Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 3rd Feb 2006 21:26 UTC, submitted by Anonymous
LinuxEdge has posted the videos of the presentation of Novell Desktop Linux 10 by Nat Friedman. "A preview of Novell Linux Desktop 10 was shown to an audience at the Solutions Linux conference this week. We have a selection of videos which display a variety of amazing effects through the use of XGL, including transparency, wobbling windows, a 3D cube for desktop switching, and a task switcher which displays a preview of windows."
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 22:06 UTC
"The first killer app was VisiCalc. This early spreadsheet turned the Apple II from a hobbyist toy to a business computer. VisiCalc came with room for improvement, though. In addition, a new architecture and operating system, the Intel-based IBM PC and MS-DOS, also needed a spreadsheet to be taken seriously. That spreadsheet, released in early 1983, would be Lotus 1-2-3, and it would change the world. It became the PC's killer app, and the world would never be the same. On May 14, IBM quietly announced the end of the road for 1-2-3, along with Lotus Organizer and the Lotus SmartSuite office suite. Lotus 1-2-3's day is done." Impressive 30 year run.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 21:45 UTC
"There's a disconnect between how Apple CEO Tim Cook sees his company's tax strategies and how some members of the US Senate view it. That became clearer than ever today after Cook and two other Apple executives testified before Congress, explaining why they're holding most of their international income in Irish subsidiaries like Apple Operations International, which declare no tax residency anywhere in the world. AOI hasn't filed a tax return anywhere in the world for the last five years, yet it earned $30 billion in income from 2009 to 2012, according to a Senate report released yesterday." Just because something is legal, doesn't mean it's just. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and many more - these companies might not be breaking any laws, but it's obvious to anyone that what they are doing is scummy.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 15:53 UTC
The new WebKit Opera for Android has been released. "Opera 14 for Android is built on top of Chromium 26, with a total overhaul of the UI in native code, making it fit well with the latest Android design guidelines. Go get the build from Google Play or point your browser to m.opera.com, and give it a spin!"
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 22:43 UTC
The Verge pointed me to a blog post by Leap Motion - which reveals how their Kinect-like motion control works with Windows 8. "From the second you plug in your Leap Motion Controller, you'll be able to browse the web and interact with your computer just by moving your hands and fingers in the air. With Leap Motion technology and Windows, you can do everything that's possible with multi-touch inputs - without actually touching anything. This also means that existing applications in Windows 7 and 8 will respond to your natural hand and finger movements. Soon, we'll show you how Leap Motion will work with Mac OS X." Quite cool.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 21:50 UTC
PocketNow interviews Marc Dillon, and there's an interesting note about why Jolla is keeping the display properties under wraps: "We're leaving some of those details out because we do understand that there are a lot of really big players in the market and they tend to take certain components in the market and dominate them. We created the ability to actually be able to run Sailfish on multiple hardware displays and be able to swap components, so this is part of the demand and supply planning phase. We are committed to this industrial design which is a 4.5-inch display, an 8 megapixel camera on the back and a front-facing camera at the front, and the exact specs of the display we'll provide when we're close to delivery." Something you rarely hear anything about.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:15 UTC
"This is my NeXTstation Turbo Color booting the Mac System 7.1 Operating System using a hardware add-on called 'Daydream'. The Daydream has a Mac ROM and a few custom ICs in it and hooked up to the NeXTs DSP port. Turns your NeXT into a full fledged 68k powered Mac." So cool.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:11 UTC, submitted by Drumhellar
"The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 6 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements. Please note that all fixes in the prior security/bugfix updates (NetBSD 6.0.1 and 6.0.2) are also in 6.1."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 21:06 UTC
"At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn't developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the software engineers in EA Sports' Canada studio, in a series of since-deleted tweets, disparaged the console as 'crap' and suggested Nintendo should give up on hardware altogether. 'The Wii U is crap. Less powerful than an Xbox 360. Poor online/store. Weird tablet', tweeted Bob Summerwill, listed as a senior software engineer at EA Canada, in a reply to a tweet posting a link about EA's no-Wii U news. 'Nintendo are walking dead at this point'." The Wii U is turning into the 21st century's Virtual Boy.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 7:37 UTC
"In NixOS, the entire operating system - the kernel, applications, system packages, configuration files, and so on - is built by the Nix package manager from a description in a purely functional build language. The fact that it's purely functional essentially means that building a new configuration cannot overwrite previous configurations. Most of the other features follow from this." Interesting approach. A Linux distribution, sure, but with some very refreshing ideas about system configuration.
