And, of course, the Seagate referenced page says: "This can be done in Windows - it's easy! Download and run, or simply run as is, the Seagate Drive Detect software program." No mention of Linux, MacOS, Solaris, or BSD. So I guess there is an implied "If you are not using Windows - it's hard!".
Yeah, they should totally support an OS that has less than 1% market share. You forgot to add Amiga to that list. Of course, even if they did, someone here would be bitching that the tool wasn't open source.
You're joking, right? I mean, I understand your post is to "rah, rah" Linux, but seriously? Relearning Windows?
Every new release of Windows brings the joyful game of "Where did they put user folders this time?"
It went from C:\Documents and Settings\ to C:\Users in XP and Vista, what a challenge!
Because knowing which directory a binary in UNIX goes in is so much easier. Lessee,/usr/bin? No wait, its/usr/sbin! Oh wait!! Sorry, its/usr/share/programfoo/sbin/bar. Oh, and for reasons best left to the imagination, part of the package ends up in/opt.
I used to play FFXI, but one of the things that eventually drove me away from the game was the randomness of nearly everything. It was irritating to go nearly 0/10+ (and I've heard horror stories of worse) on rare item drops while Billy teh n00b would get it on first drop. Oh, and there's nothing more fun than fighting a hard fight and getting nothing as a reward.
I can understand the developer's desire to keep certain items rare, but such low drop rates aren't the way to do it. I would have preferred they made the fights harder, not more random.
"For the past two years Microsoft and Novell have been working on the 'Moonlight' project.
Translation: for two years, Microsoft has been using Novell to pretend they're not working on the Linux platform and aren't trying to embrace/extend it.
There ain't no way Silverlight will end up on my hard-drive. Having the Flash player is bad enough already.
OOh, how evil of Novell to want to improve the desktop experience for its clients. But hey, we all know that if the 1% market share of Linux decides to boycott Silverlight, it will totally ruin adoption!
That game was pretty much designed just for this scenario. Hell, as a hardcore gamer (logged nearly 1000 hours in FFXI) even I enjoyed it. Sequel's gonna be out in the US on the 16th, too.
It seems Mr. Miller doesn't like the Google Phone much. He should have notified Google of the bug and give them time to fix it before going public (as Google states in TFA).
When the hell would any slashdotter extend that courtesy, to say, M$ or Sun?
There's a fix on the thread you gave. I don't understand why you even posted the this because you must have already known there was a fix.. wtf is that about?
Because, the question becomes, why the hell wasn't the fix integrated to begin with? Do they really expect casual users to figure that out?
8.10 won't support joysticks, because of yet another bug in Xorg.
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?p=49721
But hey, we don't need that feature! We should just buy consoles anyways, because PCs aren't for gaming! Right? Guys?
If you set your firefox to enable pipelining and set max pipeline requests to a value like eighty (yes 80) you will find that you are a most efficent and therefore quite spunky web citizen.
Are you sure about that? According to the documentation at Mozillazine @ http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.pipelining the max value accepted is 8.
Are you using a modified version of FX or is the documentation just wrong?
I assume the article is talking about flash drives. Are there any filesystems designed to specifically target these drives? The drives probably don't include any fault-tolerance, but a filesystem could, in theory. There's exFAT, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT , but there's no free software implementation as of yet.
They say cox does it? I get 1 MB on average DLs with Bittorrent with them, and my service plan is only 7 Mb/s. I have a friend who reports the same experience (and he pirates gigs upon gigs of stuff) Either we got lucky or the researchers got unlucky.
Now, Comcast, on the other hand, I can believe throttles.
The domain slashdot.org is redirecting to digg.com for some reason. And there might be a problem with my browser's cache, because it looks just like slashdot save for the news stories.
"For instance, many younger workers expect to get an office immediately or be paid at a rate higher than entry level."
And pray tell, what magical career instantly gives employees fresh out of college above-entry level rates? What next, are they going to start complaining they don't get a company car and an attractive secretary to take to Hawaii?
And why is this a problem? The integrated controller has apparently made little difference in actual benchmarks. I suppose next you'll post "shame on them for not having 'true' quad core", despite that not making any difference either? Besides, isn't Nehalem slated to have an integrated DDR3 controller?
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And, of course, the Seagate referenced page says: "This can be done in Windows - it's easy! Download and run, or simply run as is, the Seagate Drive Detect software program." No mention of Linux, MacOS, Solaris, or BSD. So I guess there is an implied "If you are not using Windows - it's hard!".
Yeah, they should totally support an OS that has less than 1% market share. You forgot to add Amiga to that list. Of course, even if they did, someone here would be bitching that the tool wasn't open source.
