Re: [osdcmy-public] desktop war

2009-12-17 Terurut Topik Raja Iskandar Shah
personally, i dont want my desktop to dance, sing, roll-about, etc i want my desktop to be easy to use and do exactly what i want it to do in the shortest possible time. On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Eric Yeoh wrote: > Linux is gaining ground.however there are still those who still cl

Re: [osdcmy-public] Re: Google Wave invitation

2009-12-17 Terurut Topik Boh Yap
yeah got it, thanks ;-) On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:49 AM, E A Faisal wrote: > Boh, I've invited you. > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Boh Yap wrote: >> >> hi faisal, >> >> pls include me, bhy...@gmail.com >> >> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 9:34 AM, E A Faisal wrote: >> > Saya ada 22 lagi...cepat

Re: [osdcmy-public] desktop war

2009-12-17 Terurut Topik Boh Yap
hi, to continue, as bowsers will be desktops, the better browsers/desktops are the FLOSS based ones, and essentailly there are only 2 FLOSS web-browser engines:- Mozilla/gecko - FireFox Webkit - Chome, Safari and you can test yr browser here and also get stats on the features of all browsers inc

[osdcmy-public] A faster HTTP...

2009-12-17 Terurut Topik Boh Yap
hi all, want a 50% faster web browsing experiance, well not so soon... but the guys at Google are working on it http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/page/2/ -- #--- regds, Boh Heong, Yap -- Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ Facebook Fan page http://www.faceboo

Re: [osdcmy-public] desktop war

2009-12-17 Terurut Topik Eric Yeoh
Linux is gaining ground.however there are still those who still claim Linux is at sub 1%number and statisticsyou of all should know how well we can make them dance and do stuff if needed Eric On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:24 PM, red1 wrote: > latest stats here bro... from > http:

Re: [osdcmy-public] FLOSS... Don't Forget the 'L' at blog.ghodmode.com

2009-12-17 Terurut Topik Eric Yeoh
Red, Don't you mean paternal? Why Red...I didn't know you take me as a lady... /me blushing! Eric On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:26 PM, red1 wrote: > just want to add that i was in the same room as Eric when he posted > this.. its just year-end blues.. plus pre-maternal anxiety.. nutin bad.. :) >

Re: [osdcmy-public] FLOSS... Don't Forget the 'L' at blog.ghodmode.com

2009-12-17 Terurut Topik Eric Yeoh
Hi Boh On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Boh Yap wrote: > hi, > > one more thing I'll like to add, FLOSS, OSS gives us access to the > source, with whatever restrictions or lack of. Thats a good thing (w/o > going into the philosophy of it, that has been well expressed ..) and > the major adv

Re: [osdcmy-public] desktop war

2009-12-17 Terurut Topik Eric Yeoh
Following me and chant openSUSE and you will be happier! :P Kekeke Cheers mate, have a great holiday On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Raja Iskandar Shah wrote: > i read that 1 govt agency is contemplating using centos for the desktop. > preferred in favor of ubuntu ! > > already thinking

Re: [osdcmy-public] desktop war

2009-12-17 Terurut Topik Boh Yap
well a lot of it will be mute when the browser is now predominately the 'acting' desktop, no? For the average PC user, what is the time spent on browser (web-mail, facebook, reading news, researching, browsing...) verses desktop apps? And if you take MS Office out of the desktop apps, the numb

Re: [osdcmy-public] FLOSS... Don't Forget the 'L' at blog.ghodmode.com

2009-12-17 Terurut Topik Boh Yap
hi, one more thing I'll like to add, FLOSS, OSS gives us access to the source, with whatever restrictions or lack of. Thats a good thing (w/o going into the philosophy of it, that has been well expressed ..) and the major advantage of it being the "..standing on shoulders of giants" effect, we don

Re: [osdcmy-public] desktop war

2009-12-17 Terurut Topik Raja Iskandar Shah
i read that 1 govt agency is contemplating using centos for the desktop. preferred in favor of ubuntu ! already thinking of doing the same thing for the office as well. same os as the servers that we work on ! then there wont be any issue of / versus \ and the developer claiming - eh... atas comp