Have to say that I wasn't a fan of the look-and-feel of the KnoppMyth setup last time I looked at it (for openers, I'm in the can't-stand-KDE camp...). It -IS- great to have a fantastic bootable-CD of this project.
Ordinarily this isn't a problem - don't like what your distro provides, install something else, right?
The thing is, you go for MythDora or Knoppix to pretty much have an appliance. You change something on your own, no telling how you'll get the box like you want it next time they upgrade the distro. My feeling (and I know some will disagree) is that if you want to run one of these appliance distros, you either take the stock distro, or do something else.
Once you move out of the stock packages, you already ARE doing something else, so why not do something you'd enjoy like Etch or Fiesty?
The other thing is that if you only want to fiddle with an appliance install, you'll be way behind the current release version if KnoppMyth is any indication. So you sit and wait for your whole distro to catch up with the current action (and I'm talking current official release here, not just the nightlies).
All that said, I haven't looked at the screencasts, and I -DO- like the idea of more of these easy installs showing up - MythTV is a bear without some hand-holding.
Jarod has been a fantastic booster for MythTV and deserves a big-up for all the help he's provided over the years.
More to the point, not even a hundred years elapsed between the time we made the first tentative experiments with radio and the point at which we developed the technology to wipe life off the planet with the machinery of war.
This doesn't even comprehend accidental or intentional sterilization of the globe with some new biological weapon or experiment not yet comprehended.
It's possible that over the long term, only the not-as-smart-as-us lifeforms survive.
We'd have to find each other not just in space, but in time as well. And the realities of time in space travel mean there may no longer be a welcoming committee there by the time we put down the gangway.
SQLite also helps power the Firefly Media Server - formerly/also known as mt-daapd (think of mt-daapd as an open-source iTunes music sharing server, without all Apple's restrictions on sharing counts).
It's lightweight and seems to work well in that application. I don't think I'd try to scale it up for a national medical record database or anything, but it's probably right-sized for managing a collection of bookmarks and history URLs - particularly if it can deliver some gee-whiz functionality that is useful.
FWIW, I decry the bloat, too - would be happy to see a more stable Firefox 1.5 vs. a more featureful 3.
parent's parent probably is forgetting how much GM cars of the era sucked in comparison to Japanese and European contemporaries.
I think all the cars have come a long way since then - the reliability of my Brazilian-built GTI is the best of any car I've owned. US cars have improved too, but my family's experience is that it's a reasonable expectation that a US vehicle will fall apart faster than a decent (bigger name) import.
What I really miss is the flavor of the early era of international competition in the auto market. German cars smelled German. Japanese cars were weird! Things were a lot more fun for the auto fan.
With a Ceiva (lockin, updates via phone lines) You're dropping $100-$150 on the frame, and $100 a year for the service - for a very limited service, IMHO - the frame isn't that great and you only get 20 pictures on it (on my Dad's anyway).
So for 2 years of service, you're already into over 3 bills - that SBC with Wi-Fi is looking better and better - though that may also mean plumbing the parent's place with broadband, adding a router...
Yeah, printing out 4x6es is looking better and better. Maybe find an online service where you can print online and direct ship them.
My Powerbook G4 is the nicest computer I've ever owned, bar none (going all the way back to my hand-assembled Sinclair ZX-81). It's not the fastest I have in the house, but it's been the most useful and the greatest pleasure to use.
It's time to upgrade, but I've had my checkbook put away waiting for Apple to fix the battery problems with the MacBook Pro. Now comes the screen thing - glad I waited.
It's not in any way trivial for a display to show only 6 bits per channel instead of 8 if you're a graphics pro. Any scanner that does less than 8 (and virtually all now do more) would wind up in the dumpster here.
Color management eats up a certain amount of the color resolution and gamut you get to use. Having the display eat up most of the rest is not a help. Even if you're not doing a color-managed workflow, this kind of trouble shows up when you make gentle gradients with subtle color shifts. a 6-bit display would look like ass in a case like this.
