You might want to give Knoppix a try. It's quite good at autodetecting and configuring things and can be installed on a hard disk through a relatively easy procedure, giving you a customised Debian install. Don't know if it can solve all your problems, but might be worth a try.
And if you have Windows machines lying around, it should be no problem to get good fonts. Besides, there is a Debian package which downloads MS fonts off the web and makes them available to your system. Not sure if it still works, though.
First of all "Ringu", the Japanese version, doesn't have the double meaning that "The Ring" has. In "The Ring" , the 'ring' is both the the telephone ring and also the halo of light that the girl saw as the lid was covered over the well. This is not the case in "Ringu".
I certainly thought it was, as did everyone else I know who saw the movie:)
The problem I have with the American version is that it's so.... American. You can simply see that the Hollywood producers took the original, added all sort of American goodness that would make it a successful movie, and through that the movie lost most of the point.
An example is the old addage that the audiences must have a real live villain in a movie if the movie is to be successful. A good example is Sauron, who appears out of nowhere in 'Return of the King'. Another example is when a girl who never spoke, and never appeared in the original Japanese version, suddenly shows up, face and all, and starts speaking, singing, dancing and riding a fucking magical broom:). The scary thing in the original is that you never knew what the people heard on the phone. When I saw the American version and the "You are all going to suffer", I wanted to puke. Cheap thrills.
Furthermore, the Japanese version is brilliant in the way it touches on the society. The Japanese society is a high-tech society. Gadgets, VCRs, phones and such are a part of everyday life more than anywhere else in the world (they even have electric toilet seats, for crying out loud!) Ringu took the most common appliances in a Japanese home (VCR, TV, phone) and turned them in instruments of terror. That is why the original had such a shocking effect, and why people were destroying their TVs after seeing the movie. I don't know of anyone who smashed their TV after watching the American version.
Furthermore, Ringu outlines the relationships between people in modern Japan. A woman seeks help from her estranged husband, who has a newer, younger girlfriend. They have a child. The interaction between these three is very interesting, and adds more tension to the plot. By watching their reactions, you can better comprehend the terror they must be feeling and adds to the impact of the movie. This concept is completely missing in the American version, which is a reason why it is so bland.
The Japanese version is also much more detailed. For exampe, in almost every frame, you can notice a clock. We are constantly reminded that the time is running out. The development of the characters is observable throughout the movie, thanks to excellent acting. And I don't think you understood at all the ending of Ringu, if you don't think that there is a twist there. Dude, there is a huge moral dilemma left in your stomach after the movie. But maybe you think that freeing a roaming demon (no connection to reality whatsoever) is more horrible than brutally murdering your own grandfather.
I do realise that. It's still a bizarre comment, really:-) I mean, what's the motivation behind it? It's worded as an ancient Chinese proverb or something:P
You're wrong. This article clears up the DEP issue quite well. To remind you, this refers to the accusations that KDE League had gone bankrupt, were laundering money, avoiding taxation etc.
As for the disclosure of funds, that's a different issue which sprang from this. It would be interesting to know what happened with the money, but it would be even better to see the money used for good stuff by the KDE League.
I can only agree. I've worked with wxWindows and the thing is so logically laid out that you can get comfortable with it in a day. Good online documentation as well!
Shame that it doesn't seem as popular as other toolkits, it's completely free, cross-platform and useful for getting things done.
But then you have to listen to trolls who say that KDE will ultimately fail because it doesn't have Evolution. Besides, it looks like this project is mostly about using already available stuff - KDE PIM and KMail, which already do most of the stuff Evo does.
Knoppix is just under 700 MB so it fits comfortably on an 80-minute CD. The interesting thing, though, is that it uses compression to fit more stuff onto the CD. You get the equivalent of 1.8 GB, with all the decompression on the fly completely transparent to you. So you get everything from OpenOffice.org to Pingus;-)
Don't play with jumpers while the system is running:-) Unplug the system and ground yourself before you start. I once tried changing jumpers on a soundcard while the thing was still running (I don't know what I was thinking, I think I simply forgot it was on). There was a spark, then some more, then a puff of smoke and then the power went out.
A few minutes and a long sigh later, I turned the computer back on and everything worked. Since then I triple check that everything's unplugged;-)
also, 2.5/2.6 is still missing the better patches for low latency (from andrew morton), and so its performance is still not as good as it could be.
I remember reading an interview with Andrew Morton -- read it here -- in which he goes into great lengths about low latency and Robert Love's kernel preemption patches.
To cut the story short, he feels that kernel preemption is the proper way forward because his low latency patch is based on manually inserting points into loops which can be interrupted. This brings more noticable improvements, but is more manual work. Andrew says that a combination of the two approaches is possible, with a lock-break mechanism implemented into later versions of the kernel-preempt patch, which does essentially the same thing as the low-latency patch.
