It kind of goes to show how full of shit most tech blogs are. Almost all of them were talking about how Wave was the future, absolutely, after watching one indie youtube video about it explained in cute crayon drawings.
I understand it wasn't right for the government to lie about it.
But I don't see what's wrong in the video itself. There is a group of people with weapons- not just AK47s but a guy has a full blown RPG with him. They have RPGs and are not American forces- logic says they are the bad guys. Why is it wrong that they shot them down? Because they didn't verify the faces of each one of them and match them to some terrorist database, or what?
I might have missed something in the video, anyone care to explain?
He blew off or dismissed most of the important questions. As other commenters have said, he didn't acknowledge Ubuntu's terrible implementation of KDE, Gnome's short comings, nor the sound issue.
But the worse thing is how he completely dismissed Creative Suites and games. Whenever I ask any of my friends why they aren't on linux, they reply with one of these two. Whenever I see linux vs. windows being debated in a OS agnostic forum its these two issues I see come up the most. I can't believe Canonical is completely ignoring it.
Head of Gnome, right? Lead developer in bringing Microsoft.NET to Gnome, worked in Novell as vice president of development (which is partnered by Microsoft) and now is a director for Codeplex, Microsoft's new opensource foundation.
If that isn't unsettling enough, he's a/b/tard. Look at this post from his twitter:
"That last picture from @abock is photoshopped. I can tell because of the pixels and having seen a lot of shops' myself."
holy shit
I just think this guy is a massive troll. I can just picture him doing all this Microsoft shit with a troll face.
The entire development cycle of Gnome suddenly makes sense to me now.
Gnome developers: Look at all this cool stuff we can do for Gnome!!! We'll be way more awesome than Microsoft now with this stuff!
Miguel de Icaza: No. I want to keep Gnome stable and unimproving. *trollface*
Miguel de Icaza: But lets go ahead and bring.NET to Gnome. *trollface*
"I hope that I can last more on this foundation than I lasted at the FSF, where I was removed by RMS after refusing to be an active part of the campaign to rename Linux as GNU/Linux."
Not all that long ago the things we traded in the free market were solid things. Actual solid products.
The free market regulates it's prices naturally with supply and demand. The times that we see the free market being thrown out of balance is when there are monopolies that can apply their own artificial scarcity to whatever they're a monopoly in (I.E, diamonds). They apply an artificial scarcity by assigning whatever price they want to it- this is possible because they're a monopoly.
When it comes to imaginary property (Selling ideas, concepts, bytes.) you HAVE to apply an artificial scarcity to it because the supply is unlimited. In mass this is a problem for the market, because it throws things off balance, the same as monopolies do.
I see the file sharing frontier as the market correcting this imbalance. It's restoring order. There is unlimited supply and as such the price must go down due to the natural cycle of the free market. This is exactly what is supposed to happen.
Furthermore.. Musicians do not need record labels anymore. They used to when we used vinyl, because no one could just make records in their house. How much of record sales goes to the record label? A lot. Most of it, I'm sure. If the artist did it themselves, they would make much more money. Does this mean they need to burn a bunch of CDs in their house? Does this mean they need to hire someone to burn a bunch of CDs? No, not really. No one uses CDs anymore. We all have mp3 players. The media that music is written on is different now, and in a form that's even easier for the artist themselves to create and distribute.
Without record labels, and even without CDs, what does that leave artists with? For starters, what do you think the profits of advertisments on a very popular musicians website are? Enough to support a small family I'm sure.
And then you have to take in account merchandise- Think about XKCD. This guy writes a short unartistic (though witty) comic three times a week, and he makes a LIVING off of merchandise, and doesn't even have any advertisements.
The combination of going on tours, advertisements, and merchandise is enough to make any independent 'free' artist a very nice living.
Will they be super millionaire idols? Living like kings like they are today? Probably not. But that's fine, isn't it? Why should musicians make more than our best engineers..?
Or a more logical approach: Why should musicians make more than any other type of artist??
I think the stand of musicians now is unnatural. They are manufactured by the media to fit demographics in bulk and then live like kings. This isn't the way it should be and it won't be like this forever.
Things are simply evening out. The big media corporations can try all they want to reverse the flow of technology, but in the end the free market and 'the balance' are boss.
