KDE 4.3 is great, but Amarok is worse than the 1.x series. The metadata downloading using Musicbrainz is missing. The old Monkey-something skin is missing. The play buttons are unnecessarily prominent - why, if lots of people are either accustomed to small buttons and/or use the keyboard for that.
I have tried old (K)Ubuntus and they failed miserably, so it was a pleasant surprise when Kubuntu 9.10 did just fine, while Debian Testing was breaking real bad all the time (October to December 2009). Being an old Debian user, it feels like all useful configuration options in Ubuntu are designed for Gnome, not KDE (just look at NetworkManager and Wicd), but anyway the KDE 4.3 implementation is at least superior to the Debian one.
It's all in the mount parameters. XFS is great with logbufs=8,logbsize=256k,nobarrier, even more than ext4 with the barrier=0 parameter. It is specially good on disk writes. And I'm starting to suspect that ext4 performs very poorly on 32-bit distros. We'll have to ask Phoronix.
Just like orthodox Jewish believe God's salvation if for them only, and the rest of us have a place in God's plan that is somewhat inferior, we could come up with saying God created us on his/her own image, salvation is for us, and for the rest of our neighbors we can only preach Human morality, as seen on Star Trek.
Most countries in South America [leaving more advanced countries like Brazil and Uruguay outside the group] are plagued by inneficient mantenaince and/or corruption so inspectors turn a blind eye at problems. In Argentina, in any warmer-than-usual day the power fails in highly populated cities. Or someone steals some kilometers of high-voltage copper cable trasmitting enegy to those places. It is almost normal.
Why adding more buttons, when with an accelerometer you could tilt your mouse right or left to fast scroll, for example?
Or adding Opera-like gestures to send commands and keyboard shortcuts to any application.
Mmm... this is so obvious that someone must have done this with a Wii controller
I did not make myself clear: both Firefox and Swiftfox are almost up-to-date version 3.5.3, not 3.0. But I get your point: it is an unfair comparison, even more because the Foxes have a lot of installed extensions, a lot of tabs opened, history, Awesome Bar enabled, and Chrome ran as new.
I'll give that Japanese Fox a try
Running Futuremark's Peacekeeper I have this results:
Mozilla's 32 bit Linux build gave me 1383 points
Swiftfox for amd64 (it's 32 bit anyway) gave 1528 points
Chromium build 31074 64 bit was up a whopping 133% to 3234 points
All under the same computer and the same background tasks/services/etc.
What is keeping Firefox behind so much? Architecture optimization is not the answer: 64-bit Iceweasel 3.0 did not feel any faster than a 32-bit Firefox 3.0, and Swiftfox shows only 10% improvement over the Mozilla binaries.
Debian 3.0 "Woody" worked for me on DebiaNiKa, a P100 with 16 megs of RAM and 2gb disk usage. It did X with IceWM (looking like Win95) and Dillo, and I even used it as a dial-up router + Apache/PHP server not that far ago. It even had an DIY AJAX interfase for incoming/outgoing byte statistics for the dial up connection. Before that I had tried RedHat 6.1 on that machine.
And before THAT, around 2002, I had installed SuSE 7.0 on a 486 using LVM over two hard disks sized 200Mb and 160Mb respectively (yeah, I do mean 1E+6 bytes).
So the distros I tried and likely work with your hardware are: SuSE 7.0, Red Hat 6.1, Debian 3.0.
Haha, in Argentina we have knocked on average two digits every decade until the nineties, when we had one last 4-digit drop to force our currency to equal the US dollar. Of course it didn't last, now it's valued USD 0.26
But the Zimbabwean dollar wins all records. I had never seen exponential notation and the percentage sign together before.
Obviously you don't know jack about Java. It is a compiled language, you know, so the comparison to {shell|Python|Perl|PHP|anything text based and interpreted} is plain wrong.
You have two possibilities: binfmt_misc or wrap a JAR in a shell script
What about laptops sold outside the US? I have a cheap F754LA (LA for Latin American) and the battery is listed among the ones to be recalled.
I think I will get nothing from the local HP support center (in Argentina).
My brother has a (cheap, of course) V3614 and the red color vanishes while adjusting the screen angle. The HP guys kept it for full 3 weeks and returned it unfixed. "Not an issue" they said.
Anyone can disable ABP for a page. Some sites have earned me downloading their ads (phoronix xbitlabs./)
I wonder how would be the "active decision about ad blocking". Like,
Do you want to display ads from MAKE_A_LOT_OF_MONEY_FAST_CALL_1_800_MONEY, Inc.?
Time to play around with FF extensions development to do the fork...
It's a shame that three days before this release, while in "deep freeze" state, an unfortunate grub2 update on Debian quasi-Stable left my computers unbootable. Yeah, the missing insmod linux / remove search --fs-uuid thing.
