There are some configuration-type things that don't get updated by an 'emerge -uD world'. Sure, all of your packages are kept up to date, but for instance, Gentoo has moved from XFree86 to X.org. That change won't be made until you move from 1.4 to 2004.x. I once saw directions on how to make the switch, but lost track before I could do anything about it.
I believe you are referring to the Gentoo Upgrading Guide. It tells you how to point your/etc/make.profile to the 2004.2 version, which indeed uses X.org instead of XFree86 by default.
I use Shrook, a lovely RSS reader for MacOS X. It uses distributed checking to get around this problem. From their FAQ:
A central server maintains a database of when each channel was last updated. To keep it up to date, every so often, the server chooses a computer to check for new items and report back. The frequency of this varies from every 5 minutes for popular channels, to every half hour for channels with only one online subscriber, and it tries to use a different computer each time. At the other end, each copy of Shrook checks in with the server every 5 minutes, and if any of its channels are out of date, it reloads them.
Nice. So not only does it stop DDoSing the web server, it means I get updates within five minutes instead of every half hour.
My first CS TA in college's first name was 'H' he said that it had caused him a lot of problems. In fact I just searched for him on Google and http://www.cs.pitt.edu/%7Ehcl/me/name.html this page explains it.
If I rent a movie I can lend it to someone else to play it at their place after I've finished watching it. And occasionally I do. Try doing that with VOD.
True enough. Each delivery method has its advantages and disadvantages, and I suppose you've just got to decide what's more important to you.
I'd rather stay in my nice warm house, on my nice comfy sofa, with my nice cuddly gf, than make the effort to go out to rent a movie. Especially if the weather's bad.
Plus, I'm much more likely to invite some friends over to watch with me than have them watch it separately. So being able to lend them a rented DVD isn't that important to me. (The same isn't necessarily true for bought DVDs. But that's a different story.)
Another point you are missing is that it's significantly easier to rent something on impulse. If I'm on my own then I can easily watch whatever grabs my attention, and if I have some friends over then we can all see what's available. Much better than having one person in the video store with a phone.
24 hours , jeez , gimme a break , brainwashed or what....
Hardly. As someone else has pointed out, consumption and collection are two completely different markets. Video-on-demand is obviously not much good for collectors, but then nor is any kind of rental. You're comparing apples and oranges.
VOD is exactly the same as going to your local video rental store and getting a DVD to watch. The difference is that it's even more convenient because you don't even have to let go of the remote.
If there's nothing good on TV, instead of making the effort to go out and rent a DVD, I can just flip to the HomeChoice channel and see what's on there. VOD becomes just another channel as far as I'm concerned. And once I've flipped to the VOD channel a few times, I'm more likely to do so in future.
For its target market, it's absolutely killer. Nobody needs to be brainwashed to work that much out.
I can do all that if I buy a DVD for only a few times the price... and hopefully it'll still play in 24 YEARS.
Are you sure you're not the one who's been brainwashed?
I used to have HomeChoice at home, and it was excellent. The only reason I stopped using their service was because I moved out of the area they cover, and I miss them very much.
They use a DSL line with a set-top box which splits the signal into two parts: one for video on demand, and the other to plug your computer (or network) into. The video service has an archive of TV programmes in all kinds of genres, as well as music videos and the most recent news bulletins from a variety of sources.
Plus you can also 'rent' movies from them, just by clicking a few buttons. You get to play it as much as you like for 24 hours and the cost is comparable to (if not better than) the Blockbuster round the corner. You can pause, fast-forward, rewind, no problem. It works great.
It's fast, very usable, convenient, cheap and it works. I have seen the future and it is video on demand. And no they're not paying me to say this.:-)
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Gentoo users can download a source ebuild for Mozilla Firebird 0.6 from here. I've built it on a couple of machines so far with no problems.
when a major political or social even happens, google is noised to the brim with blogs and you have to start at result number 40 or so before you get past the blogs. I can get a google search with porn turned off; why can't I get blogs turned off too?
As a long time mac advocate, forced windows user and linux sysadmin . . . explain to me how mac advocates are significantly different than linux geeks who insist that Linux is the one true un*x, the one to rule them all . ..
Well, it's simple. The Mac advocates are wrong and us Linux geeks are right.;)
It's appeared on BBC News now, and there's a link back to/. too. Is this a first? Are they trying to give Slashdot a taste of its own Slashdotting medicine?:-)
I'm no nutrition expert, but what I do know is that if you're about to start a long coding run you're going to need some food that'll give you a good slow release of energy and isn't too heavy so it won't make you feel drowsy. I am speaking, of course, of pasta.
