Cute. Someone makes what I see as a valid point about the future of GNOME's interface, and someone mods it as "Flamebait."
I agree wholeheartedly about the new Nautilus system. I'm told it's possible to switch, but a cursory look at the preferences didn't reveal it. This is probably one of those "power user" features that you have to muck around in GConf to change, or something. Or did I just miss something blindingly obvious?
This takes something that I thought was one of the worst things about the old MacOS (double-clicking on a folder in Finder opens a new window) and runs with it. Back before OS X, I used to sit with one hand on the mouse, and one finger on the (forgive me if I say the wrong key, as I use the key without thinking aobut it) Option key so that opening a new folder would close the previous one. Only rarely did I want default behavior.
The new Nautilus default behavior is a major step backward, IMHO. Then again, so are many of the usability changes. Is it really better to relegate extra features to GConf hell?
Yeah, but why should the UI look completely different under Debian?
Why are we seeing a rash of big OSS projects adopting asinine rules, regulations, and restrictions that make them incompatible with the Free Software community, anyway? Apache, Mozilla, XFree...what next?
Xine supports menus fine, and has for a while. Mplayer is great for those formats other developers won't support due to legal issues, but it's not as great as people think it is. Use xine. Hell, if you're a GNOME user, Totem uses libxine, so you're all set there, too. I have a slower machine so I end up using Xine itself just to have options. Why can't I use a dialog box in Totem to change over to Vidix? Oh, that's right; options are too confusing!:-P
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It's been a while since I read the license, but back when I gave Win4Lin a test drive (back when Win98 was the desktop OS, and the other one was still NT) I managed to violate the EULA at least two ways by installing an instance of Win98 on a Linux partition when there was already one copy installed. IIRC the Win98 EULA stipulated not only that there should only be one machine only, but also one installation per machine only.
If I had removed the Win98 partition (which I did about a year later) and had kept using Win4Lin, I would have ended up violating the EULA anyway as soon as I let someone else run the installer on that machine; running it as another user slapped installation files into a directory.
The thing that many Gentoo users forget is that many of the performance gains they see are not because of compiler optimizations, but due to more practical reasons such as not running a gazillion services in the background. You can get this sort of performance out of just about any distribution, but it's a backwards process; I don't particularly care for the notion of removing unnecessary services when the distributions should come up with better ways of regulating this.
I usually just Google for whatever I want. Like this morning, I fired up Firefox, and typed "rigatoni alla carbonara" into the Google search box, and I found a recipe I liked the sound of. Granted, I ended up going with a Food Network recipe (Rachael Ray, no less) but the point is that I managed to see several variations, including some from some private blogs.
Bah. Perhaps so. Then again, this makes it possible to put HD video on today's DVD-class discs, potentially keeping prices down. I'm not sure it's entirely a bad thing.
Personally I find humor in the fact that we may see prices lowered because someone is coming into the market to compete, and that competitor is Microsoft.:-D
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And modded "interesting" at that...you don't even need a benchmark to understand why a 1GHz Ezra isn't as fast as an AMD K6/2-550. On an Ezra, the FPU runs at half the speed of the CPU. The Nehemiah(sp?) doesn't have that handicap. Even so, instructions like cmov haven't been implemented.
Here's an old review. The VIA processors aren't built for speed; they're built for low power consumption. In that department, they're great. They're also relatively cool, temperature-wise.
I've got a machine based on a 1GHz Ezra; it's really not as bad as it sounds. Not a stellar machine, but it's got better performance than the K6-2 it replaced (but not a whole helluva lot better, especially when there's lots of floating-point math involved, for the reason stated above) and it doesn't require insane cooling techniques.
I use a Logitech optical with Panther. So nyeah.:-P
Y'know, even though that was a really lame attempt at humor, you bring up a point: why do new Macs ship with one-button mice (and mice that cost at least 3x what a usable optical would cost, at that?) Am I right in thinking that NeXT machines shipped with 3-button mice? What gives?
Actually, English at the time of King James. Some Baptists are deluded into thinking that King James is the one and only true translation. I've heard Baptists call the King James translation of the Bible the "Real Bible."
It takes less than 6 on my lower-end machine. Now, bear in mind that when I say "lower end" it is above the 1GHz level (still higher-end to some smelly hippies) but it's a VIA Ezra (ick) with 512MB of RAM. Oh, and just to throw in another bottleneck (other than the low-end drive controller) KDE is on an EXT3 filesystem on my machine.
Still not blazing fast, but not as limited as XFCE.
