I hate it when package management software bitches at you "PACKAGE X IS NOT
INSTALLED" when in fact it is installed; you just compiled it by yourself instead of
installing a retarded package
If that's how you feel, then why bother with using a package management
system? You're the one that's trying to install a precompiled package.
If you want the convenience of doing that, then why
not create packages for the things you compile yourself, too. That way,
the package management system still gets its dependencies right when you
try and add extra packages.
The window tries to take over the front of your desktop. You can't send it to back...
I logged this as a bug report for CorelDRAW beta 1 (CorelDRAW for Linux also uses WINE), and they
had fixed it by beta 2. Has WP9 been officially released yet?
If not, this will probably be fixed by the release date.
If it *has* been released, maybe you should pester them for an update:-)
OK, perhaps I chose my words poorly. The CPU isn't underpowered,
but the machine as a whole isn't suitable for everyday desktop use.
The keyboard is too small, and laptops lack a proper mouse. Yes, you can get these via a docking station, but then why not just get a decent desktop to start with?
The real killer, though, is that they lack a suitable graphics chip and sufficient
video RAM to be able to drive an external monitor at a sensible
resolution. I have to use my desktop machine all day.
LCD screens aren't yet good enough, or large enough for that.
Too big? So this is why in almost every office and every
airport you see hundreds of people carrying them around. Perhaps for you and personal use they are too big, but that's just you.
Beats me why they're so popular. Why do you assume (incorrectly) I'd only want one for personal use?
On a side note, does anyone have a login-free link for this?
For reasons best known to itself, NYT have lost my
login details, and I really can't be bothered to re-register.
Yes, it's more expensive and yes, it won't
power up instantly. But let's be honest here. If we're sensible with the install, Windows
will still boot within 30 seconds, which is good enough nost of the time.
Most of the time, you won't be booting the OS. You'll just
be resuming from a suspend to disk, which should only take
a few seconds. Boot time isn't an issue. Obviously, it's
more of an issue under Windows where you need to reboot more
often for all manner of reasons (software installs, configuration changes,
random crashes, etc.)
The Picturebook line of Vaios doesn't
sell very well - it's too small to be useful as a "real" laptop.
I couldn't disagree more. It's pretty much the perfect size.
A regular laptop is just too big to carry around all the time.
The Vaio Picturebook line, like the Libretto before it,
is pretty much ideal. A "real" laptop, as you call it, has no practical value as far as I can see. They're too big to be portable, and too underpowered for the desktop. Apparently, however, Toshiba were forced to withdraw
the Libretto from the American market, because the general public couldn't cope with the small keyboard. I expect the picturebook line to go the same way. Sigh. From my point of view, the keyboard size is just right. It's quite big enough to type at full speed, unlike those found on traditional palmtops and many CE devices.
It's worth noting that here in the UK, the smaller Vaios seem to be more prevalent than their
full size brethren (although this is purely anecdotal -- I don't have sales figures). Perhaps it's a US thing. Either way, I'm still having to resort to importing my Libretoo ff1100V from Japan, 'coz that's the only place it's available anymore:-(
I don't know why everyone says that. dselect was the thing I liked most about Debian.
I kept thinking about porting it to sit on top of RPM
instead of dpkg for my RH systems, but never got round to it...
Direct3D is definitely ahead of OpenGL. [...] OpenGL is a bit behind, but it's cross platform.
Erm, no. In what ways do you think D3D is ahead? From a
purely personal point of view, coding with OpenGL results in
significantly cleaner code than Direct3D. I've tried both, and I liked the OpenGL API, and hated the D3D API. I'm not really
qualified to discuss the technical advantages of one or the other,
so let hear from someone that is. A few years ago, John Carmack said:
Direct-3D IM is a horribly broken API. It inflicts great pain and suffering on the programmers using it, without returning any significant advantages. I don't think there is ANY market segment that D3D is apropriate for, OpenGL seems to work just fine for everything from quake to softimage. There is no good technical reason for the existance of D3D.
He's recently claimed, however (and I can't find a reference, anyone?) that MS have made huge advances,
and that people shouldn't judge D3D by previous versions. He claims that the latest version is actually pretty good, although he still prefers, and will continue to use, OpenGL. My take is that if it's good enough for Carmack, it's good enough for me. And of course, OpenGL has the obvious advantage of being available on my preferred platforms.
Subject says it all. exmh is a GUI front end to
the all-powerful MH messaging system. It's written in
Tcl, and has been stable for many years now. More
details at http://www.beedub.com/exmh/.
Uhm, even if you could use a totale of 16k colors on the SNES, you couldn't use them all
at once.