A lot of new code (and old code reformed) was added to try and speed up the boot process, I know that for sure. I saw some of the work Arjan did in the bootfast tree-
fastboot: Asynchronous function calls to speed up kernel boot
fastboot: make scsi probes asynchronous
fastboot: make the libata port scan asynchronous
fastboot: make ACPI bus drivers probe asynchronous
fastboot: Make libata initialization even more async
I don't know for sure that all of this made it upstream for this release but I know some of it did.
I think you have to pass the "fastboot" kernel line for it, however. So check your kernel configs and update your grubs!
Or LILOs, if you're weird...
Oh one more thing.. I think the introduction of the asynchronous probing and various other things are going to start a whole new wave of bootfast tricks. For example, before it tries mounting the root file system and continuing on, it waits for device probing to finish. A comment above that code states "Waiting for device probing to finish... This is known to cause long delays in boots, for example this can take 5 seconds for a laptop's touchpad to initialize". The comment was written by Arjan, who obviously has intention to speed things up. So I think what might happen is instead of waiting for EVERYTHING to finish probing (Even if it is async), it'll just wait for the filesystem to become available (Perhaps try after IDE probes, then try after SCSI probes, then after USB, and so on.)
I also remember there was a patch that didn't go upstream (I don't think so anyways) that added a function to be able to initialize things later on (After the boot was done). You changed the initialize() or whatever the function name was to initialize_later(), and then after you're done booting, whenever you want, you do a command and it then initializes anything you did the initialize_later() to. So you would be able to load up the webcam initialization or whatever else you know you don't use right when you boot.
Well, where I'm going with this is that I would like to see them incorporate more of that stuff into the kernel. More boot hacks, more power saving, more efficiency. These things are only going to improve.
I'm now declaring that every child character in any cartoon series is actually an adult with a rare disease that keeps them in a child state. They're all over 18.
FTA:
"She didn't call right away. It took her about 15 minutes to finally call me. When she did she didn't say anything for the first 15 seconds. When she finally did speak, it was obvious she was crying.
"Why did you throw me to the wolves like that?""
Did anyone else "D'awwww" at this as hard as I did?
We're sorry, Karen:(
Honestly I can deal with it not remembering what was open last time, but the segfaults.. fffff. I use it still though, for light browsing. I use Firefox for flash. Inconvenient but Midori is so much smoother/faster/nicer:/
Remember the story a little while back about them making some sort of discovery that they had to go to the President for before releasing to the public? Did we ever find out what that was..?
Hi dotancohen,
You should take a look at KMlanda's guide on speeding up Ubuntu- It's filled with little tweaks and hacks and you're going to end up learning a lot more about Ubuntu, and linux in general. You can find it here.
I forget where the list is, but it'll be in the guide somewhere. Just google each daemon and get an understanding of what it does.
er... Sorry to burst your bubble here, but Arch is not built around the hardware for your computer. Arch comes with a binary blog for a kernel with everything compiled as a module just like Ubuntu does, the only different is daemons that run at boot, which has little to do with your hardware. I agree that Arch is faster, depending on what you install, but saying it fits your hardware and that it's for "True geeks" is sort of ridiculous.
Ubuntu isn't really suited for low end machines anymore, IMO. Has to be at least 2ghz, with at least 512mb RAM.. Anything lower and it's going to be pretty slow.
I'm sure some people here are going to be comparing Ubuntu to Vista in regards of getting slower with release, but because it's Linux we have a few more choices.
They make distros that are meant to be lightweight- Anyone with a machine that's a little old, I urge you to try one of them. You'll be pleasantly surprised and maybe find a new favorite window manager/desktop environment in the process. Before you start talking about how joe sixpack doesn't want to try another distro or learn anything about Linux- I'm not talking to Joe sixpack here, I'm talking to you, a slashdot lurker.
Try one of these distros and be amazed at how fast everything is:
Or, if you want to be more adventurous, get Arch Linux and grab a window manager like Openbox or PekWM. If you go that route, take a look at this Openbox guide that'll show you a nice panel to use, file navigator, and generally hold your hand through the process, here. But if you want your hand held even more, someone packaged a panel and file navigator and theme chooser and stuff like that together with Openbox already- Called LXDE. You can just grab that too, should be in any repository.
