You know, there's something called "experience". It's the moment someone tells you about (or you've witnessed yourself) an accident involving a bike, and that all the paramedics/doctors/whoever said "Good thing you wear that helmet, otherwise I'd now need to attach a label to your toe".
Sawfish. I'm at the moment using it with the Mate-Desktop (instead of Marco/Metacity) and it's pretty much awesome, I have to say. Highly configurable and has window rules (you want that window always there and in that size without a border, there you go!). Otherwise I've heard good things about OpenBox, BlackBox and Awesome (of course). If you feel really low resource and find some hacking funny...you could try dwm.
Yes, we did...a long time ago, you just need to apply three patches from the UberBreak-Kernel-Project and one small one from the coder "brakehackeringz" (which can be downloaded from a FTP server in Australia)...it works perfectly!* On the other side, my custom tires, steering wheel, seats and dashboard work perfectly, too.
So..you're driving an iFord? Can you now finally do an oil change without buying a new car?:P
*: I'm using Linux on a daily basis, the last time I had to compile a driver (or anything, that is**) was back in ~2007, and then it was for a crappy USB-WLAN-Stick.
**: Well, to be honest, I've been lately compiling Sawfish a lot...but I think this can be excuse as I don't see why an average user would want to use Sawfish anyway.
Well, the downside is they'll censor everything he likes about the internet. That's the major problem with the Aussie government, they don't feel like people should have rights.
That's true for nearly every other Government, too. But to be honest, I think that 99% of that crap is collateral damage coming up from companies which want to buy some politicians and just need an excuse to filter/do/sell stuff.
Yes, that would be helpful. Even better is if you have the machine and the user right next to you and shows you how to reproduce the bug, and then leaves the machine with you (and the user leaves the room...or better, the city).
Don't get me wrong, but it can be freaking hard to track stuff which is not happening on your machine...sometimes it's hard enough even if it is reproducible on a machine you have. Race conditions are such a case. I had some in my application I wrote at work (yeah, totally shame on me for not realizing that obvious thing) and some clients did *never* have a problem and others fell over every few hours. Figuring it out was...tricky...reproducing it even more. Another such case are overflows of all kinds which are not immediately wracking the system, but instead corrupting some parts and then slumber for quite some time.
I have to defend the "Works For Me"-closing. It is *very* hard to track bugs which are not showing up on your machine (or any test machine). You never know exactly what that user has already done to the machine prior to the bug occurring and it's hard to get additional information. While it for sure sucks if you get that response, the immediate reaction should be "well, how can I help you find this" and not "I still have that problem" as it happens many times. Also many bug reports which are closed with "works for me" never received any attention from the reporter after reported.
Linux needs to stop being that exclusive club for the cool kids and know-it-alls and start being a more user-oriented (rather than developer-oriented) community.
Oh don't worry, that's already well underway with Gnome3, Unity, Ubuntu and Android.... And it sucks badly for those who know what they're doing.
Nexuiz, what I can extract from that is that the commercial variant is just a clone made by a company, which tried to get some momentum out of the name, Quote from Wikipedia: "It uses CryEngine 3 and it is based on the original free game called Nexuiz (which is described as Nexuiz Classic by IllFonic)." But Nexuiz uses a modified QuakeEngine and is placed under GPLv2, so the clone can only be a new developed...well, clone.
Planeshift, I don't know anything about the background, but the official explanation was to stop people from simply taking everything and setting up their own server. If that's reasonable is another question.
Fun fact: Forbidding ActiveX and similar things in Internet Explorer yields interesting site effects, f.e. that Visual Studio can't display error messages or the Help anymore.
Suggesting to bolt something to the wall might be a dangerous thing, given the technical knowledge of most people. "Honey, can I borrow your nailing machine." - "Sure..." - *TUCK* - "...honey, do you know why my iPhone won't turn on again?"
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You know, there's something called "experience". It's the moment someone tells you about (or you've witnessed yourself) an accident involving a bike, and that all the paramedics/doctors/whoever said "Good thing you wear that helmet, otherwise I'd now need to attach a label to your toe".
Sawfish. I'm at the moment using it with the Mate-Desktop (instead of Marco/Metacity) and it's pretty much awesome, I have to say. Highly configurable and has window rules (you want that window always there and in that size without a border, there you go!). Otherwise I've heard good things about OpenBox, BlackBox and Awesome (of course). If you feel really low resource and find some hacking funny...you could try dwm.
