I'd love to identify which of my tabs (presumably one running Flash) is causing the memory usage (and kill it, if need be). This sounds like one of the greatest advantages of Google Chrome.
(2) "Designers" who can't code have absolutely no business "working" in software. If you think you really know how an interface should work and look, then learn to code it. Otherwise, you're just a critic of the kind that the NYT doesn't hire.
Why should software be different from any other industry? Just because the barrier to entry is, in your opinion, lower? The people who design houses don't build them. Sure, they need a solid foundation in what can and can't be done, but architects and interior designers work to a mutually beneficial end with builders, carpenters and plumbers, etc.
I have used KDE for almost 10 years now. Tried Gnome many times, but always go back to KDE. In looks there is no comparison, gnome is and always has been plug ugly.
A common cause of timeouts at login is incorrect DNS servers (especially if the hang is at "Applying computer settings..."). You could also investigate the Bootvis tool.
And, to paraphrase, it sounds like the GNOME team is saying "If you told us how to pump up the ball, everyone would know how to play with both of them, and that would be better for everyone".
It doesn't necessary influence which ball you choose: some people are going to stick with OOXML regardless of if it is an ISO standard or not. The argument on the other side suggests if people adopt OOXML, there's no incentive for Microsoft to adopt ODF.
Ignoring the politics, the quality has changed
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IBM had a range of ThinkPads aimed at home users (the G series from memory?) but they fell by the way a few years ago.
Lenovo came along (they didn't necessarily make ThinkPads beforehand, I'm not sure if Legend were the company that IBM gave their build contracts to) as the combination of Legend and the IBM PC division. So, the same people are still working on ThinkPads, but with new management. I am typing this on a ThinkPad T60, and while it's nice, it doesn't feel as solid as the T41 I had before it.
Lenovo introduced a number of home-market-esque features - obvious ones include widescreen/titanium covers on the Z series and the Windows key. They also got rid of the IBM branding (at least in advertising) as quickly as they could, which I find interesting; they had the right to use it for 5 years, and "ThinkPad" was definitely associated with IBM, and with quality.
You can now buy cheap Lenovo laptops (C series), which I'd personally keep far away from, as they feel really cheap. At least they've not branded them ThinkPad. The Z series seem to be what they're pitching at "home" to compete with Dell/HP, and in general, the quality (plastic, keyboard, construction) all just seems a little more flimsy now.
I worked for an IBM business partner, and we stopped selling ThinkPads when the quality fell. We moved to HP NC/NX series laptops (much better value for money, at least in New Zealand) - these were not without their problems also. We had one that would cause a right mouse button click when the hood was closed and you tapped the case (or the table, for that matter), because the trackpad was too close to the screen. That was fun to diagnose!
Friends with Dells say they're good; friends with MacBooks say you can't get any better. You pay a little premium for the MacBook's ability to run MacOS, obviously; if you don't value that, you might not want to consider one. I read that they may be bringing out a lower priced line of them soon.
Have a play around and see what you like, but not just at stores - the business quality ones are better specced, often cheaper and not always available in retail stores.
The system font in the screenshots looks like an old bitmap font, probably used because it has lots of CJK characters in it. Seeing as the text is English, pity they didn't pick a nicer font for the system.
Good point about F6. It hasn't even been loved enough to be given a Function function on my Thinkpad T60.
Turns out it moves between focusable frames in Windows, and in Firefox, can be used to focus on the task bar - and hit again to focus on the page! Useful, yet unloved.
Someone needs to start a F6 fanclub. That key will get a complex.
I spent quite some time looking for a way to run my own web-based file transfer site so accountants could stop e-mailling 10MB data files to each other.
The best I've seen is Boxroom, an OSS Ruby on Rails application for web based file transfer. With the Mongrel web server it does upload progress, recent versions have had in-file search added, and my employer is currently sponsoring the implementation of virtual hosting in it.
I would like more people to know about this program - it's very cool, and more developers on it would be certainly be appreciated by all of us who use it!
Yep, it does. I take it that means there's no separate transport for the AGP, so the PCI bus gets held up when you're doing anything graphically intense?
(Seems a visualisation in WMP triggered the fault before too - and its happened again as I write this sentence - everything just slows down...)
Just upgraded a machine, network & sound works, but when I scroll in Firefox, I get choppy audio playback in Winamp; in the process of trying to figure out if it's Winamp at fault or the audio driver.
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I'd love to identify which of my tabs (presumably one running Flash) is causing the memory usage (and kill it, if need be). This sounds like one of the greatest advantages of Google Chrome.
This has been in the works since 2006.
(2) "Designers" who can't code have absolutely no business "working" in software. If you think you really know how an interface should work and look, then learn to code it. Otherwise, you're just a critic of the kind that the NYT doesn't hire.
Why should software be different from any other industry? Just because the barrier to entry is, in your opinion, lower? The people who design houses don't build them. Sure, they need a solid foundation in what can and can't be done, but architects and interior designers work to a mutually beneficial end with builders, carpenters and plumbers, etc.
I have used KDE for almost 10 years now. Tried Gnome many times, but always go back to KDE. In looks there is no comparison, gnome is and always has been plug ugly.
