Heh. I wish. Unfortunately, your parents pay for internet access. It's not free...
Internet access, water, electricity, TV, newspaper and even garbage. You wouldn't believe all the kinds of things adults have to pay for.:P Trust me on this, it sucks to get old.
BTW. I could have sworn that that a month after last time when we had this flame war one of the gnome guys created a patch to make it configurable. At the time, I wasn't using Gnome regularly so I didn't save it and now I can't find it anymore.
Here's what I want. 1) The top of the window should be next to an edge so I can click on it easily. 2) Right click should lower it. Currently middle click works but I really think the right click is less awkward.
I've got maybe 50-70 windows open at a time and I need to be able to cycle through them as fast as possible. I need to have Fitz law working for me.
3) The gnome terminal needs to stop sucking. I've got a frigging 3Ghz computer with 1G of RAM and a top of the line graphics card. Why does gnome terminal slow my whole box down when it's just scrolling ascii? Also why does it take a second for me to highlight text in gnome terminal? When I don't disable the feature where you can double click to select a word that takes up to five seconds...
Sorry I guess the terminal thing wasn't really related. I got on a rant and couldn't stop. But seriously, fix the blasted right click to lower stuff at least. Even if it takes a command line utility to customize it that's fine.
Java on Linux is great if you're running a server and your using java to serve web pages and talk to oracle or whatever. But if your program has a gui or you want people to install it without getting paid then don't use java. In a few years when java is GPL and the kinks have been worked out better then maybe it will be ok, but right now java sucks.
Java on Linux is an on going maintainance nightmare because there are so many JVMs and different implementations of the class libraries. Which would be fine if there was at least one that didn't suck...
Also doing a rewrite is a bad plan. C# is a fine language so just stay with what you know. There is no reason to do a complete rewrite when it would be easier to make it work with mono.
> PC sales for the week of Vista's release are up 173% [com.com] compared to the > week previous, and up 67% versus the same week in 2006.
Normally PC revenue grows 20% from the last year. So the 63% makes sense, but it's not very impressive.
The 173% just means that people weren't buying PCs the week before. I heard that some stores in the Bay Area sold out their pre-vista stock and couldn't bring out the new stock until after the release. So really the 173% figure is not something to be proud of.
What if they were really made of out cheese cake? Then everyone in Boston would be eating cheese cake and having a great old time! Think about it! Who would be laughing then? Everyone! Out sheer cheese cake manic delight!
Everyone seems to think she somehow agreed to the TOS or something but she didn't. She agreed to the TOS they had during the dot com boom.
What happened is that Lycos used to have a decent service but they were going broke so they made it suckier and suckier to force people to move away from the free version. Eventually it got to current levels of suckiness. The woman is obviously pissed and grumpy. The guy is doing a miserable job. His job is to make the free version suck more and he hates it. He hates the customers who complain all the time and he hates his bosses. Secretly, he wishes they would fire him.
If I were Lycos, I would just sell everything and shut down. Maybe I would start a commune or a coffee shop. Why not do something that gives people joy?
Marcello was only 18 when he took over the 2.4 branch. He was working for Conectiva at age 13 or 14... Debian has had a bunch of really young package maintainers for critical packages.
Yep... I've installed tons of nvidia cards with linux in the last 4 years and the quality varies. I doubt that 8774 was magical. It may have fixed some cards but there will be new cards soon. The only way is to open source it so that folks can fix the crashing bugs.
That's actually a good point. I'm going to ask my boss if I can "telework" so that I won't be bothered by the constant terrorist attacks at the office.
Basically the bloggers just accused the testers of being in league with the communists. They made a few jokes about Bill Clinton and interns. Then they drew a picture of a cat.
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You linked to an older version of the file dialogue. There are really only 2 major problems with the gnome file menu 1) It's dog slow when you type paths. Not just slow but Shocking Slow. Absolutely Astounding Slow. 2) There is no way to view hidden menus. There should be a "Show Hidden Files" button. It should be a button not a pull down or anything else.
There are sometimes when the file dialogue really pisses me off. I hate that little one that firefox and btdownload use. They always point to the wrong directory... I also hate it the ones that only show certain types of files. Every time I see it, I'm like who deleted all my files???
KDE and Windows file dialogues are worse because they use a horizontal scroll bar. It just like websites that have a side to side scroll bar are worse then website that have an up and down scroll bar.
