> That's a GNOME problem if anything. > KDE has something called Klipper > for a long time now
There is a small little utility named Glipper, similiar to Klipper in functionality, but based rather on GTK than Qt.
Klipper sucks.
Klipper is annoying. Each time I copy any URL to the clipboard, it pops up with a stupid menu asking me "WTF do you want to do with that URL, open it in mozilla, open it with Konqueror, disable this popup, etc". It's *REALLY* annoying. Selecting "disable this popup" doesn't help much (Klipper pops up with another window reminding me that I can always turn the popup menu back), and my choice not to use the popup is not remembered across restarts.
Glipper is just better. It doesn't load the whole kbuildsycoca/kinit/kded/ksomething crap and my E16 desktop starts much faster.
It is easy to poke fun at Windows, but when you find real OS engineers, the NT architecture/kernel isn't quite so funny and gets quite a bit of respect even if they hate the Win32 subsystem.
It's trivial to make fun of Microsoft products, but it takes a real man to make them work, and a god to make them do anything useful.
I'm not certainly sure which packages to install and how to configure them etc. (somehow I already had it all on my Debian box) but just compare:
A "fresh" boot to 5th runlevel, with my customized kernel, fsck, only a few basic system services enabled + apache2 and mysql, took 42 seconds. 42 seconds from grub menu to login prompt (I do not use any of those crappy [xkgw]dms but a real login(1)).
A suspend, done with 'sudo/usr/sbin/hibernate' not only managed to power off the computer a lot faster, but it took 10 seconds from grub to bash prompt.
The only disadvantage of this solution is that hibernate and nvidia kernel module doesn't seem to like each other. When I issue # hibernate on an xterm,
Some modules failed to unload: nvidia hibernate: Aborting suspend due to errors in ModulesUnloadBlacklist (use --force to override).
so I've tried with --force and shit happened.
What I need now is just good session management in my WM.
The easiest way to speed up the booting is to throw away kernel modules you don't use and to statically compile things you use often.
Do a 'lsmod | grep -v Module | sort > modules.txt' and keep that list when selecting things to be compiled in. Then grep through your.config looking for things you can't find in menuconfig, and change stuff from "m" to either "y" or "n".
I've managed to gain at least 10 seconds this way (unsure about the exact time, but the box is starting noticeably faster).
AFAIK optimizing the kernel image for size doesn't help much.
The life never begins. Well, it began a long time ago and it still lasts. There is mother's egg and father's sperm, and mother's egg never stops being mother's egg and father's sperm never stops being father's sperm. When they unite, there is no "new life", it's just a continuation of the egg and the sperm. All living organisms are one. That cat is my cousin, and these little worms are my uncles and aunties.
As long as the most miserable bacteria is still living somewhere, the whole life - you, me, all people, all animals, trees, plants, all living beings - are still alive. Because although we may never see each other, we are always one.
I really believe this, you can call me stupid but that's the only way of seeing such things that makes any sense to me.
A few years ago I started writing a novel. I never finished it, although...
People there were using very small (smaller than a coin) thought-controlled self-modifying computers connected in a peer-to-peer wireless network to communicate with each other and the environment. You think "open the door" and the door opens. You think "it's too bright out there" and your sunglasses dim. You think to that guy: "hey, dude!" and he can "hear" you. You can talk to each other not by opening your mouth, but your minds, thanks to these little chips. The chips are adaptive, so if someone's trying to spam your head with ads, you will at most "hear" "buy coca-co..."
Thought controlled computers were presented on CeBit.
So, they reinvented the wheel once again? It seems to be: every database more complex than a flat file processed by a pair of simple perl scripts has support for transactions like this. So they invented nothing, just applied an old patch to new code.
He probably wasn't saying that the unix shell is any more of an OS than a GUI. He was most likely saying that using a text-based shell will allow you to compare it to a GUI-based shell and realize that both of them are, in fact, just shells. Something along the lines of "hey, I can do X task in a KDE GUI and using a different method I can do the same task in a Bash shell, so I wonder what both of them are really doing on a lower level?"
Thank you, my brother. You spoke the words of truth.
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I've got 36*Unlimited of hard disk space on my main computer.
And the x86's 32bit memory address space is *almost* Unlimited =]
Cool.
> I'm sure Vista (and hell, even
> the BIOS) guard the boot sector
> like it's fort knox.
LinuxBIOS ahead.
Forget ICANN, use OpenNIC, the Democratic Name System.
http://www.opennic.unrated.net/
People, please stop using ICANN root DNS servers. Use OpenNIC instead:
www.opennic.unrated.net
> That's a GNOME problem if anything.
> KDE has something called Klipper
> for a long time now
There is a small little utility named Glipper, similiar to Klipper in functionality, but based rather on GTK than Qt.
Klipper sucks.
