I'd need a good reason to upgrade from Eudora 6 that I'm using now. Non-craptactular IMAP support. Eudora is a consistent PITA if you're in an IMAP environment with it refusing to do SSL some times, garbling it's index files you can't see any of your messages, or my personal favorite, scrambling it's indexes so the from/subject lines in the message list don't match the messages it brings up. If you're just using insecure POP Eudora is probably still great, but around my office Eudora causes more support calls than even the flaky Lotus Notes servers.
On a mac or a PC? The USB protocol requires that the device specify the power it requires before the power is supplied. Without a driver, USB power might not be applied. Perhaps the iPod doesn't suffer this problem but that doesn't mean the Zune doesn't;-)
So where does your thumb drive get the power to do the USB bus negotiations to turn the power on, hmm? The negotiations might be needed to turn to port power all the way to 500ma, but there is some power there before anything happens, and that is what the USB powered speakers, fans, lights, coffee warmers, and lava lamps run off of. Also, the power negotiations happen as the USB host controler level, not at the specific driver level, so the system will negotiate the power for the default configuration of the device without any device-specific software installed. The device's software can change to a different configuration that might use more power, but the system has to bring it up before it can know about the other configs.
Right, when will that be? Aside from Office & AutoCAD there are still a LOT of half-assed custom installers full of boiler-plate text that no-one has bothered to customize. (Look for "Your Company Name here" in the "summary" info on a random Windows installer some time. Nullsoft installer really isn't helping matters, and so it Microsoft's lack of good tools for making clean MSIs. Well, and the fact that the MSI format does not make any intuitive sense, it's more or less a binary SQL dump of a bizzare data model for describing parts of a program's installed state, peice by explicit peice. WiX helps, but it still exposes you to the SQL-style silliness, like having to explicitly list every file with it's attributes at least twice in a verbose XML syntax (Once to define it, once to include it in a component that can be installed).
I agree Windows would suck a LOT less to maintain if MSI were used, but even Microsoft seems to be moving away from it (not that they ever went whole-hog for it), with the Vista installer. They arn't installing their components from their own managable and patchable package format, the description of the new Vista installer seem to be that it takes a snapshot that somebody at MS duct-taped into working (hopefully) then burned to CD.
Not even Microsoft distributes things as MSIs or MSPs though, they distribute "I 0wnz0r your system!?1111!!111" EXEs. At least MS doesn't gimp their MSIs to refure to install without the setup.exe wrapper, like some companies do.
I've made a few MSIs as well as.deb's and there's no comparison,.debs are a LOT less work, are a lot easier to understand what's going on, and actual has a useful way to define prerequisites. That, and even though MSI is only supported on NT-based system Wix requires defining 8.3 format filenames.
I hate Windows because I have to make it do useful thing.
Novell Netware too, and it's really useful when a professor decides they really didn't nead their lesson plans and grades, then comes to their senses a few days later.
If it means I don't have to watch that damned Girls Gone Wild comercial 6 times an hour on Comedy Central I'm all for it. I finally got so tired of the last one I went and downloaded it over p2p out of spite and I'm almost to that point with "ultimate rush". A nice 150 to 1 share ratio would make me feel better.
More often, at least with my GF, she'll see something she feel like panicing about a yell "Look out", and which point I reflexivly take my attention off the road and start scanning around wildly for whatever little non-danger she spotted. She made me run a stop sign that way, panicing because there was someone on a bike (in the bike lane, safely out of my way). Once I'd accertained there was no crisis I missed the stop sign (hiding behind a bit of a tree, a night) and was into the intersection. I've had to take to trying to ignore her
The IDE/SCSI/SATA/whatever daemon dies: the machine is dead, reboot The video driver fondles the card in the wrong way causing it to jam the bus: the machine is dead, reboot. The ACPI daemon chokes on whatever monkey-poo your motherboard manufacturer managed to get to stick to their ACPI tables and crashes the hardware trying to suspend: the machine is dead, reboot
In or out of the kernel, buggy drivers are buggy drivers and they are going to foul things up. And the funny thing about drivers, and programs of all sorts, is that if they crash at some point once, they're going to crash the exact same way every other time you start it so "kill the daemon and restart it" doesn't gain you anyway.
