IMO Pulseaudio is great. Finally an easy way to manage several video cards, especially Bluetooth headset. Skipping/freezing issues -- I used to have them once, not anymore (since 0.9.18 IIRC). CPU usage is also ok, I can't even see pulseaudio in top list.
As for features -- PA is for sound what compiz is for video. I find it very handy.
Here is a short list of some Linux games I know of:
3D Multiplayer Deathmatch: Alien Arena Warsow Openarena World of Padman Nexuiz Sauerbraten
3D Multiplayer team DM: Tremulous (aliens vs. humans) Enemy Territory (allies vs. axis), freeware ET - True Combat Elite (terrorists vs. specops), freeware Urban Terror (terrorists vs. specops)
Exactly, the other side has used the Cold War (which same side had IMHO started) to obtain greatest military arsenal ever and be able to threat and attack any country they don't like.
I wouldn't call them paranoid either. Think of "Operation Unthinkable", for example. A joint assault against Soviet Army planned by Brits in 1945. The Berlin Operation showed however that the Soviet army was much stronger than assumed, so the plan was cancelled.
Hell, Churchill have personally ordered that 500 000 German troops that have surrendered in Norway won't be disarmed so they could eventually be used against Soviet Union (he has admitted that order later). Said troops were disarmed after it became clear that Soviets knew full well about them.
And think about Operation Dropshot -- a nuclear war against USSR could've started on the 1. of January 1949. At least 300 atomic bombs were planned to be dropped on major industrial centers (cities). Soviet's own atomic test in August 1948 made that plan obsolete where it became clear that they could produce up to 50 own atomic bombs till the end of the year.
I'm glad to see though that most people here realize the defencive nature of such device.
I still have one of those cases. Sure no screw fits with the mainboard currently in use, but it's metal and the case fits so well into the table that I'd rather make a few extra holes, and cut out the parts of the case that hinder the ports rather than buying a new one. No idea what to do with the turbo button/led though.
I did an emerge -e system world some time back (complete rebuild of everything) and it took similar amount of time as this update. WTF are they doing in that time? An infinite loop? I can recompile the whole damn system (and that includes KDE4 and OpenOffice) in 20 hours. By Microsoft's standards I have mid-range hardware, btw.
Not offtopic IMO, just a bad analogy. You can't build your military with items that can make you depend on country whom you were planning to attack since at least 1945 (Operation Unthikable).
Have you tried asking Russians about that information? The FSB might still have a copy lying somewhere... Oh sweet irony, while Sojuz rocket plans could survive the fall of Soviet Union itself, the all-mighty USA loses Apollo plans because of what?
P.S. One more reason to support open protocols (and software, for that matter).
Come on, it's the same NASA that was referring to Juri Gagarin as to "the fist European in space".
And the US' well known "they're a bunch of barbaric commies" attitude about USSR (and now Russia) will not going to allow them to accept the fact that Russians might have done something good, be it space exploration, WWII or anything else.
Pigeon data transfer has one big disadvantage -- pigeons have to be transported first to where you want the data from. Or you need to have a pigeon from a location where you want to send something. Sadly, there is no way of bundling two pigeons so one can transfer them back and forth:(
That is the reason why pigeons were used to carry emergency or very important and urgent messages only.
You really have to look closer at that statistic: 88,6 is the percentage of supercomputers that run only Linux. If you really want the number of machines running Linux in that list, you have to add 5.8% which are mixed systems and 2 supercomputers that are listed as running Windows, but are really mixed systems (this is probably done to make Microsoft look a bit better). So we end up having 94,8% of world's 500 fastest computers having Linux installed.
Because in some areas brains are more prevalent than PR and marketing.
That somehow reminds me of a Chinese CEO who was recently sentenced to death for fraud... Curious how ready you are to accept the de-facto immunity of high-level white collars.
Well, most of them who reject evolution probably don't use computers because God didn't create them and Internet is what terrorists and pedophiles use.
> The difference here is that with voluntary service and relatively easy transitions to and from military life, many of us either are or were the military.
Voluntary service didn't stop Abu Graib though. Besides, there are problems with such service too: remember how US army almost run out of volunteers when it got too dangerous? Who went to the army then? Lower classes, unemployed, former(?) gang members (yes, sometimes recruiters told them to be quiet about their past) etc. Now it got better with economic meltdown and such, but there were times where recruiters would pick up and enlist any human being who didn't run away from them.
With compulsory service you at least have a better slice of a society and have enough recruits to be able to filter out criminals, mentally unstable and so on.
And you guys have called USSR the Empire of Evil... In Soviet (and now Russian) army guards have to do the first shot above the head after two warnings.
Granted, no law specifies how fast the warnings can be issued and "above the head" can easily be one millimeter above said head, but still...
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Alt-dragging a window can be done. Not so in Windows, btw.
IMO Pulseaudio is great. Finally an easy way to manage several video cards, especially Bluetooth headset. Skipping/freezing issues -- I used to have them once, not anymore (since 0.9.18 IIRC).
CPU usage is also ok, I can't even see pulseaudio in top list.
As for features -- PA is for sound what compiz is for video. I find it very handy.
I've never considered playing FoF because I only have a notebook and no need for external keyboard :)
Here is a short list of some Linux games I know of:
3D Multiplayer Deathmatch:
Alien Arena
Warsow
Openarena
World of Padman
Nexuiz
Sauerbraten
3D Multiplayer team DM:
Tremulous (aliens vs. humans)
Enemy Territory (allies vs. axis), freeware
ET - True Combat Elite (terrorists vs. specops), freeware
Urban Terror (terrorists vs. specops)
2D Multiplayer Deathmatch:
Teeworlds (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!)
