From my perspective, getting an Apple laptop is the easiest way to get a nice, portable laptop which runs a Unix system (which, with MacPorts, I can get all the unixy goodness) AND to make sure that the hardware is guaranteed to work. I don't need to worry about whether the new kernel broke support for ndiswrapper, I don't need to worry about the regressions in hardware support that have hit my Linuxy friends, and I have a GUI that gets as close as I've seen to the DWIM pattern.
And I have a scriptable GUI. Say what you will about its syntax, AppleScript allows some wonderful scripting possibilities. And you can call out to a shell script, so it's also powerful:)
Exactly. I could make the outrageous claim that I am currently consuming 12 gigabytes of data per second, based on my monitor's resolution and refresh rate. And since it's hooked up over DVI-D, this is, strictly speaking, digital information.
Try sshing into a machine where your user isn't currently logged in, or running the exploit as a different user. As best I can tell, it doesn't work in the case where the user running the command isn't the user who is graphically logged in.
I might be misinterpreting you, so I apologize if I am. However, it sounds like you're saying that in order to have this code work, "Screen Sharing" needs to be enabled in the Sharing preferences. This is not true.
Even as a normal user on my mac, the exploit code works.
I believe the way this is known is based off the intergalactic gas. It's incredibly diffuse, but still exists. If there were to be a section of the universe with antimatter being the most prevalent, the intergalactic gas would be made of antimatter. Where the matter-based gas and the antimatter-based gas would meet there would be a violent amount of energy released from their mutual annihilation, which would be noticeable via observation.
The activation isn't quite as onerous as you make it out to be, and I've found Adobe's system to be quite nice. You can have the software installed on as many machines as you want, but it can only be active on one of them at a time. To switch computers, they both need an internet connection. On the computer that is activated, go to Photoshop (or another of the programs) and then Help->Deactivate. Then when you sart up a CS3 program on the other computer, it'll bring up the activation window and get the activation from Adobe's servers.
As far as I'm concerned, the system works wonderfully well.
At the very least the ubuntu people have taken care of the issues you've noted.
In ubuntu, there's an add/remove option in the Applications menu, and it gives a nice user-friendly interface to installing software.
As for updates, it automatically checks every night for them and will display an icon in the status bar and pop up a bubble saying there are updates for your computer.
Firstly, to get scroll arrows to be in a Windows-like position, go to System Preferences, and then in the Appearance section, there's an option for "Place scroll arrows"
Secondly, dragging and dropping from the desktop isn't hard: you can use the various expose keys while dragging. So to drag from the desktop to a program, you can hit F11 to show the desktop, start the drag, press F9 to show all windows, move over the window you want, press F9 again to have that window on top, and then complete the drag-and-drop.
Finally, there's another option to minimizing. You can hide windows which means they disappear and will only reappear when switching back to the program via cmd+tab or the dock.
You don't need to switch distros to switch DEs on ubuntu. The difference between the different *buntus are which DE is default. So no matter which you're on, to install KDE install the package kubuntu-desktop, for Gnome ubuntu-desktop,and for XFCE xubuntu-desktop.
Re:Here's another problem with Gnome branding
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It's not quite that bad. When accessing these programs from the menu they *do* have the simple names you were hoping for.
Totem is 'Movie Player' Baobab is 'Disk Usage Analyzer' Alacarte seems to be 'Menu Layout', although Ubuntu might have changed something here. Tomboy is unfortunately 'Tomboy notes'
So overall they've managed to use fairly clear and simple names for these programs, much as you were hoping for.
Look, I'm as much a GIMP fan as almost anyone else, but there are a few things that are sorely missing from it that most people would find useful.
Adjustment layers - being able to apply adjustments like that without messing the original is a wonderful thing and comes in very handy. It also makes it easier to adjust all the layers below it at once. Sure beats using a gray layer set to 'divide' for adjusting the exposure
Healing brush - I think this is going to land either for 2.4 or 2.6 (it was one of the SoC projects, IIRC) but not having it at this moment is something that makes it much harder to do subtle retouchings of images.
There are probably several other things that would be useful, but these are a few that I personally would appreciate. But I don't miss them enough to switch from the gimp, because it's just so nice.
You could say it was frequently called. I had a loop that ran a billion times to compute the table, and it would seem the JIT took advantage of that in a very good way. And I totally agree with the complete funkiness of the speed.
I did try with -O3 and it only took a few minutes off the runtime, which really surprised me. The code had an inner loop that was being run a billion times, so I'd think that even the slightest optimization would have a larger payoff.
This is completely anectdotal, so please take this with a large grain of salt.
I'm doing some research at my college where part of what I need to do is generate reasonably large (1GB) lookup tables. The program to do this started out in C++ and migrated to Java later on so it would be easier to get my non-linux using companions up and running with the program.