I agree. Someone else who replied posted the comment "RAM is cheap" but is that necessarily true in developing countries?
I used to use GMC with Window Maker on a machine that only had 64MB of RAM. This was in my college days and the year after I got married. True, memory was "cheap" but every time I had $100 bucks or so extra, I'd get a flat tire, or my car would need some sort of repairs, or would need a new pair of pants (because an older pair had worn out) or what have you.
In the heady days of 1999, I could see GNOME getting popular amongst the "I want a GUI, but not necessarily the Windows-style GUI" mix-and-match crowd, and I even recommended my Window Maker + GMC + GNOME menu Perl script combo to other poor computer users out there. Nowadays all GNOME seems to be is a Windows-alike desktop with slightly higher memory usage than KDE.:-(
I personally always run out and read the most popular books, no matter how droll and half-witted they are.
I'm glad to see that you don't let whimsical, comical writing stand in the way of your enjoyment of books. I have to wonder just how funny a Martha Stewart biography could be, but if you insist...
Calling The Lord of the Rings half-witted, or implying that it's droll, shows a complete ignorance of the subject matter. The Hobbit was a droll book IMHO, but there was very little whimsical or amusing about LOTR. If you consider how far J.R.R. Tolkien deviated from professional writing style, and you consider such writing half-witted, then I suppose that it would indeed be half-witted. But I would have to wonder about the emotional health of anyone who defined "half-witted" in such a way.:-D
Yeah...I was about to post a rebuttal, but you're just about right. Both KMail and Evolution default to sane behavior, while Outlook Express, in the interest of not confusing the user, is relatively open by default. That and that business of hiding filename extensions is evil.:-D
In my experience, most Linux crashes are caused by faulty hardware. Many of the rest have been caused by development-level kernels. This includes various releases of Red Hat.
Take that, EE major. You're supposed to be smart enough to figure this out on your own.
For that matter, most crash-prone Windows machines have been "crashy" due to poor hardware setup/faulty hardware. And from experience, if you're looking for a stable Linux distribution, Red Hat ought to be one of your last choices. YMMV.
It's been my impression that the BSD communit{y,ies}, in general, understand Linux far better than the Linux communit{y,ies} understand Linux.
Every time I begin to think that, I run into some asshole who speaks at length about Linux, and as a Linux user with limited knowledge (I'd love to devote more time to Linux, but I can't) I can refute their claims. Ask many of them and they'll say something like, "Yeah, I tried Linux back in 1995 and it really sucked. I switched and haven't looked back since. I know what I'm talking about."
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Cute. Someone makes what I see as a valid point about the future of GNOME's interface, and someone mods it as "Flamebait."
I agree wholeheartedly about the new Nautilus system. I'm told it's possible to switch, but a cursory look at the preferences didn't reveal it. This is probably one of those "power user" features that you have to muck around in GConf to change, or something. Or did I just miss something blindingly obvious?
This takes something that I thought was one of the worst things about the old MacOS (double-clicking on a folder in Finder opens a new window) and runs with it. Back before OS X, I used to sit with one hand on the mouse, and one finger on the (forgive me if I say the wrong key, as I use the key without thinking aobut it) Option key so that opening a new folder would close the previous one. Only rarely did I want default behavior.
The new Nautilus default behavior is a major step backward, IMHO. Then again, so are many of the usability changes. Is it really better to relegate extra features to GConf hell?
Why are we seeing a rash of big OSS projects adopting asinine rules, regulations, and restrictions that make them incompatible with the Free Software community, anyway? Apache, Mozilla, XFree...what next?
Lord Valentine's Castle was published in 1979, and featured a shapeshifting race known as the Metamorphs.
Xine supports menus fine, and has for a while. Mplayer is great for those formats other developers won't support due to legal issues, but it's not as great as people think it is. Use xine. Hell, if you're a GNOME user, Totem uses libxine, so you're all set there, too. I have a slower machine so I end up using Xine itself just to have options. Why can't I use a dialog box in Totem to change over to Vidix? Oh, that's right; options are too confusing! :-P
GNOME is for furries.
It's been a while since I read the license, but back when I gave Win4Lin a test drive (back when Win98 was the desktop OS, and the other one was still NT) I managed to violate the EULA at least two ways by installing an instance of Win98 on a Linux partition when there was already one copy installed. IIRC the Win98 EULA stipulated not only that there should only be one machine only, but also one installation per machine only.
If I had removed the Win98 partition (which I did about a year later) and had kept using Win4Lin, I would have ended up violating the EULA anyway as soon as I let someone else run the installer on that machine; running it as another user slapped installation files into a directory.