Tuna Mayonnaise Pasta
1 small tin of tuna 2 tblsp mayonnaise 100g pasta
Boil the pasta as directed. Meanwhile empty the tuna into a bowl, mash with a fork, and mix in the mayonnaise. When the pasta is cooked, stir in the tuna mayonnaise mixture.
You can also add some finely chopped spring onion, or sweetcorn, or peas, or anything you like, to liven it up a bit.
This is probably my all-time favourite recipe. It's incredibly simple and quick, it tastes great and I've produced some of my best work on it.:-)
There's also a review of Mozilla 1.0 on BBC News, and it's quite complementary about it.
This quote sums it up: "Mozilla is quick, stable, and virtually free of the default links to manufacturers' products that feature so prominently in commercial browsers."
Oh yes... and I'm using Mozilla 1.0 to post this, and it is very nice indeed.:-)
No matter how big you are you just cannot indefinately lose hundreds of dollars on consoles.
This is a lot like what contributed to the downfall of ITV Digital here in the UK.
Rupert Murdoch owns Sky, the satellite TV network that was competing with ITV Digital. Sky started giving away their set-top boxes for free, so naturally ITV Digital had to follow suit in order to stay competitive.
Both networks were losing money hand over fist by doing this, and it was just a case of Sky having a bigger pile of cash to burn that meant they stayed alive longer.
Now ask yourself: who's got the biggest cash pile here? Microsoft or Sony? Exactly.
Why is it that there are always studies like this of the "geeks", but there's nothing representative of the other masses?
OK then...
I know most of the Americans here don't know the first thing about the World Cup, but over here in the UK it's estimated that a third of the entire workforce is going to take the day off to watch the England v Argentina game.
Because of the time zones, the game kicks off at 12:30pm our time. Personally speaking, there is no way I'm going to miss this game! There's a seriously huge rivalry between our countries, mostly down to those pesky Argies employing some decidedly unfair tactics in previous matches.:-)
I've been using KDE 3.0 since the day after it came out, and here's my review of it.
Konqueror - much improved. It really is nice to have a web browser tightly integrated into the OS (unless you're an illegal monopolist, that is) and this version of Konq is way better than the last one. JavaScript support is much better, it certainly seems to work on all the sites I frequent now, and the weird layout problems with form elements have been cured. Oh, and its rendering engine is a lot faster. Sweet. Now all I'd like is tabbed browsing and it's damn near perfect.
KMail - not hugely different, just tightened up here and there. Seems to be a bit faster if anything, especially on big folders and messages with huge attachments, and the look and feel's been tweaked a bit.
Cervisia - this is the killer function for me. We make extensive use of CVS and now Cervisia, which was an awesome CVS client anyway, is integrated into Konqueror. You can choose to switch into CVS view in any directory containing CVS information, as smoothly as switching between icon view and list view. Unimaginably useful.
Kicker/Panel - one of my biggest bugbears is gone, namely that quickbrowsers can update themselves without requiring a restart. There's a bug in them, though, that causes them to freeze the whole Panel if they get stuck viewing a folder (e.g. if an smbmount-ed folder has been disconnected). Looks like a fix exists and will be in a forthcoming release, so I'll survive.
Desktop switching - Fantastic to have this back, I had missed it so much. You can now set it to switch desktops when you move the mouse to the edge of the screen.
Incompatibility with KDE 2 apps is really the only serious issue I can think of. Not all third-party KDE apps have been ported yet and they won't work. I mostly use Java apps and KDE's own apps (like Konq and KMail) so it doesn't really affect me, but it's something to watch out for.
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We demand a signed photograph of CmdrTaco as a runner up prize.
Third prize: two signed photographs.
Yes.
HTH.
It's also on AppleInsider.
You don't hear people complaining about Firefox running on Windows, do you?
Which is better: to say "if you move to Linux you can keep using Firefox" or "if you move to Linux you'll have to stop using IE"?
There is a much lower barrier to entry for Linux if users are already familiar with its apps.
There are some configuration-type things that don't get updated by an 'emerge -uD world'. Sure, all of your packages are kept up to date, but for instance, Gentoo has moved from XFree86 to X.org. That change won't be made until you move from 1.4 to 2004.x. I once saw directions on how to make the switch, but lost track before I could do anything about it.
