the 3% speedup feels more than that. very noticable on my PIII 450MHz 384MB RAM. startup times for linux is just faster. rendering is also faster - I'm guessing that the code this time is compiled for 686 instead of 386 in older versions? (someone please confirm this). I tried it on windows today, and although it seemed to start up a little slower, rendering was much more faster. This was on a 1.2 GHz celeron I believe.
one of the reasons I dont use nautilus is its poor speed on my PIII 450MHz 386MB RAM machine... so I just stick to command line. Konqueror is still too slow for my computer - but when I used win2k's explorer manager, it was so much snappier. ctrl+C/ ctrl+V was so much more responsive.
but the biggest problem to me is that Gnome packages always seem to break - unable to log in properly/ load the WM properly, or libprint/libgnome libraries having files that exist in each other's packages. Has anyone experienced this? I'm using debian unstable.
I agree. I've been using linux for years now and although the apps and WMs (I use kde) have improved drastically, I find everything to be quite sluggish. I used to dual boot with win2k pro, and everything just seemed to run faster there. Not just the load times as you mentioned, but difference in the GUI responsiveness was VERY noticable. Firefox started much faster (v0.8), and moving opened windows around on my desktop just doesnt have that sluggish "drag". I don't know if it's the problem with X, because it's not just KDE where I see this. Same thing even when I use fluxbox.
I'm using PIII 384MB ram, ATI xpert rage128 (16mb) graphics card, ReiserFS, Debian Unstable.
since it's hand written notes and would be hard to OCR anyway (files are tend to be huge), how about using a digital camera and take snapshots of these pages?
Plugins wont work if you symlink your plugins directory. For example, I tried to keep a common directory for all the plugins, then have each browser's plugin directory (mozilla's and firefox's) pointed to this common dir (ln -s). A lot of the plugins fail to work if you do this, most notably flash.
The mplayer browser plugin seems to work for a wider range of movies, unlike the one included with gxine - but then mplayer isn't completely "free". Neither plugins work for virtual-360 quicktime stuff though.
One other 'bug' i noticed with firefox is when you middle click on your bookmark bar to open the link, the new tab isnt opened in the background, but 'focused' despite having the options set already in the preferences.
Favorite icons dont appear where they should often in the bookmark bar. It just shows the wrong icon for that link...
I should really file these in bug reports, but I just found it a little troublesome to go thru the bugzilla registration...
here's the deal. i'm doing my master's right now in EE in canada. i've did some job search when i finished my bachelors almost 2 years back. all you see are postings that require 5+ yrs of experience, and absolutely nothing for fresh graduates.
here's what i think. if all companies only hire experienced engineers with 5 years of experience, few years down the road, there will be no more people with that 5 yr experience. then there's going to be a big gap between new grad hirings, and people with experience. is that what they really want to do. (i guess they really dont give a fuck really)
but oh yeah, there were career fairs, but only about 3 companies came up. i had a bunch of interviews with them, but i've asked around, and no one got an offer afterwards. companies were merely giving us anal probings. teasing us with interviews, etc, etc trying to keep into "good" terms with the school. bleh.
anyway, worked hard to get pull up my grades to get into masters' and concentrated in my studies - and havent been really thinking about the job market. now towards the latter part of my studies, i started looking at postings.
same shit. except one or two more fresh grad postings. most of them are down in the US. being canadian, they're not going to hire me. how am i going to compete when there's already so much unemployed talent south of the boarder? we've all worked hard in our studies. i've had experience working as research assistant and practical internship experience. i starting to feel more and more doubt that i'll find anything.
other options? am i going to do a phd? 4-6 more years... not to mention i have no idea how i'm going to pay for my expenses. i certain wont mind doing it, but the money factor's really starting to weigh in down on me
now all i hear in the news - EVERYDAY - problems in iraq and scandels here and there. fuck.
i'm running this right now off the CD. boot times might be a tad slower than v3.3, but all the apps run really fast. perhaps it's the newer version of kde it's using... but i'm guessing it's because of kernel 2.6.5 that it's using. (i've tried installing kernel 2.6.x before and i just got a bit tired of recompiling and recompiling. in the end i always end up with some bloated kernel that makes my system slower than before with kernel 2.4)...
one glitch when detecting SCSIs on my comp. got a seg fault during the detection... setting noscsi in lilo resolved this problem.
