I wasted a lot of time and effort trying to post my opinion in the rage3d forums. Reporting bugs; reporting success or failure with various combinations of ATI drivers. Then one day they decided that since using the composite extension breaks their buggy video drivers, they would rather turn off the possibility to even use it!
Then you are faced with the dilemma of either going back to an older version of the driver that had composite support (and you could use Xgl for a certain amount of time), or forget about it and continue the 1-bug-at-a-time fixes that they released every other month.
In the end I decided to cough up $80 for an nvidia card that "would just work" and I stored my ATI in a shelf...
I doubt I'd ever buy another ATI or recommend it to anybody I know. A lot of people feel the same pain.
I don't want to simply discard hypothesis that seem to be proven by some preliminary research (or by a lot of it for this matter).
I'm simply being cautious about these studies in general, as you said, we do have to be skeptical up to a healthy level. Otherwise we would be doing things that seem to contradict each other all the time. Think of the reports showing chocolate as beneficial, people engorging themselves with them, and then another study a week later showing the contrary... I've seen that so much nowadays that I usually take this preliminary reports with a grain of salt (or two). However, as a good "scientist" I'll do my best not to discard a hypothesis per se without a lot of evidence to back it up either way (good or bad).
I'd just like to say (not that I have any sway in these matters) I strongly disagree with the decision to revert to Dapper artwork for Edgy. [If I have gotten the wrong impression about this please ignore the silly rant below]
While I realise it might not meet the sabdfl's expectations or other Canonical management folk, and ultimately it is his distribution, I think that it is a bad idea to abandon the new, community driven, Edgy artwork.
It's Edgy - that was meant to mean that dev's could put new, disruptive ideas into the distribution without fear that they may be a little rough around the edges. I think the same should apply to artwork - it was meant to be an experiment in community created artwork, and although it may be a little rough around the edges in places, I think the beta art and the implementations on the wiki *rock*
In fact the sabd himself said [on the artwork] "I'm sure there will be rough edges in Edgy - that's the point " [1]
nah. I didn't even try to get the name but just made the joke. ask the bastard who took the joke if he registered it after i said it or as soon as the article came out.
for the rest of the world though, this is an awkward thing... but, French people always use their own definitions for everything anyway... So, not a problem for them either.
oh, i already see it. a Xen box as domain-0 that is ALWAYS on and goes into super low power mode when turned off. and 0 seconds boot to a full blown desktop when you press the power button.
all with the magic of Xen, open source'd Intel drivers, supend2 patch'd kernel and a lot of penguins coding to make it happen...
and why stop there? you can create virtual (aka headless) desktops for everybody in your household. have a girlfriend who likes windows? run it on xen. have another who likes BSDs? run it on xen. and the list goes on and on and on.
i'd never build a box from now on without Xen and LVM. this is real computing at its best!!
Reminds me a lot of how those bees were imported from Africa and released by "mistake" on Brazil... Ah, the planet is being forced to change by humans again...
i've been keeping an eye on my netflix queue for the past 3 months and i have not seen it getting any better. i switched to the 3 movies at a time plan to see if that would improve it. but, now that i have read this article i think i know why...
time to send a huge amount of complaints to netflix and let them sort out the problem? after all if we all decide to go back to the 1 movie at a time unlimited plan, they will be loosing $7 from e/a of us per month!
basic math: -$7 * 12 * Number of Netflix Users = 84 followed by a huge number of zeros of money lost per year!
what's worse?
and if we all just cancel the damn thing and switch to Google Movies (google are u listening?) then they will really get a loss!
We just need a "do no evil company" to help us spend our hard earned cash!
My car is not connected to a public network. And if it were, I'd make sure I use my own firewall to protect that connection (a hardware based one outside of the control of the manufacturer).
Why do we have to trust anything at all, especially computer-related stuff? This is the reason why open source makes perfect sense for the rest of us. The rest of the population (you included), can keep using closed source code connected to public networks... if that's fine with you that's fine with me. For as long as I have a choice.
When I used to work for CompUSA (yes, and i luvvvvved it), Corel Linux was given away to customers in a nice CD bundle with a cool presentation. I never really installed it, but I might have the disks around... So, they did release the distro. In fact, Xandros bought Corel Linux and created what we now know as Xandros OS.
from the article: SALT can detect objects as faint as a candle flame on the moon.
If we can look that closer to the moon, why hasn't anybody just taken photographs of the US flag left at the moon during the Apollo missions? That should at least satisfy some of the skeptics out there. Of course, people will then say that the flags were planted using other methods or that the pictures were altered... ah, the human brain...
now you just need to allow uptime to run automatically when you boot and send that information over the network (together with uname's output) to some database that's publically available...
klive seems to be a nice thing. but, it feels like old news for some reason (perhaps is because i read it some time ago in kerneltrap but an article in/. wasn't really submitted?).
and the last factor, perhaps just flame-war-like, is that it's written in python! yikes! but, if it serves the purpose and it's done well.. who cares about the language use to write the app uh? (i do!)
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I couldn't agree more.
I wasted a lot of time and effort trying to post my opinion in the rage3d forums. Reporting bugs; reporting success or failure with various combinations of ATI drivers. Then one day they decided that since using the composite extension breaks their buggy video drivers, they would rather turn off the possibility to even use it!
Then you are faced with the dilemma of either going back to an older version of the driver that had composite support (and you could use Xgl for a certain amount of time), or forget about it and continue the 1-bug-at-a-time fixes that they released every other month.