I do think it's unfortunate for joe sixpack that it's getting a little slower- But for them it's still faster than Vista and XP, right?
You know what they should make? They compile pretty much everything in the kernel as a module, and then they probe hardware and load the right modules each time you boot... It would be cool to be able to do a "Speed up my computer" boot where it loads the modules, and then compiles a kernel with the modules for the hardware it finds compiled into it. Disable things that it hasn't seen their computer use, etc., and then just still probe the hardware to fall back on another kernel if things have changed.
OR, how about loading modules when you actually need them..? And this goes for daemons, too. When you go to listen to something, and it returns that there's no module loaded for sound, how about loading the module then, and then starting the alsa daemon. Have you ever looked at the daemon list for Ubuntu? It's huge. I know I don't need all of those- I know because on the distro I'm on now I only run 3 daemons on boot, and everything works fine.
I don't know. Maybe that's not the solution. But those guys are clever, I'm sure they can come up with something to get rid of the extra daemons and modules running without sacrificing usability. Anyone here have any good ideas..?
For Debian/Ubuntu based distros, if you can't find something in Synaptic you can search for a.deb of the program you're looking for. Think of it as a.msi for Windows, you double click it and it has a button to install. Very easy.
I suggest searching for the program you can't find here
Slashdot Mirror
Buy a netbook and get NOTHING but the web: "feature"
BUY websites: "feature"
Please be a joke.
It kind of goes to show how full of shit most tech blogs are. Almost all of them were talking about how Wave was the future, absolutely, after watching one indie youtube video about it explained in cute crayon drawings.
I hope this picture guide changes your life. If you don't believe it, google around about it, it's true and works.
You're welcome!
I understand it wasn't right for the government to lie about it.
But I don't see what's wrong in the video itself. There is a group of people with weapons- not just AK47s but a guy has a full blown RPG with him. They have RPGs and are not American forces- logic says they are the bad guys. Why is it wrong that they shot them down? Because they didn't verify the faces of each one of them and match them to some terrorist database, or what?
I might have missed something in the video, anyone care to explain?
He blew off or dismissed most of the important questions. As other commenters have said, he didn't acknowledge Ubuntu's terrible implementation of KDE, Gnome's short comings, nor the sound issue.
But the worse thing is how he completely dismissed Creative Suites and games. Whenever I ask any of my friends why they aren't on linux, they reply with one of these two. Whenever I see linux vs. windows being debated in a OS agnostic forum its these two issues I see come up the most. I can't believe Canonical is completely ignoring it.
Head of Gnome, right? Lead developer in bringing Microsoft .NET to Gnome, worked in Novell as vice president of development (which is partnered by Microsoft) and now is a director for Codeplex, Microsoft's new opensource foundation.
If that isn't unsettling enough, he's a /b/tard. Look at this post from his twitter:
"That last picture from @abock is photoshopped. I can tell because of the pixels and having seen a lot of shops' myself."
holy shit
I just think this guy is a massive troll. I can just picture him doing all this Microsoft shit with a troll face.
The entire development cycle of Gnome suddenly makes sense to me now.
Gnome developers: Look at all this cool stuff we can do for Gnome!!! We'll be way more awesome than Microsoft now with this stuff! .NET to Gnome. *trollface*
Miguel de Icaza: No. I want to keep Gnome stable and unimproving. *trollface*
Miguel de Icaza: But lets go ahead and bring
Another gem:
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Sep-10.html
"I hope that I can last more on this foundation than I lasted at the FSF, where I was removed by RMS after refusing to be an active part of the campaign to rename Linux as GNU/Linux."
First they came for the pedophiles, and I did not speak out, because I was not a pedophile.
Then, they came for the pirates, and I did not speak out because I was not a pirate.
Then they came for anonymous, and I did not speak out because I was not anonymous.
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me.
The first "client" is actually a web app. A pretty one, at that.
Screenshot here~
Not all that long ago the things we traded in the free market were solid things. Actual solid products.
The free market regulates it's prices naturally with supply and demand. The times that we see the free market being thrown out of balance is when there are monopolies that can apply their own artificial scarcity to whatever they're a monopoly in (I.E, diamonds). They apply an artificial scarcity by assigning whatever price they want to it- this is possible because they're a monopoly.
