Actually, the biggest false assumption I can see here was the number of kills Buffy does. This was raised in series four when she was talking to the initiative, discussing the number of kills she had. From memory, it was thousands, or several per night (which is pretty much in keeping with what you see on the show). Even at one per night (way too low from what I've seen) that would be 365 per year, or alot more than was assumed on the web site.
Wasn't expecting it to do so well really. It's such an old joke after all.
Yeah, right. People have been making that joke for years, no?
I was expecting a few comments in the same spirit perhaps, but not people actually thinking I was serious.
I knew it was an inane comment, but I couldn't absolutely rule out that 91degrees was just ignorant. More importantly, it was distinctly possible that some the people reading the post might think it was based on fact.
I really wish the media would stop trying to cash in on the events of 9/11. I think this title will upset many people.
Actually, it was the name of the second book a long time before 9/11. In fact, it really has nothing to do with the WTC, except by your own interpretation.
I've heard many arguments that the distances needed to be covered did not lend itself to high speed trains.
Well it depends on what you are planning. The monorail in Sydney, Australia was sold as the mass transportation of the future here. They tried to take the concept from Japan. Which is somehwat ironic, as its mainly used for transporting the Japanese tourists in Sydney.
Mass transport it isn't, so check your schematics before you praise it as the solution to urban transit.
I just wanted to know, WHY on earth MS would use the directory name 'Program Files' when so often installers and path names, etc. can only work with the 8.3 format and end up calling it 'PROGRA~1'. Plus, the space in the file path screws up some apps... just WTF were they thinking? Why not call it 'Applications'?
Actually, "Programs" would have been better. No abbreviations.
Sorry, but I think airplanes are dangerous. I know they were used in Sept 11. But I do think that the ease that airplanes can be obtained in the US is questionable at best. I know a lot of people get a lot of quite innocent pleasure from using airplanes, and I think this pastime should be protected, but I personally don't see the need for normal citizens to own airplanes.
It would be easier to stop someone from misusing an airplane, if you could stop him from (legally) owning it.
I'm just rephrasing what was said in earnest about guns, and then in parody about computers.
I'd like to put a case that both of these viewpoints are compatible. It just depends on the tool and its potential for harm.
A rogue airplane does more damage than a rogue computer user. After September 11 this would be hard to refute. And many times more Americans die each year from guns than ever did in 9-11.
That is the real case for gun restriction.
-Count the bodies. -Regulate appropriately.
Works for computers, guns, airplanes, smallpox and fissionable material.
I always use computers to make analogies. Of course the person I am talking to has to be knowledgeable with computers. Makes getting a point across much easier.
How do helicopters and other personal aircraft _not_ qualify as flying cars?
Because there's not one in my garage.
You know, just when we are getting to terms with how poorly we handle technology, we go wishing for a better one.
Its taken us decades to build safer roads, invent seatbelts, crumple zones, anti lock braking, all wheel drive and air bags.
Now we are here wanting to be able to personally lift tonnes of metal kilometers into the sky so that 18 year olds can do laps of the city whilst drunk hoping to impress girls by how close they can swoop a building?
Can't you see that we do have flying vehicles, they aren't terribly expensive (esp. ultralight aircraft), and that nobody in their right mind would suggest that they gain mass acceptance.
Having said all that, do you really want to have one in your garage (and everyone else's, too)?
My 2c
Michael
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Maybe because I don't draw pictures?
I have no problem with that. There is nothing wrong with bash, provided you don't want to draw pictures. If you do, well, you are going to be a little stuck.
Its just one example of things that actually work better under a GUI rather than a CLI.
The point is, if you only use the command line, there are classes of activities that you are missing out on. Whether thats important to you is another matter.
Just my 2c worth:)
Michael
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What's wrong with Bash?
Ahh, a rare breed. A true command line supporter!
I suppose you are goint to tell me that you can draw pictures faster in the gimp using a keyboard than a mouse?
Nothing is wrong with bash. (Ok, there are other shells, I'm aware - so don't flame me on this).
But there are other ways to interact with a computer, and sometimes a graphical interface is better, like for... er... graphics, for example.
ust FYI, I figured out to drive a car in less than 5 minutes, well before I was taught. It takes just a few moments and you've got it. Shifting took a bit longer, maybe 10 minuts
Yes, same for me. I figured out how to drive in just a few minutes by casual observation, and in just a few moments I was away and happy. I didn't get to shifting, because I hit a wall first. Mostly because I was too small at the time to see over the dashboard.
