Pete Santiago wrote:
>> You're right it shouldn't eat swap, only if the buffers/cache is
>> bigger than the total space by loaded apps and libraries. The 916k you
>> see there are probably least used pages downgraded to swap, which is a
>> good thing because it usually means that Linux is taking b
JM Ibanez wrote:
> In fact, I don't think the FTP protocol was designed
> to be used as part of a VFS layer, and may in fact present novel
> challenges to a VFS layer designer. Samba and NFS are both designed with
> VFS issues in mind (or at least were designed in the knowledge that they
> would b
Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote:
> But Andy, I suppose you have not heard of the inconvenient fact that
> it's at this point impossible to shrink any logical volume without
> unmounting it
Hmm... I would've thought otherwise reading the Suse whitepaper
on LVM: http://www.suse.com/en/whitepapers/lvm/l
Michael Tinsay wrote:
> All this talk about the subject matter, and I may have
> missed the original point, but why put root on an LVM?
> It doesn't really need it, right? I mean, compared
> to the subfolder like /home, /usr, and even /etc, the
> root folder doesn't really grow or shrink.
This i
JM Ibanez wrote:
> My main qualm about VFS magic to make remote filesystems look local is
> that it makes users forget that the filesystem is remote-- which means
> that the code has to do all this black magic to make sure that the
> remote filesystem acts local. I mean, especially with FTP or any
EVMS (Enterprise Volume Management System), from IBM,
looks like one cool utility that allows centralized
management of all your volumes and file systems. md,
LVM, LVM2, ext2/3fs, reiserfs, jfs, xfs, DOS, BSD, MAC
partitions, etc... etc... you name it, it's supposed
to provide unified management fo
Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote:
>>Otoh, I can't seem to get rid of the requirement to use an initrd.
>>Even though all the initrd really does is to run vgscan/vgchange -ay
>>(no pivot_root necessary), there still seems to be some black magic
>>involved in that.
>
> Exactly. That's why I don't think
Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote:
> Well, yeah, I eventually managed to put my root partition on LVM. My
> old, now retired IBM laptop had this setup. However, after experiencing
> some problems with a few other machines that I tried to do this on, I
> decided not to do this in the future.
What kind
Dean wrote:
> Only problems I could think of would be caching, file-seek
> operations, and locking mechanisms. Sockets bound to files,
> fifo's, mmaped files originating from a remote FTP filesystem
> are just some of the problems that would be dealt with -- just
> off the top of my head.
http://
Ariz wrote:
> on some applications, it might be cool but the reason why we're
> migrating from SMB to FTP is to avoid the processing of files
> directly on the the server which tends to bring down the machine
> to its knees.
Why go to the trouble of converting the whole setup to FTP? If
you made
brentoy wrote:
> andy,
> i understand clearly that ftp & nfs are clearly different but what i
> understood of bryan's problem was he wanted to access files on a box
> that he FTPs to,as a local mount. i also assume that he didnt want to
> start ftp (or scp or sftp over ssh whatever the case may be)
Andy Sy wrote:
> Microsoft's CIFS (what they are evolving SMB towards) is
> about providng similar functionality (enabling filesystem
> mounts across the Internet).
Just to clarify... Not mounts per se (as that concept is not
really present in NT) but rather the idea of having remo
bryan wrote:
> Yup I meant I want to I access a box/server that I FTP
> to as a local mount but not only via konqueor.
>
> can this be configured. :)
brentoy at gmail.com wrote:
> yes,it can be.u might wanna read up on configuring nfs (network file
> system).i figure itll answer pretty much
C Blue wrote:
> __\/__
> . / ^ _ \ .
> |\| (o)(o) |/|
> #.OOOo--oo--oOOO.---#
> # Why geeks like computers: unzip, strip, #
> # touch, finger, grep, mount, fsck, more, #
> # yes,fsck,fsck,fsck,umount, sleep.
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 17:43, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote:
> Is there a way to do this, I wonder? I tried it with Gentoo
> and well, it didn't work out right. The HOWTO seems to indicate
> that it is possible, but then again, no Linux system I've seen
> that supports LVM allows you to do it. SuSE
>From one of the core developers of Slackware
comes Peachtree Linux:
http://peachtree.burdell.org/
Peachtree Linux could be the next proper
evolution after Slackware seeing as how it
is fully aware of the Slackware philosophy
and tries to improve it in a logical direction:
http://peachtree.burde
Newer versions of LILO support booting directly off
of a RAID1 md (multiple devices) partition, but if you
want to go RAID0 (striped), here's a very good workaround.
