Really easy if stuff supports it.. (cdrecord does, as does cd+rw-tools, and the only one on my system that doesn't is cdrdao (it probably does, I just haven't updated it yet))
The issue now is that ide-scsi doesn't allow (U)DMA, you can still use it (under -test4 at least, because it gave me trouble then (-test11 doesn't)
IA64 is by no means x86. It is it's own instruction set (somewhat compatible with HP's PARISC (it can run the binaries natively (I not sure if the opcodes are the same or if there is a compatibility layer.)
IA64 is a new one which tries to explicity code parallel instructions. It is titled EPIC, as opposed to RISC, VLIW or CISC. It is one of only a few CPU instruction sets which were designed as 64-bit (alpha) and not had it tacked on (sparc mips)
x86-64 always has refered to amd's 64-bit extentions to x86 (aka ia32) It has NEVER refered to Itanium.
The sad thing is that they provide no way for it to be allowed (interestingly: no extra $$ for sprint) However, there is an unwritten rule that somewhere less than 150-300MB/month is ok.
Btw, the phone counter in some of the Sanyos resets at a Gig.
In other words, they like many ISPs don't enforce the contract, and only use it to blugeon those who use the "unlimited" (restricting it to phone only is certainly a limit)
Post it, because/. has a history of posting C&D letters that are BS, and telling the C&Der to go away.
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On the first computer I installed, I couldn't (well I could but waiting a minute between mouse clicks wasn't something all that fun (486-40 w/6&2/3MB RAM))
However, that is what most people I introduce to linux do right off the bat. Customize the desktop. Most of them look at gnome, and it's lack of looking decent, and arguable lack of speed, kde is much more responsive in general than GNOME, in my experence. Then you look at the menus, and Eugenia is completely wrong. USERS LIKE MORE THINGS. Now, I have noticed a split at somewhere around 40years (GENERALLY) that people older just do not explore anything, without being told to do so (I can cite tons of counter-examples, but that's the general case).
"for all its 'terrible' flaws KDE managed to harness the largest user base, despite corporate support for the other DE."
It's just better? It has a consistant feeling (GNOME has no office suite, it has to rely on Open office for a decent one, and a different web browser (be it mozilla & variants, konqueror, opera, links etc) all with a different feeling.
"No noob who tentatively tries out 'the other' OS would go like: I want that up button out from the file-manager!"
If they did, it's logical: settings -> configure toolbars.
My point was that KDE may do it by a variety of methods (adding k to the front, c->k, having a word with a k in it), but generally it is no less consistant than any other naming scheme in use, and may in fact be better at refering to the purpose. GNOME does it, (g)toaster as an example, Apple does it (i)Mac, Compaq (i)paq, (win)zip, rar, IBM (z,i,e)-series. An extra letter is common to designate something, in this case KDE, as opposed to i(nternet) or e(lectronic)- e(mail) e(business)
KDE is no more inconsistant by adding a K, they are just slightly innovative by changing a C to a K or chosing names that start with a K. (Microsoft must be right, innovators get dumped on...:) )
Does it really matter? I am just waiting before someone starts a really stupid suit for gimp, lame being derogatory, or some such. Let the people who write it pick the name, and if someone is so focused on the name that it overwhelms their desire to use it, then I find that to be immature, but if they don't want to they don't have to.
Naming schemes in general have little to do with the function. The only one of the above which seems to go with it's function is Word, and word was used for a heck of a lot of word processors (WORDperfect, WORDstar, etc)
Admittedly there are some good examples of the opposite: kmail, Aol Instant Messenger, yahoo messenger, Windows Media Player, mplayer, realplayer, again among others.
Konqueror is a play off of: 1st you navigate it, then you explore it, then you konquer it.:) Makes as much sense as most other program names.
I think that if people want to experement they should be able to (even if newbies need their.kde removed to fix it) find the option.