Windows is really bad because it doesn't show the complete path name so I constantly lose my files.
DRM stuff is almost all done at the kernel level or in close source software. The kernel is never going be GPLv3 because of the reasons in this article. So the anti-DRM clause won't have any effect.
At a moment where many people wonder if the use of nanoparticles is safe, it's good to know that nanotechnology has been widely used for a very long time.
Rubbing your head with lead sulfide definitely sounds safe enough, I guess that proves that nothing can go wrong with using technology.
If I screwed up like that, I'd feel terrible. Resigning is pretty much the only appropriate response. Resigning means that you don't blame anyone else for your problems. Plus it gives you a break where you can go hiking in the wilderness and heal a bit. After that you can start over with a clean slate.
Actually that's could be a bit of a bogus test as well. You're OS will end up caching the data instead of actually reading it the second time. It's hard to benchmark a disk that tiny.
You're first number is not that significant. That's just RAM speed. 25M/s is pretty decent considering that it's a USB key. Normal SATA drives get around 55 M/s.
Random reads will take the same amount of time because it's flash memory and the drive doesn't have to seek. Here's a script to verify. I put sdX instead of sdb so that it wouldn't work for anyone who copied and pasted directly.
RUNS=25 MEGS=10 DEV=/dev/sdX #your USB device time for i in $(seq $RUNS) ; do
offset=$(($RANDOM%500))
dd if=$DEV of=/dev/null bs=1M count=$MEGS skip=$offset done
# enter the time it took to run echo $((RUNS*MEGS/ time it took to run))
I mostly work with installer and kernel issues. FC5 was pretty buggy. I already had one customer ask me why FC5 hangs during install. I told him that if he was using the text mode install that sometimes hangs so he should use the graphical install. Otherwise he should just use FC4 or Centos.
It's like every 6 months a new installer is released and you hope all the bugs from the last one are fixed. Sometimes they are but now a whole new lot of bugs are introduced and you have to wait 6 months only to be disappointed again.
It kind of sucks because I fixed a bug in the driver disk handling for FC5 but another bug was introduced so driver disks support is completely broken and my code cannot be used. I wanted to use driver disk support to fix bugzilla 190063 and other driver bugs.
Could I get a bug fix for this crap or do I have to wait for the FC6 release?
In short, they ALL have issues, some more than others. Many of the issues found in Windows are found in IE - compare that to the recent swath of holes found in Firefox/Mozilla.
It's not fair to say that IE and Firefox are the same. IE has more issues and Firefox fixes their issues but IE doesn't.
It's not that Microsoft is malicious. It just takes them a long time to release software. Look at how long Vista has been delayed.
>> We took on RHEL V4 instead of FC for the core services of our company, primarily for the support aspect.
Um... Use FC in a production environment?
FC is designed to be cutting edge. If you want security you're going to have to upgrade often. Upgrading your kernel obviously means down time. Fedora kernels are riskier. Regressions can mean Mega Downtime.
Sometimes the regressions are huge. For example, one kernel upgrade in FC4 made most SMP systems unbootable. Sometimes the bugs are subtle. Stock FC5 kernels broke the ADA compiler.
Another example was when 2.6.16-1.2107_FC5 was released last May. I was watching people reporting bugs to bugzilla. NFS stops after a while. Samba stops working! The _internet_ stops working!!! This kernel doesn't even boot!
With RHEL there are very few regressions. I haven't seen any regressions in RHEL3 between RHEL3u3 and RHEL3u7. There was one regression that affected me between RHEL4u2 and RHEL4u3. I actually went to the upstream driver author to fix that instead of using RedHat's support system...
When a project succeeds it always seems obvious in retrospect. OSX was pretty awesome software engineering.
Something is obviously wrong at Microsoft. They should be releasing new software every 2.5 years with a smaller updates every six months. That's the real problem. Perfectionism is great for starving artists but for practical software you need a regular schedule like Gnome or Ubuntu or Redhat.
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Heh. I wish. Unfortunately, your parents pay for internet access. It's not free...
:P Trust me on this, it sucks to get old.
Internet access, water, electricity, TV, newspaper and even garbage. You wouldn't believe all the kinds of things adults have to pay for.
I've cursed and cursed that the friggin right click doesn't lower the window.