Still, I cant complain that the user interface wasn't intuitative.
You can't ignore other people's intellectual property, damnit. Only pirates would do that kind of stuff.
True, but you can redefine how much of their intellectual property they own.
Seems strange? Well, copyrights have been extended a couple of times (mostly at the whim of large content providers) in legislation. Otherwise, all of Elvis's work would be in the public domain by now, for example. Just like nobody owns Beethoven's or Mozart's work.
The truth is, its not as if intellectual property is a black and white issue.
The final scene in the final episode was truly memorable.
Yes, it was a dark ending. Until I read the official sequel "Afterlife". Which was so dark I wished that it had just stopped with the movie series.
Michael
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On the other hand, Red Carpet remains the quickest way to destroy a perfectly functioning Linux box.
Its sad that someone chose to moderate your statement as flamebait. What you say is true. I lost a linux install from Red Carpet, and no longer touch it. I'm sure its an intermittent fault, but its pretty major to me. Its clearly a world away from the open source linux kernel which is rock steady
Having said that - I love evolution. It meets all my expectations and more for eMail. I'm sure that other people see a need for Kmail, etc, but personally I would be happy if it were the only eMail manager in a distro (thats a personal opinion, not a flame).
So I'm hardly going to criticise ximian for their software overall. However, poor installers mean a serious hit to the credibility of ximian, which is unfortunate. In the long run red carpet will do more damage to ximian than anything else will.
Don't hate them because they're popular and (somewhat) successful; they are not evil, or power-lusting, etc. They do a pretty good job, and are good community citizens.
Red Hat makes money from providing service to companies. They follow the underlying GPL philosophy that the software should be free as in speech, (and cheap as in beer).
You pay for what you get with Red Hat. The truth is, making a copy of a CD is cheap, for Red Hat, for Microsoft, for anyone. Microsoft has made billions selling $1 CD's for >$100 each. Its a great business model. If you actually use M$ support, you pay alot more (although this may actually be worth it, depending on your needs).
Ok, so now Red Hat is aiming right into M$ territory - the corporate desktop. Which is also pretty close to the home desktop for most people.
That means that their software is starting to look superficially like windows. Its time that the Linux command line zealots got over this. If you like your command prompt, thats fine by me (its a fantastic tool). But Linux is moving into corporate territory for people who don't do dos, or bash, or anything much else like that.
This is a GOOD thing. Linux has needed a good GUI user interface and powerful desktop apps for a while, and now they are starting to happen. (Obviously many of them come from outside of Red Hat - like Evolution, Mozilla, Open Office)
Just because Red Hat is supplying people that sort of stuff doesn't make them Microsoft. The more corporations Red Hat services, the better things will be for Linux. Their fundamental model is that of selling service, not software. And that is fair enough. If you want to have time on a phone getting help from someone, that really does cost money - its economically rational. If you want to get some software, it shouldn't cost a weeks wage for a bulk replicated disk that comes with an EULA denying any implied functionality.
And this is a key difference. With Red Hat, you pay for what you get. With microsoft, you pay an arbitrary amount which gets ratcheted up yearly to maintain a good EBIT on the microsoft balance sheet.
As far as the humman eye comment, well, just because you record at 12000 fps, doesn't mean you play it back at 12000 fps...
Well, don't tell that to the hard core gamers - I'm sure some of them would pay alot of money to get a video card that does even 1000 fps.:-)
Actually, motion looks fairly fluid above 25 frames per second (although your monitor will need to refresh at least 3 times that speed to avoid flicker).
Select the text you want to paste somewhere else. Move to the new document. Hit your middle mouse button. I haven't seen a single program that doesn't allow this, right down to old Xlib apps.
I guess you haven't used open office, then.
My copy of open office uses a middle mouse click to activate a scroll widget.
Or did you just repeat whatever your local Microsoft-representative told you?
Or are you being zealous to the point of not admitting problems with linux?
I've switched over to RH Linux for my workstations for about 3 months now (Have used Linux as a server for much longer). It finally got the level that met all essential criteria for running functional apps (Open Office, Evolution, Galeon and successful execution of all M$ card games under wine!) for myself and wife.
So I'm hardly anti-Linux. But copy and paste between most apps and open office seems to often not happen.
