To some of you, this will sound like what the Electric Fence toolkit used to be for. But these features are enabled by default. Electric Fence was also very slow. It took nearly 3 years to write these OpenBSD changes since performance was a serious consideration. (Early versions caused a nearly 50% slowdown)
Ten points goes to the first comedy "Isn't Steve just great fighting for our rights this way? This is what makes Apple so different. I love my iPod..." post.
Its really sad that Windows with all its services and stuff uses 1/2 the RAM of KDE alone.
I'd really like to know how you were measuring KDE's memory usage, because 99% of the time when people measure process memory under unix, they do it completely wrong.
(In real life it's actually quite hard to get accurate memory usage numbers for a complex set of processes under Linux, but that's another story.)
The vendors generally make Windows drivers, where the Linux drivers are often reverse engineered, and it often shows in the quality.
This is the only thing I take issue with. I honestly usually find that reverse engineered drivers are some of the best you can get. They're generally done by people who know what they're doing.
Conversely, the absolute worst drivers you get on Linux are almost* always the binary vendor written drivers.
Because much as/. knocks them this is the sort of thing they can manage, astonishing turn arounds.
Hah. I'm still trying to count the number of times I've heard "Yeah, we admit that everything so far has been kinda crap, but we've sorted it out this time..." from them.
It's hard to deliver a payload when you're limited to tricking a target into downloading what would be (essentially) a random string of ones and zeroes.
It uses FFMPEG, if I recall correctly, but I've not seen an FFMPEG release in some time and the website links seem to be a mess of redirection. That's not good.
Don't worry. ffmpeg is under very active development. It's just, as you say, they haven't made a real release in a while. Gentoo et al make do with 0.4.9_pre2005xxxx snapshots for now.
I hate to post "works for me"s, but I can run my PII 400MHz at near full load (compiling at nice 10) and play a video smoothly at the same time. Have been able to since the late 2.4 kernels.
That is, if Linux had pro-quality recording software
Ardour.
...and supported device drivers from pro-grade A/D and D/A converter manufacturers. (I'm not talking about your average Soundblaster Live here -- I'm talking about things that can around 16 channels of 24-bit, 192 kHz, both in and out, simultaneously.
M-Audio delta cards have very good GPL'd drivers co-written by M-Audio engineers.
Now the users won't have to directly manipulate obscure data files?
Well, you could of course drag & drop items directly to the menu like you've always been able to do, but that would have required you to have actually tried it before you posted.
...better part of a decade and they just added freakin' clipboard services.
I like the way you imply that gnome didn't have a clipboard until now. What they added was a very advanced way of handling many clipboard entries. Something which no other desktop does as well yet.
Have GnomeVFS built into the underlying OS and not as a IO library wrapper/hack
Well this shows me I shouldn't have bothered writing the above because you clearly don't know what you're talking about.
No, with IM you only receive messages from people you have authorised (your friends). And if you're getting a SNR or 300:1 with them, it's time to find some new friends.
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you could even make your own API instead of using X-windows if you really wanted to.
Why would you want to abandon one of the best features the unix desktop has?
Ten points goes to the first comedy "Isn't Steve just great fighting for our rights this way? This is what makes Apple so different. I love my iPod..." post.
Well that's not quite fair. At the same time, you're also comparing two different programming languages.
If you want to compare c++ interface with c++ interface, you could look at gtkmm.
Its really sad that Windows with all its services and stuff uses 1/2 the RAM of KDE alone.
I'd really like to know how you were measuring KDE's memory usage, because 99% of the time when people measure process memory under unix, they do it completely wrong.
(In real life it's actually quite hard to get accurate memory usage numbers for a complex set of processes under Linux, but that's another story.)
The vendors generally make Windows drivers, where the Linux drivers are often reverse engineered, and it often shows in the quality.
This is the only thing I take issue with. I honestly usually find that reverse engineered drivers are some of the best you can get. They're generally done by people who know what they're doing.
Conversely, the absolute worst drivers you get on Linux are almost* always the binary vendor written drivers.
* Nvidia being the exception.
Wow, this is really exciting. It'll be like having apt only with a convicted monopolist in charge of the repository.
This is going to be so much fun. They're only a decade late getting a proper package management system.
So isn't this just going to cause loads of files with bogus creative commons tags to be released into the ether?
Because much as /. knocks them this is the sort of thing they can manage, astonishing turn arounds.
Hah. I'm still trying to count the number of times I've heard "Yeah, we admit that everything so far has been kinda crap, but we've sorted it out this time..." from them.
That ultimately gave us osX, the ultimate in plug-in philosophy, from the kernel to the GUI.
Excuse me? Have you ever run anything other than Windows or MacOS?
It's hard to deliver a payload when you're limited to tricking a target into downloading what would be (essentially) a random string of ones and zeroes.
Think again.
Hmm. My understanding was that the realtime-lsm has worked for a while.
It uses FFMPEG, if I recall correctly, but I've not seen an FFMPEG release in some time and the website links seem to be a mess of redirection. That's not good.
Don't worry. ffmpeg is under very active development. It's just, as you say, they haven't made a real release in a while. Gentoo et al make do with 0.4.9_pre2005xxxx snapshots for now.
Also, prior to 2.6.12, you couldn't even get real-time priority (required even for 20ms latency) when running as a user (non-root).
Eh? Linux has had posix draft capabilities since kernel 2.4.
I hate to post "works for me"s, but I can run my PII 400MHz at near full load (compiling at nice 10) and play a video smoothly at the same time. Have been able to since the late 2.4 kernels.
Haven't done anything special to my system.
Ardour.
M-Audio delta cards have very good GPL'd drivers co-written by M-Audio engineers.
Will it eat less CPU and RAM so I can stop recommending Epiphany instead?
Is it really so bad to reccomend Epiphany? At least the user will end up with something that integrates with their desktop better.
Whether the FireFox web site doesn't properly support IE out of laziness, or out of malice. It should be fixed.
/. since 2002 for not hating Microsoft.
Then fix it.
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Oh! Oh! Look at me! I'm a martyr! Everybody hates me because they're so unjust!
Now the users won't have to directly manipulate obscure data files?
Well, you could of course drag & drop items directly to the menu like you've always been able to do, but that would have required you to have actually tried it before you posted.
...better part of a decade and they just added freakin' clipboard services.
I like the way you imply that gnome didn't have a clipboard until now. What they added was a very advanced way of handling many clipboard entries. Something which no other desktop does as well yet.
Have GnomeVFS built into the underlying OS and not as a IO library wrapper/hack
Well this shows me I shouldn't have bothered writing the above because you clearly don't know what you're talking about.
This is hilarious bullshit.
BSD license. Works well for OpenSSH.
Worked badly for Wine.
Offline messages (how the heck did they manage to be that stupid?)
My guess is that a 'usability guru' told them that when you want to send an offline message, what you really want to do is send them an email. Thanks.
No, with IM you only receive messages from people you have authorised (your friends). And if you're getting a SNR or 300:1 with them, it's time to find some new friends.