SMP PS/2 bug makes it UNUSABLE
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Fedora Core 2 Review
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· Score: 2, Informative
I installed last night, and I was shocked and horrified to find it my keyboard no longer worked after the install. I have a USB mouse, but a PS2 keyboard -- the mouse worked fine, no keyboard -- it was only after X started that I lose the keyboard.
Aparently, this is a known problem with the 2.6 SMP kernel, and it's still an open bug.
Secondly (after resorting to the single CPU kernel), I was shocked to discover Alt-Tab didn't work properly in X -- it would outline windows, but not actually raise their focus. This was just plain annoying.
Then there is hte fact that firewire support is OFF by default -- comeon, this is NOT a new technology -- I have to recompile the kernel to use my external firewire drive? That's very disappointing.
- Not Impressed Thus Far With Fedora 2.
Re:their SE course sucks
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MIT Everyware
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· Score: 1
What you're describing is less about learning computer science and programming skills, and more about the business side of things. This is a very useful still to have, but I think the focus of 6.170 is to give students the perspective and skills needed to program correctly. Further in their career (both academic and/or professional), negotiation skills and what not can be taught and melded with the skills learned here.
Yes, the course teaches idealist programming practices -- as I think it should. As a graduate of MIT EECS, and someone that's since been in "the real world," I look back to this course as one of the most helpful and most beneficial. It didn't teach me to deal with my pointed-haired bosses and such, but that's not what I wanted from my MIT education. I can learn that elsewhere. But with this background, I can strive and push the envelope everywhere I work to improve the process.
Yes, but that's why Mozilla is seperating the browser (Firebird) and the email client (Thunderbird).
I'm personally very psyched about this, as I love mozilla both as an idea and most of the results, but I hated the fact that it was this massive all-in-one beast. Firebird is just fantastic, and I can't wait to start playing with Thunderbird when it's a bit more mature. Until then, MozMail is quite good.
The calendar views in Outlook and Evolution are horrible. It's hard to distinguish the demarcations between months/weeks etc, and it's just very non-user friendly IMHO.
My current hopes and dreams are on a often-forgotten Mozilla Calendar, which I'm hoping will find the attention of hte masses and get that last-mile work it so desperately needs to become my permanent calendar...
I've owned and loved my Tivo for a little over a year, but I've had my eye on some of the opensource projects coming up that look awesome. In particular, I'm wondering if anyone can speak of their experience with MythTV or any other projects out there.
I've also had very little (read: none) experience with TV tuner cards on PCs -- I'd have to buy one of those, but I'm always been leery (for no particular reason) of television signal from cable on a PC.
I love the Onion too -- I'd never heard of this whole Yahoo spin site before. I don't think they've got as much talent or wit as the onion... not by a long shot...
I wonder how shock absorbent this guy is -- if I take it running and shake it around a lot, how long is this thing going to last before I mess up the hard drive or something?
While I submit that movie pairs such as Volcano and Dante's Peak were the basically the same movie with different actors, I find it frustrating that reviews and critics continue to judge EdTV in comparison to The Truman Show. They are very different movies, from the genre on down, and the simple fact that media is involved does not link them.
EdTV was conceived and implemented as a _comedy_. Ron Howard wanted to take a film that would reflect current trends in media (think MTV Real World) from a different perspective. He didn't set out to make a daring, hard issued movie. He wasn't trying to make The Truman Show. I don't find many similarities between the two. Sure, the very surface seems the same -- guy get's his life filmed and broadcast. But beyond that they are worlds apart. If we judged at all movies, with such a topical glance, Free Willy and Jaws would be the same film: large sea animal interacts with people. Similarly, The Thin Red Line would just be a rip off of Saving Private Ryan -- they were both WWII films, right?
Come on, approach a film with a little more reason. Not everything wants to be a remake, and true enough, not everything is original or interesting or well done. But before judging something, perhaps you should look into the intentions of the director and where they were coming from. I'm not endorsing EdTV, but I'm tired of hearing it called a Truman Show rip.
