I've actually considered setting up a bounty for that extension - I really want it, and I don't want to go through the process of learning Javascript. Easier to just pay someone else.:P
I've also considered just opening every webcomic in its own tab. I already have something on the order of 150 tabs open, but Firefox is eating 35% CPU constantly and 300mb RAM just for that so that's probably a bad idea.
Booting off a USB keychain wouldn't work too well, but carrying one around could potentially work. I guess I could put a credit card CD in my wallet or something. Still, that's a lot more awkward.
We're talking about remote control here, so I'm confused as to what Firefox has to do with anything. Unless you're like my dad, and you run rdesktop over a VPN to the desktop at work for absolutely everything, because no one bothered to set up something as simple as, say, IMAP over SSL.
For remote admin, I've never found a GUI that works anywhere near as well as ssh+screen. That doesn't mean I can't also use GUIs for local stuff, though. And I can run a GUI from remote over SSH -- it's called X forwarding.
VNC? And I think there's a Cygwin X for Windows. You should know, seeing as you have Cygwin, right?
OTOH, it seems odd that you'd want that. I never remote to anything from a Windows box -- I treat my Windows boxes as untrusted.
I connect from friend's houses. I connect from my mom's house. I connect from work. Work could be Linux or Windows - the other two are exclusively Windows. I trust them enough that I doubt they have keyloggers, and very few viruses, if any, will intercept RDP passwords. I'm not particularly worried about that.
As for what I do, that includes email (I don't want to set up Thunderbird on every one of my friend's computer), it includes IM (which I leave running in GUI form, and don't want to reconnect), it includes IRC (same deal as IM), it includes, occasionally, grabbing the URLs of tabs I have open in Firefox. And, because RDP is so fast, I often end up web browsing just because I'll have my state still there once I get home.
There might be X on Cygwin. I don't know, and I don't care, since most of my friends don't have Cygwin installed. I could get away with installing a small app. I'm not about to install Cygwin on their computers.
Weird. I bet if anyone else cares about this, there will be an extension.
Probably. On the other hand, I do care about this, even if other people don't. (And there's no extension I've found, so I guess they don't.)
See, I read a lot of webcomics. Around 300, right now. Most of them I catch up with every few months when I'm in the mood for them. I bookmark the last page I've read. When I go and read more, I replace that bookmark with the new last page. On Internet Explorer, this is four clicks (favorites, add, OK, yes replace). On Firefox, this is a whole lot more - I actually have to scroll through the bookmarks list and delete the old one first. It's a significant time waste.
To head off your inevitable suggestion, the vast majority of webcomics don't have RSS feeds.
Yeah, right... You're willing to trade that for a bookmarking feature.
No I'm not. I need this BSD firewall anyway because I have more computers than IPs and I want good QoS on my outgoing connection. How would I do that without a somewhat heavyweight router? And now that I've got reasonably good security anyway, why waste a lot of my time with an interface that doesn't happen to do what I need?
Perhaps my reasons aren't compelling for you. But they are for me, because they're all things I do frequently. You're telling me that I should change my work patterns and habits in order to switch to Linux, when Windows on this box works just fine for me. Give me a compelling reason I should switch to Linux, and maybe I will - but "you can make Linux do whatever you want!" doesn't hold water when Windows already does what I want. (And my time is valuable.)
In theory, the realistic minimum price for a stock is the point at which the stock is worth precisely the company's assets. A company with a net value of 20 million, with 1 million outstanding shares, would therefore have an absolute minimum price of $20/share. (This isn't actually true, but if your stockholders believe your company is worth less than its asset price, perhaps it really is time to just break the company up for scrap.)
I suppose, if a company's assets were negative - if the company was in major debt - and there was some way to force the shareholders of the company to pay the owed money, then yes, indeed, the stock could and likely would go negative.
Possibly unfortunately, though, there's no way that can happen - although I personally would be vastly amused if all the SCO stockholders were forced to pay IBM for owning part of such a doomed company, I suppose it would open up an incredible number of legal problems:)
A lot of people think this is what SCO wants. "Sue IBM and get lots of money when we're bought out!" IBM, apparently, does not think this is behavior it should encourage, and so it's simply attempting to squash SCO like a bug. I've got no problem with this.
