My favourite Arch feature is the AUR (Arch User Repository) where anyone can submit their own packages which other uses can then install.
Because of the AUR, Arch is more likely to have a package for some given obscure application that Debian would be missing. Also, these packages are kept up to date to a greater extent than you'll see on Debian. Finally they're all in one place where as you don't have to constantly add repositories to your package manager's repo list.
For instance, on installation, you tell it to only send mp3s, or pdfs to the dumpster drive, and even then, you have to go in and OK the individual files so you don't accidentally delete and upload your tax return.
It is an alternative to your normal trash, not a replacement. You have to explicitly drag a file in there that you wish to be deleted and shared.
I'd rather have a good desktop environment than yet another project parasitized by the mobile trends
Yeah I get that, but IMO a single framework that I can learn (Qt/kde) that allows me to build desktop and mobile apps is quite compelling. And qt is a good framework. It's some of the best competition out there for.NET so I want to see it succeed.
Also, recently, kde4 has become a good desktop environment. It has come a long way and is completely usable in it's current form.. assuming of course that you ignore the utter bullshit which is nepomuk and striggi..:)
I haven't had much experience with macs either but as I understand it, on a mac, you have one "Application" active at one time. The active application controls the menu bar up the top of the screen. A keyboard shortcut exists which cycles the windows that belong to this application. Another keyboard shortcut exists that cycles the currently active application.
Also if you close all of an application's windows, you haven't actually closed the application. It's still running. The menubar will still show the application's menu and usually allow you to launch new windows.
The end result is that multi-monitor window management becomes a bit tricky because of the menubar thing and workspaces are slightly broken because the idea of grouping your windows by activity is lost as you are forced to group them by application. In Gnome/KDE etc, it doesn't matter what application created the window, you can group it with anything else by putting it on a workspace of it's own. I don't actually recall specifically what goes wrong when you try to work like this on a mac. I only recall that it's problematic.
I don't actually own a mac so I could be wrong about any of the above.
I've never heard of Old Man Murray but that doesn't mean it should be deleted. This all got argued about last time over obscure programming languages but, why are we deleting history? Are we running out of disk space? I think not.
You must be new here. They all advertise that it's 'unlimited' but then massively throttle how much you download if you go over their secret hidden limits.
Well, yeah. I am new here (to this country):). What are these secret hidden limits though? In Aus, the limit is low but clearly marked. The limit is often split over peak and off-peak periods too. So for example, you might have 25gb to use during on-peak and say 30gb to use during off-peak. Off-peak is usually from about 1am to 7am (certainly not half the day) so you've really only got 25gb to use unless you leave your pc on overnight downloading or whatever. I haven't been here long but I haven't run into any limits yet although to be honest I'm not a heavy downloader.
I just recently moved from Australia to the UK and that's one of the interesting things I noticed. In the UK you pay for the speed of your connection rather than how much you can download. So as others are saying, the 10Mb is referring to a 10Mbit connection speed. You can download as much as you want.
In Australia, the speed is basically always "ADSL2+" which means a theoretical maximum of about 20Mbit but in practice is highly dependant on how far away you live from the telephone exchange and the quality of the lines in your house etc. I never got speeds anything like 20Mbit and I lived close to the center of town in Melbourne (~3.5mil population). When you go over your download limit (typically 10-50gb), the speed is "shaped" or "capped" to something near dialup modem speeds.
Sorry for the useless bug report. The exact problem is that when the ball hit's either the opponent's paddle or yours a message box appears reading "INVALID_STATE_ERR: DOM Exception 11". That's probably not very helpful but whatever. I've never done any serious Javascript programming, just the odd bits here and there to fancy up a website. I'm.NET to pay the bills.
If this would mean that no further prosecution of end users would be allowed then this may not be such a bad idea. The levy would be passed on to consumers making our connections slightly more expensive but I'd pay more money to not be hassled about file sharing.
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My favourite Arch feature is the AUR (Arch User Repository) where anyone can submit their own packages which other uses can then install.
Because of the AUR, Arch is more likely to have a package for some given obscure application that Debian would be missing. Also, these packages are kept up to date to a greater extent than you'll see on Debian. Finally they're all in one place where as you don't have to constantly add repositories to your package manager's repo list.
You're new here aren't you?
Scuse me, but that should read "Jobs, Gates, GNU/Torvalds".
FTFY
You just mentioned apple as being the reason why flash won't be able to survive.
Some (all?) videos with ads still require flash unfortunately.