Now I'm certainly no expert on this:-) but it seems that low latency is, in a way, incorporated into the latest kernel preemption code (cause it's no longer a patch). FWIW.
I also understand that with current P2P clients, it is nearly impossible to limit your traffic to a local network without a consistent configuration among ALL clients on the local network. If even a single client on the local network is allowed to connect to the outside world, the rest of the P2P local network is opened as well.
Gnucleus has a LAN version which seems to have been developed for exactly the reasons you mentioned. Works in WINE too.
I don't see anything really new about this story. It is simply mentioning Adam Treat's Qt# bindings and work on Mono integration. The Dot reported on this over a month ago.
The story makes the bombastic claim that KDE is switching to Mono as the underlying technology, and shows no proof to that extent. What is happening is that KDE guys are simply adding C#/Mono to the list of bindings Qt/KDE supports. Don't get too excited just yet.
The fact remains that programmers today have to keep all the quirks of Windows from 95 onwards in mind when coding. So there's 6 slightly incompatible platforms to consider when making a Windows program.
Why would you need to recompile the kernel nowadays anyway? I mean, really need to? The standard kernel with minor patches and everything compiled as modules (as done by most distros) is all you need.
Saying "Linux system" has become some sort of misnomer and masks the fact that there is no single "Linux System". There are probably more than 20 different operating systems using the Linux kernel, many of which are incompatible with each other on some level, or at least present the user/admin with significantly different interfaces and tools. And yes you get the source, and can "fix" it, but that's a lot of cost in time and skills that never seems to get added in to the TCO of the system.
And this is different from Windows how? Other than source availability, of course. Or did 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP all become completely compatible and offer exactly the came interfaces/tools?
My girlfriend had a side-job designing a website for a university department. She's a designer and not a programmer, so she used Dreamweaver. She used to use IE exclusively, but I wouldn't leave her alone until I got her to test the page in Konqueror, Opera and Mozilla (which I downloaded and installed for her) as well. A week later, I caught her using Mozilla pretty much fulltime. She especially likes the mail client -- but after all the rants about the evils of Outlook Express and viruses that I got into that's not really a surprise.
Moral of the story -- make people try it -- most of the time they don't know what they're missing.
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Well, it worked for me :) I just didn't want to give false hope. :P
You might want to give Knoppix a try. It's quite good at autodetecting and configuring things and can be installed on a hard disk through a relatively easy procedure, giving you a customised Debian install. Don't know if it can solve all your problems, but might be worth a try.
And if you have Windows machines lying around, it should be no problem to get good fonts. Besides, there is a Debian package which downloads MS fonts off the web and makes them available to your system. Not sure if it still works, though.
Err, the rumours had it that Sauron would appear. Haven't seen the movie yet, I'll be really glad if I was wrong :)
First of all "Ringu", the Japanese version, doesn't have the double meaning that "The Ring" has. In "The Ring" , the 'ring' is both the the telephone ring and also the halo of light that the girl saw as the lid was covered over the well. This is not the case in "Ringu".
:)
:). The scary thing in the original is that you never knew what the people heard on the phone. When I saw the American version and the "You are all going to suffer", I wanted to puke. Cheap thrills.
I certainly thought it was, as did everyone else I know who saw the movie
The problem I have with the American version is that it's so.... American. You can simply see that the Hollywood producers took the original, added all sort of American goodness that would make it a successful movie, and through that the movie lost most of the point.
An example is the old addage that the audiences must have a real live villain in a movie if the movie is to be successful. A good example is Sauron, who appears out of nowhere in 'Return of the King'. Another example is when a girl who never spoke, and never appeared in the original Japanese version, suddenly shows up, face and all, and starts speaking, singing, dancing and riding a fucking magical broom
Furthermore, the Japanese version is brilliant in the way it touches on the society. The Japanese society is a high-tech society. Gadgets, VCRs, phones and such are a part of everyday life more than anywhere else in the world (they even have electric toilet seats, for crying out loud!) Ringu took the most common appliances in a Japanese home (VCR, TV, phone) and turned them in instruments of terror. That is why the original had such a shocking effect, and why people were destroying their TVs after seeing the movie. I don't know of anyone who smashed their TV after watching the American version.
Furthermore, Ringu outlines the relationships between people in modern Japan. A woman seeks help from her estranged husband, who has a newer, younger girlfriend. They have a child. The interaction between these three is very interesting, and adds more tension to the plot. By watching their reactions, you can better comprehend the terror they must be feeling and adds to the impact of the movie. This concept is completely missing in the American version, which is a reason why it is so bland.