From here, though, it shouldn't be hard to add controller support. All you need is a cheap PS2-to-PC converter and gamepad support on the game. It's not really that hard at this point. The game logic is the tough part.
(Actually, that's not true at all. The graphics and music is the tough part.)
Really? I've had MUCH worse luck getting things working on Cygwin than I have with Wine.
That may be true, but everything I care about works in Cygwin (gcc, make, basic shell scripting) and not everything I care about works in Wine. "Everything must work" is not nearly as important as "the subset I care about must work".
Hence dual-boot. I keep everything important on Linux for philosophical reasons, but I give up none of the advantages of Windows.
Except I wouldn't ever boot into Linux. I'd just boot into Windows, because everything I want to do works there, while that's not true of Linux. There would be no reason to enter into Linux so it'd just be a wasted partition.
I'd still like to know why. You can install Gaim on Windows, or run it off Knoppix, to give it a test run. And there's a native Yahoo client, and I think there might be a native AOL one also.
I'll give it another try in a year, perhaps. I don't remember exactly and don't really have any interest in trying it right now. Too much setup involved to make it usable.
ssh+screen slaughters any GUI-based one.
Won't always work, I know. But then, you can use rdesktop if you need to connect to a Windows box. There's also X forwarding, which is quick and easy, not sure how the speed measures up to RDP, though.
I'd love to see how you expect ssh+screen to interact with GUIs. Some of us like GUIs. I'm one of them. They're not for everything, but I'd much rather use, say, Firefox in a GUI than lynx.
I want Windows boxes to be able to connect to this. rdesktop won't help there, and there seems to be a lack of X servers (or whatever they're called) for Windows. To say nothing about the difficulty of setup, which appears to be nontrivial, judging by how many different conflicting tutorials I found for FreeNX.
Not sure what you mean. I think I can have multiple bookmarks with the same name -- is that what you mean? Clunky, I know, but I prefer one browser to two, and IE is lacking too much else (security being a big one) for me to prefer it.
I mean the exact opposite:P I want a bookmark with a duplicate name to overwrite the old one. I agree that I'd really like to switch away from IE, but this computer doesn't have much important on it anyway and I'm mostly browsing pretty reliable websites. And that feature is something I need.
I suspect that Linux, aside from philosophy (and security, and customizability, and...) may provide you with some things you like better, if you can find a way to use it at least half the time. And it looks like the major barrier to dual-booting being worthwhile is Gaim vs Trillian, right?
I'd still prefer Linux, and I'm trying to get it on my Mac, but the point is, you really don't know till you try it for awhile, on a regular basis, so you can get comfortable with it. And this goes for lots of things.
Major barriers include Gaim/Trillian, that one missing feature in Firefox, and RDP lookalikes (although I think FreeNX could have done this if I'd worked at it more, but the other two things are still sufficient.)
I tried it for a week solid;) Eventually I got fed up with the weird glitches and the slowdowns (why does opening a webpage through Kopete take thirty seconds? Who knows.) and the few missing features I really liked, so I switched back.
It's a lot better than it used to be, but it's still not quite there. The small reasons to change over ("it's Linux") just aren't enough right now. (Security is important, yes - but this machine is firewalled beyond belief, and I only use IE because Firefox is missing something, so I'm not really that concerned about security holes on here. The only one - IE - is a necessary one.)
From what I've heard, X doesn't support logging into an existing session remotely. Also, X servers (clients? servers? I hate how confused X terminology is) apparently don't exist for Windows, and that's an important part, since I access my computer from all over the place. This might be wrong, but I haven't found any good sources of information on this.
I do have an XBox, and an XBox360 and a PS2 and a Gamecube and a Nintendo DS and I'm picking up a PSP before the end of the month. Games are important to me.;)
Not much better. Virtually everything I use is available on Windows as well (often via cygwin).
IMHO, Linux really can't beat Windows in plain usability, at least once you install Cygwin. I'm thinking of switching to Linux for philosophical reasons, but those get trumped by pure usability on a regular basis.
