I tried out with a fresh install on a separate partition first. But that was even worse, the system didn't get to hibernate at all. Finally i decided to go for an upgrade, since it didn't make any sense to run an old version for long. True, their upgrade process isn't that good, some old configs get deleted. Also, never try to upgrade with YaST, i.e while being booted in the old version, you are most likely going to end up with a broken system.
The biggest thing they have fucked up in 12.1 is the power management. I now do get around 15 mins of extra battery backup on my 4 cell Vostro laptop, compared to version 11.2, but the system refuses to gracefully shut down or hibernate most of the times. Plus, the boot up time has gone up by 1 minute.
I still prefer them over Fedora though, which is always shipped with random anaconda bugs. Also openSUSE's software repo setup is a breeze compared to Fedora.
OK, I admit to careless reactionary phrasing, but still, the point stands. The phrasing of the original post implied that KDE 'lacks the simplest functions' - which is untrue, hence the rubbish comment. The feature is there, and if it doesn't work for them, that's a bug, not lacking the feature itself.
I do think its a problem if one tries to add a new empty panel after deleting the default. KDE pulled out the resize button since the 3.x release; the panel won't occupy the full width until you add enough widgets on it; which i suppose indeed is very annoying. This isn't a bug, it appears they want it to work that way. There's more to the list of KDE stupidities, you cannot drag a widget in the panel to change its position; cannot add a desktop icon for your custom binary or script etc.
Compared to GNOME 3 insanity though, KDE is still a very usable desktop.
Maybe it could make a difference; NVIDIA joining the Linux foundation. So far, on openSUSE, their closed source drivers available via YaST repos fail to detect the installed NVDIA card in most of the cases. Since the bundled nouveau driver isn't good enough, currently the only alternative to get them working is to compile their default proprietary driver(s) into the kernel.
Just curious about this, will Mozilla get paid for any search made directly from the google.com homepage opened from Firefox (that is, by not using the Google/Firefox start page or by selecting Google from the search engine list)?
Which, sad to say, is ever-rarer nowadays. It seems to me that there are a great many otherwise competent authors (Sanderson, Rothfuss, Egan) who are troublingly mired in notions of female superiority (note: not equality; bona fide superiority). I suspect a lot of this derives from a backlash over previously male-dominated genres. Unfortunately, as humans only exist for a little while and die, backlash like that only ensures ongoing imbalance, rather than any kind of equality.
I agree. Those who want to sound politically correct (gender equality/neo-feminism being one of those areas) shouldn't write fiction, they should relegate themselves to lower forms of literature like magazines or newspapers. The concept of female superiority is as absurd as male superiority. Its just the social conditioning that makes an individual suitable for a job or task regardless of the gender. If you read the works of some so called "misogynist" authors of last century (Maupassant, Saki etc), you might notice that most of their characters were equally shared by men and women of doubtful morals. But its just because their portrayal of the latter that they were labeled as misogynists. Fiction should come from heart; without any desire for praise, or fear of ostracism. Sadly, popular authors of this era seem to be guided by both these factors.
If you have a penchant for classics, try short stories from Twain, Saki, English translations of Maupassant and Kafka, HG Wells, O Henry and Oscar Wilde. A short story winds up in typically 15-30 mins and provides good reading satisfaction. And all works from these authors are in public domain, so those can be accessed freely online.
Wow! thanks for enlightening us Sir, that sounds incredibly easy. Could you please go ahead and write a stripped version of an existing language and then (co-)write a stripped version of an existing OS using it? The world will be indebted to you forever, believe me.
Not only they are extracting money from phone manufacturers, grabbing them by collar; they are also bragging about in their blog. What has software industry come to?
I don't think there was ever a need for GRUB2. Its complex and bloated. Seems like Linux is going more and more towards the proprietary Unix philosophy - doing simple things in difficult way.
That crap was acceptable in 1992 but it ain't 1992 anymore, time for Linux to join the 21st century!
Its 2011 and everything inside my new Dell laptop works on openSUSE (or Ubuntu or Fedora or distro xx, you name it) works out of the box. For the Nvdia card, had to install their proprietary driver, but the installation went like breeze.
Seems its you who is actually stuck at 1992.
I am genuinely disappointed with the "certifications-don't matter" response from Slashdot crowd. Certifications do help; the certificate itself may not get you the job but the knowledge you gain from preparing for the cert exam will certainly benefit you.