I'm apparently still waiting on Apple to build my next laptop. I guess now my Windows 3D workstation gets rebuilt first.
Second, Nielsen's site practices what he preaches: it's not overloaded with "pretty" crap, and is in fact quite usable, loads nearly instantly, is probably near-invulnerable to a slashdot-induced meltdown, can be worked from a cell phone, and most importantly, it organizes the content well and gets the user to the important content quickly.
That there are other, prettier ways of doing things does not detract from doing the important things well first.
The guy posting in yoda-speak doesn't seem to understand that "design" in the usability sense is not the same thing as "graphic design".
Well, I can see (and basically agree with) the thrust of your comment, and IANAPL, but for 35 USC 101, usefulness is in the eye of the beholder. The hyper-light-speed antenna cannot possibly work (not in my inertial frame of reference, anyway...), but it remains on the books.
For 35 USC 112, let's take either a Tokamak, or a Ponzi - er, excuse me - Multi-Level Marketing scheme as examples.
Is the person with "ordinary skill in the art" supposed to have to gather the significant financial resources and spend the many years required to determine whether a patented idea does what it says? Or is this a thought experiment? If the latter, why is my thought experiment that a hyper-light-speed antenna supposed to be more valid than the inventor's thought experiment?
In the US at least, there's no requirement that a patented idea or invention or system actually do anything useful or work or even do what it claims.
There are numerous patents for mind-reading devices, nutjob free energy systems and perpetual motion machines, and searching the USPTO database for the "hyper-light-speed antenna" will produce some interesting reading.
This reminds me of the time I got a free dashboard sun-shade at Road Atlanta one year. (These are the accordion-fold things you sit on the dash and stretch out across the entire windshield to help keep the sun from getting the interior of your car too hot in the summer).
It had a safety label: "Do not drive with sun shade in place!"
This is correct. I've seen both trick cams with variable valve timing and engine designs with solenoid-operated valves not connected to the cam for ages now.
Some company's PR department is earning its keep...
Look, I love Linux and OSS as much as or more than the next guy, but jeebus people, the quickest way to show you don't know dick about image editing is to say that "GIMP Can Replace Photoshop".
It can't. It doesn't. Maybe it will someday, but we're about a zillion years off from that date.
I'm not talking about features, bells and whistles, the goofy UI (even WITH GimpShop) or even GIMP's laughably poor usability. I'm talking about basic core functionality.
Open GIMP for the first time. Where do you set up color managment preferences? You don't because GIMP can't do it. You're done.
Bring GIMP into a prepress shop. Open it. OK, how do you work in CMYK? You don't because GIMP can't do it. You're done.
Honestly, it's a really OK little program - particularly for free - for non-color-managed RGB image editing (which makes up close to 0% of my work right now), but really, it's just another in a neverending line of "still not Photoshop" programs that don't cut it for the real work.
Don't delude yourself that any app on the shelf can give Photoshop a run for its money as an overall image manipulation tool today. It's just not true. Photoshop is essential if you manipulate raster images for a living.
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That's what KnoppMyth is for.
Have to say that I wasn't a fan of the look-and-feel of the KnoppMyth setup last time I looked at it (for openers, I'm in the can't-stand-KDE camp...). It -IS- great to have a fantastic bootable-CD of this project.
Ordinarily this isn't a problem - don't like what your distro provides, install something else, right?
The thing is, you go for MythDora or Knoppix to pretty much have an appliance. You change something on your own, no telling how you'll get the box like you want it next time they upgrade the distro. My feeling (and I know some will disagree) is that if you want to run one of these appliance distros, you either take the stock distro, or do something else.
Once you move out of the stock packages, you already ARE doing something else, so why not do something you'd enjoy like Etch or Fiesty?