Sorry. Firefox and Thunderbird on Windows work just as well as they do on Linux. Trillian beats GAIM/Kopete. RDP slaughters VNC, and FreeNX was tricky enough that I didn't get around to it (it wouldn't have been sufficient given the other shortcomings), and IE plus Firefox beat Firefox alone (there's still one missing feature in Firefox that I haven't been able to find - the ability to replace bookmarks with identical names.)
From the set of "things Zorba cares about," Windows does everything Linux does, and then some. Linux doesn't do anything I care about better beyond philosophy. That would be enough to break a tie. It's not enough to pull off a win. I still truly hope they can push it up those last few notches though.
I actually did try Kopete for quite a while in a virtual machine and it's come to closest to being what I'm looking for of anything I've found.
Close, but not quite. MSN didn't work when I tried it, and ICQ stopped working about three days after I started trying it. It crashed once every two or three days. And when someone sent me a message, it would blink the taskbar like I wanted, and stop when I clicked the window, which is correct . . . but it would blink even if I already had the window open, so if I was having a long conversation with one person, the taskbar would be sitting there frantically notifying me "hey, this guy just sent you a message that you already responded to! You'd better check it out right now!"
That said, if there was a Windows build, I'd be trying it out on Windows occasionally to check up on it (that, plus the lack of a Firefox extension to duplicate an IE feature, were really the killing blows for my last attempt for my chat box.) It really is close. It's just not quite there yet, IMHO.
(Oh, the docs also said it didn't have AIM file transfers, and I still use those. But I didn't actually try that.)
A GUI that doesn't look like horse leavings, for one thing.:P
I honestly don't remember details. I tried it a few months ago and decided it was not adequate. I think I was having trouble connecting to some things, I seem to remember there was one or two other problems but no longer remember what they were.
I agree, I could dual-boot into Windows. But the end effect of this would be that I run Windows all the time and have a wasted partition for Linux. It kind of doesn't seem worthwhile. I already have one OS that does everything I want - why install a second one that does half of what I want?
One of the methods I saw for making that working was to run all your normal sessions through NX itself. I'm not really sure what *that* would do to 3d acceleration. I don't insist on being able to do 3d acceleration remotely, but I would like to be able to do 3d acceleration locally and connect to an existing session remotely.
I managed to find ways to set up VNC to do what I wanted easily, and NX without being able to do what I wanted easily. It's that intersection that's the problem. VNC is dog-slow compared to RDP. Ah well.
For apps, the biggest missing one is Trillian. I really hate Gaim and nothing else works very well. I also need a good high-speed RDP-like system - I've heard FreeNX is good but it seems to be difficult to set up for "connect to an already-running session". I don't even know if it's possible to do that and have 3d acceleration still work. I can't find much documentation online.
For games, you can't go very far away from "everything runs" and have it still be acceptable. Right now, ignoring console games, I'm occasionally playing Civ4, Oblivion, Galactic Civilizations II, and Half-Life 2. Recently, that list has included Space Cowboy, Armadillo Run, FarCry, The Sims 2, Battlefield 2, City of Heroes, Rise of Legends, Cave Story, Oasis, and Darwinia.
Basically, my main computer does very little besides development and games. Development isn't a problem. Games are. If Cedega can't run "all games" it's not compatible enough for me to use it yet.
Yeah, that's a tall order, but that's what I need. Computers are, to me, tools, and I'm not about to throw away a working tool for a non-working one. 'Course, I'll gladly throw out a working one for one that works better. Linux just isn't, for me, at the "better than Windows" stage yet.
If Cedega and Wine could run all the Windows games I play, and the few apps I depend on that don't have Linux ports, I would literally switch to Linux tomorrow.
a built-in versioning system. Want to roll back to a previous version? Bam, done. Want to fork? Just make a copy of the "old version" and move on.
I'd like directory-by-directory control over this, some way of controlling when the old versions "go away" (I don't want mass-id3'ing of my MP3 collection to clobber my old documents, for example), as well as efficient move operations. But, as many are saying, this sounds like basically a good thing.
It's a feature, and a pretty cool one. I wouldn't mind this in Linux. This is not a bad thing.