In the end I decided to cough up $80 for an nvidia card that "would just work" and I stored my ATI in a shelf...
I doubt I'd ever buy another ATI or recommend it to anybody I know. A lot of people feel the same pain.
I agree with you.
I don't want to simply discard hypothesis that seem to be proven by some preliminary research (or by a lot of it for this matter).
I'm simply being cautious about these studies in general, as you said, we do have to be skeptical up to a healthy level. Otherwise we would be doing things that seem to contradict each other all the time. Think of the reports showing chocolate as beneficial, people engorging themselves with them, and then another study a week later showing the contrary... I've seen that so much nowadays that I usually take this preliminary reports with a grain of salt (or two). However, as a good "scientist" I'll do my best not to discard a hypothesis per se without a lot of evidence to back it up either way (good or bad).
Now I'm waiting for another research showing that the intake of vitamin D causes some other serious illness...
So typical.
well, when i read this it was late nite and i was already drunk... i couldn't stop laughing!! good lord /. is really stooooopid!
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-art/2006
yeah, let's all just blast the site with so many request to DDoS the box!!
oh, this is slashdot, no need to actually agree on that...
harsh...
i see your point though... just it's harsh.
lol
nah. I didn't even try to get the name but just made the joke. ask the bastard who took the joke if he registered it after i said it or as soon as the article came out.
my uid is already more than 5 digits long...
bastard! lol
Ok, this was going to be my new name in Slashdot but some bastard already registered it!
wow, you summarized all my Fedora ideas very nicely.
Instead of redhat doing Fedora, they should've drop the whole thing and do a debian-based distro (think Xandros). That would make a huge difference.
yeah, try counting in binary:
...
:-P
zero
one
one zero
one one
one zero zero
Now use that to measure something:
"this is one zero zero zero one one zero meters long"
We as humans, have very fragile brains
ah, couldn't agree more!
for the rest of the world though, this is an awkward thing... but, French people always use their own definitions for everything anyway... So, not a problem for them either.
oh, i already see it. a Xen box as domain-0 that is ALWAYS on and goes into super low power mode when turned off. and 0 seconds boot to a full blown desktop when you press the power button.
all with the magic of Xen, open source'd Intel drivers, supend2 patch'd kernel and a lot of penguins coding to make it happen...
and why stop there? you can create virtual (aka headless) desktops for everybody in your household. have a girlfriend who likes windows? run it on xen. have another who likes BSDs? run it on xen. and the list goes on and on and on.
i'd never build a box from now on without Xen and LVM. this is real computing at its best!!
Couldn't agree more with number 8 (cfengine). What a blissful piece of software...
Searching for google itself found sooooooo many pages for google that I didn't even know existed.
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?FORM=GSM001&q=
Page 1 of 69,809,028 results containing google (0.09 seconds)
Reminds me a lot of how those bees were imported from Africa and released by "mistake" on Brazil... Ah, the planet is being forced to change by humans again...
couldn't agree more with you.
i've been keeping an eye on my netflix queue for the past 3 months and i have not seen it getting any better. i switched to the 3 movies at a time plan to see if that would improve it. but, now that i have read this article i think i know why...
time to send a huge amount of complaints to netflix and let them sort out the problem? after all if we all decide to go back to the 1 movie at a time unlimited plan, they will be loosing $7 from e/a of us per month!
basic math:
-$7 * 12 * Number of Netflix Users = 84 followed by a huge number of zeros of money lost per year!
what's worse?
and if we all just cancel the damn thing and switch to Google Movies (google are u listening?) then they will really get a loss!
We just need a "do no evil company" to help us spend our hard earned cash!
My car is not connected to a public network. And if it were, I'd make sure I use my own firewall to protect that connection (a hardware based one outside of the control of the manufacturer).
Why do we have to trust anything at all, especially computer-related stuff? This is the reason why open source makes perfect sense for the rest of us. The rest of the population (you included), can keep using closed source code connected to public networks... if that's fine with you that's fine with me. For as long as I have a choice.
wow. strong words.
this should be put on a t-shirt and given to people around the globe!
well said.
I could not agree more. Please mod parent up!
FYI
When I used to work for CompUSA (yes, and i luvvvvved it), Corel Linux was given away to customers in a nice CD bundle with a cool presentation. I never really installed it, but I might have the disks around... So, they did release the distro. In fact, Xandros bought Corel Linux and created what we now know as Xandros OS.
cool. Any way to actually take a picture of that US flag planted on the moon?
I'm dying to see that with my own telescope, but, i could trust a big project like this one or anybody else that NOT NASA.
from the article: SALT can detect objects as faint as a candle flame on the moon.
If we can look that closer to the moon, why hasn't anybody just taken photographs of the US flag left at the moon during the Apollo missions? That should at least satisfy some of the skeptics out there. Of course, people will then say that the flags were planted using other methods or that the pictures were altered... ah, the human brain...
now you just need to allow uptime to run automatically when you boot and send that information over the network (together with uname's output) to some database that's publically available...
/. wasn't really submitted?).
klive seems to be a nice thing. but, it feels like old news for some reason (perhaps is because i read it some time ago in kerneltrap but an article in
and the last factor, perhaps just flame-war-like, is that it's written in python! yikes! but, if it serves the purpose and it's done well.. who cares about the language use to write the app uh? (i do!)