As for Berlin not taking over the world: why are you using Linux?
It is not currently taking over the world!
Berlin doesn't have any significant apps yet, AFAIK, which really puts a damper on adoption. Linux and XFree86 actually had plenty of programs available for them when they were built - which is why we're still using X11 now.
AFAIK remote GUI can be done in Windows with VNC, so it shows that you can have fast,responsive local GUI and remote GUI at the same time.
Just don't use X11.
VNC isn't particularly fast, and it can't compensate for the "1 user per computer" paradigm that many OSes are built with. For example, using X11 clients, several people can all use GUI applications from a single remote computer; VNC would realistically only allow one person to use the desktop at a time because it's basically a KVM-over-ethernet.
In any case, a replacement for X11 is likely to have its client-server capabilities anyway. But without apps, nobody's going to bother to switch no matter how much better such a replacement might be.
Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that the flag icon for this subject only has 12 stripes?
If you zoom in on it, it's clear there's specks of red above the topmost white stripe. Thus, it seems the thirteenth stripe was a casualty of the cropping process. I'm more annoyed that the icon is a gif rather than a png...
Where is the incentive for Energizer or Duracel to make their batteries 10x more efficient?
I think the computer industry would be more than interested. Just because such tech might not wind up in AA batteries doesn't mean battery companies aren't interested.
[Cars] with 100mpg have been built but the patents have been bought by the big three and locked away.
But Ford doesn't sell gasoline, so why not build a hypothetical "super efficient" car and trounce the competition? The reason, of course, is such cars are just urban legends whose existence relies more on conspiracy theory than engineering theory.
Back to the realities at hand, a fuel cell car with fewer mechanical parts would actually be more disposable and less polluting than existing cars. Still, I think an infrastucture and "proof of concept" are still necessary before we start seeing them in showrooms. But if they take off, the initial investors stand to make a ton of cash on a revolutionary automotive idea (if they take off)
Despite MY renaming of those files, they're still going to be OGGs. To anyone who isn't me, they'll be OGGs. If OGG becomes the de facto standard of compressed music, people will be passing around files with a OGG extension. If a conversation comes up discussing OGG files, those particular files will still be OGGs.
But if ogg is the de-facto audio file format, and everyone associates oggs with audio files, then you will be one of the few that cares about the file format being difficult to decipher. In that case, you might as well leave them with the.ogg extension and add its association to your mental database.
Whether ogg takes off or no, you're almost certainly among the minority that has any difficulty with the name or extension - simply because hardly anyone knows or cares about them. But you can't expect the rest of the world to change the extension simply to fit your preferences any more than the JPEG can expect people to rename their.jpg files to.jfif (which would be the proper extension). It's just not going to happen.
This is all rather silly, really. Nobody (beyond the technical crowd) knows what.mpg (should be.mpeg),.jpg (should be.jpeg),.gif,.png or any other goofy file extension stands for. Users just plain don't care, and Apple and Microsoft have been working hard to ensure they don't need to. But if the extension.ogg bothers you so much, just rename them all to.mp3 and your audio player will handle them just fine.
What about when the login is not gui, its text, so they already have logged in, and normally just run startx ?
If I remember right, startx brings up an xdm/gdm/kdm login prompt for people to login to. From there, logging into a "mozilla" account (for example) with the abovementioned.xsession file should bring up the browser-only setup without incurring a significant performance hit.
I don't think there's a way to go from startx straight to a user session, but I don't think it's much of a problem either.
Any idea how to add the height width to Moz?
mozilla -width 1024 -height 768 http://foo.com
Might be the sort of thing you're looking for (to fit Moz to a 1024x768 display, for example). I'm pretty sure it starts at the upper-left corner of the screen by default, so at least that won't be too much of a problem.
If you mean running Mozilla without a window manager/desktop environment/etc., just make a.xsession file with these contents:
#!/bin/bash
mozilla http://nyse.com
Then make it executable. The result should be when the account is logged into, mozilla will start. And, when mozilla is exited, the account will log out. There'll be no window manager - just an X session with mozilla running. However, you may have to use moz's -height and -width options to get it to fit on the screen properly since there won't be a window manager to help you resize it.
Unless, of course, you have a different idea in mind.
