After reading this guy's site, he basically seems to want a cluttered interface. Lots of options, lots of what he's used to. GNOME is about simplicity and clean-ness, as well as trying out new UI paradigms. Spacial browsing is much better after you get used to it. But he wants it to be like Windows. GNOME is not a Windows clone.
Maybe he should try KDE instead? That does everything he wants, and has tons of configurable options. I think you can modify the Earth's rotation speed in the KDE Control Center.
That said, I'm sticking to GNOME. It's very simple and clean, and doesn't get in my way. I really love GNOME 2.6 (actually I'm an XFCE user but decided to try it out today... it's niiiice).
Umm.. wrong? That's JavaScript you're thinking of. And if you're not using Mozilla* / Safari / IE then you're really being obscure for no reason. So you can't use gmail. Use something else?
Actually, the web interface is so much better than any email client I've ever used (elm, mutt, Evolution, Thunderbird) that I would never want to use a real email client again. My web browser is always open, and now mail is a click away.
Gmail has really changed how I use email. The conversation feature is just wonderful. So is the search. I really love it:)
I'm under the impression that latency and bandwidth aren't really related. A 747 full of DVDs has a shitload of bandwidth, but damn bad latency. What's to say the same thing isn't happening here?
Also, I'll bet that latency is introduced at each hop by the router. The lookup in the routing table is what takes time, not the light travelling to the end of the fibre.
When I "put things in quotes", I think of the sentence as an enclosing scope for the quoted phrase ("put things in quotes" in this case). The period is in the scope of the original sentence, so it goes outside the quotes. If you're quoting a full sentence, then there should really be two periods. One for the enclosed sentence, and one for the enclosing sentence.
Here's an example:
Don't you hate it when people quote sentences like "Jack and Jill went up a hill."?
See how the period finishes off the quoted sentence and the question mark finishes off the enclosing question? I like this myself, but it's quite non-standard. Ah well, we logical people are few and far between, I guess:)
I don't like this logic. Why is it illegal if it isn't hurting anyone? (Yeah, yeah, I know. 2.4GHz waves from your WiFi rig barbecure the invisible anti-terrorism uber-net. Okay, thanks.)
Oh, it's a way for the government to selectevely punish people they don't like? That, honestly, scares me. As far as I'm concerned, if you aren't interfering with anything, you can have a 100000dB gain antenna for all I care. Now, if you're frying people, then you should get in trouble. But if you're sharing your internet with your friend 5 blocks away, then you should be okay. There's more problems in society than people sharing their Internet connections. Like dumb laws:)
I'm pretty sure that my debit card counts as a credit card as far as MasterCard is concerned. Call 'em and the charges are gone.
That said, I am going to start using a credit card and paying it off every month. You get nice bonuses like cash back (not much) and warranty extension, etc. like that.
Hey at least we stopped posting every time there's an M$ bug. Now the news is when an M$ product DOESN'T respond to remote attempts to a) flash the BIOS b) reformat the hard drive c) DoS someone.
Unfortunately there aren't any microsoft products that meet the above criteria.
Who cares? You'll just have to download it from bittorrent or from outside of the US. Besides, suing free software doesn't get you any money. It's free software:)
Ahh, and who will control what defines an attack? Is using Freenet an attack? Bittorrent? Kazaa?
This looks like yet another way to force us to use the Internet in the way that corporations/governements want us to. No fucking thank you.
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Okay, thanks for clarifying it. I haven't tried it yet since I haven't found anything worth getting (mostly anime, sadly). But now I'll go looking knowing that I'm not leeching the network:)
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My ISP recently decided to NAT everyone. Now I can't log into my machine remotely. Now I can't receive email to me@rockway.gotdns.org. Now I can't use BitTorrent.
So no, NAT isn't a good idea. It BREAKS the internet. If I wasn't going back to school in a few weeks I would change ISPs. This is borderline unacceptable:)
I deserve music for free. I mostly listen to mods, where the source code (heh) is freely available and modifiable. Sure, you can't hear some moron whine about his girlfriend, but you can get good music. And play around with it. For free. Legally.
Rather than doing something illegal, change your tastes. It's hard, but worthwhile.
That said I do listen to some jpop, but I didn't exactly see the CD for sale anywhere.
And according to Popular Science, allofmp3.com is legal. 1 cent per megabyte, any format you want.
Well because they're Apple. Apple goes for simplicity instead of features. AAC works, so that's what they use. Simple.
I don't necessarily think this is a good idea, but I'm not the product designer that's been doing this for years, either. Note that there's always the possibility that the iPod's CPU can't decode Vorbis in real time. It does run Linux, though, so just install Linux on the thing and run ogg123:)
As an aside, I have a lot of FLAC files, but that's not really going to stop me from buying an iPod. Nothing a very small shell script can't fix.
This does bother me. When you're in America, speak in English. If you don't know English, then don't come to America. Okay? Thanks.