I've got a total of about 1.5TiB here. I'm using around 0.8TiB of it. Up until this current generation of systems I was having a terrible time staying under the limit . . . now I'm mostly just not worrying about it. I bought a second 500GiB drive because I decided to dump all my music to FLAC, but until I start dumping raw DVDs I'm pretty much fine on space . . . and I can't think of a reason I'd want to start dumping raw DVDs.
Most of my friends use nowhere near the amount I do. I think most people really have enough hard drive space at this point.
I've been waiting for a mini-stealth-camera-and-recorder to appear. I want a little device, the size of a cellphone camera, that fits in a button or a necklace or a belt buckle or something equally inconspicuous. It should be connected to a waist controller, which would include battery pack, storage (hard drive or flash), and wifi. Wifi so that, whenever it can find an available internet connection, it can upload its contents to a secure server located elsewhere.
Just imagine that. "Sorry sir, you took a picture of something you weren't supposed to. I'm going to have to confiscate your camera." "The pictures are already in Texas, and in ten minutes they'll be posted online. Same as the recording of what you're saying right now. You really want to illegally take my possessions, Officer Frank, Number 3894?"
Obviously there would be privacy implications as well, but it's kind of inevitable that this will occur someday.
("Oh yeah, and there's six other people taping this right now. Don't bother looking for them. You won't find them. At least two of them are sending it outside the country.")
That's a good point. I'll install Firefox into/usr/local/bin instead. I'm sure that won't delete any important files.
The problem isn't "it deletes files when you install it into/usr/bin". The problem is "it deletes files that it has no business deleting". It's a reasonably common mistake that never takes more than a few days to get fixed once it's reported. Except, apparently, in this case.
I feel that if you have "pain radiating up your arm that makes it feel like it is plugged into a wall socket", you have bigger issues to worry about than whether your mouse has a cord or not.
Perhaps, for example, it's time to try one of the weirder ergonomic devices, or come up with a new input system . . . but not remove the cord and keep suffering.
I've got a recharging dock for my mouse, and spare batteries for my keyboard. For the mouse I mostly forget to use it, but that rarely becomes a problem since the battery life is long enough. For the keyboard, sure, I can go swap batteries . . . and did . . . and in the minute it took me to find the batteries and swap them in, my character was killed.
Doesn't really solve the problem - and it's kind of annoying, why not just use a corded keyboard?
About a year ago I realized I wasn't using the cordless feature at all. At work I simply trapped the cord under a monitor and the cord never got in the way. At home I sat in front of the computer. Why bother with cordless? 99% of the time it wasn't a benefit.
About three months ago I got killed in City of Heroes because my batteries ran out at the wrong moment.
I'm not replacing my mouse and keyboard yet. But next time I need new peripherals, they're going to be corded. Cordless is cool and all, I'm not disputing that. I'm just questioning whether it's actually useful.
Because software developers don't think of it. Because you need computers to run these on, and that means you have to justify, to your superiors, why you need a computer just to run an automated fault-finding program on. Why not just, you know, stop making mistakes?
Automated tests are fantastic, and I use them extensively, but not many developers do the same.
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Ah, I missed that line. Thanks.
Why doesn't he just buy one himself?
Seems easier on everyone's behalf.
I've actually considered setting up a bounty for that extension - I really want it, and I don't want to go through the process of learning Javascript. Easier to just pay someone else. :P
I've also considered just opening every webcomic in its own tab. I already have something on the order of 150 tabs open, but Firefox is eating 35% CPU constantly and 300mb RAM just for that so that's probably a bad idea.
Booting off a USB keychain wouldn't work too well, but carrying one around could potentially work. I guess I could put a credit card CD in my wallet or something. Still, that's a lot more awkward.
As for what I do, that includes email (I don't want to set up Thunderbird on every one of my friend's computer), it includes IM (which I leave running in GUI form, and don't want to reconnect), it includes IRC (same deal as IM), it includes, occasionally, grabbing the URLs of tabs I have open in Firefox. And, because RDP is so fast, I often end up web browsing just because I'll have my state still there once I get home.