Linked by fran on 05/18/13 1:38 UTC
Appfour added, among other features, C/C++ support to its new version of AIDE. From Android-IDE, "Now you can write parts of your app or your whole app in C/C++ on your device. AIDE supports the Standard Android NDK toolchain (GCC 4.6 + Bionic, STL, ...). No changes are necessary if you want to build an app developed on a PC with Eclipse. C/C++ development is fully integrated: Build errors appear in the error list and files can easily be navigated to with Go to file. The editor supports C/C++ syntax highlighting."More News »
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Mac zealots try to switch everyone to their decent (and pretty) platform.
Linux zealots try to switch everyone to an unusable, perpetually-in-beta, hunk of junk.
Which is worse, really?
In short:
Mac zealots, because they always think that Mac is perfect for everyone (and if you try to proove them wrong they just get insulting), all other zealots are at least in 0.01% prepared to see some shortages, Mac zealots ride on clear 0%.
In long:
Based on the fact that I own computers with all platforms?
Mac is neither decent nor preety with a factor of multipling mouse milleage where airlines already give frequent flier discounts. Eye candy is noticable only first half hour you use some OS, all other is just habbit. I'm still waiting for codecs to start working on my G5. I still wait for decent speed in browsing. It is unusable with dual screen setup. I'm still wainting to get decent update for 10.3 (10.4 is a memory hog with spotlight, and if you disable it, search doesn't work shit). I'm still waiting for one single look of applications (I can achieve that on Linux, without any trouble. On Windows at least result is decent). OSX is nothing but a slugish, lazy horse with the worst kind of dock system ever imagined.
About HW on Mac that "just works". Yes you can plug some devices like iPod and they "just work" (so did it "just work" for one friend of mine on linux, he just didn't know that I was thinking about it and already installed support for it). But how many new devices do you buy per one day? In any OS everything "just works", but only if hardware was chosen with thinking about OS support before buying.
In my case Linux still fares the best ride. Windows are second. Mac is to be avoided.
Well, out of two people who bought Mac because they thought how great it is, not even one stayed with it. Out of 10 people I installed linux in the last months, 7 stayed with it now claiming everything "just works" to the point where it can already count to zealoting (I hate that too, in fact it isn't true, it works just as it always does (with all the goods and bads). The only diff here is that they all had perfect machine for linux because they asked me about hw and system was set up by me to fullfill all their needs, almost any os is perfeect in this case), 3 went back to Windows because they wanted to use software they were used to.
So, which is worse?
Different minds, different opinions. Which is actualy good. I couldn't stand another one of me, world is just too small:) So something decent for you is not the case to be decent for everybody and this is why you can't say one is decent and one is hunk of junk. I think we agree on this one.
Now a real story how Mac zealots are dead wrong and worse: Few people I know were persuaded by zealots like that to buy Mac. Boy, they were dissapointed because not one of their software worked (you can't run custom accounting app on OSX and off course loosing money when they sold used Mac to be be replaced with PC). With linux you can't do damage like this. If one is Apple user, let him buy PPC, install linux PPC along side with OSX. PC? Buy PC, install both Windows and linux. Yes, apple-intel:) you can't install windows on Intel mac. Again worse.
p.s. I think we went in arguments too many times already, and you won't start bashing about me zealoting.