Not to argue with your point on KDE missing the option, but for readers who want to know how to do it without editing xorg.conf can use the xinput utility: xinput list Find your device, (eg: Logitech USB Laser Mouse) and then run: xinput list-props "Logitech USB Laser Mouse" Alternatively you can use the id, but that doesn't persist through boots/replugging. Change a value with: xinput set-prop "Logitech USB Laser Mouse" "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" 1.3 This makes my high-res mouse slower. Mess around with the options until you find what you're looking for.
Advantage: This can be done on a per mouse basis. Laptops with a touchpad and nipple mouse can customise both and a USB mouse separately. I don't know if you can do that on Windows.
Problem: This has to be run after you connect the mouse. Laptop users will want to edit xorg.conf. If anyone knows how to have xinput run when a user connects a particular mouse please tell.
All Vista jokes aside, one of the best (only?) things Microsoft did with Vista was getting rid of that Home/Pro/HomeOEM/ProOEM differentiation bullshit out of the installation media and only differentiating it by the licence key. The advantage is that you can use any Vista install disk with your key.
As someone who uses Vista for my Wintendo partition it's not so bad once you disable the indexing, aero and don't install an antivirus or itunes. I don't think it's worth giving Microsoft another $90 for a marginal improvement that could better be spent on another game or better graphics card. (Then again, I would suffer Wine bugs to save $90).
Does that T400 have a Windows licence sticker on the bottom of it? If so then you do not need to purchase a new Windows licence. Unless you bought a Lenovo OpenSUSE preinstall ThinkPad it should have that sticker.
Data as a resource may be limitless (well as big as all active disks worldwide) but delivery is a limited resource.
Lets use the Electrical analogy: Hypothetical scientists discover a hypothetical magical infinite supply of uranium giving humanity an unlimited source of energy (Joules). We are limited in our use of it by the rate we can convert it to electricity (power in Watts). The amount of nuclear plants, their peak output (GW) and how much power we can send through power lines before they melt. Even the speed at which we can dig out the infinite uranium.
But each town has a substation that can only put through so much current through its transformers before melting. These can only deliver, say, one megawatt and will need to be upgraded.
Getting back to telecommunications, the biggest limiting factor is usually the copper lines struggling to provide a couple Mb/s. Lets assume we are in 2020 Australia and the NBN wasn't killed off. All houses in a town have access to 12/1 to 100/40 Mb/s plans taking away the "power lines melting" problem. At the point of interconnect we have the contention ratio issue. How much bandwidth each ISP buys for all their customers from NBN and from the transpacific links to the States where all the Facetwitubes are hosted effects the total amount of terabytes per month they can supply for everyone.
It is impossible to have everyone buy an unlimited 100/40 plan and have everyone use it to the max 24/7. Even just a 12/1 plan can give a theoretical maximum of 30TB per month. Delivering 100/40 to people relies on the fact that no one uses it fully 24/7 and instead in bursts, averaging out across the town. The easiest way to ensure that it's used fairly, and that regular people who's biggest demand is Youtube can still get 100/40 plans without subsidising some tool torrenting 24/7 is to pay for what you use. That way light users can pay $30/mo for 50GB and heavy torrenters can pay $99 for 1TB. From the ISP's point of view there is no difference between the load a 12/1 customer downloading 1TB and a 100/40 customer.
Quite honestly, if you struggle to keep under a terabyte quota maybe you should pace yourself a bit, watch less videos, go outside, actually watch all those videos you accumulated before you get more.
TLDR: Bytes are unlimited. Bytes per second are not.
Half the blame for shitty trackpads is the horrible drivers on Windows. Compare the behavior under Windows with that on Linux/Xorg and may be supprised that your hardware supported two-finger-scrolling.
On my sisters laptop it annoys me that every third "scroll wheel click" it decides to jump up a whole page. It's like it's trying to help me get there faster in the worst way by inserting a random page up/down.
Xorg (or Kwin) finally fixed the mouse clipping issue where it could move into that void space you get if one monitor was shorter than the other. But now the bottom right hot-corner can't be reached. Does this happen in Windows 8?
I think at this point it may be better in the long term to implement a redact button in the style of undo in 1990s Windows apps that will redact the redaction if you click redact twice. I will post it to github when ready.