Just because Linux is rapidly becoming the best desktop system doesn't mean that everything about it is the best. So if someone says that there is a problem with the clipboard, the right response is to work on fixing it. Denial of problem is a Microsoft trait (esp. with security issues). I don't think that the Linux community really this sort of attitude. Anyway, most microsoft representatives don't know enough about linux to criticise it meaningfully.
If something's informative and deserves modding up, it gets modded up
Yes, it usually does. However, uninformative M$ bashing often gets modded up on slashdot too. (Not to say that the multitude of M$ problems shouldn't be mentioned, just that ignorant slanging doesn't add to the cause much at all)
Well, yes. MySQL doesn't do that, you're right
Yes, MySQL has problems. The biggest issue is often scalability - just because it will work fine on a small project doesn't mean that its going to scale to the enterprise level. A similar comment could be made of the M$ Access & the Jet DB - perfectly fine for a single user app, doesn't scale well at all.
In fact, while I think that MS Access provides a nice RAD environment for (very) small projects, I have no doubt that the future for MySQL and PostgreSQL is much brighter because of their open source nature. There are no artificial constraints on their functionality, in stark contrast to M$, who want you to upgrade to (& pay for) SQL Server as soon as possible. So I can see both MySQL and PostgreSQL improving over time much faster than M$, who want to tie improvements in functionality with a similarly improving revenue model.
Of course, when it comes to databases, really there is no competition bewteen Oracle and PostgreSQL. If you want the most frequently used small database program in the world, look no further than Microsoft Excel.:-)
(Technically I think that last paragraph is a high level troll - but I'm sure alot of DB people would see the humour)
If you are _really_ desperate for more speed, why not start a project to make a desktop bypassing X altogether
This is actually a very good idea. We will need X for some time to come, but it supports alot of junk that isn't needed; and it fails to support many things also (sound, most input devices).
If we want a common standard there should be one windowing API, which probably bypasses X altogether. This is hardly a trivial task, but in the long run makes alot of sense. If you are writing an app today, it really needs only two interfaces to the user: Command line and GUI. It shouldn't need to care about X.
Now for my personal impression - this isn't meant to start a flame war, but probably will be taken that way. The KDE environment (at the moment) appears the best local environment. By this I mean the GUI, themes, and smaller apps (konqueror for file browsing). Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your view) many of the best apps are GNOME (Evolution, Galeon for the web). For the newbie it can take a while to go find these apps if they use the KDE desktop.
Serously, I really don't get this "One OS, One Desktop, One Community" kind of reasoning. That we can use different stuff for environments (or even just different tastes) is a _strength_ of the platform, not a weakness.
I don't believe that is true when it applies to fundamental, underlying services. We have one kernel, and it works. The prospect of a kernel fork came up recently in the 2.4 series, and it wasn't a nice prospect. The current fork in GUI's that overlie X windows is much less critical, but still not good. And the two projects went their own ways at about concept time, when everyone agreed that linux needed a better GUI for end user apps.
Linux's strength is in a rock-steady kernel, a secure file and operating system all open to scrutiny, and a mass of interested developers. This produces a diversity of quality applications, and Linux needs that too. But GNOME and KDE? Two GUI's - no, in the long run we will want one good gui with the good features of both.
After a week of that (which would be 168 GB, in 4GB files, added then deleted to the filesystem, not to mention temp files created while compressing), the computer churns to a halt when trying to do anything requiring moderate disk access.
Probably fragments the swap file. Try configuring the swapfile as a fixed size right after the install (Set max and minimum size to the same values)
Also, partition off a large segment of your disk for the data files alone. Between this and fixing the swapfile on the disk (Possibly on its own disk) should stop system degredation.
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Actually, the biggest false assumption I can see here was the number of kills Buffy does. This was raised in series four when she was talking to the initiative, discussing the number of kills she had. From memory, it was thousands, or several per night (which is pretty much in keeping with what you see on the show). Even at one per night (way too low from what I've seen) that would be 365 per year, or alot more than was assumed on the web site.
Michael
Wasn't expecting it to do so well really. It's such an old joke after all.
Yeah, right. People have been making that joke for years, no?
I was expecting a few comments in the same spirit perhaps, but not people actually thinking I was serious.
I knew it was an inane comment, but I couldn't absolutely rule out that 91degrees was just ignorant. More importantly, it was distinctly possible that some the people reading the post might think it was based on fact.