It relies on the fact that LILO only needs to load the
stuff in /boot (e.g. the kernel) while everything else is
loaded in by the ke
Migs Paraz wrote:
>> wrote:
>> This is contrast to ServerBeach's AUP that restricts such things as IRC,
>> Peer-to-Peer File Transfer (BitTorrent, et al), illegal and adult
>> content. Must be attracting a certain group of people. I wanna check
>> them out, though.
> I talked with my host about th
Bopolissimus Platypus Jr wrote:
> might not be marketing, they might have been rooted and
> a bot was attacking elsewhere. or worse.
>
> i really doubt if it's marketing. you don't want to be probing
> someone else's boxes when you're trying to sell a service that's
> supposed to be secure.
Right.
Finally found one provider: http://www.sagonet.net
Pretty friendly rates too... starting at $65/month
How did I come across them? Checking /var/log/messages
on a server I had set up revealed some ssh logon attempts.
Tracerouted the IP address back to them. Nice marketing
tactic hehehe.
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Ok... I think the picture is clearer now...
Linux's modern fork() is copy-on-write by default and thus
involve much less overhead than other Unix's fork()s.
For some of these other *nixes, you can call a different
function, vfork() to get copy-on-write processes.
So Linux fork() and other unices' v
How is XMLHttpRequest support in Mozilla these
days? It has worked on IE for a long time already,
but I encountered a bug on Mozilla around 6-8 months
ago. It may be fixed by now.
AJAX, asynchronous javascript... etc... are just
unnecessarily fancy buzzwords for one simple, yet
important and hith
Andy Sy wrote:
That is of course a given for M:Ncpus (or any M:1 scheme) -
assuming that M implies userland threads (ala linuxthreads).
It is due to the fact that linuxthreads are an M:1 scheme (M:Ncpu
too?) that Firebird Superserver on Linux does not display the same
problem. OTOH, this also
Eduardo Tongson wrote:
AS> So M:1 for a 1-cpu machine and M:2 for a 2-cpu machine,
AS> right? Hmmm, I wonder what the different implications
AS> for CPU load-balancing are between an M:Ncpus approach
AS> versus a 1:1 scheduler.
ET> Minus the overhead of context switching in the kernel
That is of c
Eduardo Tongson wrote:
ET> in M:N N is a dynamic number of kernel contexts
ET> in M:Ncpus N is the number of cpus.
ET> Any number of threads is managed by these fixed number
ET> of kernel contexts
So M:1 for a 1-cpu machine and M:2 for a 2-cpu machine,
right? Hmmm, I wonder what the different impl
Eduardo Tongson wrote:
AS> Ah, so DragonFly is doggedly sticking to M:N eh? Interesting.
AS>
ET> DragonFly will be using a MxN variant, M:Ncpus
How does M:Ncpus differ exactly from M:N ?
AS> The Linux clone() call can take different parameters to make
AS> spawned code take on either the characteri
I have to say that the juiciest hardcore Linux technical info I've
found so far are the Ottawa Linux Symposium papers found at and
freely downloadable from
http://www.linuxsymposium.org
One glance at the myriad topics discussed in these papers and
you know that the future of Linux is alive, well an
Anyone here have experience using FreeBSD based VPSes
and how do they compare with Linux-based ones?
Am I right in assuming the FreeBSD 'jail' is the equivalent
of 'user mode Linux'? Also, besides UML, are there other
VPS enabling mechanisms available for Linux?
How does 'jail' reliability/stabili
Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote:
>> i only tried XUL and XPCOM once(nearly 4 years ago)... and i lost
>> interest in it after
>> a month or so since it meant convincing alot of ppl to use mozilla(or a
>> XUL-app launcher)
>> to launch my applications...
> Well, I would consider that a good thing, conv
Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote:
DWL-G520+ on Win XP machine <--> DWL-2000AP+ on Linux machine
I should be getting that turbo speedup...
Isn't the DWL-G520 using the Atheros chipset? If so, you'd want the
Madwifi drivers (madwifi.sf.net).
That's the maddening thing about a lot of these wifi adapter
m
Pong wrote:
>> Another trick I realized is that if you do not want to mess
>> around with chipsets and drivers, you can just spend extra
>> and buy an Access Point like the Dlink DWL-2000AP+, plug
>> it into your Ethernet port and voila, you're wirelessly
>> connected!
