All that "optimization and control" that you mention can be perfectly achieved through packages. I make my own packages, and i can customize them as much as a pure-source install. Custom gcc flags? No problem, just edit ~/.rpmrc then rebuild the package. I build most of my multimedia packages with "-march=athlon-xp -mcpu=athlon-xp" (and some other flags as well, depending on the package). Custom package layout? No problem, just modify the spec file. Wanna know which software owns the file/usr/lib/libBlah.so.1.2.3? No problem, just do a "rpm -qf/usr/lib/libBlah.so.1.2.3". Etc, etc. As a bonus, because everything is installed from packages, uninstall/upgrade operations are guaranteed to be clean. And you are certain you can revert the system to any given state, should you have to, with just a set of simple and standard commands (no custom scripts required).
Everything you do straight from source, you can do with packages, with the added benefits of uniformity and easy automatization.
I used to install from source myself. I've found, later on, that the package approach is actually the cleaner and the more controlled one. Now i install pretty much everything (like, 99%) from packages. Many of those packages i build myself.
XviD is not "just as good as DVD but at 700 megs". Be reasonable. XviD, DivX and QT/MPEG4 are actually close relatives, they all "speak" MPEG4 "dialects".
I played with a lot of different codecs, including MPEG4-like mutants such as DivX, XviD, ffmpeg, etc. If i limit myself just at comparing DivX and Xvid, then: - XviD is slightly faster than DivX, all else being equal - XviD has slightly better quality than DivX, all else being equal, but it's an extremely close call (and sometimes the opposite is true)
So, in the Extremetech benchmark, if you replace DivX with XviD, it would fare slightly better overall. But definitely nothing as ridiculous as "owning the competition".
Facts please, not emotional knee-jerk reactions. Thank you.
The symptoms you described are due to your body not being able anymore to deal with the drug. They are the forerunners of more serious problems. The solution is not to increase the consumption, not to stay at same levels, not even to just decrease it, but to quit altogether. I am not a doctor, so take my advice with a grain of salt.
I used to drink a lot of coffee some years ago, up to ten cups a day maybe. My hands started to shake, and quite often i would get almost drunk because of caffeine (it's strange but real: past a certain threshold, caffeine makes you "drugged" pretty much like alcohol). My method of getting rid of the nasty habit was a silent yet firm resolution to gradually push it out of the system. I just started to think (well, actually "feel" not think in the intellectual/logical sense) calmly, even-mindedly but persistently that i must stop it. I didn't feel guilty or anything when drinking an occasional cup, i just rehashed my resolution. As an aid, or temporary "crutch" of sorts, because i actually like the taste of coffee i started to replace "real" coffee with decaf. Temporarily, i used to drink cola or stuff like that if i really craved for caffeine; after a while, i started to avoid even those things and drink non-caffeinated cola (all major brands offer non-caffeinated versions, at least in USA). The problem with cola is that the sugar can ruin your teeth (yes, i used to drink a lot!) and overall it's not one of the healthiest things to ingest. The "diet" versions (sugar replaced by artificial sweeteners) are even worse. Again, i am not a doctor, these are just my uneducated guesses.
The gradual changes that i described are not something that i planned. The only thing that mattered was the calm yet stubborn resolution. All else emerged from that without me intending it in an organized fashion - they were just things that became obvious by themselves, as time passed by. I guess i was only more stubborn than the habit.:-) To rehash, the key ingredients were: calm, peace of mind (no guilt, no agitation due to "ohmygod i'm an addict and i'm f***ed"), persistence, reiterating the decision as many times as necessary. Oh, and time. Lots of time and patience.
It took me a year, maybe two, to make it disappear. I can't tell when was the precise date when the habit died, because there was no such date. Rather, it withered out like a plant lacking water.
Nowadays there is no craving at all. I still like the taste of coffee, but i drink the occasional decaf instead. Actually, i developed quite an addiction for... decaf vanilla white mocha! Translation for those unaware of this typical article in american coffee shops: this is something you could pretty much safely feed to a little child (except that you don't want a child getting addicted to the taste of coffee-based drinks at a young age), because it's decaf coffee, cocoa, milk, vanilla, sugar and whipped cream... mmmm... tasty... But that's a harmless addiction, i'd reckon, at least for an underweight like me. I can even safely drink now "normal" coffee, if i'm extremely tired and bored, i have no energy to summon up my strength by sheer will power, but i have a difficult and important task to deal with which is worth the damage. I also accept a coffee when it's offered to me, and i do that only as a social thing, if i feel that a flat out refusal would not be appropriate for the situation. But i do that perhaps once a year, or maybe not even that often. Anyway there is no tendency of the addiction to get back, it's like it vanished altogether. And actually, i don't even get the normal jolt from caffeine anymore; if i drink the occasional caffeinated cola, there is only a small perceivable effect on my state of mind, and if i drink a big strong coffee i actually feel uncomfortable and edgy (there must be some pretty strong self-suggestion that i injected into my brain while quitting if even the perception of the physical effects changed).