Eight years ago when my got my RHCE, none of my employers knew what RHCE was; but the hands-on knowledge of Linux and networking, which RHCE largely covers helped me in my actual job. Even while working as a Windows sysadmin in a company, the RHCE knowledge of networking and user management helped. With the basic concepts in place, you will realize that different OS platforms, network equipments from different manufacturers etc have just different ways of doing the same thing. I know many good sysadmins who don't possess any certs, but who have the habit of learning new things beyond their job. This is where a certification helps; passing the exam is not important but studying for the exam is.
I would suggest you look for a certification (whether it is IT or programming) that has an in-depth coverage of the subject, rather than industry acceptance.
Not surprisingly there are a lot of negative comments here, but to play devil's advocate: what practices of Microsoft's are really unethical?
Interoperability. Or the absence of it..whatever.
openSUSE is very much alive and kicking. It is less buggy and faster than Fedora. Proprietary hardware support is good and plus if you add the Packman repositories, you get tons of free packages ranging from games to media players.
I've been using openSUSE 11.2 x64 for more than a year now after a decade of experience with Fedora and a considerable experience with Ubuntu; and have found that it is a grossly underrated distro; at least outside Germany.
From TFA about Larry Page: And he will have to rid himself of a proclivity most engineers have: they are really bad at things they can’t measure
Doesn't that apply to every profession - a lawyer, a plumber and a manager of course can all be self-delusional about their abilities when actually they might be doing a lousy job.
This seems like the perpetual Engineer versus Manager debate that who actually runs the company - the Engineer or the Manager? whatever a manager's argument might be, the fact is that unless you create or develop a thing, you shouldn't be able to manage it. The Engineer precedes the Manager in the evolution chain.
Months ago I was shopping for a new laptop; i was inclined to buy one with AMD in it. Was shocked to find however that no vendor apart from Acer had an AMD product. Dell, HP and Lenovo were blatantly advertising the new ix series processors from Intel. I had no option but to settle for an i5 520.
Marketing had certainly a lot to do with it and AMD can't match Intel on that.
Browsers load untrusted data from the internet every time you use them. Using an out of date browser is a security risk. Unless updates are silent and automatic, most users won't upgrade. That won't stop them from being pissed when they get hit by malware. Google shouldn't ignore the needs of 99% of users so that you can avoid an upgrade.
If you don't want to upgrade, you don't have to. If you are clever enough to understand the issues, then I am sure you can figure out how to disable automatic updates. The code is open source, and the only thing stopping someone from releasing update-free-chrome is the fact that running an outdated browser is a terrible idea.
Not really. Most of the users don't mind free upgrades. Look around yourself to check how many users are still running IE6 or FF 3.0 (or even 3.5). Automatically connecting to Internet without user's consent is essentially a bad idea. In situations like when the update site may be down, the link may be slow or the user might be already running a network intensive application, an automatic update can bring the system to screeching halt; no matter how well the program is purportedly written.
Its kind of frustrating that more and more applications developed these days are based around the idea that users aren't smart enough to figure out whats good for them, so don't provide them with the bells and whistles, they won't need that and won't be able to use that even if provided.
What about actions that require pressing a specific area on a surface; human hands aren't meant only to grip things. This particular robotic hand shouldn't be able to type on a keyboard or perhaps operate a touchscreen type interface.
Intelligent, Beautiful and Compelling but still Deeply, Deeply Flawed.Honestly, reviews like these suck. Why not just say unequivocally that the movie simply sucks!
I found it a pain to compile Gnash 0.8.8 on OpenSUSE 11.3 _x64. The agg-devel dependency directly conflicts with installed version of glibc. Upgrading glibc is a next-to-impossible thing on any Linux system. And not to talk about half a dozen "suggested" dependencies for Gnash 0.8.8. Gnash developers seem to have only Ubuntu/Debian and Fedora in mind. I'd certainly settle for Adobe's version on my SUSE box.
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I tried out with a fresh install on a separate partition first. But that was even worse, the system didn't get to hibernate at all. Finally i decided to go for an upgrade, since it didn't make any sense to run an old version for long. True, their upgrade process isn't that good, some old configs get deleted. Also, never try to upgrade with YaST, i.e while being booted in the old version, you are most likely going to end up with a broken system.
The biggest thing they have fucked up in 12.1 is the power management. I now do get around 15 mins of extra battery backup on my 4 cell Vostro laptop, compared to version 11.2, but the system refuses to gracefully shut down or hibernate most of the times. Plus, the boot up time has gone up by 1 minute.