Unfortunatly the Gnome crack monkeys took another step along the "I wanna live in Redmond" road with 2.6.10 or 2.6.12, I don't recall which exactly. After upgrading I logged in and gconf asked if it could migrate all my settings to one file for "performance reasons". I of course said hell no!
Then everything would be more over-farmed. Adding server capacity isn't going to make the world big enough to hold the extra people. On the "up" side, more people might get disconnected from the lag in IronForge, thus letting people in the queue in.
You want "script" for that history logging. Really, it doesn't need to be in memory, and putting it in a file means you can grep it. Konsole does have some neat toys that I'm envious of though, but I'm not worth the QT looks.
- RustyTaco
A new ice age would result in the elimination of most of the food-producing climatic regions on this planet.
..and moving them 3 degrees to the north. Heaven forbid the Canadians get more growable land.
- rustytaco
Re:Maybe a grain of salt, but it's what I'd predic
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Here you go: http://funroll-loops.org/. In short, it's not that emerge lets you specify options, it's all the cluebats screaming about how awesomely fast -O9 is.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think it's illigal to be a slow SOB in Arizona. As such, almost every time I have to drive farther than the office I pass some idiot on the right just to keep going the speed limit. Brakes are a consumable, I ain't wasting them on 'ol Miss Daisy if I can help it.
It's called a print stylesheet, they're usually populated with things like
#sidebar {
display:none;
}
so that the exact same page looks right when printed.
I have to agree, as Walmart and NewEgg have shown people while buy any poorly made peice of crap ass long as it's cheap. The desire to pay a premium is largly not there.
It looks like AmaroK uses GStreamer, so gstreamer0.8-faad from the Marillat archive of media stuff of questionable distribubility. (mplayer, dvd::rip, etc too)
Here's my x86 source for it, amd64 might be on the same server, but PPC is on a different one. deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main
Well, according to those numbers Sony's 66Billion is 60% more revenue than Microsoft's 39 Billion, so yes, Sony is significantly bigger. Microsoft is showing more than twice the profit, but it's still on less than half the revenue. Perhaps you don't quite comprehend the scale of our Japanese overlords;)
8 bits-per-channel you mean. I'm curious about what you're doing that needs/uses better than the usual 24bit color. I'm just curious because you don't see it too often.
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If you're just using insecure POP Eudora is probably still great, but around my office Eudora causes more support calls than even the flaky Lotus Notes servers.
So where does your thumb drive get the power to do the USB bus negotiations to turn the power on, hmm? The negotiations might be needed to turn to port power all the way to 500ma, but there is some power there before anything happens, and that is what the USB powered speakers, fans, lights, coffee warmers, and lava lamps run off of.
Also, the power negotiations happen as the USB host controler level, not at the specific driver level, so the system will negotiate the power for the default configuration of the device without any device-specific software installed. The device's software can change to a different configuration that might use more power, but the system has to bring it up before it can know about the other configs.
You mean the remakes, don't you? Doesn't that still count as a first-run flick, sort of?
Right, when will that be? Aside from Office & AutoCAD there are still a LOT of half-assed custom installers full of boiler-plate text that no-one has bothered to customize. (Look for "Your Company Name here" in the "summary" info on a random Windows installer some time. Nullsoft installer really isn't helping matters, and so it Microsoft's lack of good tools for making clean MSIs. Well, and the fact that the MSI format does not make any intuitive sense, it's more or less a binary SQL dump of a bizzare data model for describing parts of a program's installed state, peice by explicit peice. WiX helps, but it still exposes you to the SQL-style silliness, like having to explicitly list every file with it's attributes at least twice in a verbose XML syntax (Once to define it, once to include it in a component that can be installed).
.deb's and there's no comparison, .debs are a LOT less work, are a lot easier to understand what's going on, and actual has a useful way to define prerequisites. That, and even though MSI is only supported on NT-based system Wix requires defining 8.3 format filenames.
I agree Windows would suck a LOT less to maintain if MSI were used, but even Microsoft seems to be moving away from it (not that they ever went whole-hog for it), with the Vista installer. They arn't installing their components from their own managable and patchable package format, the description of the new Vista installer seem to be that it takes a snapshot that somebody at MS duct-taped into working (hopefully) then burned to CD.
Not even Microsoft distributes things as MSIs or MSPs though, they distribute "I 0wnz0r your system!?1111!!111" EXEs. At least MS doesn't gimp their MSIs to refure to install without the setup.exe wrapper, like some companies do.