I believe you are referring to the Gentoo Upgrading Guide. It tells you how to point your /etc/make.profile to the 2004.2 version, which indeed uses X.org instead of XFree86 by default.
I use Shrook, a lovely RSS reader for MacOS X. It uses distributed checking to get around this problem. From their FAQ:
A central server maintains a database of when each channel was last updated. To keep it up to date, every so often, the server chooses a computer to check for new items and report back. The frequency of this varies from every 5 minutes for popular channels, to every half hour for channels with only one online subscriber, and it tries to use a different computer each time. At the other end, each copy of Shrook checks in with the server every 5 minutes, and if any of its channels are out of date, it reloads them.
Nice. So not only does it stop DDoSing the web server, it means I get updates within five minutes instead of every half hour.
My first CS TA in college's first name was 'H' he said that it had caused him a lot of problems. In fact I just searched for him on Google and http://www.cs.pitt.edu/%7Ehcl/me/name.html this page explains it.
H. Chad Lane? I bet the H stands for Hanging.
If I rent a movie I can lend it to someone else to play it at their place after I've finished watching it. And occasionally I do. Try doing that with VOD.
True enough. Each delivery method has its advantages and disadvantages, and I suppose you've just got to decide what's more important to you.
I'd rather stay in my nice warm house, on my nice comfy sofa, with my nice cuddly gf, than make the effort to go out to rent a movie. Especially if the weather's bad.
Plus, I'm much more likely to invite some friends over to watch with me than have them watch it separately. So being able to lend them a rented DVD isn't that important to me. (The same isn't necessarily true for bought DVDs. But that's a different story.)
Another point you are missing is that it's significantly easier to rent something on impulse. If I'm on my own then I can easily watch whatever grabs my attention, and if I have some friends over then we can all see what's available. Much better than having one person in the video store with a phone.
24 hours , jeez , gimme a break , brainwashed or what....
... and hopefully it'll still play in 24 YEARS.
Hardly. As someone else has pointed out, consumption and collection are two completely different markets. Video-on-demand is obviously not much good for collectors, but then nor is any kind of rental. You're comparing apples and oranges.
VOD is exactly the same as going to your local video rental store and getting a DVD to watch. The difference is that it's even more convenient because you don't even have to let go of the remote.
If there's nothing good on TV, instead of making the effort to go out and rent a DVD, I can just flip to the HomeChoice channel and see what's on there. VOD becomes just another channel as far as I'm concerned. And once I've flipped to the VOD channel a few times, I'm more likely to do so in future.
For its target market, it's absolutely killer. Nobody needs to be brainwashed to work that much out.
I can do all that if I buy a DVD for only a few times the price
Are you sure you're not the one who's been brainwashed?
I used to have HomeChoice at home, and it was excellent. The only reason I stopped using their service was because I moved out of the area they cover, and I miss them very much.
:-)
They use a DSL line with a set-top box which splits the signal into two parts: one for video on demand, and the other to plug your computer (or network) into. The video service has an archive of TV programmes in all kinds of genres, as well as music videos and the most recent news bulletins from a variety of sources.
Plus you can also 'rent' movies from them, just by clicking a few buttons. You get to play it as much as you like for 24 hours and the cost is comparable to (if not better than) the Blockbuster round the corner. You can pause, fast-forward, rewind, no problem. It works great.
It's fast, very usable, convenient, cheap and it works. I have seen the future and it is video on demand. And no they're not paying me to say this.
Gentoo users can download a source ebuild for Mozilla Firebird 0.6 from here. I've built it on a couple of machines so far with no problems.
when a major political or social even happens, google is noised to the brim with blogs and you have to start at result number 40 or so before you get past the blogs. I can get a google search with porn turned off; why can't I get blogs turned off too?
Then I suggest you use Google News.
Yep, it's a dupe.
Come on CmdrTaco, that's two dupes you've posted on today's front page... go for the hat-trick!
Not five minutes ago, I saw an AOL advert on TV in which a man phones up AOL and says "Hello, can you send me a free trial CD?"
At this point he picks up his mug from the desk and off the bottom of it falls an AOL CD which he's been using as a coaster.
Oh my God. The irony is too much. :-)
As a long time mac advocate, forced windows user and linux sysadmin . . . explain to me how mac advocates are significantly different than linux geeks who insist that Linux is the one true un*x, the one to rule them all . . .
