Hey, fuckhead. Printers were just an example, since they were probably the most common problem. And considering the number of printers still not supported by CUPS, I suggest you head over and help out, since you're such an elite coder. Of course you're not, you're just another moron with Asperger syndrome who dives into technicalities because you're incapable of understanding common human language, where an example is used to illustrate a more general problem. And no, you can't read "native binaries", and you're not getting any better geek credentials by exaggerating.
Yes, I came here to whine. If you read the other comments, most of them say pretty much the same. It's not news, it's not for nerds, and it's not interesting. If you do find it interesting, then I'm sure there is a site for Apple fanboys somewhere that cater to your needs, but it certainly should not be Slashdot.
And no, I'm not going to disable stories about Apple; they do come up with something interesting now and then. The iphone was an example of that, but most of the "news" about it these days are pure spam. An IM client, give me a fucking break.
As long as it's about the bloody iphone, it makes the front page. Who the fuck are these idiots who vote up every crap story in the firehose as long as it's about fucking Apple? This can't be interesting, not even to the die-hard Apple fanatic, and it's certainly not something specific to the iPhone. It's weak advertising for a feature you may find in any other phone.
Enough with the iphone stories, already. I fucking hate the device now, and only because of the incessant spamming.
No, you're just incapable of reading. I suggest you take a class and learn to follow the general theme of an argument so that you aren't so easily distracted by whatever you yourself take an interest in. Ritalin may also help.
This is about openness. Closed drivers (kernel or userspace) is a time limit on the hardware's usefulness. With open drivers, a competent coder can relatively easily port them from one OS to another, or recompile from one architecture to another. Windows printers were just one extremely common example. Whether their drivers are kernel space or user space (and I know they are user space) is irrelevant. It's hardware. It's time limited to work only on whatever software platform its manufacturer supported at the time of release. You're not going to stay on the same software platform for a very long time.
I agree, but not so much because of instability, as for the fact that closed source drivers stop working at one point or another, and then your hardware becomes unusable. Anyone who has ever owned a Windows printer and upgraded from eg. 98 to 2000 or XP knows this. Closed drivers may be a time bomb.
Other than that, you only need software be licensed in a way you find acceptable for use. I'm OK even with Steam and its DRM for the games I've bought, but I wouldn't be for anything more long-term. If it's something I might need to use again in a year, DRM is simply unacceptable. For a quick and cheap fix of Portal, I just don't care.
Not completely. That is, you can't have two versions of each app installed at the same time (unless you install them with some secret incantations and slaughter a goat, etc., you probably know the drill), but you can mix and match with for instance the KDE4 desktop and some apps from KDE3, or vice versa. The good news is that KDE4's settings reside in.kde4, so it won't screw up KDE3.
Another thing you can do is to create a new user, compile KDE from source (very easy to do), and run it from within the source tree without installing. Then you won't be able to screw up anything unless you try hard. Here's a HOWTO.
If you want to use Debian's packages, I recommend you wait a couple of weeks until 4.1 in out and in experimental. Right now the packages are in something of a mess.
I've been using Debian's experimental KDE 4.1 alpha/beta packages for a few weeks now, and my impression is that it's still KDE, and still too buggy to recommend to other users. Debian is probably several weeks after SVN, though.
My main problem right now is that most of the hotkeys have disappeared (a bug, not a design decision, I assume), and that I can't move plasmoids in the panel (supposed to be fixed by now, but not in Debian's packages). I don't miss the desktop-as-folder paradigm, but I do miss good information on how to create one's own plasmoids. Also, Kmail/Kontact crashes a lot.
If you actually could read, you'd notice that it says "on any CPU older than about a year", i.e. not Atom or any other CPU fast enough to decode 1080p h264. You know, Celerons and stuff.
Emulators? They do have internet access down under as well, you know. Thepiratebay.org is still at thepiratebay.org. If they want to play GTA, they can play GTA.
So what? Extremely few murderers are repeat offenders. Drunk drivers, on the other hand, or drug users, thieves, etc., should, if your point was valid at all, be locked up for life. No, your point is just a strawman so that you don't have to argue your actual point of view, which is pure, common vindictiveness.
It's probably no less efficient than analysing email to check for spam. If you're interested in ch34p C0rel S0ftw4re, you may also have an interest in v1agra and rep1ika r0lex watches.
Do you use the proprietary nvidia driver? It's not Linux's job to detect the correct monitor resolution, it's the X server's. Recent versions of X.org do it correctly and automagically at startup; you hardly even need a config file. I came across the same kind of problem with nvidia's proprietary driver, but then the open 'nv' driver had already found the correct resolution... and that was with Gnome.
At any rate, setting up KDE before getting X to work properly is probably not the best priority.
