I've had absolutely no crashing problems with my xf86 4.0.1 but I had minor problems with 4.0, the specifics of which I don't recall.
The only problem I've had with 4.x is that they seem to have a horrible memory leak - I don't know if it's my G400 drivers (I've tried both the 'official' Matrox driver and the one that came with X), or some other component that interfaces with X, such as the gtk-engines...
I hope this will help some people out there, and in like, I hope there's someone out there that is able to help me.:) I've looked all over for what might be the cause. It's maddening to have to restart X due to memory problems every ~24 hours. (192 megs mem, w/ a 300m swap... and swap will get up to about 40 megs w/ just X, a couple Eterms, and a 'fresh' netscape running.)
If you go into #linux on undernet (which has been used as an example already) you will indeed be lamblasted to pieces for asking stupid, or 'newbie' questions. Why? Because it's not a help channel - their guidelines clearly state this, and mention that more advanced questions will only be answered on their own disgression.
Now, try #linuxhelp on undernet - one would think that this is a logical step BEFORE #linux, but generally not the case. The ops are helpful, knowledgeable, and manage to get most questions answered. The type that don't get answered are the, "Howz do I set up mailz??!" type of question. And even those get a good deal of help, considering their utter stupidity and lack of any intelligence - anyone that has any information at all about linux should know at least some semblance of what sendmail is. Even script kiddies know this. It's name itself even expresses what it is!
Granted, there are kicks and bans in #linuxhelp - but with warrant. Once again, look in the right places. It's generally not a good idea to go to microsoft.com and look for the latest software patches for linux - because they're not available there. Common sence, people - use it.:)
I'm sorry, but if you were an unethical journalist, and not too terribly good at your trade (as this 'article' presents, being so incredibly full of plagarism it's not even funny), AND being paid to write such things, you would probably cater to those who read the articles as well. It's a common occurance amongst journalists to write for the audience. Not just journalists, either - pretty much any form of entertainment of information is written in such a manner. It is very hard to find good, objective reporting and journalism nowaday.
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I think it was a 'politically unwise' move on the Slashdot crew's side of things. First off, such a thing mocking the politicians is unlikely to aid creedance to what any such questionaires might be asking. I see this as reducing Slashdot's potential in politics to something similar to a small, insulting child - irritating, but irrelivant because of the lack of maturity.
On the other hand, this might inspire the politicians to pay a little more attention next time around. Provided there is a next time.
Well, I'll probably be moderated down as a flame or offtopic for this, but that isn't my intent at all.
These articles that Katz wrights would be insightful and interesting, if they didn't continually come after large amounts of recent slashdot member postings concerning the topic, from which he could sample choice opinions and label them his own. His writing constantly seems canned and syndicated, cookie-cutter shaped for the slashdot's majority audience - teenagers who have yet to form their own opinion about things.
As many might agree, AOL is ronowned for using crappy floppy disks for their 'AOL 3.0" and 2.0 software. Most floppies I've seen go bottom up, until recently, were such disks.
However, I've got what I'd like to call a miracle.
I have an AOL 3.0 floppy from back in '96 that has worked flawlessly, under fairly regular use, since then. On top of that, the disk's protective door no longer exists, and hasn't since about '97. I highly esteem this floppy - it seems to have been blessed by the Gods of Data Integrity, and is thus highly valued.
As of recently, I've had sooo many problems with floppies - you know the type that they sell at KMart in bundles of 20 for 10$ with a 9$ mail in rebate. Maybe 1 out of 4 has a problem with it. Thank goodness for networking.
With all the hubub going around about the PSX2 being very expandable, modular, etc etc, you'd think that there'd be the possibility to upgrade that measly 4Mb to something more substantial. For the price that you pay, though, you'd think you'd get a little more for your money...
Also, that many polygons will probably never be completely optimized by any given game, allowing for more of that 4MB to be used. One reason why is because it's being played on a/TV/, an item that doesn't have a very large resolution, thus less memory is required. And how about system memory? It'd be feasable to store pixmap data there temporarily, I'd think. It really depends on how it's managed. Some 4Mb video cards I've seen well outperform 8Mb cards made by other companies.
Just like bugtraq would be considered illigal by such a law, wouldn't any other item that provides a means or an easier route for 'hackers' to enter a system be considered illigal as well? For instance, would it be illigal to have an unpatched/unrepaired binary that had a security hole? Such a thing would provide a way for a 'hacker' to gain another portal for attack. What about something like telnet - it's easily sniffed, since it's an insecure connection. Just some things to think about...