Ah, i oversaw that point. But yes, you're right. plus-vs-minus really is different from Beta-vs-VHS. And indeed, many DVD players are compatible with both standards, even though they only advertise one of them. This is something not many people know.
If anything, Beta-vs-VHS delayed and made harder the wide circulation of video tapes. At the time Beta started to make a dent, VHS was already a mature technology, with no room for improvement. Actually, it was Beta which was the better standard, but...:-(
There was zero pressure from DivX over DVD, just because no one bothered to invest in the DivX technology. You get pressure when there are manufacturers throwing money at a different technology (see Beta-vs-VHS, or GSM-vs-CDMA), but in the case of DivX, no one did that.
Apparently, squarooticus takes the principles of the capitalist economy as axioms and applies them blindly to these particular fields of technology. Those are not axioms, but just rules that sometimes are true, and some other times are not. In this case, they're more untrue than true (albeit it's not an either-black-or-white situation, i concede).
First off, why people don't buy and use more of those multistandard units... it's beyond me. You know, those drives guaranteed to support all formats: -R, -RW, +R, +RW... They're really nice. I have a Sony DRU-510 burner, it supports every conceivable format, and works very well.
Second, many units (DVD readers, not writers) that claim that they support only one standard (only -R/RW or only +R/RW) actually do work with the other standard. I don't have exact numbers, but it seems to me that the vast majority of the new drives support de facto all standards. Just try it, you might be suprised.
Then, -R/RW has the advantage of a slightly larger compatibility. There's a lot of slightly older units that, for the majority, support only the "minus" disks. Every single device that i own and has DVD capabilities is multistandard (knows both "plus" and "minus" disks), however all DVDs that i create for my own purposes are -R, just because of this slightly larger compatibility.
Finally, i wish i had a magic of sorts, to get together all those morons who are responsible for inflicting standard wars on us poor customers. Then i'll only ask to give me, for twenty minutes, a machine gun with lots of ammo. It has to be a model which withstands very long shooting sessions without melting or jamming. After twenty minutes, i'll call you to show you what machine-gun-generated meat pulp looks like.:-( I'm really pissed off on these stupid issues.
The only downside to XFS is file deletion times are a bit long
Only on lots of small/medium files, and even then the situation got pretty much fixed in 1.3. Deleting large files is instantaneous on XFS no matter which version, while it takes a long time on any other FS.
No i didn't. With Ardour you can _record_ the music you're making with other applications, or with hardware synthesizers. But you cannot _make_ music with that application per se. To actually make that music, you need some sequencers of sorts, some synthesizers, etc. That's where Rosegarden, Hydrogen, etc. enter the scene.
Ardour is appealing for enthusiastic amateurs, because they can grasp the concept easier. But you need something like Rosegarden (MIDI sequencer) to do actual music.
Ardour is only for analog/digital sound, not for MIDI. Logic does a lot of MIDI, and that's actually the way it's used the most (sequencer on steroids).
Most likely, Fedora will get supported (updates, etc.) indefinitely by the community, just like Debian, etc. I actually expect the Fedora releases to enjoy a longer-term support than the previous Red Hat Linux.
Except for the name. Fedora Core is what used to be Red Hat Linux. They just stopped calling it like that. Repeat the mantra after me: it is just a name change.
Read the docs. Fedora Core still is, for the overwhelming majority, developed by RH engineers. The future RH Enterprise Linux will actually be Fedora releases, cherry-picked by Red Hat and with some "enterprise" stuff added on top. There's no way the two will "diverge".
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All that "optimization and control" that you mention can be perfectly achieved through packages. /usr/lib/libBlah.so.1.2.3? No problem, just do a "rpm -qf /usr/lib/libBlah.so.1.2.3".
I make my own packages, and i can customize them as much as a pure-source install.
Custom gcc flags? No problem, just edit ~/.rpmrc then rebuild the package. I build most of my multimedia packages with "-march=athlon-xp -mcpu=athlon-xp" (and some other flags as well, depending on the package).
Custom package layout? No problem, just modify the spec file.
Wanna know which software owns the file
Etc, etc.