I stand corrected. Never having had a SNES, I assumed all the
colours were available simultaneously, just as I assumed that
all 32K colours were available on the GBA. Looks like
for all practical purposes, I was wrong on both counts. Ho hum...
BTW, in a comment a couple of days ago, you mentioned that
you couldn't install your Voodoo3, 'coz it didn't work without XFree86-4. You're misinformed about that -- mine works perfectly under XFree86-3.3.6
The NES was graphically a 8 bit machine if I recall correctly. Telling the difference
between 256 color vs. 65k and chance IS pretty damn simple.
Indeed, but if you'd read the original comment, you'd
see that it was being compared to the Super NES, not the
original NES. The SNES has 16K colours, and the new
gameboy has 32K. Thank you, and thanks for playing.
you can clearly see that the console
is able to push out about twice as much color than a Super NES.
You can clearly see? You can tell the difference between 16k and 32k colours
from a 240x160 screenshot?
Congratulations. You've obviously got better eyesight than
me and the vast majority of the population...
I can play UT with 15 bots... on a PII-350 w/GF256DDR.
Hmmm. Yes, you can play with large numbers of bots,
but UT slows down for me when there are more than about 7 or 8 visible on screen at any
one time. I have various machines ranging from an AMD K6-2/450
to a PIII-550, with Rage 128, Voodoo 3 and G400 cards, and all with 128MB or more of RAM.
Admittedly, I can't persuade UT to use anything other than software
rendering on the G400, even with the latest Matrox drivers:-(
Agreed, but then the whole 3D acceleration market is almost entirely
geared towards the gaming industry anyway. 2D cards
reached your critical i-dont-care limit long ago. There is simply
no market for hugely fast 2D cards any more because they're
all already fast enough that users won't notice any increase in speed.
3D cards haven't yet reached that point, and are relying on bigger and better games
coming out that force users to upgrade. Eventually, there will reach a point at
which it won't matter any more, and my guess is it won't be all that long. That said, I'm still waiting for a poly-based 3D game that can cope with the number of enemies on screen that Doom managed. That was what gave Doom it's frenzied atmosphere, and ultimately what made it such a good game.
www.cindymargolis.com is running "Microsoft-IIS/4.0".
Yes, but who is she? Before today, I'd never heard of her.
I guess she's famous for something in the US, but I
couldn't figure out what. Her site is extremely lynx unfriendly.
As for the LS120 drive,
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/ is the right place to talk about this - we can't fix
problems we aren't aware of.
Aaaahhh, but you are aware of it. I reported
the inability to create an LS120 boot disk for 6.0, and
although I haven't tried it for 6.2, I guess from the above
comment that it still isn't fixed.
Sorry, but I have too much real world proof to let this stand.
PHBs really do exist. Not all managers are PHBs, but
go to any reasonably sized company, and you'll find them...
Hmm...need at least five vertical pixels, for 3, 8, B, E, and S, and you need at least
five horizontal pixels for M. [...] I figured this sort of thing out when
I was a ten-year-old larval geek
Obviously haven't progressed much past the larval stage, then:-)
The above is only true for monochrome. Using colour antialiased text,
as the original poster suggested, you can do better than that.
3 vertical pixels is just about readable, although it only
works well for upper case characters, and you really need some context
to give your brain a helping hand. 4 vertical pixels is fine...
Of course, Miguel's original claim to fame comes
from the sterling work he did on the Sparc Linux port many years
ago. Due to his recent work with Gnome, few people realise
how talented a kernel programmer he is...
Wouldn't it be best to not buy or browse anything that is advertised?
Yes, it would, but unfortunately, life's not like that.
The reason spam is so common, is that it works. It costs
so little that you only need a tiny response rate to be making profit.
There will always be clueless newbies with the "oh, that's an interesting
offer, I'll go and have a look" attitude. From what I've heard, email spam
currently gets around a 2% response rate. That's about the same as
traditional bulk postal mail, but the costs are so much less that the
profit margins are significantly higher. You or I wouldn't buy anything from a spammer, but enough people do that it's not going to go away any time soon.
There's nothing about people being able to co-locate servers at this site. It's a web hosting facility.
Not only that, it's an NT only web hosting facility.
I don't think I'll be trusting my site to them anytime soon, then.
Furthermore, they've got some pretty strict rules about what you're allowed
to host there:
SolarHost will not provide services for websites that are detrimental to society, such as those displaying
adult/pornographic material, hate sites, or other illegal content through images, text, or other media formats.
Whether or not you like porn, claiming that's it detrimental to society makes me wonder what else they deem objectionable.