KDE's Control Center (Not Kontrol Center) is organized well and people after being shown the Control Center seem to have little/no problems in my experence. I propose an alternative: when you start up kcontrol, you should have a "If you mess with these you may mess up the way it looks/works"... with an option to turn it off.
That is a bad idea for this reason: Who will help the beginners? If the advanced people are used to a different interface how easy is it to tell others how to use a different one?
Can Eugenia get it right? Dispite KDE apps' habit of C->K... it is not Kontrol Center.
Not to mention... Kommander's Editor (kmdr-editor) is by no means a bloddy text editor.
As someone on dot.kde.org pointed out (and I fully agree with) the ability to customize thing SHOULD not be messed with, because otherwise you go the GNOME/Windows way. KDE can act like almost any other DE if people want it to, and set it to do so.
Eugenia has in my experence not done very good review, and assumes that less choice = better, which I find fundamentally flawed.
Having used KDE since 1.x (and others for a long time) and currently KDE cvs (built every couple of days), KDE has been for some time in my opinion the best DE of all (including MacOS, CDE, Windows, and GNOME) And the 3.2 just got a big speed boost. (on a cable connection (~300KB/sec max) slashdot load in under 3 seconds, as does just about any webpage except/.ed ones, and el reg (that is throughout the cable company, so something is messed up there, and it has gotten better, so even that is.) Koffice is much better since the last time I used it, and it is faster than openoffice, and quite stable. Juk is just great. Kontact should import kopete as well if it wants to be complete, and the talked about kopete-address book integration... if that's what Eugenia calls integration (essentially a link) then no wonder everyone thinks windows and gnome are decent. (Kopete-address book integration is at this point substandard for KDE.) kgpg is also included.
been done. when NVIDIA released their drivers for linux. Quake3 on the same hardware generally nets a 10% fps increase (and a lack of hickups) than windows.
I love to pull that example up when people whine about XFree's network support/slowness/other whininess about XFree
Similar for 3dfx cards and pre-perhelia cards on linux (iow the ones with decent drivers...). Not true for ATI, and others who don't release specs, or provide binary drivers that work (nvidia, and they are pretty much it in the "binary drivers that work" category)
Commie? for abolishing an arbitrary restriction on the market to make it more like a free market capitalist economy?
Face it: copyright is in terms of the market an arbitrary restriction.
Copyright does prevent the cheapest/best/biggest printer from just undermining all the others, by printing their stuff faster/better/cheaper. (no trolls on the pick 2 of those 3, please)
Frankly, There is something wrong with copyrights, because has been abused FAR more than it has helped (mostly the abuses you list being codified into law). I agree with most of your comment, but calling him a commie, for advocating something that leads to a more free market capitalist economy?
Return copyright law to its original purpose: protecting artists from malicious publishers, not from their audience.
Oh really? When I was looking for the origins, this is not what I found. (In England, it was to protect the Monarcy & help their allies/friends/position/ideas.)
It works by integrating various programs (kmail, address book, knode, korganizer (calender) etc).
There are some things that need to be added IMO, including better kopete integration with the address book (3.2 will be the first kde where kopete is part of it, so there is some slack needed:) )
Obviously haven't seen the patchset for gentoo-sources (if you don't want patches, in gentoo look at vanilla-sources (2.4) or development-sources(2.6))
I was going to paste a selection, but given that it seems to be ~250patches, I will just note that it's a LOT of patches:)
X has been able to change resolution on the fly for a very very long time.
Oh, you want a gui for it? Look in KDE 3.2, look up resize and rotate. (might be in earlier stuff, but I am running cvs so I can't check)
Certainly looks like it does to me running 4.3...
Have you *looked* at any modern config utilities, or are you just blowing smoke? (I certainly know why my guess is.) Seriously, go look at Xconfigurator from Red Hat, also used in other Distros. That's the great thing about it... it auto-detects the card, and will get it running (even if in VESA mode)
actually I have found it much much easier, because they finally moved the ps/2 port to a/dev/input/mouseX which also gets read from/dev/input/mice, so you setup/dev/input/mice as the source, and if you have ps/2 support (most, but not all laptops) and usb support (again most but not all (by a long shot) external mice)
I personally think this should have been done long ago I think somewhere around 2.4.0-test5 or so when I got a usb mouse just to test it:).
