Ditto. Unfortunately, methinks by "most people", ShanghaiBill is referring to the general population and not those of us who are either (a) not technologically-illiterate and/or (b) don't have our heads up our asses.
I assume you're saying this because of the horror of the KDE3 -> KDE4 debacle. Since you're obviously not aware of the reasons things happen the way they did, allow me to inform you that the move to "KDE 5.0" will in no way be the same huge jump (i.e., complete rewrite). I'll leave it up to you to do your own research, v.s. nitpicking what's wrong about the FUD you just spewed.
Agreed 100%. Learned of tmux and how much more bad ass it was than screen back around 2010, never looked back. For a few years now I've used a highly-customized.tmux.conf file that mimics screen's "ctrl-a" behavior, among other things, so that I don't lose a step when I absolutely MUST use screen (e.g., at work where more people are familiar with it than tmux). Pretty much all my work (and leisure) activity is done via tmux these days, saves me lot's of time when trying to remember something I did or setting up an environment in a more productive way. Always pains me when I finally have to close out a session for a reboot or something.
It was really just my US Robotics DSL modem telling me it wanted to be set on fire and then smashed into small pieces.
Lol!!!
In my case, I've been using them for the better part of the past 5 years...like others, I knew the writing was on the wall when they started that login crap. I've in fact only used them sparingly in any case, as some time ago I just began using a domain name I'd purchased and my own DNS server. Not surprised they're finally taking the free offering away.
Admittedly I've not read nearly enough into the "blow-ups" to even have a valid opinion on this. Let's see, there's this one, and then there's the one where he was accused of being a misogynistic ass, then there's the "fuck you nvidia" one. Yeah, I tend to agree with you...everyone I've read into I completely agree with him on.
I read the mailing list thread as well as the bugzilla report...Kay certainly was certainly being a complete dick here. Too many people will see this as "an asshole being an asshole" w/respect to Linus, but he actually had a reason [this time, lol].
I run Fedora 20 standalone on my laptop (which I use for personal use and work), Fed20 on my desktop also, but it's dual-booted there w/Win7 for gaming. All my servers run FreeBSD:p
I think I'll need to try out OpenSUSE, just for this reason. I've been using Fedora 20 lately and surprisingly there's been very few issues, which is contrary to impression I got back when I was using 12 & 13.
"Rolling Stone retorts that privacy can be an issue: 'We want safety, but we also want privacy,' says the journalist. Bill Gates tells his main priority focuses on stopping the bad guys: 'Let's say you knew nothing was going on. How would you feel? I mean, seriously. I would be very worried. Technology arms the bad guys with orders of magnitude more [power]. Not just bad guys. Crazy guys."
“Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.” -Benjamin Franklin
I wish I could just beat that into the head of the majority of people. We as a people should be firmly on the side of privacy over safety, it should not even be a question. Many do not see the big picture, but rather focused on a phantom enemy and see Snowden as betraying us against that enemy. Snowden is a true patriot, and indeed a hero, simply in the sense that he EXPOSED OUR PRIVACY BEING USURPED BY OUR OWN GOV'T. I'm pretty young (30 this year) but I'd imagine there was a time when the end of the last sentence would've incensed the MAJORITY of Americans, not just the one's paying attention. We must not sacrifice our freedom (in the form of privacy in this case) for safety. We cannot. And that is more important than some false sense of them doing this for our own good to "catch the bad guys". Secret courts, indefinite detention, etc. should NOT be happening in the land of the free. People wake the fuck up./rant
As for Gates, obviously he would not be a fan of Snowden...it's people like him who pull the strings of our gov't anyways. I wish I could say I was surprised.
In all seriousness...you hit the nail on the head. But what do you expect from those who would perpetuate such an egregious lawsuit in the first place? That our rights are being tested and eliminated so flagrantly is in and of itself absurd.
Agreed. I've been using Linux on the desktop since 2008-ish, drivers have been solid since right around 2010 in my case, though I can only speak for NVIDIA since that's been all that I've run in that span.
This is the correct solution. Been on FF since Opera abandoned the Linux community last year (saw the writing on the wall with the yet-to-be-released Linux version of their Blink browser -- not that it even matters since all functionality that I loved Opera for died (or will die) with 12.x). Anyways, I was pleasantly surprised with how fast it's become vs. the last time I used it [on linux], which was around 2009/2010. Still not as fast as Chromium or Opera, but fast enough to do the job without wondering if I'm missing out on speed, and with all the add-ons, I'm able to mimic most of the behavior Opera gave me.
It's fucking sad to putting this all in perspective and hear/read it all together. What a fucking sad state of affairs we're in. I had no intentions of plugging anything when I began this post, but I'm going to do it now since I know some AC will ask "what do you do to stop it?" This is what I do, and you should too.
There's actually ample evidence that a man named Jesus Christ existed. That he had supernatural powers and produced many miracles, etc. is what atheists are usually disagree about. Just saying...
Yeah, throttling is my main concern. I had comcast before when I lived a short stint in Houston...no real problems personally but I always had the throttling and deep packet inspection in the back of my mind.
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Agreed full-heartedly. It broke my heart when Arch caved. Luckily I'm also a FreeBSD aficionado...but still...
It's stupid to fight stupid with stupid.
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Good call, I plan on testing out Disconnect later on tonight.
Very interesting and informative...damn my lack of mod points.
Agreed...took me going through a few menus to actually find it. One would think it'd be more intuitive.
