Upon further inspection, I realize that Protozilla is probably the best thing since sliced bread. It sure would have come in handy this afternoon when I was working on Linuxdrivel.
What about the foo who did it all using keyboard shortcuts? It takes me forever and a day to memorize keyboard shortcuts; longer than it takes me to memorize command-line tools.
Quite frankly, I do graphic design, and I would kill for a CLI on a Mac. I use Linux at home.:-)
Nautilus eats memory for breakfast. I've watched memory usage during normal usage. NOTE: my machine only has 64MB of ram. On the occasions that I've had it crash, it's been because Nautilus takes up all available RAM *and* all available swap(256MB). I hope future versions will take out the crap like FreeType support and the antialiasing crap and rely on XRender or Evas.
OK, you'll never see this, but ya daffy bastard, y a got it all wrong. The original post dealt with the poor quality of hardware support for X--"blame it on the open source development model" and the thing is, not all the specs are available for all the gfx hardware out there. Yep, those mean ol' companies don't open their specs, don't support XFree, and would be more than happy to let you think "Gee, Windows is a helluva lot better since my gfx card works so much better under it than under Linux."
Heh, I was thumbing through some old Linux Journals and looking at the old Best of Technical Support columns. It's funny; in nearly every published Marc Ewing quote, it starts with something like: "Go to Control Panel..."
I realize (and I used Linux-Mandrake from the day their distribution became available until two weeks ago) that it's possible to administer a Linux-Mandrake box (or a Red Hat box, for that matter) without the GUI tools...it's certainly not very well documented. I recall the first time I started up Linuxconf after having done some changes by hand...yay, it stored a backup of my previous setup, and gleefully changed everything back! I never did figure out why the system would change the permissions on/dev/dsp0 at random. The last Linux-Mandrake release, for some reason, used some wrapper app to call xmms, which I never bothered to figure out. Was it documented? Not really.
Heh. That's funny. Try upgrading a Linux-Mandrake 7.1 box to 7.2. You will learn a new definition of pain.
Besides, all you have to do on Slackware now is occasionally autoslack the machine--just back up your config files.:-) And as far as compiling crap goes, many times you can use packages from other distributions with few problems (I'll cry when people stop making RPMs for RH6.x.)
There's an excellent reason why: intelligent people don't want to teach. Intelligent people want to make money.
Sure, it's possible to make loads of money teaching. Head for a rich school district (the higher the property value, the more money a school gets, which filters down to teachers.) A former roommate of mine told me that, where he lived (Barrington, IL) an assistant coach at his HS made in excess of $100,000/yr.
Contrast that with my wife. She's in a school district in a small town. She makes $23,000/yr as a music teacher. That includes teaching music classes to students from kindergarten to seniors in high school, along with chourus (forced on junior high kids) and several extra-curricular activities a year. The manager at the local Pizza Hut makes $40,000.
Tell me. If you had to pick between teaching 13 different grades (a few hundred kids) for $23,000, or getting a dozen kids to deliver pizzas for $40,000, what would you do?
Oh, yay, and I suppose there's a nice, included PDF viewer that uses Display PDF to view PDF files, then. What happens when you open a corrupt PDF file?
Don't forget, Be is in the OS market now, and Apple's still playing like you have to control both the hardware and OS aspects. It's not 1984 anymore, guys.
>Did they use 10 year old Video's as a source or something?
Who is Video? What of his are we using as a source? Tell this 10-year-old Video person to keep whatever we're planning on using as a source--we're going out on our own.
Perhaps we'll use something of mine as a source. Sounds like this 10-year-old kid named Video has some shitty content.
Hell, I will anyway. WTF are you talking about??? GTK *flickers*? Since when? I used to have GTK apps on an old 40MHz 486 (and it was a DLC machine at that...a Cyrix 486 that plugged into a 386 mobo) and I didn't see said flickers *unless the app was poorly written, was doing animation, and didn't double-buffer.*
Bah, Troll Tech wrote somewhere? The PR department wrote an official release that said something along the lines of "we did not emulate the slow and flickery refresh of GTK(or was it gnome?)" Bullshit. Show me the link. Why would Troll Tech have a position on GNOME, anyway? They don't compete with GNOME in any way. They write a toolkit. I've seen some poorly-written QT programs that display flicker like all hell, and I've seen some GTK apps with decent animation. I've also seen well-written QT apps that display no flickering, and bad GTK apps that do. It depends on the app, I suppose.
What's your opinion on the Open Packages project? Even though I'm not currently a *BSD user, it sounds great on the surface--there's even been interest expressed in patches for Linux!--but I've got to wonder what sort of complexities need to be worked out to maintain a set of packages for FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin...
