Dude, I live in a 3rd world country and I only have to pay 13$/month for unlimited internet access (3 mbps ADSL). And unlimited mobile 3G is around 15$.
No, you are wrong, if the normal chance of dying due to heart attack is 0.0001%, then watching TV 8 hours per day will make it 0.000001*(1+0.18*8)= 0.000244%
Uninstall PulseAudio = uninstall entire frigging GNOME desktop. I kept trying to tell it "no, I just want ALSA playback" in sound settings.
No, it won't uninstall whole GNOME desktop, that is just meta package for ubuntu-desktop, so you can uninstall it without any problem.
Well, not really, if you install any audio apps that have pulseaudio output (like MPD) you will have to reinstall it again. In that case try changing alsa setting, pulseaudio takes alsa output by default, you can change that by set alsa output device to hw device (you will lose the ability to have multi programs to output at the same time that way). Or the better way is to fix/etc/asound.conf and make a dmix device (google for more information). Good luck!
IMO, this isn't a very smart move of FSF, from what I have heard, Windows 7 is a big improvement over Vista (from an user end of point), do they really think they can convince people to think different? I'm sure that people who really care about those 'sins' would have already switched to another OS long ago.
In all 4 years I have been using Firefox, I have never seen it went pass 800MBs RAM, even with the heaviest browsing (about 70+ tabs), so I can't understand why people complains so much about it consuming too much ram:-/ Sure it consume quite a bit of ram with normal browsing (171MB with 10 tabs open on Linux right now) but I haven't seen any memory leak yet. I also tend to keep Firefox open for several days too.
But sometimes I want Chrome to remember login information & history so I browse it back later,. The sites I browse is in the 'gray' zone, it isn't porno or something despicable, but I still do not want other to know about it.
... and people are acting crazy. When I used vista, I have absolute no problem with it, so I don't understand what with the Windows 7 hype. From what I have heard, it is just Vista with the retarded parts removed.
But I have no reason to care about Windows world anymore, switched to Linux half a year ago and now I am a happy Linux user:) There may never be an year of Linux or its market will never go past 10%, but I can use it comfortably now, so it is fine with me.
Yup, IMO Pulseaudio has some interesting features, but the most important one (for me) is the 'glitch free' playback, it help saving a lot of CPU power due to much lower CPU wake up times ( 86.2 per sec with plain ALSA, and 10 with PulseAudio).
However, Pulseaudio is not mature yet, I still have some problem like super high CPU usage when playing anything that has frequency differ from 44.1kHz, or some CPU overhead when playing music. But I think it will be fixed, it is just not ready yet, like KDE4.
For an acceptable video experience on Linux with nvidia card, you have no way but to use their closed driver. To fix the tearing, tick "Sync to VBlank" in X Server Video Setting, this should work. [/OT]
About Linux media player, IMO, they are very good, mplayer will play *anything* I have (more than 100 codecs), though the GUI may need some fixing, but I am using mplayer CLI version anyway.
Because it is highly infectious, there is a high chance that it may merged with another flu virus that is deadlier but has low infection rate (think H5N1 - chicken flu, or SARS) and become a super virus that will wipe half of the earth. Or it could just get mutated and become something that is much more dangerous.
I think they implement freetype2 by default in their applications and with subpixel smoothing enabled (disabled by others because of certain patent violations.
IIRC, they have their own patch for better font display, but not the technology patented by MS and Apple (Cleartype).
I got 2^6 too, but I wonder if it is correct. 2^6=64, but the achievement system was implemented in April 1st, that mean we can get maximum 45 days read in a row. Well, maybe they have already counted before that.
Quote from the article: """
* The document is the most important UI element.
* Don't show the user what he/she doesn't need at the moment (context sensitivity).
* Don't focus on a single UI element (i.e. Ribbon, Menus, Tabs) - use a hybrid of elements so that the information is displayed in the most appropriate way. """
I like their idea of having more vertical bar, as the wide screen form is being widely adopted, it will be a better way to use our screen real estate.
I would like to call it bullshit myself (it took me two hours trying to fix it before decided to wipe out every.exe files on the disk). And I will do a test to see if it is true the next time I got my hand on a windows box.
Windows does autorun on IDE driver partitions, and even worse.
Long ago I have to deal with a chinese malware installed on my uncle computer. After clearing all the autorun files on the HDD, I formatted the C driver and then install windows on it (god, I hate it when I have to do so), reboot, install the drivers, everything went smoothly. But *just* after the next reboot, the computer is infected with that malware again.
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Nokia only intends to use Meego for N series, which is multimedia oriented, while the E series, aimed at business user (high end) still use Symbian.
Dude, I live in a 3rd world country and I only have to pay 13$/month for unlimited internet access (3 mbps ADSL). And unlimited mobile 3G is around 15$.
Ok, so it is due to distro package maintainer, they disabled to avoid legal problem with h264
Trying out with chromium (binary package) at the moment, does not work, neither do firefox 3.5. :(
"Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available.
Click here to visit our frequently asked questions about HTML5 video."
No, you are wrong, if the normal chance of dying due to heart attack is 0.0001%, then watching TV 8 hours per day will make it 0.000001*(1+0.18*8)= 0.000244%
No, sure, I think we will have to wait for at least another 5 years until the year of Linux on desktop ;)
But for me, it already happened, 2008 was the year of Linux on desktop for me. Hope you will have better luck with Linux in the future.
