It's been stable for me on Hardy except for Flash issues. Installing that wrapper thingy (sorry I forget the name) that makes Flash run in a separate process meaning on Flash crashes not FF, and I haven't had an FF crash since doing that.
Nah I'm not reinstalling my OS every 6 months. I can work around bugs, but then I've been using computers for 20 years and running Linux as my desktop OS for about 8 years. Also working with Linux servers for about 10 years.
So it's easier for me to work around stuff than do a fresh install every 6 months. But for the supposed target audience of Ubuntu ("Linux for human beings") the quality of the QA is poor IMHO.
Mozilla have said FF3 is ready for general consumption. It's still being tweaked but it's fine tbh. I've been using it for a few weeks with no problems.
The change between FF3b5 and FF3 is far less than that between FF2 and FF3. Ubuntu (and most distros) won't upgrade an app between major version numbers within a release because it's too likely to cause breakage.
Agreed, this is the curse of Ubuntu as far as I'm concerned. I've been having a love hate relationship with it for ages. I'd switch back to Fedora if it had the repositories, I'd switch to Debian (well I have for my desktop) but Etch is too old and Lenny/Sid is currently broken for proprietary nVidia drivers. On the other hand, where it works Ubuntu is lovely, they have enough useful extras that Debian doesn't have to make it worthwhile, but the quality control and willingness to hold back a release is completely lacking. It drives me up the wall.
Nah it's storing *something* but it seems to be the password in hex form which it's then applying as though it were ASCII or latin1 or whatever they use for passphrases.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
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They'll release 3 final to the repositories when it's released and probably reroll the installer CD I'd have thought.
They could really do with a bit more flexibility on their launch dates though.
As usual with Ubuntu they seem happy to ship whatever state it's in on the official launch date.
I'm not trolling here, I'm running Hardy myself, but for a supposedly 'hardy' long term support release it's still pretty buggy for me. Sound in Flash stopped working yesterday (for plenty of other people too by the look of the bug on launchpad), I have to re-enter my WPA password every time I boot, and font hinting isn't working for gnome-terminal and KDE based apps.
It sounds like you've messed up grub. There are plenty of issues with Ubuntu but that's not one I've ever heard of anyone having (updates to kernel breaking grub)
The updates only modify the part of menu.lst between the
### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
and ### END AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
If you want to add something static you need to put it outside of that block.
As described here:
# Put static boot stanzas before and/or after AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST ### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST ## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified ## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below
It sounds to me like you have a broken config file.
The article is light and obviously the app isn't up for comparison any more. But as another poster said, there's only so many ways you can order a chat window, a text entry box, and a current users list..
It's just a nice web interface to a chat room, hardly revolutionary. Anyone getting hot under the collar about someone copying it has a great future ahead of them in the patent troll business.
Sure if they copied it exactly feature for feature and took the interface then it's understandable but otherwise...
This isn't about the MacBook suit, this is about 20" iMac desktops.
Incidentally a guy (Mac user) on our forums ran some tests on his Thinkpad and found that it does indeed have an IPS display. So although TN screens may be common on laptops they're not ubiquitous.
Because having your own hardware you can't scale up to 50 server instances for half an hour and then scale back down to 1 when traffic decreases, just as one example.
Yeah I need low latency to the server running the app. Hopefully the fact that they've opened a Euro datacentre for S3 is an indication they might do the same for EC2 though.
1. This won't affect piracy, the places where you can get pirated movies are already full of BD releases so obviously those creating the pirated releases were already able to get the data (probably by ripping it out of the decoded video stream at some point).
2. Software patents or no, I believe that I should be able to do what I want with something I purchase as long as it's not harming others. Moving my movies from physical disks to my media server is not harming anybody.
3. As others have already said, DRM is fundamentally broken. To view DRM encrypted content you have to have the keys. If you have the keys then the encryption can't be secure. The sooner people (the content industries) realise this the sooner they can stop pissing off their legitimate consumers without actually denting piracy. This is a win for all. EMI have realised this, and I think a couple of other music studios, now it's just a waiting game until the rest of them get it.
I couldn't disagree more. With high resolution passive e-ink displays the argument for e-books has never been more compelling. Ths only reason I've stuck to pulp this long was because there weren't portable screens that were close enough to a normal printed image, but that's no longer true.
The day that the majority of the books I own, and those I want to read, are available in a non-DRM format I'll say goodbye to my hundreds of kilos of dead tree and I won't shed a tear. Especially next time I move house. I'm really looking forward to freeing up the space.
Incidentally similar arguments have been made about vinyl for some time that are equally spurious and frankly little more than sentimentality.
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Myth is a bit of a nightmare though, and personally I don't think the media player side of it is that great.
If you don't need PVR then I can heartily recommend XBMC, it's awesome.
http://xbmc.org/
It's been stable for me on Hardy except for Flash issues. Installing that wrapper thingy (sorry I forget the name) that makes Flash run in a separate process meaning on Flash crashes not FF, and I haven't had an FF crash since doing that.
Are people still going on about the GTK file dialogue after its redesign? Jeez... works fine here.
Anyway, a skinning engine isn't going to replace the file dialogue.