There might be X on Cygwin. I don't know, and I don't care, since most of my friends don't have Cygwin installed. I could get away with installing a small app. I'm not about to install Cygwin on their computers.
Probably. On the other hand, I do care about this, even if other people don't. (And there's no extension I've found, so I guess they don't.)
See, I read a lot of webcomics. Around 300, right now. Most of them I catch up with every few months when I'm in the mood for them. I bookmark the last page I've read. When I go and read more, I replace that bookmark with the new last page. On Internet Explorer, this is four clicks (favorites, add, OK, yes replace). On Firefox, this is a whole lot more - I actually have to scroll through the bookmarks list and delete the old one first. It's a significant time waste.
To head off your inevitable suggestion, the vast majority of webcomics don't have RSS feeds.
No I'm not. I need this BSD firewall anyway because I have more computers than IPs and I want good QoS on my outgoing connection. How would I do that without a somewhat heavyweight router? And now that I've got reasonably good security anyway, why waste a lot of my time with an interface that doesn't happen to do what I need?
Perhaps my reasons aren't compelling for you. But they are for me, because they're all things I do frequently. You're telling me that I should change my work patterns and habits in order to switch to Linux, when Windows on this box works just fine for me. Give me a compelling reason I should switch to Linux, and maybe I will - but "you can make Linux do whatever you want!" doesn't hold water when Windows already does what I want. (And my time is valuable.)
In theory, the realistic minimum price for a stock is the point at which the stock is worth precisely the company's assets. A company with a net value of 20 million, with 1 million outstanding shares, would therefore have an absolute minimum price of $20/share. (This isn't actually true, but if your stockholders believe your company is worth less than its asset price, perhaps it really is time to just break the company up for scrap.)
:)
I suppose, if a company's assets were negative - if the company was in major debt - and there was some way to force the shareholders of the company to pay the owed money, then yes, indeed, the stock could and likely would go negative.
Possibly unfortunately, though, there's no way that can happen - although I personally would be vastly amused if all the SCO stockholders were forced to pay IBM for owning part of such a doomed company, I suppose it would open up an incredible number of legal problems
A lot of people think this is what SCO wants. "Sue IBM and get lots of money when we're bought out!" IBM, apparently, does not think this is behavior it should encourage, and so it's simply attempting to squash SCO like a bug. I've got no problem with this.
From here, though, it shouldn't be hard to add controller support. All you need is a cheap PS2-to-PC converter and gamepad support on the game. It's not really that hard at this point. The game logic is the tough part.
(Actually, that's not true at all. The graphics and music is the tough part.)
That may be true, but everything I care about works in Cygwin (gcc, make, basic shell scripting) and not everything I care about works in Wine. "Everything must work" is not nearly as important as "the subset I care about must work".
Except I wouldn't ever boot into Linux. I'd just boot into Windows, because everything I want to do works there, while that's not true of Linux. There would be no reason to enter into Linux so it'd just be a wasted partition.
I'll give it another try in a year, perhaps. I don't remember exactly and don't really have any interest in trying it right now. Too much setup involved to make it usable.
I'd love to see how you expect ssh+screen to interact with GUIs. Some of us like GUIs. I'm one of them. They're not for everything, but I'd much rather use, say, Firefox in a GUI than lynx.
I want Windows boxes to be able to connect to this. rdesktop won't help there, and there seems to be a lack of X servers (or whatever they're called) for Windows. To say nothing about the difficulty of setup, which appears to be nontrivial, judging by how many different conflicting tutorials I found for FreeNX.
I mean the exact opposite
Major barriers include Gaim/Trillian, that one missing feature in Firefox, and RDP lookalikes (although I think FreeNX could have done this if I'd worked at it more, but the other two things are still sufficient.)
I tried it for a week solid
It's a lot better than it used to be, but it's still not quite there. The small reasons to change over ("it's Linux") just aren't enough right now. (Security is important, yes - but this machine is firewalled beyond belief, and I only use IE because Firefox is missing something, so I'm not really that concerned about security holes on here. The only one - IE - is a necessary one.)