I find it quite disturbing that a community that claims to a large extent to be open minded so frequently, and claims to think about issues, not being swayed by what swarthy politicians say, can believe what Katz says about Bush. (Granted, Bush is a stupid individual).
If you wonder what I'm talking about, go back and read the debate again - this time objectively. Bush's point was not that the Internet turns children's hearts black, but that America has gone far from values that are virtuous, and the current values portrayed by the Internet - necrophilia, anyone? how about bomb making information? - are not things that young people should be subjected to.
Granted, you say "those are stupid arguements, that doesn't mean the kids will do it." Kids ARE stupid. How many kids do you know that are smart enough to do things behind their parents back? Lots. How many do you know that have any common sence? Not many. They find something on the Internet that says "How to blow things up," and they foolishly think, "Oh cool! Roadrunner type stuff!" because that's all that they've been subjected to, as far as blowing things up is concerned. That, or movies where the action hero gets blown out of the 3rd story of a building by a large atomic fireball, falls to the ground landing on a large spike, gets up, pulls the spike out, and then kills the villian with it.
American media has made senceless kids who don't have common sence; that, paired with a knowledge of computers has the potential for danger.
I personally get sick of Katz endless stream of croud-pleasing articles that conform to the Slashdot Way. It gets so bad, you don't even have to read what he says to know what he says.
I know I'll probably get moderated down for this one, but at this point I don't care. I miss the unbiased slashdot, the one that was open minded and allowed for more views. They political views on slashdot this election have been horrid - very much 'AntiBush', even though they claim to be against both Bush and Gore...
Don't let people tell you what they're saying, read what they're saying for yourselves.
I disagree with pretty much everything you've said here.
First off, you state that artists have an easier time understanding GIMP than programmers - I disagree. I have a friend who prefers GIMP over photoshop any day. (and that's GIMP 1.0.x stuff - she's not even seen 1.1.x+). And she's definately not a coder. And I personally find GIMP much easier to understand and use - PS is confusing for me in comparission. GIMP just takes a much more straight-forward approach when implimenting it's tools, and doesn't make things too 'ms-word-friendly'... MS Word is almost completely unusable now with the 2000 version, with all the extra features they've added that make it crash all the time and the 'usability enhancements'... I would definately consider myself a coder variety, but I am also an artist, and much more so than an artist. That may be my advantage, but PS is downright evil.
Also, I agree with what others have said on the topic of writing a book - books are helpful too; it has nothing to do with the usability of a program. Somebody doesn't want to use a program? Well, then they've got to learn. You honestly don't think that professional computer jobs can be done well without learning how to use your tools properly, do you? (or any profession, for that matter.)
Also, realize that there are a lot more Photoshop books out there than GIMP books. So the facts even betray your opinion on the issue. It's best to keep the facts in retrospect, generally.
While the author of the article has hit some valid points - such as there being a lot of programs being out there that do similar and even near-identical things - a large portion of the point is missed.
Granted, if these projects were merged, you'd get a more stable application, but you'd lose a lot of features. I personally use several different editors on regular basis - VIm, gvim, nedit, and gnp. There are different aspects about each that I like for certain purposes. I don't generally like using VIm in X, because I can use my mouse with gvim. nedit doesn't have the same syntax highlighting, and I like it a lot more for quick and dirty editing. gnp (gnotepad+) is nice for opening my config files all at once (for enlightenment) and making modifications that way. It would be fundamentally impossible to combine them into a single editor and still maintain and semblance of usability. There's no way you could combine vi and pico or emacs - they've got different design philosophies and entirely different functionality.
Let's take AIM clients, as another example. There are X clients and console clients, and designing them as one would be pointless if all you're going to use is console.
Another aspect to look at is, it's quite possible that a lot of the excess programs, so to speak, are written by people just learning to code, or just getting on their feet with UNIX-type environments. It's an extremely possitive and important thing for them to learn about all the entire framework of a system, coding the program from the ground up - if it will help them on future projects, producing better projects later on. Everyone needs a stepping stone.
it really makes a guy wonder where America's priorities are, when the rest of the world doesn't have the -time- to mess with computers. It really makes me value my ability to sit at my computer for endless hours just learning and doing constructive things. (granted, I'm a student)
Violent games are no more banned there than cigarettes are banned for sale in the US!