> that is a really neat trick
Ok, after further digging into the subject and sourcing
around for hardware, here's some new info re the subject
Prism-based chipsets are hard to find, but Ralink RT2500 based
PCI wireless LAN adapters seem to be quite cheap and plentiful
locally (significantly cheaper than Dlink).
http://ralink.ra
Amazing stuff. Yet another reason to go Mozilla.
I always believed that you could write Rich Internet
Applications (RIAs) using XUL. Can anyone else
see the implications in a corp setting? Take that, IE!
XUL itself is really really cool. But the other parts
of what you need to make it work on Mo
If I use wireless USB 2.0 network devices
instead of PCI cards, will I be able to get
away from worrying about Linux driver support
for a particular 802.11g chipset?
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In trying to link a simple Xlib program (under Slackware 10),
I came across the following puzzling problem:
Even though /usr/X11R6/lib is present in ld.so.conf and
I ran ldconfig to double-check, when I do the ff:
gcc xprog.c -lX11
I get an "unable to find -lX11" message from ld. I have
to specify
Which 802.11g chipsets used in wireless PCI network
adapters currently have the most mature driver support
under Linux?
The Ralink RT2500 seem to be the most widely
used in PCI cards, but the Linux drivers for it still
seem to be in an early state.
Anyone have any recommendations for 802.11g
wirel
I recently told a friend of mine that I have always
considered Linux to be way more desirable and practical
than NT as a server platform but that if it came down
to a choice between using Red Hat vs. Windows Server 2003,
that I would actually choose the latter.
I haven't used Redhat in a looong tim
Is there an equivalent to the _heapwalk() functions
in GCC? If not, how does one examine the heap in GCC
or does this somehow not apply?
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> SQL injection works via substituting an SQL query to a
> variable. Query strings that are not transformed properly
> prior to being executed are most vulnerable to such.
> If you've got a web application that would access a database
> (e.g. e-commerce, secure logins, data drawn from database, etc
Sherwin Daganato wrote:
> Time to kill that old conference. I didn't notice since I don't get the
> bounced message. BTW, you might also want to know that your mail user
> agent has been breaking plug email threads for a year or so now.
Oh yeah, that's not due to Mozilla Mail but because I don't
re
Reading up on SNAP reveals it is a very interesting
piece of technology indeed...
http://www.scitechsoft.com/pdf/White_paper_072003_r1.pdf
To summarize: port SNAP to your OS once and you are
able to use all the drivers already working with SNAP!
This means your old OS (for which drivers for newer
This is one very good reason, imo, to consider
using Pandora: The possibility of stand-alone
Linux games that don't require you to be
running X.
http://www.rocklyte.com/faq-development.html#Q4
"It is worth mentioning that unlike other operating
systems, Pandora does not use a separate interface
Is it just me or is everyone else posting
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] always getting the
bounced message below from emc.com.ph? IIRC,
this has been going on for at least a year
already if not longer...
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ed wrote:
> I installed Athene 4.1 last week, yes it loads fast and is very
> responsive(maybe because of SNAP) but that's it. Usability is
> crappy(fugly fonts etc.) and native apps for athene are scarce
> but that may change in the future.
Hmmm... the fonts on the screenshots look ok...
http://ww
Jose Victor Matin Jr. wrote:
> He wasn't referring to OS X and XP GUI speed as slow.
> He merely stated that Athene redraw's FASTER than those
> two. Only X was referred to as having slow redraws.
That I understood. I just meant to comment that I'm
quite happy with redraw speed on OS X and WinXP
Dido Sevilla wrote:
> "Last year as early as February..."
> Maybe you should say "Early last year, in February..."
Or, more in keeping with the original intended tone...
"As early as February last year"
Mind you, I have not always agreed with my high school
grammar teachers on usage rules. I do be
From http://distributions.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/09/01/1735216
"Athene is a combination of a custom Linux From Scratch-derived
operating system using the 2.6.7 kernel, SciTech SNAP Graphics
drivers, and the Athene Desktop featuring the Pandora graphics
toolkit. It was designed from the ground
Sorry for this OT post, but does anyone know of an alternative
way to reach the administrator of lists.free.net.ph (besides
email for that domain)? It looks like its mail system has
been down for the last two weeks plus already.
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Sun takes aim at Red Hat.
