Point, however, remember that for newbies and such, installing and configuring Arch or Debian is also out of the question. So, just provide a package for recent Ubuntu releases, and a tarball for "others" if you don't want to keep sets for other distros around and tested.
I used to use compiz, back on Kubuntu 9.10, and it was great. More recent versions, however... for me, compiz just stopped working right - it'd end up with a framerate of around 10fps, though enabling the benchmark would bring it up where it should be. But now, after using Metacity... I think I'll stay with it. Sure, the cube was shiny... but this is quicker, and doesn't degrade gaming performance while still allowing multiple virtual desktops.
Of course, yo could just do what Teamspeak, or Unigine or others do: Just release a tarball with the binary and most supporting files. Any specific dependancies can be handled by the user, or in some cases, just allow the distros themselves to manage packaging your software up.
Seems to work well enough; Most Linux users don't need the hand-holding of Windows users.
This. With 4.5/4.6, kwin is just slow. It'll freeze display output for a fraction of a second whenever any program updates the titlebar(so anything displaying FPS that way just lags horribly). I ended up swiching to/non-composited/ metacity for my WM... now I have a fast, usable system.
Isn't this sort of what Python is? It allows easy to write code, is available most everywhere, and allows for cross-platform apps - an x86 compatible Python app will generally work on ARM as well. Also, modules for everything.
I don't know why they accept it. That's why I got a Nokia N900. Root available(just install an app) easily, unlocked, open bootloader(so you can dual, triple or quad-boot whatever the hell you want), and a full Linux stack.
Oh, and it's supported using the Sixaxis controller since at *least* January of last year... Not that I care, not having one, but...
Great pipe dream. What will really happen, however, is that any time someone in charge wants to be re-elected, or want funding for something he/she will make the roads run slower(though selective false info, etc) until people vote to fix it.
On top of that, someone will figure out how to get priority for their cars, and that will further mess things up. And that's on top of the kids who will mess things up *just* to cause problems.
Sorry, but any system that's computer controlled can be exploited, either by the users or "big brother".
There are plenty of servers in plenty of countries that would be more than willing to host a VPN and or SSH-based proxy for a fee. Sure, it may require higher latency, but that's not too much of a problem.
Well, you're not going to be PKing in P2P on EDGE, but it's perfectly good for training etc. I recently spent several hours playing while tethered and in the car, going down I5 at 60mph(No, I wasn't driving) and it worked pretty darn well for switching towers on the fly. Not the most responsive, but no worse than satellite.
would explain why Runescape runs perfectly well over dialup or EDGE(4KB/sec) speeds, while most other games do not: The original creators probably had some experience that way.
Yup, and css is even better. Figure that the most common js interactivity - dropdowns and sliding divs - can be done with css too, and it's usually well optimized client-side... yea.
Flash has three uses: 1. Games/apps that want micrphone/webcam input, 1. As a container for video, and 2. As an animatipn framework. . Oh, and advertising, but as I block all flash ads by default, that doesn't matter to me.
Exactly. I'm betting they don't realise that the average person *likes* simple, consise websites. JS and Flash just slow things down and generally don't add much to the usability of the site.
I think this is all just a ploy to provide Intel with a market for their Knights Ferry chips -- this won't run on GPU hardware on current systems apparently, so you need CPU might. Where do you get that? Knights Ferry, obviously.
Still, it sounds very cool, if only for statically-rendered stuff like wallpapers and movies.
Oh, definitely! I've just started doing the same thing, and found the snapshot function of VirtualBox to be invaluable - it means you can take a snapshot of your "working" system, install crap, then power it off and revert those changes. Simple!
Y'know, I don't see the "KDE vs Gnome" problem: Applications using GTK work perfectly well on KDE, and Qt ones work fine on Gnome. Sure, you've got alternative desktop environments... but that's a *good* thing. It means we can have multiple different approaches, no one-size-fits-all crap. For example, KDE's great when you've got the graphical muscle to handle it(like Aero), but I wouldn't run it on an old machine. Conversely, LXDE absolutely flies on my laptop, but it's a bit minimalist for my main desktop. Oh, and I run a mixed system with both Qt and GTK apps, so...
Well, obiously there are nuts, and in certain communities( i.e. #python on freenode) you can have downright nasty people... But if you find a nice community, the Linux users can easily be interesting, if only because they are willing to take the ten seconds to google something and put up an effective arguement. Unlike some...
