I'm extremely pleased that they now include FireFox in the default distribution. Although I can't help thinking if they just waited one more day before release they could have included the final version of FireFox instead of the preview release (final version comes out tommorow).
All well. Guess thats what yum and the like are for.
Agreed, I have myself built PC based access points out of a wireless card. Thats definately a valid point. I just recall reading in the original article that it was only AP functionality that they intended to remove.
If I recall correctly, it was pointed out in the last article along this line that Intel was NOT removing WiFi from their laptop chipsets. The new chipset under developement were to have a built in access point. This is what was being removed. There was NEVER any intention to remove WiFi client support.
The Pentium-M CPU used by the Centrino platform is actually faster then the P4 Mobility CPU's running at the same clock speed. WiFi or no WiFi the Centrino is a nice platform to get into.
Although I see no problem with them bundling and marketing the wireless as part of the Centrino platform. Who doesn't want integrated wireless?
Though BeOS was closed source it did come with all the dev-tools and documentation needed for anybody with the time and experience necessary to write their own drivers...
The issue has less to do with warranty and more to do with mass overclocking and reselling of counterfiet remarked processors. E.g.) buy a huge sum of P4 2 GHz chips, remark them and sell them as 2.2 GHz. This has been an issue in the past. This won't be done as readily if the chip has some sort of feature to only allow it to run at the intended clock speed.
Problem being that non-powered usb hubs, such as those built into keyboards tend to be flaky with certain devices. Better not have it at all if it isn't reliable.
Wow, just the other day my best friend was like "Yo, we should play Scorched Earth again (we used to play it lots in DOS era). I was like "Cool!" and began searching for Scorched Earth clones for Linux... Nice timing.
They added that feature in Windows 95 OSR2 and up. In Windows 95 original it wouldn't let you delete it at all. You had to either use Tweak UI or delete the appropriate registry keys.
I've yet to see a GUI so well designed that it will outperform the CLI completely. Some tasks CLI completely outperforms.
The use of wildcards to move around files is an excellent example. Say you needed to sort all that p0rn by file type. In a gui environment you'd have to manually select the types and then drag them individually. CLI you could simply mv *.jpg jpegs and then mv *.gif gifs and you're done...
Trade-offs to both I suppose. Though I appreciate the and mostly use the power of CLI, I like most also love a pretty GUI.;)
I have to completely disagree with you there. Perhaps GTK+ support in KDE 2 is limited, but I'd take KDE 2 widget themes over GNOME widget themes any day. GNOME widget themes are color fixed. They are completely pixmap based. They are incredibly slow, it is not uncommon to see GTK apps redraw themselves. KDE 2's themes are visually impressive (and you can change the colors without modifying a bunch of pixmaps) and generally superior... A kde 2 app will look kind of raunchy in a gnome environment (consistency is key) but KDE is far prettier then GNOME in my opinion. Any pretty theme in GNOME degrades performance too much to be worth it.
Actually for your information KDE 2's (final) crash dialogue is the prettiest crash dialogue I've ever seen! Much nicer looking then the GPF. Has this really nice looking graphic of a gear with a bomb in the center of it... Looks very nice... I'll take that over the GPF anyday!
Nope, the best I have is my nifty random password generator... Complete with command line customization of what characters to include and password length...
How does the Matrix pass as a commercial for Linux. If I'm not mistaken the special effects in the Matrix were done using Houdini, which at the time ran on FreeBSD (although it's recently been ported to Linux).
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I'm extremely pleased that they now include FireFox in the default distribution. Although I can't help thinking if they just waited one more day before release they could have included the final version of FireFox instead of the preview release (final version comes out tommorow).
All well. Guess thats what yum and the like are for.
Agreed, I have myself built PC based access points out of a wireless card. Thats definately a valid point. I just recall reading in the original article that it was only AP functionality that they intended to remove.
If I recall correctly, it was pointed out in the last article along this line that Intel was NOT removing WiFi from their laptop chipsets. The new chipset under developement were to have a built in access point. This is what was being removed. There was NEVER any intention to remove WiFi client support.
