There is if you want to compile it for your self (this will be more work on windows than Linux though).
Mozilla only release 32-bit binaries. 64-bit Linux distros compile it and then add it to repositories for you (this is one advantage of having the source). There probably is a third party site who will compile and package it for windows then drop the flash player plug-in into the plugins folder.
The point of GPU super computer is to have a lot of cores working at a slow speed most GPUs in the hybrids only have a small am amount of cores mine has 80. The point the hybrids is to be able to include low power graphics without the need for extra hardware thus reducing cost.
GPU clusters or just stand alone GPUs would like to have as many cores as possible compared to the rest of the machine. To achieve this effectively you want to buy a somewhat bear bones system and stick some cost effective high end GPUs with cooling in it.
Buying hybrids would mean that as you pay more you would likely get an improved GPU and CPU when the extra CPU is redundant. Plus it makes it much harder to keep booth cool.
I would say that though they will approach a limit they stalled at 2Tb due to the 2 TB limitation of the msdos pt/BIOS (after 2TB it loops back and overwrites other). When windows finally includes comprehensive GPT support i would think that the demand for larger hard drives would increase so they will attempt to carry on the increase.
I think you missed my point (and I completely missed the point of the article thank to the opening sentence, so no one was actually calling gnome hard to understand). I was saying that if you get over the windows habits they are both reasonably intuitive on how to do things and the gnome interface is not significantly harder to understand.
With reference to the single click opening i think its initially quite confusing if you are using it for a first time in a rush especially if you want to select something. While i agree that for normal folder browsing it could make sense. making it harder to select things (i know you can click in corner) and not being able to arbitrary single click in the file manager (to say change focus) and including that if i know what file I’m looking for i will generally use a CLI. I can see from an RSI and mouse longevity point of view it would be a good thing though a single click for a large action is not intuitive. I use gnome for would i guess you could call a more 'passive' desktop.
Its not like windows, but all of the layouts i have seen (default and opensuse being the main ones) are somewhat obvious where everything is and extra features are pretty easy to ignore. Is the multiple desktops that are confusing or the bar on top?
KDE also has some confusing interface differences form windows in some of its applications. Such as the default single click opening of files and folders.
I am a long time gnome user and i never heard complain that the layout is confusing.
I suspect that if you installed from the live CD the 700MB limit was too small and they thought you might need some more packages (libre office is pretty big to fit on a live CD). You might be able to click undo and does not say again.
I would think that network manager would be useful if you have so many wireless options to take up a quarter of the screen. After you have picked the network you want you never have open the drop down menu again it will just default to the last used.
Slow installation (I already had a/home partition and it took about 10 minutes only "preparing the configuration" with a heavy I/O load), slow package manager as usual (compared to synaptic. Zypper is quite good in contrast), KDE is once again a bloated monster (Akonadi stole 200MB of my home directory and the network manager looks cool, but has too many unnecessary stuff.
I remember the installer interface lagging when installing RC1 and 11.3 but the config has never taken more than 30 secs. Your sentence is confusing but i would not call zypper slow (slower mirrors and lzma decompression might influence it though).
You can turn network manager off in yast and set it up to use 'ifup' which works well if for my desktop with a wired connection. If you really care about resources you can install the latest xfce.
I have an alternate theory: maybe they're just a bunch of liars, answering with "what they think would sound better" instead of answering with the truth since the issue itself is unimportant. Little white lies, if you will.
Half of all research that gets an article published in the news (my local news anyway) has the same problem but its valid science for consumers. Slashdot polls are probably just as accurate as research like this.
I know browser hackers are not necessarily quite as skilled as (open)bsd hackers (but have success much more often) but i would think that the effort to make a hardware exploit that is undetectable to a winner would be more effort than its worth (it would have to survive a motherboard inspection and behave like the regular component almost all of the time) when it is likely that most hacking would be done from a desktop.
Or if you think hacking the browser did the damage i think they win when they can execute some arbitrary code on the other machine (not that damaging unless the excitable was intended to do so)
note the if conditional statement >> if(paranoid || illegal hacker) if he was he might see the need to do this
google mac address changer for me. I don’t know the specifics but its not on the motherboard its on network hardware so proof of concept would be to swap out the hardware.