As a bonus, because everything is installed from packages, uninstall/upgrade operations are guaranteed to be clean. And you are certain you can revert the system to any given state, should you have to, with just a set of simple and standard commands (no custom scripts required).
Everything you do straight from source, you can do with packages, with the added benefits of uniformity and easy automatization.
I used to install from source myself. I've found, later on, that the package approach is actually the cleaner and the more controlled one. Now i install pretty much everything (like, 99%) from packages. Many of those packages i build myself.
Don't know which is best, but DivX is certainly the most popular (if you don't count DVDs which are all MPEG2 of course).
BTW, why was the parent moderated "insightful"?
Thanks to the hard work of the Xine team, i can do the same, but using more front-ends and a more flexible architecture.
http://xinehq.de/
XviD is not "just as good as DVD but at 700 megs". Be reasonable. XviD, DivX and QT/MPEG4 are actually close relatives, they all "speak" MPEG4 "dialects".
I played with a lot of different codecs, including MPEG4-like mutants such as DivX, XviD, ffmpeg, etc. If i limit myself just at comparing DivX and Xvid, then:
- XviD is slightly faster than DivX, all else being equal
- XviD has slightly better quality than DivX, all else being equal, but it's an extremely close call (and sometimes the opposite is true)
So, in the Extremetech benchmark, if you replace DivX with XviD, it would fare slightly better overall. But definitely nothing as ridiculous as "owning the competition".
Facts please, not emotional knee-jerk reactions. Thank you.
...the way of the future. ;-)
In 10 years those will be wearable PCs actually.
Maybe a certain company in Redmond secretly sponsoring SCO to throw up shit has something to do with their apparent success so far.
Maybe it doesn't.
The symptoms you described are due to your body not being able anymore to deal with the drug. They are the forerunners of more serious problems. The solution is not to increase the consumption, not to stay at same levels, not even to just decrease it, but to quit altogether. I am not a doctor, so take my advice with a grain of salt.
:-) To rehash, the key ingredients were: calm, peace of mind (no guilt, no agitation due to "ohmygod i'm an addict and i'm f***ed"), persistence, reiterating the decision as many times as necessary. Oh, and time. Lots of time and patience.
I used to drink a lot of coffee some years ago, up to ten cups a day maybe. My hands started to shake, and quite often i would get almost drunk because of caffeine (it's strange but real: past a certain threshold, caffeine makes you "drugged" pretty much like alcohol).
My method of getting rid of the nasty habit was a silent yet firm resolution to gradually push it out of the system. I just started to think (well, actually "feel" not think in the intellectual/logical sense) calmly, even-mindedly but persistently that i must stop it.
I didn't feel guilty or anything when drinking an occasional cup, i just rehashed my resolution. As an aid, or temporary "crutch" of sorts, because i actually like the taste of coffee i started to replace "real" coffee with decaf. Temporarily, i used to drink cola or stuff like that if i really craved for caffeine; after a while, i started to avoid even those things and drink non-caffeinated cola (all major brands offer non-caffeinated versions, at least in USA). The problem with cola is that the sugar can ruin your teeth (yes, i used to drink a lot!) and overall it's not one of the healthiest things to ingest. The "diet" versions (sugar replaced by artificial sweeteners) are even worse. Again, i am not a doctor, these are just my uneducated guesses.
The gradual changes that i described are not something that i planned. The only thing that mattered was the calm yet stubborn resolution. All else emerged from that without me intending it in an organized fashion - they were just things that became obvious by themselves, as time passed by.
I guess i was only more stubborn than the habit.
It took me a year, maybe two, to make it disappear. I can't tell when was the precise date when the habit died, because there was no such date. Rather, it withered out like a plant lacking water.
Nowadays there is no craving at all. I still like the taste of coffee, but i drink the occasional decaf instead. Actually, i developed quite an addiction for... decaf vanilla white mocha! Translation for those unaware of this typical article in american coffee shops: this is something you could pretty much safely feed to a little child (except that you don't want a child getting addicted to the taste of coffee-based drinks at a young age), because it's decaf coffee, cocoa, milk, vanilla, sugar and whipped cream... mmmm... tasty... But that's a harmless addiction, i'd reckon, at least for an underweight like me.
I can even safely drink now "normal" coffee, if i'm extremely tired and bored, i have no energy to summon up my strength by sheer will power, but i have a difficult and important task to deal with which is worth the damage. I also accept a coffee when it's offered to me, and i do that only as a social thing, if i feel that a flat out refusal would not be appropriate for the situation. But i do that perhaps once a year, or maybe not even that often. Anyway there is no tendency of the addiction to get back, it's like it vanished altogether.