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KDE 4.3 is great, but Amarok is worse than the 1.x series. The metadata downloading using Musicbrainz is missing. The old Monkey-something skin is missing. The play buttons are unnecessarily prominent - why, if lots of people are either accustomed to small buttons and/or use the keyboard for that.
I have tried old (K)Ubuntus and they failed miserably, so it was a pleasant surprise when Kubuntu 9.10 did just fine, while Debian Testing was breaking real bad all the time (October to December 2009). Being an old Debian user, it feels like all useful configuration options in Ubuntu are designed for Gnome, not KDE (just look at NetworkManager and Wicd), but anyway the KDE 4.3 implementation is at least superior to the Debian one.
I an upgrade it's needed, let's upgrade to Firefox and trick recalcitrant IE users using a some theme/persona.
It's all in the mount parameters. XFS is great with logbufs=8,logbsize=256k,nobarrier, even more than ext4 with the barrier=0 parameter. It is specially good on disk writes.
And I'm starting to suspect that ext4 performs very poorly on 32-bit distros. We'll have to ask Phoronix.
That's profound. I only had "first post" on my mind :p
Just like orthodox Jewish believe God's salvation if for them only, and the rest of us have a place in God's plan that is somewhat inferior, we could come up with saying God created us on his/her own image, salvation is for us, and for the rest of our neighbors we can only preach Human morality, as seen on Star Trek.
Most countries in South America [leaving more advanced countries like Brazil and Uruguay outside the group] are plagued by inneficient mantenaince and/or corruption so inspectors turn a blind eye at problems. In Argentina, in any warmer-than-usual day the power fails in highly populated cities. Or someone steals some kilometers of high-voltage copper cable trasmitting enegy to those places. It is almost normal.
Why adding more buttons, when with an accelerometer you could tilt your mouse right or left to fast scroll, for example?
Or adding Opera-like gestures to send commands and keyboard shortcuts to any application.
Mmm... this is so obvious that someone must have done this with a Wii controller
I did not make myself clear: both Firefox and Swiftfox are almost up-to-date version 3.5.3, not 3.0. But I get your point: it is an unfair comparison, even more because the Foxes have a lot of installed extensions, a lot of tabs opened, history, Awesome Bar enabled, and Chrome ran as new.
I'll give that Japanese Fox a try
All under the same computer and the same background tasks/services/etc.
What is keeping Firefox behind so much? Architecture optimization is not the answer: 64-bit Iceweasel 3.0 did not feel any faster than a 32-bit Firefox 3.0, and Swiftfox shows only 10% improvement over the Mozilla binaries.
Debian 3.0 "Woody" worked for me on DebiaNiKa, a P100 with 16 megs of RAM and 2gb disk usage. It did X with IceWM (looking like Win95) and Dillo, and I even used it as a dial-up router + Apache/PHP server not that far ago. It even had an DIY AJAX interfase for incoming/outgoing byte statistics for the dial up connection. Before that I had tried RedHat 6.1 on that machine. And before THAT, around 2002, I had installed SuSE 7.0 on a 486 using LVM over two hard disks sized 200Mb and 160Mb respectively (yeah, I do mean 1E+6 bytes). So the distros I tried and likely work with your hardware are: SuSE 7.0, Red Hat 6.1, Debian 3.0.
Haha, in Argentina we have knocked on average two digits every decade until the nineties, when we had one last 4-digit drop to force our currency to equal the US dollar. Of course it didn't last, now it's valued USD 0.26 But the Zimbabwean dollar wins all records. I had never seen exponential notation and the percentage sign together before.
From the guy that expects to become a machine and live forever...
Obviously you don't know jack about Java. It is a compiled language, you know, so the comparison to {shell|Python|Perl|PHP|anything text based and interpreted} is plain wrong.
You have two possibilities: binfmt_misc or wrap a JAR in a shell script
What about laptops sold outside the US? I have a cheap F754LA (LA for Latin American) and the battery is listed among the ones to be recalled.
I think I will get nothing from the local HP support center (in Argentina). My brother has a (cheap, of course) V3614 and the red color vanishes while adjusting the screen angle. The HP guys kept it for full 3 weeks and returned it unfixed. "Not an issue" they said.
Anyone can disable ABP for a page. Some sites have earned me downloading their ads (phoronix xbitlabs ./)
I wonder how would be the "active decision about ad blocking". Like,
Do you want to display ads from MAKE_A_LOT_OF_MONEY_FAST_CALL_1_800_MONEY, Inc.?
Time to play around with FF extensions development to do the fork...
FLUX screenshots make it look much like Word 2007. I've seen it once, on a shop. Had nightmares for days.
It's a shame that three days before this release, while in "deep freeze" state, an unfortunate grub2 update on Debian quasi-Stable left my computers unbootable. Yeah, the missing insmod linux / remove search --fs-uuid thing.