I once did a recursive rm -rf / as root on Slackware linux. After it completed I tried to log out and all I got was a message that said:
"You don't exist, go away!"
Very amusing.
Anybody know which Linux package is responsable for this message?
Newer LCD panels with 16 ms response times are excellent for gaming. Its the older slower response LCD's that are known to blur.
I've got six invites kicking around us well... Fire me an email off at dlemire (at gmail) if you'd like one.
Um... You CAN boot from a USB dongle...
Testing this theory...
A nibble is 4 bits (half a byte).
The Pentium-M CPU used by the Centrino platform is actually faster then the P4 Mobility CPU's running at the same clock speed. WiFi or no WiFi the Centrino is a nice platform to get into.
Although I see no problem with them bundling and marketing the wireless as part of the Centrino platform. Who doesn't want integrated wireless?
Though BeOS was closed source it did come with all the dev-tools and documentation needed for anybody with the time and experience necessary to write their own drivers...
The issue has less to do with warranty and more to do with mass overclocking and reselling of counterfiet remarked processors. E.g.) buy a huge sum of P4 2 GHz chips, remark them and sell them as 2.2 GHz. This has been an issue in the past. This won't be done as readily if the chip has some sort of feature to only allow it to run at the intended clock speed.
Problem being that non-powered usb hubs, such as those built into keyboards tend to be flaky with certain devices. Better not have it at all if it isn't reliable.
Wow, just the other day my best friend was like "Yo, we should play Scorched Earth again (we used to play it lots in DOS era). I was like "Cool!" and began searching for Scorched Earth clones for Linux... Nice timing.
My god! I'll god the patch at once!
They added that feature in Windows 95 OSR2 and up. In Windows 95 original it wouldn't let you delete it at all. You had to either use Tweak UI or delete the appropriate registry keys.
I've yet to see a GUI so well designed that it will outperform the CLI completely. Some tasks CLI completely outperforms.
;)
The use of wildcards to move around files is an excellent example. Say you needed to sort all that p0rn by file type. In a gui environment you'd have to manually select the types and then drag them individually. CLI you could simply mv *.jpg jpegs and then mv *.gif gifs and you're done...
Trade-offs to both I suppose. Though I appreciate the and mostly use the power of CLI, I like most also love a pretty GUI.
I have to completely disagree with you there. Perhaps GTK+ support in KDE 2 is limited, but I'd take KDE 2 widget themes over GNOME widget themes any day. GNOME widget themes are color fixed. They are completely pixmap based. They are incredibly slow, it is not uncommon to see GTK apps redraw themselves. KDE 2's themes are visually impressive (and you can change the colors without modifying a bunch of pixmaps) and generally superior... A kde 2 app will look kind of raunchy in a gnome environment (consistency is key) but KDE is far prettier then GNOME in my opinion. Any pretty theme in GNOME degrades performance too much to be worth it.
Actually for your information KDE 2's (final) crash dialogue is the prettiest crash dialogue I've ever seen! Much nicer looking then the GPF. Has this really nice looking graphic of a gear with a bomb in the center of it... Looks very nice... I'll take that over the GPF anyday!
Damnit! I knew I should have left out the --use-dictionary-word option!
Nope, the best I have is my nifty random password generator... Complete with command line customization of what characters to include and password length...
Can't help on this project...
How does the Matrix pass as a commercial for Linux. If I'm not mistaken the special effects in the Matrix were done using Houdini, which at the time ran on FreeBSD (although it's recently been ported to Linux).
Diablo was a pretty sweet game... Sure took a while for Diablo 2 to come around, geez... It was announced LONG time ago...
Now if they can provide me with a Linux version I'll be happy, although Diablo ran quite respectably under WINE...
Actually there was, and he didn't even look behind him...
- Glances at screen -
Cool, I just axed "Denis"
Neat shit... Now I can post crap with his slashdot login...
Only a matter of time now before I have full accelerated 3D under Linux... Hmmm... Yeah.