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Old 06-14-2005, 05:41 AM   #1816
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Originally posted by KimVette
mplayer and xine both play avi, mpeg, and mov files wonderfully, providing you have the latest codec libraries installed.

Now, getting mplayer configured properly for your browsers is the trick. I got sick of having to search for the plugins all the time every time I upgrade a browser, so now in each browser I delete the plugins directory and create a symbolic link from {browserdirectory}/plugins to /opt/mozilla/plugins and since then browser upgrades and plugin upgrades have not given me any problems on any boxes I've done this on. It's much better than adding more search paths to konqueror or copying all of the latest plugins to /opt/firefox/plugins again.

I wish the various distributions would just do this out of the box. A standard location for plugins should exist - maybe /opt/mozilla/plugins or better yet /opt/browser/shared for shared resources, and /opt/browser/shared/plugins for plugins.
I absolutly agree, and thanks cause just recently I updated my firefox version, mplayer and its plugin. Then everything was broken. I could not figure out how to manually configure the plugin in firefox, cause it just keept asking my to download the plugin.

If this seems to work for you I'll try it out.
 
Old 06-14-2005, 05:48 AM   #1817
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ok lol, maybe i did get a bit carried away :P - but iv been using gimp for a while now, and i feel it is extremely under-rated. i dont work primarily in the graphics industry, but i know a bit about design, and iv made some pretty good stuff with gimp - and i find it more productive (for me) than photoshop to use. (once you've adapted to its layout)

thats just what i think!

peace
I'd have to agree, on the grounds that Gimp is free. If only it had a look an feel that was more readily customizeable and much more organized. Needs a most recently used list or similar. I suppose I'm just lazy when it comes to making my own tool bars, but I'd like to have the list too.
 
Old 06-14-2005, 06:17 AM   #1818
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actually, theres no need for windows at all

by the way, are you using kde or gnome? - look at how much better they are than microsoft's telly-tubby-land XP GUI.

peace
Honestly, microsoft has some really brillant developers. It's a pitty that they are all wasted on such a lame product.

I know their games, although few are top notch, in particular Dungeon Siege. If you look at what has happened to SuSE and Mandrake, I would ask that Microsoft do the same (although these distros were already great they will get even better). SuSE and Mandriva are the markets leading distro's.

If anyone actually had MS source what would you really do with it??? I'm sure its spagetti code and outdated, with all of those unclean patches. In addition, its literally targeted by spyware and viruses. Granted these days Linux can be targeted just as easily.

Instead of devoting huge resources in piracy protection, and security patches for its crippled software, perhaps it should buy the rights to and develop a really KICK ASS, open source distro, thats affordable.
...like ~50 bucks instead of hundreds. I'm sure they'd make a ton of loot, if everyone dumped their cracked MS copies and bought an inexpensive open source distro. They probably make more money on COTs products like Office and games than they do on XP.

They might even give SuSE and Mandriva a run for their money, which would only make them work harder and faster, on making a really great product.


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Old 06-14-2005, 06:20 AM   #1819
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Nokia Suite & a decent Palm application. Opera 2 {its an accounting package}
 
Old 06-14-2005, 06:23 AM   #1820
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My office mate has a all in one device and the software it uses, looks very much like a KDE/Qt environment, under windows. I wonder if it uses Tcl/Tk
 
Old 06-15-2005, 01:42 AM   #1821
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I'm Dying works without Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Coreldraw & Freehand. so I really dreamed those application port on linux without Wine, or Crossover.
 
Old 06-15-2005, 04:24 AM   #1822
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Director MX.... that would be great!!!

 
Old 06-16-2005, 08:08 AM   #1823
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What programs would I like to see ported to Linux?

Textease studio plus from Softease http://www.softease.com/
This is a great package that allows kids to make spreadsheets databases wordprocess and even make webpages with audio and video. If this could be imported into linux there would be no excuse for schools not to drop windoze, I also miss the Pinnacle video editing software when using Linux.
 
Old 06-19-2005, 06:07 PM   #1824
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Internet Explorer.

Internet Explorer.
 
Old 06-19-2005, 09:10 PM   #1825
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lol... I'de love to hear the reason for that
 
Old 06-19-2005, 10:17 PM   #1826
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IM guessing he wants IE because alot of windows games and programs are starting to rely on it.


To get Steam running on wine, you gotta get IE running on wine first
 
Old 06-23-2005, 03:06 PM   #1827
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onspeed 4 onspeed 3 worked fine but 4 does not run the coresystem does not load keeps crashing :'( quite irritating that you cant use a paid service on you pc
 
Old 06-25-2005, 02:15 PM   #1828
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IrfanView (image viewer -great),
FlashGet (download mngr with database support),
WinRAR (archivar with great interface),
Adware (spyware hunter),
* WebShot (great desktop wallpaper changer)

list is more ....







can't continue
 
Old 06-26-2005, 08:57 AM   #1829
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IrfanView (image viewer -great),
FlashGet (download mngr with database support),
WinRAR (archivar with great interface),
Adware (spyware hunter),
* WebShot (great desktop wallpaper changer)


???????
- image viewer - theres about a hundred nice ones - i use gthumb
- download managers - theres about a hundred, dont see the point in them anywayz - i use axel for large downloads
- winrar - whats wrong with ark and fileroller - i much prefer fileroller to winrar !
- adware - what adware on linux?! i have had an open firewall for over a year and not a single virus, adware thing or anything - windows + open firewall + internet + 10 seconds = disaster, but this is a not a windows forum, surely ur using a real OS (preferably linux)?
- " WebShot (great desktop wallpaper changer)" - cant you just change ur wallpaper the traditional way (desktop preferences)?

thats certainly a strage list!

ps. iv seen a propriety linux adobe premier clone which looks very usable.
 
Old 06-26-2005, 11:26 AM   #1830
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Hahahahhahahhha

Webshot

hahahahhahahahaha

Wow another spyware victum born every day
 
  


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