When it comes to imaginary property (Selling ideas, concepts, bytes.) you HAVE to apply an artificial scarcity to it because the supply is unlimited. In mass this is a problem for the market, because it throws things off balance, the same as monopolies do.
I see the file sharing frontier as the market correcting this imbalance. It's restoring order. There is unlimited supply and as such the price must go down due to the natural cycle of the free market. This is exactly what is supposed to happen.
Furthermore.. Musicians do not need record labels anymore. They used to when we used vinyl, because no one could just make records in their house. How much of record sales goes to the record label? A lot. Most of it, I'm sure. If the artist did it themselves, they would make much more money. Does this mean they need to burn a bunch of CDs in their house? Does this mean they need to hire someone to burn a bunch of CDs? No, not really. No one uses CDs anymore. We all have mp3 players. The media that music is written on is different now, and in a form that's even easier for the artist themselves to create and distribute.
Without record labels, and even without CDs, what does that leave artists with? For starters, what do you think the profits of advertisments on a very popular musicians website are? Enough to support a small family I'm sure.
And then you have to take in account merchandise- Think about XKCD. This guy writes a short unartistic (though witty) comic three times a week, and he makes a LIVING off of merchandise, and doesn't even have any advertisements.
The combination of going on tours, advertisements, and merchandise is enough to make any independent 'free' artist a very nice living.
Will they be super millionaire idols? Living like kings like they are today? Probably not. But that's fine, isn't it? Why should musicians make more than our best engineers..?
Or a more logical approach: Why should musicians make more than any other type of artist??
I think the stand of musicians now is unnatural. They are manufactured by the media to fit demographics in bulk and then live like kings. This isn't the way it should be and it won't be like this forever.
Things are simply evening out. The big media corporations can try all they want to reverse the flow of technology, but in the end the free market and 'the balance' are boss.
They did it pretty good actually. They have a function that waits for certain things to sync up before continuing at places.
And they *do* test the shit out of kernels before releasing, you know..
A lot of new code (and old code reformed) was added to try and speed up the boot process, I know that for sure. I saw some of the work Arjan did in the bootfast tree-
fastboot: Asynchronous function calls to speed up kernel boot
fastboot: make scsi probes asynchronous
fastboot: make the libata port scan asynchronous
fastboot: make ACPI bus drivers probe asynchronous
fastboot: Make libata initialization even more async
I don't know for sure that all of this made it upstream for this release but I know some of it did. I think you have to pass the "fastboot" kernel line for it, however. So check your kernel configs and update your grubs!
Or LILOs, if you're weird...
Oh one more thing.. I think the introduction of the asynchronous probing and various other things are going to start a whole new wave of bootfast tricks. For example, before it tries mounting the root file system and continuing on, it waits for device probing to finish. A comment above that code states "Waiting for device probing to finish... This is known to cause long delays in boots, for example this can take 5 seconds for a laptop's touchpad to initialize". The comment was written by Arjan, who obviously has intention to speed things up. So I think what might happen is instead of waiting for EVERYTHING to finish probing (Even if it is async), it'll just wait for the filesystem to become available (Perhaps try after IDE probes, then try after SCSI probes, then after USB, and so on.)
I also remember there was a patch that didn't go upstream (I don't think so anyways) that added a function to be able to initialize things later on (After the boot was done). You changed the initialize() or whatever the function name was to initialize_later(), and then after you're done booting, whenever you want, you do a command and it then initializes anything you did the initialize_later() to. So you would be able to load up the webcam initialization or whatever else you know you don't use right when you boot.
Well, where I'm going with this is that I would like to see them incorporate more of that stuff into the kernel. More boot hacks, more power saving, more efficiency. These things are only going to improve.
Why? Can't we already just do..
modload usbnet
dhclient usb0
???
I'm now declaring that every child character in any cartoon series is actually an adult with a rare disease that keeps them in a child state. They're all over 18.
PROBLEM SOLVED.
FTA:
:(
"She didn't call right away. It took her about 15 minutes to finally call me. When she did she didn't say anything for the first 15 seconds. When she finally did speak, it was obvious she was crying.