I have noticed in particular that Nintendo cartridge games (GB and N64) prohibit making backup copies with ROM dumpers, saying that backups are "unnecessary". Guess they've never witnessed the abuse that consoles get put through.;)
Hmm, I think that's a slightly iffy use of the term EULA by Nintendo. By that same use of the term, one could say a customer has a single-user license to play a CD - for example. I suppose in this age of ROM dumps and mp3 files, the association has a bit of accuracy to it. But since one doesn't "agree" to any terms of use (through the use of an "I Agree" button or some other method of signing a contract) perhaps we should just call them "End User Licenses" (EUL) without the "Agreement" part of it...
Unless they've changed something with the GameCube that I don't know about (I don't have one yet), there are no licensing agreements for the end-users of Nintendo hardware or Nintendo-licensed software.
Indeed, no console game has an End User License Agreement because such games aren't "licensed" to the user. Without any place to install such software (such as a hard drive) there's no need for licensing or serial numbers to prevent a user from installing the Super Mario Bros. on multiple NES consoles, for example.
Of course, standard copyright protections still apply (hence the warning in the manual).
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In fact, I really don't know any Linux or BSD users who never rely on a good closed-source OS for at least some things. The most rabid Microsoft hater I know still keeps a Windows partition for games. Lets face it, the only people who use Linux and nothing else do it for ideological reasons. Most of us just want stuff to work right and pick the best tool for the job at hand.
I, for one, don't use a good (or bad) closed-source PC OS for anything. Really. For web browsing, Mozilla and Links do everything I need. For playing mp3s/oggs, there's xmms. For creating professional-looking text docs, there's LaTeX. For reading/writing Word-compatible docs, there's Openoffice/Staroffice. For reading PDFs, xpdf works great (actually better than Acroread for large PDFs). Finally, for twitch games, there's xmame and various Carmack classics like Doom and Quake (1 and 2). So, quite honestly, I don't really use a non-free OS for anything.
This has less to do with ideaology and more to do with experience. Having been using Unix (and X11) for a lot longer than any incarnation of MS-DOS/MS-Windows, I've never felt any need to switch (and, by extension, have nothing to switch back to). However, I can understand why former MS-Windows feel less comfortable on an OS they haven't "grown up" with. Because, with that lack of familiarity comes the occasional desire to return to a more familiar, and comfortable, environment. I know that feeling because whenever I'm on an "alien" MS-Windows box, it never quite feels as comfortable as a Unix one to me.
Comfort may not be logical (since it's so subjective), but I think it is a big factor in the OSes people choose to use.
Oh and was not the name two towers about the statues of the kings bu the river and not the towers they talk about in the trailer?
Exactly which two towers the title refers to is largely speculative, near as I can tell. Keep in mind the titles for the "trilogy" weren't Tolkien's originally (in particular, he didn't like "Return of the King" since he thought it gave away too much of the plot). Remember, LOTR was meant to be released as a single work and was broken up into three parts due to a shortage of paper at the time.
That said, a case can be made for any number of things to be the actual "Two Towers", but one shouldn't get too worked up over it.:)
Mod chips should be called "Piracy Chips." There is absolutely no legal reason to own a modified console.
Untrue. If one wants to play legally purchased imported titles on a legally purchased console, the only way to do it is to bypass the technical (not legal) region restriction placed on the console by the manufacturer.
Granted, many console mods are done for the sole purpose of piracy. But there are most definately reasons to mod a console for reasons other than piracy.
Sega has no consumer loyaltee because they discontinued every system they ever released in the past as soon as a competetor released a better system. We saw sega drop the master system when 8bit Nintendo came out. We saw them drop the Genesis, and 32x when the Super nintendo and XF chip(starfox) came out. We saw them really run away with their Saturn when Sony made the Playstation. Their last coup de gra was the dreamcast, which after just the announcement of the N64, Xbox, and PS2 was dropped. I don't support companies that drop support of their systems at a drop of a hat.
This is 100% bullshit, really. The Sega Master System came out *after* the NES and was highly successful in europe. In the US it proved less successful, due in no small part to Nintendo's strong-arm tactics (such as, no retailer got NES games if they sold games for other systems).
The Genesis was supported all the way up to the Saturn's launch (and the 32X, Sega's attempt to prolong the life of the Genesis, was launched long after Starfox and Nintendo's FX chip). But the Megadrive was such a flop in Japan that Sega of Japan released the Saturn - which proved highly successful across the Pacific.
