Anjuta and KDevelop are in universe. Anjuta works fine on my system, but I have seen some problems on the mailing list getting GNOME 2 apps to build - I think you may need to manually install "build-essential" as well as anjuta.
There was extensive discussion on the users list and an IRC community meeting about the 'controversial' artwork. Very few people actually had a problem with it directly, but most people thought it was a bad idea as the default for a distro that wanted to be taken seriously and appeal to as broad a userbase as possible. There were plenty of real-world examples from people who wanted to deploy Ubuntu in their company but would have to create custom install-images to change the default.
My take on it was that I didn't want my computer to look like a Bennetton advert; more that it was goofy looking than that it might upset people.
That artwork is still installed, it's just not selected by default.
I use Xemacs in ubuntu fine - just enable the universe repository (uncomment the line in/etc/apt/sources.list). It would be nice if they moved it to main, but I've had zero problems with it so far.
It's all just hydrocarbons, it's just that on earth a lot of the solid carbon is tied up in living creatures so our hydrocarbons come from decomposition of their dead bodies. The clouds of ethanol in outer space don't make me assume that there are deep-space breweries, for example.
On Titan, it's cold enough that the lighter hydrocarbons like methane are liquid, so the sea of 'oil' is probably just short chain alkanes like methane.
Anyway, I'm sure the Amstrad PCW 9512 (the one with the daisywheel) had a two sided 3" disk drive, so you didn't have to turn the disk over. They were great machines, only limited in lifespan by the elastic band in the disk drive.
I'd just found it - thanks. I'm now horrified to find that years of C++, Prolog and Java have seemingly completely overwritten my knowledge of SAM Basic. Apart from ZAP and BOOM.
They sold 12,000 Sam Coupes? I had no idea it was so many.
I remember I got one of the early models with the dodgy ROM and the shop I bought it from tried to charge me £25 to replace it until we complained.
They were great machines - still played speccy 48K games, 3.5" disk drives, 256Kb RAM. The SAM BASIC was great: it had an EDIT command, for writing self-modifying BASIC programs. I wonder where I put the thing...
Exactly - people should listen to themselves sometimes.
"Can't you even fling a 2 tonne piece of incredibly delicate scientific apparatus a billion miles across space without one thing going wrong? Call yourself a scientist?"
But isn't that why so many games (on PC, at least) are buggy pieces of crap at release? The developers spend time trying to get cool features to work, even if some of them are then dropped, instead of bug-hunting.
Falcon4, for example - most hyped flight sim of its day - took something like three years of Microprose and community work after release to be playable. BF1942 didn't work online reliably for months after release, *still* doesn't have a working server browser and servers crash constantly, even after the nth patch.
Perhaps less hype, more realistic objectives and good project planning would mean that I can take a PC game out of its wrapper, install it and actually play it first time. In the meantime I'm going to go complete Viewtiful Joe finally.
I didn't say anywhere that I believed it. I think that the Google Desktop Search privacy policy specifically states that it sends no data back to google, so they'd be directly lying if some of his statements are true. I also made the dubious source of the statements clear.
I read the article before posting - at the very least, I am discussing the correct issue, rather than knee-jerk posting a response without bothering to check.
I'm doing a PhD in a Computing-and-Engineering department and I have to say I agree with your pessimism.
In a department where many projects require writing 10,000+ line C++ programs involving CORBA calls and all sorts of other complex issues:
The introductory C++ course doesn't mention classes once. Not a single mention. No STL, either. Half the examples don't even compile on GCC, instead relying on some Sun compiler that no one uses anymore. And that's all the teaching most people get.
Nobody knows about basic C++ constructs, either. I suggested a do while loop recently, only to get the reply "What's that?"
The department has some standard libraries for interfacing with solver packages etc. These have classes (who knows how they found out about those) for n-dimensional array slices but they only go up to 6-dimensional. The reason:
Oh great, another area of entertainment slathered with advertising. Intrude on my games and destroy any immersion - what a great way to attract me as a customer.
Not exactly very informative - the die* files are browser specific and are not especially "difficult" cases or anything. Safari (assuming Apple didn't do this kind of testing, which is unlikely) would have different die files.
Why bullshit? From the bugzilla messages, this testing has led to several bugs in Firefox being found and fixed already; mostly NULL pointer dereferences, it seems.
Yes, it took down firefox and my X server too. Firefox 0.9.3(ubuntu version), xfree 4.3, linux 2.6.8.1. Firefox seems to have a great ability to crash the x-server.
Shouldn't this random input be part of standard testing for any application?
I use it all the time for testing my PalmOS project: the PalmOS emulator has a "Gremlins" mode that throws random events at your application constantly. My basic rule is that if it survives 300,000 events without crashing, there should be no major problems.
Of course it won't catch functional bugs, but it's an incredible tool for catching unchecked inputs, memory leaks and similar problems.
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Oh, learn to read before you post.
1) It "just works"
2) It's stable
3) It's fast
4) It's up-to-date
5) Did I mention it just works?
Anjuta and KDevelop are in universe. Anjuta works fine on my system, but I have seen some problems on the mailing list getting GNOME 2 apps to build - I think you may need to manually install "build-essential" as well as anjuta.
Dammit, put that can of worms down.