As is stated, they are restricted for those under 18 to purchase alone. That's even less of a restriction than is placed on cigarettes.
If they were banned, you'd not be able to purchase them at all, at any age. The slashdot post has been very heavily 'politicized' to make it look like things are more drastic than they truely are, since the general slashdot audience is bound to get quite in arms about this.
How did they measure the speed of the station at the point of hookup? in relative value to the speed at which it passed earth's ground?
In reality, there isn't a 'miles per hour' in space. On earth, it's measured in relation to the position from the earth's surface, and it's change from that position. In space, we don't really move in relation to the earth anymore.
I'm sure you've all heard this as a joke... but c'mon... Ventura got elected... and this guy has a much better public image than Ventura, that's for sure. There are already tons of t-shirts advertising such things.:)
Hrm. Indeed. I've not given much thought towards staroffice - it's always seemed to be very much unnecessary glitter. But if it works, it works.:) I actually considered installing it again today, because I've had an increased need to view those cursed.doc files... pashaw on standardizaion.
Actually, that's not entirely true. Napster is banned on my campus - not officially mind you, it just 'doesn't work'. All the official Napster servers have been blocked. While there are ways around this (proxy, etc) most people don't know how. Also, there's always scour. People that download music but don't know what else they're doing only use napster, and since it doesn't work, they don't know what else to do.
The reason it was banned here, though, was because it was saturating 95% of two T1's... which is insane. Granted, there are 1300 students... but it's destroying the QoS for everyone else, thus, the reasoning behind the ban.
I don't think the question is so much, "How many of them run windows?" but, "How many of them run MS Office?" It sort of puts the situation in a whole new, scary, borgish perspective. Sure, we could use a Sparc to do our work, but nobody would be able to read our documents.
Actually, if you look back on history, most religious wars were not corellated to anything truely Biblically based. The closest would be the Crusades, but that was not biblically based. That was an event more related to the Catholic church, and not even remotely Biblical in foundation. The catholics try and cover up for that too, claiming it was Christianity...
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The only problem I've had with 4.x is that they seem to have a horrible memory leak - I don't know if it's my G400 drivers (I've tried both the 'official' Matrox driver and the one that came with X), or some other component that interfaces with X, such as the gtk-engines...
I hope this will help some people out there, and in like, I hope there's someone out there that is able to help me. :) I've looked all over for what might be the cause. It's maddening to have to restart X due to memory problems every ~24 hours. (192 megs mem, w/ a 300m swap... and swap will get up to about 40 megs w/ just X, a couple Eterms, and a 'fresh' netscape running.)
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Now, try #linuxhelp on undernet - one would think that this is a logical step BEFORE #linux, but generally not the case. The ops are helpful, knowledgeable, and manage to get most questions answered. The type that don't get answered are the, "Howz do I set up mailz??!" type of question. And even those get a good deal of help, considering their utter stupidity and lack of any intelligence - anyone that has any information at all about linux should know at least some semblance of what sendmail is. Even script kiddies know this. It's name itself even expresses what it is!
Granted, there are kicks and bans in #linuxhelp - but with warrant. Once again, look in the right places. It's generally not a good idea to go to microsoft.com and look for the latest software patches for linux - because they're not available there. Common sence, people - use it. :)
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On the other hand, this might inspire the politicians to pay a little more attention next time around. Provided there is a next time.
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However, I've got what I'd like to call a miracle.
I have an AOL 3.0 floppy from back in '96 that has worked flawlessly, under fairly regular use, since then. On top of that, the disk's protective door no longer exists, and hasn't since about '97. I highly esteem this floppy - it seems to have been blessed by the Gods of Data Integrity, and is thus highly valued.
As of recently, I've had sooo many problems with floppies - you know the type that they sell at KMart in bundles of 20 for 10$ with a 9$ mail in rebate. Maybe 1 out of 4 has a problem with it. Thank goodness for networking.
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Also, that many polygons will probably never be completely optimized by any given game, allowing for more of that 4MB to be used. One reason why is because it's being played on a /TV/, an item that doesn't have a very large resolution, thus less memory is required. And how about system memory? It'd be feasable to store pixmap data there temporarily, I'd think. It really depends on how it's managed. Some 4Mb video cards I've seen well outperform 8Mb cards made by other companies.