The other thing is that if you only want to fiddle with an appliance install, you'll be way behind the current release version if KnoppMyth is any indication. So you sit and wait for your whole distro to catch up with the current action (and I'm talking current official release here, not just the nightlies).
All that said, I haven't looked at the screencasts, and I -DO- like the idea of more of these easy installs showing up - MythTV is a bear without some hand-holding.
Jarod has been a fantastic booster for MythTV and deserves a big-up for all the help he's provided over the years.
More to the point, not even a hundred years elapsed between the time we made the first tentative experiments with radio and the point at which we developed the technology to wipe life off the planet with the machinery of war.
This doesn't even comprehend accidental or intentional sterilization of the globe with some new biological weapon or experiment not yet comprehended.
It's possible that over the long term, only the not-as-smart-as-us lifeforms survive.
We'd have to find each other not just in space, but in time as well. And the realities of time in space travel mean there may no longer be a welcoming committee there by the time we put down the gangway.
SQLite also helps power the Firefly Media Server - formerly/also known as mt-daapd (think of mt-daapd as an open-source iTunes music sharing server, without all Apple's restrictions on sharing counts).
It's lightweight and seems to work well in that application. I don't think I'd try to scale it up for a national medical record database or anything, but it's probably right-sized for managing a collection of bookmarks and history URLs - particularly if it can deliver some gee-whiz functionality that is useful.
FWIW, I decry the bloat, too - would be happy to see a more stable Firefox 1.5 vs. a more featureful 3.
I'm pretty sure the Monza was RWD... Yep
parent's parent probably is forgetting how much GM cars of the era sucked in comparison to Japanese and European contemporaries.
I think all the cars have come a long way since then - the reliability of my Brazilian-built GTI is the best of any car I've owned. US cars have improved too, but my family's experience is that it's a reasonable expectation that a US vehicle will fall apart faster than a decent (bigger name) import.
What I really miss is the flavor of the early era of international competition in the auto market. German cars smelled German. Japanese cars were weird! Things were a lot more fun for the auto fan.
Well, calculate in the whole price.
With a Ceiva (lockin, updates via phone lines) You're dropping $100-$150 on the frame, and $100 a year for the service - for a very limited service, IMHO - the frame isn't that great and you only get 20 pictures on it (on my Dad's anyway).
So for 2 years of service, you're already into over 3 bills - that SBC with Wi-Fi is looking better and better - though that may also mean plumbing the parent's place with broadband, adding a router...
Yeah, printing out 4x6es is looking better and better. Maybe find an online service where you can print online and direct ship them.
Ah, GM - the company that gave us the Chevy Monza: had to take the motor mounts loose to change the back two sparkplugs!
My Powerbook G4 is the nicest computer I've ever owned, bar none (going all the way back to my hand-assembled Sinclair ZX-81). It's not the fastest I have in the house, but it's been the most useful and the greatest pleasure to use.
It's time to upgrade, but I've had my checkbook put away waiting for Apple to fix the battery problems with the MacBook Pro. Now comes the screen thing - glad I waited.
It's not in any way trivial for a display to show only 6 bits per channel instead of 8 if you're a graphics pro. Any scanner that does less than 8 (and virtually all now do more) would wind up in the dumpster here.
Color management eats up a certain amount of the color resolution and gamut you get to use. Having the display eat up most of the rest is not a help. Even if you're not doing a color-managed workflow, this kind of trouble shows up when you make gentle gradients with subtle color shifts. a 6-bit display would look like ass in a case like this.
I'm apparently still waiting on Apple to build my next laptop. I guess now my Windows 3D workstation gets rebuilt first.
OOF! WTF? AYKM? TMFA! DAUWA?
Thanks Alan!
Well, you blow in one end and move your fingers up and down the outside.
- uh - that was supposed to be "Linux Window Manager projects"
Human Interface Guidelines have been languishing for far too long at Apple (basically since OS 9 if not a little before).
This is sorely needed for the OS X platform, and Microsoft, all of the Linux Manager projects and the web as a whole could stand to take a few notes.