I've literally been complaining about this crap for over 5 years.
http://justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=40743
BTW. I could have sworn that that a month after last time when we had this flame war one of the gnome guys created a patch to make it configurable. At the time, I wasn't using Gnome regularly so I didn't save it and now I can't find it anymore.
Here's what I want.
1) The top of the window should be next to an edge so I can click on it easily.
2) Right click should lower it. Currently middle click works but I really think the right click is less awkward.
I've got maybe 50-70 windows open at a time and I need to be able to cycle through them as fast as possible. I need to have Fitz law working for me.
3) The gnome terminal needs to stop sucking. I've got a frigging 3Ghz computer with 1G of RAM and a top of the line graphics card. Why does gnome terminal slow my whole box down when it's just scrolling ascii? Also why does it take a second for me to highlight text in gnome terminal? When I don't disable the feature where you can double click to select a word that takes up to five seconds...
Sorry I guess the terminal thing wasn't really related. I got on a rant and couldn't stop. But seriously, fix the blasted right click to lower stuff at least. Even if it takes a command line utility to customize it that's fine.
That's the worst plan ever... :/
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Java on Linux is great if you're running a server and your using java to serve web pages and talk to oracle or whatever. But if your program has a gui or you want people to install it without getting paid then don't use java. In a few years when java is GPL and the kinks have been worked out better then maybe it will be ok, but right now java sucks.
Java on Linux is an on going maintainance nightmare because there are so many JVMs and different implementations of the class libraries. Which would be fine if there was at least one that didn't suck...
Also doing a rewrite is a bad plan. C# is a fine language so just stay with what you know. There is no reason to do a complete rewrite when it would be easier to make it work with mono.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000
> PC sales for the week of Vista's release are up 173% [com.com] compared to the
> week previous, and up 67% versus the same week in 2006.
Normally PC revenue grows 20% from the last year. So the 63% makes sense, but it's not very impressive.
The 173% just means that people weren't buying PCs the week before. I heard that some stores in the Bay Area sold out their pre-vista stock and couldn't bring out the new stock until after the release. So really the 173% figure is not something to be proud of.
What if they were really made of out cheese cake? Then everyone in Boston would be eating cheese cake and having a great old time! Think about it! Who would be laughing then? Everyone! Out sheer cheese cake manic delight!
Everyone seems to think she somehow agreed to the TOS or something but she didn't. She agreed to the TOS they had during the dot com boom.
What happened is that Lycos used to have a decent service but they were going broke so they made it suckier and suckier to force people to move away from the free version. Eventually it got to current levels of suckiness. The woman is obviously pissed and grumpy. The guy is doing a miserable job. His job is to make the free version suck more and he hates it. He hates the customers who complain all the time and he hates his bosses. Secretly, he wishes they would fire him.
If I were Lycos, I would just sell everything and shut down. Maybe I would start a commune or a coffee shop. Why not do something that gives people joy?
In RL I get annoyed when people call me, "Chubs Mc Fatty Fat." That's not my name dang it...
And online how else are people going to knew who you are?
Marcello was only 18 when he took over the 2.4 branch. He was working for Conectiva at age 13 or 14... Debian has had a bunch of really young package maintainers for critical packages.
Yep... I've installed tons of nvidia cards with linux in the last 4 years and the quality varies. I doubt that 8774 was magical. It may have fixed some cards but there will be new cards soon. The only way is to open source it so that folks can fix the crashing bugs.
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Is SLI working yet?
And then there is stupid annoying stuff like this:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=
Mostly people use fan vs foe to give automatic +5 ratings to comments. It's not a character judgement.
That's actually a good point. I'm going to ask my boss if I can "telework" so that I won't be bothered by the constant terrorist attacks at the office.
Basically the bloggers just accused the testers of being in league with the communists. They made a few jokes about Bill Clinton and interns. Then they drew a picture of a cat.
You linked to an older version of the file dialogue. There are really only 2 major problems with the gnome file menu 1) It's dog slow when you type paths. Not just slow but Shocking Slow. Absolutely Astounding Slow. 2) There is no way to view hidden menus. There should be a "Show Hidden Files" button. It should be a button not a pull down or anything else.
There are sometimes when the file dialogue really pisses me off. I hate that little one that firefox and btdownload use. They always point to the wrong directory... I also hate it the ones that only show certain types of files. Every time I see it, I'm like who deleted all my files???
KDE and Windows file dialogues are worse because they use a horizontal scroll bar. It just like websites that have a side to side scroll bar are worse then website that have an up and down scroll bar.
