What he means is breaking up the 'soffice' binary into different binaries for the different applications, much as Word and Powerpoint come and 'winword.exe' and 'powerpoint.exe'. I think.
I read that through quickly and understood it, before reading it again and realising the humour.
I guess I'm exposed to too much bad grammar. Watching single-finger typists flounder over msn or Counterstrike players coming up with phrases like "OMFG cs0r r teh win, i r r0xor! j00 sux0rs r l4m3 RAH n1 gg wp ty etc" is just.. scary.
The PDF format includes the vectors of the font that Distiller (or ghostscript) was originally fed (so that it will render anywhere despite a lack of local fonts) as well as the text that makes it up. Try the "highlight text" tool next time you use the official Adobe Acrobat.
This would make it relatively easy to extract the text from a.pdf (see Google's pdf2html service), but less simple to import more complex features, such as columns, tables or formulas.
Reminds me of the mozilla.org change from Milestones to 0.x.y releases.
Perhaps it will represents a similar change in usability and responsiveness:)
Seriously though, I can see a lot of parallels in between Mozilla and OpenOffice development. Major kudos to everyone involved in making Mozilla and OpenOffice what it is today:D
Your problem likely has little to do with the way the kernel handles CPU scheduling, but rather the interrupts from your hdd controller and soundcard. You might be able to test this to a degree by putting the mp3s into a ramdisk and trying the same operations.
I had exactly the same kind of mp3 skipping problems on my desktop machine for a long time, until a friend introduced me to hdparm, which allows you to set your IDE controller to DMA mode. Try it. The difference is breathtaking. Combine that with 2.4.19-pre2 and preempt and you have a smoooth desktop system:)
I just put the following in a startup script, and everything's highly froody.
You'd be better off emailing VIA than asking a load of seething trolls who haven't even had a chance to buy this board yet:)
Anyway, why is this a problem? Most modern operating systems set the IDE controller to DMA if and when it's capable of it. Try putting a call to hdparm at the end of your SysV init scripts if you're using Linux.
I'd think that the number of/.ers who fall into that category is fairly small. As for the blinking-12:00 crowd, I don't think they've even heard of MP3s.
Maybe so, but the parent post was referring to the people in the middle. Those few hundred million people who've used Napster and have a decent stereo system in a different room from their computer/server.
Those people might want to put an networked MP3 box in their living room, but don't know (or want to learn) how to flash an EEPROM and netboot linux over ethernet.
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Thanks, your post made me smile :-)
Alien?
T'd be simple to extract the binary and distribute a tar.gz.
Wouldn't that be.. "security through opacity"? ;-)
But you can still play Doom, and Quake I on it fine.
Can't you?
so this is offtopic, and I can't really comment.. but woah, that's one fucking huge advert for Sourceforge.
What he means is breaking up the 'soffice' binary into different binaries for the different applications, much as Word and Powerpoint come and 'winword.exe' and 'powerpoint.exe'. I think.
How fucking cool.
(-1, Really bad joke)
Funny, I read "couple tweaks" as "a couple of weeks". Probably accurate as well ;)
You've been watching Battle Royale, haven't you? :)
Scary.
.. scary.
I read that through quickly and understood it, before reading it again and realising the humour.
I guess I'm exposed to too much bad grammar. Watching single-finger typists flounder over msn or Counterstrike players coming up with phrases like "OMFG cs0r r teh win, i r r0xor! j00 sux0rs r l4m3 RAH n1 gg wp ty etc" is just
The PDF format includes the vectors of the font that Distiller (or ghostscript) was originally fed (so that it will render anywhere despite a lack of local fonts) as well as the text that makes it up. Try the "highlight text" tool next time you use the official Adobe Acrobat.
.pdf (see Google's pdf2html service), but less simple to import more complex features, such as columns, tables or formulas.
This would make it relatively easy to extract the text from a
Reminds me of the mozilla.org change from Milestones to 0.x.y releases.
:)
:D
Perhaps it will represents a similar change in usability and responsiveness
Seriously though, I can see a lot of parallels in between Mozilla and OpenOffice development. Major kudos to everyone involved in making Mozilla and OpenOffice what it is today
Star/OpenOffice IS NOT JAVA.
"Use emacs, because Billy Gates uses vi."
Your problem likely has little to do with the way the kernel handles CPU scheduling, but rather the interrupts from your hdd controller and soundcard. You might be able to test this to a degree by putting the mp3s into a ramdisk and trying the same operations.
I had exactly the same kind of mp3 skipping problems on my desktop machine for a long time, until a friend introduced me to hdparm, which allows you to set your IDE controller to DMA mode. Try it. The difference is breathtaking. Combine that with 2.4.19-pre2 and preempt and you have a smoooth desktop system :)
I just put the following in a startup script, and everything's highly froody.
hdparm -d 1 -W 1 -u 1 /dev/hda
Oh for an interquartile range.
I'd be very interested to see a VMWare-like project for PPC Hardware, especially if it could do hardware-accellerated graphics.
Has anyone seen or heard of something like this?
Making a slimline monitor/input device is great, and the pictures look pretty, but why does it need to be wireless? (other than the geek factor..)
Surely if you really wanted a portable monitor, you'd buy a laptop. Add wireless pcmcia card and run X or VNC over it.
Anyone got a reasonable use for this?
No, I don't.
You'd be better off emailing VIA than asking a load of seething trolls who haven't even had a chance to buy this board yet :)
Anyway, why is this a problem? Most modern operating systems set the IDE controller to DMA if and when it's capable of it. Try putting a call to hdparm at the end of your SysV init scripts if you're using Linux.
I'd think that the number of /.ers who fall into that category is fairly small. As for the blinking-12:00 crowd, I don't think they've even heard of MP3s.
Maybe so, but the parent post was referring to the people in the middle. Those few hundred million people who've used Napster and have a decent stereo system in a different room from their computer/server.
Those people might want to put an networked MP3 box in their living room, but don't know (or want to learn) how to flash an EEPROM and netboot linux over ethernet.
Yes, I am.
Heh, it works really well actually. Kudos to the VMWare team.. it's a great product.
;)
Their tools package is just cool. The handling of the mouse crossing the edge of the window impressed me, as did the overall speed of the graphics.
If I actually needed a Windows distro around, I'd definately buy it
So.. let's run an OpenGL app wrapped in D3D wrapped with this OpenGL wrapper!
:D
Mmm.. feels like christmas
Yes yes, but can a dot matrix printer keep up with the weblogs from a good slashdotting? :)