;)
Well, it's simple. The Mac advocates are wrong and us Linux geeks are right.
It's appeared on BBC News now, and there's a link back to /. too. Is this a first? Are they trying to give Slashdot a taste of its own Slashdotting medicine? :-)
Is it all done with smoke and mirrors?
I'm no nutrition expert, but what I do know is that if you're about to start a long coding run you're going to need some food that'll give you a good slow release of energy and isn't too heavy so it won't make you feel drowsy. I am speaking, of course, of pasta.
Tuna Mayonnaise Pasta
1 small tin of tuna
2 tblsp mayonnaise
100g pasta
Boil the pasta as directed. Meanwhile empty the tuna into a bowl, mash with a fork, and mix in the mayonnaise. When the pasta is cooked, stir in the tuna mayonnaise mixture.
You can also add some finely chopped spring onion, or sweetcorn, or peas, or anything you like, to liven it up a bit.
This is probably my all-time favourite recipe. It's incredibly simple and quick, it tastes great and I've produced some of my best work on it. :-)
There's also a review of Mozilla 1.0 on BBC News, and it's quite complementary about it.
:-)
This quote sums it up: "Mozilla is quick, stable, and virtually free of the default links to manufacturers' products that feature so prominently in commercial browsers."
Oh yes... and I'm using Mozilla 1.0 to post this, and it is very nice indeed.
No matter how big you are you just cannot indefinately lose hundreds of dollars on consoles.
This is a lot like what contributed to the downfall of ITV Digital here in the UK.
Rupert Murdoch owns Sky, the satellite TV network that was competing with ITV Digital. Sky started giving away their set-top boxes for free, so naturally ITV Digital had to follow suit in order to stay competitive.
Both networks were losing money hand over fist by doing this, and it was just a case of Sky having a bigger pile of cash to burn that meant they stayed alive longer.
Now ask yourself: who's got the biggest cash pile here? Microsoft or Sony? Exactly.
Why is it that there are always studies like this of the "geeks", but there's nothing representative of the other masses?
:-)
OK then...
I know most of the Americans here don't know the first thing about the World Cup, but over here in the UK it's estimated that a third of the entire workforce is going to take the day off to watch the England v Argentina game.
Because of the time zones, the game kicks off at 12:30pm our time. Personally speaking, there is no way I'm going to miss this game! There's a seriously huge rivalry between our countries, mostly down to those pesky Argies employing some decidedly unfair tactics in previous matches.
There's a BBC News story about it too.
It's kind of like extreme ironing, but your clothes end up with more creases.
I've been using KDE 3.0 since the day after it came out, and here's my review of it.
Konqueror - much improved. It really is nice to have a web browser tightly integrated into the OS (unless you're an illegal monopolist, that is) and this version of Konq is way better than the last one. JavaScript support is much better, it certainly seems to work on all the sites I frequent now, and the weird layout problems with form elements have been cured. Oh, and its rendering engine is a lot faster. Sweet. Now all I'd like is tabbed browsing and it's damn near perfect.
KMail - not hugely different, just tightened up here and there. Seems to be a bit faster if anything, especially on big folders and messages with huge attachments, and the look and feel's been tweaked a bit.
Cervisia - this is the killer function for me. We make extensive use of CVS and now Cervisia, which was an awesome CVS client anyway, is integrated into Konqueror. You can choose to switch into CVS view in any directory containing CVS information, as smoothly as switching between icon view and list view. Unimaginably useful.
Kicker/Panel - one of my biggest bugbears is gone, namely that quickbrowsers can update themselves without requiring a restart. There's a bug in them, though, that causes them to freeze the whole Panel if they get stuck viewing a folder (e.g. if an smbmount-ed folder has been disconnected). Looks like a fix exists and will be in a forthcoming release, so I'll survive.
Desktop switching - Fantastic to have this back, I had missed it so much. You can now set it to switch desktops when you move the mouse to the edge of the screen.
Incompatibility with KDE 2 apps is really the only serious issue I can think of. Not all third-party KDE apps have been ported yet and they won't work. I mostly use Java apps and KDE's own apps (like Konq and KMail) so it doesn't really affect me, but it's something to watch out for.
I'll do the obligatory "imagine a Beowulf cluster of these" joke, shall I?
Correct. This is not a review. But if you follow the link over to NewsForge, you'll find the review there.
I think the clue was in the phrase "Over on NewsForge..."