It amazes me that, after many years, Reddit has not improved its web site design.
Thanks for that small mercy, compare to Google's improvements to google news. But Reddit recently did fiddle with the presentation and made it worse, with fewer comments per screen.
You can even test a motherboard/CPU/RAM assembly with only a PSU and speaker and nothing else.
I always do that with a new build, but without the speaker. Plug in processor, memory and power supply, then short the power button pins with a letter opener:-)
Usually, the sound of the processor fan is enough to know it posted, but LEDs can be helpful or essential if it doesn't.
Generally speaking, you're going to need to trigger some kind of pre-BIOS/UEFI failure to get anything out of it, and even that seems to be dying out as my last few mobos have all had a pair of seven-segment LED displays that show a sequence of hex status codes as the system progresses through the boot process.
LED display on the MB is civilized, but most don't have it and blink some LED instead, which nearly all new MBs have and is getting universal. Even NUCs do this. Way more useful imho. I never did like the lame little beep on boot, can't shed a tear for its demise.
The last two out of two builds I did, the case didn't even have a speaker. Did not miss it a bit. I don't think the "cheap PC speaker" is even a thing any more, and laptops - which always have speakers - don't have hard drives except unless they are super crap, then don't worry about it.
I bought two Huaweis so far, basically to give away. Considered picking up one for me as a low end replacement for my aging Nexus, but that thought is well and truly gone, completely, forever. Probably Motorola next, since I am nothing but impressed with the last one and they seem to agree that unlocking is a thing.
The biggest problem of Gnome is it is not a system but a whole bunch of loosely connected (or not!) applications.
The biggest problem with Gnome (besides the developers) is, it's written in C. Its libraries are written in C. C that is trying to be object oriented and just ends up being a mess because, you know, C does not have classes. It can try to have classes, just as a dog can pretend to walk on its hind feet like a human, but kids are not fooled.
Yah. They almost killed it with 4.0 but it bounced back and is the best again, including vs Windows and OS/X. Even Kmail kinda works again, RIP.
Used Ark for the first time (always command lined that tell yesterday) and was blown away how smooth it is. There are just an endless number of nice surprises like that in KDE if you go explore. Mostly I just ignore everything fancy and use the basics, which are great.
Solar is obviously where the new power supply will be coming from, not much to see there. More power to them, so to speak, if they can cool their living spaces with sunlight.
The question becomes: who is going to build those masses of solar panels to drive the price down? So far, the answer has been, China, and that is in large part because of the Chinese monopoly on highly concentrated rare earth ores. This has created an arab oil embargo type situation that keeps solar panel prices higher than what Africa and other hot places really need. But now we know that high concentrations of rare earths far exceeding those of China lie at the bottom of the sea. The discussion shifts to, who owns those parts of the sea, and who builds the robots capable of mining them? At the moment, the answer is, Japan, but that could easily change. For the moment, prospects are good for the future of solar power in Africa, after all, It's just mud from the bottom of the sea, and sand.
I wish more people would realize what all this PulseAudio, Systemd, firewalld and the other kinds of various shit we get shoved at us from RH is really about.
the Obama administration passing the ACA without any Republican support using a legal but marginally ethical procedure. IMHO, that burned any remaining bridges between the two parties and they haven't cooperated ever since.
The republicans were completely uncooperative, and arguably completely dysfunctional long before that.
Slashdot Mirror
I think we hit Peak Internet a long time ago, but all of the kiddies think it's brand new. I directly visit less than 15 sites per day...
When you finally drop off the internet completely, you die.
It amazes me that, after many years, Reddit has not improved its web site design.
Thanks for that small mercy, compare to Google's improvements to google news. But Reddit recently did fiddle with the presentation and made it worse, with fewer comments per screen.
I keep hearing about this 'reddit' and I've been there twice.
What Reddit needs - more people as enlightened as you. May I suggest 4chan?
this kind of RAM
NVRAM.
Not you. And nobody cares about that.
You can even test a motherboard/CPU/RAM assembly with only a PSU and speaker and nothing else.
