Ok, so 1TB of ram = $6000 1TB of storage = $2500 Tack that 8500 onto the rest of a notebook and you'll have a price high enough that you would really have to fight with the supply department to justify the cost of a new laptop:)
"The visualization and organization features in Vista Beta 1 extend even further, however. In Tiger, you can configure Finder windows to display icons in various ways, which is cute, but then Windows has offered similar features for years (and to be fair, Tiger also offers some unique shell-oriented features, like spring-loaded folders, which have no analog in the Windows world). Vista Beta 1 adds new Live Icons, in which file and folder icons dynamically change to display the underlying data (Figure). So a folder in Vista Beta 1 visually resembles a file folder that's padded with the actual files you'll see in the folder. And a document icon in Vista Beta 1 visually resembles the underlying document. That is, a Word document icon will visually resemble the first page of the Word document it represents. A graphics file visually represents the underlying graphic. And so on."
This is the one section of the review I had big issues with. First of all, graphics files in tigre are shown as a thumbnail of the graphic itself, so that part of the paragraph is bunk.
Secondly, while having the document icon represent the actual document is cool and funky and visual, in practice (at least my own using this feature in nautilus), it just doesn't work that well for a large set of cases. Thumbnails of PDFs of flowcharts for example, and thumbnails of word docs don't. Unless the icon is big enough that you can read the text (waste of space) or the document is more than just text (ie: lots of graphics, different headers, etc), all you see is a bunch of document icons that look the same. For myself (others may have different opinions) my documents are pretty much the same, a page of text with no graphics or headers (or the headers are all the same (company letterhead)).
I can see how this feature could be even worse. Imagine a folder of icons, mixed thumbnails of word docs, text files, and other types of documents. All mini views that you can't tell by looking at them immediately what they are even as far as the type of doc, never mind the contents of it. Compare this to a folder of icons clearly visible as word, pdf, text, etc.
That is true for the literal cases provided, but is there a music player that can understand all the different types of music that Winamp does? As soon as you look deeper, you'll understand better.
Anything gstreamer based will play just about everything under the sun (ie: rhythmbox), as will mplayer, beep media player, etc.
However lets be honest here. The number of people who have files other than mp3/ogg/wma for their music is a pretty small percentage. I have maybe 3 scream tracker music files from the 90s sometime and don't ever play them.
Regarding the kernel, this is true, however, it's not unrealistic to have it let you drop down to the shell to do the menuconfig. And as far as I know, gentoo isn't known for allowing you to compile your own kernel, it's known for system costomization, use flags, portage, ebuilds, etc. I'm also sure that it's not unrealistic to think that there's an easy solution (throw up xconfig) to let you costomize your kernel if you want to.
My main issue is that it's not just the kernel that takes the time, it's all the other stuff that you're forced to do by hand, instead of streamlining it:)
Sorry, but your post looks like something right out of http://funroll-loops.org/:) I love gentoo as well, however, having a way to *quickly* get the system installed is something that I like. If I'm sitting in a colo upgrading my server (in this case, from debian to gentoo), sitting and going through the manual procedure sucks. I want to stick a CD in, click a few buttons, and end up at the same point that I was at after the by-hand install process. Of course, linux is all about choice, so I'm sure that you can have your text install while others have their graphical install.
No offense, but just because you followed the directions in the install guide doesn't mean you're now a linux guru:)
From what I've read, shortcomings like lack of proper CSS support isn't addressed. They fixed 2 bugs, and half-assed added PNG transparency support (images disappear when highlighed from what I've read). A nice try, but still a long way from a winner.
The irony of course is that because of security concerns, MS has been saying that to be safe don't run exe's off the net and disable activeX, and to ensure security, they're making you run exe's off the net and use ActiveX.
How long before someone creates a phishing site that lets people download a 'genuinewindows.exe' that's not so genuine?
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Yup, sadly at this point these features in linux are as real as avalon in windows.... I know that some patches have gone into x.org, but none of the major desktops have really done much with these yet. Maybe GNOME 2.12....
Because in this case, the end result is something easier to deal with that solves the problem. If you want to maintain a "bunch" (however many that is) of installs of a windows firewall, on multiple OSs, then yea, absolutely.
The thinking here is a separate machine will help maintainability (assuming of course that you know linux), ease of upgrades (one system vs a "bunch"). Of course, in this case a little router box would work just fine as well. The only thing with the router boxes is the ones sold to joe average have a very unconfigurable firewall (in my own experience with linksys and d-link systems) where as the original poster might want some extra control (ie: outbound filtering) of his windows systems.
To play devils advocate here, on first glance it does, but if you consider that the entire building has an open space inside it, instead of walls at the edges of the rounded roof areas, it almost makes sense.
What you initially think of as the back of a garage horribly out of proportion, could in fact be the back of the *far* end of the building, so you're actually looking at the far right back wall, and maybe a bit of the right wall.
The bad looking cutout door could be just the product of a crappy modification to an old barn in real life.... some farmer took the tinsnips to it.