one thing i noticed is missing is the hard drive hdd install script/program that used to be there in all the older versions.
the c't preview version didnt have it either and google shows this link for a script for that version http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8171
anyone had any luck installing the new 3.4 on their comps?
here's what i dont really understand... since this is a live CD, why would they take out koffice and latex while leaving development libraries in? sure developers need these things, but they would be compiling their large projects running their OS entirely off a liveCD. this is true too for hdd install - it includes a lot of junk that makes everything slow. i love knoppix and it's excellent hardware, but maybe this is one of the improvements it can make?
also, it would be great if the hdd installation tool would allow installing over seperate partitions, except everything under one....
And while we're on the note of mozilla in general, how come the user directory for firefox is still.pheonix?? Yeah, yeah, name change stuff, but if you change the name, shouldn't you change all of it. You could still search for other spellings, but "Come on, guys".
the recent nightly builds by default uses.firefox. when you execute firefox, it copies the files from.phoenix there. unfortunately, the themes are not copied, so it would actually work better if you manually copy the dir... or better yet, symlink it.
how about for every book they replace with notebooks, they donate an actual book for 3rd world countries where children cant even afford an eduation or a decent book for them to learn how to read
the one thing that openoffice (or linux desktop) lacks is a good visio clone. sure there's kivio, and openoffice draw, but there are some basic functions that arent there. for instance, the technical 'stencils' arent really complete, especially electrical ones. and i cant even rotate the shapes that i draw. if i want have a gate in my drawing, i want to be able to rotate it.
it'd be great if there's grammar check too... spell check is there though, but not grammar check
that's where the government spends tax payer's money. instead of fixing roads - which are full of pot holes, they spend it on new solar powered parking meters.
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for me it's the other way around. i went to mcgill for my undergrad and doing my masters at concordia now. last year 90% of the computers ran *nix. it was until recently - last semester that they switched all the linux machines to dual boot - redhat/winxp.
The general undergraduate population are Microsoft peons, but the proportion of Linux users increases as you move to higher percentiles grade-wise. Also, I've been told that most undergraduates drink heavily.
as for the students, you're completely right about them being m$ peons. but it's not just the undergrad students now. it's the same with grad folks at BOTH universities (i know people from both schools). maybe it's because these are the same folks that wouldnt have gone into grad schools should the bubble never had burst?
at mcgill, that redhat room in the Trottier is always empty. all these computers with 18" LCDs just sitting in the room and not being used. you even notice there's a lot less greese on these keyboards....
about the professors, i've had an interview the prof 2 years ago with the TSP lab at mcgill for a summer job. i was clear from my resume that my previous work experience was coding in *nix... for whatever reason he didnt seem too happy hearing that i didnt use M$ visual C++.
the sysadmins at concordia are much better than ones at mcgill. other than carl and steven at mcgill, none of the other ones know anything about unix. the grad computers arent managed properly, and you have a whole bunch of students downloading and running warez on their computers. one of them actually got a threat letter from the MPAA for downloading gigs of movies last year....
what i miss is visio (which wasnt part of M$ office until just a few years ago when they bought the company, so again... "inovation" bleh)... dia and kivio doesnt have a "rotate" option in rotate objects inserted from the stencils.... if i insert gates and resistors in my diagram, i would like to be able to rotate these things....
the commercial version kivio has this function, and there's also xfig, which I havent had the opportunity to try out...
So are you using OO-draw for your diagrams? I can't seem to find the program that handles diagrams as well as visio. Kivio seems promising with a variety of stencils, but unfortunately it doesn't have a "rotate" option. Kivio-MP, the non-free version owned by thekompany has that though but i'm not willing to spend money. I've been recommended to use xfig for doing figures which is supposed to export.EPS quite well.