Just when you think the BSDs are going to diverge and die, something like Open Packages comes along. Sure, it's not even close to an alpha stage yet, but they've even expressed some limited interest of allowing Linux into the fold. A Linux "make world", here we come!:-)
BTW, nice troll. Is that from some sort of Web-based marketing-speak script? It's so devoid of content. It's hilarious.:-)
No joke. From what I've read up on neural networks, basically what the author is talking about something raftloads ahead of current neural net tech, at least what's publicly available.
And from what I've read up on, neural nets in the electronic sense are usually either glorified analog computing circuits, or digital simulations of the same event. They're using analog neural nets at MIT to keep costs down on robots, IIRC, but they really wouldn't do anything that current systems couldn't do for you.
Perhaps a compromise between traditional control systems, neural nets, and traditional digital computing devices/software?
No joke. I'm busy collecting a large number of smoke detectors as we speak in the hopes that I'll be able to make the quick trip to Mars within my lifetime.
My parents used to play that trick on me when I was a kid. I was a TV junkie and would go into the living room when the TV was on. They'd carefully turn on the TV when I was in my room playing (with the doors closed to keep from bugging them too much) and I'd hear the whine off the picture tube. They still don't believe me when I say I can hear it, and I'm 25 now.:-)
"But I'm not a coder; I just want l33t stuff done!" you cry. Tough. Most people who develope stuff for Linux do it because they want to. Want to go cry to someone because they didn't write what *you* wanted them to? I'm sorry, I missed seeing your name on the paystub. Oh, yeah, the developer you whined to works for free.
"But that's not fair! I'm a Linux user and you're copping a l33t3r-than-thou attitude!" Well, again, tough. So are you. You want something cool, you don't want to work on it...you want sympathy? Well, I can sympathize with not being able to code it, because I'm no good at coding 3D stuff, but you don't see me bitching and moaning about how cool stuff I want done that I can't possibly help with isn't getting done.
Get over it. People work on what they want to when they work for free. It's a neat little hack and if you don't like it, ignore it.
I'm sorry, but I have to question the mental state of anyone who helps mod that up. It's an opinion. Some people will look at this and say, "Ooh, great" and others will say "Ugh, no thanks."
There's no insight there--just opinionated blabbering.
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Nice to see that they're posting something about the ST:TMP re-release five months after I submitted a story about it!
Way to go, Slashdot! Yay, team!
Upon further inspection, I realize that Protozilla is probably the best thing since sliced bread. It sure would have come in handy this afternoon when I was working on Linuxdrivel.
What about the foo who did it all using keyboard shortcuts? It takes me forever and a day to memorize keyboard shortcuts; longer than it takes me to memorize command-line tools.
:-)
Quite frankly, I do graphic design, and I would kill for a CLI on a Mac. I use Linux at home.
True.
;-)
I look forward to OS X, since I'm considering working in the print pre-production world. Perhaps I can use bash to control QuarkXPress?
Nautilus eats memory for breakfast. I've watched memory usage during normal usage. NOTE: my machine only has 64MB of ram. On the occasions that I've had it crash, it's been because Nautilus takes up all available RAM *and* all available swap(256MB). I hope future versions will take out the crap like FreeType support and the antialiasing crap and rely on XRender or Evas.
OK, you'll never see this, but ya daffy bastard, y a got it all wrong. The original post dealt with the poor quality of hardware support for X--"blame it on the open source development model" and the thing is, not all the specs are available for all the gfx hardware out there. Yep, those mean ol' companies don't open their specs, don't support XFree, and would be more than happy to let you think "Gee, Windows is a helluva lot better since my gfx card works so much better under it than under Linux."
Heh, I was thumbing through some old Linux Journals and looking at the old Best of Technical Support columns. It's funny; in nearly every published Marc Ewing quote, it starts with something like: "Go to Control Panel..."
/dev/dsp0 at random. The last Linux-Mandrake release, for some reason, used some wrapper app to call xmms, which I never bothered to figure out. Was it documented? Not really.
I realize (and I used Linux-Mandrake from the day their distribution became available until two weeks ago) that it's possible to administer a Linux-Mandrake box (or a Red Hat box, for that matter) without the GUI tools...it's certainly not very well documented. I recall the first time I started up Linuxconf after having done some changes by hand...yay, it stored a backup of my previous setup, and gleefully changed everything back! I never did figure out why the system would change the permissions on
Heh. That's funny. Try upgrading a Linux-Mandrake 7.1 box to 7.2. You will learn a new definition of pain.
:-) And as far as compiling crap goes, many times you can use packages from other distributions with few problems (I'll cry when people stop making RPMs for RH6.x.)
Besides, all you have to do on Slackware now is occasionally autoslack the machine--just back up your config files.
There's an excellent reason why: intelligent people don't want to teach. Intelligent people want to make money.