Ditto. Unfortunately, methinks by "most people", ShanghaiBill is referring to the general population and not those of us who are either (a) not technologically-illiterate and/or (b) don't have our heads up our asses.
I assume you're saying this because of the horror of the KDE3 -> KDE4 debacle. Since you're obviously not aware of the reasons things happen the way they did, allow me to inform you that the move to "KDE 5.0" will in no way be the same huge jump (i.e., complete rewrite). I'll leave it up to you to do your own research, v.s. nitpicking what's wrong about the FUD you just spewed.
Agreed 100%. Learned of tmux and how much more bad ass it was than screen back around 2010, never looked back. For a few years now I've used a highly-customized .tmux.conf file that mimics screen's "ctrl-a" behavior, among other things, so that I don't lose a step when I absolutely MUST use screen (e.g., at work where more people are familiar with it than tmux). Pretty much all my work (and leisure) activity is done via tmux these days, saves me lot's of time when trying to remember something I did or setting up an environment in a more productive way. Always pains me when I finally have to close out a session for a reboot or something.
It was really just my US Robotics DSL modem telling me it wanted to be set on fire and then smashed into small pieces.
Lol!!!
In my case, I've been using them for the better part of the past 5 years...like others, I knew the writing was on the wall when they started that login crap. I've in fact only used them sparingly in any case, as some time ago I just began using a domain name I'd purchased and my own DNS server. Not surprised they're finally taking the free offering away.
Admittedly I've not read nearly enough into the "blow-ups" to even have a valid opinion on this. Let's see, there's this one, and then there's the one where he was accused of being a misogynistic ass, then there's the "fuck you nvidia" one. Yeah, I tend to agree with you...everyone I've read into I completely agree with him on.
I read the mailing list thread as well as the bugzilla report...Kay certainly was certainly being a complete dick here. Too many people will see this as "an asshole being an asshole" w/respect to Linus, but he actually had a reason [this time, lol].
I run Fedora 20 standalone on my laptop (which I use for personal use and work), Fed20 on my desktop also, but it's dual-booted there w/Win7 for gaming. All my servers run FreeBSD :p
I think I'll need to try out OpenSUSE, just for this reason. I've been using Fedora 20 lately and surprisingly there's been very few issues, which is contrary to impression I got back when I was using 12 & 13.
Undoing bad mod.
"Rolling Stone retorts that privacy can be an issue: 'We want safety, but we also want privacy,' says the journalist. Bill Gates tells his main priority focuses on stopping the bad guys: 'Let's say you knew nothing was going on. How would you feel? I mean, seriously. I would be very worried. Technology arms the bad guys with orders of magnitude more [power]. Not just bad guys. Crazy guys."
“Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
-Benjamin Franklin
I wish I could just beat that into the head of the majority of people. We as a people should be firmly on the side of privacy over safety, it should not even be a question. Many do not see the big picture, but rather focused on a phantom enemy and see Snowden as betraying us against that enemy. Snowden is a true patriot, and indeed a hero, simply in the sense that he EXPOSED OUR PRIVACY BEING USURPED BY OUR OWN GOV'T. I'm pretty young (30 this year) but I'd imagine there was a time when the end of the last sentence would've incensed the MAJORITY of Americans, not just the one's paying attention. We must not sacrifice our freedom (in the form of privacy in this case) for safety. We cannot. And that is more important than some false sense of them doing this for our own good to "catch the bad guys". Secret courts, indefinite detention, etc. should NOT be happening in the land of the free. People wake the fuck up. /rant
As for Gates, obviously he would not be a fan of Snowden...it's people like him who pull the strings of our gov't anyways. I wish I could say I was surprised.
"TIN FOILLL!!!!!"!!!!!!""
In all seriousness...you hit the nail on the head. But what do you expect from those who would perpetuate such an egregious lawsuit in the first place? That our rights are being tested and eliminated so flagrantly is in and of itself absurd.
Agreed. I've been using Linux on the desktop since 2008-ish, drivers have been solid since right around 2010 in my case, though I can only speak for NVIDIA since that's been all that I've run in that span.
This is the correct solution. Been on FF since Opera abandoned the Linux community last year (saw the writing on the wall with the yet-to-be-released Linux version of their Blink browser -- not that it even matters since all functionality that I loved Opera for died (or will die) with 12.x). Anyways, I was pleasantly surprised with how fast it's become vs. the last time I used it [on linux], which was around 2009/2010. Still not as fast as Chromium or Opera, but fast enough to do the job without wondering if I'm missing out on speed, and with all the add-ons, I'm able to mimic most of the behavior Opera gave me.
tl;dr +1 for "use FF"
It's fucking sad to putting this all in perspective and hear/read it all together. What a fucking sad state of affairs we're in. I had no intentions of plugging anything when I began this post, but I'm going to do it now since I know some AC will ask "what do you do to stop it?" This is what I do, and you should too.
There's actually ample evidence that a man named Jesus Christ existed. That he had supernatural powers and produced many miracles, etc. is what atheists are usually disagree about. Just saying...
Yeah, throttling is my main concern. I had comcast before when I lived a short stint in Houston...no real problems personally but I always had the throttling and deep packet inspection in the back of my mind.
I hope Bright House is unaffected by this (as I understand it, they're a separate company from TWC at this point in my area, I think).
If I had mod points, you'd have been the first AC to have earned one from me.
Hear, hear. I donated to this cause a couple weeks ago, glad to see it progressing.