In spite of its failure in the US, all the money Sega made in Japan with the Saturn funded development of the Dreamcast (launched long after the N64, btw) - which turned out to be the fastest selling console in history in the US at launch. And, Sega supported the Dreamcast until the cash to subsidize selling the consoles ran out. At which point Sega abandoned the hardware business to focus on software.
If you don't like Sega, that's fine. But let's cut out the revisionist history bullshit just this once...
This isn't just a hobbyist-only phenomenon. Coming up with a new and/or original game concept is *hard* and actually developing something people would consider professional nowadays requires a large staff of artists that open source software efforts simply don't have. In the olden days, a single person could do the design, art, audio and programming and the result could still be state-of-the-art; but those days are long gone.
And besides, so many *new* games are "safe" re-hashes of old concepts (in the hopes that the title won't flop and cost the developer millions) that playing emulated classics is sometimes preferable to shelling out for much of the latest stuff.
Perhaps they're just being conservative, but the bug list on Python 2.2.1 (and 2.1.3) didn't list any bug that is obvious to me as a reason to stick with 1.5. I'd sure like to know what it is.
It's probably a compatibility issue, since plenty of Python 2.x code won't run under Python 1.x, and some 1.x code needs adjusting for 2.x. But 2.x should be the default and a python1 package left available for backwards compatibility. Maybe RedHat is saving that move for 8.0.
With up2date, how much longer can RedHat release CDs?
As long as the majority of RedHat users don't have high speed internet access, CDs are still a viable method of distribution. The bandwidth of a box full of RedHat CDs in the trunk of my car is a helluva lot more than anything a measly 56k modem can provide, that's for sure...
now, if you REALLY want ultra-fast disks in your desktop... firewire is FASTER than SCSI. up to 400 MB/s.
Firewire is 400Mbps, which is 50 MBps. That's faster than Ultra2 SCSI, but slower than Wide Ultra2, Ultra3 and Ultra160/320 SCSI. Check out this link for details. Firewire is still nice tech, and a fair bit smarter than USB2.0, but it's not the bandwidth king that SCSI is.
Of course, in the portable market, nothing has been successful in challenging the Gameboy (including the Lynx, Game Gear, Neo Geo Pocket, Nomad, Wonderswan, etc. etc.) and so it's not very interesting to mention. Even though nearly every portable has been technically superior to the lowly Gameboy (at least until the GBA's arrival), lack of battery life or meager title selection have killed them all.
Now, which machine is the origional one? The one that got the hard drive, but not the processor? The one that got the floppy? Or have you just created 2 liscenses since each machine has equal claim to being the origional machine. This posture on the part of M$ is legally dubious, counter-productive and a total crock.
I'm sure, according to Microsoft, *neither* machine is now the original, so you'll just have to purchase two licenses to get either one running. Whenever the question of Microsoft licenses is in doubt, choose the path of maximum greed and that will undoubtedly be the correct one.
The Dreamcast failed because 3rd party developers didn't trust that Sega would stick with the Dreamcast - they were right. Sega has a history of constantly jumping console ship, so the developers were worried about that. If you take a look at Microsoft, again, I'd imagine that most developers would opt to develop for the PS2 first, and then port it to the X-Box. And a system with tons of ports doesn't survive.
The Dreamcast failed because Sega ran out of money to keep subsidizing them. At the time it was discontinued (just after the PS2 launch), developer support was still strong - tho not as strong as the PSX simply by virtue of the PSX's installed base. Developers only really "jumped ship" after Sega announced they would be discontinued.
As for Sega's history, the Genesis/Megadrive was a huge flop in Japan and so nobody there cared about it or its add-ons. The Saturn, however, was a big success (due, most likely, to its monstrous 2D graphics capabilities) which helped make the Dreamcast a reality. So any need to be "wary" of Sega is largely illusory - especially from the japanese developer's point of view. Capcom, in particular, was sad to see them depart the hardware industry.
And that is one of the (many) mega-cool PPC things--massive battery life. Don't know what kind of power management the Linux distros have, though.
About 3.5 hours is typical for me on an old IBM ThinkPad (300 Mhz PII) running Red Hat and a minimal workload. Lots of CPU cycles will drive that down (and drive the heat up) accordingly. Still, the 3-button trackpoint is nice for X11...
