Hey, dude, check out our policies rather than relying on FUD.. We hardly want to go back to the stone age.
A great little summary of the Greens policies are available from the 'Policy Snapshot Booklet'. PDF available here
I'm not really sure what policy you are refering to - but, for example, the Greens environmental policy embraces new technology that is environmentally friendly.. We don't expect people to be all riding around in little stone cars that are foot powered like the flindstones.
Furthermore, Family First do NOT have any politicans in parliament atm. They have a chance of winning one upper house seat in South Australia. That, however, would not be enough to pass such a law. Even if they had the balance of power.
The two moderate-right parties (liberal - in government and labour - in opposition) would never be stupid enough to agree to something like this.
Yes, if Family First ended up holding the balance in the upper house, things would be fucked, but not this fucked.
most people do realise and accept your point of view. However, since our sort of life / intelligence is the only one that we know, its the only one we can work on.
Some web sites have images hosted on another machine. The company I work for did that for some time, as bandwidth was cheaper on our image machine but we had less control over it.
(So basically, from my testing, it looks like ghostscript makes HUGE postscript files which it then sends to the printer, and takes much longer because the files are so huge).
Wine[X]/Cedega uses only one wineserver for a single user (under normal situations) no matter how many wine programs are running. That has always been the case.
What TransGaming have been working on is a shared memory wineserver, so there isn't so much overhead with context switching and stuff like that.
Anyhow, it has been done, and is now available/active in Cedega 4.0
From the release notes: * The previously slow path for client to server communication
has been redesigned for more speed. By improving on the
previous prototype design, we have been able to get a 5 fold
speed up on certain operations. We call this functionality
Accelerated Interprocess Communication and it allows some
games such as American McGee's Alice to achieve much higher
performance.
The guy is basically saying that this way of browsing your desktop is better for you, so shut up and get used to it.
Thats just insane.
Users have their way of using their desktop, and software should adapt to that. Yes - software should push new ideas. However, when users flat out reject them it is not the place of the developers to say "quit your bitching, we know what is best for you."
As for the guy that wrote the article, attacking users that complain and don't know how to use gconf? What, only power users are allowed to choose how their desktop feels?.. [ as a side not, perhaps if gconf wasn't so crap... ]
Re:iTunes sharing / DAAP / TunesBrowser / GetTunes
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Yep, I already read those two things on some website.
It looks from the binary that the encryption is aes. It shouldn't be too hard to break their aes key.
I'm surprised there isn't already someone doing the apple lossless codec.
Well I can't read whatever language the web page is in.. But from the one picture I saw, and the map, it aint sailing. Sailing is when you have a boat with a sail, and the boat move as the result of wind power.
What they seem to be doing is 'warboating'.
As far as I can tell from the map there is no way a sail boat could get around that route.
Re:Reverse engineering the broadcast protocol
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It will likely just be DAAP with the abillity to push music up. For DAAP see my iTunes website
iTunes sharing / DAAP / TunesBrowser / GetTunes.
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So I've just checked iTunes 4.6 and it appears to NOT break iTunes sharing, unlike last time.
Anyhow, one really cool feature that it seems to add for that AirTunes stuff is the ability to 'push' music upwards, rather than just pull down. This will allow one to control remote devices (what music is playing). Now I just can't wait to get my hands on an (Australian) AirPort Express device to reverse it. I can already think of a tonne of applications for this.
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Hey, dude, check out our policies rather than relying on FUD.. We hardly want to go back to the stone age.
A great little summary of the Greens policies are available from the 'Policy Snapshot Booklet'. PDF available here
I'm not really sure what policy you are refering to - but, for example, the Greens environmental policy embraces new technology that is environmentally friendly.. We don't expect people to be all riding around in little stone cars that are foot powered like the flindstones.
nah, vote green, preference labor.
Furthermore, Family First do NOT have any politicans in parliament atm. They have a chance of winning one upper house seat in South Australia. That, however, would not be enough to pass such a law. Even if they had the balance of power.
The two moderate-right parties (liberal - in government and labour - in opposition) would never be stupid enough to agree to something like this.
Yes, if Family First ended up holding the balance in the upper house, things would be fucked, but not this fucked.
I'm a political activist for the Greens, Australia's main left wing progressive party.
Family first is a FAR RIGHT party!
Not left!
