I've used mdk 9 series intensively using KDE (textstar rpms) as my desktop and had no major issues. I was using my pc (duron + GF4200) for 10+ hours of number crunching, compilations, browsing, pdf reading, open office and quake3/wolfenstein.
KDE has improved considerably since the 2.x series, which may be what you are complaining about.
I am hoping that SVG will do to kde/linux what wmf, pict and displayPS do in other platforms.
Although copy/paste/edit of text in X is very good, the same cannot e said for graphic data, where one has sometimes to resort to a plethora of conversion tools to put the odd graphic on a document.
ATMs have been running windows for quite some time, probably 4+ years. How do I know this? Every so often (rarely I must say) there i come across an ATM with a blue screen or equivalent dialog box.
I always thought it was a bit overkill to run windows on something whose function consists of dispensing money and displaying publicity in it's spare time.
Don't tell me that buzzwords and hype are unrelated to performance. I've been using this dual G4 with macosx convinced it was a cray on a desktop, faster than a multiple GHz pentium 4, with twice the memory.
I'm new to XP (i've been with kde and macos 9 & x for the last years) and I find it awkward and confusing. I think wizzards are to blame. Finding files, setting up the network, burning CDs all imply a multiple stage wizard.
Setting up a net net connection, for example, asks all sorts of questions that you have to think about, whereas apple and most linux distros just aask for your ip, mask name servers and gateway.
Not being a low level programmer, I would guess that he is referring to a method of acessing memory by pages, which requires additional calculations since you first access first the memory location of the page and the the relative offset. I don't know for certain what is the limit for current 32bit cpus/OS, but I suspect it's 2Gb.
I remember (in my student years) having to split 'large' matrixes in ~64k chunks when I was programing in DOS on my AMD 386 with 4Mb of ram. Not the most efficient way of doing things. Fortunately someone gave me a copy of djgpp, which allowed me to use 32 bits on that machine. This was about 1994 I think. Just on the virge of the 32 bit revolution of windows NT, 96 and 3.11+32s libraries.
Well... In my very naive opinion I would say the the faster the CPUs the more information they can process per amount of time. This increae in processing power calls for even more complex applications and greater pools of data to be indexed and/or held in memory.
So I think that now, you might not feel the need for > 2 Gb of ram, but in a year's time you may "think differently" (TM).
That everyone is doing it doesn't make it neither legal or fair. The owner of the shop is just using TV cabo to make money, giving nothing to TV cabo in return and, on top of that, stealing possible custumers.
If you ever give them the notion that you read their junk-mail, they will laugh at your naiveness and bloat you mail box with junk.
I *never* click anywhere in a message, I don't even allow html mail to get images (ads) from the net.
All sites that ask to register a password via mail end up in an overbloated yahoo account that I use just for that pourpose. Why would anyone ask for my mail if not to junk it?
After 5.5 years, my mail account still gets about 1 spam on a bad day.
With the number of ISPs implementing transparent proxies upstream of their clients, I would risk saying that kazaa must have something in place to circumvent the proxy.
Please excuse my lack of technical insight. I'm just part of a user comitee of an institution struggeling against malicious abusers.
I'm running KDE 3.0.4, compiled with gcc 3.2, using a preemptive 2.4.19 kernel on a duron 900 with a TNT2.
Yes, starting konqueror can be considered slow (more than 3 secs on average), but it's not that slow. Personaly I find a win2k desktop on a athlon 1.1 much less responsive.
In window/desktop managers I prefer to use virtual desktops. I'm currently using 8 and, together with a pager with a decent preview (kpager), i can get by almost without minimizing windows.
I only use those minimize shortcuts in windows because it has no virtual desktops. It drives me nuts drilling for references, following multiple links with 12 windows all shuffeled arround the taskbar at random.
If you require so many windows open, do try using more desktops in KDE.
My first reaction on macosx was of astonishment: It looks good and polished. It runs word, it runs on nice hardware, it is unix with a nice face.
Then the little stuff started to creep in. Much of what you said plus some legacy 'features' from macos and other tiny things. All in all, it feels to me as if the greatest achievements in usability are the animation effects and translucent windows and menus, that make you firt go "UAU how nice" and then "YUCK, stop it" since they slow down your work.