From what I've heard, X doesn't support logging into an existing session remotely. Also, X servers (clients? servers? I hate how confused X terminology is) apparently don't exist for Windows, and that's an important part, since I access my computer from all over the place. This might be wrong, but I haven't found any good sources of information on this.
;)
I do have an XBox, and an XBox360 and a PS2 and a Gamecube and a Nintendo DS and I'm picking up a PSP before the end of the month. Games are important to me.
Not much better. Virtually everything I use is available on Windows as well (often via cygwin).
IMHO, Linux really can't beat Windows in plain usability, at least once you install Cygwin. I'm thinking of switching to Linux for philosophical reasons, but those get trumped by pure usability on a regular basis.
Sorry. Firefox and Thunderbird on Windows work just as well as they do on Linux. Trillian beats GAIM/Kopete. RDP slaughters VNC, and FreeNX was tricky enough that I didn't get around to it (it wouldn't have been sufficient given the other shortcomings), and IE plus Firefox beat Firefox alone (there's still one missing feature in Firefox that I haven't been able to find - the ability to replace bookmarks with identical names.)
From the set of "things Zorba cares about," Windows does everything Linux does, and then some. Linux doesn't do anything I care about better beyond philosophy. That would be enough to break a tie. It's not enough to pull off a win. I still truly hope they can push it up those last few notches though.
I actually did try Kopete for quite a while in a virtual machine and it's come to closest to being what I'm looking for of anything I've found.
Close, but not quite. MSN didn't work when I tried it, and ICQ stopped working about three days after I started trying it. It crashed once every two or three days. And when someone sent me a message, it would blink the taskbar like I wanted, and stop when I clicked the window, which is correct . . . but it would blink even if I already had the window open, so if I was having a long conversation with one person, the taskbar would be sitting there frantically notifying me "hey, this guy just sent you a message that you already responded to! You'd better check it out right now!"
That said, if there was a Windows build, I'd be trying it out on Windows occasionally to check up on it (that, plus the lack of a Firefox extension to duplicate an IE feature, were really the killing blows for my last attempt for my chat box.) It really is close. It's just not quite there yet, IMHO.
(Oh, the docs also said it didn't have AIM file transfers, and I still use those. But I didn't actually try that.)
A GUI that doesn't look like horse leavings, for one thing. :P
I honestly don't remember details. I tried it a few months ago and decided it was not adequate. I think I was having trouble connecting to some things, I seem to remember there was one or two other problems but no longer remember what they were.
I agree, I could dual-boot into Windows. But the end effect of this would be that I run Windows all the time and have a wasted partition for Linux. It kind of doesn't seem worthwhile. I already have one OS that does everything I want - why install a second one that does half of what I want?
RDP serving is the issue. The client's not a problem, but I want to be able to connect to my Linux box using something slightly less glacial than VNC.
One of the methods I saw for making that working was to run all your normal sessions through NX itself. I'm not really sure what *that* would do to 3d acceleration. I don't insist on being able to do 3d acceleration remotely, but I would like to be able to do 3d acceleration locally and connect to an existing session remotely.
I managed to find ways to set up VNC to do what I wanted easily, and NX without being able to do what I wanted easily. It's that intersection that's the problem. VNC is dog-slow compared to RDP. Ah well.
For apps, the biggest missing one is Trillian. I really hate Gaim and nothing else works very well. I also need a good high-speed RDP-like system - I've heard FreeNX is good but it seems to be difficult to set up for "connect to an already-running session". I don't even know if it's possible to do that and have 3d acceleration still work. I can't find much documentation online.
For games, you can't go very far away from "everything runs" and have it still be acceptable. Right now, ignoring console games, I'm occasionally playing Civ4, Oblivion, Galactic Civilizations II, and Half-Life 2. Recently, that list has included Space Cowboy, Armadillo Run, FarCry, The Sims 2, Battlefield 2, City of Heroes, Rise of Legends, Cave Story, Oasis, and Darwinia.
Basically, my main computer does very little besides development and games. Development isn't a problem. Games are. If Cedega can't run "all games" it's not compatible enough for me to use it yet.
