Half the useful stuff on the net just plain doesn't work cos it sees your not on windows and just shuts you out.
No save, no magic resistance no fu*k all....
Of course as soon as you fake your string it all works fine again. Which means I've been shut out because the designer was too lazy to test the site with other browsers despite being smart enough to know some browsers might not work with his 'clever' code.
In the context of this thread it is a far better book than any of the rest of the series.
Some of the characters aren't as well developed (Death in particular) but as a parody of everyone from Fritz Lieber to Anne McCaffrey it is funny (hysterically) on several levels.
MP3 is an integral part of MPEG1/2, any opensource project capable of decoding MPEG video is the target of this attack.
Mplayer,etc, etc cannot afford to front $15000/$50000 to continue to distribute.
The alterations to FhG's licencing terms are solely targeted at 'free' decoders which for the most part means opensource decoders.
FhG must know that all these little projects cannot afford to pay these fee's and will simply be forced to shut up shop and go home.
Many have suggested that the RIAA has had a hand in this although it strikes me as more likely to have been the doing of the MPAA (or perhaps M$).
What really needs to be done here is for all the big players to get together (IBM, Redhat, Suse, Mandrake, Debian etc) pay the one of fee and release an LGPL decoder that everyone else can link to or even simply to act as a distribution channel for everyone else's decoders.
Screw FhG, this isn't a move designed to improve profits, it's a move designed to drive the opensource guy's to the wall.
I bought a Radeon VE about a year ago and spent a month banging my head of a brick wall in Winblows and Mandrake.
The windows drivers never worked properly, they would do either dual-head or hardware accelerated DVD but never both, and the Linux drivers just didn't bl**dy exist, there were experimental drivers that didn't do any hardware acceleration and didn't support dual-head.
RMA'd it and replaced it with an ELSA Gladiac 511Twin Geforce2MX400 and never looked back.
NVidia's drivers may be closed but they f*cking work!
Have you ever noticed that NVidia's Linux drivers support the features of cards before you can even buy them?
The latest drivers contain support for the new hardware (iDCT) DVD on GeForce4MX's and have done since weeks before you could buy the d*mn cards.
I don't give a rip how tempting a new ATI card looks, how fast it is, or what amazing features it has.
I will never buy ATI again, the hardware may be lovely but the software blows goats.
I've been following the Beta since we found the site a week before its official announcement.
To the best of my knowledge you are talking rubbish.
There WILL be a Linux client, in fact we were polled recently by the developers to find out what distros they needed to test on.
On the subject of the beta there will be no Linux beta initially but I believe there may be one in the later stages of testing. I forget exactly what Jay said but I'm sure it was to that effect.
Anyone can be a critic. Even a complete moron. With a little more technical knowledge and/. experience than the average linux user (as opposed to programmer) you can make yourself look ever so smart and more cool than Rasterman.
Your not.
Somewhere down in the hidden depths of your ego you know it too. No amount of clever replies to this post will change that.
Enlightenment may not be perfect, it may be far from perfect, but it is far more impressive than anything I, or the vast majority of the critics, will ever create.
Rasterman (from what I have read of him) couldn't do what he wanted to with X and so with pretty much no formal training went ahead and created a solution. (instead of harping on about how "I can't do nananana or nanananana in X" on/.)
It might not be an elegant or ideal solution, but it just about works. You might be able to do all the things E does better in GNOME,sawmill,(insert whatever Holy Grail WM or DE you like to bang on about to demonstrate your intelectual superiority here) but pound to a penny you could probably do it in E FIRST.
I notice that the only comments in this thread that I remember reading from people with any real experience in programming WM's were from people working on Enlightenment.
If you critics are such kick ass programmers and could do a better job than Rasterman then prove it, take the code and rewrite it 'properly'
My guess is that none of you have the balls to stick your necks out in the public arena and risk suffering the sort of abuse and criticism that you are directing at Rasterman for fear that your fragile egos would collapse.
As to all that 'All this eye candy gets in the way of productivity and wastes system resources' nonsense, use the Terminal.
Almost every task can be performed from the Terminal. The purpose of 'eye candy' is to make control easier and the visual experience more pleasurable (its easier to work if whats on the screen doesn't make your eyes throb and your brain ache). I believe an alternative description of 'eye candy' is GUI.
Every succesive generation of GUI has better and more user configurable 'eye candy' and Enlightenment is consistantly on the cutting edge. Everything that you consider 'feature bloat' or 'unproductive' now will be commonplace in two years.
EVAS is a great idea. It may not be done 'properly' but Rasterman will make it work before anyone else does anything similar.
