So you like the window manager. Great. A window manager is not a desktop environment (Xmonad could do everything you describe quite trivially).
I don't know or care what's the difference between a DE or Window manager. I just use it.
But ok, if by "desktop environment" you mean how it benefits all applications working together, then I give you Kwallet and Kioslaves that work in and with all KDE apps. Typing sftp:/ or camera:/ or smb:/ in any file open dialog and acting with files just as if they were local - that's great.
What *exactly* does KDE offer that a "professional" will find shaves *that* much time off their day-to-day lives?
Well, I count myself as professional, and one of the nicest features for me is that I can easily configure attributes for specific windows. I remember back in the 90's having to manually edit.fvwm2rc. Now, I can just put rules right-click title bar and pick "special window" or "special application" settings. My firefox always starts up on Desktop 2. My VirtualBox always on Desktop 6. My Konsole sessions on Desktop 1. My file manager on Desktop 5. My IM applications on Desktop 4. And so on...
And that's just the easiest part - beyond that, for example, I don't want usually any windows to steal focus. However, if my VPN goes down, I want KVPNC to definitely steal focus immediately to bring attention to it.
I wonder - never done any phone software developments, but shouldn't the SDK's and toolkits come with some sort of "minimal access profiler"? Just run your app on your dev platform, go through all functions and the profiler would tell you what accesses it really needed?
Who cares. Where's Half-Life 2 Episode 3?
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I mean, we've just started rolling out Windows 7 in the last couple of months on some new workstations, and it's close enough to Vista that I haven't heard anyone go "OMG! WTF is that?!?!?" In the networking world, we're just looking at faster switches, smarter routers, but you know what, it's still a bloody routing table, looks exactly like the ones I was building fifteen years ago.
We'll see, somewhat of a paradigm shift may come from LISP and the whole locator/identifier separation process (which is basically being put through because Cisco's routing tables don't scale:)). Then again, you only really need to worry about these if you work for an ISP..
Huh? Both Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age shipped with only a disc check; no online activation at all, let alone each time you want to play. (At least if you bought the DVD version; I don't know how the online versions work.)
You still needed to register to get the stuff from Cerberus Network and whatever bonus content you got with Dragon Age.
Staying up until 7 AM so that bunch of geeks could get decent connectivity in their hotel - kudos.
There was also the nice orange Cat6 cable running through the parking lot, going through windowframes and doorways and ending up at a Catalyst switch taped to a window:)
Seriously guys, we're limited by the technology. There's a reason CRPGs and JRPGs are what they are -- it's just not feasible to make the kind of experiences you are asking for. Consider Mass Effect or Dragon Age, games that have hundreds of thousands of pages of text. Even they feel "railroady" at times. You can't join the villain, after all, because they didn't have an extra 5 years to write, script, draw, program, etc that scenario and the 500 sub-scenarios involved.
Try Fallout 1&2 sometime. You can pretty much do anything you like (well, you can't join the villains, but usurp them at least).
Ever since first 3G cameraphone was introduced. I don't think anyone really uses it out of their cellphone. I know that a local telco here in Finland attempted a pilot project with association for dead people where they handed some phones and cheap video call plans - I mean, selling phones to deaf sounds like a great idea if they can just use the sign language over video. Even THAT didn't take off.
No one really wants to look at your face at least with tiny screen of a cellphone. Cisco Telepresence-style things where one entire wall is converted to a video display is a different story...seems to be taking off quite well.
Except that almost all book-to-movie conversions suck. The few notable exceptions are Hunt for Red October (Sean Connery as Marko Ramius) and Lord of the Rings (which was converted to 10+ hours in extended editions).
Must be because EGA could not hold a candle even to an MSX-2 (well, probably even an MSX-1 but the MSX-2 just blew it away). 512 x 212 pixels if I'm not mistaken. And with pretty colors, not those horrible EGA colors. And sprites to make the games perform on a 3 dot something MHz CPU.
Best web forums are somewhere on par with late 1980's news readers. I mean, even *threading* is something that you really don't see at too many places. Not to mention the fact that you have to create a separate account for every forum. And each forum looks just a tad different.
One thing I like about Gmane mailing lists is that you can access them via your newsreader at nntps://snews.gmane.org/.
At my old company they had a discussion board in their intranet that was ran in same fashion as Gmane - simple web Interface and also access via newsreader. It got replaced with a "fancy" Phpbb forum at some point....and that was called progress.
I specifically bought a Blu-ray burner a few months back for archival/backup purposes. Reason: Totally anecdotal. I've had flash cards/sticks/SSDs fail on me. I've had hard disks fail on me. One USB HDD was destroyed by a kid taking it off the table and accidentally dropping it.
On the other hand, I have had NO optical media destroyed, ever (And I must have 200+ burned CD/DVD's and now some BD-REs). I first transferred all my floppies to a single CD-R back in 1992, and I can still read that CD just fine. Optical media - I can drop it, throw it to a wall, and still get the data out. Only circuitry is in the drive, so if the drive gets fried, I can easily get another one. In case of HDD, not so trivial (yes, you can replace circuit board).