My properly shut-down Windows Vista partition has a hyberfil.sys file too. I think it just keeps it there so it doesn't have to reallocate the space. It is not a suitable test to see if Windows 8 actually shuts down.
Someone should patent something ridiculous like "A method for indicating support of a proposal by using an input device to record a 'yea' or 'nay' vote on a mobile device." and then file suit against individual members of congress (in Tyler, TX of course). Maybe that would get their attention.
I thought it was up to the game developers themselves to bundle a working configuration for Wine (usually Codeweaver's CrossOver). This leaves them assured that the game works reasonably and they give some level of support. I know that Psychonauts for Mac Steam was a Crossover port before the Humble Indie Bundle 5 made it native.
If the rumours of a Steam console hold true, then I expect there to be a partnership with Valve and Crossover to convince game developers to get their back catalogue working in Wine. That or Valve buy out Codeweavers.
It's even worse when they charge those insane prices for downloadable copies. With online downloads they no longer have the bullshit excuse of more expensive distribution in Australia yet still geo-discriminate (it's totally a word) to not undercut the physical copies. Skyrim was $89 on Steam at launch.
Important: When hibernating and dual booting make sure you unmount your Windows C drive in Linux first. And never mount your Windows drives if you put Windows to hibernate.
It may all work fine if you have done it before, but it's better to not risk corruption. I lost some video files I had on a fat32 partition (ran out of space on/home) when resuming WinXP (stupid Acer preinstall used fat32 for C). They just disappeared like Windows had stored the FAT table in RAM and restored it.
on laptops I like tap to click on touchpads. Xfce has no option for this, you have to dig into an X config file.
Look up xinput. It allows you to configure input devices like mice, touchpads and clitmouse in a live X session. In particular I have enabled wheel emulation for the middle button on my clitmouse. Stick it in a start-up script, not xorg.conf sorcery necessary.
You will need to stick it in an xorg.conf.d file if you want it permanent or if your device is plugged in after login and you want it automatic. eg. my bluetooth mouse was too fast: Section "InputClass"
Identifier "mouse slowdown"
MatchIsPointer "on"
MatchProduct "Bluetooth Laser Travel Mouse"
Option "ConstantDeceleration" "2" EndSection
I used that and it was quite good. I stopped when I started using my new(old) desktop instead of my laptop and used Unison for syncing the two. I probably should get back to using it as syncing two machines is not a backup.
It's Arch Linux on a personal Laptop. Arch doesn't retain the previous kernel after an update like other distros causing interesting effects with fuse and adding USB devices. But at least there isn't a backlog of unused kernels eating up/boot like I have with Ubuntu.
Anyway, I get in the office and run the update, reboot, then refresh Slashdot to see this. It's more of a matter of reloading my apps and Firefox with my typical 50 tabs (I may have a problem).
While that may be useful for a movie, with games the AC had an interesting point about it producing too much data.
At the current speed of development when 2000x GPUs are on the market will we be able to store >500GB of motion data per game on the HDD of the future? Or even be able to download them (no optical disks in the future) over the new download quotas being introduced in the US (and always had here in Australia)?
Where can I even get a small 14" or 13" laptop that doesn't come with the next to useless for actual work 1360x768? Do I really need to pay over $3k for the most expensive i7 and other bells and whistles I'll never use to get one?
Heck, even a sub 24" monitor is near impossible to find with better than 1920x1080.
I remember there was a plugin for Compiz that used the accelerometer in high-end laptops (used to detect drops to turn of the HDD) to flip the cube when you slapped the edge of the screen.
Slashdot Mirror
Terraria
Just an FYI, there is an effort to port Terraria to Mono here. Buggy as fuck though.
The extra $10 is for shipping. The cheaper options were a special for those who got in early.
I got the $59 option and am looking forward to using it as a headless torrent box.
Not to argue with your point on KDE missing the option, but for readers who want to know how to do it without editing xorg.conf can use the xinput utility:
xinput list
Find your device, (eg: Logitech USB Laser Mouse) and then run:
xinput list-props "Logitech USB Laser Mouse"
Alternatively you can use the id, but that doesn't persist through boots/replugging. Change a value with:
xinput set-prop "Logitech USB Laser Mouse" "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" 1.3
This makes my high-res mouse slower.