Michael
I really wish the media would stop trying to cash in on the events of 9/11. I think this title will upset many people.
Actually, it was the name of the second book a long time before 9/11. In fact, it really has nothing to do with the WTC, except by your own interpretation.
Michael
I've heard many arguments that the distances needed to be covered did not lend itself to high speed trains.
Well it depends on what you are planning. The monorail in Sydney, Australia was sold as the mass transportation of the future here. They tried to take the concept from Japan. Which is somehwat ironic, as its mainly used for transporting the Japanese tourists in Sydney.
Mass transport it isn't, so check your schematics before you praise it as the solution to urban transit.
Michael
I just wanted to know, WHY on earth MS would use the directory name 'Program Files' when so often installers and path names, etc. can only work with the 8.3 format and end up calling it 'PROGRA~1'. Plus, the space in the file path screws up some apps... just WTF were they thinking? Why not call it 'Applications'?
Actually, "Programs" would have been better. No abbreviations.
Michael
Sorry, but I think airplanes are dangerous. I know they were used in Sept 11. But I do think that the ease that airplanes can be obtained in the US is questionable at best. I know a lot of people get a lot of quite innocent pleasure from using airplanes, and I think this pastime should be protected, but I personally don't see the need for normal citizens to own airplanes.
It would be easier to stop someone from misusing an airplane, if you could stop him from (legally) owning it.
I'm just rephrasing what was said in earnest about guns, and then in parody about computers.
I'd like to put a case that both of these viewpoints are compatible. It just depends on the tool and its potential for harm.
A rogue airplane does more damage than a rogue computer user. After September 11 this would be hard to refute. And many times more Americans die each year from guns than ever did in 9-11.
That is the real case for gun restriction.
-Count the bodies.
-Regulate appropriately.
Works for computers, guns, airplanes, smallpox and fissionable material.
My 2c worth,
Michael
I always use computers to make analogies. Of course the person I am talking to has to be knowledgeable with computers. Makes getting a point across much easier.
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That is the problem with using an analogy.
Michael
How do helicopters and other personal aircraft _not_ qualify as flying cars?
Because there's not one in my garage.
You know, just when we are getting to terms with how poorly we handle technology, we go wishing for a better one.
Its taken us decades to build safer roads, invent seatbelts, crumple zones, anti lock braking, all wheel drive and air bags.
Now we are here wanting to be able to personally lift tonnes of metal kilometers into the sky so that 18 year olds can do laps of the city whilst drunk hoping to impress girls by how close they can swoop a building?
Can't you see that we do have flying vehicles, they aren't terribly expensive (esp. ultralight aircraft), and that nobody in their right mind would suggest that they gain mass acceptance.
Having said all that, do you really want to have one in your garage (and everyone else's, too)?
My 2c
Michael
Maybe because I don't draw pictures?
:)
I have no problem with that. There is nothing wrong with bash, provided you don't want to draw pictures. If you do, well, you are going to be a little stuck.
Its just one example of things that actually work better under a GUI rather than a CLI.
The point is, if you only use the command line, there are classes of activities that you are missing out on. Whether thats important to you is another matter.
Just my 2c worth
Michael
What's wrong with Bash?
... er... graphics, for example.
Ahh, a rare breed. A true command line supporter!
I suppose you are goint to tell me that you can draw pictures faster in the gimp using a keyboard than a mouse?
Nothing is wrong with bash. (Ok, there are other shells, I'm aware - so don't flame me on this).
But there are other ways to interact with a computer, and sometimes a graphical interface is better, like for
Michael
ust FYI, I figured out to drive a car in less than 5 minutes, well before I was taught. It takes just a few moments and you've got it. Shifting took a bit longer, maybe 10 minuts
Yes, same for me. I figured out how to drive in just a few minutes by casual observation, and in just a few moments I was away and happy. I didn't get to shifting, because I hit a wall first. Mostly because I was too small at the time to see over the dashboard.
Still, I cant complain that the user interface wasn't intuitative.
Michael
You can't ignore other people's intellectual property, damnit. Only pirates would do that kind of stuff.
True, but you can redefine how much of their intellectual property they own.
Seems strange? Well, copyrights have been extended a couple of times (mostly at the whim of large content providers) in legislation. Otherwise, all of Elvis's work would be in the public domain by now, for example. Just like nobody owns Beethoven's or Mozart's work.
