have a windows mobile phone from the generation before. I tell everyone I'm able: it really is the worst product that I've ever seen actually released.
I share the same thought. My experience with Windows Mobile was so bad that I bought a Alcatel OT-106 and have absolutely no intentions of buying anything superior. I just didn't sell the Windows Mobile phone yet (HTC Wizard) because I could join a development team that is porting Linux into it. http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/linwizard/wiki Seriously, the phone even has a qwerty keyboard! How is it possible that Microsoft messed up so bad?
Where did you program BASIC? I'm 24 now and I started at 12 yo in a Philips VG 8010 (MSX Basic) that my uncle offered me. I still have the programs I wrote at the time in tapes. There was one thing though that was too tough for me at the time, I never managed to make games with sprites.
After BASIC, I bought a real PC and learned Visual Basic to turn around CLI limitations. C programing only came when I wiped the windows partition with Linux for the first time.
Sometimes I wonder if it would change anything if I started by using a PC with Linux instead..
I don't know about him, but I sure am jealous of not having an OS that will only run a tiny library of poorly written, half-assed software
*shrug* I don't usually reply to trolls but...
Mind you that people writing open-source code do it for fun and recognition. Writing "half-assed" code seems something that a paid employee could do since they have deadlines to meet and other more important objectives to worry about than writing "clean-code". Also, the very nature of *open*-source code makes it more vulnerable to third party quality checks and peering.
If you never tried to push code into kernel.org, gnome, kde or any other big opensource project, I suggest you do so you can recognize that is not that easy to push "half-assed" code.
and having pathetic hardware support.
Sure. That's why Linux is found in the TOP 100 super computers, in fridges, high-end TVs, cellphones, routers and of course.. desktops
Talking about desktops.. don't expect Linux to run 100% if you throw it into some random combination of hardware without *checking compatibility first*. Because you can do the same and grab Microsoft Windows, for example, and throw it into non Microsoft certified hardware and you will see how well it will run.
Oh well, I'll just have to stick with Windows and continue to be able to use all PC hardware on the market and have the biggest and best selection of software at my fingertips.
Your comments are childish and obviously pathetic. Worse is that you have knowledge of it by replying as AC..
Firewire was started in the mid-80s to replace parallel SCSI, nearly a decade before USB's existence. It is still the standard for data transfer between devices such as A/V equipment.
firewire is great to quickly create a *very fast* network link between two computers side to side, if you have the cable of couse. In Linux just load firewire-net and you should see a firewire0 net device popping up. Gigabit ethernet is getting more common in laptops though. However I still find a lot of laptops with firewire.
Seriously, get a grip. Most people will compile it using the default flags unless they got a reason to change it
Well.. If everything is to be left defaulted, what is the point of installing Gentoo in the first place?;) People installing Gentoo know exactly what they want and want not. Otherwise it is just pointless to go all over the work that is required to install it.. Of course there is always the people initiating in Gentoo, but that happens to be a small and volatile userbase.
That it doesn't involve everyone is roughly equivalent to other people on other distros hardening their machine by disabling stuff they dont' use.
Notice that I never said that. However I think you might agree that people changing the system *a lot* are the exception. For the sake of the discussion, what would be the percentage of ubuntu users running their cooked kernel? - that is my point. Still in Gentoo the percentage doesn't arrive anywhere near 100% because we have genkernel (to generate config and build the kernel automatically). However in slackware I believe that has to be 100%:)
Please don't just disagree because I gave Gentoo as example, I can just replace the name by sourcemage, slackware, the message works as well..
That's why I like and appreciate user personalization in GNU/Linux. At expense of being modded down, imagine Gentoo Linux for example. The kernel and userspace are built mostly by the user and so, there is a lot of user generated entropy in it. That is good for security since we can't really say for sure if Gentoo is vulnerable to this attack or other attack. The kernel option is there, it depends if the user enabled it or not.
NOTE: For ALSA 1.0.9rc2 and higher you don't need to setup dmix for analogue output. Dmix is enabled by default for soundcards which don't support hardware mixing. You still need to set it up for digital outputs.
Pretty much everything uses dmix now a days, even gnome that was using the crappy esound interface moved to gstreamer long time ago, which supports pretty much everything (alsa, oss4, pulseaudio).
Unless you need some outdated piece of audio software, I don't think you have to worry about something hogging your sound device.
However, flash does hog the audio so I have to kill the damn thing if I want to play sound from anything else.
Doesn't ubuntu use pulse audio by default? It might be because of it..
