I like a good whisky, I like it with a splash of water too, even if it's a good whisky.
I do drink whisky with coke too, if I'm out at a club or something, beer just doesn't agree with me, and neat whisky doesn't really last in that situation.
However it always makes me laugh when I'm asked *which* whisky I'd like to butcher with my coke. I mean seriously, as long as it's not bourbon who cares?:p
Prefixes are far from unique to Linux. Also, how long is it since you looked at Gnome apps? I can't of any that are "gSomething" or "gnSomething". Plenty are called "Gnome Something", but how is that different from the hundreds of "Windows Something" or 'WinSomething"? 'Winamp', 'Winzip', 'Windows messenger', 'Winrar'. Uhuh.
"This basically goes to show that the Linux desktop folk know they're names are completely dissociative, so they have to spell out exactly what each one does."
Skype, Flash, Adium, Daemon Tools. *Most* desktop apps have random names that don't mean anything, the only difference is that Ubuntu added labels to the names other people gave their apps to make it clearer.
I wonder if FF are planning to fix the poor memory handling and speed in Linux any time soon. I'm getting quite tired of just how Windows focussed they are. I know that needs to be their primary target, but it would be nice if the Linux version didn't lag behind *quite* so much, especially seeing as they forget to mention that all these fancy improvements listed for a new version don't actually apply to the Mac and Linux versions.
It reloads the tab though, I'm hoping they mean you can transfer the tab state without a reload.
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I wouldn't hold your breath. The Linux version builds but it won't even start yet, let alone be in a usable state.
Amanda Walker wrote:
Right now, both are in the âoepieces build and pass tests, but thereâ(TM)s no Chromium application yet.â While weâ(TM)re working hard and fast on catching up to the Windows version, weâ(TM)re not setting an artificial date for when theyâ(TM)ll be readyâ"we simply canâ(TM)t predict enough to make a solid estimate, and we expect to learn a lot from the Windows public beta as well.
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I like the incognito mode but it doesn't negate the usefulness of FF's selective deletion of private data on close. Even as a simple example, I like to have my download history cleared when I close the browser. Not because there's anything there I want to hide, just because I have no need for keeping it around and prefer to have it blank when I start. Just an example of course, there are more compelling, privacy related, reasons for it.
Calling a major revision a developer release is stupid. They shouldn't have done it. No one does it. Major revision releases are meant to be usable by the target audience of the application. Developer releases are usually called alphas and betas.
I'm not a packager either but my understanding is that deb packages only allow you to store a single patch in the source archive, meaning you have to merge all your patches together into one big lump rather than having a full set of per-issue patches, making it much more difficult to remove a specific local patch.
I'm not saying that's a reason by itself, I'm just saying that the user experience of using a particular package system isn't the only variable in choosing a packaging system.
As a user I personally prefer using apt to yum (yu is horribly slow), but for the actual package format I've no particular preference. Apt-rpm always worked for me just as well as apt with the deb package format.
Actually no-cd cracks aren't just to circumvent anti-piracy schemes. Most anti-piracy measures in games go far beyond no-cd cracks, yet there are often still no-cd cracks available for these games. The reason is that people just don't want to have to dig around in a pile of CDs/DVDs before being able to play a game that's already installed on their hard drive.
I've used no-cd cracks for plenty of games I've owned legally over the years, and many of them still wouldn't have worked if they were pirated even with the no-cd crack.
There is a perfectly valid, legal, reason for no-cd cracks, so what gives Ubisoft the right to pirate the work of the people who wrote it?
Existing package managers won't regress unless you explicitly instruct them to. A standard apt-get update won't install older versions of packages just because they're in the list.
As I understand the 'vulnerability', all they can do is keep you on an existing version known to be buggy, but if that's the case then surely they would already know you don't have the latest version because they've been getting their updates from you, so you don't supply it in the first place, then you hack them.
Maybe I'm missing something in the article? It doesn't seem to make sense.
IANAL but as I understand it the GPL requires that source is made available to customers, not everyone. Of course in this case they don't appear to be making it available to customers either.
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I like a good whisky, I like it with a splash of water too, even if it's a good whisky.
I do drink whisky with coke too, if I'm out at a club or something, beer just doesn't agree with me, and neat whisky doesn't really last in that situation.
However it always makes me laugh when I'm asked *which* whisky I'd like to butcher with my coke. I mean seriously, as long as it's not bourbon who cares? :p
Hate to feed the troll but...
"Drop the lame prefixes"
iPhoto, iWork, iPod, iMac, iPhone.
Prefixes are far from unique to Linux. Also, how long is it since you looked at Gnome apps? I can't of any that are "gSomething" or "gnSomething". Plenty are called "Gnome Something", but how is that different from the hundreds of "Windows Something" or 'WinSomething"? 'Winamp', 'Winzip', 'Windows messenger', 'Winrar'. Uhuh.