And in two years time you'll all have hardware accelerated desktops and be criticising Rasterman's next innovation because the GL acceleration in E isn't done 'properly'
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Who's military hardware did we face in the Falklands?
It sure wasn't Argentina that made the Exocet that sank HMS Sheffield.
OTOH it was us selling Iraq the parts for its dumb supergun...
cos of the large number of us faking it.
Half the useful stuff on the net just plain doesn't work cos it sees your not on windows and just shuts you out.
No save, no magic resistance no fu*k all....
Of course as soon as you fake your string it all works fine again. Which means I've been shut out because the designer was too lazy to test the site with other browsers despite being smart enough to know some browsers might not work with his 'clever' code.
user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/4.72 [en] (Win95; U)");
Thats Netscape 7.0 on Mandrake 9.1rc2
ps anyone know how to get Netscape to use Mplayer instead of its stupid Quicktime plugin?
"Dr and Quinch"
hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe....
I had forgotten they even existed and then it all suddenly came flooding back....
Utter madness/genius.
Thanks for the reminder, it has cheered my day up no end.
Gratefull thanks.
you might find the reading some other SF (Anne McCaffrey for example) immediately before Colour of Magic will improve the experience.
Colour of Magic is an amazing piece of parody.
I also highly recommend The Science of Discworld books. Funny, insightful and very informative from a geek perspective.
Excession was amazing, didn't like Feersum Endjinn tho, I much preferred Player of Games.
On a cyberpunk front some I haven't yet seen mentioned:
Michael Swanwick, Vacuum Flowers
William Gibson/Bruce Sterling, The Difference Engine
Definitely read Colour of Magic.
In the context of this thread it is a far better book than any of the rest of the series.
Some of the characters aren't as well developed (Death in particular) but as a parody of everyone from Fritz Lieber to Anne McCaffrey it is funny (hysterically) on several levels.
I don't think any of the UK has been 'nice' since before the last Ice Age.
Particularly Wales
* The UK is still ruled by a monarch.
And your point is?
The UK is ruled by the Corporations, just like everywhere else.
Excluding China(PRC), N. Korea etc
Can anyone think of any good 'communist china' jokes?
it is in a country that does not recognise software patents (yet).
So what is the duration of a patent in the US?
And how long has it been since the patents in question were granted?
I may be wrong but..
The rc3 files that are on all the other mirrors are the finals.
They have the same file sizes and checksums.
They claim to be 9.0 during install.
They have simply been synced to the mirrors as rc3 to avoid the mirrors getting slashdotted early.
Iso's 1 and 2 were uploaded on the 23rd and iso 3 was uploaded on the 24th.
The mirrors that haven't changed the names yet aren't slashdotted.......
Funny, makes me smile inside every time.
Ogg Vorbis
Nanny Ogg
Vorbis the Exquisitor
Motion Picture Expert Group, f*cking hilarious, not.
Seems to me that Ogg isn't really the issue here.
MP3 is an integral part of MPEG1/2, any opensource project capable of decoding MPEG video is the target of this attack.
Mplayer,etc, etc cannot afford to front $15000/$50000 to continue to distribute.
The alterations to FhG's licencing terms are solely targeted at 'free' decoders which for the most part means opensource decoders.
FhG must know that all these little projects cannot afford to pay these fee's and will simply be forced to shut up shop and go home.
Many have suggested that the RIAA has had a hand in this although it strikes me as more likely to have been the doing of the MPAA (or perhaps M$).
What really needs to be done here is for all the big players to get together (IBM, Redhat, Suse, Mandrake, Debian etc) pay the one of fee and release an LGPL decoder that everyone else can link to or even simply to act as a distribution channel for everyone else's decoders.
Screw FhG, this isn't a move designed to improve profits, it's a move designed to drive the opensource guy's to the wall.
Neverwinter Nights ( www.bioware.com ) will be released simultaneously on Win, Linux and Mac, in the same box, at no extra cost, no less.
Damn straight.
I bought a Radeon VE about a year ago and spent a month banging my head of a brick wall in Winblows and Mandrake.
The windows drivers never worked properly, they would do either dual-head or hardware accelerated DVD but never both, and the Linux drivers just didn't bl**dy exist, there were experimental drivers that didn't do any hardware acceleration and didn't support dual-head.
RMA'd it and replaced it with an ELSA Gladiac 511Twin Geforce2MX400 and never looked back.
NVidia's drivers may be closed but they f*cking work!
Have you ever noticed that NVidia's Linux drivers support the features of cards before you can even buy them?