I only have alsa in my laptop, no alsa config files created, and everything can play concurrently. Even closed source applications like flash and skype access alsa using dmix so they don't hog the audio device anymore.
Despite for network audio (which jack also do, and do better) I don't really see why pulseaudio is needed.
The SmartWater liquid carries a DNA fingerprint that links a criminal to the scene of the crime and police units carrying ultra-violet light detectors can use the incriminating stains to make an arrest after the trap has been sprung.
That's why my kids drink SmartWater at breakfast. Just in case..
I like the document reader that comes with Gnome/Ubuntu.
Yeah, its getting better everytime. The other day I opened a pdf used for service inscription, I was amazed to see that evince displayed embedded form widgets like input boxes, dropdown menus etc.. It was slick!
TBH I prefer to be lagging in functionality and have security than the other way around - but that is just me!
I'm Portuguese and I'm really surprised they are using Microsoft tools (Word I guess) for this. The thing gets even more stupid when we think the trial is running since 2004 and when the entire country was expecting the final ruling, the process lagged a while more because of what it seems a Microsoft related glitch. More, (from another TFA http://dn.sapo.pt/inicio/portugal/interior.aspx?content_id=1660098) - they had to call some Microsoft "specialists" hired by the ministry of justice to help with the problem.
They should all be put in fetal position and slapped, then learn LaTeX or any other serious typesetting software.
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ditto
Troll?? Seriously? I'm not lying, do you want a picture of my Alcatel OT-106 or a picture of my HTC Wizard running Linux?
This place is full of Astroturfing.
have a windows mobile phone from the generation before. I tell everyone I'm able: it really is the worst product that I've ever seen actually released.
I share the same thought. My experience with Windows Mobile was so bad that I bought a Alcatel OT-106 and have absolutely no intentions of buying anything superior.
I just didn't sell the Windows Mobile phone yet (HTC Wizard) because I could join a development team that is porting Linux into it. http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/linwizard/wiki Seriously, the phone even has a qwerty keyboard! How is it possible that Microsoft messed up so bad?
Where did you program BASIC? I'm 24 now and I started at 12 yo in a Philips VG 8010 (MSX Basic) that my uncle offered me.
I still have the programs I wrote at the time in tapes. There was one thing though that was too tough for me at the time, I never managed to make games with sprites.
After BASIC, I bought a real PC and learned Visual Basic to turn around CLI limitations. C programing only came when I wiped the windows partition with Linux for the first time.
Sometimes I wonder if it would change anything if I started by using a PC with Linux instead..
I don't know about him, but I sure am jealous of not having an OS that will only run a tiny library of poorly written, half-assed software
*shrug*
I don't usually reply to trolls but...
Mind you that people writing open-source code do it for fun and recognition. Writing "half-assed" code seems something that a paid employee could do since they have deadlines to meet and other more important objectives to worry about than writing "clean-code". Also, the very nature of *open*-source code makes it more vulnerable to third party quality checks and peering.
If you never tried to push code into kernel.org, gnome, kde or any other big opensource project, I suggest you do so you can recognize that is not that easy to push "half-assed" code.
and having pathetic hardware support.
Sure. That's why Linux is found in the TOP 100 super computers, in fridges, high-end TVs, cellphones, routers and of course.. desktops
Talking about desktops .. don't expect Linux to run 100% if you throw it into some random combination of hardware without *checking compatibility first*. Because you can do the same and grab Microsoft Windows, for example, and throw it into non Microsoft certified hardware and you will see how well it will run.
Oh well, I'll just have to stick with Windows and continue to be able to use all PC hardware on the market and have the biggest and best selection of software at my fingertips.
Your comments are childish and obviously pathetic. Worse is that you have knowledge of it by replying as AC..
same here, looks like noscript is doing its job : )
From TFA:
This 2008-vintage notebook is powered by a 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
My server is powered by a Athlon64 3400+ you insensitive clod!
IE9 is the best browser ever! - says miknix while having a bunch of dollars sitting in the back-pocket.
Can't wait to receive my electric car kit and assembly it at home.
Mine did but now it doesn't: http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/4397/hpim0723c.jpg
Firewire was started in the mid-80s to replace parallel SCSI, nearly a decade before USB's existence. It is still the standard for data transfer between devices such as A/V equipment.
firewire is great to quickly create a *very fast* network link between two computers side to side, if you have the cable of couse. In Linux just load firewire-net and you should see a firewire0 net device popping up.
Gigabit ethernet is getting more common in laptops though. However I still find a lot of laptops with firewire.