The truth is, its not as if intellectual property is a black and white issue.
Michael
I don't want big ugly towers every 35km, if they can make them invisible it is worth the cost.
Fair enough. Personally, I think that they should use something other than fake trees! Like water towers, buildings, and so on.
Although you only have to put the towers up every 70 km if you want to cover a distance (35 km radius == 70 km diameter).
Michael
The final scene in the final episode was truly memorable.
Yes, it was a dark ending. Until I read the official sequel "Afterlife". Which was so dark I wished that it had just stopped with the movie series.
Michael
On the other hand, Red Carpet remains the quickest way to destroy a perfectly functioning Linux box.
Its sad that someone chose to moderate your statement as flamebait. What you say is true. I lost a linux install from Red Carpet, and no longer touch it. I'm sure its an intermittent fault, but its pretty major to me. Its clearly a world away from the open source linux kernel which is rock steady
Having said that - I love evolution. It meets all my expectations and more for eMail. I'm sure that other people see a need for Kmail, etc, but personally I would be happy if it were the only eMail manager in a distro (thats a personal opinion, not a flame).
So I'm hardly going to criticise ximian for their software overall. However, poor installers mean a serious hit to the credibility of ximian, which is unfortunate. In the long run red carpet will do more damage to ximian than anything else will.
BTW, IIRC, Red carpet is closed source, yes?
Michael
There are many angles crossing an object, although this may work for simple front to back (as the article states)
Of course, the low tech way of doing this from a few directions is to use 4 large prisms to bend the light around yourself:
_/''\_
Which works alot better than a bunch of LEDs and would probably work for infrared and UV as well.
My 2c worth.
Michael
The funny thing about the retirement age is that it is totally arbitrary.
I thought it was originally based on the ability to do manual labour:
Most 55 year old labourers could work, but by 65 most could not do hard physical labour.
Unrelated to todays need for a retirement age, of course.
Michael
Don't hate them because they're popular and (somewhat) successful; they are not evil, or power-lusting, etc. They do a pretty good job, and are good community citizens.
Red Hat makes money from providing service to companies. They follow the underlying GPL philosophy that the software should be free as in speech, (and cheap as in beer).
You pay for what you get with Red Hat. The truth is, making a copy of a CD is cheap, for Red Hat, for Microsoft, for anyone. Microsoft has made billions selling $1 CD's for >$100 each. Its a great business model. If you actually use M$ support, you pay alot more (although this may actually be worth it, depending on your needs).
Ok, so now Red Hat is aiming right into M$ territory - the corporate desktop. Which is also pretty close to the home desktop for most people.
That means that their software is starting to look superficially like windows. Its time that the Linux command line zealots got over this. If you like your command prompt, thats fine by me (its a fantastic tool). But Linux is moving into corporate territory for people who don't do dos, or bash, or anything much else like that.
This is a GOOD thing. Linux has needed a good GUI user interface and powerful desktop apps for a while, and now they are starting to happen. (Obviously many of them come from outside of Red Hat - like Evolution, Mozilla, Open Office)
Just because Red Hat is supplying people that sort of stuff doesn't make them Microsoft. The more corporations Red Hat services, the better things will be for Linux. Their fundamental model is that of selling service, not software. And that is fair enough. If you want to have time on a phone getting help from someone, that really does cost money - its economically rational. If you want to get some software, it shouldn't cost a weeks wage for a bulk replicated disk that comes with an EULA denying any implied functionality.
And this is a key difference. With Red Hat, you pay for what you get. With microsoft, you pay an arbitrary amount which gets ratcheted up yearly to maintain a good EBIT on the microsoft balance sheet.
Michael
As far as the humman eye comment, well, just because you record at 12000 fps, doesn't mean you play it back at 12000 fps...
:-)
Well, don't tell that to the hard core gamers - I'm sure some of them would pay alot of money to get a video card that does even 1000 fps.
Actually, motion looks fairly fluid above 25 frames per second (although your monitor will need to refresh at least 3 times that speed to avoid flicker).
Because certian events, despite what you might
think, *do* occur within 1000ths of a second
Yes, like when I get fragged playing quake.
Michael
Select the text you want to paste somewhere else. Move to the new document. Hit your middle mouse button. I haven't seen a single program that doesn't allow this, right down to old Xlib apps.