The shadow on the left edge of the door not looking like it's side enough is still troubling through...
Maybe someone found the bodies^w skeletons in his closet?:)
Sounds like fun, but for a lot of geeks, maybe not practical. IE: to live and survive you need to make money somehow, and most of us (/. readership) work in computers, so you'd probably end up back in a job working with computers to make a "new" living. That kinda kills the "step off the grid" thing.
Of course, if the grandparent emptied their bank account to get $$ to live without working, then yea, go for it. Just make sure you have a job or skill you can come back to (assuming you want to come back).
Not hugely practical after you hit a certain age though, I doubt my wife and cats would appreciate me just disappearing one day:)
My point is the attitude of the people. Admission of the fact that he had PGP on his computer shouldn't be a condemning factor of his behavior and should be based on his crimes. NOT THE FACILITATOR, MEANS, TOOL (Physical or otherwise) OR SOFTWARE to commit such crimes. He was using perfectly legal encryption utilities and software.
I thought that this was america, where you sued the fast food companies for making you fat, the cell phone companies for producing a device that allows you to talk while driving and got you in an accident and the camera company for producing a camera that you got punched in the face for taking a picture of sean penn with (old bloom county ref)!
Well google maps have only been available for a couple of months now, but I expect that in a year unless map[quest|blast] etc tighten up and make their apps "nicer" like google, it will be another hit. Case in point, yahoo and msn search have both been redone recently (in the last year I guess) to be lighter weight and to compete with googles search. I see no reason why their maps won't follow suite.
Uhmm..... not really, MS is a fantastic marketing company that happens to make software as well. Apple marketing is good, but still lacks the mass market appeal or that of big business. And by that I don't mean that everyone calls their mp3 player an iPod (great marketing), but that apple still has a very small market share compared to MS, and it's mostly because of their marketing tactics. Well, that and the fact that MS marketing also includes strongarm tactics:)
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It was either that or kdebase, and no, not kidding, it was painful :)
... that's still way less than kdelibs, which on my xp2500/1G takes about 24 hours to compile. Luckily I'm a GNOME guy....
You insensitive clod! I only have 90G of music!
Hell, I'd like a version that I can run without a GUI. Wake me up when they get that going ok?
Isn't gmail out of beta now? I though you could just sign up on the main page.
Here's a link to the page that hides the asshats making the pages super-wide with lame comments.
"Just the known insecurities have been found and fixed. What about the unknown ones? "
:)
Yea, don't you know that you're supposed to report all the unknown bugs to the developers as well as the known ones?!
Ok, so 1TB of ram = $6000 :)
1TB of storage = $2500
Tack that 8500 onto the rest of a notebook and you'll have a price high enough that you would really have to fight with the supply department to justify the cost of a new laptop
"The visualization and organization features in Vista Beta 1 extend even further, however. In Tiger, you can configure Finder windows to display icons in various ways, which is cute, but then Windows has offered similar features for years (and to be fair, Tiger also offers some unique shell-oriented features, like spring-loaded folders, which have no analog in the Windows world). Vista Beta 1 adds new Live Icons, in which file and folder icons dynamically change to display the underlying data (Figure). So a folder in Vista Beta 1 visually resembles a file folder that's padded with the actual files you'll see in the folder. And a document icon in Vista Beta 1 visually resembles the underlying document. That is, a Word document icon will visually resemble the first page of the Word document it represents. A graphics file visually represents the underlying graphic. And so on."
This is the one section of the review I had big issues with. First of all, graphics files in tigre are shown as a thumbnail of the graphic itself, so that part of the paragraph is bunk.
Secondly, while having the document icon represent the actual document is cool and funky and visual, in practice (at least my own using this feature in nautilus), it just doesn't work that well for a large set of cases. Thumbnails of PDFs of flowcharts for example, and thumbnails of word docs don't. Unless the icon is big enough that you can read the text (waste of space) or the document is more than just text (ie: lots of graphics, different headers, etc), all you see is a bunch of document icons that look the same. For myself (others may have different opinions) my documents are pretty much the same, a page of text with no graphics or headers (or the headers are all the same (company letterhead)).
I can see how this feature could be even worse. Imagine a folder of icons, mixed thumbnails of word docs, text files, and other types of documents. All mini views that you can't tell by looking at them immediately what they are even as far as the type of doc, never mind the contents of it. Compare this to a folder of icons clearly visible as word, pdf, text, etc.
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Well, if you have a mouse with a right button there is.
:)
The "ha ha macs have only one mouse button" joke is old and busted btw
That is true for the literal cases provided, but is there a music player that can understand all the different types of music that Winamp does? As soon as you look deeper, you'll understand better.
Anything gstreamer based will play just about everything under the sun (ie: rhythmbox), as will mplayer, beep media player, etc.
However lets be honest here. The number of people who have files other than mp3/ogg/wma for their music is a pretty small percentage. I have maybe 3 scream tracker music files from the 90s sometime and don't ever play them.