Artillery:
Scorched3D
Hedgewars (Worms clone)
Wormus (Worms clone with OS mascots)
Real Time Strategy:
Warzone2100
Bos Wars
The Spring Project and various mods
Turn-based Strategy:
Battle for Wesnoth (caution, addictive)
Freeciv
Racing (I'm not really into racing):
Supertuxkart
Trackmania
Jump-n-run:
Supertux
Secret Maryo Chronicles
Others:
Neverball/Neverputt
Foobillard
Frozen-Bubble (multiplayer bubble-puzzle clone)
OpenTTD
These games require fairly simple hardware -- I have played most of them on my built-in intel X3100 (i965).
Exactly, the other side has used the Cold War (which same side had IMHO started) to obtain greatest military arsenal ever and be able to threat and attack any country they don't like.
I wouldn't call them paranoid either. Think of "Operation Unthinkable", for example. A joint assault against Soviet Army planned by Brits in 1945. The Berlin Operation showed however that the Soviet army was much stronger than assumed, so the plan was cancelled.
Hell, Churchill have personally ordered that 500 000 German troops that have surrendered in Norway won't be disarmed so they could eventually be used against Soviet Union (he has admitted that order later). Said troops were disarmed after it became clear that Soviets knew full well about them.
And think about Operation Dropshot -- a nuclear war against USSR could've started on the 1. of January 1949. At least 300 atomic bombs were planned to be dropped on major industrial centers (cities). Soviet's own atomic test in August 1948 made that plan obsolete where it became clear that they could produce up to 50 own atomic bombs till the end of the year.
I'm glad to see though that most people here realize the defencive nature of such device.
Except there is now only certain type of men interested in going out with you.
I still have one of those cases. Sure no screw fits with the mainboard currently in use, but it's metal and the case fits so well into the table that I'd rather make a few extra holes, and cut out the parts of the case that hinder the ports rather than buying a new one.
No idea what to do with the turbo button/led though.
In the meantime -- stick with Debian.
I did an emerge -e system world some time back (complete rebuild of everything) and it took similar amount of time as this update.
WTF are they doing in that time? An infinite loop?
I can recompile the whole damn system (and that includes KDE4 and OpenOffice) in 20 hours. By Microsoft's standards I have mid-range hardware, btw.
The law in question is Chapter 272: Section 99. "Interception of wire and oral communications".
Oh yes, I seem to recall... Isn't that the law they were trying to impeach Bill Clinton for breaking?
>You simply COULD NOT have removed viruses from a Vista machine!!
Well, I do believe THIS part. Complete reinstall is still the best option in many cases.
Not offtopic IMO, just a bad analogy. You can't build your military with items that can make you depend on country whom you were planning to attack since at least 1945 (Operation Unthikable).
Have you tried asking Russians about that information? The FSB might still have a copy lying somewhere...
Oh sweet irony, while Sojuz rocket plans could survive the fall of Soviet Union itself, the all-mighty USA loses Apollo plans because of what?
P.S. One more reason to support open protocols (and software, for that matter).
Come on, it's the same NASA that was referring to Juri Gagarin as to "the fist European in space".
And the US' well known "they're a bunch of barbaric commies" attitude about USSR (and now Russia) will not going to allow them to accept the fact that Russians might have done something good, be it space exploration, WWII or anything else.
Pigeon data transfer has one big disadvantage -- pigeons have to be transported first to where you want the data from. Or you need to have a pigeon from a location where you want to send something. :(
Sadly, there is no way of bundling two pigeons so one can transfer them back and forth
That is the reason why pigeons were used to carry emergency or very important and urgent messages only.
"Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung" is the new record holder -- 67 letters.
You really have to look closer at that statistic: 88,6 is the percentage of supercomputers that run only Linux. If you really want the number of machines running Linux in that list, you have to add 5.8% which are mixed systems and 2 supercomputers that are listed as running Windows, but are really mixed systems (this is probably done to make Microsoft look a bit better). So we end up having 94,8% of world's 500 fastest computers having Linux installed.
Because in some areas brains are more prevalent than PR and marketing.
That somehow reminds me of a Chinese CEO who was recently sentenced to death for fraud...
Curious how ready you are to accept the de-facto immunity of high-level white collars.
It still cost money to acquire one. And it cost time. And many people will still be too scared to do that, not everyone reads slashdot.
Well, most of them who reject evolution probably don't use computers because God didn't create them and Internet is what terrorists and pedophiles use.
What about search engine crawlers? They need information to collect and websites rely on them to be visible.
Yeah, and that's after they've sold Vista AND XP to "downgrade" to the same pissed off customer.
> The difference here is that with voluntary service and relatively easy transitions to and from military life, many of us either are or were the military.
Voluntary service didn't stop Abu Graib though. Besides, there are problems with such service too: remember how US army almost run out of volunteers when it got too dangerous? Who went to the army then? Lower classes, unemployed, former(?) gang members (yes, sometimes recruiters told them to be quiet about their past) etc. Now it got better with economic meltdown and such, but there were times where recruiters would pick up and enlist any human being who didn't run away from them.
With compulsory service you at least have a better slice of a society and have enough recruits to be able to filter out criminals, mentally unstable and so on.
And you guys have called USSR the Empire of Evil...
In Soviet (and now Russian) army guards have to do the first shot above the head after two warnings.
Granted, no law specifies how fast the warnings can be issued and "above the head" can easily be one millimeter above said head, but still...