"This basically goes to show that the Linux desktop folk know they're names are completely dissociative, so they have to spell out exactly what each one does."
Skype, Flash, Adium, Daemon Tools. *Most* desktop apps have random names that don't mean anything, the only difference is that Ubuntu added labels to the names other people gave their apps to make it clearer.
Don't be ridiculous.
I wonder if FF are planning to fix the poor memory handling and speed in Linux any time soon. I'm getting quite tired of just how Windows focussed they are. I know that needs to be their primary target, but it would be nice if the Linux version didn't lag behind *quite* so much, especially seeing as they forget to mention that all these fancy improvements listed for a new version don't actually apply to the Mac and Linux versions.
It reloads the tab though, I'm hoping they mean you can transfer the tab state without a reload.
I wouldn't hold your breath. The Linux version builds but it won't even start yet, let alone be in a usable state.
Amanda Walker wrote:
Right now, both are in the âoepieces build and pass tests, but thereâ(TM)s no Chromium application yet.â While weâ(TM)re working hard and fast on catching up to the Windows version, weâ(TM)re not setting an artificial date for when theyâ(TM)ll be readyâ"we simply canâ(TM)t predict enough to make a solid estimate, and we expect to learn a lot from the Windows public beta as well.
I like the incognito mode but it doesn't negate the usefulness of FF's selective deletion of private data on close. Even as a simple example, I like to have my download history cleared when I close the browser. Not because there's anything there I want to hide, just because I have no need for keeping it around and prefer to have it blank when I start. Just an example of course, there are more compelling, privacy related, reasons for it.
I would go with "not at all". ;)
Clutter is a UI toolkit, it shares nothing but a name with your link as far as I can tell.
Event good printer inks have a pretty short lifespan. I think you'd have to look for something specialist to last 25 years.
Works for me, Hardy + ff3.0.1
It is a 0.1 release though so bound to be buggy.
Motion capture is just a way to automate generating paths for computer animation, so is this. They both result in animated CGI.
Are you sure it has EDGE? I can't see any reference to it on their wiki:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_GTA02_Hardware
Android is Linux based too. I'm sure it'll be possible to use it on the OpenMoko if you want.
Not since the Cold War smart-arse.
Haha :)
Anyway, interesting to have you commenting here, keep up the good work!
Hey could you start one of your posts with "IAAL"? Just for me? It would make my day. :p
Calling a major revision a developer release is stupid. They shouldn't have done it. No one does it. Major revision releases are meant to be usable by the target audience of the application. Developer releases are usually called alphas and betas.
I'm not a packager either but my understanding is that deb packages only allow you to store a single patch in the source archive, meaning you have to merge all your patches together into one big lump rather than having a full set of per-issue patches, making it much more difficult to remove a specific local patch.
I'm not saying that's a reason by itself, I'm just saying that the user experience of using a particular package system isn't the only variable in choosing a packaging system.
As a user I personally prefer using apt to yum (yu is horribly slow), but for the actual package format I've no particular preference. Apt-rpm always worked for me just as well as apt with the deb package format.
"and by extension, in the inner sanctum source lists of distributions such as Ubuntu that are based on it"
Ubuntu is built off a snapshot of Unstable, so I don't see how Debian's freeze will affect it.
Are you a packager?
What are your opinions on deb's handling of patches against the upstream source?
Actually no-cd cracks aren't just to circumvent anti-piracy schemes. Most anti-piracy measures in games go far beyond no-cd cracks, yet there are often still no-cd cracks available for these games. The reason is that people just don't want to have to dig around in a pile of CDs/DVDs before being able to play a game that's already installed on their hard drive.
I've used no-cd cracks for plenty of games I've owned legally over the years, and many of them still wouldn't have worked if they were pirated even with the no-cd crack.
There is a perfectly valid, legal, reason for no-cd cracks, so what gives Ubisoft the right to pirate the work of the people who wrote it?
Thanks for explaining what I was trying to explain in another comment much better than I managed to.
switching subject and object half way through a sentence... go me :p
Existing package managers won't regress unless you explicitly instruct them to. A standard apt-get update won't install older versions of packages just because they're in the list.
As I understand the 'vulnerability', all they can do is keep you on an existing version known to be buggy, but if that's the case then surely they would already know you don't have the latest version because they've been getting their updates from you, so you don't supply it in the first place, then you hack them.
Maybe I'm missing something in the article? It doesn't seem to make sense.
IANAL but as I understand it the GPL requires that source is made available to customers, not everyone. Of course in this case they don't appear to be making it available to customers either.