Sure, it's possible to make loads of money teaching. Head for a rich school district (the higher the property value, the more money a school gets, which filters down to teachers.) A former roommate of mine told me that, where he lived (Barrington, IL) an assistant coach at his HS made in excess of $100,000/yr.
Contrast that with my wife. She's in a school district in a small town. She makes $23,000/yr as a music teacher. That includes teaching music classes to students from kindergarten to seniors in high school, along with chourus (forced on junior high kids) and several extra-curricular activities a year. The manager at the local Pizza Hut makes $40,000.
Tell me. If you had to pick between teaching 13 different grades (a few hundred kids) for $23,000, or getting a dozen kids to deliver pizzas for $40,000, what would you do?
trollalicious.
Nothing about flickering, though.
Since when?
Nice troll. No, you can blame the closed-source hardware development model.
Oh, yay, and I suppose there's a nice, included PDF viewer that uses Display PDF to view PDF files, then. What happens when you open a corrupt PDF file?
Don't forget, Be is in the OS market now, and Apple's still playing like you have to control both the hardware and OS aspects. It's not 1984 anymore, guys.
>Did they use 10 year old Video's as a source or something?
Who is Video? What of his are we using as a source? Tell this 10-year-old Video person to keep whatever we're planning on using as a source--we're going out on our own.
Perhaps we'll use something of mine as a source. Sounds like this 10-year-old kid named Video has some shitty content.
"Please do not feed the trolls."
Hell, I will anyway. WTF are you talking about??? GTK *flickers*? Since when? I used to have GTK apps on an old 40MHz 486 (and it was a DLC machine at that...a Cyrix 486 that plugged into a 386 mobo) and I didn't see said flickers *unless the app was poorly written, was doing animation, and didn't double-buffer.*
Bah, Troll Tech wrote somewhere? The PR department wrote an official release that said something along the lines of "we did not emulate the slow and flickery refresh of GTK(or was it gnome?)" Bullshit. Show me the link. Why would Troll Tech have a position on GNOME, anyway? They don't compete with GNOME in any way. They write a toolkit. I've seen some poorly-written QT programs that display flicker like all hell, and I've seen some GTK apps with decent animation. I've also seen well-written QT apps that display no flickering, and bad GTK apps that do. It depends on the app, I suppose.
What's your opinion on the Open Packages project? Even though I'm not currently a *BSD user, it sounds great on the surface--there's even been interest expressed in patches for Linux!--but I've got to wonder what sort of complexities need to be worked out to maintain a set of packages for FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin...
BTW, nice troll. Is that from some sort of Web-based marketing-speak script? It's so devoid of content. It's hilarious. :-)
I was hopeful that Gates stepping down and handing the torch to Ballmer would see less news like this...seems the typical Gates paranoia lives on. :-/
Kinda makes me glad I'm not 100% dependent on Microsoft technology.
No joke. From what I've read up on neural networks, basically what the author is talking about something raftloads ahead of current neural net tech, at least what's publicly available.
And from what I've read up on, neural nets in the electronic sense are usually either glorified analog computing circuits, or digital simulations of the same event. They're using analog neural nets at MIT to keep costs down on robots, IIRC, but they really wouldn't do anything that current systems couldn't do for you.
Perhaps a compromise between traditional control systems, neural nets, and traditional digital computing devices/software?
No joke. I'm busy collecting a large number of smoke detectors as we speak in the hopes that I'll be able to make the quick trip to Mars within my lifetime.
;-)
My parents used to play that trick on me when I was a kid. I was a TV junkie and would go into the living room when the TV was on. They'd carefully turn on the TV when I was in my room playing (with the doors closed to keep from bugging them too much) and I'd hear the whine off the picture tube. They still don't believe me when I say I can hear it, and I'm 25 now. :-)
So get cracking.
"But I'm not a coder; I just want l33t stuff done!" you cry. Tough. Most people who develope stuff for Linux do it because they want to. Want to go cry to someone because they didn't write what *you* wanted them to? I'm sorry, I missed seeing your name on the paystub. Oh, yeah, the developer you whined to works for free.
"But that's not fair! I'm a Linux user and you're copping a l33t3r-than-thou attitude!" Well, again, tough. So are you. You want something cool, you don't want to work on it...you want sympathy? Well, I can sympathize with not being able to code it, because I'm no good at coding 3D stuff, but you don't see me bitching and moaning about how cool stuff I want done that I can't possibly help with isn't getting done.
Get over it. People work on what they want to when they work for free. It's a neat little hack and if you don't like it, ignore it.
Waking up to a houseful of smoke because something on the mobo is literally burning is fun, too, and makes for a restful night's sleep.
I'm sorry, but I have to question the mental state of anyone who helps mod that up. It's an opinion. Some people will look at this and say, "Ooh, great" and others will say "Ugh, no thanks."
There's no insight there--just opinionated blabbering.