I like the part where you tell us what they
For instance, on installation, you tell it to only send mp3s, or pdfs to the dumpster drive, and even then, you have to go in and OK the individual files so you don't accidentally delete and upload your tax return.
It is an alternative to your normal trash, not a replacement. You have to explicitly drag a file in there that you wish to be deleted and shared.
I'd rather have a good desktop environment than yet another project parasitized by the mobile trends
Yeah I get that, but IMO a single framework that I can learn (Qt/kde) that allows me to build desktop and mobile apps is quite compelling. And qt is a good framework. It's some of the best competition out there for .NET so I want to see it succeed.
Also, recently, kde4 has become a good desktop environment. It has come a long way and is completely usable in it's current form.. assuming of course that you ignore the utter bullshit which is nepomuk and striggi.. :)
They keep talking about mobile devices. Is this just theoretical or are people actually running kde on real phones/tablets?
Fact: Google is a huge company whose services are used by MANY people
Highly likely: Whatever format Google choose for YouTube will become extremely popular.
Press tab to toggle the floating windows.
I haven't had much experience with macs either but as I understand it, on a mac, you have one "Application" active at one time. The active application controls the menu bar up the top of the screen. A keyboard shortcut exists which cycles the windows that belong to this application. Another keyboard shortcut exists that cycles the currently active application.
Also if you close all of an application's windows, you haven't actually closed the application. It's still running. The menubar will still show the application's menu and usually allow you to launch new windows.
The end result is that multi-monitor window management becomes a bit tricky because of the menubar thing and workspaces are slightly broken because the idea of grouping your windows by activity is lost as you are forced to group them by application. In Gnome/KDE etc, it doesn't matter what application created the window, you can group it with anything else by putting it on a workspace of it's own. I don't actually recall specifically what goes wrong when you try to work like this on a mac. I only recall that it's problematic.
I don't actually own a mac so I could be wrong about any of the above.
That awful thing that MacOS does with it's window management.
Last I checked, with Gnome 3, you're not forced to take any notice of them if you don't want to.
Gnome 3 seems to encourage grouping windows by activity, rather than grouping windows by what application they belong to.
and even better than vi
TAKE IT BACK!
In that case, tif should have done a good job compressing it so most of the half gig should be on the rest.
I've never heard of Old Man Murray but that doesn't mean it should be deleted. This all got argued about last time over obscure programming languages but, why are we deleting history? Are we running out of disk space? I think not.
You must be new here. They all advertise that it's 'unlimited' but then massively throttle how much you download if you go over their secret hidden limits.
Well, yeah. I am new here (to this country) :). What are these secret hidden limits though? In Aus, the limit is low but clearly marked. The limit is often split over peak and off-peak periods too. So for example, you might have 25gb to use during on-peak and say 30gb to use during off-peak. Off-peak is usually from about 1am to 7am (certainly not half the day) so you've really only got 25gb to use unless you leave your pc on overnight downloading or whatever. I haven't been here long but I haven't run into any limits yet although to be honest I'm not a heavy downloader.
I just recently moved from Australia to the UK and that's one of the interesting things I noticed. In the UK you pay for the speed of your connection rather than how much you can download. So as others are saying, the 10Mb is referring to a 10Mbit connection speed. You can download as much as you want.
In Australia, the speed is basically always "ADSL2+" which means a theoretical maximum of about 20Mbit but in practice is highly dependant on how far away you live from the telephone exchange and the quality of the lines in your house etc. I never got speeds anything like 20Mbit and I lived close to the center of town in Melbourne (~3.5mil population). When you go over your download limit (typically 10-50gb), the speed is "shaped" or "capped" to something near dialup modem speeds.
v6 uses a 128 bit number for the address (instead of 32). 2^128 is a shit load of addresses.
This reminds me of my little sister's Christmas wishlist she left on our parent's fridge. One of the items reads "Kitten OR IPod Touch".
This reminds me of my little sister's christmas wishlist she left on the fridge. One of the items reads "Kitten OR IPod Touch".
I agree, genetically engineered silkworms *are* cool.
Sorry for the useless bug report. The exact problem is that when the ball hit's either the opponent's paddle or yours a message box appears reading "INVALID_STATE_ERR: DOM Exception 11". That's probably not very helpful but whatever. I've never done any serious Javascript programming, just the odd bits here and there to fancy up a website. I'm .NET to pay the bills.
Do you have a point?
If this would mean that no further prosecution of end users would be allowed then this may not be such a bad idea. The levy would be passed on to consumers making our connections slightly more expensive but I'd pay more money to not be hassled about file sharing.