I still prefer them over Fedora though, which is always shipped with random anaconda bugs. Also openSUSE's software repo setup is a breeze compared to Fedora.
I think the GP meant these : http://www.google.co.in/search?q=usb+number+pad&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=D1p&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Gu23T5bcEIrlrAe8_9TeBw&ved=0CHkQsAQ&biw=1362&bih=561&sei=Ke23T7zEAoHYrQfbkbmNCQ . The 'Fine Original Post' is probably complaining of full size USB keyboards and if that isn't the case I really don't understand whats his problem with externally connected keyboards or keypads. Those might be inconvenient to carry around but you probably won't either require serious Num typing while sitting at a coffee shop or a hotel lobby. Serious typing work calls for a full size external keyboard; laptop keyboards just aren't convenient enough.
OK, I admit to careless reactionary phrasing, but still, the point stands. The phrasing of the original post implied that KDE 'lacks the simplest functions' - which is untrue, hence the rubbish comment. The feature is there, and if it doesn't work for them, that's a bug, not lacking the feature itself.
I do think its a problem if one tries to add a new empty panel after deleting the default. KDE pulled out the resize button since the 3.x release; the panel won't occupy the full width until you add enough widgets on it; which i suppose indeed is very annoying. This isn't a bug, it appears they want it to work that way. There's more to the list of KDE stupidities, you cannot drag a widget in the panel to change its position; cannot add a desktop icon for your custom binary or script etc. Compared to GNOME 3 insanity though, KDE is still a very usable desktop.
Maybe it could make a difference; NVIDIA joining the Linux foundation. So far, on openSUSE, their closed source drivers available via YaST repos fail to detect the installed NVDIA card in most of the cases. Since the bundled nouveau driver isn't good enough, currently the only alternative to get them working is to compile their default proprietary driver(s) into the kernel.
Just curious about this, will Mozilla get paid for any search made directly from the google.com homepage opened from Firefox (that is, by not using the Google/Firefox start page or by selecting Google from the search engine list)?
Which, sad to say, is ever-rarer nowadays. It seems to me that there are a great many otherwise competent authors (Sanderson, Rothfuss, Egan) who are troublingly mired in notions of female superiority (note: not equality; bona fide superiority). I suspect a lot of this derives from a backlash over previously male-dominated genres. Unfortunately, as humans only exist for a little while and die, backlash like that only ensures ongoing imbalance, rather than any kind of equality.
I agree. Those who want to sound politically correct (gender equality/neo-feminism being one of those areas) shouldn't write fiction, they should relegate themselves to lower forms of literature like magazines or newspapers. The concept of female superiority is as absurd as male superiority. Its just the social conditioning that makes an individual suitable for a job or task regardless of the gender. If you read the works of some so called "misogynist" authors of last century (Maupassant, Saki etc), you might notice that most of their characters were equally shared by men and women of doubtful morals. But its just because their portrayal of the latter that they were labeled as misogynists. Fiction should come from heart; without any desire for praise, or fear of ostracism. Sadly, popular authors of this era seem to be guided by both these factors.
If you have a penchant for classics, try short stories from Twain, Saki, English translations of Maupassant and Kafka, HG Wells, O Henry and Oscar Wilde. A short story winds up in typically 15-30 mins and provides good reading satisfaction. And all works from these authors are in public domain, so those can be accessed freely online.
Are you saying that 5 year old machines don't have DVD drives..which world do you come from?
Wow! thanks for enlightening us Sir, that sounds incredibly easy. Could you please go ahead and write a stripped version of an existing language and then (co-)write a stripped version of an existing OS using it? The world will be indebted to you forever, believe me.
Not only they are extracting money from phone manufacturers, grabbing them by collar; they are also bragging about in their blog. What has software industry come to?
And you would buy a Lexmark product? Have you no shame?
And whats wrong with a Lexmark? ..just curious.
I don't think there was ever a need for GRUB2. Its complex and bloated. Seems like Linux is going more and more towards the proprietary Unix philosophy - doing simple things in difficult way.
That crap was acceptable in 1992 but it ain't 1992 anymore, time for Linux to join the 21st century!
Its 2011 and everything inside my new Dell laptop works on openSUSE (or Ubuntu or Fedora or distro xx, you name it) works out of the box. For the Nvdia card, had to install their proprietary driver, but the installation went like breeze. Seems its you who is actually stuck at 1992.
