I eventually woke up Christmas morning and said to myself "I can't play it any more. I can't bring myself to login and play it today. My ears can't take one more minute of it." And I haven't touched it, since.
I hate having to wait 6+ months (or 2 years if you stick with LTS) to get app upgrades, so I switched to OS X for my laptop years ago.
You seriously changed from free software to payware, from the open space of Ubuntu to the walled garden of Apple, from getting updates every 6 months to having to buy updates every so many years, from having full control over your machine and software to being beholden to Apple's CEO's every whim?
Paying a few 10's of dollars every few years for an OS that is stable, never has 'driver issues' and fully utilises all of my hardware? Technologies and API's that don't get unexpectedly dropped (not deprecated) release to release? Wifi that works all the time. A system that wakes up immediately from sleep. Everytime. Plug an internal monitor in. It works.
Sign me up!
Call me a fanboy (or 'fanboi' or 'steve jobs towelboy' or whatever is flavour of the week for you) if you like. I'm getting stuff done with my computer, not fighting it.
Don't pretend that I don't "know Linux". I'm surrounded by smart developers, using Linux. "I wrote a script, after I plug this monitor in, you just run this and the resolutions all sort themselves out! Cool!". Nice. I just plug my external monitor in and it's there. But nice script.
Oh My Software Freedom is gone! Boo hoo. I'm so sad.
As usual, the vast majority of the comments here miss the point entirely which is the death of X. This can not come soon enough. Hopefully you pull it off better than the "let's fix Audio - this time for Sure!".
This reminds me of Sony, where they have so many conflicting interests that they can't do anything well. Why can't Sony DVD players play DivX*? Because Sony also makes movies, and DivX is the leading choice for distributing movies over the internet.
Errrr, I have 2 Sony DVD Players and a Sony PS3, and they all play DivX. The oldest is about 4 years old.
We wanted to donate umbilical cord blood from our first-borns birth. Unfortunately no one was on hand to do it because it was a Saturday. What a waste...
First off, the filesystem is in no danger of being dropped due to this event.
You think?
Thats the benefit of Open Source. Where anyone who starts up a major project is typically going to be wise enough to make contingency plans upon their demise (could be a car accident, health problem etc.)
If Hans had been hit by a bus, then certainly. But if he killed his wife, then the project is almost certainly tainted for life.
Maybe a name change could save it, but that's on the cards.
Support both 'traditional' (compress/split) type backups and a file copy method (good for a USB hard drive, for less savvy users who want to be able to just plug the thing in and retrieve the file they just borked).
Open source. Feel the love.
Not the easiest thing to setup, so I set it up for them, save the profile, and tell them how to do a backup (plug in drive, start program, press go).
Jeti (http://jeti.jabberstudio.org/) is a java based jabber client, you can click the link in the top left corner of that page to launch it in your browser.
Hmmmm, as of this point it doesn't appear that you can have contacts on other jabber servers.
The whole point of jabber is that servers are distributed, the server name is part of the JID (Jabber ID) which means that JID's look a lot like email addresses.
I hope the inability to have contacts with non @gmail.com JID's is merely a pre-launch wrinkle.
The simplest example is copy-and-paste. You can always do this. But the X-Windows scheme is quick and simple (and doesn't involve the keyboard at all); just three quick clicks or a click-swipe-release-click. OSX is materially slower, though slightly faster sometimes than Windows.
You know, I used to buy into this, but it's a crock. Half the time you realise you need to paste over something else, and you can't highlight it to remove it, because you change what you are copying! You are reduced to pasting somewhere at the end of the string (and hope you don't accidently do it in the middle), and then do an awkward SHIFT-HOME, DELETE combo to remove the old stuff.
The other half of the time you highlight something to paste it, and by the time you find where you were going to put it you've accidently highlighted some other text and your original selection is gone.
At the end of the day, any experienced computer user (no matter the OS) will be using the keyboard as much as possible. Making it a requirement to move hands off the keyboad to do cut and paste is simply inefficient.
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Nah, how about just offer them a "sorry" and a couple of old games and call it even?
Or is it a bad assumption that ISPs will still want to charge for extra IPs?
ISP's charge because a) IPv4 addresses are a scarce commodity and b) routing extra ones is work
When both of those reasons are gone, if your ISP charges extra, vote with your feet.
I eventually woke up Christmas morning and said to myself "I can't play it any more. I can't bring myself to login and play it today. My ears can't take one more minute of it." And I haven't touched it, since.