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I installed last night, and I was shocked and horrified to find it my keyboard no longer worked after the install. I have a USB mouse, but a PS2 keyboard -- the mouse worked fine, no keyboard -- it was only after X started that I lose the keyboard.
Aparently, this is a known problem with the 2.6 SMP kernel, and it's still an open bug.
Secondly (after resorting to the single CPU kernel), I was shocked to discover Alt-Tab didn't work properly in X -- it would outline windows, but not actually raise their focus. This was just plain annoying.
Then there is hte fact that firewire support is OFF by default -- comeon, this is NOT a new technology -- I have to recompile the kernel to use my external firewire drive? That's very disappointing.
- Not Impressed Thus Far With Fedora 2.
What you're describing is less about learning computer science and programming skills, and more about the business side of things. This is a very useful still to have, but I think the focus of 6.170 is to give students the perspective and skills needed to program correctly. Further in their career (both academic and/or professional), negotiation skills and what not can be taught and melded with the skills learned here.
Yes, the course teaches idealist programming practices -- as I think it should. As a graduate of MIT EECS, and someone that's since been in "the real world," I look back to this course as one of the most helpful and most beneficial. It didn't teach me to deal with my pointed-haired bosses and such, but that's not what I wanted from my MIT education. I can learn that elsewhere. But with this background, I can strive and push the envelope everywhere I work to improve the process.
Yes, but that's why Mozilla is seperating the browser (Firebird) and the email client (Thunderbird).
I'm personally very psyched about this, as I love mozilla both as an idea and most of the results, but I hated the fact that it was this massive all-in-one beast. Firebird is just fantastic, and I can't wait to start playing with Thunderbird when it's a bit more mature. Until then, MozMail is quite good.
The calendar views in Outlook and Evolution are horrible. It's hard to distinguish the demarcations between months/weeks etc, and it's just very non-user friendly IMHO.
My current hopes and dreams are on a often-forgotten Mozilla Calendar, which I'm hoping will find the attention of hte masses and get that last-mile work it so desperately needs to become my permanent calendar...
I've owned and loved my Tivo for a little over a year, but I've had my eye on some of the opensource projects coming up that look awesome. In particular, I'm wondering if anyone can speak of their experience with MythTV or any other projects out there.
I've also had very little (read: none) experience with TV tuner cards on PCs -- I'd have to buy one of those, but I'm always been leery (for no particular reason) of television signal from cable on a PC.
Thoughts?
I love the Onion too -- I'd never heard of this whole Yahoo spin site before. I don't think they've got as much talent or wit as the onion... not by a long shot...
I wonder how shock absorbent this guy is -- if I take it running and shake it around a lot, how long is this thing going to last before I mess up the hard drive or something?
While I submit that movie pairs such as Volcano and Dante's Peak were the basically the same movie with different actors, I find it frustrating that reviews and critics continue to judge EdTV in comparison to The Truman Show. They are very different movies, from the genre on down, and the simple fact that media is involved does not link them.
EdTV was conceived and implemented as a _comedy_. Ron Howard wanted to take a film that would reflect current trends in media (think MTV Real World) from a different perspective. He didn't set out to make a daring, hard issued movie. He wasn't trying to make The Truman Show. I don't find many similarities between the two. Sure, the very surface seems the same -- guy get's his life filmed and broadcast. But beyond that they are worlds apart. If we judged at all movies, with such a topical glance, Free Willy and Jaws would be the same film: large sea animal interacts with people. Similarly, The Thin Red Line would just be a rip off of Saving Private Ryan -- they were both WWII films, right?
Come on, approach a film with a little more reason. Not everything wants to be a remake, and true enough, not everything is original or interesting or well done. But before judging something, perhaps you should look into the intentions of the director and where they were coming from. I'm not endorsing EdTV, but I'm tired of hearing it called a Truman Show rip.
my $.02,
cec