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another solution (other than about:config) is ctrl+K puts your cursor in the search bar (windows), or ctrl+J on linux.
http://texturizer.net/firefox/keyboard.html
the 3% speedup feels more than that. very noticable on my PIII 450MHz 384MB RAM. startup times for linux is just faster. rendering is also faster - I'm guessing that the code this time is compiled for 686 instead of 386 in older versions? (someone please confirm this). I tried it on windows today, and although it seemed to start up a little slower, rendering was much more faster. This was on a 1.2 GHz celeron I believe.
one of the reasons I dont use nautilus is its poor speed on my PIII 450MHz 386MB RAM machine... so I just stick to command line. Konqueror is still too slow for my computer - but when I used win2k's explorer manager, it was so much snappier. ctrl+C/ ctrl+V was so much more responsive.
but the biggest problem to me is that Gnome packages always seem to break - unable to log in properly/ load the WM properly, or libprint/libgnome libraries having files that exist in each other's packages. Has anyone experienced this? I'm using debian unstable.
Linus Torvalds Moving to the Silicon Forest
hehe silicone forrest' - i'd like to get my face burried in those! wait... or does forest mean the bushy part?
i'm assuming you're using the windows version because that file isn't in the linux version.
I put that code snippet in userChrome.css but that only changed the padding if it changed at all.
even all the other themes i use seem to have large icons now. that's just annoying. the nightly build from the weekend didnt even have this "feature".
I agree. I've been using linux for years now and although the apps and WMs (I use kde) have improved drastically, I find everything to be quite sluggish. I used to dual boot with win2k pro, and everything just seemed to run faster there. Not just the load times as you mentioned, but difference in the GUI responsiveness was VERY noticable. Firefox started much faster (v0.8), and moving opened windows around on my desktop just doesnt have that sluggish "drag". I don't know if it's the problem with X, because it's not just KDE where I see this. Same thing even when I use fluxbox.
I'm using PIII 384MB ram, ATI xpert rage128 (16mb) graphics card, ReiserFS, Debian Unstable.
since it's hand written notes and would be hard to OCR anyway (files are tend to be huge), how about using a digital camera and take snapshots of these pages?
Plugins wont work if you symlink your plugins directory. For example, I tried to keep a common directory for all the plugins, then have each browser's plugin directory (mozilla's and firefox's) pointed to this common dir (ln -s). A lot of the plugins fail to work if you do this, most notably flash.
The mplayer browser plugin seems to work for a wider range of movies, unlike the one included with gxine - but then mplayer isn't completely "free". Neither plugins work for virtual-360 quicktime stuff though.
One other 'bug' i noticed with firefox is when you middle click on your bookmark bar to open the link, the new tab isnt opened in the background, but 'focused' despite having the options set already in the preferences.
Favorite icons dont appear where they should often in the bookmark bar. It just shows the wrong icon for that link...
I should really file these in bug reports, but I just found it a little troublesome to go thru the bugzilla registration...
...but he did get it up and running on an AMD Athlon XP 1600+ with 512MB of RAM
:D)
I got my woody up too, but it took slightly a bit more time. I just found it way too hard...
(actually I use knoppix/unstable... shhhh!
here's the deal. i'm doing my master's right now in EE in canada. i've did some job search when i finished my bachelors almost 2 years back. all you see are postings that require 5+ yrs of experience, and absolutely nothing for fresh graduates.
here's what i think. if all companies only hire experienced engineers with 5 years of experience, few years down the road, there will be no more people with that 5 yr experience. then there's going to be a big gap between new grad hirings, and people with experience. is that what they really want to do. (i guess they really dont give a fuck really)
but oh yeah, there were career fairs, but only about 3 companies came up. i had a bunch of interviews with them, but i've asked around, and no one got an offer afterwards. companies were merely giving us anal probings. teasing us with interviews, etc, etc trying to keep into "good" terms with the school. bleh.
anyway, worked hard to get pull up my grades to get into masters' and concentrated in my studies - and havent been really thinking about the job market. now towards the latter part of my studies, i started looking at postings.
same shit. except one or two more fresh grad postings. most of them are down in the US. being canadian, they're not going to hire me. how am i going to compete when there's already so much unemployed talent south of the boarder? we've all worked hard in our studies. i've had experience working as research assistant and practical internship experience. i starting to feel more and more doubt that i'll find anything.
other options? am i going to do a phd? 4-6 more years... not to mention i have no idea how i'm going to pay for my expenses. i certain wont mind doing it, but the money factor's really starting to weigh in down on me
now all i hear in the news - EVERYDAY - problems in iraq and scandels here and there. fuck.
one glitch when detecting SCSIs on my comp. got a seg fault during the detection... setting noscsi in lilo resolved this problem.
one thing i noticed is missing is the hard drive hdd install script/program that used to be there in all the older versions.
the c't preview version didnt have it either and google shows this link for a script for that version http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8171
anyone had any luck installing the new 3.4 on their comps?
here's what i dont really understand...
since this is a live CD, why would they take out koffice and latex while leaving development libraries in? sure developers need these things, but they would be compiling their large projects running their OS entirely off a liveCD. this is true too for hdd install - it includes a lot of junk that makes everything slow. i love knoppix and it's excellent hardware, but maybe this is one of the improvements it can make?
also, it would be great if the hdd installation tool would allow installing over seperate partitions, except everything under one....