Regarding the kernel, this is true, however, it's not unrealistic to have it let you drop down to the shell to do the menuconfig. And as far as I know, gentoo isn't known for allowing you to compile your own kernel, it's known for system costomization, use flags, portage, ebuilds, etc. I'm also sure that it's not unrealistic to think that there's an easy solution (throw up xconfig) to let you costomize your kernel if you want to.
:)
My main issue is that it's not just the kernel that takes the time, it's all the other stuff that you're forced to do by hand, instead of streamlining it
Sorry, but your post looks like something right out of http://funroll-loops.org/ :) I love gentoo as well, however, having a way to *quickly* get the system installed is something that I like. If I'm sitting in a colo upgrading my server (in this case, from debian to gentoo), sitting and going through the manual procedure sucks. I want to stick a CD in, click a few buttons, and end up at the same point that I was at after the by-hand install process. Of course, linux is all about choice, so I'm sure that you can have your text install while others have their graphical install.
:)
No offense, but just because you followed the directions in the install guide doesn't mean you're now a linux guru
I had to work on a server we installed for work ages ago, running NT4sp4, with IE4.... wow, IE6 sucks, but I'd take it over IE4 ANY day.
From what I've read, shortcomings like lack of proper CSS support isn't addressed. They fixed 2 bugs, and half-assed added PNG transparency support (images disappear when highlighed from what I've read). A nice try, but still a long way from a winner.
The irony of course is that because of security concerns, MS has been saying that to be safe don't run exe's off the net and disable activeX, and to ensure security, they're making you run exe's off the net and use ActiveX.
How long before someone creates a phishing site that lets people download a 'genuinewindows.exe' that's not so genuine?
Yup, sadly at this point these features in linux are as real as avalon in windows.... I know that some patches have gone into x.org, but none of the major desktops have really done much with these yet. Maybe GNOME 2.12....
Because in this case, the end result is something easier to deal with that solves the problem. If you want to maintain a "bunch" (however many that is) of installs of a windows firewall, on multiple OSs, then yea, absolutely.
The thinking here is a separate machine will help maintainability (assuming of course that you know linux), ease of upgrades (one system vs a "bunch"). Of course, in this case a little router box would work just fine as well. The only thing with the router boxes is the ones sold to joe average have a very unconfigurable firewall (in my own experience with linksys and d-link systems) where as the original poster might want some extra control (ie: outbound filtering) of his windows systems.
To play devils advocate here, on first glance it does, but if you consider that the entire building has an open space inside it, instead of walls at the edges of the rounded roof areas, it almost makes sense.
What you initially think of as the back of a garage horribly out of proportion, could in fact be the back of the *far* end of the building, so you're actually looking at the far right back wall, and maybe a bit of the right wall.
The bad looking cutout door could be just the product of a crappy modification to an old barn in real life.... some farmer took the tinsnips to it.
The shadow on the left edge of the door not looking like it's side enough is still troubling through...
I don't believe you, please post link to video to regain the trust of the slashdot community. :)
Maybe someone found the bodies^w skeletons in his closet? :)
:)
Sounds like fun, but for a lot of geeks, maybe not practical. IE: to live and survive you need to make money somehow, and most of us (/. readership) work in computers, so you'd probably end up back in a job working with computers to make a "new" living. That kinda kills the "step off the grid" thing.
Of course, if the grandparent emptied their bank account to get $$ to live without working, then yea, go for it. Just make sure you have a job or skill you can come back to (assuming you want to come back).
Not hugely practical after you hit a certain age though, I doubt my wife and cats would appreciate me just disappearing one day
My point is the attitude of the people. Admission of the fact that he had PGP on his computer shouldn't be a condemning factor of his behavior and should be based on his crimes. NOT THE FACILITATOR, MEANS, TOOL (Physical or otherwise) OR SOFTWARE to commit such crimes. He was using perfectly legal encryption utilities and software.
I thought that this was america, where you sued the fast food companies for making you fat, the cell phone companies for producing a device that allows you to talk while driving and got you in an accident and the camera company for producing a camera that you got punched in the face for taking a picture of sean penn with (old bloom county ref)!
$deity bless the lawyers!
No, if he was a LISP programmer it would have been
... Bill Gates came into power.]
:)
Well google maps have only been available for a couple of months now, but I expect that in a year unless map[quest|blast] etc tighten up and make their apps "nicer" like google, it will be another hit. Case in point, yahoo and msn search have both been redone recently (in the last year I guess) to be lighter weight and to compete with googles search. I see no reason why their maps won't follow suite.
Uhmm..... not really, MS is a fantastic marketing company that happens to make software as well. Apple marketing is good, but still lacks the mass market appeal or that of big business. And by that I don't mean that everyone calls their mp3 player an iPod (great marketing), but that apple still has a very small market share compared to MS, and it's mostly because of their marketing tactics. Well, that and the fact that MS marketing also includes strongarm tactics :)