If it is the stock media player from 2.xx roms, I highly suggest upgrading to OpenZaurus if you use Linux or if you use windows OZ or Sharp 3.xx series.
People agreed with many early reviews that said the Zaurus lacked battery life, so people fixed it by rewriting the power support... isn't open source great?
my 3-6 hour estimate may be a bit low, given that I was thinking with the screen on, very low, and with it off someone timed it at 10 hours (on the original, not-too powerconcious rom w/xmms-e)
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The issue now is that ide-scsi doesn't allow (U)DMA, you can still use it (under -test4 at least, because it gave me trouble then (-test11 doesn't)
IA64 is a new one which tries to explicity code parallel instructions. It is titled EPIC, as opposed to RISC, VLIW or CISC. It is one of only a few CPU instruction sets which were designed as 64-bit (alpha) and not had it tacked on (sparc mips)
x86-64 always has refered to amd's 64-bit extentions to x86 (aka ia32) It has NEVER refered to Itanium.
Btw, the phone counter in some of the Sanyos resets at a Gig.
In other words, they like many ISPs don't enforce the contract, and only use it to blugeon those who use the "unlimited" (restricting it to phone only is certainly a limit)
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So it might get modded down (or modded up
However, that is what most people I introduce to linux do right off the bat. Customize the desktop. Most of them look at gnome, and it's lack of looking decent, and arguable lack of speed, kde is much more responsive in general than GNOME, in my experence. Then you look at the menus, and Eugenia is completely wrong. USERS LIKE MORE THINGS. Now, I have noticed a split at somewhere around 40years (GENERALLY) that people older just do not explore anything, without being told to do so (I can cite tons of counter-examples, but that's the general case).
"for all its 'terrible' flaws KDE managed to harness the largest user base, despite corporate support for the other DE."
It's just better? It has a consistant feeling (GNOME has no office suite, it has to rely on Open office for a decent one, and a different web browser (be it mozilla & variants, konqueror, opera, links etc) all with a different feeling.
"No noob who tentatively tries out 'the other' OS would go like: I want that up button out from the file-manager!"
If they did, it's logical: settings -> configure toolbars.
Tell me how edit->prefrences is more logical?
It isn't true for itunes, but pretty much what most other companies say about mac support (or what was originally intended: linux support).
nice try :)
KDE is no more inconsistant by adding a K, they are just slightly innovative by changing a C to a K or chosing names that start with a K. (Microsoft must be right, innovators get dumped on... :) )
Does it really matter? I am just waiting before someone starts a really stupid suit for gimp, lame being derogatory, or some such. Let the people who write it pick the name, and if someone is so focused on the name that it overwhelms their desire to use it, then I find that to be immature, but if they don't want to they don't have to.
Running 3.2, Konqueror is much faster than firebird (or any other browser I have used for that matter)
Acrobat? Blender? Word? Outlook? Kopete? Trillian? Xine? XMMS? Noatun
Naming schemes in general have little to do with the function. The only one of the above which seems to go with it's function is Word, and word was used for a heck of a lot of word processors (WORDperfect, WORDstar, etc)
Admittedly there are some good examples of the opposite: kmail, Aol Instant Messenger, yahoo messenger, Windows Media Player, mplayer, realplayer, again among others. Konqueror is a play off of: 1st you navigate it, then you explore it, then you konquer it. :) Makes as much sense as most other program names.
I think that if people want to experement they should be able to (even if newbies need their .kde removed to fix it) find the option.
KDE's Control Center (Not Kontrol Center) is organized well and people after being shown the Control Center seem to have little/no problems in my experence. I propose an alternative: when you start up kcontrol, you should have a "If you mess with these you may mess up the way it looks/works"... with an option to turn it off.