And while we're on the note of mozilla in general, how come the user directory for firefox is still .pheonix?? Yeah, yeah, name change stuff, but if you change the name, shouldn't you change all of it. You could still search for other spellings, but "Come on, guys".
.firefox. when you execute firefox, it copies the files from .phoenix there. unfortunately, the themes are not copied, so it would actually work better if you manually copy the dir... or better yet, symlink it.
the recent nightly builds by default uses
He wants his headline back. ... you mean HAIRline
how about for every book they replace with notebooks, they donate an actual book for 3rd world countries where children cant even afford an eduation or a decent book for them to learn how to read
the one thing that openoffice (or linux desktop) lacks is a good visio clone. sure there's kivio, and openoffice draw, but there are some basic functions that arent there. for instance, the technical 'stencils' arent really complete, especially electrical ones. and i cant even rotate the shapes that i draw. if i want have a gate in my drawing, i want to be able to rotate it.
it'd be great if there's grammar check too...
spell check is there though, but not grammar check
pretty much the same as an entry level EE
in the US, 50k USD
in canada, 50k canadian $ with half of your money gone to government as taxes.
yes, i'm in canada.
that's where the government spends tax payer's money. instead of fixing roads - which are full of pot holes, they spend it on new solar powered parking meters.
for me it's the other way around. i went to mcgill for my undergrad and doing my masters at concordia now. last year 90% of the computers ran *nix. it was until recently - last semester that they switched all the linux machines to dual boot - redhat/winxp.
The general undergraduate population are Microsoft peons, but the proportion of Linux users increases as you move to higher percentiles grade-wise. Also, I've been told that most undergraduates drink heavily.
as for the students, you're completely right about them being m$ peons. but it's not just the undergrad students now. it's the same with grad folks at BOTH universities (i know people from both schools). maybe it's because these are the same folks that wouldnt have gone into grad schools should the bubble never had burst?
at mcgill, that redhat room in the Trottier is always empty. all these computers with 18" LCDs just sitting in the room and not being used. you even notice there's a lot less greese on these keyboards....
about the professors, i've had an interview the prof 2 years ago with the TSP lab at mcgill for a summer job. i was clear from my resume that my previous work experience was coding in *nix... for whatever reason he didnt seem too happy hearing that i didnt use M$ visual C++.
the sysadmins at concordia are much better than ones at mcgill. other than carl and steven at mcgill, none of the other ones know anything about unix. the grad computers arent managed properly, and you have a whole bunch of students downloading and running warez on their computers. one of them actually got a threat letter from the MPAA for downloading gigs of movies last year....
what i miss is visio (which wasnt part of M$ office until just a few years ago when they bought the company, so again... "inovation" bleh)... dia and kivio doesnt have a "rotate" option in rotate objects inserted from the stencils.... if i insert gates and resistors in my diagram, i would like to be able to rotate these things....
the commercial version kivio has this function, and there's also xfig, which I havent had the opportunity to try out...
this is the same Cebit fair where knoppix announces/showcases their 3.4 release (Kernel 2.6 included in the bootCD).
So are you using OO-draw for your diagrams? I can't seem to find the program that handles diagrams as well as visio. Kivio seems promising with a variety of stencils, but unfortunately it doesn't have a "rotate" option. Kivio-MP, the non-free version owned by thekompany has that though but i'm not willing to spend money. I've been recommended to use xfig for doing figures which is supposed to export .EPS quite well.
i remembered having massive slowdowns in streetfighter - especially if you're using guile and execute any combo more than 4 hits
my favorite combo... but lags in SNES...
jumping fierce + close fierce uppercut + sonic boom + referse fierce + sonic boom.
ironically this was under SF2 TURBO
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