You know what's weird? I find gnome/gtk apps to have that extra padding and spacing you talk about... except with the taskbar buttons... for some reason they scrunch the words onto a too short (IMO) button!
All in all, I prefer the extra padding, except things like in GAIM... I mean, why are the buttons so huge, but the icons on them take up so little?
Now that should have been posted as a review instead. Points out everything I've thought about Halo 2, from someone who obviously plays it, but is not a fanboy.
I am done playing with it, the ending sucked, yes... and I hated jumping between covenant/chief-guy... but it still kept me mildly entertained for a week or so.
I recently dived back into the *nix world (altho I always had shells), by installing fedora core 3 on my laptop.
I had spent a couple years using mainly windows as my OS, but when my laptop needed a reinstall, I decided to try linux again.
Let me say that I have hated redhat for years, and to me, mandrake was no better. I was a FreeBSD guy, and if it was linux I was using, it had to be slackware.
The reason I tried fedora core 3 is because i'd heard good things about it.
I wanted to see how far linux had progressed on the laptop side of things... I had slackware running on my old pentium 200 mmx machine with xfce back in the day, but alot of the configuring I had to do by hand.
So I tried this on my Pentium 4 2.4GHz, 448MB, 40 gig HDD widescreen laptop. I must say I was amazed at how nicely it all came together once i had installed... the only things I had to do was add "1280x800" to my xorg.conf file (for widescreen), and ad another IP to eth0 to access the LAN. Everything else "just worked" for the hardware... and was up on the net in no time.
The documentation to get the few things I needed running was excellent, and didn't spend hours googling for ways to play dvds and mp3s (which I wish fedora had by default.. stupid patents)
Now I'll make a long story short, and tell you that I would have NO PROBLEM recommending this to a friend or family member who was not adept in computers, and just wanted email, music, web, video...etc from their comp.
The problem with installing programs is still a negative, yet if it were say MY DAD.. I'd probably have set it up for him anyways, and wouldn't mind installing the VERY odd program he'd want installed via ssh or vnc.
There are only two things which I think FC3 messed up with (besides the dvd/mp3 issue): First is their choice of xcdroast for a cd recording application. It didn't work from the start on my laptop, due to not having SCSI emulation compiled into the kernel. I fixed this easily by using k3b, which I prefer anyways.
Second thing is their remote desktop application, which was ok for vnc (altho I switched to TSClient), but did not work for my Windows XP Pro SP2 box... complained about the rdesktop version I had. I used rdesktop at the command line and it worked no probs.
Even with these things, linux is a great desktop replacement for windows as long as the person involved is not a gamer.
I'm just about done downloading the 5 pieces of the dvd..
So I decided to read the assembly directions. Turns out they're just an html page of the download center... have nothing about combining the parts into a dvd.
Now I've never had to do this before, so I figured I'd ask here, in case any other/.'ers were stumped.
Anyone know how to combine all the files together?
I can't seem to find any docs on this.. either googling, or on sun's site.
I'm no fan of apple (I do like them, just not all their fanbois... same thing as linux, and to a lesser degree, windows)
But my guess is three things... PRICE and PIRACY.
Apple boxes are way too high priced for what you get, IMHO and the opinions of ALOT of people... if I can do the same thing on a PC for half the price, I will). Even their high end systems, are not high end by my standards... I mean if I'm paying close to $3000 (CND money) for a machine, I expect it to have a better video card then a Radeon 9600 (currently i have a 9800 pro which cost me $400 CND.. the whole machine it's in.. Athlon XP 2800+ probably cost me $1200... with monitor)
Geek factor.. even tho I hate the term geek, nerd is much better. I prefer to build my own machines, even tho it's not very exciting anymore as I've done it a billion times, I prefer to chose every piece that is going into it.
Piracy... who here knows someone (besides a company) that pays for all their software? Piracy is accepted by most people as a worthwhile risk. It's much harder to find "warez" for the macs then for pcs. Incidently, I believe this is also a contributing factor as why Windows has the monopoly... both pirating of their OS, and of the apps for it. Kinda funny how MS is trying to fight it now.
Also, I have never met anyone who bought a mac to throw Linux on... altho I know it is possible. Yet friends of mine, and myself included, have bought machines specifically for linux (or BSD)
The "problem" with steam is that it's quite possible to emulate it in software.:)
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>> funny, i can install and play my copy of half life 2 whenever i want to, I guess that Valve fucked up by making the pirate copy inherently superior to the legit copy.
This is generally true for most games, and applications (think NoCD patch).