That is a bad idea for this reason: Who will help the beginners? If the advanced people are used to a different interface how easy is it to tell others how to use a different one?
Not to mention... Kommander's Editor (kmdr-editor) is by no means a bloddy text editor.
As someone on dot.kde.org pointed out (and I fully agree with) the ability to customize thing SHOULD not be messed with, because otherwise you go the GNOME/Windows way. KDE can act like almost any other DE if people want it to, and set it to do so.
Eugenia has in my experence not done very good review, and assumes that less choice = better, which I find fundamentally flawed.
Having used KDE since 1.x (and others for a long time) and currently KDE cvs (built every couple of days), KDE has been for some time in my opinion the best DE of all (including MacOS, CDE, Windows, and GNOME) And the 3.2 just got a big speed boost. (on a cable connection (~300KB/sec max) slashdot load in under 3 seconds, as does just about any webpage except /.ed ones, and el reg (that is throughout the cable company, so something is messed up there, and it has gotten better, so even that is .) Koffice is much better since the last time I used it, and it is faster than openoffice, and quite stable. Juk is just great. Kontact should import kopete as well if it wants to be complete, and the talked about kopete-address book integration... if that's what Eugenia calls integration (essentially a link) then no wonder everyone thinks windows and gnome are decent. (Kopete-address book integration is at this point substandard for KDE.) kgpg is also included.
I love to pull that example up when people whine about XFree's network support/slowness/other whininess about XFree
Similar for 3dfx cards and pre-perhelia cards on linux (iow the ones with decent drivers...). Not true for ATI, and others who don't release specs, or provide binary drivers that work (nvidia, and they are pretty much it in the "binary drivers that work" category)
And as for it having to do with censorship, yeah, that's pretty much what it amounted to, and seems to be amounting to now. Witness all the DMCA shit.
Face it: copyright is in terms of the market an arbitrary restriction.
Copyright does prevent the cheapest/best/biggest printer from just undermining all the others, by printing their stuff faster/better/cheaper. (no trolls on the pick 2 of those 3, please)
Frankly, There is something wrong with copyrights, because has been abused FAR more than it has helped (mostly the abuses you list being codified into law). I agree with most of your comment, but calling him a commie, for advocating something that leads to a more free market capitalist economy?
Oh really? When I was looking for the origins, this is not what I found. (In England, it was to protect the Monarcy & help their allies/friends/position/ideas.)
It works by integrating various programs (kmail, address book, knode, korganizer (calender) etc).
There are some things that need to be added IMO, including better kopete integration with the address book (3.2 will be the first kde where kopete is part of it, so there is some slack needed :) )
I was going to paste a selection, but given that it seems to be ~250patches, I will just note that it's a LOT of patches :)
Oh, you want a gui for it? Look in KDE 3.2, look up resize and rotate. (might be in earlier stuff, but I am running cvs so I can't check)
Certainly looks like it does to me running 4.3...
Have you *looked* at any modern config utilities, or are you just blowing smoke? (I certainly know why my guess is.) Seriously, go look at Xconfigurator from Red Hat, also used in other Distros. That's the great thing about it... it auto-detects the card, and will get it running (even if in VESA mode)
This was conducted very early on (look at the zaurus mailing-list that was originally on SF.
It was a 5500 with either sharp 2.x or a OZ pre-3.0 release.
I personally think this should have been done long ago I think somewhere around 2.4.0-test5 or so when I got a usb mouse just to test it :).
True, SCO's claim is, but we are discussing IBM's counter suit, which directly involves the GPL.
People agreed with many early reviews that said the Zaurus lacked battery life, so people fixed it by rewriting the power support... isn't open source great?
my 3-6 hour estimate may be a bit low, given that I was thinking with the screen on, very low, and with it off someone timed it at 10 hours (on the original, not-too powerconcious rom w/xmms-e)
Mine gets at least 3 hours (up to somewhere around 6 max) if I am only playing ogg (oz 3.2 w/xmms-e)