Furthermore, as stated in a.plan update by Carmack, it
was known that Linux binaries would be made available at a later date for those who
purchased a CD for a diffferent OS.
But did this ever happen? I couldn't find Linux binaries
for the full game itself. Only the demo and test versions.
I'm not particularly keen on shelling out the US$70
needed to buy Q3A for Linux (that's what it costs here in the UK), when
I already have the Windows version and am not even sure I'll be able
to get it working with my video card/Xserver combination.
I believe it violates their declared basic human right of Life
Sigh. I wish people would stop repeating this crap.
Humans are born with only one natural right -- the right to die.
Anything else (the right to life, free speech, etc.) is just an artificial construct that we,
as a society, have chosen to use as a way to live our lives.
When you can get Pink Floyd's Echoes (a good 20+ minute song) in some format (perhaps mp5)
and compressed to under 100k, then I'll sit up and take notice:)
Why? Why would you want to use something like Publius for that?
If you already own the track, then encode it yourself. If you haven't,
then you're only interested in pirating it, right?
If you had a legitimate use (e.g., evaluating a band before deciding to buy it)
you wouldn't need the full 20 minute epic, and a 2 minute sampler should suffice,
and may even fit in the 100K limit at low quality.
If you like it, go and buy the CD...
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If that's how you feel, then why bother with using a package management system? You're the one that's trying to install a precompiled package. If you want the convenience of doing that, then why not create packages for the things you compile yourself, too. That way, the package management system still gets its dependencies right when you try and add extra packages.
I logged this as a bug report for CorelDRAW beta 1 (CorelDRAW for Linux also uses WINE), and they had fixed it by beta 2. Has WP9 been officially released yet? If not, this will probably be fixed by the release date. If it *has* been released, maybe you should pester them for an update :-)
OK, perhaps I chose my words poorly. The CPU isn't underpowered, but the machine as a whole isn't suitable for everyday desktop use. The keyboard is too small, and laptops lack a proper mouse. Yes, you can get these via a docking station, but then why not just get a decent desktop to start with? The real killer, though, is that they lack a suitable graphics chip and sufficient video RAM to be able to drive an external monitor at a sensible resolution. I have to use my desktop machine all day. LCD screens aren't yet good enough, or large enough for that.
Too big? So this is why in almost every office and every airport you see hundreds of people carrying them around. Perhaps for you and personal use they are too big, but that's just you.
Beats me why they're so popular. Why do you assume (incorrectly) I'd only want one for personal use?
Surely you mean the answer is 42...
On a side note, does anyone have a login-free link for this? For reasons best known to itself, NYT have lost my login details, and I really can't be bothered to re-register.
Most of the time, you won't be booting the OS. You'll just be resuming from a suspend to disk, which should only take a few seconds. Boot time isn't an issue. Obviously, it's more of an issue under Windows where you need to reboot more often for all manner of reasons (software installs, configuration changes, random crashes, etc.)
I couldn't disagree more. It's pretty much the perfect size. A regular laptop is just too big to carry around all the time. The Vaio Picturebook line, like the Libretto before it, is pretty much ideal. A "real" laptop, as you call it, has no practical value as far as I can see. They're too big to be portable, and too underpowered for the desktop. Apparently, however, Toshiba were forced to withdraw the Libretto from the American market, because the general public couldn't cope with the small keyboard. I expect the picturebook line to go the same way. Sigh. From my point of view, the keyboard size is just right. It's quite big enough to type at full speed, unlike those found on traditional palmtops and many CE devices. It's worth noting that here in the UK, the smaller Vaios seem to be more prevalent than their full size brethren (although this is purely anecdotal -- I don't have sales figures). Perhaps it's a US thing. Either way, I'm still having to resort to importing my Libretoo ff1100V from Japan, 'coz that's the only place it's available anymore :-(
I don't know why everyone says that. dselect was the thing I liked most about Debian. I kept thinking about porting it to sit on top of RPM instead of dpkg for my RH systems, but never got round to it...
Erm, no. In what ways do you think D3D is ahead? From a purely personal point of view, coding with OpenGL results in significantly cleaner code than Direct3D. I've tried both, and I liked the OpenGL API, and hated the D3D API. I'm not really qualified to discuss the technical advantages of one or the other, so let hear from someone that is. A few years ago, John Carmack said:
He's recently claimed, however (and I can't find a reference, anyone?) that MS have made huge advances, and that people shouldn't judge D3D by previous versions. He claims that the latest version is actually pretty good, although he still prefers, and will continue to use, OpenGL. My take is that if it's good enough for Carmack, it's good enough for me. And of course, OpenGL has the obvious advantage of being available on my preferred platforms.