Because it's too much like taking a bribe. Sure, you can rationalize it into money for X or Y, but if you take money for it, you don't get any respect. Now, I personally see a difference between a lump-sum of money given for snitching and, say, an expenses card and or unemployment for the above reasons...
That being said, the original issue is over software piracy vs the BSA. Personally, I would *never* go to the BSA - they're a criminal orginization in my view. If I ever *had* to report something, I'd go straight to the original company in question and use a half-dozen non-us proxies while doing so, to make sure it was indeed anonymous. But I also believe it would have to be *very* severe to have to do that - Perhaps being in a company making airplane parts who's using an old, bugged, cracked software version which was introducing errors into the final product... which is definitely a Bad Thing. I would always go to management first, and try to get a nice, legal upgrade. Perhaps not possible, but there's always a chance.
Yup, exactly. Some people would choose chrome, some Firefox. Not many would choose IE.
Oh, and if you're looking for intelligence, just look for the users running Linux. While not true in all cases, generally the people you find running Linux will be more intelligent and interesting to talk to, and certainly more willing to learn new things.
You *really* think some low-level worker snitching would have done anything? Talk about misguided. I, for one, saw the warning signs a long time before things melted down. It wasn't exactly secret... It's just that when high level people are paid to look the other way, well, they do it. It may be wrong, but if those people are corrupt, who exactly are you going to snitch *to*?
On top of that, like I said on a different post: It's one thing to whistleblow for moral reasons, but you had *better* not take any money for it. If you do, you're no better than the person you're turning in.
But there's a difference here: It's one thing if it's a unsafe working conditions or something else that risks human life. It's another entirely when the extent of the problem is purely a money one. I'd also argue that if you're going to blow the whistle on something, you'd better be prepared to lose your job, and should *not* take any money for it. It's one thing if you're doing it over a moral obligation, it's another entirely to turn someone in -- and possibly destroy their livelyhood etc. -- for a tiny bit of money.
So, for me this is like a session-cookie, if it even gets loaded: I have my FF cache folder symlinked to a folder in my ram-backed/tmp/ folder(does provide a speed-increase). On shutdown it gets wiped, there goes all my eTags, js and other cached files.
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Point, however, remember that for newbies and such, installing and configuring Arch or Debian is also out of the question. So, just provide a package for recent Ubuntu releases, and a tarball for "others" if you don't want to keep sets for other distros around and tested.
I used to use compiz, back on Kubuntu 9.10, and it was great.
More recent versions, however... for me, compiz just stopped working right - it'd end up with a framerate of around 10fps, though enabling the benchmark would bring it up where it should be.
But now, after using Metacity... I think I'll stay with it. Sure, the cube was shiny... but this is quicker, and doesn't degrade gaming performance while still allowing multiple virtual desktops.
Of course, yo could just do what Teamspeak, or Unigine or others do: Just release a tarball with the binary and most supporting files.
Any specific dependancies can be handled by the user, or in some cases, just allow the distros themselves to manage packaging your software up.
Seems to work well enough; Most Linux users don't need the hand-holding of Windows users.
This. With 4.5/4.6, kwin is just slow. It'll freeze display output for a fraction of a second whenever any program updates the titlebar(so anything displaying FPS that way just lags horribly). I ended up swiching to /non-composited/ metacity for my WM... now I have a fast, usable system.
Isn't this sort of what Python is? It allows easy to write code, is available most everywhere, and allows for cross-platform apps - an x86 compatible Python app will generally work on ARM as well.
Also, modules for everything.
I don't know why they accept it. That's why I got a Nokia N900. Root available(just install an app) easily, unlocked, open bootloader(so you can dual, triple or quad-boot whatever the hell you want), and a full Linux stack.
Oh, and it's supported using the Sixaxis controller since at *least* January of last year... Not that I care, not having one, but...
Yea.
Great pipe dream.
What will really happen, however, is that any time someone in charge wants to be re-elected, or want funding for something he/she will make the roads run slower(though selective false info, etc) until people vote to fix it.
On top of that, someone will figure out how to get priority for their cars, and that will further mess things up. And that's on top of the kids who will mess things up *just* to cause problems.
Sorry, but any system that's computer controlled can be exploited, either by the users or "big brother".
There are plenty of servers in plenty of countries that would be more than willing to host a VPN and or SSH-based proxy for a fee. Sure, it may require higher latency, but that's not too much of a problem.
Well, you're not going to be PKing in P2P on EDGE, but it's perfectly good for training etc.