Moreover, it's slow and sluggish. A dual G4 1GHz with a geforce runing macox (bought 3 months ago) is not that much responsive compared with my kde 3.0.2 on a duron.
Few people are incapable of sharing and discussing unpublished results in fear of being scooped of their doctoral degree or publication. Do not confuse discussion with hype. Many 'scientists' have promised me emminent paradigm shifts in the field since I can remember going to congresses. It seems publishing well and in abundance is not enough, you have also to throw some hype and sand around.
From hype to science fiction in discussions is only a small step. Fortunately going from fiction to full blown fabrication of results is a larger step.
It was only a few monts ago that a friend of mine was complaining that the nvidia blah-blah-force could not surpass in performance a matrox in realtime video. Nothing special involved, appart from the requirement that no frames are dropped and that there is pecise time sinchronization.
It was particularly frustating (my friend complained a lot about it) convincing the sysadmins that such a good card for games was worse than a 4 year old card that only pumps 50 fps in quake 3.
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Stability may be a hardware problem.
I've used mdk 9 series intensively using KDE (textstar rpms) as my desktop and had no major issues. I was using my pc (duron + GF4200) for 10+ hours of number crunching, compilations, browsing, pdf reading, open office and quake3/wolfenstein.
KDE has improved considerably since the 2.x series, which may be what you are complaining about.
I am hoping that SVG will do to kde/linux what wmf, pict and displayPS do in other platforms.
Although copy/paste/edit of text in X is very good, the same cannot e said for graphic data, where one has sometimes to resort to a plethora of conversion tools to put the odd graphic on a document.
ATMs have been running windows for quite some time, probably 4+ years. How do I know this? Every so often (rarely I must say) there i come across an ATM with a blue screen or equivalent dialog box.
I always thought it was a bit overkill to run windows on something whose function consists of dispensing money and displaying publicity in it's spare time.
Is this claim true? It just sounds too ridiculous to be true.
With about 1/3 - 1/5th of the code being SCO's any code you pick from linux will probably be SCO owned.
Don't tell me that buzzwords and hype are unrelated to performance. I've been using this dual G4 with macosx convinced it was a cray on a desktop, faster than a multiple GHz pentium 4, with twice the memory.
Numbers for a duron 900Mhz, 512Mb pc133 ram with a GF ti4200 from creative (64Mb) running on an updated Mandrake 9.1 distro:
1 glxgears 3750 fps
2 glxgears 1850 fps
3 glxgears 1250 fps
(subjective estimated fluctuation of +- 50fps)
screen #0:
dimensions: 1152x864 pixels (305x229 millimeters)
resolution: 96x96 dots per inch
depths (7): 24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32
depth of root window: 24 planes
Mac os 9 erros are intuitive and also a lot of fun:
"bomb! error #"
"bomb" must be the intuitive part, the other must be some sort a page number from i never got.
It's the choices.
I'm new to XP (i've been with kde and macos 9 & x for the last years) and I find it awkward and confusing. I think wizzards are to blame. Finding files, setting up the network, burning CDs all imply a multiple stage wizard.
Setting up a net net connection, for example, asks all sorts of questions that you have to think about, whereas apple and most linux distros just aask for your ip, mask name servers and gateway.
Not being a low level programmer, I would guess that he is referring to a method of acessing memory by pages, which requires additional calculations since you first access first the memory location of the page and the the relative offset. I don't know for certain what is the limit for current 32bit cpus/OS, but I suspect it's 2Gb.
I remember (in my student years) having to split 'large' matrixes in ~64k chunks when I was programing in DOS on my AMD 386 with 4Mb of ram. Not the most efficient way of doing things. Fortunately someone gave me a copy of djgpp, which allowed me to use 32 bits on that machine. This was about 1994 I think. Just on the virge of the 32 bit revolution of windows NT, 96 and 3.11+32s libraries.
Well... In my very naive opinion I would say the the faster the CPUs the more information they can process per amount of time. This increae in processing power calls for even more complex applications and greater pools of data to be indexed and/or held in memory.