All that any form of copy protection has ever seemed to do is make it difficult for the legitimate user to use that which he has paid for. For those of us with less scruples... heh, we get to enjoy life without the hassles that companies force their clients to endure.
I'm hoping this will wake up the majority of consumers out there and put their foot down to restrictive technologies like this. If things don't "just work" then people might stop turning a blind eye to this.. but I seriously doubt it will happen.
Not that I'm a pirate.. hell I've never even fired a cannon.
kind of ontopic.. just wondering... anyone know why the RPC service on windows nt/xp/2000 has to be running?
Windows 2000 would let you kill the service and restart it, but XP complains and reboots within a minute... made it a pain in the ass to patch my laptop... because I needed the patches off the net, but a worm would hit me within a minute of being on the net, exploiting the RPC and causing a reboot in a minute.
I now have all the patches on cd, but for joe blow who doesn't have another computer already patched to get them with, or who just doesn't know better, this was/IS* a serious problem.
* I say IS because if you buy alot of new computers, they have a pre-patch OS installed, when I got my laptop this exploit had been known about for months, yet the venders kept selling the computers with a vulnerable OS. Which I have a big problem with... when I bought the machine.. the sales man said NOTHING about this... they probably think mentioning that it is CRITICAL to patch your machine as soon as possible would scare their clients away.
I'd imagine that the RPC service is used to remote administration but even if RPC is needed, which I assume it is, why does it need to have access to the internet? The average user does NOT use remote administration, and if they do, they should be competent enough to turn on a service, or configure it to use whatever adapter (and maybe have an access list??). MS should have disabled that by default.
I'd personally refer to that as a 'Suite" -- set of applications that are used together, as opposed to an OS.
by your example.. is Office in a way an OS?
For an OS, they'd have to write drivers for everything, memory, sound, video, etc.. on alot of different hardware, as well as a GUI that could handle all that. i'd say this is a huge endevour.
(You could arguably say they could use something like a linux kernel/drivers/X and just bolt on their apps, but still, I wouldn't call it a google OS.. it's still linux)
Well I personally find that different keyboards make me type at different speeds. I am no hunt-and-peck'er (tee-hee), and am quite a bit faster then anyone else I know, except a secretary, or someone who does data entry for a living.
Yet even when using different keyoards that I own, I still find it slows me down. I get used to my laptop's keyboard (which is harder then all my other ones to get used to) and then I slow down on my main desktop machine. If I go to a friends' house it's even worse.
So why would I want to slow myself down with this childish looking toy keyboard, and then not have half the keys I use?
Dunno about you guys, but except for things like number lock/scroll lock and the stupid windows keys, I use every one on my keyboard. Take away 1/2... there goes a bunch of my shortcuts.
K-Meleon is largely a port of Galeon, a mozilla based browser for Gnome. Last time I tried K-Meleon, it was almost the same as galeon, albeit with a Windows look. Try Galeon, it rocks.
Galeon was my favorite browser in the world for the longest time, smart, simple and FAST. Now that I am back on windows, Opera has taken over that position (yes, I did use opera in linux, this waqs ages ago, and at the time I still preferred Galeon) and I doubt anything could take the crown away from it. Still I'm going to give this a try, I do some webdev and use multiple browsers for testing.
Galeon was also kick butt for an older system... used it on my Pentium 200 - 96 MB laptop, where mozilla was just too bloated.
...things I've ever done with my computer. (Rating up there with buying a cdburner, and then advd burner).
I have 3 hooked up, and a television, altho I only use the tv when I'm watching a movie or something. Two monitors and a tv are hooked up to a GF4 ti4200, and the other one to an old Voodoo Banshee PCI card.
I use at least one other monitor during game play for things like game faqs, maps, forums, etc... just displaying information I might need in the game.
It's much nicer then switching back and forth with one screen, but it does have the downfall of whenever I play a game that is fullscreen (read: most games) it moves the information over to the right for some reason. I just compensate for this by placing the windows further left before starting a game.
Multiple monitors are also great for other things.... photoshop palettes, directory views, chat windows, downloads... etc... all without blocking out your main window... so say if you're web browsing... a quick glance tells me if what I am downloaded is done, and if someone replied to my message.
My main monitor is a 19", and the secondaries are 17" and 14" (yes 14). The 14" only does 640x480 so I use it mainly for things like directoy (folder) stuff in explorer or konquerer... depending on which OS I am in.
Apparently it's also use in the XBox. Instead of the clock havine a battery, they decided to use an aerogel capacitor.
Now while it's not enough aerogel to do much with, I found it interesting that it was there anyways.