I also got pissed off in Japan when morons kept walking around speaking English to everyone and taunting them for not knowing English. Then again most people I knew in Japan (European people, I mean) wanted to get drunk and have sex "with a different girl every night". I'm sure that worked out real well for them...
I think there must be some user error there. I've had a grand total of zero non-trivial kernel panics (i.e. the VFS: cannot mount root filesystem. Rebooting in 180 seconds.). I have had some oopses, though. 5, I think.
1) When I installed some RAM into a very dusty RAM socket. Fixed by getting rid of the dust with compressed air and reinserting the chip.
2) When I overclocked my 2500+ to 2.7GHz:) That caused problems, heh.
3) When I bought a bad piece of RAM. Fixed by calling the manufacturer and getting a new piece sent to me.
4) When my roof collapsed* onto my server and shorted out something inside. (Syslog managed to get it to disk before the thing crashed, too.)
* It didn't collapse completely, it just rained drywall and water right on top of my server. What were the odds of that?
5) When I was hacking a driver and dereferenced a NULL pointer:)
As you can see, all of these are from odd hardware conditions (or me fucking with kernel data structures). I've used Linux for 7 years now (on a variety of archetectures at that) and haven't had any problems that I couldn't fix. I think that your hardware is bad or that you're being dumb about something. No offense, but get a Linux-y friend to help you and you'll probably be okay. Linux really does have some great software but it's DIFFERENT than what you're used to. If you want clones, just use the real thing. (Most cloned software for Linux is terrible.)
For example, instead of using Word, learn LaTeX. Hard? Maybe. BEAUTIFUL results? Yes. (Although OO.org is great these days, I started on Linux before KOffice or OO.org were even thought of, so this is what I'm used to.)
Anyway, good luck fixing your Linux problems. I think you're getting flamed because most people on/. have been using Linux problem-free for years, and you're one of the few who has. No offense.
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After reading this guy's site, he basically seems to want a cluttered interface. Lots of options, lots of what he's used to. GNOME is about simplicity and clean-ness, as well as trying out new UI paradigms. Spacial browsing is much better after you get used to it. But he wants it to be like Windows. GNOME is not a Windows clone.
Maybe he should try KDE instead? That does everything he wants, and has tons of configurable options. I think you can modify the Earth's rotation speed in the KDE Control Center.
That said, I'm sticking to GNOME. It's very simple and clean, and doesn't get in my way. I really love GNOME 2.6 (actually I'm an XFCE user but decided to try it out today... it's niiiice).
Not if it's 200G in RAID-1. Then it's a dollar a gig. Still cheap, though. (DVD+RWs are cheaper though. Go figure.)
Umm.. wrong? That's JavaScript you're thinking of. And if you're not using Mozilla* / Safari / IE then you're really being obscure for no reason. So you can't use gmail. Use something else?
Actually, the web interface is so much better than any email client I've ever used (elm, mutt, Evolution, Thunderbird) that I would never want to use a real email client again. My web browser is always open, and now mail is a click away.
:)
Gmail has really changed how I use email. The conversation feature is just wonderful. So is the search. I really love it
I'm under the impression that latency and bandwidth aren't really related. A 747 full of DVDs has a shitload of bandwidth, but damn bad latency. What's to say the same thing isn't happening here?
Also, I'll bet that latency is introduced at each hop by the router. The lookup in the routing table is what takes time, not the light travelling to the end of the fibre.
What? I think it made perfect sense. If he's not lying... But it sounds feasable and interesting to me.
Exactly how I would explain it.
:)
When I "put things in quotes", I think of the sentence as an enclosing scope for the quoted phrase ("put things in quotes" in this case). The period is in the scope of the original sentence, so it goes outside the quotes. If you're quoting a full sentence, then there should really be two periods. One for the enclosed sentence, and one for the enclosing sentence.
Here's an example:
Don't you hate it when people quote sentences like "Jack and Jill went up a hill."?
See how the period finishes off the quoted sentence and the question mark finishes off the enclosing question? I like this myself, but it's quite non-standard. Ah well, we logical people are few and far between, I guess
I don't like this logic. Why is it illegal if it isn't hurting anyone? (Yeah, yeah, I know. 2.4GHz waves from your WiFi rig barbecure the invisible anti-terrorism uber-net. Okay, thanks.)
:)
Oh, it's a way for the government to selectevely punish people they don't like? That, honestly, scares me. As far as I'm concerned, if you aren't interfering with anything, you can have a 100000dB gain antenna for all I care. Now, if you're frying people, then you should get in trouble. But if you're sharing your internet with your friend 5 blocks away, then you should be okay. There's more problems in society than people sharing their Internet connections. Like dumb laws
My friends Deb and Ian saved me $189 too. And I don't even have to be 4 years out of date (hell even XP is ooooold). And I get all the software too.
Or Debian. Debian is manly as well :)
I'm pretty sure that my debit card counts as a credit card as far as MasterCard is concerned. Call 'em and the charges are gone.
That said, I am going to start using a credit card and paying it off every month. You get nice bonuses like cash back (not much) and warranty extension, etc. like that.