BTW, for your machine spec, I think you better use Lubuntu (Ubuntu - GNOME + LXDE), it is much lighter than Ubuntu.
Uninstall PulseAudio = uninstall entire frigging GNOME desktop. I kept trying to tell it "no, I just want ALSA playback" in sound settings.
No, it won't uninstall whole GNOME desktop, that is just meta package for ubuntu-desktop, so you can uninstall it without any problem. /etc/asound.conf and make a dmix device (google for more information). Good luck!
Well, not really, if you install any audio apps that have pulseaudio output (like MPD) you will have to reinstall it again. In that case try changing alsa setting, pulseaudio takes alsa output by default, you can change that by set alsa output device to hw device (you will lose the ability to have multi programs to output at the same time that way). Or the better way is to fix
Maybe because there are more Java programmers than Objective C ones?
IMO, this isn't a very smart move of FSF, from what I have heard, Windows 7 is a big improvement over Vista (from an user end of point), do they really think they can convince people to think different? I'm sure that people who really care about those 'sins' would have already switched to another OS long ago.
In all 4 years I have been using Firefox, I have never seen it went pass 800MBs RAM, even with the heaviest browsing (about 70+ tabs), so I can't understand why people complains so much about it consuming too much ram :-/ Sure it consume quite a bit of ram with normal browsing (171MB with 10 tabs open on Linux right now) but I haven't seen any memory leak yet. I also tend to keep Firefox open for several days too.
But sometimes I want Chrome to remember login information & history so I browse it back later,. The sites I browse is in the 'gray' zone, it isn't porno or something despicable, but I still do not want other to know about it.
Huh? Why do you need to load that module? MPD support ALSA/Pulseaudio output. Well, sometimes its doesn't work but I hope this will help.
... and people are acting crazy. When I used vista, I have absolute no problem with it, so I don't understand what with the Windows 7 hype. From what I have heard, it is just Vista with the retarded parts removed.
But I have no reason to care about Windows world anymore, switched to Linux half a year ago and now I am a happy Linux user :) There may never be an year of Linux or its market will never go past 10%, but I can use it comfortably now, so it is fine with me.
Although he is exaggerating the latencies, I can believe it.
Not really, I have seen 13 seconds latency with Pulseaudio on Ubuntu 8.04, of course, it was caused by a bug, but that is still horrible.
Yup, IMO Pulseaudio has some interesting features, but the most important one (for me) is the 'glitch free' playback, it help saving a lot of CPU power due to much lower CPU wake up times ( 86.2 per sec with plain ALSA, and 10 with PulseAudio).
However, Pulseaudio is not mature yet, I still have some problem like super high CPU usage when playing anything that has frequency differ from 44.1kHz, or some CPU overhead when playing music. But I think it will be fixed, it is just not ready yet, like KDE4.
[OT]Nvidia Geforce 9300M?
For an acceptable video experience on Linux with nvidia card, you have no way but to use their closed driver. To fix the tearing, tick "Sync to VBlank" in X Server Video Setting, this should work. [/OT]
About Linux media player, IMO, they are very good, mplayer will play *anything* I have (more than 100 codecs), though the GUI may need some fixing, but I am using mplayer CLI version anyway.
Because it is highly infectious, there is a high chance that it may merged with another flu virus that is deadlier but has low infection rate (think H5N1 - chicken flu, or SARS) and become a super virus that will wipe half of the earth. Or it could just get mutated and become something that is much more dangerous.
I think they implement freetype2 by default in their applications and with subpixel smoothing enabled (disabled by others because of certain patent violations.
IIRC, they have their own patch for better font display, but not the technology patented by MS and Apple (Cleartype).
I got 2^6 too, but I wonder if it is correct. 2^6=64, but the achievement system was implemented in April 1st, that mean we can get maximum 45 days read in a row. Well, maybe they have already counted before that.
Quote from the article:
"""
* The document is the most important UI element.
* Don't show the user what he/she doesn't need at the moment (context sensitivity).
* Don't focus on a single UI element (i.e. Ribbon, Menus, Tabs) - use a hybrid of elements so that the information is displayed in the most appropriate way.
"""
I like their idea of having more vertical bar, as the wide screen form is being widely adopted, it will be a better way to use our screen real estate.
So .NET can have every programming paradigms?
I would think you have to be crazy to install any binary software made by an advertising company
You can alway download and remove those code if you are paranoid, i'm sure there are people who did that already.
I would like to call it bullshit myself (it took me two hours trying to fix it before decided to wipe out every .exe files on the disk). And I will do a test to see if it is true the next time I got my hand on a windows box.
Windows does autorun on IDE driver partitions, and even worse.
Long ago I have to deal with a chinese malware installed on my uncle computer. After clearing all the autorun files on the HDD, I formatted the C driver and then install windows on it (god, I hate it when I have to do so), reboot, install the drivers, everything went smoothly. But *just* after the next reboot, the computer is infected with that malware again.
After all, even on extremely good sound gear, you are hard pressed to pick out 256k MP3 from uncompressed in blind tests.
Well, you can, depend on the type of material tested though.