Mess around with the options until you find what you're looking for.
Advantage: This can be done on a per mouse basis. Laptops with a touchpad and nipple mouse can customise both and a USB mouse separately. I don't know if you can do that on Windows.
Problem: This has to be run after you connect the mouse. Laptop users will want to edit xorg.conf. If anyone knows how to have xinput run when a user connects a particular mouse please tell.
All Vista jokes aside, one of the best (only?) things Microsoft did with Vista was getting rid of that Home/Pro/HomeOEM/ProOEM differentiation bullshit out of the installation media and only differentiating it by the licence key. The advantage is that you can use any Vista install disk with your key.
As someone who uses Vista for my Wintendo partition it's not so bad once you disable the indexing, aero and don't install an antivirus or itunes. I don't think it's worth giving Microsoft another $90 for a marginal improvement that could better be spent on another game or better graphics card. (Then again, I would suffer Wine bugs to save $90).
Does that T400 have a Windows licence sticker on the bottom of it? If so then you do not need to purchase a new Windows licence. Unless you bought a Lenovo OpenSUSE preinstall ThinkPad it should have that sticker.
Data as a resource may be limitless (well as big as all active disks worldwide) but delivery is a limited resource.
Lets use the Electrical analogy:
Hypothetical scientists discover a hypothetical magical infinite supply of uranium giving humanity an unlimited source of energy (Joules). We are limited in our use of it by the rate we can convert it to electricity (power in Watts). The amount of nuclear plants, their peak output (GW) and how much power we can send through power lines before they melt. Even the speed at which we can dig out the infinite uranium.
But each town has a substation that can only put through so much current through its transformers before melting. These can only deliver, say, one megawatt and will need to be upgraded.
Getting back to telecommunications, the biggest limiting factor is usually the copper lines struggling to provide a couple Mb/s. Lets assume we are in 2020 Australia and the NBN wasn't killed off. All houses in a town have access to 12/1 to 100/40 Mb/s plans taking away the "power lines melting" problem.
At the point of interconnect we have the contention ratio issue. How much bandwidth each ISP buys for all their customers from NBN and from the transpacific links to the States where all the Facetwitubes are hosted effects the total amount of terabytes per month they can supply for everyone.
It is impossible to have everyone buy an unlimited 100/40 plan and have everyone use it to the max 24/7. Even just a 12/1 plan can give a theoretical maximum of 30TB per month. Delivering 100/40 to people relies on the fact that no one uses it fully 24/7 and instead in bursts, averaging out across the town. The easiest way to ensure that it's used fairly, and that regular people who's biggest demand is Youtube can still get 100/40 plans without subsidising some tool torrenting 24/7 is to pay for what you use. That way light users can pay $30/mo for 50GB and heavy torrenters can pay $99 for 1TB. From the ISP's point of view there is no difference between the load a 12/1 customer downloading 1TB and a 100/40 customer.
Quite honestly, if you struggle to keep under a terabyte quota maybe you should pace yourself a bit, watch less videos, go outside, actually watch all those videos you accumulated before you get more.
TLDR: Bytes are unlimited. Bytes per second are not.
getting solid patents, avoiding spurious Apple patents etc.
This is the reason why they are targeting China.
but every trackpad I've used so far sucks.
Half the blame for shitty trackpads is the horrible drivers on Windows. Compare the behavior under Windows with that on Linux/Xorg and may be supprised that your hardware supported two-finger-scrolling.
On my sisters laptop it annoys me that every third "scroll wheel click" it decides to jump up a whole page. It's like it's trying to help me get there faster in the worst way by inserting a random page up/down.
Gigabit Ethernet goes through 10 to 100 to 1000.
Does the Allwinner A10 support Gigabit Ethernet? Or is it the EOMA-68 that allows for future boards with GbE?
Do the hotspots work with asymmetric monitors?
Xorg (or Kwin) finally fixed the mouse clipping issue where it could move into that void space you get if one monitor was shorter than the other. But now the bottom right hot-corner can't be reached. Does this happen in Windows 8?
