Um. I do. frequently. And while yes, the majority of users aren't going to do that, the fact that it is open source enormously simplifies life for those of us who can. Under windows I'd just restart it. Maybe reboot. Under linux I fire up gdb, try to get a stack trace, poke through the code a bit and e-mail the authour a patch.
Just because some people don't doesn't mean open source doesn't get a huge win from those who do. And I've talked many a user through recompiling in debug mode and providing a stack trace at least.
Not only that. When I upgrade, I only buy the parts I need. Last round of upgrades a couple of years ago I bought mobos and CPUs for $25 each (discounted price on online HW site - probably to encourage purchase of memory or CPU or something). 60GB HDs were a buck a gig, memory, can't remember. Don't think the deals were particularly special (and of course had to run memtest on it even for a fairly reputable memory with decent CAS).
And that's it. Video cards, $30 for all I needed. Didn't need new power supplies. So I end up with Athlon XP 1700+s with a gig of ram and 7200RPM/8MB/60GB HDs for around $250 each.
Actually, when I said geographical location I was thinking precisely of IP localisation.:) Guess I should stay away from politics.slashdot.org though, already getting negative moderation.
How about making it user customisable with defaults based on their geographical location? Heck, many times Google Earth screws up naming, and it'd be nice to have names using i18n.
Seemed like a good question to me, so I started googling to see why FreeCiv hadn't done it. Maybe the answer to this depends on the movement model. FreeCiv Dev List discussion from years ago.
All plants do this through a sophisticated network of underground pipes. Some use even more advanced carbon ring and chain storage nodules. We call these "potatoes"
Those times I have used Vim as a development environment I've found such things trivial to do using exuberant-ctags and antmenu. Vim has supported parsing error output from various compilers for ages, usually without much configuration for standard error syntax.
Could be fewer Vim users shared my compulsion to use Vim as an IDE. Certainly most vi folks don't see the need to use a text editor as a mail client, web browser and IDE as well.
Well, at the very least, it might make for a moderately amusing Myth Busters episode as they try various ways to electrocute buster with Van De Graaf generators.
I'm a little confused. Why would a Firefox plugin be needed to allow you to save streaming content? mplayerplug-in already has the option to save everything it views to a directory you specify ${HOME}/Desktop/mplayer_downloads for example. I'm pretty sure it does this whether the file was streamed to the player or pointed to the player by Mozilla.
Planning on running MythTV as root?:) I was under the impression Linus was keeping that out of reach of ordinary users. (well, 'cept for *downgrading* priority I 'spose - I really do need to read the code)
inotify has been patched in and enabled by gentoo for a good long while now. Of course, there's the complete rework of it in the new kernel which applies to all versions of beagle after 0.0.12 I believe.
Given Enigmail requires installing GnuPG or similar, I doubt it will make it into the suite anytime soon. Until someone reimplements it without using third party software that is.
On the other hand distributions *do* bundle it. Gentoo with a USE flag of "crypt" for example.
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Personally, my wrist pain has always been associated with mouse use, not keyboard. Sure I notice the pain while typing and doing other activities, but it has always been in my mouse wrist. Since I started using a different mouse hand at work than at home, things have pretty much gone back to normal (except when I realise some tech moved my work mouse position).
Well, easier to do a little pumping than make the device extract air from water *for* those lungs. And an automated or semi-automated system could be easier for beginners.
This may seem silly, but if you're going to strap a battery on it anyway, why not use the battery to control buoyancy too? Heck. Subs do it. Could allow for automated buoyancy control. Then you can get back to focusing on battery life or alternate power sources.
Yes, an obvious hoax that somehow the/. editors got suckered into. But... Battery - how about thermoelectric instead? Then you don't have to worry about charging. Granted, might need an extra capacitor or battery for those transmission bursts.
Antenna length - could simply use a different frequency. Or spread spectrum. Or a fractal antenna could help. But yeah, not exactly gonna fit in panties. Not without a convincing explanation for the thick bulgy layer. uh... padding!
Well, that's the same then. I can link my app against the default version if I'm feeling brave, or against a specific version. Then there's things like revdep-rebuild on my home system which fixes any potential linking issues (most aren't a problem but...)
And like all unix stuff, is fairly flexible and freewheeling, yet pretty reliable and easy to use. I can even link 1.4 to 1.3 if I'm pretty confident that the lib is reverse compatible for all the apps expecting 1.3.
Maybe, like the registry, the developer issue is in the complexity of the GAC?
Hm? GPL is copyright law. Patent law is another matter. If they decide to prosecute any use of linux for patent infringement, that has nothing to do with the GPL.
I see no harm in doing things like omitting frame pointer since typically if I'm actually trying to debug, I'll want to reemerge with debug USE flag (if applicable) and -g anyway. But, I'm tired of another pointless defense of Gentoo. Just will say that I've been using it for almost 3 years now after having used Slackware, Redhat and Mandrake for 5 years before that and have can't imagine going back.
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I disagree. The parent didn't catch that they are checking for a defect in the enzyme that breaks down the anxiety chausing protein.
The parent talks about the needle thing as if that'd matter at all. It wouldn't. They'd still be able to test for the absence of the enzyme.
Um. I do. frequently.
And while yes, the majority of users aren't going to do that, the fact that it is open source enormously simplifies life for those of us who can.
Under windows I'd just restart it. Maybe reboot.