...and your point is?
I sure hope that's a joke...
Why are the executable bits set!?
Yes, we did...a long time ago, you just need to apply three patches from the UberBreak-Kernel-Project and one small one from the coder "brakehackeringz" (which can be downloaded from a FTP server in Australia)...it works perfectly!* On the other side, my custom tires, steering wheel, seats and dashboard work perfectly, too.
So..you're driving an iFord? Can you now finally do an oil change without buying a new car? :P
*: I'm using Linux on a daily basis, the last time I had to compile a driver (or anything, that is**) was back in ~2007, and then it was for a crappy USB-WLAN-Stick.
**: Well, to be honest, I've been lately compiling Sawfish a lot...but I think this can be excuse as I don't see why an average user would want to use Sawfish anyway.
Well, the downside is they'll censor everything he likes about the internet. That's the major problem with the Aussie government, they don't feel like people should have rights.
That's true for nearly every other Government, too. But to be honest, I think that 99% of that crap is collateral damage coming up from companies which want to buy some politicians and just need an excuse to filter/do/sell stuff.
Invalidate all existing patents. This is just getting ridiculous.
FTFY. I think mankind has proved at this point that, with whatever system you come up, it can and will be exploited.
Discuss!
I always get the urge to punch people in the face when they end postings with that.
Isn't there a guy in the USA which sells ground on the moon?
No, turned out that if you ground it up it's pure poison.
I like how her belt-snake falls asleep...neat little subtlety.
It shouldn't be the default excuse for not thinking about/looking at/keeping it in mind, yes.
Yes, that would be helpful. Even better is if you have the machine and the user right next to you and shows you how to reproduce the bug, and then leaves the machine with you (and the user leaves the room...or better, the city).
Don't get me wrong, but it can be freaking hard to track stuff which is not happening on your machine...sometimes it's hard enough even if it is reproducible on a machine you have. Race conditions are such a case. I had some in my application I wrote at work (yeah, totally shame on me for not realizing that obvious thing) and some clients did *never* have a problem and others fell over every few hours. Figuring it out was...tricky...reproducing it even more. Another such case are overflows of all kinds which are not immediately wracking the system, but instead corrupting some parts and then slumber for quite some time.
Yes...yes it does indeed. *eg*
I have to defend the "Works For Me"-closing. It is *very* hard to track bugs which are not showing up on your machine (or any test machine). You never know exactly what that user has already done to the machine prior to the bug occurring and it's hard to get additional information. While it for sure sucks if you get that response, the immediate reaction should be "well, how can I help you find this" and not "I still have that problem" as it happens many times. Also many bug reports which are closed with "works for me" never received any attention from the reporter after reported.
As far as I know, you don't get hand-holding with a purchase of Windows. Not sure about OSX.
Linux needs to stop being that exclusive club for the cool kids and know-it-alls and start being a more user-oriented (rather than developer-oriented) community.
Oh don't worry, that's already well underway with Gnome3, Unity, Ubuntu and Android. ... And it sucks badly for those who know what they're doing.
Nexuiz, what I can extract from that is that the commercial variant is just a clone made by a company, which tried to get some momentum out of the name, Quote from Wikipedia: "It uses CryEngine 3 and it is based on the original free game called Nexuiz (which is described as Nexuiz Classic by IllFonic)." But Nexuiz uses a modified QuakeEngine and is placed under GPLv2, so the clone can only be a new developed...well, clone.
Planeshift, I don't know anything about the background, but the official explanation was to stop people from simply taking everything and setting up their own server. If that's reasonable is another question.
I like the version from Crystal Method more...well, the uncensored, that is.
...unless specifically forced by user demand...
You mean boss/manager demand?
Fun fact: Forbidding ActiveX and similar things in Internet Explorer yields interesting site effects, f.e. that Visual Studio can't display error messages or the Help anymore.
Jokes on you, Warp is not about getting an object to move faster then light, but to bend the space around it so that it does not have to move at all.
Well, you missed my point...
Suggesting to bolt something to the wall might be a dangerous thing, given the technical knowledge of most people. "Honey, can I borrow your nailing machine." - "Sure..." - *TUCK* - "...honey, do you know why my iPhone won't turn on again?"