I think at this point it may be better in the long term to implement a redact button in the style of undo in 1990s Windows apps that will redact the redaction if you click redact twice. I will post it to github when ready.
Time the booting sequence, then try renaming the hiberfil.sys file and booting it again.
This could break your system or worse; cause you to redact your redaction of the original redaction.
and lo and behold, there was hiberfil.sys.
My properly shut-down Windows Vista partition has a hyberfil.sys file too. I think it just keeps it there so it doesn't have to reallocate the space. It is not a suitable test to see if Windows 8 actually shuts down.
Summary says it's a compiler. It should not force GPL on it's output any more than GCC would.
If I write proprietary code with gedit, is it forced to be GPL?
Already patented, but:
Someone should patent something ridiculous like "A method for indicating support of a proposal by using an input device to record a 'yea' or 'nay' vote on a mobile device." and then file suit against individual members of congress (in Tyler, TX of course). Maybe that would get their attention.
This patent thing is easy.
I thought it was up to the game developers themselves to bundle a working configuration for Wine (usually Codeweaver's CrossOver). This leaves them assured that the game works reasonably and they give some level of support. I know that Psychonauts for Mac Steam was a Crossover port before the Humble Indie Bundle 5 made it native.
If the rumours of a Steam console hold true, then I expect there to be a partnership with Valve and Crossover to convince game developers to get their back catalogue working in Wine. That or Valve buy out Codeweavers.
It's even worse when they charge those insane prices for downloadable copies. With online downloads they no longer have the bullshit excuse of more expensive distribution in Australia yet still geo-discriminate (it's totally a word) to not undercut the physical copies. Skyrim was $89 on Steam at launch.
Then they wonder why piracy is so high.
Important:
When hibernating and dual booting make sure you unmount your Windows C drive in Linux first.
And never mount your Windows drives if you put Windows to hibernate.
It may all work fine if you have done it before, but it's better to not risk corruption. I lost some video files I had on a fat32 partition (ran out of space on /home) when resuming WinXP (stupid Acer preinstall used fat32 for C). They just disappeared like Windows had stored the FAT table in RAM and restored it.
on laptops I like tap to click on touchpads. Xfce has no option for this, you have to dig into an X config file.
Look up xinput. It allows you to configure input devices like mice, touchpads and clitmouse in a live X session. In particular I have enabled wheel emulation for the middle button on my clitmouse. Stick it in a start-up script, not xorg.conf sorcery necessary.
You will need to stick it in an xorg.conf.d file if you want it permanent or if your device is plugged in after login and you want it automatic.
eg. my bluetooth mouse was too fast:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "mouse slowdown"
MatchIsPointer "on"
MatchProduct "Bluetooth Laser Travel Mouse"
Option "ConstantDeceleration" "2"
EndSection
Hope this helps someone
I used that and it was quite good. I stopped when I started using my new(old) desktop instead of my laptop and used Unison for syncing the two. I probably should get back to using it as syncing two machines is not a backup.
It's Arch Linux on a personal Laptop. Arch doesn't retain the previous kernel after an update like other distros causing interesting effects with fuse and adding USB devices. But at least there isn't a backlog of unused kernels eating up /boot like I have with Ubuntu.
Anyway, I get in the office and run the update, reboot, then refresh Slashdot to see this. It's more of a matter of reloading my apps and Firefox with my typical 50 tabs (I may have a problem).
I just rebooted to apply 3.2.11 :(
While that may be useful for a movie, with games the AC had an interesting point about it producing too much data.
At the current speed of development when 2000x GPUs are on the market will we be able to store >500GB of motion data per game on the HDD of the future? Or even be able to download them (no optical disks in the future) over the new download quotas being introduced in the US (and always had here in Australia)?
Where can I even get a small 14" or 13" laptop that doesn't come with the next to useless for actual work 1360x768? Do I really need to pay over $3k for the most expensive i7 and other bells and whistles I'll never use to get one?
Heck, even a sub 24" monitor is near impossible to find with better than 1920x1080.
I remember there was a plugin for Compiz that used the accelerometer in high-end laptops (used to detect drops to turn of the HDD) to flip the cube when you slapped the edge of the screen.