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Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote:
It really all depends on whether the decades old architecture of X is
holding us back and as such is better shoved into an isolated part and no
longer enhanced, or if its extension mechanism is still up to the task of
embracing the latest innovations without compromise.
Eric Pareja wrote:
>> dido at impreium.ph wrote:
>>
>> It mutated into Display PDF and is now a key component of MacOS X.
>
> Thanks. I'm wondering though if it's still built atop X just like DPS?
Nope. Quartz/Quartz Extreme is its own display server.
And if I understand correctly... Aqua is [more
Xander Solis wrote:
Well.. i think its rather rare that common "user-land" programs would interact
with kernel space threads, unless it would require kernel managed tasks or routines.
>
> In my opinion, native threads would suffice, if programs are only designed for
> small specific tasks or would
This, by the way, is another excellent must-read article for those
who wish to understand the evolution of threading mechanisms on
Linux.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/11/07/linux_threads.html?page=1
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Xander Solis wrote:
Sounds like blabbering to me :) Well.. programming is hard for programmers who
don't think for a moment, plan and design before diving into coding, as it is
life is hard for people who live their life with no sort of plan at all :)
my 2 cents worth...
The main complaint is that
http://home.ozonline.com.au/davmac/lintrouble.html
Are we still stuck on glibc-2.3.2 release (which does
not include NPTL support) up to now? Are all the
distros out there which have NPTL (which ones are they
btw...?) all using from-CVS glibc?
We've been hearing lots of bragging about NPTL, but i
Can't seem to get any Google results for
"speculative locking Samba", "speculative locking SMB"
or even "speculative locking NFS"
What exactly is 'speculative locking' in the context of
Samba?
Orlando Andico wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Andy Sy wrote:
.
More whining re glibc from
http://www.tenslashsix.com/index.php (2004-06-30 blog entry)
"The fact of the matter is this is a result of basically one
thing: glibc folks deciding that releases aren’t worth while
and that distros should just take snapshots at their leisure.
People talk about linux not
culous XOR cursor redraw mechanism a patent, and big companies
like Apple are meekly paying the royalties for that today. SCO
are counting on similar [mis]judgements on these issues they are
raising.
Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote:
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 22:58, Andy Sy wrote:
From http://sco.com/5reasons
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Testament, I suppose, to the sound elegance of the
> ideas embodied in Unix, that thirty years on it still
> more or less works.
I will certainly not disagree with this statement. Even
MS finds it necessary to rips off a lot of concepts from *nix
such as Winsock (their re-imple
> doesn't this say something about the Philippines?
>
> Malaysia: Its open source from now on
>
http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/7/16/technology/8461653&sec=technology
Practically speaking (and more and more, technically as well), I
feel Windows is superior to Linux on more po
Earl R. Lapus wrote:
> you seem to have the habit of replying to your own emails... =)
Often unable to resist the itch to send out email too early and
in the process find myself missing a few imp't. points I wanted
to include...
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http://sco.com/scosource/abi_files_letter_20031219.pdf
lists the 'ABIs' in question which are apparently C header
files...
Andy Sy wrote:
From http://sco.com/5reasons/
Here's a particularly interesting assertion (#5):
"While some application programming interfaces ("
From http://sco.com/5reasons/
Here's a particularly interesting assertion (#5):
"While some application programming interfaces ("API Code") have
been made available over the years through POSIX and other open
standards, the UNIXÂ ABI Code has only been made available under
copyright restrictions. A
One of the latest SCO documents concerning their Linux lawsuit.
It makes for surprisingly juicy reading despite the appearance
of being a legal document.
http://sco.com/ibmlawsuit/20040708_John_Harrop_Declaration_Final_1.pdf
Mother page at http://sco.com/ibmlawsuit has more documents.
Does SCO real
Last time I checked, bloated, GUIfied Linux distros like Mandrake
have intolerably long boot times and it doesn't sound like the
situation is getting any better.
Windows XP uses a very sophisticated but in some senses
very 'artificial' (i.e. non-general) method of improving
boot times as documented
x27;s statements
being seen as more anti-open source than he might have
meant them to be.
Orlando Andico wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:46:35 +0800, Andy Sy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
..