Only real precaution you have to do is keep the discs away from UV, so don't leave them lying in sunlight all the time.
Of course I'm running RAID5 setup to mitigate HDD failures, but RAID is not a backup solution.
External hard drives are nice for transporting lots of data (never underestimate bandwidth of car loaded with HDDs), but durable they are not. SSDs are better in that respect, but I've had way too many flash cards corrupted for me to trust them.
Yes, this is completely anecdotal and personal experience, but these are my reasons for going for BD for archiving my photos and videos. And yes, it costs more per gigabyte than other solutions.
SSL is, and always has been, and ugly hack. End-to-end encryption should be done at the IP layer, not the TCP layer.
No way. The higher layer encryption is conducted, the better. The lowest layer where there even is any concept of "end-to-end" is transport.
Same reason you don't think about doing online banking over WPA-shielded wireless LAN, because you know that the security only extends to the access point.
Especially with all the locator-identity divergence work going on, or even if IP(v6) anycast comes along as a load balancing method, you really don't want to worry about things in IP layer affecting your security - so just take it higher.
On an American Airlines flight, a 777 from Frankfurt bound for Dallas. I find myself thirsty, not seeing any flight attendant nearby, and just walk to the back of the plane to the galley to grab some drink (I didn't even think I was doing anything nefarious - plenty of airlines have a "snack bar" at the rear of your cabin section). Anyway, just as I was reaching for the water bottle and a plastic cup, a flight attendant runs in "You cannot come in here, it's TSA regulation!", I say sorry, she goes "Yeah, that's ok, I'm just supposed to say that. Have whatever you like".
This was back in 2003 though...anyway, it was last time I flew an US-based airline - all the other crap like stupid interview at the start of the flight and all that made me switch to BA and Finnair for my US trips.
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"make xconfig" as far as I know uses Qt.
So you like the window manager. Great. A window manager is not a desktop environment (Xmonad could do everything you describe quite trivially).
I don't know or care what's the difference between a DE or Window manager. I just use it.
But ok, if by "desktop environment" you mean how it benefits all applications working together, then I give you Kwallet and Kioslaves that work in and with all KDE apps. Typing sftp:/ or camera:/ or smb:/ in any file open dialog and acting with files just as if they were local - that's great.
What *exactly* does KDE offer that a "professional" will find shaves *that* much time off their day-to-day lives?
Well, I count myself as professional, and one of the nicest features for me is that I can easily configure attributes for specific windows. I remember back in the 90's having to manually edit .fvwm2rc. Now, I can just put rules right-click title bar and pick "special window" or "special application" settings. My firefox always starts up on Desktop 2. My VirtualBox always on Desktop 6. My Konsole sessions on Desktop 1. My file manager on Desktop 5. My IM applications on Desktop 4. And so on...
And that's just the easiest part - beyond that, for example, I don't want usually any windows to steal focus. However, if my VPN goes down, I want KVPNC to definitely steal focus immediately to bring attention to it.
I wonder - never done any phone software developments, but shouldn't the SDK's and toolkits come with some sort of "minimal access profiler"? Just run your app on your dev platform, go through all functions and the profiler would tell you what accesses it really needed?
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How do you add minutes online anonymously - insert cash into the CD drive? At some point you are asked for a credit card number, right?
I mean, we've just started rolling out Windows 7 in the last couple of months on some new workstations, and it's close enough to Vista that I haven't heard anyone go "OMG! WTF is that?!?!?" In the networking world, we're just looking at faster switches, smarter routers, but you know what, it's still a bloody routing table, looks exactly like the ones I was building fifteen years ago.
We'll see, somewhat of a paradigm shift may come from LISP and the whole locator/identifier separation process (which is basically being put through because Cisco's routing tables don't scale :)). Then again, you only really need to worry about these if you work for an ISP..
Huh? Both Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age shipped with only a disc check; no online activation at all, let alone each time you want to play. (At least if you bought the DVD version; I don't know how the online versions work.)
You still needed to register to get the stuff from Cerberus Network and whatever bonus content you got with Dragon Age.
Mailing list posting from one of the sysadmins (Too bad they don't do word wraps).
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/78attendees/current/msg00848.html
Staying up until 7 AM so that bunch of geeks could get decent connectivity in their hotel - kudos.
There was also the nice orange Cat6 cable running through the parking lot, going through windowframes and doorways and ending up at a Catalyst switch taped to a window :)
Seriously guys, we're limited by the technology. There's a reason CRPGs and JRPGs are what they are -- it's just not feasible to make the kind of experiences you are asking for. Consider Mass Effect or Dragon Age, games that have hundreds of thousands of pages of text. Even they feel "railroady" at times. You can't join the villain, after all, because they didn't have an extra 5 years to write, script, draw, program, etc that scenario and the 500 sub-scenarios involved.