The thing that many Gentoo users forget is that many of the performance gains they see are not because of compiler optimizations, but due to more practical reasons such as not running a gazillion services in the background. You can get this sort of performance out of just about any distribution, but it's a backwards process; I don't particularly care for the notion of removing unnecessary services when the distributions should come up with better ways of regulating this.
Windows may have progressed, but clients like Outlook Express haven't.
Or haven't you been paying attention?
I usually just Google for whatever I want. Like this morning, I fired up Firefox, and typed "rigatoni alla carbonara" into the Google search box, and I found a recipe I liked the sound of. Granted, I ended up going with a Food Network recipe (Rachael Ray, no less) but the point is that I managed to see several variations, including some from some private blogs.
This does make an interesting point, though: if you do business with SCO, then decide to go elsewhere later, more than likely you'll be sued.
Lesson: Don't work with SCO. They'll just try to keep your business by stabbing you in the back.
That gets funnier every time someone cut-and-pastes it. I salute you!
Bah. Perhaps so. Then again, this makes it possible to put HD video on today's DVD-class discs, potentially keeping prices down. I'm not sure it's entirely a bad thing.
:-D
Personally I find humor in the fact that we may see prices lowered because someone is coming into the market to compete, and that competitor is Microsoft.
And modded "interesting" at that...you don't even need a benchmark to understand why a 1GHz Ezra isn't as fast as an AMD K6/2-550. On an Ezra, the FPU runs at half the speed of the CPU. The Nehemiah(sp?) doesn't have that handicap. Even so, instructions like cmov haven't been implemented.
Here's an old review. The VIA processors aren't built for speed; they're built for low power consumption. In that department, they're great. They're also relatively cool, temperature-wise.
I've got a machine based on a 1GHz Ezra; it's really not as bad as it sounds. Not a stellar machine, but it's got better performance than the K6-2 it replaced (but not a whole helluva lot better, especially when there's lots of floating-point math involved, for the reason stated above) and it doesn't require insane cooling techniques.
Are you telling me that you never use the keyboard in a FPS? Mouse OR keyboard? My, you must be uncoordinated (and the worst FPS player in the world.)
Y'know, even though that was a really lame attempt at humor, you bring up a point: why do new Macs ship with one-button mice (and mice that cost at least 3x what a usable optical would cost, at that?) Am I right in thinking that NeXT machines shipped with 3-button mice? What gives?
Actually, English at the time of King James. Some Baptists are deluded into thinking that King James is the one and only true translation. I've heard Baptists call the King James translation of the Bible the "Real Bible."
Still not blazing fast, but not as limited as XFCE.
In the heady days of 1999, I could see GNOME getting popular amongst the "I want a GUI, but not necessarily the Windows-style GUI" mix-and-match crowd, and I even recommended my Window Maker + GMC + GNOME menu Perl script combo to other poor computer users out there. Nowadays all GNOME seems to be is a Windows-alike desktop with slightly higher memory usage than KDE. :-(
I'm glad to see that you don't let whimsical, comical writing stand in the way of your enjoyment of books. I have to wonder just how funny a Martha Stewart biography could be, but if you insist...
Calling The Lord of the Rings half-witted, or implying that it's droll, shows a complete ignorance of the subject matter. The Hobbit was a droll book IMHO, but there was very little whimsical or amusing about LOTR. If you consider how far J.R.R. Tolkien deviated from professional writing style, and you consider such writing half-witted, then I suppose that it would indeed be half-witted. But I would have to wonder about the emotional health of anyone who defined "half-witted" in such a way. :-D
Yeah...I was about to post a rebuttal, but you're just about right. Both KMail and Evolution default to sane behavior, while Outlook Express, in the interest of not confusing the user, is relatively open by default. That and that business of hiding filename extensions is evil. :-D
Does Indiana have a Crystal Lake?
I use OS X as part of my job. Why should I feel guilty?
Take that, EE major. You're supposed to be smart enough to figure this out on your own.
For that matter, most crash-prone Windows machines have been "crashy" due to poor hardware setup/faulty hardware. And from experience, if you're looking for a stable Linux distribution, Red Hat ought to be one of your last choices. YMMV.
Every time I begin to think that, I run into some asshole who speaks at length about Linux, and as a Linux user with limited knowledge (I'd love to devote more time to Linux, but I can't) I can refute their claims. Ask many of them and they'll say something like, "Yeah, I tried Linux back in 1995 and it really sucked. I switched and haven't looked back since. I know what I'm talking about."
Riiiiiiight.