Under linux I fire up gdb, try to get a stack trace, poke through the code a bit and e-mail the authour a patch.
Just because some people don't doesn't mean open source doesn't get a huge win from those who do.
And I've talked many a user through recompiling in debug mode and providing a stack trace at least.
Not only that. When I upgrade, I only buy the parts I need.
Last round of upgrades a couple of years ago I bought mobos and CPUs for $25 each (discounted price on online HW site - probably to encourage purchase of memory or CPU or something).
60GB HDs were a buck a gig, memory, can't remember. Don't think the deals were particularly special (and of course had to run memtest on it even for a fairly reputable memory with decent CAS).
And that's it. Video cards, $30 for all I needed. Didn't need new power supplies.
So I end up with Athlon XP 1700+s with a gig of ram and 7200RPM/8MB/60GB HDs for around $250 each.
Supposedly you can spoof your way through the application with a UA change.
I imagine that could be added to the live CD.
Actually, when I said geographical location I was thinking precisely of IP localisation. :)
Guess I should stay away from politics.slashdot.org though, already getting negative moderation.
How about making it user customisable with defaults based on their geographical location?
Heck, many times Google Earth screws up naming, and it'd be nice to have names using i18n.
Seemed like a good question to me, so I started googling to see why FreeCiv hadn't done it.
Maybe the answer to this depends on the movement model.
FreeCiv Dev List discussion from years ago.
All plants do this through a sophisticated network of underground pipes.
Some use even more advanced carbon ring and chain storage nodules.
We call these "potatoes"
Those times I have used Vim as a development environment I've found such things trivial to do using exuberant-ctags and antmenu.
Vim has supported parsing error output from various compilers for ages, usually without much configuration for standard error syntax.
Could be fewer Vim users shared my compulsion to use Vim as an IDE.
Certainly most vi folks don't see the need to use a text editor as a mail client, web browser and IDE as well.
Well, at the very least, it might make for a moderately amusing Myth Busters episode as they try various ways to electrocute buster with Van De Graaf generators.
I'm a little confused. Why would a Firefox plugin be needed to allow you to save streaming content?
mplayerplug-in already has the option to save everything it views to a directory you specify
${HOME}/Desktop/mplayer_downloads for example.
I'm pretty sure it does this whether the file was streamed to the player or pointed to the player by Mozilla.
Planning on running MythTV as root? :)
I was under the impression Linus was keeping that out of reach of ordinary users.
(well, 'cept for *downgrading* priority I 'spose - I really do need to read the code)
inotify has been patched in and enabled by gentoo for a good long while now.
Of course, there's the complete rework of it in the new kernel which applies to all versions of beagle after 0.0.12 I believe.
Given Enigmail requires installing GnuPG or similar, I doubt it will make it into the suite anytime soon.
Until someone reimplements it without using third party software that is.
On the other hand distributions *do* bundle it.
Gentoo with a USE flag of "crypt" for example.
Clearly you've never once used the Mozilla Suite.
Or perhaps it is no longer included by default anymore in the Suite.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/venkman/
Personally, my wrist pain has always been associated with mouse use, not keyboard.
Sure I notice the pain while typing and doing other activities, but it has always been in my mouse wrist. Since I started using a different mouse hand at work than at home, things have pretty much gone back to normal (except when I realise some tech moved my work mouse position).
I'd been reading this just the other day, interestingly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoluminescence
Doesn't seem to be just reflections to me. You'd think btw, that if it was just reflections it'd occur to someone to turn off the lights.
Well, easier to do a little pumping than make the device extract air from water *for* those lungs.
And an automated or semi-automated system could be easier for beginners.
This may seem silly, but if you're going to strap a battery on it anyway, why not use the battery to control buoyancy too?
Heck. Subs do it.
Could allow for automated buoyancy control.
Then you can get back to focusing on battery life or alternate power sources.
Yes, an obvious hoax that somehow the /. editors got suckered into.
But...
Battery - how about thermoelectric instead? Then you don't have to worry about charging.
Granted, might need an extra capacitor or battery for those transmission bursts.
Antenna length - could simply use a different frequency. Or spread spectrum. Or a fractal antenna could help.
But yeah, not exactly gonna fit in panties. Not without a convincing explanation for the thick bulgy layer. uh... padding!
Well, that's the same then.
I can link my app against the default version if I'm feeling brave, or against a specific version.
Then there's things like revdep-rebuild on my home system which fixes any potential linking issues (most aren't a problem but...)
And like all unix stuff, is fairly flexible and freewheeling, yet pretty reliable and easy to use.
I can even link 1.4 to 1.3 if I'm pretty confident that the lib is reverse compatible for all the apps expecting 1.3.
Maybe, like the registry, the developer issue is in the complexity of the GAC?
Sooo, sorta like a program linking against :)
foo.so vs foo.1.2.so vs foo.1.3.so ?
With foo.so being a symlink to the "official" version?
Hm? GPL is copyright law.
Patent law is another matter.
If they decide to prosecute any use of linux for patent infringement, that has nothing to do with the GPL.
On the physics model you use for light sabres.
I see no harm in doing things like omitting frame pointer since typically if I'm actually trying to debug, I'll want to reemerge with debug USE flag (if applicable) and -g anyway.
But, I'm tired of another pointless defense of Gentoo.
Just will say that I've been using it for almost 3 years now after having used Slackware, Redhat and Mandrake for 5 years before that and have can't imagine going back.