Going by your analogy, as stupid competitors made Google successful, Apple has been made successful by its equally stupid users.
I am genuinely disappointed with the "certifications-don't matter" response from Slashdot crowd. Certifications do help; the certificate itself may not get you the job but the knowledge you gain from preparing for the cert exam will certainly benefit you.
Eight years ago when my got my RHCE, none of my employers knew what RHCE was; but the hands-on knowledge of Linux and networking, which RHCE largely covers helped me in my actual job. Even while working as a Windows sysadmin in a company, the RHCE knowledge of networking and user management helped. With the basic concepts in place, you will realize that different OS platforms, network equipments from different manufacturers etc have just different ways of doing the same thing. I know many good sysadmins who don't possess any certs, but who have the habit of learning new things beyond their job. This is where a certification helps; passing the exam is not important but studying for the exam is.
I would suggest you look for a certification (whether it is IT or programming) that has an in-depth coverage of the subject, rather than industry acceptance.
Not surprisingly there are a lot of negative comments here, but to play devil's advocate: what practices of Microsoft's are really unethical?
Interoperability. Or the absence of it..whatever.
openSUSE is very much alive and kicking. It is less buggy and faster than Fedora. Proprietary hardware support is good and plus if you add the Packman repositories, you get tons of free packages ranging from games to media players.
I've been using openSUSE 11.2 x64 for more than a year now after a decade of experience with Fedora and a considerable experience with Ubuntu; and have found that it is a grossly underrated distro; at least outside Germany.
I've been running Gnome 2.4 on AIX PPC since four years. It was good riddance from CDE.
From TFA about Larry Page: And he will have to rid himself of a proclivity most engineers have: they are really bad at things they can’t measure
Doesn't that apply to every profession - a lawyer, a plumber and a manager of course can all be self-delusional about their abilities when actually they might be doing a lousy job.
This seems like the perpetual Engineer versus Manager debate that who actually runs the company - the Engineer or the Manager? whatever a manager's argument might be, the fact is that unless you create or develop a thing, you shouldn't be able to manage it. The Engineer precedes the Manager in the evolution chain.
Months ago I was shopping for a new laptop; i was inclined to buy one with AMD in it. Was shocked to find however that no vendor apart from Acer had an AMD product. Dell, HP and Lenovo were blatantly advertising the new ix series processors from Intel. I had no option but to settle for an i5 520. Marketing had certainly a lot to do with it and AMD can't match Intel on that.
Browsers load untrusted data from the internet every time you use them. Using an out of date browser is a security risk. Unless updates are silent and automatic, most users won't upgrade. That won't stop them from being pissed when they get hit by malware. Google shouldn't ignore the needs of 99% of users so that you can avoid an upgrade.
If you don't want to upgrade, you don't have to. If you are clever enough to understand the issues, then I am sure you can figure out how to disable automatic updates. The code is open source, and the only thing stopping someone from releasing update-free-chrome is the fact that running an outdated browser is a terrible idea.
Not really. Most of the users don't mind free upgrades. Look around yourself to check how many users are still running IE6 or FF 3.0 (or even 3.5). Automatically connecting to Internet without user's consent is essentially a bad idea. In situations like when the update site may be down, the link may be slow or the user might be already running a network intensive application, an automatic update can bring the system to screeching halt; no matter how well the program is purportedly written.
Its kind of frustrating that more and more applications developed these days are based around the idea that users aren't smart enough to figure out whats good for them, so don't provide them with the bells and whistles, they won't need that and won't be able to use that even if provided.
What about actions that require pressing a specific area on a surface; human hands aren't meant only to grip things. This particular robotic hand shouldn't be able to type on a keyboard or perhaps operate a touchscreen type interface.
Intelligent, Beautiful and Compelling but still Deeply, Deeply Flawed.Honestly, reviews like these suck. Why not just say unequivocally that the movie simply sucks!
I found it a pain to compile Gnash 0.8.8 on OpenSUSE 11.3 _x64. The agg-devel dependency directly conflicts with installed version of glibc. Upgrading glibc is a next-to-impossible thing on any Linux system. And not to talk about half a dozen "suggested" dependencies for Gnash 0.8.8. Gnash developers seem to have only Ubuntu/Debian and Fedora in mind. I'd certainly settle for Adobe's version on my SUSE box.