And actually, i don't even get the normal jolt from caffeine anymore; if i drink the occasional caffeinated cola, there is only a small perceivable effect on my state of mind, and if i drink a big strong coffee i actually feel uncomfortable and edgy (there must be some pretty strong self-suggestion that i injected into my brain while quitting if even the perception of the physical effects changed).
My personal opinion is that caffeine doesn't a
Ah, i oversaw that point.
But yes, you're right. plus-vs-minus really is different from Beta-vs-VHS. And indeed, many DVD players are compatible with both standards, even though they only advertise one of them. This is something not many people know.
Fully agree.
:-(
If anything, Beta-vs-VHS delayed and made harder the wide circulation of video tapes. At the time Beta started to make a dent, VHS was already a mature technology, with no room for improvement. Actually, it was Beta which was the better standard, but...
There was zero pressure from DivX over DVD, just because no one bothered to invest in the DivX technology.
You get pressure when there are manufacturers throwing money at a different technology (see Beta-vs-VHS, or GSM-vs-CDMA), but in the case of DivX, no one did that.
Apparently, squarooticus takes the principles of the capitalist economy as axioms and applies them blindly to these particular fields of technology. Those are not axioms, but just rules that sometimes are true, and some other times are not. In this case, they're more untrue than true (albeit it's not an either-black-or-white situation, i concede).
Or run him over... Whatever works.
First off, why people don't buy and use more of those multistandard units... it's beyond me. You know, those drives guaranteed to support all formats: -R, -RW, +R, +RW... They're really nice.
:-(
I have a Sony DRU-510 burner, it supports every conceivable format, and works very well.
Second, many units (DVD readers, not writers) that claim that they support only one standard (only -R/RW or only +R/RW) actually do work with the other standard. I don't have exact numbers, but it seems to me that the vast majority of the new drives support de facto all standards. Just try it, you might be suprised.
Then, -R/RW has the advantage of a slightly larger compatibility. There's a lot of slightly older units that, for the majority, support only the "minus" disks.
Every single device that i own and has DVD capabilities is multistandard (knows both "plus" and "minus" disks), however all DVDs that i create for my own purposes are -R, just because of this slightly larger compatibility.
Finally, i wish i had a magic of sorts, to get together all those morons who are responsible for inflicting standard wars on us poor customers. Then i'll only ask to give me, for twenty minutes, a machine gun with lots of ammo. It has to be a model which withstands very long shooting sessions without melting or jamming. After twenty minutes, i'll call you to show you what machine-gun-generated meat pulp looks like.
I'm really pissed off on these stupid issues.
The only downside to XFS is file deletion times are a bit long
Only on lots of small/medium files, and even then the situation got pretty much fixed in 1.3.
Deleting large files is instantaneous on XFS no matter which version, while it takes a long time on any other FS.
Cyclone Music Key
Ain't it cool?
yeah, like the overseas spammers will give a damn... :-(
bingo! ;-)
No i didn't. With Ardour you can _record_ the music you're making with other applications, or with hardware synthesizers. But you cannot _make_ music with that application per se.
To actually make that music, you need some sequencers of sorts, some synthesizers, etc. That's where Rosegarden, Hydrogen, etc. enter the scene.
If it runs Linux, you could probably run Rosegarden.
It's pretty much a clone of an earlier Logic.
Rosegarden
Ardour is appealing for enthusiastic amateurs, because they can grasp the concept easier. But you need something like Rosegarden (MIDI sequencer) to do actual music.
Ardour is only for analog/digital sound, not for MIDI.
Logic does a lot of MIDI, and that's actually the way it's used the most (sequencer on steroids).
Most likely, Fedora will get supported (updates, etc.) indefinitely by the community, just like Debian, etc.
I actually expect the Fedora releases to enjoy a longer-term support than the previous Red Hat Linux.
You don't suppose the development of a software product happens after the software gets released, don't you? ;-)
What used to be "Red Hat Linux" is now called Fedora. The Enterprise version stays the same.
Otherwise nothing changed.
Except for the name.
Fedora Core is what used to be Red Hat Linux. They just stopped calling it like that.
Repeat the mantra after me: it is just a name change.
Mod this guy up. It's amazing how very few people got it right.
Read the docs. Fedora Core still is, for the overwhelming majority, developed by RH engineers.
The future RH Enterprise Linux will actually be Fedora releases, cherry-picked by Red Hat and with some "enterprise" stuff added on top.
There's no way the two will "diverge".