When developing for Windows using Visual Studio, local admin rights are needed to run the debugger.
Apparently *you* don't do software development for Windows.:) You don't need local Admin rights, you need "Debugger Users" rights. Granted, they *can* be almost the same, but they are *not* identical.
1) NoScript will not block something that's loaded via plain old HTML, unless that something is Flash or an embedded video, or something else that NoScript blocks.;) 2) You're talking to APK. He exists to write wall-of-text comments. His depth of knowledge is *really* shallow, so don't expect a good conversation out of him.
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*shrug* a) You should check out 4.3. It's nice. b) Xinerama is going away, dont'cha know? If you haven't tried xrandr, you might want to. If you have, and it doesn't work like you'd expect, see if the fixes are in the works. c) When you try out 4.2 or 4.3, give the "Folder View" configuration a spin: * Right-click on the desktop * Click on "Appearance Settings" * Change the "Desktop Activity" "Type" to "Folder View" * Click "Okay" or "Apply"
You obviously haven't played in a loooooong time. Valve "fixed" all of that stuff in VS mode.
If you ask me, the randomness should have been offset with a Difficulty Multiplier that was less than 1 for maps that turned out to be especially easy for a set of Survivors.
trying to cp *.mp3/dev/sdb1 multiple times and wondering why it wouldn't play the files
You were trying to do *what* to an iPod?!
Remember that? That's Mambodog expressing shock and amazement at someone trying to overwrite the first partition of the second "SCSI" harddisk installed in their system with a bunch of MP3 files. Last I heard, there isn't a lot of software out there than reads MP3s written on to a raw block device. Windows or *anything* covered by the iPod manual doesn't factor into the situation.
Moreover, *my* "try gaining root" comment was directing *you* to gain root on *your* box and try to overwrite your root partition with MP3 files. Are you too thick to understand this?
Except what happens when you don't necessarily know which package is broken,
If you don't know what package is broken, then no, you can't ask emerge to select a particular package to remove. I suppose that you're either looking for a tool that would analyze emerge's logs and roll back the builds that happened during a particular time period, or you're looking for whole-system snapshotting. The former would not be a hard tool to cook up. The latter can be achieved with LVM snapshots. Neither technique is (IIRC) currently integrated in emerge.
or perhaps emerge or the kernel itself is what is broken?
a) Are you *seriously* saying that you would perform a kernel upgrade without keeping a copy of the previous revision around to boot with in case of emergency? 'Cause I can't see any other way that a broken kernel update could cause any problems beyond the downtime needed to reboot twice. b) You really don't know how package updates are handled in Gentoo, do you? Lemmy explain a thing:
If avoiding broken packages is your goal, then you're running what the Gentoo folks call a Stable system. All potential upgrades and changes to a package have to sit in the Testing branch for at least a month before they become available for Stable users. If an update to emerge completely breaks emerge, then the only folks who will get nuked are those who are using the Testing packages. [0]
Possibly the update of a package to the broken version didn't entirely complete -- some of the files were getting changed, and the system crashed while the update was in-flight.
The fix for this is simple: # emerge package-which-failed-to-merge-completely
But really, the only way that a package could fail to merge is if the system lost power during the install phase of the emerge... that is the phase where emerge does a "cp" of all of the files that it has just built to their final destination on disk. [1]
Aaaaaannnnnd, if your system is so broken that it can't boot, then you can boot from a CD and fix things from there.
Also, I read the manpage for apt-clone. We can duplicate that behaviour with LVM2 snapshots. I've never needed this behaviour, though.
[0] Folks running the Testing branch of Gentoo *don't* get catastrophically broken versions of emerge pushed down to them... it doesn't happen. The first rule of changing your package manager is "Don't break your package manager." [1] And I'm not 100% sure that even this is catastrophic. emerge might have some way to determine if an Install was interrupted in the middle of things and be able to recover. I've never needed this functionality, so I've never had a chance to find out.
An English translation of that command is Remove the offending package and install the latest available that's not masked if the removal was successful.
I could have written that command as: # emerge package-cat/package
and -as I had previously masked the offending package version- Portage would have done the right thing.
Actually, many open-source drivers do not have hardware support for playing video on the graphics chip.
a) Which ones don't? And why does it matter? b) Why doesn't Xv cut the mustard?
Note that I can play a MPEG4 HD video on R420 hardware with version 6.9.0 of xf86-video-ati in Mplayer. (With an Athlon XP 2800 CPU.) I would be willing to bet that I could do the same with an R200 on that system.
Yes, audio is a bit of a mess. Target OSS and your job is done.
