Or perhaps they enjoy the awe of controlling mass amount of power. Something so powerful it'll kill you with one driving mistake.
It's like skydiving. You don't have to spend money to go fast either. I'm building a twin-turbo 351w Mustang on a college budget. It's a technical challenge and a hobby.
I live in a city of like 20000 people. The nearest other city is 150km away. We have ADSL. Fifty canadian bucks a month gets me 2.4MBit ADSL, no caps, limits, anything goes. Three static IPs.
They even have 7 and 5 MBit ADSL for other people. All in the same price range.
Another ability of a command line version could be in clusters.
Imagine someone wants to have strong key based encryption for a growing database with sensitive information. That someone could use huge muliprocessor, or clusters of smaller (or even just as large) computers to ecrypt that data, and archive it for another party or even themselves. Normally such a thing would take a while on a single computer, but with many computers working together, it could conceivably instantaneous.
A robust command line application could easily do that with currently availble cluster systems non-prepiertary to PGP. Someone with a cluster already built wouldn't even consider a GUI program.
I find with any GUI program, if there is no command line control, it becomes half as useful. Scripting and automation are what make computers beautiful.
The command line is much quicker too. Don't want to type out a million options and flags? Then make an alias... one word is all it takes to run enormous computations.
In the case of PGP, the only GUI integration I need is in e-mail, and thankfully Evolution provides it. The rest of its use is on the command line, making encrytped tar archives, and saving other information.
Like hell, watch me run Basilisk II under linux, then run Win4Lin.. funny thing is, it'll do Basilisk the same speed as it would under OS X (they're both emulated), while Win4Lin is virtualization software, which will run FAST
Like maybe I'm missing something, but what is so special about this?
I'm posting this on a 486DX2/66 with 16 megs of RAM and a 1MB VESA video card...
It runs Xfree 4.. and uses esound for sound across the network
These things works great. My sister uses one, and I have a second so I can kill X when it locks up my good computer (which the X terms run their apps on)
If you can stomach 640x480 at 8bit... a 386 will do that fine too!
Beauty of these is the sound level... jam the fan in your 486's powersupply, and it's 100% silent!
Using config files based on MAC adresses works really great too. The machine boots, and checks if it has an existing X config file named as it's MAC address. If not, it runs xf86config, gets you to set the initial settings, and saves it for future use.
A p150 with a good video card, even on 10Mbit feels like the local machine. It's really nice.
When was the last time you saw something full-featured and bug-free when you first heard of it?
I'm was very excited when I saw this DVD player, it shows a lot of promise.. expecially with that GTK+ GUI...:-)
Even right now it's usuable, give them some time, and this could very well be the best damn DVD player for Linux.
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Or perhaps they enjoy the awe of controlling mass amount of power. Something so powerful it'll kill you with one driving mistake.
It's like skydiving. You don't have to spend money to go fast either. I'm building a twin-turbo 351w Mustang on a college budget. It's a technical challenge and a hobby.
I'd be stoked--just the sort of thing I'd like to tamper with/disable.
The only game that has ever scared me. I'm still too afraid to play Infinity. Especially the open source version with OpenGL :-)
I live in a city of like 20000 people. The nearest other city is 150km away. We have ADSL. Fifty canadian bucks a month gets me 2.4MBit ADSL, no caps, limits, anything goes. Three static IPs.
They even have 7 and 5 MBit ADSL for other people. All in the same price range.
Haha, I dig the non matching single and double quotes....
Timothy's skool of engrish!
I think that's great. And after it's been made an example, it will scare others away from machine-gunned spam.
Now if only it was law in Canada.
Another ability of a command line version could be in clusters.
Imagine someone wants to have strong key based encryption for a growing database with sensitive information. That someone could use huge muliprocessor, or clusters of smaller (or even just as large) computers to ecrypt that data, and archive it for another party or even themselves. Normally such a thing would take a while on a single computer, but with many computers working together, it could conceivably instantaneous.
A robust command line application could easily do that with currently availble cluster systems non-prepiertary to PGP. Someone with a cluster already built wouldn't even consider a GUI program.
I find with any GUI program, if there is no command line control, it becomes half as useful. Scripting and automation are what make computers beautiful.
The command line is much quicker too. Don't want to type out a million options and flags? Then make an alias... one word is all it takes to run enormous computations.
In the case of PGP, the only GUI integration I need is in e-mail, and thankfully Evolution provides it. The rest of its use is on the command line, making encrytped tar archives, and saving other information.
Mars is next!
Microwaves by far...
MPEG-4 is! Get off your high horse Apple, and take your stupid proprietary technology and go home!
God bless MPlayer!
Galeon fucking rocks... fast, stable, tons of great features...
I'm glad to see them finally reach this milestone!
As for the rest of you, go back to Internet Explorer...
(BTW, posted with Galeon 1.0!)
Now what is so amazing about that?
I mean, you can do that under most platforms...
Like hell, watch me run Basilisk II under linux, then run Win4Lin.. funny thing is, it'll do Basilisk the same speed as it would under OS X (they're both emulated), while Win4Lin is virtualization software, which will run FAST
Like maybe I'm missing something, but what is so special about this?
I'm posting this on a 486DX2/66 with 16 megs of RAM and a 1MB VESA video card...
It runs Xfree 4.. and uses esound for sound across the network
These things works great. My sister uses one, and I have a second so I can kill X when it locks up my good computer (which the X terms run their apps on)
If you can stomach 640x480 at 8bit... a 386 will do that fine too!
Beauty of these is the sound level... jam the fan in your 486's powersupply, and it's 100% silent!
Using config files based on MAC adresses works really great too. The machine boots, and checks if it has an existing X config file named as it's MAC address. If not, it runs xf86config, gets you to set the initial settings, and saves it for future use.
A p150 with a good video card, even on 10Mbit feels like the local machine. It's really nice.
When was the last time you saw something full-featured and bug-free when you first heard of it? I'm was very excited when I saw this DVD player, it shows a lot of promise.. expecially with that GTK+ GUI... :-)
Even right now it's usuable, give them some time, and this could very well be the best damn DVD player for Linux.