet will be in big trouble, unless the admins deploy some extra security policy that switches back intranet sites to the local zone [...] Looks more like a ploy to force all corporate users to move to active directory asap...
Umm, no.
They are removing the intranet zone from the home edition, and leaving the intranet zone in the pro version. And the intranet zone has less security than the internet zone to allow all of the insecure activex crappy coding and etc to run in a "safe" environment.
Does an article about some Linux initiative in Germany need to involve at some point a discussion of WW2? Why can't we just leave the past in the past and look forwards?
Right, just like those niggers we freed 50 years ago. Why can't they just look forward and not at the past?
Over the years, I have switched my document files from.doc ->.rtf ->.sxw ->.odt.
What happens when a new version of OpenDocument comes out? Do we have to convert again? Will it be like the Word 95 and 97/2k/xp formats that use the same extension, but different formats?
Yes.sxw (the initial draft of OpenDocument when Sun submitted it for standardization) and.odt are fully documented XML, but what happens in one or more centuries when you just have a.odt file, but the spec was lost to history? Do you have to reverse engineer it from the XML? That should be better than a binary format, but I wonder just how much it will help...
Another post in reply to yours said much of what I was going to, but let me add another little tidd-bit.
A few months ago, I went to a UUASC-OC meeting about directory services (which happens to be at the Sun office in Irvine, CA) and the main feature that DS 5.2 adds over 5.1 is "push" based updating when there is a change, instead of updating on a fixed schedule.
4. sudo & AD groups. for the life of me i can't figure out how to get sudo to recognize %domain\linuxadmins as a valid group. `groups` shows me as being part of it, but it's almost as if sudo doesn't like the slash. i've tried escaping it, and tried it without the domain to no avail. ideally, i'd like to set up a group to allow certain users to perform updates when ubuntu notifies them stuff is in need of updateing.
Work around this problem and get a solution that scales better.
Have the desktops auto-update from an internal repository.
When an update comes out, test it on one machine (or several if you have a several configs) and then upload it to the repository.
Less manual work and a completely tested environment.
So the stores that deploy this will end up having a run on earplugs for a day or two
More like they won't be able to talk to their friends in low tones anymore. There is a lot of non-verbal communication going on in a tight nit group, but you still need to be able to hear each other.
Slashdot Mirror
n/t
Well, all things do not have equal value. Some stuff is just crap, engaged in by the dummies.
And yet, if you had one of those dummies you wouldn't be coming home to Mary and her four sisters.
That means Windows will have the same context switching performance hit when resizing windows that anti-X11 trolls rant about on *nix now.
Actually this problem is being worked on. With the combination of a few modules like composite and damage, dragging windows becomes a simple a simple buffer operation instead of switching between the window manager and the X app constantly for screen updates. I believe this has already been fixed a few releases ago, maybe XF4.3 or the initial xorg release.
Resizing could be fixed by using scaling and reducing the redraw requests to the X app by an order of magnitude. With composite the switch between scaled and the last update can be faded in to prevent a jerkyness being visible if the window contents change.
The second paragraph is just arm-chair speculation, so others should have already thought of that. Err damn. There goes a patent opportunity...
Or maybe not!
Vista == Linux.
Now all Linux has to do is move their sound drivers to user space.
Though they have already partially done this with ALSA. All sound mixing is done in userspace now unless there is hardware support for mixing.
With the previous OSS (Open Sound System), most mixing was done in the kernel space drivers.
MS Office isn't running on most PC's because the consumers chose to use it, but because the PC manufactures preinstalled it.
Bullshit.
Every time I do an install at an office, they want word and excel. When alternatives are suggested, they flat out refuse them.
OOo needs to use less memory, and processor to get its job done. That and some marketing (which they're working on) might do it. The problem now is mindshare. MS has it, and OOo doesn't at the moment.
Let's fix that.
I'd choose Bill Gates. In game, he would have the same abilities (movement, accuracy, etc) as Conan, but would present a smaller profile and therefore be harder to hit.
I agree with you. In fact you can see that in a lot of video games back in the 2d days. The boss was huge compared to your character.
That is one of the things that appeals about DragonBallZ. You don't have to be big to be powerful. Which allows the young and small to identify. Reminds me of the Jedi, and zelda. Small, but with powerful & agile/big swords.