What video drivers don't provide acceleration of any sort? Every video driver that I've run into in the past couple of years supports either Xv or OGL or both.
...I see that you have never actually *used* their service in the past? It's truly a pity, they had a really nice library of tunes and a decent interface.
Thing 1: I can see that you haven't used Ubuntu at any time in the past couple of years. Here's the -one time- process:
1) Click Applications->Add/Remove. 2) Type "Windows" in the search bar. 3) Click the check box next to the emulator that comes up. 4) Click the Apply button. Confirm your choices. 6) Right click on an exe, click properties 7) Click the rightmost tab, associate it with Wine. 8) Double-click.exe files from now on and be happy, as they will open in Wine forever and always.
Wine's configuration has improved a shitload. This means that you don't need to fuck around with special tweaks for most software... especially the old classics.
Anyway. I also have no religious objection to Windows. My employer is a Windows programming shop. I use Windows Server 2k3 for fancy games, as the OSS video card drivers for my hardware don't have shader support. (So, no TF2 or L4D... at least until the Gallium3D project matures.)
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...cause if I buy an SSD and it wanders around eliminating random files cause I haven't accessed them in 2 months...
Surely you're suggesting this in jest?
If the lock has no key, then it cannot be locked.
Problem solved! :D
When developing for Windows using Visual Studio, local admin rights are needed to run the debugger.
Apparently *you* don't do software development for Windows. :) You don't need local Admin rights, you need "Debugger Users" rights. Granted, they *can* be almost the same, but they are *not* identical.
1) NoScript will not block something that's loaded via plain old HTML, unless that something is Flash or an embedded video, or something else that NoScript blocks. ;)
2) You're talking to APK. He exists to write wall-of-text comments. His depth of knowledge is *really* shallow, so don't expect a good conversation out of him.
A local BIND9 installation would do the trick.
*shrug*
a) You should check out 4.3. It's nice.
b) Xinerama is going away, dont'cha know? If you haven't tried xrandr, you might want to. If you have, and it doesn't work like you'd expect, see if the fixes are in the works.
c) When you try out 4.2 or 4.3, give the "Folder View" configuration a spin:
* Right-click on the desktop
* Click on "Appearance Settings"
* Change the "Desktop Activity" "Type" to "Folder View"
* Click "Okay" or "Apply"
You obviously haven't played in a loooooong time. Valve "fixed" all of that stuff in VS mode.
If you ask me, the randomness should have been offset with a Difficulty Multiplier that was less than 1 for maps that turned out to be especially easy for a set of Survivors.
trying to cp *.mp3 /dev/sdb1 multiple times and wondering why it wouldn't play the files
You were trying to do *what* to an iPod?!
Remember that?
That's Mambodog expressing shock and amazement at someone trying to overwrite the first partition of the second "SCSI" harddisk installed in their system with a bunch of MP3 files. Last I heard, there isn't a lot of software out there than reads MP3s written on to a raw block device.
Windows or *anything* covered by the iPod manual doesn't factor into the situation.
Moreover, *my* "try gaining root" comment was directing *you* to gain root on *your* box and try to overwrite your root partition with MP3 files. Are you too thick to understand this?
Except what happens when you don't necessarily know which package is broken,
If you don't know what package is broken, then no, you can't ask emerge to select a particular package to remove. I suppose that you're either looking for a tool that would analyze emerge's logs and roll back the builds that happened during a particular time period, or you're looking for whole-system snapshotting. The former would not be a hard tool to cook up. The latter can be achieved with LVM snapshots. Neither technique is (IIRC) currently integrated in emerge.
or perhaps emerge or the kernel itself is what is broken?
a) Are you *seriously* saying that you would perform a kernel upgrade without keeping a copy of the previous revision around to boot with in case of emergency? 'Cause I can't see any other way that a broken kernel update could cause any problems beyond the downtime needed to reboot twice.
b) You really don't know how package updates are handled in Gentoo, do you? Lemmy explain a thing:
If avoiding broken packages is your goal, then you're running what the Gentoo folks call a Stable system. All potential upgrades and changes to a package have to sit in the Testing branch for at least a month before they become available for Stable users. If an update to emerge completely breaks emerge, then the only folks who will get nuked are those who are using the Testing packages. [0]
Possibly the update of a package to the broken version didn't entirely complete -- some of the files were getting changed, and the system crashed while the update was in-flight.
The fix for this is simple:
# emerge package-which-failed-to-merge-completely
But really, the only way that a package could fail to merge is if the system lost power during the install phase of the emerge... that is the phase where emerge does a "cp" of all of the files that it has just built to their final destination on disk. [1]
Aaaaaannnnnd, if your system is so broken that it can't boot, then you can boot from a CD and fix things from there.