David
I do believe its season 6, episode 7. 'once more with feeling'. If I recall correctly.
most people do realise and accept your point of view. However, since our sort of life / intelligence is the only one that we know, its the only one we can work on.
Some web sites have images hosted on another machine. The company I work for did that for some time, as bandwidth was cheaper on our image machine but we had less control over it.
Ghostscript is painfully slow under some situations.
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Check this out:
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=68691
They are improving it, however.
David
(So basically, from my testing, it looks like ghostscript makes HUGE postscript files which it then sends to the printer, and takes much longer because the files are so huge).
Well what you are saying is sort of wrong.
Wine[X]/Cedega uses only one wineserver for a single user (under normal situations) no matter how many wine programs are running. That has always been the case.
What TransGaming have been working on is a shared memory wineserver, so there isn't so much overhead with context switching and stuff like that.
Anyhow, it has been done, and is now available/active in Cedega 4.0
From the release notes:
* The previously slow path for client to server communication
has been redesigned for more speed. By improving on the
previous prototype design, we have been able to get a 5 fold
speed up on certain operations. We call this functionality
Accelerated Interprocess Communication and it allows some
games such as American McGee's Alice to achieve much higher
performance.
(get them here).
David
The bug also exists in the XBox version, so I hear.
Err,
Perhaps its an exam situation or something, and the exam is online?
As I understand it, Firefox is supposed to be faster/lighter than Mozilla.
On windows I notice that its pretty fast, very responsive.
However on my faster Linux machine the same thing can't be said.. It runs fairly slowly there.
Is this a known problem, something they intend to address.. or am I just imagining it?
I think OS =< 9 was sort of like that.* OSX is the new pretty thing that is actually an acceptable OS :)
* Not really sure though. I never used OS =< 9 all that much.
The guy is basically saying that this way of browsing your desktop is better for you, so shut up and get used to it.
Thats just insane.
Users have their way of using their desktop, and software should adapt to that. Yes - software should push new ideas. However, when users flat out reject them it is not the place of the developers to say "quit your bitching, we know what is best for you."
As for the guy that wrote the article, attacking users that complain and don't know how to use gconf? What, only power users are allowed to choose how their desktop feels?.. [ as a side not, perhaps if gconf wasn't so crap... ]
Yep, I already read those two things on some website.
It looks from the binary that the encryption is aes. It shouldn't be too hard to break their aes key.
I'm surprised there isn't already someone doing the apple lossless codec.
Nah I haven't, no spare cash for it right now.
I'm a sailer, I know about such things.. But you have to tack to get upwind, which is very hard to do in a river (since they are generally too narrow)
Well I can't read whatever language the web page is in.. But from the one picture I saw, and the map, it aint sailing.
Sailing is when you have a boat with a sail, and the boat move as the result of wind power.
What they seem to be doing is 'warboating'.
As far as I can tell from the map there is no way a sail boat could get around that route.
It will likely just be DAAP with the abillity to push music up. For DAAP see my iTunes website
So I've just checked iTunes 4.6 and it appears to NOT break iTunes sharing, unlike last time.
I've updated my iTunes webpage to mention this.
Anyhow, one really cool feature that it seems to add for that AirTunes stuff is the ability to 'push' music upwards, rather than just pull down. This will allow one to control remote devices (what music is playing). Now I just can't wait to get my hands on an (Australian) AirPort Express device to reverse it. I can already think of a tonne of applications for this.
There is an interesting thread on wine-devel about this, basically we just don't know what its going on about:
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http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2004/0
I switched to evolution recently, from KMail (my kde isntall went bang).
And I have to say I'm less than happy.
It has shitty imap filtering support (they keep closing the bug saying its because I'm using "two imap clients" - I'm not).
It crashes occasionally.
Has shitty trash management.
If my net disconnets whilest its checking mail, 'cancel' doesn't work, I have to wait around for like 10 minutes for it to time out.
Gnome 2 apps seem to have some weird redraw problem.
A number of other gripes I have with it that I can't remember.
And yes, I report the bugs. The ximian people seem in denial about most bugs.
Its not linux.
No link now, but I remember he said it wasn't worth it, because MS VS was really good (especially with compile-changes-whilest-running).
Though XCode now does that, so I don't see why GDB can't.
Yes,
and that word count feature is not sufficient for the majority of my work.
David
This isn't really a true wordcount feature.. Sure it tells you the number of words in the document, but thats about all really - not enough.