Yeah, that's a tall order, but that's what I need. Computers are, to me, tools, and I'm not about to throw away a working tool for a non-working one. 'Course, I'll gladly throw out a working one for one that works better. Linux just isn't, for me, at the "better than Windows" stage yet.
If Cedega and Wine could run all the Windows games I play, and the few apps I depend on that don't have Linux ports, I would literally switch to Linux tomorrow.
If only.
a built-in versioning system. Want to roll back to a previous version? Bam, done. Want to fork? Just make a copy of the "old version" and move on.
I'd like directory-by-directory control over this, some way of controlling when the old versions "go away" (I don't want mass-id3'ing of my MP3 collection to clobber my old documents, for example), as well as efficient move operations. But, as many are saying, this sounds like basically a good thing.
It's a feature, and a pretty cool one. I wouldn't mind this in Linux. This is not a bad thing.
I've got a total of about 1.5TiB here. I'm using around 0.8TiB of it. Up until this current generation of systems I was having a terrible time staying under the limit . . . now I'm mostly just not worrying about it. I bought a second 500GiB drive because I decided to dump all my music to FLAC, but until I start dumping raw DVDs I'm pretty much fine on space . . . and I can't think of a reason I'd want to start dumping raw DVDs.
Most of my friends use nowhere near the amount I do. I think most people really have enough hard drive space at this point.
I've been waiting for a mini-stealth-camera-and-recorder to appear. I want a little device, the size of a cellphone camera, that fits in a button or a necklace or a belt buckle or something equally inconspicuous. It should be connected to a waist controller, which would include battery pack, storage (hard drive or flash), and wifi. Wifi so that, whenever it can find an available internet connection, it can upload its contents to a secure server located elsewhere.
Just imagine that. "Sorry sir, you took a picture of something you weren't supposed to. I'm going to have to confiscate your camera." "The pictures are already in Texas, and in ten minutes they'll be posted online. Same as the recording of what you're saying right now. You really want to illegally take my possessions, Officer Frank, Number 3894?"
Obviously there would be privacy implications as well, but it's kind of inevitable that this will occur someday.
("Oh yeah, and there's six other people taping this right now. Don't bother looking for them. You won't find them. At least two of them are sending it outside the country.")
That's a good point. I'll install Firefox into /usr/local/bin instead. I'm sure that won't delete any important files.
/usr/bin". The problem is "it deletes files that it has no business deleting". It's a reasonably common mistake that never takes more than a few days to get fixed once it's reported. Except, apparently, in this case.
The problem isn't "it deletes files when you install it into
I feel that if you have "pain radiating up your arm that makes it feel like it is plugged into a wall socket", you have bigger issues to worry about than whether your mouse has a cord or not.
Perhaps, for example, it's time to try one of the weirder ergonomic devices, or come up with a new input system . . . but not remove the cord and keep suffering.
I've got a recharging dock for my mouse, and spare batteries for my keyboard. For the mouse I mostly forget to use it, but that rarely becomes a problem since the battery life is long enough. For the keyboard, sure, I can go swap batteries . . . and did . . . and in the minute it took me to find the batteries and swap them in, my character was killed.
Doesn't really solve the problem - and it's kind of annoying, why not just use a corded keyboard?
You know, I used to buy all cordless devices.
About a year ago I realized I wasn't using the cordless feature at all. At work I simply trapped the cord under a monitor and the cord never got in the way. At home I sat in front of the computer. Why bother with cordless? 99% of the time it wasn't a benefit.
About three months ago I got killed in City of Heroes because my batteries ran out at the wrong moment.
I'm not replacing my mouse and keyboard yet. But next time I need new peripherals, they're going to be corded. Cordless is cool and all, I'm not disputing that. I'm just questioning whether it's actually useful.
There's still issues with reliability and accuracy. That said, there's a lot of research going on in this department, and this is getting closer.
Don't expect it by tomorrow, but it wouldn't surprise me if this is getting increasingly common in a few years.
Because software developers don't think of it. Because you need computers to run these on, and that means you have to justify, to your superiors, why you need a computer just to run an automated fault-finding program on. Why not just, you know, stop making mistakes?
Automated tests are fantastic, and I use them extensively, but not many developers do the same.