The latest drivers contain support for the new hardware (iDCT) DVD on GeForce4MX's and have done since weeks before you could buy the d*mn cards.
I don't give a rip how tempting a new ATI card looks, how fast it is, or what amazing features it has.
I will never buy ATI again, the hardware may be lovely but the software blows goats.
Coop: Where's Spoon?
Srgt Wells: There is no Spoon!
Dog Soldiers.
P*ssed myself laughing in the middle of the cinema.
Got some very odd looks.
I've been following the Beta since we found the site a week before its official announcement.
To the best of my knowledge you are talking rubbish.
There WILL be a Linux client, in fact we were polled recently by the developers to find out what distros they needed to test on.
On the subject of the beta there will be no Linux beta initially but I believe there may be one in the later stages of testing. I forget exactly what Jay said but I'm sure it was to that effect.
Hah! Half way through typing my reply and JanneM beats me to it.
As usual. lol
Recent revelations are that it's being tested on Redhat 7.2 with testing on other distros to follow.
p.s. Aren't you supposed to working on your thesis Janne, instead of cruising about Slashdot
I could be daft but I seem to remember that the faq for NVidia's drivers has always stated that dual-card dual-monitor setups didn't work.
I have an ELSA Gladiac 511 TWIN running two monitors on Mandrake 8.0 and the NVidia drivers are great.
Instead of configuring two seperate monitors NVidia's driver tells X it only has one monitor equal in area to both combined.
Result?
Full hardware accelerated openGL over both displays.
Try doing that in windoze.
In my experience NVidia's drivers are great if you just follow the goddam**d instructions.
That ain't neccessarily easy but it does work almost all the time, at least as often as ATI's windows drivers.
Anyone out there ever seen a Radeon VE running both displays under Linux?
Doubt it.
I spent 3 weeks trying to get a VE working in windows, swapped it for the aforementioned ELSA, set that up in under 20 minutes.
Until ATI sort out their drivers I'll never risk buying any hardware from them, no matter how good the benchmarks.
first post, whats the point get a life
I could be wrong but the name sounds very familiar, I seem to remember reading about them on Hardocp recently and they are a division of the bizarrely named Corp that also owns Via.
wait on heat, wait on heat, wait on heat.
AAhahahahaha them were the days lad.
That explains what happens when you search Google for "dumb motherfucker". Still puts a smile on my face though
NOT
/. experience than the average linux user (as opposed to programmer) you can make yourself look ever so smart and more cool than Rasterman.
/.)
Anyone can be a critic. Even a complete moron. With a little more technical knowledge and
Your not.
Somewhere down in the hidden depths of your ego you know it too. No amount of clever replies to this post will change that.
Enlightenment may not be perfect, it may be far from perfect, but it is far more impressive than anything I, or the vast majority of the critics, will ever create.
Rasterman (from what I have read of him) couldn't do what he wanted to with X and so with pretty much no formal training went ahead and created a solution. (instead of harping on about how "I can't do nananana or nanananana in X" on
It might not be an elegant or ideal solution, but it just about works. You might be able to do all the things E does better in GNOME,sawmill,(insert whatever Holy Grail WM or DE you like to bang on about to demonstrate your intelectual superiority here) but pound to a penny you could probably do it in E FIRST.
I notice that the only comments in this thread that I remember reading from people with any real experience in programming WM's were from people working on Enlightenment.
If you critics are such kick ass programmers and could do a better job than Rasterman then prove it, take the code and rewrite it 'properly'
My guess is that none of you have the balls to stick your necks out in the public arena and risk suffering the sort of abuse and criticism that you are directing at Rasterman for fear that your fragile egos would collapse.
As to all that 'All this eye candy gets in the way of productivity and wastes system resources' nonsense, use the Terminal.
Almost every task can be performed from the Terminal. The purpose of 'eye candy' is to make control easier and the visual experience more pleasurable (its easier to work if whats on the screen doesn't make your eyes throb and your brain ache). I believe an alternative description of 'eye candy' is GUI.
Every succesive generation of GUI has better and more user configurable 'eye candy' and Enlightenment is consistantly on the cutting edge. Everything that you consider 'feature bloat' or 'unproductive' now will be commonplace in two years.
EVAS is a great idea. It may not be done 'properly' but Rasterman will make it work before anyone else does anything similar.
And in two years time you'll all have hardware accelerated desktops and be criticising Rasterman's next innovation because the GL acceleration in E isn't done 'properly'
(almost)Total Newbie, please post comments regarding content rather than childish remarks about spelling/grammer/formatting/nettiquete