I always do that with a new build, but without the speaker. Plug in processor, memory and power supply, then short the power button pins with a letter opener :-)
Usually, the sound of the processor fan is enough to know it posted, but LEDs can be helpful or essential if it doesn't.
Generally speaking, you're going to need to trigger some kind of pre-BIOS/UEFI failure to get anything out of it, and even that seems to be dying out as my last few mobos have all had a pair of seven-segment LED displays that show a sequence of hex status codes as the system progresses through the boot process.
LED display on the MB is civilized, but most don't have it and blink some LED instead, which nearly all new MBs have and is getting universal. Even NUCs do this. Way more useful imho. I never did like the lame little beep on boot, can't shed a tear for its demise.
The last two out of two builds I did, the case didn't even have a speaker. Did not miss it a bit. I don't think the "cheap PC speaker" is even a thing any more, and laptops - which always have speakers - don't have hard drives except unless they are super crap, then don't worry about it.
I bought two Huaweis so far, basically to give away. Considered picking up one for me as a low end replacement for my aging Nexus, but that thought is well and truly gone, completely, forever. Probably Motorola next, since I am nothing but impressed with the last one and they seem to agree that unlocking is a thing.
Just keep the old ones installed, and meanwhile, teach your fingers to type "ip addr" instead of "ifconfig -a"
8. Krita
9. Blender
10. Konqueror
11. Kate
12. Inkscape
Remember when they go $40 million invested into Gnome and basically just produced one theme? Nice one, but hey.
The biggest problem of Gnome is it is not a system but a whole bunch of loosely connected (or not!) applications.
The biggest problem with Gnome (besides the developers) is, it's written in C. Its libraries are written in C. C that is trying to be object oriented and just ends up being a mess because, you know, C does not have classes. It can try to have classes, just as a dog can pretend to walk on its hind feet like a human, but kids are not fooled.
Gnome would benefit from spending the money to hire people to fix bugs.
Quickest way is, probably, port it to Qt.
KDE is/was the best.
Yah. They almost killed it with 4.0 but it bounced back and is the best again, including vs Windows and OS/X. Even Kmail kinda works again, RIP.
Used Ark for the first time (always command lined that tell yesterday) and was blown away how smooth it is. There are just an endless number of nice surprises like that in KDE if you go explore. Mostly I just ignore everything fancy and use the basics, which are great.
Some of us have a smaller SSD as C drive...
Wow, C drive, I almost forgot about that. I hope that does not trigger any other ancient, painful memories. How is life, back there in Hell?
Backslash for path separator :-)
Some of us have a smaller SSD as C drive...
Wow, C drive, I almost forgot about that. I hope that does not trigger any other ancient, painful memories. How is life, back there in Hell?
Solar is obviously where the new power supply will be coming from, not much to see there. More power to them, so to speak, if they can cool their living spaces with sunlight.
The question becomes: who is going to build those masses of solar panels to drive the price down? So far, the answer has been, China, and that is in large part because of the Chinese monopoly on highly concentrated rare earth ores. This has created an arab oil embargo type situation that keeps solar panel prices higher than what Africa and other hot places really need. But now we know that high concentrations of rare earths far exceeding those of China lie at the bottom of the sea. The discussion shifts to, who owns those parts of the sea, and who builds the robots capable of mining them? At the moment, the answer is, Japan, but that could easily change. For the moment, prospects are good for the future of solar power in Africa, after all, It's just mud from the bottom of the sea, and sand.
It must be April, mustn't it? I knew Zuck is a voyeur, but I never expected him to be so obvious about it.
And let's not forget that you haven't wallowed in crap until you've wallowed in rpmbuild.
I wish more people would realize what all this PulseAudio, Systemd, firewalld and the other kinds of various shit we get shoved at us from RH is really about.
Let's not forget RPM.
Remember when everybody had a Myspace account?
Running Android? If not then no deal.
the Obama administration passing the ACA without any Republican support using a legal but marginally ethical procedure. IMHO, that burned any remaining bridges between the two parties and they haven't cooperated ever since.
The republicans were completely uncooperative, and arguably completely dysfunctional long before that.
Russians can't vote here anyway.