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Berlin doesn't have any significant apps yet, AFAIK, which really puts a damper on adoption. Linux and XFree86 actually had plenty of programs available for them when they were built - which is why we're still using X11 now.
VNC isn't particularly fast, and it can't compensate for the "1 user per computer" paradigm that many OSes are built with. For example, using X11 clients, several people can all use GUI applications from a single remote computer; VNC would realistically only allow one person to use the desktop at a time because it's basically a KVM-over-ethernet.
In any case, a replacement for X11 is likely to have its client-server capabilities anyway. But without apps, nobody's going to bother to switch no matter how much better such a replacement might be.
No, but Linus, Samba and Apache don't charge $200+ for the updated versions of their software with the bugs fixed.
If you zoom in on it, it's clear there's specks of red above the topmost white stripe. Thus, it seems the thirteenth stripe was a casualty of the cropping process. I'm more annoyed that the icon is a gif rather than a png...
I think the computer industry would be more than interested. Just because such tech might not wind up in AA batteries doesn't mean battery companies aren't interested.
But Ford doesn't sell gasoline, so why not build a hypothetical "super efficient" car and trounce the competition? The reason, of course, is such cars are just urban legends whose existence relies more on conspiracy theory than engineering theory.
Back to the realities at hand, a fuel cell car with fewer mechanical parts would actually be more disposable and less polluting than existing cars. Still, I think an infrastucture and "proof of concept" are still necessary before we start seeing them in showrooms. But if they take off, the initial investors stand to make a ton of cash on a revolutionary automotive idea (if they take off)
But if ogg is the de-facto audio file format, and everyone associates oggs with audio files, then you will be one of the few that cares about the file format being difficult to decipher. In that case, you might as well leave them with the .ogg extension and add its association to your mental database.
Whether ogg takes off or no, you're almost certainly among the minority that has any difficulty with the name or extension - simply because hardly anyone knows or cares about them. But you can't expect the rest of the world to change the extension simply to fit your preferences any more than the JPEG can expect people to rename their .jpg files to .jfif (which would be the proper extension). It's just not going to happen.
This is all rather silly, really. Nobody (beyond the technical crowd) knows what .mpg (should be .mpeg), .jpg (should be .jpeg), .gif, .png or any other goofy file extension stands for. Users just plain don't care, and Apple and Microsoft have been working hard to ensure they don't need to. But if the extension .ogg bothers you so much, just rename them all to .mp3 and your audio player will handle them just fine.
If I remember right, startx brings up an xdm/gdm/kdm login prompt for people to login to. From there, logging into a "mozilla" account (for example) with the abovementioned .xsession file should bring up the browser-only setup without incurring a significant performance hit.
I don't think there's a way to go from startx straight to a user session, but I don't think it's much of a problem either.
Might be the sort of thing you're looking for (to fit Moz to a 1024x768 display, for example). I'm pretty sure it starts at the upper-left corner of the screen by default, so at least that won't be too much of a problem.Unless, of course, you have a different idea in mind.
Hmm, I think that's a slightly iffy use of the term EULA by Nintendo. By that same use of the term, one could say a customer has a single-user license to play a CD - for example. I suppose in this age of ROM dumps and mp3 files, the association has a bit of accuracy to it. But since one doesn't "agree" to any terms of use (through the use of an "I Agree" button or some other method of signing a contract) perhaps we should just call them "End User Licenses" (EUL) without the "Agreement" part of it...
Indeed, no console game has an End User License Agreement because such games aren't "licensed" to the user. Without any place to install such software (such as a hard drive) there's no need for licensing or serial numbers to prevent a user from installing the Super Mario Bros. on multiple NES consoles, for example.
Of course, standard copyright protections still apply (hence the warning in the manual).
I, for one, don't use a good (or bad) closed-source PC OS for anything. Really. For web browsing, Mozilla and Links do everything I need. For playing mp3s/oggs, there's xmms. For creating professional-looking text docs, there's LaTeX. For reading/writing Word-compatible docs, there's Openoffice/Staroffice. For reading PDFs, xpdf works great (actually better than Acroread for large PDFs). Finally, for twitch games, there's xmame and various Carmack classics like Doom and Quake (1 and 2). So, quite honestly, I don't really use a non-free OS for anything.