Why?? You would have a rather good understanding of what you just did to the computer so you can fix it.
Or if you are worried about being traced as a hacker the hard drive would immediately be formatted and os reinstalled and if you are especially paranoid or do illegal hacking change the MAC address.
Though i could see that getting everyone able to connect to the server could be frustrating. A large number of Linux distributions come with a mail server on the install disk (are these just never used?). Yast (openSUSE) has wizard that appears to allow you to set a mail server in 3 min if you can figure out what to put in a few fields (A reasonable tutorial should be able to solve this).
I’m just curious as to how much it would be to setup (hardware costs) a local BSD or linux SMTP or pop mail server for say a business of 50 or 100 people?
I would think that you could turn a lot of background noise into something that looks like a message.
Assuming that they need not have an alphabet based language and could use communication with zero redundancy i would expect you could get something that could look like data modulated with with amplitude, frequency and phase over a short period. Of course they are likely to have some kind of error detection/correction but that could be found at another frequency.
by making the course sufficiently hard that people who chose to spend lectures on facebook end up stuck in first year.
Or they could block outside traffic on the lecture theater wireless but still allow students to access uni/college email and relevant lecture material. This should solve the problem without banning computers.
Im saying that for teaching 'programming 101' to a large group ruby would be a poor choice, to teach the whole class (including the students with little natural talent) basic programming, when you consider the other possible languages.
Just guessing (!!!) that you talking about an enterprise situation (with ruby and java) where you have code already written with smart people who know what the code is suppose to do using the tutorial to learn the syntax of implementation. If you are teaching people to just learn ruby to modify or write scripts for a specific purpose then teaching ruby directly is a good idea.
Tryruby.org is for people with knowledge of another language not for teaching basic programming principles.
Though i have no first hand experience at teaching ruby, people who were to learn ruby would either learn to stick to small subset of the language due to experience of felling like a complete idiot for not getting some of the difficult concepts require to understand the fun stuff in ruby. Or in case of self learning and searching for example code to solve problems will also encounter these concepts. I learnt C in a course where people had the option of not taking further programming courses and took it because they chose to bullshit there way though it rather than struggle to get there head around things, trying to get ruby would be much harder.
I guess it would not be bad if you just wanted to teach the basics of ruby, but they would then have to completely relearn everything to move to other mainstream languages and not also understand the stuff that makes ruby a good language.
Python as other people have said is the best possible replacement to basic. While you could use ruby there are a number of pitfalls and problems that i don’t think python or other more consistent languages would have. Read the 'zen of python' i keeps confusing parts of the language to a minimum.
Monkey patching is probably a bad example when i think about it.
The main reason i was thinking of is that there are multiple ways to do the same thing. Some generalized example would be: Different syntax for writing blocs one or multiple lines For/while loops can use *.each, num.times... can be use to generate the same resault (where to use each one is not immediately obvious if your witting your first program) Procs and lambdas
These make the code readable as English with poor syntax but hide basic coding structure.
Mainly python is a similar language but just so much better for teaching programming, i can see no reason to pick ruby. I prefer ruby as a language because of the choices but they are not beneficial to new programmers
Ruby is a terrible language to teach programming, there is so much stuff that needs to be used responsibly. While the language is nice to read, monkey patching and other stuff should not be an option for someone learning programming basics.
For teaching general programming in my opinion is the best language by far. The 'Zen' structure provides consistency when learning the language. The only thing i don’t like about python is the using indenting instead of end or;.
I think there is just a huge amount of Bandwidth that was allocated for the analogue tv spectrum, thus the main limitation required transmission power which can be bought as cap. Also the receiving technology is already installed.
This would be even more effective in a rural environment as there would be fewer people in range of each antenna.
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There is if you want to compile it for your self (this will be more work on windows than Linux though).
Mozilla only release 32-bit binaries. 64-bit Linux distros compile it and then add it to repositories for you (this is one advantage of having the source). There probably is a third party site who will compile and package it for windows then drop the flash player plug-in into the plugins folder.