What I'd like to see is something that allows the agility of human body movement and the power of a tank. That is what was compelling about Exo-Squad
Hmm, just think of what would happen if X-Men, DBZ, WoW, Jedi, Exo-Squad were all merged into one world in a death match type of environment? Hmm, the possibilities...
Well, that, and I tend to die alot.
awww, bill's dead again
F'ing hillarious!
The theory is "If it stops traffic, it will stop swords and arrows too."
Not to mention how useful those crashed cars are when receiving fire.
IIRC only one antivirus program detected and removed it, everyone else was afraid to tangle with Sony. All I remember is that it wasn't Symantec. Some of them remove the rookit part but not the DRM.
That would be F-Secure
all corporate networks that have no windows domain fully deployed yet will be in big trouble, unless the admins deploy some extra security policy that switches back intranet sites to the local zone
[...]
Looks more like a ploy to force all corporate users to move to active directory asap...
Umm, no.
They are removing the intranet zone from the home edition, and leaving the intranet zone in the pro version. And the intranet zone has less security than the internet zone to allow all of the insecure activex crappy coding and etc to run in a "safe" environment.
Almost like EBCIDIC today... ;)
Does an article about some Linux initiative in Germany need to involve at some point a discussion of WW2? Why can't we just leave the past in the past and look forwards?
Right, just like those niggers we freed 50 years ago. Why can't they just look forward and not at the past?
Will it run, um, er, Windows?
;)
As soon as it is ported to TI's DSP chips.
Do the world a favor and hold your breath until that happens.
Over the years, I have switched my document files from .doc -> .rtf -> .sxw -> .odt.
.sxw (the initial draft of OpenDocument when Sun submitted it for standardization) and .odt are fully documented XML, but what happens in one or more centuries when you just have a .odt file, but the spec was lost to history? Do you have to reverse engineer it from the XML? That should be better than a binary format, but I wonder just how much it will help...
What happens when a new version of OpenDocument comes out? Do we have to convert again? Will it be like the Word 95 and 97/2k/xp formats that use the same extension, but different formats?
Yes
You can always create a section here
Apache does this also.
Oh, you can fill up that memory in the open source world also.
FireFox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice take up the most memory in my desktop system, but the legion of gnome 2.10 processes are close behind.
The funny thing about open source is that it tends to run better over time and updates.
Another post in reply to yours said much of what I was going to, but let me add another little tidd-bit.
A few months ago, I went to a UUASC-OC meeting about directory services (which happens to be at the Sun office in Irvine, CA) and the main feature that DS 5.2 adds over 5.1 is "push" based updating when there is a change, instead of updating on a fixed schedule.
So what we are seeing is the right-wing fuckers and the Bush administration crying like babies over the introductory step towards the problem.
They know very well that "temporary" and "introductory" mean "decades" and "permanent".
I have tested it myself, and Firefox does not crash, it just takes a *long* time to render the page.
This shows that the renderer needs to be threaded to allow for multiple renderings to take place at once.
Or at the very least, the UI and renderer need to be on seperate threads.
4. sudo & AD groups. for the life of me i can't figure out how to get sudo to recognize %domain\linuxadmins as a valid group. `groups` shows me as being part of it, but it's almost as if sudo doesn't like the slash. i've tried escaping it, and tried it without the domain to no avail. ideally, i'd like to set up a group to allow certain users to perform updates when ubuntu notifies them stuff is in need of updateing.
Work around this problem and get a solution that scales better.
Have the desktops auto-update from an internal repository.
When an update comes out, test it on one machine (or several if you have a several configs) and then upload it to the repository.
Less manual work and a completely tested environment.
Verasora/Win4Lin
http://www.versora.com/
That page isn't loading right now, and a google search doesn't come up with anything.
They really need to work on their online presence.
So the stores that deploy this will end up having a run on earplugs for a day or two
More like they won't be able to talk to their friends in low tones anymore. There is a lot of non-verbal communication going on in a tight nit group, but you still need to be able to hear each other.
Then this business will go out of business or change.
No, throwing spark plugs would be better.
I went to a house that used a sound based remote controlled tv and could hear the sounds it made.
I wonder what frequencies it used...