Try Fallout 1&2 sometime. You can pretty much do anything you like (well, you can't join the villains, but usurp them at least).
See e.g. http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_2_endings
Rotating schedules and jobs were actually introduced in Ultima V (and enhanced in VI and VII).
Yes, but Mari became party leader on the previous week and was then elected by the parliament as a token gesture.
Well, happended only last week here in Finland:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Kiviniemi
Yes, but Glide => OpenGL (or DirectX) wrappers still don't have exactly full functionality (for playing e.g. I-War).
dead people
DEAF people. Although dead would probably be even better customers if you can sell them a montly payment plan...
Ever since first 3G cameraphone was introduced. I don't think anyone really uses it out of their cellphone. I know that a local telco here in Finland attempted a pilot project with association for dead people where they handed some phones and cheap video call plans - I mean, selling phones to deaf sounds like a great idea if they can just use the sign language over video. Even THAT didn't take off.
No one really wants to look at your face at least with tiny screen of a cellphone. Cisco Telepresence-style things where one entire wall is converted to a video display is a different story...seems to be taking off quite well.
Except that almost all book-to-movie conversions suck. The few notable exceptions are Hunt for Red October (Sean Connery as Marko Ramius) and Lord of the Rings (which was converted to 10+ hours in extended editions).
Must be because EGA could not hold a candle even to an MSX-2 (well, probably even an MSX-1 but the MSX-2 just blew it away). 512 x 212 pixels if I'm not mistaken. And with pretty colors, not those horrible EGA colors. And sprites to make the games perform on a 3 dot something MHz CPU.
Nope. 640x350, 16 colors out of palette of 64.
Best web forums are somewhere on par with late 1980's news readers. I mean, even *threading* is something that you really don't see at too many places. Not to mention the fact that you have to create a separate account for every forum. And each forum looks just a tad different.
One thing I like about Gmane mailing lists is that you can access them via your newsreader at nntps://snews.gmane.org/.
At my old company they had a discussion board in their intranet that was ran in same fashion as Gmane - simple web Interface and also access via newsreader. It got replaced with a "fancy" Phpbb forum at some point....and that was called progress.
That's because there are better solutions, including LISP (Not the (()))()(), but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locator/Identifier_Separation_Protocol - which has just been implemented by Cisco.
I specifically bought a Blu-ray burner a few months back for archival/backup purposes. Reason: Totally anecdotal. I've had flash cards/sticks/SSDs fail on me. I've had hard disks fail on me. One USB HDD was destroyed by a kid taking it off the table and accidentally dropping it.
On the other hand, I have had NO optical media destroyed, ever (And I must have 200+ burned CD/DVD's and now some BD-REs). I first transferred all my floppies to a single CD-R back in 1992, and I can still read that CD just fine. Optical media - I can drop it, throw it to a wall, and still get the data out. Only circuitry is in the drive, so if the drive gets fried, I can easily get another one. In case of HDD, not so trivial (yes, you can replace circuit board).
Only real precaution you have to do is keep the discs away from UV, so don't leave them lying in sunlight all the time.
Of course I'm running RAID5 setup to mitigate HDD failures, but RAID is not a backup solution.
External hard drives are nice for transporting lots of data (never underestimate bandwidth of car loaded with HDDs), but durable they are not. SSDs are better in that respect, but I've had way too many flash cards corrupted for me to trust them.
Yes, this is completely anecdotal and personal experience, but these are my reasons for going for BD for archiving my photos and videos. And yes, it costs more per gigabyte than other solutions.
SSL is, and always has been, and ugly hack. End-to-end encryption should be done at the IP layer, not the TCP layer.
No way. The higher layer encryption is conducted, the better. The lowest layer where there even is any concept of "end-to-end" is transport.
Same reason you don't think about doing online banking over WPA-shielded wireless LAN, because you know that the security only extends to the access point.
Especially with all the locator-identity divergence work going on, or even if IP(v6) anycast comes along as a load balancing method, you really don't want to worry about things in IP layer affecting your security - so just take it higher.
It still blows my puny American mind that it's possible to ride a train and arrive in another country, and moreover to do so as a day trip.
Well, when the IETF was in San Diego in 2006, lots of us visited Tijuana and came back by train...all during same evening :)
Depends.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#Death
Actually, at least sometimes they do.
On an American Airlines flight, a 777 from Frankfurt bound for Dallas. I find myself thirsty, not seeing any flight attendant nearby, and just walk to the back of the plane to the galley to grab some drink (I didn't even think I was doing anything nefarious - plenty of airlines have a "snack bar" at the rear of your cabin section). Anyway, just as I was reaching for the water bottle and a plastic cup, a flight attendant runs in "You cannot come in here, it's TSA regulation!", I say sorry, she goes "Yeah, that's ok, I'm just supposed to say that. Have whatever you like".
This was back in 2003 though...anyway, it was last time I flew an US-based airline - all the other crap like stupid interview at the start of the flight and all that made me switch to BA and Finnair for my US trips.