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If you wonder what I'm talking about, go back and read the debate again - this time objectively. Bush's point was not that the Internet turns children's hearts black, but that America has gone far from values that are virtuous, and the current values portrayed by the Internet - necrophilia, anyone? how about bomb making information? - are not things that young people should be subjected to.
Granted, you say "those are stupid arguements, that doesn't mean the kids will do it." Kids ARE stupid. How many kids do you know that are smart enough to do things behind their parents back? Lots. How many do you know that have any common sence? Not many. They find something on the Internet that says "How to blow things up," and they foolishly think, "Oh cool! Roadrunner type stuff!" because that's all that they've been subjected to, as far as blowing things up is concerned. That, or movies where the action hero gets blown out of the 3rd story of a building by a large atomic fireball, falls to the ground landing on a large spike, gets up, pulls the spike out, and then kills the villian with it.
American media has made senceless kids who don't have common sence; that, paired with a knowledge of computers has the potential for danger.
I personally get sick of Katz endless stream of croud-pleasing articles that conform to the Slashdot Way. It gets so bad, you don't even have to read what he says to know what he says.
I know I'll probably get moderated down for this one, but at this point I don't care. I miss the unbiased slashdot, the one that was open minded and allowed for more views. They political views on slashdot this election have been horrid - very much 'AntiBush', even though they claim to be against both Bush and Gore...
Don't let people tell you what they're saying, read what they're saying for yourselves.
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First off, you state that artists have an easier time understanding GIMP than programmers - I disagree. I have a friend who prefers GIMP over photoshop any day. (and that's GIMP 1.0.x stuff - she's not even seen 1.1.x+). And she's definately not a coder. And I personally find GIMP much easier to understand and use - PS is confusing for me in comparission. GIMP just takes a much more straight-forward approach when implimenting it's tools, and doesn't make things too 'ms-word-friendly'... MS Word is almost completely unusable now with the 2000 version, with all the extra features they've added that make it crash all the time and the 'usability enhancements'... I would definately consider myself a coder variety, but I am also an artist, and much more so than an artist. That may be my advantage, but PS is downright evil.
Also, I agree with what others have said on the topic of writing a book - books are helpful too; it has nothing to do with the usability of a program. Somebody doesn't want to use a program? Well, then they've got to learn. You honestly don't think that professional computer jobs can be done well without learning how to use your tools properly, do you? (or any profession, for that matter.)
Also, realize that there are a lot more Photoshop books out there than GIMP books. So the facts even betray your opinion on the issue. It's best to keep the facts in retrospect, generally.
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Granted, if these projects were merged, you'd get a more stable application, but you'd lose a lot of features. I personally use several different editors on regular basis - VIm, gvim, nedit, and gnp. There are different aspects about each that I like for certain purposes. I don't generally like using VIm in X, because I can use my mouse with gvim. nedit doesn't have the same syntax highlighting, and I like it a lot more for quick and dirty editing. gnp (gnotepad+) is nice for opening my config files all at once (for enlightenment) and making modifications that way. It would be fundamentally impossible to combine them into a single editor and still maintain and semblance of usability. There's no way you could combine vi and pico or emacs - they've got different design philosophies and entirely different functionality.
Let's take AIM clients, as another example. There are X clients and console clients, and designing them as one would be pointless if all you're going to use is console.
Another aspect to look at is, it's quite possible that a lot of the excess programs, so to speak, are written by people just learning to code, or just getting on their feet with UNIX-type environments. It's an extremely possitive and important thing for them to learn about all the entire framework of a system, coding the program from the ground up - if it will help them on future projects, producing better projects later on. Everyone needs a stepping stone.
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makes me quite grateful I was born in the USA. :)
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As is stated, they are restricted for those under 18 to purchase alone. That's even less of a restriction than is placed on cigarettes.
If they were banned, you'd not be able to purchase them at all, at any age. The slashdot post has been very heavily 'politicized' to make it look like things are more drastic than they truely are, since the general slashdot audience is bound to get quite in arms about this.
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In reality, there isn't a 'miles per hour' in space. On earth, it's measured in relation to the position from the earth's surface, and it's change from that position. In space, we don't really move in relation to the earth anymore.
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The reason it was banned here, though, was because it was saturating 95% of two T1's... which is insane. Granted, there are 1300 students... but it's destroying the QoS for everyone else, thus, the reasoning behind the ban.
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