> Now, when you copy the tape, do you include the commericals as well?
:)
Nope, but when I watch the shows, I "don't" take a shit during the commercials. Oh wait, yes I do. And then I can't see them.
Commercials are absolutely stupid. No thanks. BTW weren't we promised commercial-less TV when we started paying for cable? I feel ripped off.
Thankfully I haven't watched TV in almost a year. What a waste of time. Slashdot is much more interesting.
Hey at least we stopped posting every time there's an M$ bug. Now the news is when an M$ product DOESN'T respond to remote attempts to a) flash the BIOS b) reformat the hard drive c) DoS someone.
Unfortunately there aren't any microsoft products that meet the above criteria.
Who cares? You'll just have to download it from bittorrent or from outside of the US. Besides, suing free software doesn't get you any money. It's free software :)
Ahh, and who will control what defines an attack? Is using Freenet an attack? Bittorrent? Kazaa?
This looks like yet another way to force us to use the Internet in the way that corporations/governements want us to. No fucking thank you.
Okay, thanks for clarifying it. I haven't tried it yet since I haven't found anything worth getting (mostly anime, sadly). But now I'll go looking knowing that I'm not leeching the network :)
My ISP recently decided to NAT everyone. Now I can't log into my machine remotely. Now I can't receive email to me@rockway.gotdns.org. Now I can't use BitTorrent.
:)
So no, NAT isn't a good idea. It BREAKS the internet. If I wasn't going back to school in a few weeks I would change ISPs. This is borderline unacceptable
I deserve music for free. I mostly listen to mods, where the source code (heh) is freely available and modifiable. Sure, you can't hear some moron whine about his girlfriend, but you can get good music. And play around with it. For free. Legally.
Rather than doing something illegal, change your tastes. It's hard, but worthwhile.
That said I do listen to some jpop, but I didn't exactly see the CD for sale anywhere.
And according to Popular Science, allofmp3.com is legal. 1 cent per megabyte, any format you want.
n/t
Well because they're Apple. Apple goes for simplicity instead of features. AAC works, so that's what they use. Simple.
:)
I don't necessarily think this is a good idea, but I'm not the product designer that's been doing this for years, either. Note that there's always the possibility that the iPod's CPU can't decode Vorbis in real time. It does run Linux, though, so just install Linux on the thing and run ogg123
As an aside, I have a lot of FLAC files, but that's not really going to stop me from buying an iPod. Nothing a very small shell script can't fix.
I'm proud to be a student at UIC where they are planning on paying students to attend sporting events. Go Flames!
This does bother me. When you're in America, speak in English. If you don't know English, then don't come to America. Okay? Thanks.
I also got pissed off in Japan when morons kept walking around speaking English to everyone and taunting them for not knowing English. Then again most people I knew in Japan (European people, I mean) wanted to get drunk and have sex "with a different girl every night". I'm sure that worked out real well for them...
When in Rome, do as the Romans.
I can see the dialogue as going like this:
A: So I typed 10 8 - and 6 4 - into my calculator. Guess what it said?
You: "Same difference"?
Okay, that wasn't funny at all. I think I'll click submit anyway, though.
Audio here is great. SB/Live feeding my Logitech THX surround sound system. Music is superb, DVDs are better :)
So I think your hardware or driver is bad. Not the fault of Linux, it's the fault of the hardware manufacturer or the ALSA project.
I think there must be some user error there. I've had a grand total of zero non-trivial kernel panics (i.e. the VFS: cannot mount root filesystem. Rebooting in 180 seconds.). I have had some oopses, though. 5, I think.
:) That caused problems, heh.
:)
/. have been using Linux problem-free for years, and you're one of the few who has. No offense.
1) When I installed some RAM into a very dusty RAM socket. Fixed by getting rid of the dust with compressed air and reinserting the chip.
2) When I overclocked my 2500+ to 2.7GHz
3) When I bought a bad piece of RAM. Fixed by calling the manufacturer and getting a new piece sent to me.
4) When my roof collapsed* onto my server and shorted out something inside. (Syslog managed to get it to disk before the thing crashed, too.)
* It didn't collapse completely, it just rained drywall and water right on top of my server. What were the odds of that?
5) When I was hacking a driver and dereferenced a NULL pointer
As you can see, all of these are from odd hardware conditions (or me fucking with kernel data structures). I've used Linux for 7 years now (on a variety of archetectures at that) and haven't had any problems that I couldn't fix. I think that your hardware is bad or that you're being dumb about something. No offense, but get a Linux-y friend to help you and you'll probably be okay. Linux really does have some great software but it's DIFFERENT than what you're used to. If you want clones, just use the real thing. (Most cloned software for Linux is terrible.)
For example, instead of using Word, learn LaTeX. Hard? Maybe. BEAUTIFUL results? Yes. (Although OO.org is great these days, I started on Linux before KOffice or OO.org were even thought of, so this is what I'm used to.)
Anyway, good luck fixing your Linux problems. I think you're getting flamed because most people on