Subject says it all. exmh is a GUI front end to the all-powerful MH messaging system. It's written in Tcl, and has been stable for many years now. More details at http://www.beedub.com/exmh/.
I stand corrected. Never having had a SNES, I assumed all the colours were available simultaneously, just as I assumed that all 32K colours were available on the GBA. Looks like for all practical purposes, I was wrong on both counts. Ho hum...
BTW, in a comment a couple of days ago, you mentioned that you couldn't install your Voodoo3, 'coz it didn't work without XFree86-4. You're misinformed about that -- mine works perfectly under XFree86-3.3.6
Indeed, but if you'd read the original comment, you'd see that it was being compared to the Super NES, not the original NES. The SNES has 16K colours, and the new gameboy has 32K. Thank you, and thanks for playing.
You can clearly see? You can tell the difference between 16k and 32k colours from a 240x160 screenshot? Congratulations. You've obviously got better eyesight than me and the vast majority of the population...
Hmmm. Yes, you can play with large numbers of bots, but UT slows down for me when there are more than about 7 or 8 visible on screen at any one time. I have various machines ranging from an AMD K6-2/450 to a PIII-550, with Rage 128, Voodoo 3 and G400 cards, and all with 128MB or more of RAM. Admittedly, I can't persuade UT to use anything other than software rendering on the G400, even with the latest Matrox drivers :-(
Agreed, but then the whole 3D acceleration market is almost entirely geared towards the gaming industry anyway. 2D cards reached your critical i-dont-care limit long ago. There is simply no market for hugely fast 2D cards any more because they're all already fast enough that users won't notice any increase in speed. 3D cards haven't yet reached that point, and are relying on bigger and better games coming out that force users to upgrade. Eventually, there will reach a point at which it won't matter any more, and my guess is it won't be all that long. That said, I'm still waiting for a poly-based 3D game that can cope with the number of enemies on screen that Doom managed. That was what gave Doom it's frenzied atmosphere, and ultimately what made it such a good game.
Yes, but who is she? Before today, I'd never heard of her. I guess she's famous for something in the US, but I couldn't figure out what. Her site is extremely lynx unfriendly.
Aaaahhh, but you are aware of it. I reported the inability to create an LS120 boot disk for 6.0, and although I haven't tried it for 6.2, I guess from the above comment that it still isn't fixed.
Sorry, but I have too much real world proof to let this stand. PHBs really do exist. Not all managers are PHBs, but go to any reasonably sized company, and you'll find them...
Obviously haven't progressed much past the larval stage, then :-)
The above is only true for monochrome. Using colour antialiased text,
as the original poster suggested, you can do better than that.
3 vertical pixels is just about readable, although it only
works well for upper case characters, and you really need some context
to give your brain a helping hand. 4 vertical pixels is fine...
Of course, Miguel's original claim to fame comes from the sterling work he did on the Sparc Linux port many years ago. Due to his recent work with Gnome, few people realise how talented a kernel programmer he is...
Yes, it would, but unfortunately, life's not like that. The reason spam is so common, is that it works. It costs so little that you only need a tiny response rate to be making profit. There will always be clueless newbies with the "oh, that's an interesting offer, I'll go and have a look" attitude. From what I've heard, email spam currently gets around a 2% response rate. That's about the same as traditional bulk postal mail, but the costs are so much less that the profit margins are significantly higher. You or I wouldn't buy anything from a spammer, but enough people do that it's not going to go away any time soon.
At over 50MB, that's just not feasible for me...
Not only that, it's an NT only web hosting facility. I don't think I'll be trusting my site to them anytime soon, then. Furthermore, they've got some pretty strict rules about what you're allowed to host there:
Whether or not you like porn, claiming that's it detrimental to society makes me wonder what else they deem objectionable.
But did this ever happen? I couldn't find Linux binaries for the full game itself. Only the demo and test versions. I'm not particularly keen on shelling out the US$70 needed to buy Q3A for Linux (that's what it costs here in the UK), when I already have the Windows version and am not even sure I'll be able to get it working with my video card/Xserver combination.
Sigh. I wish people would stop repeating this crap. Humans are born with only one natural right -- the right to die. Anything else (the right to life, free speech, etc.) is just an artificial construct that we, as a society, have chosen to use as a way to live our lives.
Why? Why would you want to use something like Publius for that? If you already own the track, then encode it yourself. If you haven't, then you're only interested in pirating it, right? If you had a legitimate use (e.g., evaluating a band before deciding to buy it) you wouldn't need the full 20 minute epic, and a 2 minute sampler should suffice, and may even fit in the 100K limit at low quality. If you like it, go and buy the CD...