Uh, first, it's "Jakob", not "Jacon".
Second, Nielsen's site practices what he preaches: it's not overloaded with "pretty" crap, and is in fact quite usable, loads nearly instantly, is probably near-invulnerable to a slashdot-induced meltdown, can be worked from a cell phone, and most importantly, it organizes the content well and gets the user to the important content quickly.
That there are other, prettier ways of doing things does not detract from doing the important things well first.
The guy posting in yoda-speak doesn't seem to understand that "design" in the usability sense is not the same thing as "graphic design".
Hi, you've reached IBM headquarters.
No one is here to take your call right now.
We have not, repeat NOT all been laid off.
Your call is important to us, so please leave a message at the tone and someone from Bangalore will return your call real soon now."
Well, I can see (and basically agree with) the thrust of your comment, and IANAPL, but for 35 USC 101, usefulness is in the eye of the beholder. The hyper-light-speed antenna cannot possibly work (not in my inertial frame of reference, anyway...), but it remains on the books.
For 35 USC 112, let's take either a Tokamak, or a Ponzi - er, excuse me - Multi-Level Marketing scheme as examples.
Is the person with "ordinary skill in the art" supposed to have to gather the significant financial resources and spend the many years required to determine whether a patented idea does what it says? Or is this a thought experiment? If the latter, why is my thought experiment that a hyper-light-speed antenna supposed to be more valid than the inventor's thought experiment?
I don't think so.
In the US at least, there's no requirement that a patented idea or invention or system actually do anything useful or work or even do what it claims.
There are numerous patents for mind-reading devices, nutjob free energy systems and perpetual motion machines, and searching the USPTO database for the "hyper-light-speed antenna" will produce some interesting reading.
Might as well patent completely unbreakable DRM.
This reminds me of the time I got a free dashboard sun-shade at Road Atlanta one year. (These are the accordion-fold things you sit on the dash and stretch out across the entire windshield to help keep the sun from getting the interior of your car too hot in the summer).
It had a safety label: "Do not drive with sun shade in place!"
They're using a unique new design for the access points
Or just put a tractor beam on it on the way down.
This is correct. I've seen both trick cams with variable valve timing and engine designs with solenoid-operated valves not connected to the cam for ages now.
Some company's PR department is earning its keep...
Doolittle : ...What is your one purpose in life?
Bomb no.20 : To explode of course.
Shouldn't this be posted as part of the "Dark Matter Stars" thread?
A 60-year-old is having a mid-life crisis? Who is this guy, Spock?
Sorry - after IPv6 is fully rolled out, Halle Berry is deprecated in favor of Kirsten Dunst...
...I could go on all day...
Look, I love Linux and OSS as much as or more than the next guy, but jeebus people, the quickest way to show you don't know dick about image editing is to say that "GIMP Can Replace Photoshop".
It can't. It doesn't. Maybe it will someday, but we're about a zillion years off from that date.
I'm not talking about features, bells and whistles, the goofy UI (even WITH GimpShop) or even GIMP's laughably poor usability. I'm talking about basic core functionality.
Open GIMP for the first time. Where do you set up color managment preferences? You don't because GIMP can't do it. You're done.
Bring GIMP into a prepress shop. Open it. OK, how do you work in CMYK? You don't because GIMP can't do it. You're done.
Honestly, it's a really OK little program - particularly for free - for non-color-managed RGB image editing (which makes up close to 0% of my work right now), but really, it's just another in a neverending line of "still not Photoshop" programs that don't cut it for the real work.
Don't delude yourself that any app on the shelf can give Photoshop a run for its money as an overall image manipulation tool today. It's just not true. Photoshop is essential if you manipulate raster images for a living.
No love for Apple on this one.
Tried to install 10.2.8, 10.3.9, 10.4.9, or virtually any Security Update?
C'mon, admit it: you held your breath, didn't you?