The Japanese version is also much more detailed. For exampe, in almost every frame, you can notice a clock. We are constantly reminded that the time is running out. The development of the characters is observable throughout the movie, thanks to excellent acting. And I don't think you understood at all the ending of Ringu, if you don't think that there is a twist there. Dude, there is a huge moral dilemma left in your stomach after the movie. But maybe you think that freeing a roaming demon (no connection to reality whatsoever) is more horrible than brutally murdering your own grandfather.
I do realise that. It's still a bizarre comment, really :-) I mean, what's the motivation behind it? It's worded as an ancient Chinese proverb or something :P
Man, this is the most bizarre comment I've read today. Wow.
As for the disclosure of funds, that's a different issue which sprang from this. It would be interesting to know what happened with the money, but it would be even better to see the money used for good stuff by the KDE League.
What a fantastic troll! None of what you wrote made any sense whatsoever! Congratulations!
I can only agree. I've worked with wxWindows and the thing is so logically laid out that you can get comfortable with it in a day. Good online documentation as well!
Shame that it doesn't seem as popular as other toolkits, it's completely free, cross-platform and useful for getting things done.
But then you have to listen to trolls who say that KDE will ultimately fail because it doesn't have Evolution. Besides, it looks like this project is mostly about using already available stuff - KDE PIM and KMail, which already do most of the stuff Evo does.
Knoppix is just under 700 MB so it fits comfortably on an 80-minute CD. The interesting thing, though, is that it uses compression to fit more stuff onto the CD. You get the equivalent of 1.8 GB, with all the decompression on the fly completely transparent to you. So you get everything from OpenOffice.org to Pingus ;-)
A few minutes and a long sigh later, I turned the computer back on and everything worked. Since then I triple check that everything's unplugged
I remember reading an interview with Andrew Morton -- read it here -- in which he goes into great lengths about low latency and Robert Love's kernel preemption patches.
To cut the story short, he feels that kernel preemption is the proper way forward because his low latency patch is based on manually inserting points into loops which can be interrupted. This brings more noticable improvements, but is more manual work. Andrew says that a combination of the two approaches is possible, with a lock-break mechanism implemented into later versions of the kernel-preempt patch, which does essentially the same thing as the low-latency patch.
Now I'm certainly no expert on this
To show fps in Q3A, type this into the console /cg_drawfps 1
/timedemo 1 /demo demo0001
But you're probably looking for:
Horrendously offtopic, I know
Disabling Flash is a more cost-effective solution ;-)
Gnucleus has a LAN version which seems to have been developed for exactly the reasons you mentioned. Works in WINE too.
This is exactly what you're looking for.
I don't see anything really new about this story. It is simply mentioning Adam Treat's Qt# bindings and work on Mono integration. The Dot reported on this over a month ago.
The story makes the bombastic claim that KDE is switching to Mono as the underlying technology, and shows no proof to that extent. What is happening is that KDE guys are simply adding C#/Mono to the list of bindings Qt/KDE supports. Don't get too excited just yet.
The fact remains that programmers today have to keep all the quirks of Windows from 95 onwards in mind when coding. So there's 6 slightly incompatible platforms to consider when making a Windows program.
Why would you need to recompile the kernel nowadays anyway? I mean, really need to? The standard kernel with minor patches and everything compiled as modules (as done by most distros) is all you need.
Saying "Linux system" has become some sort of misnomer and masks the fact that there is no single "Linux System". There are probably more than 20 different operating systems using the Linux kernel, many of which are incompatible with each other on some level, or at least present the user/admin with significantly different interfaces and tools. And yes you get the source, and can "fix" it, but that's a lot of cost in time and skills that never seems to get added in to the TCO of the system.
And this is different from Windows how? Other than source availability, of course. Or did 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP all become completely compatible and offer exactly the came interfaces/tools?
My girlfriend had a side-job designing a website for a university department. She's a designer and not a programmer, so she used Dreamweaver. She used to use IE exclusively, but I wouldn't leave her alone until I got her to test the page in Konqueror, Opera and Mozilla (which I downloaded and installed for her) as well. A week later, I caught her using Mozilla pretty much fulltime. She especially likes the mail client -- but after all the rants about the evils of Outlook Express and viruses that I got into that's not really a surprise.
Moral of the story -- make people try it -- most of the time they don't know what they're missing.
It was a Zoolander reference. It was meant to be wrong.
HOSHI! Please make it Hoshi! Please?
A) A RivaTNT2 (minimum reqs to get into NVIDIA driver land) is $20. How poor are you?
He said he didn't have AGP. Tried finding a TNT2 PCI card lately for $20? It's not funny.
That's one billion copies in lost sales due to piracy. Quick, we need more laws to stop them pirating communists!