Sure, you need a mod chip, exploit, or your onboard flash... erm... flashed with a hacked bios... but the XBox Media Player is a great open source project, and for me and alot of people I know it's the "killer app" for xbox's harddrive.
>> and most people who use image editors dosn't do graphics proressionally
Uhm...
I've worked professionally in various aspects of computer graphics and print, and I gotta say, photoshop is the most used program. EVERY place I've worked, along with all my friends in the computer graphics/print industry use it.
That's everything from desktop publishing, to CGI for movies/tv/games, web design, digital photography... you name it.
It's funny the things people will use to make themselves appear superior to others. Violent video games are used alot for this it seems.
I'm 30 years old, and have been gaming for the majority of my life, and I still enjoy violence in video games (and sex does have it's role as well). Neither will sell me on a video game, it still has to be good for me to play it, no matter how much t&a or blood.
I consider myself a responsible adult, yet yes I do have a bit of immaturity about me, I'm still a kid at heart. I'm also not big on the cutesy cartoony graphics of alot of games... which is why I don't go for Nintendo stuff.
Of course, this makes me wonder, how do you figure that realistic violence in video games equates to a 17 year old mentality, when you're playing video games with cutesy bright colourful cartoony characters, which in just about every other aspect of media, be it movies, or television, or comics, is what is marketed to a VERY young audience.
I like realistic violence in video games and don't mind looking at some of the scantily clad cgi lasses for the same reason I like horror movies, scary books or sci-fi... I like the feelings it invokes in me... fear, adrenaline, etc.
I supposed it's all a matter of taste, yet it seems if you have different taste then someone, they think less of you.
Columbine anyone? (sorry, had to throw that in there:)
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You know what's weird? I find gnome/gtk apps to have that extra padding and spacing you talk about... except with the taskbar buttons... for some reason they scrunch the words onto a too short (IMO) button!
All in all, I prefer the extra padding, except things like in GAIM... I mean, why are the buttons so huge, but the icons on them take up so little?
Couldn't you just adapt the license to your own needs, if it currently has some clauses you don't like?
Wait a minute... is the actual license subject to copyrights itself?
Heh... imagine getting sued for modifying a license without permission.
That's awesome dude, and very much true.
please note: I am a big Raoul Duke fan as well, R.I.P.
He lived crazily... hell why die boring?
Now that should have been posted as a review instead. Points out everything I've thought about Halo 2, from someone who obviously plays it, but is not a fanboy.
I am done playing with it, the ending sucked, yes... and I hated jumping between covenant/chief-guy... but it still kept me mildly entertained for a week or so.
http://www.googlle.com/
The last one there sends you to one of those fake search sites.
I recently dived back into the *nix world (altho I always had shells), by installing fedora core 3 on my laptop.
I had spent a couple years using mainly windows as my OS, but when my laptop needed a reinstall, I decided to try linux again.
Let me say that I have hated redhat for years, and to me, mandrake was no better. I was a FreeBSD guy, and if it was linux I was using, it had to be slackware.
The reason I tried fedora core 3 is because i'd heard good things about it.
I wanted to see how far linux had progressed on the laptop side of things... I had slackware running on my old pentium 200 mmx machine with xfce back in the day, but alot of the configuring I had to do by hand.
So I tried this on my Pentium 4 2.4GHz, 448MB, 40 gig HDD widescreen laptop.
I must say I was amazed at how nicely it all came together once i had installed... the only things I had to do was add "1280x800" to my xorg.conf file (for widescreen), and ad another IP to eth0 to access the LAN. Everything else "just worked" for the hardware... and was up on the net in no time.
The documentation to get the few things I needed running was excellent, and didn't spend hours googling for ways to play dvds and mp3s (which I wish fedora had by default.. stupid patents)
Now I'll make a long story short, and tell you that I would have NO PROBLEM recommending this to a friend or family member who was not adept in computers, and just wanted email, music, web, video...etc from their comp.
The problem with installing programs is still a negative, yet if it were say MY DAD.. I'd probably have set it up for him anyways, and wouldn't mind installing the VERY odd program he'd want installed via ssh or vnc.
There are only two things which I think FC3 messed up with (besides the dvd/mp3 issue): First is their choice of xcdroast for a cd recording application. It didn't work from the start on my laptop, due to not having SCSI emulation compiled into the kernel. I fixed this easily by using k3b, which I prefer anyways.
Second thing is their remote desktop application, which was ok for vnc (altho I switched to TSClient), but did not work for my Windows XP Pro SP2 box... complained about the rdesktop version I had. I used rdesktop at the command line and it worked no probs.
Even with these things, linux is a great desktop replacement for windows as long as the person involved is not a gamer.