Also, I read the manpage for apt-clone. We can duplicate that behaviour with LVM2 snapshots. I've never needed this behaviour, though.
[0] Folks running the Testing branch of Gentoo *don't* get catastrophically broken versions of emerge pushed down to them... it doesn't happen. The first rule of changing your package manager is "Don't break your package manager."
[1] And I'm not 100% sure that even this is catastrophic. emerge might have some way to determine if an Install was interrupted in the middle of things and be able to recover. I've never needed this functionality, so I've never had a chance to find out.
What does this have to do with the comment that you are replying to?
How about you try gaining root, copying an mp3 directly to your the block device that is your root partition, and rebooting?
He also indicated that he tried to write mp3's directly to the disc... this guy lacks clue.
Fail.
1. Not available on the majority of Linux installations
Something similar seems to be available in APT:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html
Check section 3.10.
And here's the rough equivalent for RPM:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7034
So, what distro is no longer covered?
2. Removing a package is not the same as reverting to an earlier version of the same package.
I guess that you missed the latter half of the last command that I posted:
# emerge -C =package-cat/package-offending-version && emerge package-cat/package
An English translation of that command is
Remove the offending package and install the latest available that's not masked if the removal was successful.
I could have written that command as:
# emerge package-cat/package
and -as I had previously masked the offending package version- Portage would have done the right thing.
So, in summary:
No, you're a towel.
:D
Yeah, right.
I want to see you back out a series of patches on Linux and revert to the previous configuration because the updates broke something.
# echo =package-cat/package-offending-version >> /etc/portage/package.mask
# emerge -C =package-cat/package-offending-version && emerge package-cat/package
Rinse and repeat for any other packages which may be borked.
Actually, many open-source drivers do not have hardware support for playing video on the graphics chip.
a) Which ones don't? And why does it matter?
b) Why doesn't Xv cut the mustard?
Note that I can play a MPEG4 HD video on R420 hardware with version 6.9.0 of xf86-video-ati in Mplayer. (With an Athlon XP 2800 CPU.) I would be willing to bet that I could do the same with an R200 on that system.
Yes, audio is a bit of a mess. Target OSS and your job is done.
What video drivers don't provide acceleration of any sort? Every video driver that I've run into in the past couple of years supports either Xv or OGL or both.
*points*
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1316985&cid=28854409
Educate thyself.
I can have a project loaded and be ssh'd into my server before the damn thing even starts up. Ridiculous.
You must have tiny-ass projects. Or maybe you're using VS 6.0. My anectotal experience does not match yours.
High are times such as rush hour, and overnight, medium are weekends & lunch hour, low is everything else.
Wait, what car has such a reliable clock installed in it?
...I see that you have never actually *used* their service in the past? It's truly a pity, they had a really nice library of tunes and a decent interface.
Thing 1:
I can see that you haven't used Ubuntu at any time in the past couple of years. Here's the -one time- process:
1) Click Applications->Add/Remove. .exe files from now on and be happy, as they will open in Wine forever and always.
2) Type "Windows" in the search bar.
3) Click the check box next to the emulator that comes up.
4) Click the Apply button. Confirm your choices.
6) Right click on an exe, click properties
7) Click the rightmost tab, associate it with Wine.
8) Double-click
Wine's configuration has improved a shitload. This means that you don't need to fuck around with special tweaks for most software... especially the old classics.
Anyway. I also have no religious objection to Windows. My employer is a Windows programming shop. I use Windows Server 2k3 for fancy games, as the OSS video card drivers for my hardware don't have shader support. (So, no TF2 or L4D... at least until the Gallium3D project matures.)
Thing 2:
Follow this train of documentation:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community
to
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromWindows
to
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoftwareFromOtherOperatingSystems
Maybe you'll say "Oh, but one has to *read* to make that work." *shrug* How does one learn to use a computer in the first place?
But talk to a gamer about classics like Fallout and his eyes will light up. Fallout is a $5 download from Gog.com. Ready to run on Vista and Win 7.
Fascinating. It's ready to run on Linux with Wine, too.
Naah. It's more funny with the typo. :D
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Explorer]
SeparateProcess = 1 (Default=0)
Matches the setting "Launch folder windows in a separate process" in Folder Options.
*facepalm*
I've never thought about what that option does. Thanks for the link!
Noooooooooooooope. I'm referring to what I already showed you.
You're dumb. I'm done with this conversation. :D
I'll bite. It's about time.
Even explorer.exe is able to open directories using different processes, if you want.
Cite?