Using the Popularity Contest package, these two projects collect and post weekly anonymous reports about the software used on each system on which they're installed.
In Ubuntu's case, the collected information is also used for software ratings in Add/Remove Software.
Cool to know that's where they are pulling their package ratings info. This has been tremendously useful in my family - I just tell the wife "I dunno, install the one with the most stars and see how it works for you." I'll have to install the Popularity Contest package so I can add to their data, even though I don't subscribe to idea of having a "contest" at all.
Our power usage is unusually high for a typical, four person nuclear family. A big part of that is because I have a PC lab and network in the basement. Both my wife and I work out of the house much of the time, with her time almost 100% in the home office. Plus, we have two teenage girls and a pretty beefy HDTV and home audio setup in the family room.
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Quite. They took a hit in 1985 when Jobs left, but going by stock price alone (by admission not the best measure) they did just fine. Avg stock price until 1985: 3.37. From 1985-1996: $9.03. From 1996 until today: $40.12.
I use PasswordMaker for my password stuff. I don't really see password management as the browser's job anyway. Convenience can be an issue with this, but fortunately there is a plugin for Firefox that helps.
While KDE's speed and overall configurability are a huge plus, it is really the apps that make KDE win over GNOME for me. GNOME just can't come close to Amarok, Konqueror (KIO slaves in particular), and K3B.
The thing is that it isn't "Google Beta Quality." It truly is beta quality in the traditional sense. How would you like to cause a crash by simply looping over a view in a stored procedure?
With all due respect to Ryan, I agree with Monty here. Not just 5.1, but the whole MySQL 5.x tree has been shipping with release critical bugs. What's more, some of those bugs (like the one that has been open since 2003) have lowered priority now because "people know about them."
The dev team did away with rhgb (replaced by plymouth) and used readahead to achieve faster (30 seconds was the target) boot times (details here). Plymouth relies on kernel modesetting support to get its graphical goodness, which unfortunately is only supported well on ATI chips.
This release is anything but "pointless chrome." They are moving from QT3 to QT4, which will enable a lot of things (not the least of which being IDE support). Relevant thread here.
This release (and namely the UI improvements in it) is really going to benefit the plugins in particular. For example, here's hoping that "faster and easier development for themers and developers" will open the doors to a better UI for MythMusic!
Bravo to Isaac and the MythTV team. You've all done a great job in creating one of the coolest projects for media junkies out there. I look forward to the upcoming release.
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Was a fecal analogy really needed, when a simple car one would suffice?
Cool to know that's where they are pulling their package ratings info. This has been tremendously useful in my family - I just tell the wife "I dunno, install the one with the most stars and see how it works for you." I'll have to install the Popularity Contest package so I can add to their data, even though I don't subscribe to idea of having a "contest" at all.
If they do what this article suggests they will, this is a big step towards better code and community involvement. Go Qt, go!
Simpsons did it!
2009 is the year of the flow chart, which will then bolster the popularity of FreeBSD by definition.
Ummm..."sudo bash"? Worked this morning on my Ubuntu 8.04 server.
Judging by your OS, not for long
Yep, you're right.
Quite. They took a hit in 1985 when Jobs left, but going by stock price alone (by admission not the best measure) they did just fine. Avg stock price until 1985: 3.37. From 1985-1996: $9.03. From 1996 until today: $40.12.
I use PasswordMaker for my password stuff. I don't really see password management as the browser's job anyway. Convenience can be an issue with this, but fortunately there is a plugin for Firefox that helps.
While KDE's speed and overall configurability are a huge plus, it is really the apps that make KDE win over GNOME for me. GNOME just can't come close to Amarok, Konqueror (KIO slaves in particular), and K3B.
I didn't know Larry King had ever even been to the UK.
I find that we here on Slashdot are extremely critical of all applications, regardless of whether they are closed source or not.
So Gnome vs. KDE that thread may be, but it is still criticism, no?
You call software that can bring down multiple slaves with a drop table statement in a transaction production-ready? Have fun with that.
...because we didn't jump all over the KDE team when they released 4.0? How soon we forget!
The thing is that it isn't "Google Beta Quality." It truly is beta quality in the traditional sense. How would you like to cause a crash by simply looping over a view in a stored procedure?
With all due respect to Ryan, I agree with Monty here. Not just 5.1, but the whole MySQL 5.x tree has been shipping with release critical bugs. What's more, some of those bugs (like the one that has been open since 2003) have lowered priority now because "people know about them."
It sounds like MySQL could benefit from a more debian-like release criteria.
The dev team did away with rhgb (replaced by plymouth) and used readahead to achieve faster (30 seconds was the target) boot times (details here). Plymouth relies on kernel modesetting support to get its graphical goodness, which unfortunately is only supported well on ATI chips.
Care to elaborate on your experience? On first glance the features look pretty good.
Yes, it does. $2495 though...ouch.
This release is anything but "pointless chrome." They are moving from QT3 to QT4, which will enable a lot of things (not the least of which being IDE support). Relevant thread here.
Perhaps he's talking about mythtv-setup.
This release (and namely the UI improvements in it) is really going to benefit the plugins in particular. For example, here's hoping that "faster and easier development for themers and developers" will open the doors to a better UI for MythMusic!
Bravo to Isaac and the MythTV team. You've all done a great job in creating one of the coolest projects for media junkies out there. I look forward to the upcoming release.
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