So I think that now, you might not feel the need for > 2 Gb of ram, but in a year's time you may "think differently" (TM).
Well... considering that most people only notice the mssql server running when they see the icon on the systray...
Most of them don't even know (or care) where this thing came from. Talk to them about this RPC stuff. Don't forget to tell them it's their fault.
That everyone is doing it doesn't make it neither legal or fair. The owner of the shop is just using TV cabo to make money, giving nothing to TV cabo in return and, on top of that, stealing possible custumers.
Just a suggestion to make tthe pics clearer:
\seta r_vertexlight 1
\seta r_drawgun "0"
\seta com_blood "0"
\seta cg_brassTime "0"
\seta cg_drawCrosshair "5"
\seta cg_crosshairsize "24"
\seta cg_marks "0"
\seta cg_gibs "0"
\seta cg_blood "0"
Funny that they don't blame the music they are putting out these days... it doesn't even justify the HD space :P
Spammers are the scum of the net.
If you ever give them the notion that you read their junk-mail, they will laugh at your naiveness and bloat you mail box with junk.
I *never* click anywhere in a message, I don't even allow html mail to get images (ads) from the net.
All sites that ask to register a password via mail end up in an overbloated yahoo account that I use just for that pourpose. Why would anyone ask for my mail if not to junk it?
After 5.5 years, my mail account still gets about 1 spam on a bad day.
And it woks for me.
O José bateu com o pé e não se aleijou muito, mas como é chorão, chorou muito.
There is a new 1.32b point release that fixes quake.
I am running that PR with X 4.2.99 and a geforce4.
Would a proxy work?
With the number of ISPs implementing transparent proxies upstream of their clients, I would risk saying that kazaa must have something in place to circumvent the proxy.
Please excuse my lack of technical insight. I'm just part of a user comitee of an institution struggeling against malicious abusers.
In Portugal we get a 1Gb limit PER MONTH!
Ummm... try a different, more up-to-date, distro.
I'm running KDE 3.0.4, compiled with gcc 3.2, using a preemptive 2.4.19 kernel on a duron 900 with a TNT2.
Yes, starting konqueror can be considered slow (more than 3 secs on average), but it's not that slow. Personaly I find a win2k desktop on a athlon 1.1 much less responsive.
In window/desktop managers I prefer to use virtual desktops. I'm currently using 8 and, together with a pager with a decent preview (kpager), i can get by almost without minimizing windows.
I only use those minimize shortcuts in windows because it has no virtual desktops. It drives me nuts drilling for references, following multiple links with 12 windows all shuffeled arround the taskbar at random.
If you require so many windows open, do try using more desktops in KDE.
A white dot moving between other white dots?
I was expecting to see craters!!!!
I share most of what you say.
My first reaction on macosx was of astonishment: It looks good and polished. It runs word, it runs on nice hardware, it is unix with a nice face.
Then the little stuff started to creep in. Much of what you said plus some legacy 'features' from macos and other tiny things. All in all, it feels to me as if the greatest achievements in usability are the animation effects and translucent windows and menus, that make you firt go "UAU how nice" and then "YUCK, stop it" since they slow down your work.
Moreover, it's slow and sluggish. A dual G4 1GHz with a geforce runing macox (bought 3 months ago) is not that much responsive compared with my kde 3.0.2 on a duron.
Scientists live for authorship and publication.
Few people are incapable of sharing and discussing unpublished results in fear of being scooped of their doctoral degree or publication. Do not confuse discussion with hype. Many 'scientists' have promised me emminent paradigm shifts in the field since I can remember going to congresses. It seems publishing well and in abundance is not enough, you have also to throw some hype and sand around.
From hype to science fiction in discussions is only a small step. Fortunately going from fiction to full blown fabrication of results is a larger step.
I know people who care, and a lot!
It was only a few monts ago that a friend of mine was complaining that the nvidia blah-blah-force could not surpass in performance a matrox in realtime video. Nothing special involved, appart from the requirement that no frames are dropped and that there is pecise time sinchronization.
It was particularly frustating (my friend complained a lot about it) convincing the sysadmins that such a good card for games was worse than a 4 year old card that only pumps 50 fps in quake 3.