There was extensive discussion on the users list and an IRC community meeting about the 'controversial' artwork. Very few people actually had a problem with it directly, but most people thought it was a bad idea as the default for a distro that wanted to be taken seriously and appeal to as broad a userbase as possible. There were plenty of real-world examples from people who wanted to deploy Ubuntu in their company but would have to create custom install-images to change the default.
My take on it was that I didn't want my computer to look like a Bennetton advert; more that it was goofy looking than that it might upset people.
That artwork is still installed, it's just not selected by default.
I use Xemacs in ubuntu fine - just enable the universe repository (uncomment the line in /etc/apt/sources.list). It would be nice if they moved it to main, but I've had zero problems with it so far.
It's all just hydrocarbons, it's just that on earth a lot of the solid carbon is tied up in living creatures so our hydrocarbons come from decomposition of their dead bodies. The clouds of ethanol in outer space don't make me assume that there are deep-space breweries, for example.
On Titan, it's cold enough that the lighter hydrocarbons like methane are liquid, so the sea of 'oil' is probably just short chain alkanes like methane.
3 posts about 3" disks on the spectrum +3?
Anyway, I'm sure the Amstrad PCW 9512 (the one with the daisywheel) had a two sided 3" disk drive, so you didn't have to turn the disk over. They were great machines, only limited in lifespan by the elastic band in the disk drive.
Has anyone fixed up the east rail lines yet so it doesn't take godzillion hours...
Two hours from Liverpool street, approximately forever from anywhere else.
Norwich? They're probably gathered round the ZX81 gaping, pointing and threatening to burn the "man with the magic black box of lights".
I'd just found it - thanks. I'm now horrified to find that years of C++, Prolog and Java have seemingly completely overwritten my knowledge of SAM Basic. Apart from ZAP and BOOM.
They sold 12,000 Sam Coupes? I had no idea it was so many.
I remember I got one of the early models with the dodgy ROM and the shop I bought it from tried to charge me £25 to replace it until we complained.
They were great machines - still played speccy 48K games, 3.5" disk drives, 256Kb RAM. The SAM BASIC was great: it had an EDIT command, for writing self-modifying BASIC programs. I wonder where I put the thing...
Exactly - people should listen to themselves sometimes.
"Can't you even fling a 2 tonne piece of incredibly delicate scientific apparatus a billion miles across space without one thing going wrong? Call yourself a scientist?"
But isn't that why so many games (on PC, at least) are buggy pieces of crap at release? The developers spend time trying to get cool features to work, even if some of them are then dropped, instead of bug-hunting.
Falcon4, for example - most hyped flight sim of its day - took something like three years of Microprose and community work after release to be playable. BF1942 didn't work online reliably for months after release, *still* doesn't have a working server browser and servers crash constantly, even after the nth patch.
Perhaps less hype, more realistic objectives and good project planning would mean that I can take a PC game out of its wrapper, install it and actually play it first time. In the meantime I'm going to go complete Viewtiful Joe finally.
I didn't say anywhere that I believed it. I think that the Google Desktop Search privacy policy specifically states that it sends no data back to google, so they'd be directly lying if some of his statements are true. I also made the dubious source of the statements clear.
I read the article before posting - at the very least, I am discussing the correct issue, rather than knee-jerk posting a response without bothering to check.
Clearly nobody reads the articles, not even the mods. From TFA:
"users should know that the giant ad broker intends to mix public and private queries in the future,"
"Google Desktop Search allows users to opt out of sending the company back detailed usage data, but it isn't possible to firewall it completely"
"Eric Schmidt said the company's goal was to create a "Google that knows you""
Admittedly, the main source for the article is the CEO of a competitor to Google. But this isn't the multi-user issue.
Agreed - it's an excellent distro. It's very much an "everything just works" distro, with very little fiddling about required.
It autodetected all the hardware on my laptop and desktop, even the crappy SD card reader that caused SuSE trouble. Stable and fast too.
Just how badly built is your apartment?
The holes in the wall required to allow the IR signal through would be much more worrying than the effect on TVs.
I'm doing a PhD in a Computing-and-Engineering department and I have to say I agree with your pessimism.
In a department where many projects require writing 10,000+ line C++ programs involving CORBA calls and all sorts of other complex issues:
Oh great, another area of entertainment slathered with advertising. Intrude on my games and destroy any immersion - what a great way to attract me as a customer.
That figure *is* the power dissipation. There is no significant "useful work" that a processor can do.
Not exactly very informative - the die* files are browser specific and are not especially "difficult" cases or anything. Safari (assuming Apple didn't do this kind of testing, which is unlikely) would have different die files.
Why? They're finding and fixing the bugs in Firefox already (check bugzilla).
Why bullshit? From the bugzilla messages, this testing has led to several bugs in Firefox being found and fixed already; mostly NULL pointer dereferences, it seems.
Yes, it took down firefox and my X server too. Firefox 0.9.3(ubuntu version), xfree 4.3, linux 2.6.8.1.
Firefox seems to have a great ability to crash the x-server.
Shouldn't this random input be part of standard testing for any application?
I use it all the time for testing my PalmOS project: the PalmOS emulator has a "Gremlins" mode that throws random events at your application constantly. My basic rule is that if it survives 300,000 events without crashing, there should be no major problems.
Of course it won't catch functional bugs, but it's an incredible tool for catching unchecked inputs, memory leaks and similar problems.