I don't think the Debian package is out yet. I've just updated and there's no change to it, so yes there won't be any difference because you've not upgraded yet:) Give it a couple of days for someone to upload a new package.
Plextor have always had a pretty good reputation for CD and DVD drives.. my dad bought their 8x drive recently and I was extremely impressed with it. Absolutely rock solid performance, extremely fast for reading (best digital audio extraction I've seen, ever) - and the bundled software is cool too. None of the usual buggy useless bloatware crap you get with most hardware, it's a neat unobtrusive tool that sits in the systray, but lets you tweak all aspects of the drive's performance, and lets you burn audio and data CDs/DVDs, even with Ogg Vorbis support for ripping and burning! (that really suprised me)
Damn right, and they're overpriced, too. Try living in Selly Oak, Birmingham - 9" pizza with any 3 toppings for 2 quid from the local pizza take-away;)
Something I'd quite like to see is an expansion of the varible watch feature of debuggers. What would be really useful is a set of widgets that you could quickly drag and drop to form a custom "view" of the internals of your program whatever way you liked. Of course it would have to be slightly intelligent and look at how you organised your data structures etc.
Another useful thing would be, a debugger which steps through your program and memorises its state at every point, and lets you backtrack to see where it was a few lines ago. The two of these combined would be the most powerful debugger ever, I think.
Good point. I quite like to install debian from knoppix by creating the partitions and filesystems manually and then running deboostrap on it, compiling a custom kernel, essentially LFS but with debian packages instead. And you get a proper clean debian system out of it:)
It's what you're used to. I could think of a few people that would prefer Windows for the same reasons that you said you preferred Linux. Not that I'm disagreeing with your point of view though, I have also come to rely on a good command-line interface (I run KDE as well). But non-techies will always prefer what they know and what they're used to... at the moment that happens to be XP, if it was KDE running on 95% of desktops they would prefer that;)
Xine is very good, the problem is the interface. The default xine-ui is nasty (wtf did they think that inventing their own widget set was a good idea for?!) - gxine and totem are alright but still a bit limited. What we need is a nice Qt based interface:)
Mplayer is still my player of preference because I can start it from the command line and it just pops up the video in one window, with no extra fluff. But none of them are perfect.
Well actually if google made a google-branded jabber client for windows and run an IM service they could quite possibly break the MSN messenger near-monopoly, and those in the know could use whatever jabber client they felt like. They could even put MSN support in there too to make a switch easier.
It sounds cool but bugger all happens there. There's a bunch of "communities" you can join for people with common interests, unfortunately all they seem to be used for is people sending group messages to them inviting everyone to join their community. Usually in Spanish.
I switched from Gaim to Kopete when KDE 3.2 was released. It fits in better with the rest of my KDE desktop and seems a bit more complete.. it's got all the protocol support gaim has. One particularly nice feature is meta-contacts. If you've got the same person under multiple protocols you can add them to the same meta-contact and they only show up in the list once.
Also supports MSN display pictures and file transfers (although they have a habit of aborting halfway through so no good for big files), and unlike gaim it not only notifies you when the other person closes the chat window, it notifies you when they open one too, before they've even typed anything... people can get very suprised when they open a window and I speak first:)
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From that BBC news article
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Avon and Somerset Police said a Special Branch officer visited Mr Devine after the person who received the message contacted police.
And
Mr Devine, an engineer at Orange, said he was worried when the officer confronted him a month after he had sent the text.
I think you've embellished it a bit
This is like a murderer saying they should have warned me earlier that I will kill a person and go to jail?
I hardly think comparing plagiarism to murder is fair.
The first, duh!
London's not in the USA yet.
I don't think the Debian package is out yet. I've just updated and there's no change to it, so yes there won't be any difference because you've not upgraded yet :) Give it a couple of days for someone to upload a new package.
Greedy opportunistic parasite
Hope google countersues for defamation and he goes down. And stuff.
Why flamebait? He's right. WMV's proprietary, closed, patented, owned by Microsoft, and second-rate. The less we see of it the better.
Some people actually walk or take public transport while they're outside the house. Imagine that?!
Plextor have always had a pretty good reputation for CD and DVD drives.. my dad bought their 8x drive recently and I was extremely impressed with it. Absolutely rock solid performance, extremely fast for reading (best digital audio extraction I've seen, ever) - and the bundled software is cool too. None of the usual buggy useless bloatware crap you get with most hardware, it's a neat unobtrusive tool that sits in the systray, but lets you tweak all aspects of the drive's performance, and lets you burn audio and data CDs/DVDs, even with Ogg Vorbis support for ripping and burning! (that really suprised me)
:)
So yeah, well done Plextor
Don't I know it... my vegetable jalfrezi balti addiction is getting quite concerning ;)
I'm not sure about the ethnicity of the guys at the pizza place, but it's definitely not British. Or Italian.
Damn right, and they're overpriced, too. Try living in Selly Oak, Birmingham - 9" pizza with any 3 toppings for 2 quid from the local pizza take-away ;)
Perceiving underlying data through noise is what neural networks are good at.
yes please
Something I'd quite like to see is an expansion of the varible watch feature of debuggers. What would be really useful is a set of widgets that you could quickly drag and drop to form a custom "view" of the internals of your program whatever way you liked. Of course it would have to be slightly intelligent and look at how you organised your data structures etc.
Another useful thing would be, a debugger which steps through your program and memorises its state at every point, and lets you backtrack to see where it was a few lines ago. The two of these combined would be the most powerful debugger ever, I think.
Good point. I quite like to install debian from knoppix by creating the partitions and filesystems manually and then running deboostrap on it, compiling a custom kernel, essentially LFS but with debian packages instead. And you get a proper clean debian system out of it :)
It's what you're used to. I could think of a few people that would prefer Windows for the same reasons that you said you preferred Linux. Not that I'm disagreeing with your point of view though, I have also come to rely on a good command-line interface (I run KDE as well). But non-techies will always prefer what they know and what they're used to... at the moment that happens to be XP, if it was KDE running on 95% of desktops they would prefer that ;)
I think it's a kind of bar snack.
Xine is very good, the problem is the interface. The default xine-ui is nasty (wtf did they think that inventing their own widget set was a good idea for?!) - gxine and totem are alright but still a bit limited. What we need is a nice Qt based interface :)
Mplayer is still my player of preference because I can start it from the command line and it just pops up the video in one window, with no extra fluff. But none of them are perfect.
It's an imperfect solution, sure. But until you come up with a better idea.... ;)
Well actually if google made a google-branded jabber client for windows and run an IM service they could quite possibly break the MSN messenger near-monopoly, and those in the know could use whatever jabber client they felt like. They could even put MSN support in there too to make a switch easier.
It sounds cool but bugger all happens there. There's a bunch of "communities" you can join for people with common interests, unfortunately all they seem to be used for is people sending group messages to them inviting everyone to join their community. Usually in Spanish.
Why did this get modded down?
:)
I switched from Gaim to Kopete when KDE 3.2 was released. It fits in better with the rest of my KDE desktop and seems a bit more complete.. it's got all the protocol support gaim has. One particularly nice feature is meta-contacts. If you've got the same person under multiple protocols you can add them to the same meta-contact and they only show up in the list once.
Also supports MSN display pictures and file transfers (although they have a habit of aborting halfway through so no good for big files), and unlike gaim it not only notifies you when the other person closes the chat window, it notifies you when they open one too, before they've even typed anything... people can get very suprised when they open a window and I speak first
that would be 2 2 + 4 =, no?
Just because it's quite obviously about music doesn't mean it doesn't suck.