This has less to do with ideaology and more to do with experience. Having been using Unix (and X11) for a lot longer than any incarnation of MS-DOS/MS-Windows, I've never felt any need to switch (and, by extension, have nothing to switch back to). However, I can understand why former MS-Windows feel less comfortable on an OS they haven't "grown up" with. Because, with that lack of familiarity comes the occasional desire to return to a more familiar, and comfortable, environment. I know that feeling because whenever I'm on an "alien" MS-Windows box, it never quite feels as comfortable as a Unix one to me.
Comfort may not be logical (since it's so subjective), but I think it is a big factor in the OSes people choose to use.
Here's some actual information on the title. (Don't worry, in spite of the odd-sounding domain, the link in genuine)
Exactly which two towers the title refers to is largely speculative, near as I can tell. Keep in mind the titles for the "trilogy" weren't Tolkien's originally (in particular, he didn't like "Return of the King" since he thought it gave away too much of the plot). Remember, LOTR was meant to be released as a single work and was broken up into three parts due to a shortage of paper at the time.
That said, a case can be made for any number of things to be the actual "Two Towers", but one shouldn't get too worked up over it. :)
Untrue. If one wants to play legally purchased imported titles on a legally purchased console, the only way to do it is to bypass the technical (not legal) region restriction placed on the console by the manufacturer.
Granted, many console mods are done for the sole purpose of piracy. But there are most definately reasons to mod a console for reasons other than piracy.
This is 100% bullshit, really. The Sega Master System came out *after* the NES and was highly successful in europe. In the US it proved less successful, due in no small part to Nintendo's strong-arm tactics (such as, no retailer got NES games if they sold games for other systems).
The Genesis was supported all the way up to the Saturn's launch (and the 32X, Sega's attempt to prolong the life of the Genesis, was launched long after Starfox and Nintendo's FX chip). But the Megadrive was such a flop in Japan that Sega of Japan released the Saturn - which proved highly successful across the Pacific.
In spite of its failure in the US, all the money Sega made in Japan with the Saturn funded development of the Dreamcast (launched long after the N64, btw) - which turned out to be the fastest selling console in history in the US at launch. And, Sega supported the Dreamcast until the cash to subsidize selling the consoles ran out. At which point Sega abandoned the hardware business to focus on software.
If you don't like Sega, that's fine. But let's cut out the revisionist history bullshit just this once...
And besides, so many *new* games are "safe" re-hashes of old concepts (in the hopes that the title won't flop and cost the developer millions) that playing emulated classics is sometimes preferable to shelling out for much of the latest stuff.
It's probably a compatibility issue, since plenty of Python 2.x code won't run under Python 1.x, and some 1.x code needs adjusting for 2.x. But 2.x should be the default and a python1 package left available for backwards compatibility. Maybe RedHat is saving that move for 8.0.
As long as the majority of RedHat users don't have high speed internet access, CDs are still a viable method of distribution. The bandwidth of a box full of RedHat CDs in the trunk of my car is a helluva lot more than anything a measly 56k modem can provide, that's for sure...
Firewire is 400Mbps, which is 50 MBps. That's faster than Ultra2 SCSI, but slower than Wide Ultra2, Ultra3 and Ultra160/320 SCSI. Check out this link for details. Firewire is still nice tech, and a fair bit smarter than USB2.0, but it's not the bandwidth king that SCSI is.
And I won't mention the ill-fated Virtual Boy ;)
The timeline goes like:
From a US point of view, Sega hasn't had much luck with home hardware. But worldwide and in the arcade, it's not quite as ugly as it looks.
I'm sure, according to Microsoft, *neither* machine is now the original, so you'll just have to purchase two licenses to get either one running. Whenever the question of Microsoft licenses is in doubt, choose the path of maximum greed and that will undoubtedly be the correct one.
...everything begins to look like data.
As for Sega's history, the Genesis/Megadrive was a huge flop in Japan and so nobody there cared about it or its add-ons. The Saturn, however, was a big success (due, most likely, to its monstrous 2D graphics capabilities) which helped make the Dreamcast a reality. So any need to be "wary" of Sega is largely illusory - especially from the japanese developer's point of view. Capcom, in particular, was sad to see them depart the hardware industry.
About 3.5 hours is typical for me on an old IBM ThinkPad (300 Mhz PII) running Red Hat and a minimal workload. Lots of CPU cycles will drive that down (and drive the heat up) accordingly. Still, the 3-button trackpoint is nice for X11...