Most bugs only affect a subset of users, they're still bugs.
Nah I'm not reinstalling my OS every 6 months. I can work around bugs, but then I've been using computers for 20 years and running Linux as my desktop OS for about 8 years. Also working with Linux servers for about 10 years.
So it's easier for me to work around stuff than do a fresh install every 6 months. But for the supposed target audience of Ubuntu ("Linux for human beings") the quality of the QA is poor IMHO.
Mozilla have said FF3 is ready for general consumption. It's still being tweaked but it's fine tbh. I've been using it for a few weeks with no problems.
The change between FF3b5 and FF3 is far less than that between FF2 and FF3. Ubuntu (and most distros) won't upgrade an app between major version numbers within a release because it's too likely to cause breakage.
Agreed, this is the curse of Ubuntu as far as I'm concerned. I've been having a love hate relationship with it for ages. I'd switch back to Fedora if it had the repositories, I'd switch to Debian (well I have for my desktop) but Etch is too old and Lenny/Sid is currently broken for proprietary nVidia drivers. On the other hand, where it works Ubuntu is lovely, they have enough useful extras that Debian doesn't have to make it worthwhile, but the quality control and willingness to hold back a release is completely lacking. It drives me up the wall.
Nah it's storing *something* but it seems to be the password in hex form which it's then applying as though it were ASCII or latin1 or whatever they use for passphrases.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
They'll release 3 final to the repositories when it's released and probably reroll the installer CD I'd have thought.
They could really do with a bit more flexibility on their launch dates though.
As usual with Ubuntu they seem happy to ship whatever state it's in on the official launch date.
I'm not trolling here, I'm running Hardy myself, but for a supposedly 'hardy' long term support release it's still pretty buggy for me. Sound in Flash stopped working yesterday (for plenty of other people too by the look of the bug on launchpad), I have to re-enter my WPA password every time I boot, and font hinting isn't working for gnome-terminal and KDE based apps.
Hohum...
It sounds like you've messed up grub. There are plenty of issues with Ubuntu but that's not one I've ever heard of anyone having (updates to kernel breaking grub)
The updates only modify the part of menu.lst between the
### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
and
### END AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
If you want to add something static you need to put it outside of that block.
As described here:
# Put static boot stanzas before and/or after AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST
### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified
## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below
It sounds to me like you have a broken config file.
I'm not. I only use it for a few legacy apps. Less than once a month on average I'd estimate.
Right, well that's why I added the qualifier :)
The article is light and obviously the app isn't up for comparison any more. But as another poster said, there's only so many ways you can order a chat window, a text entry box, and a current users list..
Campfire is hardly feature rich.
It's just a nice web interface to a chat room, hardly revolutionary. Anyone getting hot under the collar about someone copying it has a great future ahead of them in the patent troll business.
Sure if they copied it exactly feature for feature and took the interface then it's understandable but otherwise...
This isn't about the MacBook suit, this is about 20" iMac desktops.
Incidentally a guy (Mac user) on our forums ran some tests on his Thinkpad and found that it does indeed have an IPS display. So although TN screens may be common on laptops they're not ubiquitous.
They created their own exploits.
Yeah they should call it Phoenix or Firebird or something.
So to translate your answer, "no you're right, you can't do that without EC2 or a similar service."
Glad we agree.
Because having your own hardware you can't scale up to 50 server instances for half an hour and then scale back down to 1 when traffic decreases, just as one example.
Yeah I need low latency to the server running the app. Hopefully the fact that they've opened a Euro datacentre for S3 is an indication they might do the same for EC2 though.
I suspect only tunneled over IPv4.
:(
What I'm personally waiting for from EC2 is European datacentres, as I have an application that's latency sensitive.
You might want to try reading comments before replying to them.
RHEL is just a more conservative package set than Fedora, there's not much difference in functionality, and you can always just use CentOS anyway.
Personally I use Ubuntu but I'm sick of all the regressions so I'm off to Debian.
1. This won't affect piracy, the places where you can get pirated movies are already full of BD releases so obviously those creating the pirated releases were already able to get the data (probably by ripping it out of the decoded video stream at some point).
2. Software patents or no, I believe that I should be able to do what I want with something I purchase as long as it's not harming others. Moving my movies from physical disks to my media server is not harming anybody.
3. As others have already said, DRM is fundamentally broken. To view DRM encrypted content you have to have the keys. If you have the keys then the encryption can't be secure. The sooner people (the content industries) realise this the sooner they can stop pissing off their legitimate consumers without actually denting piracy. This is a win for all. EMI have realised this, and I think a couple of other music studios, now it's just a waiting game until the rest of them get it.
I couldn't disagree more. With high resolution passive e-ink displays the argument for e-books has never been more compelling. Ths only reason I've stuck to pulp this long was because there weren't portable screens that were close enough to a normal printed image, but that's no longer true.
The day that the majority of the books I own, and those I want to read, are available in a non-DRM format I'll say goodbye to my hundreds of kilos of dead tree and I won't shed a tear. Especially next time I move house. I'm really looking forward to freeing up the space.
Incidentally similar arguments have been made about vinyl for some time that are equally spurious and frankly little more than sentimentality.