Klipper is annoying. Each time I copy any URL to the clipboard, it pops up with a stupid menu asking me "WTF do you want to do with that URL, open it in mozilla, open it with Konqueror, disable this popup, etc". It's *REALLY* annoying. Selecting "disable this popup" doesn't help much (Klipper pops up with another window reminding me that I can always turn the popup menu back), and my choice not to use the popup is not remembered across restarts.
Glipper is just better. It doesn't load the whole kbuildsycoca/kinit/kded/ksomething crap and my E16 desktop starts much faster.
> Because QT 3 isn't available
> under GPL for Windows or Mac
I always wondered why. This seems strange to me - why nobody ported it, the source is here and now.
> lol I blocked Doubleclick at home
:D
> and on everyone of my client sites
> ever since they came out...
Lol I blocked Doubleclick BEFORE they came out
Well, I've decided to try out software suspend.
/usr/sbin/hibernate' not only managed to power off the computer a lot faster, but it took 10 seconds from grub to bash prompt.
I'm not certainly sure which packages to install and how to configure them etc. (somehow I already had it all on my Debian box) but just compare:
A "fresh" boot to 5th runlevel, with my customized kernel, fsck, only a few basic system services enabled + apache2 and mysql, took 42 seconds. 42 seconds from grub menu to login prompt (I do not use any of those crappy [xkgw]dms but a real login(1)).
A suspend, done with 'sudo
The only disadvantage of this solution is that hibernate and nvidia kernel module doesn't seem to like each other. When I issue # hibernate on an xterm,
Some modules failed to unload: nvidia
hibernate: Aborting suspend due to errors in ModulesUnloadBlacklist (use --force to override).
so I've tried with --force and shit happened.
What I need now is just good session management in my WM.
The easiest way to speed up the booting is to throw away kernel modules you don't use and to statically compile things you use often.
.config looking for things you can't find in menuconfig, and change stuff from "m" to either "y" or "n".
Do a 'lsmod | grep -v Module | sort > modules.txt' and keep that list when selecting things to be compiled in. Then grep through your
I've managed to gain at least 10 seconds this way (unsure about the exact time, but the box is starting noticeably faster).
AFAIK optimizing the kernel image for size doesn't help much.
> The only way to "beat" Microsoft is to
> come out with something better.
Like Linux?
The life never begins. Well, it began a long time ago and it still lasts. There is mother's egg and father's sperm, and mother's egg never stops being mother's egg and father's sperm never stops being father's sperm. When they unite, there is no "new life", it's just a continuation of the egg and the sperm. All living organisms are one. That cat is my cousin, and these little worms are my uncles and aunties.
As long as the most miserable bacteria is still living somewhere, the whole life - you, me, all people, all animals, trees, plants, all living beings - are still alive. Because although we may never see each other, we are always one.
I really believe this, you can call me stupid but that's the only way of seeing such things that makes any sense to me.
> If IT guys are the pen & paper RPG guys,
> what profession are those LARPers belong to?
OH SHIT, *I* AM A LARPER!
A few years ago I started writing a novel. I never finished it, although...
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People there were using very small (smaller than a coin) thought-controlled self-modifying computers connected in a peer-to-peer wireless network to communicate with each other and the environment. You think "open the door" and the door opens. You think "it's too bright out there" and your sunglasses dim. You think to that guy: "hey, dude!" and he can "hear" you. You can talk to each other not by opening your mouth, but your minds, thanks to these little chips. The chips are adaptive, so if someone's trying to spam your head with ads, you will at most "hear" "buy coca-co..."
Thought controlled computers were presented on CeBit.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/
Now self-modifying processor architecture is available.
The novel's action took place in 2056 or so. Once again it seems that the future is much closer than we may think.
...Somewhere... ...Yeah, I know where!
So, they reinvented the wheel once again? It seems to be: every database more complex than a flat file processed by a pair of simple perl scripts has support for transactions like this. So they invented nothing, just applied an old patch to new code.
Just take a brief look at this list.
http://www.debian.org/users/
That's true. I have installed Debian on my grandpa's computer last friday, and another three Debians at my school today.
More Debs coming, there are still almost 15 machines left! ^_^
Microsoft says different with their aero.
Wait, I thought it was lost when Luke destroyed the 1st death star?
Perhaps Vader took it to his TIE fighter.
Thank you, my brother. You spoke the words of truth.
Most people won't switch to Linux because of games.
Y DONT U JUST BUY URSELF A PLAYSTATION OR XBOX U #$%&#@&!!!
I have never bought ANY pc with games in mind. NEVER. It just doesn't pay off.
Polish Blood ;]
This system could be exploited by terrorists themselves.
M$ is spending millions on creating "unhackable" systems, and people successfully hack these systems anyway.
We can use Ruby on Rails.
perl is very good at text processing as well.
Are there any PHP-to-C++ translators? If the bugs are sitting in the PHP interpreter itself, it might be safer to translate and compile the code.
"Only perl can parse Perl" - but maybe there are alternative PHP parsers/interpreters?
This is the way of thinking of people who were using M$ windoze for too long.
GUI = OS.
They should try text mode unix.