That's a perfectly valid point, but those people shouldn't pollute Slashdot with their silly complaints. Back in the days, people who self-identified as "nerds" would have endless and pointless discussions of making Linux-powered robots that could brew coffee, or configuring Emacs to do it or whatever (single-threaded coffee, urgh), but these days there's a loud majority of Slashbots who seem to think that market share is the only valid goal and hence the only valid technical goal is that idiots should be able to use it: the idiot as the epitome and endpoint of human technical endeavours.
These people claim the superiority of "it just works" over "how does it work?", and regularly chip in with smug Apple sales pitches, technically and socially impossible suggestions such as that Gnome and KDE should merge, and that software with special dependencies should work just as software without those. The only positive way to deal with these idiots is with sarcasm. I'm sure that if we cared about their views, then we should listen to them, but we shouldn't.
The benefit is that the installer will take care of dependencies, so that the user doesn't have to install a >100 MB package for each program she wants, or to install a huge package of apps if she only wants a few.
I can't think of a reason why this shouldn't be obvious.
No, you said they took it (the claim that he'd invented the internet) as Gospel. That's an idiomatic expression meaning they took it as unquestionable truth. I haven't misunderstood a thing, you dishonest piece of shit.
Bullshit. He was always ridiculed for claiming to have "invented" the internet, even though he never said such a thing. IOW, I think you're full of shit.
No one is pointing to Al Gore as an authority on the subject. He's merely a political spokesperson, and the most prominent. He didn't invent the data or the interpretation thereof himself, and never claimed he did. What he did was to make the arguments available to the masses, to make a difference. Which, if he believes he's right, is the right thing to do (even if he's wrong: it's not like any measure that will destroy the world economy is going to happen by political decision anyway -- they don't have that kind of power).
So what about volcanic gasses? CO2 levels have been rising fairly steadily (and increasingly) the last 150 years or so, unrelated to volcanic activity. The only thing that link proves is that some guy thinks his pontificating somehow proves something. Dude, there's nothing there.
I've never had it, but it probably tastes controversial, like whale. Whale can be pretty yummy (but then again doesn't have to be). Apparently, orcas eat seals, so we can only hope orcas are delicious. It's our only hope.
No, it's not. Lack of predation just means there will be a seal overpopulation, leading to further stress on the already overfished oceans... and seals suffering in trawls, destroying trawls, etc. Not that the seals don't need the ice about as much as the polar bears do.
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Hey, fuckhead. Printers were just an example, since they were probably the most common problem. And considering the number of printers still not supported by CUPS, I suggest you head over and help out, since you're such an elite coder. Of course you're not, you're just another moron with Asperger syndrome who dives into technicalities because you're incapable of understanding common human language, where an example is used to illustrate a more general problem. And no, you can't read "native binaries", and you're not getting any better geek credentials by exaggerating.
So when did this site turn into "News about iphone. Advertisments for Apple. Fashion products for wannabe geeks"?
Yes, I came here to whine. If you read the other comments, most of them say pretty much the same. It's not news, it's not for nerds, and it's not interesting. If you do find it interesting, then I'm sure there is a site for Apple fanboys somewhere that cater to your needs, but it certainly should not be Slashdot.
And no, I'm not going to disable stories about Apple; they do come up with something interesting now and then. The iphone was an example of that, but most of the "news" about it these days are pure spam. An IM client, give me a fucking break.
As long as it's about the bloody iphone, it makes the front page. Who the fuck are these idiots who vote up every crap story in the firehose as long as it's about fucking Apple? This can't be interesting, not even to the die-hard Apple fanatic, and it's certainly not something specific to the iPhone. It's weak advertising for a feature you may find in any other phone.
Enough with the iphone stories, already. I fucking hate the device now, and only because of the incessant spamming.
No, you're just incapable of reading. I suggest you take a class and learn to follow the general theme of an argument so that you aren't so easily distracted by whatever you yourself take an interest in. Ritalin may also help.
This is about openness. Closed drivers (kernel or userspace) is a time limit on the hardware's usefulness. With open drivers, a competent coder can relatively easily port them from one OS to another, or recompile from one architecture to another. Windows printers were just one extremely common example. Whether their drivers are kernel space or user space (and I know they are user space) is irrelevant. It's hardware. It's time limited to work only on whatever software platform its manufacturer supported at the time of release. You're not going to stay on the same software platform for a very long time.
I agree, but not so much because of instability, as for the fact that closed source drivers stop working at one point or another, and then your hardware becomes unusable. Anyone who has ever owned a Windows printer and upgraded from eg. 98 to 2000 or XP knows this. Closed drivers may be a time bomb.
Other than that, you only need software be licensed in a way you find acceptable for use. I'm OK even with Steam and its DRM for the games I've bought, but I wouldn't be for anything more long-term. If it's something I might need to use again in a year, DRM is simply unacceptable. For a quick and cheap fix of Portal, I just don't care.