You're joking, right? I mean, I understand your post is to "rah, rah" Linux, but seriously? Relearning Windows?
Every new release of Windows brings the joyful game of "Where did they put user folders this time?"
It went from C:\Documents and Settings\ to C:\Users in XP and Vista, what a challenge! Because knowing which directory a binary in UNIX goes in is so much easier. Lessee, /usr/bin? No wait, its /usr/sbin! Oh wait!! Sorry, its /usr/share/programfoo/sbin/bar. Oh, and for reasons best left to the imagination, part of the package ends up in /opt.
I used to play FFXI, but one of the things that eventually drove me away from the game was the randomness of nearly everything. It was irritating to go nearly 0/10+ (and I've heard horror stories of worse) on rare item drops while Billy teh n00b would get it on first drop. Oh, and there's nothing more fun than fighting a hard fight and getting nothing as a reward. I can understand the developer's desire to keep certain items rare, but such low drop rates aren't the way to do it. I would have preferred they made the fights harder, not more random.
"For the past two years Microsoft and Novell have been working on the 'Moonlight' project.
Translation: for two years, Microsoft has been using Novell to pretend they're not working on the Linux platform and aren't trying to embrace/extend it.
There ain't no way Silverlight will end up on my hard-drive. Having the Flash player is bad enough already.
OOh, how evil of Novell to want to improve the desktop experience for its clients. But hey, we all know that if the 1% market share of Linux decides to boycott Silverlight, it will totally ruin adoption!
That game was pretty much designed just for this scenario. Hell, as a hardcore gamer (logged nearly 1000 hours in FFXI) even I enjoyed it. Sequel's gonna be out in the US on the 16th, too.
It seems Mr. Miller doesn't like the Google Phone much. He should have notified Google of the bug and give them time to fix it before going public (as Google states in TFA).
When the hell would any slashdotter extend that courtesy, to say, M$ or Sun?
There's a fix on the thread you gave. I don't understand why you even posted the this because you must have already known there was a fix.. wtf is that about?
Because, the question becomes, why the hell wasn't the fix integrated to begin with? Do they really expect casual users to figure that out?
2. X.org: Hotplugging mice/keyboards "works now"?
What's truly sad is that Windows 98 had that feature, and it took the Xorg people so long to implement it. Its XFree86 all over again.
8.10 won't support joysticks, because of yet another bug in Xorg. http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?p=49721 But hey, we don't need that feature! We should just buy consoles anyways, because PCs aren't for gaming! Right? Guys?
Don't worry, by the time he gets there, humanity will have invented FTL travel and you can just stop him en route.
And I had just bought real estate there too! Think they'll give me my money back if I ask nicely?
I want some degree of protection from the entire browser crashing when a plugin misbehaves(***cough*** flash ***cough***)
Oops, wrong link, the page that gives the 8 maximum number is at: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.pipelining.maxrequests Sorry about any confusion.
If you set your firefox to enable pipelining and set max pipeline requests to a value like eighty (yes 80) you will find that you are a most efficent and therefore quite spunky web citizen.
Are you sure about that? According to the documentation at Mozillazine @ http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.pipelining the max value accepted is 8. Are you using a modified version of FX or is the documentation just wrong?If only there was a way to mod down pedantic posts...
They say cox does it? I get 1 MB on average DLs with Bittorrent with them, and my service plan is only 7 Mb/s. I have a friend who reports the same experience (and he pirates gigs upon gigs of stuff) Either we got lucky or the researchers got unlucky. Now, Comcast, on the other hand, I can believe throttles.
The domain slashdot.org is redirecting to digg.com for some reason. And there might be a problem with my browser's cache, because it looks just like slashdot save for the news stories.
Manos: Hands of Monopolization.
Apparently, there's a rumor that there's a 0-day in Mac OS X, according to: http://blogs.technet.com/robert_hensing/archive/2008/03/27/and-the-mac-falls-within-10-minutes-on-day-2.aspx (Bias alert: The guy's a security researcher and employee for MS)
As crappy as AOL is, at least they mention Linux support specifically in their FAQ. At least AIM had a Linux client, as crappy as it was before Gaim.
So I take it that 2008 will be the Year of the BSD Desktop?
"For instance, many younger workers expect to get an office immediately or be paid at a rate higher than entry level." And pray tell, what magical career instantly gives employees fresh out of college above-entry level rates? What next, are they going to start complaining they don't get a company car and an attractive secretary to take to Hawaii?
And why is this a problem? The integrated controller has apparently made little difference in actual benchmarks. I suppose next you'll post "shame on them for not having 'true' quad core", despite that not making any difference either? Besides, isn't Nehalem slated to have an integrated DDR3 controller?
http://xkcd.com/171/ So true!