Windows is really bad because it doesn't show the complete path name so I constantly lose my files.
A) Pointless
DRM stuff is almost all done at the kernel level or in close source software. The kernel is never going be GPLv3 because of the reasons in this article. So the anti-DRM clause won't have any effect.
B) Stupid
People who do pointless things are stupid.
At a moment where many people wonder if the use of nanoparticles is safe, it's good to know that nanotechnology has been widely used for a very long time.
Rubbing your head with lead sulfide definitely sounds safe enough, I guess that proves that nothing can go wrong with using technology.
No. The headline was misleading and sucky.
Patent law is important but complaining about trademarks is for weenies.
If I screwed up like that, I'd feel terrible. Resigning is pretty much the only appropriate response. Resigning means that you don't blame anyone else for your problems. Plus it gives you a break where you can go hiking in the wilderness and heal a bit. After that you can start over with a clean slate.
Actually that's could be a bit of a bogus test as well. You're OS will end up caching the data instead of actually reading it the second time. It's hard to benchmark a disk that tiny.
You're first number is not that significant. That's just RAM speed. 25M/s is pretty decent considering that it's a USB key. Normal SATA drives get around 55 M/s.
Random reads will take the same amount of time because it's flash memory and the drive doesn't have to seek. Here's a script to verify. I put sdX instead of sdb so that it wouldn't work for anyone who copied and pasted directly.
RUNS=25
MEGS=10
DEV=/dev/sdX #your USB device
time for i in $(seq $RUNS) ; do
offset=$(($RANDOM%500))
dd if=$DEV of=/dev/null bs=1M count=$MEGS skip=$offset
done
# enter the time it took to run
echo $((RUNS*MEGS/ time it took to run))
Here's a link with election info. Here are the election results.
But for me the real question is whether it is time for a magnetic floating bed?
I mostly work with installer and kernel issues. FC5 was pretty buggy. I already had one customer ask me why FC5 hangs during install. I told him that if he was using the text mode install that sometimes hangs so he should use the graphical install. Otherwise he should just use FC4 or Centos.
It's like every 6 months a new installer is released and you hope all the bugs from the last one are fixed. Sometimes they are but now a whole new lot of bugs are introduced and you have to wait 6 months only to be disappointed again.
It kind of sucks because I fixed a bug in the driver disk handling for FC5 but another bug was introduced so driver disks support is completely broken and my code cannot be used. I wanted to use driver disk support to fix bugzilla 190063 and other driver bugs.
Could I get a bug fix for this crap or do I have to wait for the FC6 release?
In short, they ALL have issues, some more than others. Many of the issues found in Windows are found in IE - compare that to the recent swath of holes found in Firefox/Mozilla.
It's not fair to say that IE and Firefox are the same. IE has more issues and Firefox fixes their issues but IE doesn't.
It's not that Microsoft is malicious. It just takes them a long time to release software. Look at how long Vista has been delayed.
>> We took on RHEL V4 instead of FC for the core services of our company, primarily for the support aspect.
Um... Use FC in a production environment?
FC is designed to be cutting edge. If you want security you're going to have to upgrade often. Upgrading your kernel obviously means down time. Fedora kernels are riskier. Regressions can mean Mega Downtime.
Sometimes the regressions are huge. For example, one kernel upgrade in FC4 made most SMP systems unbootable. Sometimes the bugs are subtle. Stock FC5 kernels broke the ADA compiler.
Another example was when 2.6.16-1.2107_FC5 was released last May. I was watching people reporting bugs to bugzilla. NFS stops after a while. Samba stops working! The _internet_ stops working!!! This kernel doesn't even boot!
With RHEL there are very few regressions. I haven't seen any regressions in RHEL3 between RHEL3u3 and RHEL3u7. There was one regression that affected me between RHEL4u2 and RHEL4u3. I actually went to the upstream driver author to fix that instead of using RedHat's support system...
You should form some kind of a "Teachers Union" to fight for better wages. I can't imagine why no one has thought of this before.
When a project succeeds it always seems obvious in retrospect. OSX was pretty awesome software engineering.
Something is obviously wrong at Microsoft. They should be releasing new software every 2.5 years with a smaller updates every six months. That's the real problem. Perfectionism is great for starving artists but for practical software you need a regular schedule like Gnome or Ubuntu or Redhat.