I've made a few MSIs as well as
I hate Windows because I have to make it do useful thing.
Well, don't be mysterious, tell us what driver that was so we don't have to waste time wondering why it doesn't work if we stumble on that hardware.
Novell Netware too, and it's really useful when a professor decides they really didn't nead their lesson plans and grades, then comes to their senses a few days later.
If it means I don't have to watch that damned Girls Gone Wild comercial 6 times an hour on Comedy Central I'm all for it. I finally got so tired of the last one I went and downloaded it over p2p out of spite and I'm almost to that point with "ultimate rush". A nice 150 to 1 share ratio would make me feel better.
More often, at least with my GF, she'll see something she feel like panicing about a yell "Look out", and which point I reflexivly take my attention off the road and start scanning around wildly for whatever little non-danger she spotted. She made me run a stop sign that way, panicing because there was someone on a bike (in the bike lane, safely out of my way). Once I'd accertained there was no crisis I missed the stop sign (hiding behind a bit of a tree, a night) and was into the intersection. I've had to take to trying to ignore her
Other startling trends
oh, please do share.
The IDE/SCSI/SATA/whatever daemon dies: the machine is dead, reboot
The video driver fondles the card in the wrong way causing it to jam the bus: the machine is dead, reboot.
The ACPI daemon chokes on whatever monkey-poo your motherboard manufacturer managed to get to stick to their ACPI tables and crashes the hardware trying to suspend: the machine is dead, reboot
In or out of the kernel, buggy drivers are buggy drivers and they are going to foul things up. And the funny thing about drivers, and programs of all sorts, is that if they crash at some point once, they're going to crash the exact same way every other time you start it so "kill the daemon and restart it" doesn't gain you anyway.
- rustytaco
Yup, -40F above the arctic circle to +130F in the deserts of the middle east, that +-5F global warming disaster will wipe out all of humanity.
- rustytaco
Unfortunatly the Gnome crack monkeys took another step along the "I wanna live in Redmond" road with 2.6.10 or 2.6.12, I don't recall which exactly. After upgrading I logged in and gconf asked if it could migrate all my settings to one file for "performance reasons". I of course said hell no!
- RustyTaco
World of Warcraft runs on Macs, what more could you need?
- rustytaco
Then everything would be more over-farmed. Adding server capacity isn't going to make the world big enough to hold the extra people. On the "up" side, more people might get disconnected from the lag in IronForge, thus letting people in the queue in.
- RustyTaco
You want "script" for that history logging. Really, it doesn't need to be in memory, and putting it in a file means you can grep it. Konsole does have some neat toys that I'm envious of though, but I'm not worth the QT looks. - RustyTaco
- rustytaco
Here you go: http://funroll-loops.org/. In short, it's not that emerge lets you specify options, it's all the cluebats screaming about how awesomely fast -O9 is.
- rustytaco
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think it's illigal to be a slow SOB in Arizona. As such, almost every time I have to drive farther than the office I pass some idiot on the right just to keep going the speed limit. Brakes are a consumable, I ain't wasting them on 'ol Miss Daisy if I can help it.
- RustyTaco
It's called a print stylesheet, they're usually populated with things like #sidebar { display:none; } so that the exact same page looks right when printed.
I have to agree, as Walmart and NewEgg have shown people while buy any poorly made peice of crap ass long as it's cheap. The desire to pay a premium is largly not there.
- RustyTaco
It looks like AmaroK uses GStreamer, so gstreamer0.8-faad from the Marillat archive of media stuff of questionable distribubility. (mplayer, dvd::rip, etc too)
Here's my x86 source for it, amd64 might be on the same server, but PPC is on a different one.
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main
- RustyTaco
Well, according to those numbers Sony's 66Billion is 60% more revenue than Microsoft's 39 Billion, so yes, Sony is significantly bigger. Microsoft is showing more than twice the profit, but it's still on less than half the revenue. Perhaps you don't quite comprehend the scale of our Japanese overlords ;)
- RustyTaco
8 bits-per-channel you mean. I'm curious about what you're doing that needs/uses better than the usual 24bit color. I'm just curious because you don't see it too often.
- rustytaco
FYI, the P4M still blows, you're thinking of the Pentium-M, aka, Centrino.
- RustyTaco