Explain velcro then!
That shit's utterly amazing...
I'm tired of hearing about mac users say things like this, to try to justify their choice.
I'm a very competent admin, and i never have a problem with this on my windows or linux (surprise!) boxes.
If the mac had the install base that the mac does, I bet you anything that it'd have just as much ad/spy/crapware.
Nothing short of a lock out can stop ignorant users from installing crap.
Plus are you trying to say the mac is bulletproof? Even OpenBSD which has done an extensive code review for security has been cracked.
I'm just about done downloading the 5 pieces of the dvd..
/.'ers were stumped.
So I decided to read the assembly directions. Turns out they're just an html page of the download center... have nothing about combining the parts into a dvd.
Now I've never had to do this before, so I figured I'd ask here, in case any other
Anyone know how to combine all the files together?
I can't seem to find any docs on this.. either googling, or on sun's site.
I'm no fan of apple (I do like them, just not all their fanbois... same thing as linux, and to a lesser degree, windows)
.. Athlon XP 2800+ probably cost me $1200... with monitor)
But my guess is three things... PRICE and PIRACY.
Apple boxes are way too high priced for what you get, IMHO and the opinions of ALOT of people... if I can do the same thing on a PC for half the price, I will). Even their high end systems, are not high end by my standards... I mean if I'm paying close to $3000 (CND money) for a machine, I expect it to have a better video card then a Radeon 9600 (currently i have a 9800 pro which cost me $400 CND.. the whole machine it's in
Geek factor.. even tho I hate the term geek, nerd is much better. I prefer to build my own machines, even tho it's not very exciting anymore as I've done it a billion times, I prefer to chose every piece that is going into it.
Piracy... who here knows someone (besides a company) that pays for all their software? Piracy is accepted by most people as a worthwhile risk. It's much harder to find "warez" for the macs then for pcs. Incidently, I believe this is also a contributing factor as why Windows has the monopoly... both pirating of their OS, and of the apps for it. Kinda funny how MS is trying to fight it now.
Also, I have never met anyone who bought a mac to throw Linux on... altho I know it is possible. Yet friends of mine, and myself included, have bought machines specifically for linux (or BSD)
damn yellowists.. they'll be the downfall of us all. /me looks suspicously at orange.
according to esoteric..
:)
The "problem" with steam is that it's quite possible to emulate it in software.
>> funny, i can install and play my copy of half life 2 whenever i want to, I guess that Valve fucked up by making the pirate copy inherently superior to the legit copy.
This is generally true for most games, and applications (think NoCD patch).
All that any form of copy protection has ever seemed to do is make it difficult for the legitimate user to use that which he has paid for. For those of us with less scruples... heh, we get to enjoy life without the hassles that companies force their clients to endure.
I'm hoping this will wake up the majority of consumers out there and put their foot down to restrictive technologies like this. If things don't "just work" then people might stop turning a blind eye to this.. but I seriously doubt it will happen.
Not that I'm a pirate.. hell I've never even fired a cannon.
kind of ontopic.. just wondering... anyone know why the RPC service on windows nt/xp/2000 has to be running?
Windows 2000 would let you kill the service and restart it, but XP complains and reboots within a minute... made it a pain in the ass to patch my laptop... because I needed the patches off the net, but a worm would hit me within a minute of being on the net, exploiting the RPC and causing a reboot in a minute.
I now have all the patches on cd, but for joe blow who doesn't have another computer already patched to get them with, or who just doesn't know better, this was/IS* a serious problem.
* I say IS because if you buy alot of new computers, they have a pre-patch OS installed, when I got my laptop this exploit had been known about for months, yet the venders kept selling the computers with a vulnerable OS. Which I have a big problem with... when I bought the machine.. the sales man said NOTHING about this... they probably think mentioning that it is CRITICAL to patch your machine as soon as possible would scare their clients away.
I'd imagine that the RPC service is used to remote administration but even if RPC is needed, which I assume it is, why does it need to have access to the internet? The average user does NOT use remote administration, and if they do, they should be competent enough to turn on a service, or configure it to use whatever adapter (and maybe have an access list??). MS should have disabled that by default.
I'd personally refer to that as a 'Suite" -- set of applications that are used together, as opposed to an OS.
by your example.. is Office in a way an OS?
For an OS, they'd have to write drivers for everything, memory, sound, video, etc.. on alot of different hardware, as well as a GUI that could handle all that. i'd say this is a huge endevour.