Not completely. That is, you can't have two versions of each app installed at the same time (unless you install them with some secret incantations and slaughter a goat, etc., you probably know the drill), but you can mix and match with for instance the KDE4 desktop and some apps from KDE3, or vice versa. The good news is that KDE4's settings reside in .kde4, so it won't screw up KDE3.
Another thing you can do is to create a new user, compile KDE from source (very easy to do), and run it from within the source tree without installing. Then you won't be able to screw up anything unless you try hard. Here's a HOWTO.
If you want to use Debian's packages, I recommend you wait a couple of weeks until 4.1 in out and in experimental. Right now the packages are in something of a mess.
I've been using Debian's experimental KDE 4.1 alpha/beta packages for a few weeks now, and my impression is that it's still KDE, and still too buggy to recommend to other users. Debian is probably several weeks after SVN, though.
My main problem right now is that most of the hotkeys have disappeared (a bug, not a design decision, I assume), and that I can't move plasmoids in the panel (supposed to be fixed by now, but not in Debian's packages). I don't miss the desktop-as-folder paradigm, but I do miss good information on how to create one's own plasmoids. Also, Kmail/Kontact crashes a lot.
If you actually could read, you'd notice that it says "on any CPU older than about a year", i.e. not Atom or any other CPU fast enough to decode 1080p h264. You know, Celerons and stuff.
When she's deleted the crap photos, she's back down at 1 GB (2 GB if she's an extraordinary photographer).
Emulators? They do have internet access down under as well, you know. Thepiratebay.org is still at thepiratebay.org. If they want to play GTA, they can play GTA.
So what? Extremely few murderers are repeat offenders. Drunk drivers, on the other hand, or drug users, thieves, etc., should, if your point was valid at all, be locked up for life. No, your point is just a strawman so that you don't have to argue your actual point of view, which is pure, common vindictiveness.
Law, however, isn't about revenge.
It's probably no less efficient than analysing email to check for spam. If you're interested in ch34p C0rel S0ftw4re, you may also have an interest in v1agra and rep1ika r0lex watches.
Do you use the proprietary nvidia driver? It's not Linux's job to detect the correct monitor resolution, it's the X server's. Recent versions of X.org do it correctly and automagically at startup; you hardly even need a config file. I came across the same kind of problem with nvidia's proprietary driver, but then the open 'nv' driver had already found the correct resolution ... and that was with Gnome.
At any rate, setting up KDE before getting X to work properly is probably not the best priority.
That's a perfectly valid point, but those people shouldn't pollute Slashdot with their silly complaints. Back in the days, people who self-identified as "nerds" would have endless and pointless discussions of making Linux-powered robots that could brew coffee, or configuring Emacs to do it or whatever (single-threaded coffee, urgh), but these days there's a loud majority of Slashbots who seem to think that market share is the only valid goal and hence the only valid technical goal is that idiots should be able to use it: the idiot as the epitome and endpoint of human technical endeavours.
These people claim the superiority of "it just works" over "how does it work?", and regularly chip in with smug Apple sales pitches, technically and socially impossible suggestions such as that Gnome and KDE should merge, and that software with special dependencies should work just as software without those. The only positive way to deal with these idiots is with sarcasm. I'm sure that if we cared about their views, then we should listen to them, but we shouldn't.
The benefit is that the installer will take care of dependencies, so that the user doesn't have to install a >100 MB package for each program she wants, or to install a huge package of apps if she only wants a few.
I can't think of a reason why this shouldn't be obvious.
Ah, yes, the all-powerful hippie lobby.
No, we've invested it al in finitum.
No, you said they took it (the claim that he'd invented the internet) as Gospel. That's an idiomatic expression meaning they took it as unquestionable truth. I haven't misunderstood a thing, you dishonest piece of shit.
Bullshit. He was always ridiculed for claiming to have "invented" the internet, even though he never said such a thing. IOW, I think you're full of shit.
No one is pointing to Al Gore as an authority on the subject. He's merely a political spokesperson, and the most prominent. He didn't invent the data or the interpretation thereof himself, and never claimed he did. What he did was to make the arguments available to the masses, to make a difference. Which, if he believes he's right, is the right thing to do (even if he's wrong: it's not like any measure that will destroy the world economy is going to happen by political decision anyway -- they don't have that kind of power).
So what about volcanic gasses? CO2 levels have been rising fairly steadily (and increasingly) the last 150 years or so, unrelated to volcanic activity. The only thing that link proves is that some guy thinks his pontificating somehow proves something. Dude, there's nothing there.
I've never had it, but it probably tastes controversial, like whale. Whale can be pretty yummy (but then again doesn't have to be). Apparently, orcas eat seals, so we can only hope orcas are delicious. It's our only hope.
But that wouldn't explain why glaciers on land are retreating, would it?
No, it's not. Lack of predation just means there will be a seal overpopulation, leading to further stress on the already overfished oceans ... and seals suffering in trawls, destroying trawls, etc. Not that the seals don't need the ice about as much as the polar bears do.