IIRC, the first source of the quote which elicited
much furor at Joey was a tech-ed column in the Inquir
From
http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux04/Asus_Sucks_Story-01.html
> All Motherboards Should be 100% Linux Compatible
>
> Therefore, it is important to the continued and successful
> growth of the Linux operating system and its deployment that
> all motherboards support Linux 100 per-cent. It's also
I visited the link to Joey's column
http://www.itnetcentral.com/computerworld/article.asp?id=13725&leveli=0&info=Computerworld
and read it more carefully. He comes across as a very
reasonable guy with very salient points. Yes, apparently
IQ-challenged reporters, etc... do quote his statements
wil
> To be fair to Mr. Gurango. I mentioned this article to him and he said
> that the paper totally got him out of context.
> Currently, Mr. Gurango is investing in two Open-Source startups, one
> is just starting and the other one is doing well so far and might exit
> from his tutelage by next year.
> On the typical UML solution, you are sharing the 'powerful
> server' with other UML instances.
Yes, I had this suspicion that UML hosting cannot be taken to
mean true dedicated server.
Is there anyone out there offering UML on its own dedicated
server (i.e. one server per user)? Because I can st
Regarding linode and the other user-mode-linux using 'dedicated server'
hosting... are they really suited for a very high traffic site?
I do have serious doubts about this.
But also, do they offer some significant maintenance / stability /
security advantages that would offset this to a great degre
Teejay Teodoro wrote:
Heya Andy,
I just Google'd... "slackware colocation" or "slackware dedicated hosting"
Was supposed to paste everything pero hehe baka masipa ako sa list... x.X
Yah... that's the problem, I'm not getting good results on a Google
search, so I was hoping some people here
Hi, does anyone out there know of any US-based dedicated
server hosting services which offer Slackware (preferably 10)
on their machines?
TIA.
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Andy Sy wrote:
> Orlando Andico wrote:
>
>> Andy Sy wrote:
>>It is so disappointing to hear of a *nix desktop regressing to the
>>quality of a Win 9x one.
>
> I don't believe it. That sort of behavior is probably on a sub-500MHz box
> with 64MB or 128MB of RAM
Zak B. Elep wrote:
Not to mention the licensing issues ;) Even debian-devel's having a
brawl on this (I don't think it's gotta do with the licensing
though). The flames there are really burning...
Yes, this licensing you mentioned is one of the things I had in
mind when I mentioned their alienating
Kenneth Oncinian wrote:
Although I am using XFS, Reiserfs and Ext3 filesystems in my production
servers, I don't have any benchmarks done personally to compare these 3
wonderful filesystems to backup my claims.
Btw, the Evil Empire's NTFS feels like one heck of a high performance
journaling files
Orlando Andico wrote:
> lots of people deride X for being bloaty, but having a
> network-transparent rendering system is pretty useful.
You know what's shitty? The fact that no one out there
seems to be interested in providing a freely available
reference for the low level X protocol!!
The only so
Anyone here using IBM's JFS, SGI's XFS, or reiserfs in
lieu of ext3fs?
How do the three compare in terms of performance,
compatibility and stability? Any reason why we shouldn't
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Andy Sy wrote:
Does anyone also know X.org's efforts relate to freedesktop.org's?
Will the freedesktop.org people be maintaining and releasing new
versions of the Xorg server?
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On Slackware 10 and many other distros you will see that
they have switched over to using X.org's distribution of
X11 (based on XFree86 4.4.0rc2) instead of the one from
Xfree86.
It seems that the XFree organization has been alienating
people left and right ever since they booted out Keith
Packard
Andy Sy wrote:
5-8 years ago, my perception was that Linux put Microsoft on the
defensive. I think today, it's the other way around.
Sorry... proper time frame is actually *3-5* years ago...
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Orly wrote:
>> dido at imperium.ph wrote:
>>
>> Have you tried looking at an actual SOAP message? Text-based it
>> may be, but it's about as human-readable as the crud that MS
>> Word's HTML exporter produces.
> No, I find it *quite* human-readable.
> MS .NET produces nicer-looking SOAP envelopes
From
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/07/05/browser_wars_to_recommence.html
"Some people now perceive Internet Explorer and Internet Banking as a
potentially lethal cocktail that must not be mixed, with insiders in the
banking industry urging their families to switch if not operating
systems,
JM Ibanez wrote:
Again, that is not the point. For us (as Linux users) to be able to
inform people about Linux and allow them to make a rational &
objective decision, we have to know the strengths and weakness of our
platform. "Know thine enemy" and "Know thyself" and all that.
When I read their pu
Orlando Andico wrote:
Orly, now you're /scaring/ me... have you turned over that
completely to the Dark Side? :-D
Of course not. :P
Note I said "they have a solution to EVERYTHING."