I recently spent several hours playing while tethered and in the car, going down I5 at 60mph(No, I wasn't driving) and it worked pretty darn well for switching towers on the fly. Not the most responsive, but no worse than satellite.
would explain why Runescape runs perfectly well over dialup or EDGE(4KB/sec) speeds, while most other games do not: The original creators probably had some experience that way.
Yup, and css is even better. Figure that the most common js interactivity - dropdowns and sliding divs - can be done with css too, and it's usually well optimized client-side... yea.
Flash has three uses:
1. Games/apps that want micrphone/webcam input,
1. As a container for video, and
2. As an animatipn framework. .
Oh, and advertising, but as I block all flash ads by default, that doesn't matter to me.
Exactly. I'm betting they don't realise that the average person *likes* simple, consise websites. JS and Flash just slow things down and generally don't add much to the usability of the site.
Yea, I guess you're right - I, for one, would *not* be happy if manual transmissions disappeared, though some would see that as good.
I think this is all just a ploy to provide Intel with a market for their Knights Ferry chips -- this won't run on GPU hardware on current systems apparently, so you need CPU might. Where do you get that? Knights Ferry, obviously.
Still, it sounds very cool, if only for statically-rendered stuff like wallpapers and movies.
Oh, definitely!
I've just started doing the same thing, and found the snapshot function of VirtualBox to be invaluable - it means you can take a snapshot of your "working" system, install crap, then power it off and revert those changes. Simple!
Hm... so what you're saying is that it takes over 16 Mac users to equal one windows user? Wow, that sure doesn't bode well... :D
Y'know, I don't see the "KDE vs Gnome" problem: Applications using GTK work perfectly well on KDE, and Qt ones work fine on Gnome. Sure, you've got alternative desktop environments... but that's a *good* thing. It means we can have multiple different approaches, no one-size-fits-all crap.
For example, KDE's great when you've got the graphical muscle to handle it(like Aero), but I wouldn't run it on an old machine. Conversely, LXDE absolutely flies on my laptop, but it's a bit minimalist for my main desktop.
Oh, and I run a mixed system with both Qt and GTK apps, so...
Well, obiously there are nuts, and in certain communities( i.e. #python on freenode) you can have downright nasty people... But if you find a nice community, the Linux users can easily be interesting, if only because they are willing to take the ten seconds to google something and put up an effective arguement. Unlike some...
Because it's too much like taking a bribe. Sure, you can rationalize it into money for X or Y, but if you take money for it, you don't get any respect. Now, I personally see a difference between a lump-sum of money given for snitching and, say, an expenses card and or unemployment for the above reasons...
That being said, the original issue is over software piracy vs the BSA. Personally, I would *never* go to the BSA - they're a criminal orginization in my view. If I ever *had* to report something, I'd go straight to the original company in question and use a half-dozen non-us proxies while doing so, to make sure it was indeed anonymous. But I also believe it would have to be *very* severe to have to do that - Perhaps being in a company making airplane parts who's using an old, bugged, cracked software version which was introducing errors into the final product... which is definitely a Bad Thing.
I would always go to management first, and try to get a nice, legal upgrade. Perhaps not possible, but there's always a chance.
Yup, exactly. Some people would choose chrome, some Firefox. Not many would choose IE.
Oh, and if you're looking for intelligence, just look for the users running Linux. While not true in all cases, generally the people you find running Linux will be more intelligent and interesting to talk to, and certainly more willing to learn new things.
You *really* think some low-level worker snitching would have done anything? Talk about misguided. I, for one, saw the warning signs a long time before things melted down. It wasn't exactly secret... It's just that when high level people are paid to look the other way, well, they do it. It may be wrong, but if those people are corrupt, who exactly are you going to snitch *to*?
On top of that, like I said on a different post: It's one thing to whistleblow for moral reasons, but you had *better* not take any money for it. If you do, you're no better than the person you're turning in.
Yes... but so what? My solution is designed for better performance; getting rid of the cache on shutdown is just a side effect.
But there's a difference here: It's one thing if it's a unsafe working conditions or something else that risks human life. It's another entirely when the extent of the problem is purely a money one. I'd also argue that if you're going to blow the whistle on something, you'd better be prepared to lose your job, and should *not* take any money for it. It's one thing if you're doing it over a moral obligation, it's another entirely to turn someone in -- and possibly destroy their livelyhood etc. -- for a tiny bit of money.
So, for me this is like a session-cookie, if it even gets loaded: I have my FF cache folder symlinked to a folder in my ram-backed /tmp/ folder(does provide a speed-increase). On shutdown it gets wiped, there goes all my eTags, js and other cached files.