Couldn't you just mute the in-game chat??
You seriously changed from free software to payware, from the open space of Ubuntu to the walled garden of Apple, from getting updates every 6 months to having to buy updates every so many years, from having full control over your machine and software to being beholden to Apple's CEO's every whim?
Paying a few 10's of dollars every few years for an OS that is stable, never has 'driver issues' and fully utilises all of my hardware? Technologies and API's that don't get unexpectedly dropped (not deprecated) release to release? Wifi that works all the time. A system that wakes up immediately from sleep. Everytime. Plug an internal monitor in. It works.
Sign me up!
Call me a fanboy (or 'fanboi' or 'steve jobs towelboy' or whatever is flavour of the week for you) if you like. I'm getting stuff done with my computer, not fighting it.
Don't pretend that I don't "know Linux". I'm surrounded by smart developers, using Linux. "I wrote a script, after I plug this monitor in, you just run this and the resolutions all sort themselves out! Cool!". Nice. I just plug my external monitor in and it's there. But nice script.
Oh My Software Freedom is gone! Boo hoo. I'm so sad.
As usual, the vast majority of the comments here miss the point entirely which is the death of X. This can not come soon enough. Hopefully you pull it off better than the "let's fix Audio - this time for Sure!".
This reminds me of Sony, where they have so many conflicting interests that they can't do anything well. Why can't Sony DVD players play DivX*? Because Sony also makes movies, and DivX is the leading choice for distributing movies over the internet.
Errrr, I have 2 Sony DVD Players and a Sony PS3, and they all play DivX. The oldest is about 4 years old.
We wanted to donate umbilical cord blood from our first-borns birth. Unfortunately no one was on hand to do it because it was a Saturday. What a waste...
"Other than the need for a few hacks and fixes".
This is on a blog post that has appendices.
I prefer the 'iTithe'
Damn you 'security theatre' slashdot!
Caution's a dog. You need to take him for a walk first.
Maybe a name change could save it, but that's on the cards.
I don't use Windows, but for my friends (the ones who can actually be made to care about backups), I recommend this:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~edienske/abakt/
Support both 'traditional' (compress/split) type backups and a file copy method (good for a USB hard drive, for less savvy users who want to be able to just plug the thing in and retrieve the file they just borked).
Open source. Feel the love.
Not the easiest thing to setup, so I set it up for them, save the profile, and tell them how to do a backup (plug in drive, start program, press go).
Jeti (http://jeti.jabberstudio.org/) is a java based jabber client, you can click the link in the top left corner of that page to launch it in your browser.
It's not too bad.
Hmmmm, as of this point it doesn't appear that you can have contacts on other jabber servers.
The whole point of jabber is that servers are distributed, the server name is part of the JID (Jabber ID) which means that JID's look a lot like email addresses.
I hope the inability to have contacts with non @gmail.com JID's is merely a pre-launch wrinkle.
It's not that hard.
Mobile phones can do this???
Where do I moderate slashdot stories as trolls?
Apache::Gallery is awesome.
Despite the majority of the Anti-PHP comments posted here being lucid, informational and non-confrontational, they are still moderated down.
PHP programmers - the Amiga owners of 2005.
Kinda like this?
The Fruit Fucker 2000 is here!
Duh. I once received a SIMM where one of the chips was mis-placed on the PCB - the last two legs were actually hanging off the end into space.
Whenever there is competition there will be cost-cutting. The heavier the competition, the heavier the cost-cutting.
It's also nigh-on useless. If the application you want to run isn't also in stable, you're almost certainly screwed.
Unless you want something real simple, like an apache install serving up static web pages, forget it.
I like the concept, but it's taken too far.
Perhaps it should be renamed Debian: Fossilized.
You know, I used to buy into this, but it's a crock. Half the time you realise you need to paste over something else, and you can't highlight it to remove it, because you change what you are copying! You are reduced to pasting somewhere at the end of the string (and hope you don't accidently do it in the middle), and then do an awkward SHIFT-HOME, DELETE combo to remove the old stuff.
The other half of the time you highlight something to paste it, and by the time you find where you were going to put it you've accidently highlighted some other text and your original selection is gone.
At the end of the day, any experienced computer user (no matter the OS) will be using the keyboard as much as possible. Making it a requirement to move hands off the keyboad to do cut and paste is simply inefficient.
.... you were ordered, by law to never touch a console/computer or draw a comic ever again.
What would become of your lives?