(You could arguably say they could use something like a linux kernel/drivers/X and just bolt on their apps, but still, I wouldn't call it a google OS.. it's still linux)
Well I personally find that different keyboards make me type at different speeds. I am no hunt-and-peck'er (tee-hee), and am quite a bit faster then anyone else I know, except a secretary, or someone who does data entry for a living.
Yet even when using different keyoards that I own, I still find it slows me down. I get used to my laptop's keyboard (which is harder then all my other ones to get used to) and then I slow down on my main desktop machine. If I go to a friends' house it's even worse.
So why would I want to slow myself down with this childish looking toy keyboard, and then not have half the keys I use?
Dunno about you guys, but except for things like number lock/scroll lock and the stupid windows keys, I use every one on my keyboard. Take away 1/2... there goes a bunch of my shortcuts.
K-Meleon is largely a port of Galeon, a mozilla based browser for Gnome. Last time I tried K-Meleon, it was almost the same as galeon, albeit with a Windows look. Try Galeon, it rocks.
Galeon was my favorite browser in the world for the longest time, smart, simple and FAST. Now that I am back on windows, Opera has taken over that position (yes, I did use opera in linux, this waqs ages ago, and at the time I still preferred Galeon) and I doubt anything could take the crown away from it. Still I'm going to give this a try, I do some webdev and use multiple browsers for testing.
Galeon was also kick butt for an older system... used it on my Pentium 200 - 96 MB laptop, where mozilla was just too bloated.
heh, bit off topic, but that reminds me of a quote from Alien Resurrection.
- 'Earth man.... what a shithole.'
...things I've ever done with my computer. (Rating up there with buying a cdburner, and then advd burner).
I have 3 hooked up, and a television, altho I only use the tv when I'm watching a movie or something. Two monitors and a tv are hooked up to a GF4 ti4200, and the other one to an old Voodoo Banshee PCI card.
I use at least one other monitor during game play for things like game faqs, maps, forums, etc... just displaying information I might need in the game.
It's much nicer then switching back and forth with one screen, but it does have the downfall of whenever I play a game that is fullscreen (read: most games) it moves the information over to the right for some reason. I just compensate for this by placing the windows further left before starting a game.
Multiple monitors are also great for other things.... photoshop palettes, directory views, chat windows, downloads... etc... all without blocking out your main window... so say if you're web browsing... a quick glance tells me if what I am downloaded is done, and if someone replied to my message.
My main monitor is a 19", and the secondaries are 17" and 14" (yes 14). The 14" only does 640x480 so I use it mainly for things like directoy (folder) stuff in explorer or konquerer... depending on which OS I am in.
and the french are not know for predjudism and bias at all I suppose?
Face it, both sides have their faults in this department.
Apparently it's also use in the XBox. Instead of the clock havine a battery, they decided to use an aerogel capacitor. Now while it's not enough aerogel to do much with, I found it interesting that it was there anyways.
Three words...
XBox Media Player.
Sure, you need a mod chip, exploit, or your onboard flash... erm... flashed with a hacked bios... but the XBox Media Player is a great open source project, and for me and alot of people I know it's the "killer app" for xbox's harddrive.
www.xboxmediaplayer.de
>> and most people who use image editors dosn't do graphics proressionally
Uhm...
I've worked professionally in various aspects of computer graphics and print, and I gotta say, photoshop is the most used program. EVERY place I've worked, along with all my friends in the computer graphics/print industry use it.
That's everything from desktop publishing, to CGI for movies/tv/games, web design, digital photography... you name it.
I for one welcome our new American overlords.
(sorry)
It's funny the things people will use to make themselves appear superior to others. Violent video games are used alot for this it seems.
I'm 30 years old, and have been gaming for the majority of my life, and I still enjoy violence in video games (and sex does have it's role as well). Neither will sell me on a video game, it still has to be good for me to play it, no matter how much t&a or blood.
I consider myself a responsible adult, yet yes I do have a bit of immaturity about me, I'm still a kid at heart. I'm also not big on the cutesy cartoony graphics of alot of games... which is why I don't go for Nintendo stuff.
Of course, this makes me wonder, how do you figure that realistic violence in video games equates to a 17 year old mentality, when you're playing video games with cutesy bright colourful cartoony characters, which in just about every other aspect of media, be it movies, or television, or comics, is what is marketed to a VERY young audience.
I like realistic violence in video games and don't mind looking at some of the scantily clad cgi lasses for the same reason I like horror movies, scary books or sci-fi... I like the feelings it invokes in me... fear, adrenaline, etc.
I supposed it's all a matter of taste, yet it seems if you have different taste then someone, they think less of you.
Columbine anyone? (sorry, had to throw that in there:)