I guess you haven't used open office, then.
My copy of open office uses a middle mouse click to activate a scroll widget.
Michael
Or did you just repeat whatever your local Microsoft-representative told you?
Or are you being zealous to the point of not admitting problems with linux?
I've switched over to RH Linux for my workstations for about 3 months now (Have used Linux as a server for much longer). It finally got the level that met all essential criteria for running functional apps (Open Office, Evolution, Galeon and successful execution of all M$ card games under wine!) for myself and wife.
So I'm hardly anti-Linux. But copy and paste between most apps and open office seems to often not happen.
Just because Linux is rapidly becoming the best desktop system doesn't mean that everything about it is the best. So if someone says that there is a problem with the clipboard, the right response is to work on fixing it. Denial of problem is a Microsoft trait (esp. with security issues). I don't think that the Linux community really this sort of attitude. Anyway, most microsoft representatives don't know enough about linux to criticise it meaningfully.
My 2c worth.
Michael
If something's informative and deserves modding up, it gets modded up
:-)
Yes, it usually does. However, uninformative M$ bashing often gets modded up on slashdot too. (Not to say that the multitude of M$ problems shouldn't be mentioned, just that ignorant slanging doesn't add to the cause much at all)
Well, yes. MySQL doesn't do that, you're right
Yes, MySQL has problems. The biggest issue is often scalability - just because it will work fine on a small project doesn't mean that its going to scale to the enterprise level. A similar comment could be made of the M$ Access & the Jet DB - perfectly fine for a single user app, doesn't scale well at all.
In fact, while I think that MS Access provides a nice RAD environment for (very) small projects, I have no doubt that the future for MySQL and PostgreSQL is much brighter because of their open source nature. There are no artificial constraints on their functionality, in stark contrast to M$, who want you to upgrade to (& pay for) SQL Server as soon as possible. So I can see both MySQL and PostgreSQL improving over time much faster than M$, who want to tie improvements in functionality with a similarly improving revenue model.
Of course, when it comes to databases, really there is no competition bewteen Oracle and PostgreSQL. If you want the most frequently used small database program in the world, look no further than Microsoft Excel.
(Technically I think that last paragraph is a high level troll - but I'm sure alot of DB people would see the humour)
Michael
If you are _really_ desperate for more speed, why not start a project to make a desktop bypassing X altogether
This is actually a very good idea. We will need X for some time to come, but it supports alot of junk that isn't needed; and it fails to support many things also (sound, most input devices).
If we want a common standard there should be one windowing API, which probably bypasses X altogether. This is hardly a trivial task, but in the long run makes alot of sense. If you are writing an app today, it really needs only two interfaces to the user: Command line and GUI. It shouldn't need to care about X.
Now for my personal impression - this isn't meant to start a flame war, but probably will be taken that way. The KDE environment (at the moment) appears the best local environment. By this I mean the GUI, themes, and smaller apps (konqueror for file browsing). Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your view) many of the best apps are GNOME (Evolution, Galeon for the web). For the newbie it can take a while to go find these apps if they use the KDE desktop.
Serously, I really don't get this "One OS, One Desktop, One Community" kind of reasoning. That we can use different stuff for environments (or even just different tastes) is a _strength_ of the platform, not a weakness.
I don't believe that is true when it applies to fundamental, underlying services. We have one kernel, and it works. The prospect of a kernel fork came up recently in the 2.4 series, and it wasn't a nice prospect. The current fork in GUI's that overlie X windows is much less critical, but still not good. And the two projects went their own ways at about concept time, when everyone agreed that linux needed a better GUI for end user apps.
Linux's strength is in a rock-steady kernel, a secure file and operating system all open to scrutiny, and a mass of interested developers. This produces a diversity of quality applications, and Linux needs that too. But GNOME and KDE? Two GUI's - no, in the long run we will want one good gui with the good features of both.
My 2c worth,
Michael
After a week of that (which would be 168 GB, in 4GB files, added then deleted to the filesystem, not to mention temp files created while compressing), the computer churns to a halt when trying to do anything requiring moderate disk access.
Probably fragments the swap file. Try configuring the swapfile as a fixed size right after the install (Set max and minimum size to the same values)
Also, partition off a large segment of your disk for the data files alone. Between this and fixing the swapfile on the disk (Possibly on its own disk) should stop system degredation.
Michael