Tired of http? Lets move on to gopher..
Terrorists members from Al-Qaeda are hiding in the moon! We must go there and defeat them!
gold being discovered there is just plain coincidence
Seriously, get a grip. Most people will compile it using the default flags unless they got a reason to change it
Well.. If everything is to be left defaulted, what is the point of installing Gentoo in the first place? ;)
People installing Gentoo know exactly what they want and want not. Otherwise it is just pointless to go all over the work that is required to install it..
Of course there is always the people initiating in Gentoo, but that happens to be a small and volatile userbase.
That it doesn't involve everyone is roughly equivalent to other people on other distros hardening their machine by disabling stuff they dont' use.
Notice that I never said that. However I think you might agree that people changing the system *a lot* are the exception. For the sake of the discussion, what would be the percentage of ubuntu users running their cooked kernel? :)
- that is my point. Still in Gentoo the percentage doesn't arrive anywhere near 100% because we have genkernel (to generate config and build the kernel automatically). However in slackware I believe that has to be 100%
Please don't just disagree because I gave Gentoo as example, I can just replace the name by sourcemage, slackware, the message works as well..
That's why I like and appreciate user personalization in GNU/Linux. At expense of being modded down, imagine Gentoo Linux for example. The kernel and userspace are built mostly by the user and so, there is a lot of user generated entropy in it. That is good for security since we can't really say for sure if Gentoo is vulnerable to this attack or other attack. The kernel option is there, it depends if the user enabled it or not.
Would you mind telling me what brand/model your laptop is? (..) I've been worrying about having to use Pulseaudio one day/in a laptop.
It is a HP dv6535ep, the sound card is
$ lspci | grep Audio
00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP65 High Definition Audio (rev a1)
a Intel HDA with a Conexant CX20549 (Venice) chipset. No hardware mixing.
From http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Dmix
NOTE: For ALSA 1.0.9rc2 and higher you don't need to setup dmix for analogue output. Dmix is enabled by default for soundcards which don't support hardware mixing. You still need to set it up for digital outputs.
Pretty much everything uses dmix now a days, even gnome that was using the crappy esound interface moved to gstreamer long time ago, which supports pretty much everything (alsa, oss4, pulseaudio).
Unless you need some outdated piece of audio software, I don't think you have to worry about something hogging your sound device.
Despite for network audio (which jack also do, and do better) I don't really see why pulseaudio is needed.
s/do\([^n]\)/does\1/g
However, flash does hog the audio so I have to kill the damn thing if I want to play sound from anything else.
Doesn't ubuntu use pulse audio by default? It might be because of it..
I only have alsa in my laptop, no alsa config files created, and everything can play concurrently. Even closed source applications like flash and skype access alsa using dmix so they don't hog the audio device anymore.
Despite for network audio (which jack also do, and do better) I don't really see why pulseaudio is needed.
Now imagine Clippy popping out from a search and saying
- hey! it looks like your friend Joe Schmoe likes bananas! He recommends..
* Fresh gold bananas at Bing Shopping.
* Heavy duty dildos at dildowalt.com
* Banana paradise XXX adult movie at gaymedia.com
The SmartWater liquid carries a DNA fingerprint that links a criminal to the scene of the crime and police units carrying ultra-violet light detectors can use the incriminating stains to make an arrest after the trap has been sprung.
That's why my kids drink SmartWater at breakfast. Just in case..
http://singularityhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/honda-exoskeleton-walker.jpg
Did they really need to put a man there? I feel the pain in my nuts already.
Look no further: http://www.google.com/linux
I like the document reader that comes with Gnome/Ubuntu.
Yeah, its getting better everytime. The other day I opened a pdf used for service inscription, I was amazed to see that evince displayed embedded form widgets like input boxes, dropdown menus etc.. It was slick!
TBH I prefer to be lagging in functionality and have security than the other way around - but that is just me!
I'm Portuguese and I'm really surprised they are using Microsoft tools (Word I guess) for this. The thing gets even more stupid when we think the trial is running since 2004 and when the entire country was expecting the final ruling, the process lagged a while more because of what it seems a Microsoft related glitch. More, (from another TFA http://dn.sapo.pt/inicio/portugal/interior.aspx?content_id=1660098) - they had to call some Microsoft "specialists" hired by the ministry of justice to help with the problem.
They should all be put in fetal position and slapped, then learn LaTeX or any other serious typesetting software.
And my personal favorite:
-A handshake machine,
?? I prefer the slapping machine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8chY78oBcWM (move to 3:50)