The point of GPU super computer is to have a lot of cores working at a slow speed most GPUs in the hybrids only have a small am amount of cores mine has 80. The point the hybrids is to be able to include low power graphics without the need for extra hardware thus reducing cost.
GPU clusters or just stand alone GPUs would like to have as many cores as possible compared to the rest of the machine. To achieve this effectively you want to buy a somewhat bear bones system and stick some cost effective high end GPUs with cooling in it.
Buying hybrids would mean that as you pay more you would likely get an improved GPU and CPU when the extra CPU is redundant. Plus it makes it much harder to keep booth cool.
I would say that though they will approach a limit they stalled at 2Tb due to the 2 TB limitation of the msdos pt/BIOS (after 2TB it loops back and overwrites other).
When windows finally includes comprehensive GPT support i would think that the demand for larger hard drives would increase so they will attempt to carry on the increase.
I think you missed my point (and I completely missed the point of the article thank to the opening sentence, so no one was actually calling gnome hard to understand). I was saying that if you get over the windows habits they are both reasonably intuitive on how to do things and the gnome interface is not significantly harder to understand.
With reference to the single click opening i think its initially quite confusing if you are using it for a first time in a rush especially if you want to select something. While i agree that for normal folder browsing it could make sense. making it harder to select things (i know you can click in corner) and not being able to arbitrary single click in the file manager (to say change focus) and including that if i know what file I’m looking for i will generally use a CLI. I can see from an RSI and mouse longevity point of view it would be a good thing though a single click for a large action is not intuitive. I use gnome for would i guess you could call a more 'passive' desktop.
Ctl+shift+H to open history window
Type in the common keyword or url: "points" or "url hunter"
C-a all the selection and press delete
This also works well for other sites
Its not like windows, but all of the layouts i have seen (default and opensuse being the main ones) are somewhat obvious where everything is and extra features are pretty easy to ignore. Is the multiple desktops that are confusing or the bar on top?
KDE also has some confusing interface differences form windows in some of its applications. Such as the default single click opening of files and folders.
I am a long time gnome user and i never heard complain that the layout is confusing.
Or did i miss the part that is about gnome 3?
I suspect that if you installed from the live CD the 700MB limit was too small and they thought you might need some more packages (libre office is pretty big to fit on a live CD). You might be able to click undo and does not say again.
I would think that network manager would be useful if you have so many wireless options to take up a quarter of the screen. After you have picked the network you want you never have open the drop down menu again it will just default to the last used.
Slow installation (I already had a /home partition and it took about 10 minutes only "preparing the configuration" with a heavy I/O load), slow package manager as usual (compared to synaptic. Zypper is quite good in contrast), KDE is once again a bloated monster (Akonadi stole 200MB of my home directory and the network manager looks cool, but has too many unnecessary stuff.
I remember the installer interface lagging when installing RC1 and 11.3 but the config has never taken more than 30 secs. Your sentence is confusing but i would not call zypper slow (slower mirrors and lzma decompression might influence it though).
You can turn network manager off in yast and set it up to use 'ifup' which works well if for my desktop with a wired connection. If you really care about resources you can install the latest xfce.
I have an alternate theory: maybe they're just a bunch of liars, answering with "what they think would sound better" instead of answering with the truth since the issue itself is unimportant. Little white lies, if you will.
Half of all research that gets an article published in the news (my local news anyway) has the same problem but its valid science for consumers. Slashdot polls are probably just as accurate as research like this.
I know browser hackers are not necessarily quite as skilled as (open)bsd hackers (but have success much more often) but i would think that the effort to make a hardware exploit that is undetectable to a winner would be more effort than its worth (it would have to survive a motherboard inspection and behave like the regular component almost all of the time) when it is likely that most hacking would be done from a desktop.
Or if you think hacking the browser did the damage i think they win when they can execute some arbitrary code on the other machine (not that damaging unless the excitable was intended to do so)
note the if conditional statement >> if(paranoid || illegal hacker)
if he was he might see the need to do this
google mac address changer for me. I don’t know the specifics but its not on the motherboard its on network hardware so proof of concept would be to swap out the hardware.