"Why did you throw me to the wolves like that?""
Did anyone else "D'awwww" at this as hard as I did?
We're sorry, Karen
Sigh, me neither.
:/
Honestly I can deal with it not remembering what was open last time, but the segfaults.. fffff. I use it still though, for light browsing. I use Firefox for flash. Inconvenient but Midori is so much smoother/faster/nicer
Midori for Linux also passes Acid3 with a 100/100... Just say "Webkit" is the only engine to pass Acid3..
more like "Female to be let out of kitchen, fucks something up", amirite?
They do have a kitchen on that ship, right?
Can't imagine another reason for bringing a woman up there.
Yes.
There's a brand new atheros driver with the new kernel that has certainly been working it's magic with wireless cards.
Ack... Didn't link you to the most recent one, sorry about that.
howto-set-up-hardy-for-speed
If you look at his "howto" section of his blog, there's some other things for Ubuntu too.
Remember the story a little while back about them making some sort of discovery that they had to go to the President for before releasing to the public? Did we ever find out what that was..?
Hi dotancohen, You should take a look at KMlanda's guide on speeding up Ubuntu- It's filled with little tweaks and hacks and you're going to end up learning a lot more about Ubuntu, and linux in general. You can find it here.
I forget where the list is, but it'll be in the guide somewhere. Just google each daemon and get an understanding of what it does.
er... Sorry to burst your bubble here, but Arch is not built around the hardware for your computer. Arch comes with a binary blog for a kernel with everything compiled as a module just like Ubuntu does, the only different is daemons that run at boot, which has little to do with your hardware. I agree that Arch is faster, depending on what you install, but saying it fits your hardware and that it's for "True geeks" is sort of ridiculous.
Perhaps you meant Gentoo?
Ubuntu isn't really suited for low end machines anymore, IMO. Has to be at least 2ghz, with at least 512mb RAM.. Anything lower and it's going to be pretty slow.
I'm sure some people here are going to be comparing Ubuntu to Vista in regards of getting slower with release, but because it's Linux we have a few more choices.
They make distros that are meant to be lightweight- Anyone with a machine that's a little old, I urge you to try one of them. You'll be pleasantly surprised and maybe find a new favorite window manager/desktop environment in the process. Before you start talking about how joe sixpack doesn't want to try another distro or learn anything about Linux- I'm not talking to Joe sixpack here, I'm talking to you, a slashdot lurker.
Try one of these distros and be amazed at how fast everything is:
Crunchbang Linux
KMandla's GTK 1.5 Remix
Or, if you want to be more adventurous, get Arch Linux and grab a window manager like Openbox or PekWM. If you go that route, take a look at this Openbox guide that'll show you a nice panel to use, file navigator, and generally hold your hand through the process, here. But if you want your hand held even more, someone packaged a panel and file navigator and theme chooser and stuff like that together with Openbox already- Called LXDE. You can just grab that too, should be in any repository.
I do think it's unfortunate for joe sixpack that it's getting a little slower- But for them it's still faster than Vista and XP, right?
You know what they should make? They compile pretty much everything in the kernel as a module, and then they probe hardware and load the right modules each time you boot... It would be cool to be able to do a "Speed up my computer" boot where it loads the modules, and then compiles a kernel with the modules for the hardware it finds compiled into it. Disable things that it hasn't seen their computer use, etc., and then just still probe the hardware to fall back on another kernel if things have changed.
OR, how about loading modules when you actually need them..? And this goes for daemons, too. When you go to listen to something, and it returns that there's no module loaded for sound, how about loading the module then, and then starting the alsa daemon. Have you ever looked at the daemon list for Ubuntu? It's huge. I know I don't need all of those- I know because on the distro I'm on now I only run 3 daemons on boot, and everything works fine.
I don't know. Maybe that's not the solution. But those guys are clever, I'm sure they can come up with something to get rid of the extra daemons and modules running without sacrificing usability. Anyone here have any good ideas..?
For Debian/Ubuntu based distros, if you can't find something in Synaptic you can search for a .deb of the program you're looking for. Think of it as a .msi for Windows, you double click it and it has a button to install. Very easy.
I suggest searching for the program you can't find here