To my complete and utter shock, the java version was slightly faster than the c++ version, even though I had far more function calls in my java version. The runtimes were around 60 minutes vs. 67 minutes.
Now the c++ compiler was gcc, which you've said doesn't have the greatest code generation. But I still would not have expected java to outperform it.
Feel free to call me blind, but all I see in the middle of their homepage is a purple box talking about the state of the world's human rights. And searching on their page for the phrase "Search engines restricted." [from your quote of them] doesn't return any results.
If you could give us the URL where you saw that, I (along with many others) would greatly appreciate it!
If you download DosBox, you can set the clock speed used to run old DOS games, and it works wonders. I know Magic Carpet works under it well, since just last week I helped my roommate get it up and running under it.
Let me speak for every Linux Maya user, and say this:
NO FAIR! They make us use a Motif interface, and just when we started hoping that they'd update it sometime, it ends up looking like it won't exist for us anymore. And just after I kicked the blender habid.
Life's a biatch.
Re:How do Maya and Max compare to Blender?
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Is Blender even a worthy substitute for Maya or Max?
No.
For one, its builtin renderer is complete crap when it comes to anything nearing physical accuracy (such as reflections. Yuck), and Yafray, while it's nice, has nothing on Mental Ray when it comes to speed, image quality, or ease of use. Admittedly, on price, it wins. And the LCSM unwrap in blender is quite nice, and I don't know of an equivalent in maya. But I'm a major n00b.
Not to mention Hypershade owns me. It makes it so easy to make complicated shaders for objects, and do things that you wouldn't think possible.
So yeah, blender is really nice, and I still prefer poly modeling in it compared to maya. But maya is so much more featureful, it's no competition.
You do know that with most distros, installing libdvdcss will allow DVDs to play? Also, mplayer with the w32codecs can play almost every media file I throw at it.
A Theory in science is as proven as things get. You can never prove a theory in science, so just please leave it alone before you give the ID hosers any ideas for arguments.
Slashdot Mirror
In my first minute of using the site I found some issues.
On the home page, there's a popup that is half off my screen. I tried resizing the browser, but it continued to be anchored to the side like that.
Once I clicked on this story, I was greeted with a story in two different fonts (or at least different font sizes).
From my perspective, getting an Apple laptop is the easiest way to get a nice, portable laptop which runs a Unix system (which, with MacPorts, I can get all the unixy goodness) AND to make sure that the hardware is guaranteed to work. I don't need to worry about whether the new kernel broke support for ndiswrapper, I don't need to worry about the regressions in hardware support that have hit my Linuxy friends, and I have a GUI that gets as close as I've seen to the DWIM pattern.
And I have a scriptable GUI. Say what you will about its syntax, AppleScript allows some wonderful scripting possibilities. And you can call out to a shell script, so it's also powerful :)
Exactly. I could make the outrageous claim that I am currently consuming 12 gigabytes of data per second, based on my monitor's resolution and refresh rate. And since it's hooked up over DVI-D, this is, strictly speaking, digital information.
I get the reference, and I can't praise that book highly enough.
Try sshing into a machine where your user isn't currently logged in, or running the exploit as a different user. As best I can tell, it doesn't work in the case where the user running the command isn't the user who is graphically logged in.
This does not work over ssh, at least not if you user isn't also logged in physically to the machine. If you try over ssh, it gives the error
_RegisterApplication(), FAILED TO establish the default connection to the WindowServer, _CGSDefaultConnection() is NULL.
However, it does work if you have a remote desktop view into a machine.
I might be misinterpreting you, so I apologize if I am. However, it sounds like you're saying that in order to have this code work, "Screen Sharing" needs to be enabled in the Sharing preferences. This is not true.
Even as a normal user on my mac, the exploit code works.
I believe the way this is known is based off the intergalactic gas. It's incredibly diffuse, but still exists. If there were to be a section of the universe with antimatter being the most prevalent, the intergalactic gas would be made of antimatter. Where the matter-based gas and the antimatter-based gas would meet there would be a violent amount of energy released from their mutual annihilation, which would be noticeable via observation.
The activation isn't quite as onerous as you make it out to be, and I've found Adobe's system to be quite nice. You can have the software installed on as many machines as you want, but it can only be active on one of them at a time. To switch computers, they both need an internet connection. On the computer that is activated, go to Photoshop (or another of the programs) and then Help->Deactivate. Then when you sart up a CS3 program on the other computer, it'll bring up the activation window and get the activation from Adobe's servers.
As far as I'm concerned, the system works wonderfully well.
At the very least the ubuntu people have taken care of the issues you've noted.
In ubuntu, there's an add/remove option in the Applications menu, and it gives a nice user-friendly interface to installing software.
As for updates, it automatically checks every night for them and will display an icon in the status bar and pop up a bubble saying there are updates for your computer.