Why?? You would have a rather good understanding of what you just did to the computer so you can fix it.
Or if you are worried about being traced as a hacker the hard drive would immediately be formatted and os reinstalled and if you are especially paranoid or do illegal hacking change the MAC address.
Error Messages: Element CURURL is undefined in REQUEST.
The whole site is down....
Are there no decent wizard based setups?
Though i could see that getting everyone able to connect to the server could be frustrating. A large number of Linux distributions come with a mail server on the install disk (are these just never used?). Yast (openSUSE) has wizard that appears to allow you to set a mail server in 3 min if you can figure out what to put in a few fields (A reasonable tutorial should be able to solve this).
I’m just curious as to how much it would be to setup (hardware costs) a local BSD or linux SMTP or pop mail server for say a business of 50 or 100 people?
I would think that you could turn a lot of background noise into something that looks like a message.
Assuming that they need not have an alphabet based language and could use communication with zero redundancy i would expect you could get something that could look like data modulated with with amplitude, frequency and phase over a short period. Of course they are likely to have some kind of error detection/correction but that could be found at another frequency.
why do they want to make you go though the buying process again to install it on a sixth device.
by making the course sufficiently hard that people who chose to spend lectures on facebook end up stuck in first year.
Or they could block outside traffic on the lecture theater wireless but still allow students to access uni/college email and relevant lecture material. This should solve the problem without banning computers.
Im saying that for teaching 'programming 101' to a large group ruby would be a poor choice, to teach the whole class (including the students with little natural talent) basic programming, when you consider the other possible languages.
Just guessing (!!!) that you talking about an enterprise situation (with ruby and java) where you have code already written with smart people who know what the code is suppose to do using the tutorial to learn the syntax of implementation. If you are teaching people to just learn ruby to modify or write scripts for a specific purpose then teaching ruby directly is a good idea.
Tryruby.org is for people with knowledge of another language not for teaching basic programming principles.
Though i have no first hand experience at teaching ruby, people who were to learn ruby would either learn to stick to small subset of the language due to experience of felling like a complete idiot for not getting some of the difficult concepts require to understand the fun stuff in ruby. Or in case of self learning and searching for example code to solve problems will also encounter these concepts. I learnt C in a course where people had the option of not taking further programming courses and took it because they chose to bullshit there way though it rather than struggle to get there head around things, trying to get ruby would be much harder.
I guess it would not be bad if you just wanted to teach the basics of ruby, but they would then have to completely relearn everything to move to other mainstream languages and not also understand the stuff that makes ruby a good language.
Python as other people have said is the best possible replacement to basic. While you could use ruby there are a number of pitfalls and problems that i don’t think python or other more consistent languages would have. Read the 'zen of python' i keeps confusing parts of the language to a minimum.
Monkey patching is probably a bad example when i think about it.
The main reason i was thinking of is that there are multiple ways to do the same thing. Some generalized example would be: ... can be use to generate the same resault (where to use each one is not immediately obvious if your witting your first program)
Different syntax for writing blocs one or multiple lines
For/while loops can use *.each, num.times
Procs and lambdas
These make the code readable as English with poor syntax but hide basic coding structure.
Mainly python is a similar language but just so much better for teaching programming, i can see no reason to pick ruby. I prefer ruby as a language because of the choices but they are not beneficial to new programmers
Ruby is a terrible language to teach programming, there is so much stuff that needs to be used responsibly. While the language is nice to read, monkey patching and other stuff should not be an option for someone learning programming basics.
For teaching general programming in my opinion is the best language by far. The 'Zen' structure provides consistency when learning the language. The only thing i don’t like about python is the using indenting instead of end or ;.
I think there is just a huge amount of Bandwidth that was allocated for the analogue tv spectrum, thus the main limitation required transmission power which can be bought as cap. Also the receiving technology is already installed.
This would be even more effective in a rural environment as there would be fewer people in range of each antenna.