I both resent and resemble that remark!
Available at the 7/11? They're really breaking new ground with distribution of this one!
Beta Beta Beta Beta Mushroom Mushroom
Why does idle define Arial as a default font? Slashdot has, for years, just defined sans-serif, and respected what the browser has set for it.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/servers-hp-ibm,1937.html
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Unexpected, as in they told us very loudly that they were going to do it?
Interesting how it happens a week before the ISO ballot resolution meeting on OOXML...
It's actually 10,000 Euro. That's a $14,333.65 windfall for the Redmond current account!
(what is it doing?!)
A common cause of timeouts at login is incorrect DNS servers (especially if the hang is at "Applying computer settings..."). You could also investigate the Bootvis tool.
And, to paraphrase, it sounds like the GNOME team is saying "If you told us how to pump up the ball, everyone would know how to play with both of them, and that would be better for everyone".
It doesn't necessary influence which ball you choose: some people are going to stick with OOXML regardless of if it is an ISO standard or not. The argument on the other side suggests if people adopt OOXML, there's no incentive for Microsoft to adopt ODF.
IBM had a range of ThinkPads aimed at home users (the G series from memory?) but they fell by the way a few years ago.
Lenovo came along (they didn't necessarily make ThinkPads beforehand, I'm not sure if Legend were the company that IBM gave their build contracts to) as the combination of Legend and the IBM PC division. So, the same people are still working on ThinkPads, but with new management. I am typing this on a ThinkPad T60, and while it's nice, it doesn't feel as solid as the T41 I had before it.
Lenovo introduced a number of home-market-esque features - obvious ones include widescreen/titanium covers on the Z series and the Windows key. They also got rid of the IBM branding (at least in advertising) as quickly as they could, which I find interesting; they had the right to use it for 5 years, and "ThinkPad" was definitely associated with IBM, and with quality.
You can now buy cheap Lenovo laptops (C series), which I'd personally keep far away from, as they feel really cheap. At least they've not branded them ThinkPad. The Z series seem to be what they're pitching at "home" to compete with Dell/HP, and in general, the quality (plastic, keyboard, construction) all just seems a little more flimsy now.
I worked for an IBM business partner, and we stopped selling ThinkPads when the quality fell. We moved to HP NC/NX series laptops (much better value for money, at least in New Zealand) - these were not without their problems also. We had one that would cause a right mouse button click when the hood was closed and you tapped the case (or the table, for that matter), because the trackpad was too close to the screen. That was fun to diagnose!
Friends with Dells say they're good; friends with MacBooks say you can't get any better. You pay a little premium for the MacBook's ability to run MacOS, obviously; if you don't value that, you might not want to consider one. I read that they may be bringing out a lower priced line of them soon.
Have a play around and see what you like, but not just at stores - the business quality ones are better specced, often cheaper and not always available in retail stores.
The guy on the right.. Pictured at a football match.
The system font in the screenshots looks like an old bitmap font, probably used because it has lots of CJK characters in it. Seeing as the text is English, pity they didn't pick a nicer font for the system.
Good point about F6. It hasn't even been loved enough to be given a Function function on my Thinkpad T60.
Turns out it moves between focusable frames in Windows, and in Firefox, can be used to focus on the task bar - and hit again to focus on the page! Useful, yet unloved.
Someone needs to start a F6 fanclub. That key will get a complex.
Safari, if maximised to the second head on my Windows machine, disappears completely. Anyone else seen this?
I decided that seeing as I didn't record much TV, I'd change to running Xbox Media Centre, and use its MythTV scripts to control another backend if ever I needed. Today, it seems they've announced a Linux port, which might be an excellent way for all the people who want a Linux media centre, but just don't like MythTV for one reason or another, to contribute.
Fluendo are also working on a media centre called Elisa, built on their GTK/Gstreamer platform.
Things are looking up overall on the Linux media centre front.
To Yoda parse fine it does, hmmmm?
It also went onto the download site several hours before the website was updated to show it was out of Release Candidate stage.
I spent quite some time looking for a way to run my own web-based file transfer site so accountants could stop e-mailling 10MB data files to each other.
The best I've seen is Boxroom, an OSS Ruby on Rails application for web based file transfer. With the Mongrel web server it does upload progress, recent versions have had in-file search added, and my employer is currently sponsoring the implementation of virtual hosting in it.
I would like more people to know about this program - it's very cool, and more developers on it would be certainly be appreciated by all of us who use it!
Hundreds of thousands of iPods have been sold in countries that either don't have, or haven't had until recently, an iTunes Music Store.
Yep, it does. I take it that means there's no separate transport for the AGP, so the PCI bus gets held up when you're doing anything graphically intense?
(Seems a visualisation in WMP triggered the fault before too - and its happened again as I write this sentence - everything just slows down...)
While this class action seems to be about high-end graphics cards, which I have ever expectation that NVIDIA are working hard on drivers for, it's worth pointing out that they don't intend to support the NForce/2/3 motherboards with Windows Vista drivers.
Just upgraded a machine, network & sound works, but when I scroll in Firefox, I get choppy audio playback in Winamp; in the process of trying to figure out if it's Winamp at fault or the audio driver.