Firstly, to get scroll arrows to be in a Windows-like position, go to System Preferences, and then in the Appearance section, there's an option for "Place scroll arrows"
Secondly, dragging and dropping from the desktop isn't hard: you can use the various expose keys while dragging. So to drag from the desktop to a program, you can hit F11 to show the desktop, start the drag, press F9 to show all windows, move over the window you want, press F9 again to have that window on top, and then complete the drag-and-drop.
Finally, there's another option to minimizing. You can hide windows which means they disappear and will only reappear when switching back to the program via cmd+tab or the dock.
I hope these tips help you out some.
My domain (and email) is hosted with godaddy, and it was trivial to set up SPF.
Go into your hosting account, then open the control panel for the domain you want to set up SPF for.
On the page that opens up, select DNS Manager.
Scroll down to the bottom of that page, and there should be a button saying something like "Add SPF Record."
Assuming you use smtpout.secureserver.net to send your email, the defaults should work splendidly, and it should be good to go.
You don't need to switch distros to switch DEs on ubuntu. The difference between the different *buntus are which DE is default. So no matter which you're on, to install KDE install the package kubuntu-desktop, for Gnome ubuntu-desktop,and for XFCE xubuntu-desktop.
It's not quite that bad. When accessing these programs from the menu they *do* have the simple names you were hoping for.
Totem is 'Movie Player'
Baobab is 'Disk Usage Analyzer'
Alacarte seems to be 'Menu Layout', although Ubuntu might have changed something here.
Tomboy is unfortunately 'Tomboy notes'
So overall they've managed to use fairly clear and simple names for these programs, much as you were hoping for.
Look, I'm as much a GIMP fan as almost anyone else, but there are a few things that are sorely missing from it that most people would find useful.
Adjustment layers - being able to apply adjustments like that without messing the original is a wonderful thing and comes in very handy. It also makes it easier to adjust all the layers below it at once. Sure beats using a gray layer set to 'divide' for adjusting the exposure
Healing brush - I think this is going to land either for 2.4 or 2.6 (it was one of the SoC projects, IIRC) but not having it at this moment is something that makes it much harder to do subtle retouchings of images.
There are probably several other things that would be useful, but these are a few that I personally would appreciate. But I don't miss them enough to switch from the gimp, because it's just so nice.
You could say it was frequently called. I had a loop that ran a billion times to compute the table, and it would seem the JIT took advantage of that in a very good way. And I totally agree with the complete funkiness of the speed.
I did try with -O3 and it only took a few minutes off the runtime, which really surprised me. The code had an inner loop that was being run a billion times, so I'd think that even the slightest optimization would have a larger payoff.
This is completely anectdotal, so please take this with a large grain of salt.
I'm doing some research at my college where part of what I need to do is generate reasonably large (1GB) lookup tables. The program to do this started out in C++ and migrated to Java later on so it would be easier to get my non-linux using companions up and running with the program.
To my complete and utter shock, the java version was slightly faster than the c++ version, even though I had far more function calls in my java version. The runtimes were around 60 minutes vs. 67 minutes.
Now the c++ compiler was gcc, which you've said doesn't have the greatest code generation. But I still would not have expected java to outperform it.
Feel free to call me blind, but all I see in the middle of their homepage is a purple box talking about the state of the world's human rights. And searching on their page for the phrase "Search engines restricted." [from your quote of them] doesn't return any results.
If you could give us the URL where you saw that, I (along with many others) would greatly appreciate it!
If you download DosBox, you can set the clock speed used to run old DOS games, and it works wonders. I know Magic Carpet works under it well, since just last week I helped my roommate get it up and running under it.
I believe this might be what you're looking for. It also recovers your session in the case of a crash (either browser or OS)
Let me speak for every Linux Maya user, and say this:
NO FAIR! They make us use a Motif interface, and just when we started hoping that they'd update it sometime, it ends up looking like it won't exist for us anymore. And just after I kicked the blender habid.
Life's a biatch.
No.
For one, its builtin renderer is complete crap when it comes to anything nearing physical accuracy (such as reflections. Yuck), and Yafray, while it's nice, has nothing on Mental Ray when it comes to speed, image quality, or ease of use. Admittedly, on price, it wins. And the LCSM unwrap in blender is quite nice, and I don't know of an equivalent in maya. But I'm a major n00b.
Not to mention Hypershade owns me. It makes it so easy to make complicated shaders for objects, and do things that you wouldn't think possible.
So yeah, blender is really nice, and I still prefer poly modeling in it compared to maya. But maya is so much more featureful, it's no competition.
You do know that with most distros, installing libdvdcss will allow DVDs to play? Also, mplayer with the w32codecs can play almost every media file I throw at it.
NO, DAMMIT
A Theory in science is as proven as things get. You can never prove a theory in science, so just please leave it alone before you give the ID hosers any ideas for arguments.