Not necessarily the BEST solution. :D
One of my most scathing criticisms about people who
know MS technologies exc
Holden Hao wrote:
You can stuff your Windoze PC with as many apps and drivers as
you like, 2K and especially XP, will do a good job of protecting
the system even if you are Administrator (which is essentially what
you want to be running as unless you're a bloody masochist).
Hmmn... does this apply
Andy Sy wrote:
> We were commenting on the implications of SOAP here earlier in
> this thread...
>
> http://lists.free.net.ph/pipermail/compsci/2004-June/001899.html
And if you check the link Dido gave at the end...
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0006.html#SOAP
You'll realiz
Joel Realubit wrote:
since .NET and CORBA was already mentioned, let me just add gSOAP
(http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen/soap.html), an open-source C/C++ web
services toolkit. its a lot more mature than Apache Axis C++, and its
already being used in some commercial products. its pretty good as far
GNUStep, Mono (.NET), DCOP, Bonobo, XPCOM, CORBA...
which component/distributed object model to adopt?
Like the GUI widget scene, you've got so many options for
binary/distributed object interoperability in Linux. Choice
is clearly a two edged sword.
Mono (and .NET and Longhorn):
1. It is a manage
> Start reading up on the .NET Framework. i've met some VERY talented M$
> developers and to tell you the truth, they HUMBLE me. these are guys who
> work on P50 million software projects. all on .NET.
... I'm still not convinced by .NET, I have a hunch most of these
projects will end up being wast
Zak B. Elep wrote:
I've grown up from several Windows kiosk LANs,
and even up to now most of those still end up installing and
reinstalling...
Right. Even if stable, I don't think using Windoze for kiosks is
a smart move - very expensive license for something which is not
going to see general use
OT because this is more about Windows than Linux, but
I think some people might be interested in the environment
comparison.
Holden Hao wrote:
What applications do you have on WinXP? I recall that I had Win98
boxes before that were "stable enough" but the applications installed
were minimal. I g
Orlando Andico wrote:
Hey guess what -- my Win2k desktop lasted *THREE YEARS* until some dratted
winmodem driver broke it. :P
LOL... how unbelievably ironic!
It's not as pretty as XP though. But it works fine.
Main con of 2K is it takes 5 times or longer to boot up than XP...
First thing I do wi
Orlando Andico wrote:
Hey Andy,
Call me a GNOME zealot but I always suspected that KDE was somehow, SLOWER
than GNOME/Gtk. I could never shake the feeling, although I never could
quantify it, KDE on the same box always felt a tad more sluggish than
GNOME. Maybe it's their wretched "kicker" or wh
I get to observe lots of boxes running Linux: mandrake, fedora. About
50 computers, all running new releases of mdk. I work as an SA in a
inet cafe so the number 1 observation is the dead slow GUI.
So it is your confirmed observation that a Mandrake desktop is really
more sluggish than an XP one (y
Dido wrote:
> > Mysterious undiagnosable errors still do pop up once in a blue moon
>
> Maybe you mean once in a blue screen, Andy...
>
> Sorry, just couldn't resist. :D (ducks!)
Hehe good pun. Seriously though, I have not seen a blue screen
for a *couple of years* now under XP. MS have really go
>> Is there a film documentary available somewhere showing you how you
>> use Emacs? God knows I've tried and tried to get the hang of it and
>> still find myself heavily disliking Emacs.
>>
>
> The finger-numbing keyboard shortcuts, eh? :D It actually becomes more
> productive in the long run tho
Sacha Chua wrote:
> - Emacs could probably be used as a glorified typewriter, but nano,
> joe, and jed are probably easier to use for that purpose. vim has
> funkier syntax highlighting built in. So why use Emacs at all? I
> like the way Emacs fits itself to me. I'm crazy enough to
> want that
Andy Sy wrote:
Part of the reason for Gnome and KDE's fat could be the fact that they
are trying to ape Windows' COM/OLE/ActiveX architecture with Bonobo
(GNOME) and KCOP (KDE)!
Sorry, the proper acronym is DCOP, not KCOP.
See
http://www.volny.cz/bwian/dcop.html
and
http://www-1
Zak Elep wrote:
> Yeah. In Debian that's /var/lib/dpkg/*. At least with these package and BFS
> systems you would know which files get left over after a remove (even a
> purge)--In windows, for some software (mostly dl'd from the Net , mostly not
> even by the user ;) you can't even remove them at
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