Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 382
The kernel is probably the smallest change.
It's all the library versions, gnome/kde,
and renamed dependencies. Most of the changes
seem to be GUI related...
Comment Re:MS is in the wrong here. (Score 2, Interesting) 207
The wheel is obvious, in hindsight. Look, i4i managed to convince MS that the idea was good enough to include in Word. But apparently
the idea was not obvious enough that MS thought of it first, independently. In short, theft.
Comment Re:Strong Opinion != Troll (Score 1) 224
Couldn't get kmail (kde 4.5) to even stay running under Ubuntu 10.10. On Ubuntu 10.04, had to
run kde 3 to get an even usable kmail.
Really, these may all be just Ubuntu issues, but kde does not really seem viable to Ubuntu users.
Comment Re:For "personal" Apps (Score 1) 331
To further clarify, if you need to "draw" advanced features such as antialiased lines/shapes, Tkpath is required.
Otherwise, simple shapes, images and widgets work well in the standard canvas.
For shaped toplevels ala skinned interfaces, see shaped windows
Comment Re:For "personal" Apps (Score 2, Informative) 331
Beyond basic Tcl/Tk, you might look at Wize, which includes 3 canvas options:
- Canvas: with image tiling support added
- Tkpath: Canvas based on SVG (backends Cairo, GDI, CoreGraphics)
- Canvas3d: for OpenGL (not relevant here)
Wize is under BSD licence, has minimal dependencies and offers pre-builts for Linux-i386 and Windows.
Disclaimer: I am a Wize developer
Comment Which OS (Score 1) 600
The choice of OS really depends on what business the 20 person company is involved in.
If it is marketing related, Windows will probably be mandated because "it looks nicer".
However, Windows comes with hidden costs in the form of viruses, botnets and EOL pressures.
Linux makes sense where "function" trumps "form"
Comment You are not alone. (Score 1) 385
You might try this solution by the author of sqlite...
http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=ExperimentalMailUserAgent
3 Drinks a Day Keeps the Doctor Away 470
Nzimmer911 writes "Heavy drinkers outlive non-drinkers according to a 20 years study following 1,824 people. From the article: 'But a new paper in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research suggests that - for reasons that aren't entirely clear - abstaining from alcohol does actually tend to increase one's risk of dying even when you exclude former drinkers. The most shocking part? Abstainers' mortality rates are higher than those of heavy drinkers.'"
Canadian Cannabis Car 120
sykobabul writes "The CBC is reporting: 'An electric car made of hemp is being developed by a group of Canadian companies in collaboration with an Alberta Crown corporation. The Kestrel will be prototyped and tested later in August by Calgary-based Motive Industries Inc., a vehicle development firm focused on advanced materials and technologies, the company announced.' Leave it to us Canadians to come up with all sorts of uses for cannabis."
Woman's Nude Pics End Up Online After Call To Tech Support 197
Tara Fitzgerald couldn't find the nude pictures she planned on sending to her boyfriend, but instead of just taking more, she decided to see if a Dell tech support call could fix her problem. Apparently the tech support guy found them. Unfortunately, he then put them up on a site called "bitchtara."
Comment Re:Hmm... I am going to pass for now on servers... (Score 1) 269
Those who installed Mythbuntu learned first hand of the issues with Reiser.
The high throughput of myth recording (2gig per hour) exercised bugs
that most regular users would never see.
In my case my capacity disappeared slowly over the space of
a month or so until my empty disk was full!
So the "most users find it great" endorsement just doesn't mean much anymore.
Really, I hope that Ubuntu has learned by now that ext3 has been hugely
tested, in virtually every concievable combination.
Comment 9/11 unreality (Score 1) 280
9/11 is simply the result of a well organized terrorist group
recognizing:
- Planes are really flying bombs.
- The open cockpit-door policy.
Most other kneejerk "security enhancements" are simply
various power groups capitalizing on 9/11 to advance their
own agendas.
Comment Re:this battle was over a long time ago (Score 2, Interesting) 501
Yeah their licensing terms could change,...
Did you ever consider that maybe this is googles goal? Just the treat of VP8 could be enough to force h.264 to change to a less restrictive licence...
Comment to ldd, or not to ldd (Score 1) 184
Presumably, one puts a binary on their system because they intend to execute it. In fact one mainly uses ldd after executing a program, and getting a missing library message.
If ldd was a virus scanner, this would be a big deal. But come on, accepting a binary from an untrusted source onto your system is asking for it, even if ldd didn't do this.
Comment Linux, plural. (Score 1) 487
The vast majority of all desktop computers out there are x86. The vast majority of Linux desktops, ditto.
That said, currently we can't even easily produce binaries that run on multiple distributions for just the x86 .
Generally speaking, unlike Windows/OSX, you can not just get "the Linux Desktop Version" of a program. There is no Linux desktop. There is a plethora of them. For better or worse, the issues and complexity that arise from this plurality are due to the lack of central management and control.
