I think you hit the nail on the head with this comment. I can certainly relate to the foregin language thing as people always ask me "Say something in Polish", and I'm left there looking stupid.
Similarly with programming languages, I can never pick one up unless I really need to do something that I think it will help me solve.
In fact I have compression turned on. Perhaps it's just PAN that exhibits this effect, it's the only one that's I've seen so far that is unbearably slow, although Gaim and other apps are also much slower than any Qt apps I tunnel over SSH. Maybe it's because PAN use Pango or whatever that library is called..
Ever tried to use a Gnome app over an SSH tunnel? I have tried running PAN and Gaim from school by SSH'ing in to my home computer, and it's unbearably slow. It can take up to a minute to redraw the headers pane in PAN, because for some reason it slowly draws each header bit by bit.. you can actually see them refreshing slowly.
As an experiment, I tried running some KDE apps over the same connection, and KNode refreshes its whole window nearly as fast as when I use it on my local machine.
Now, I'm not writing this to rag on Gnome or its apps, because quite frankly I think PAN is the better news reader, and Gaim is my IM client of choice, it's just that for whatever reason they really suck over the network.
I hope the Gnome developers don't forget that some people still like to run apps over a remote X connection.
How come? There's nothing preventing you from walking in to the lecture hall and listening to the prof give his lecture. People do this at my school all the time, it's called auditing. Some of my crazy friends even do the assignments, or help groups with their group work, even if they aren't enrolled in the course!
Well that's you. On the other hand, more than half the games I play on my PS2 are PS1 games for example FF7-9, Lunar, etc. Why? Because PS1 games are cheap, and sometimes I can even get them for free from people who don't want them any more. Another plus for backwards compatibility is that you don't have to have your old console hooked up to your TV as well as your new one, less clutter around your entertainment center.
Qt has excellent bindings for Python and Perl (and no doubt others, just I've never used them), and arguably, it's much easier to program from Python than it is from C++.
As is mentioned in any article related to X10 home automation, the X10 in this case is *not* the same as those annoying camera advertisements we used to see all over the place. It's unfortunate that some shady advertisements gave a legitimate technology a bad name in that kind a of way.
Sorry man, but FPGA's are not cheap at all. Even a small to mid density FPGA on an evaluation board costs $500-$700 USD. If you want an FPGA with enough performance and a high enough clock rate to do something like 3D graphics, you're looking at that same price, but just for the chip alone, nevermind memory etc. If you were to purchase an entire board, or build one yourself, you're looking at a $1600-$3000 investment, depenind on the features you want.
Additionally, an AGP interface is not exactly a trivial thing to implement, and getting a license for a PCI or AGP core costs several thousand dollars as well.
I think we can safely say that open source FPGA hardware is well out of the reach of the vast majority of Linux / other OSS operating system users. Even if someone managed to implement all these devices, paying for the boards for all of them would costs 5-10x as much as a PC does now, a premium I'm sure most people are not willing to pay just to get open hardware.
Actually when I tried the same bad CD on my Windows laptop, I was able to simply push the eject button to remove it when the drive got stuck. Then Windows simply complained there was no media in the drive (read error, or whatever it says) and I was able to carry on what I was doing. In Linux, I was not even able to get the drive to spit out my CD without rebooting first.
While we're bitching about Linux stuff, I might as well complain about X font rendering. This might not be an isssue restricted to X on Linux, but it certainly is visible there. Even with the latest FreeType, Anti-Aliased fonts etc, X font rendering simply doesn't look as good and clear as font rendering on other platforms (yes, this is a comparison, yada yada yada). The spacing between letters sometimes seems too small, to the point where you can mistake "rn" for "m" with some fonts.
The cruddy font rendering is mostly apparent in applications where you have white text being rendered on a near-black background, ie: a terminal or a web page with a dark color scheme. The letters just seem too thin, and are difficult to read.
I have even moved to slightly bigger fonts than I usually use to help alleviate this problem, but it's still not nearly as good as when I am reading text on another system such as Windows or MacOS.
Anyway, I'm confident these issues will get fixed eventually, as the font rendering is already vastly improved since I started using Linux. Right now it's just an "annoyance";)
If the CD has errors on it sometimes even the lazy switch does not work. I ahd a few occasions where the only way I could eject a CD was to reboot my machine. Basically the CD-ROM got stuck reading some sector on the disk.. it would just sit there and the green light would flash at regular intervals. The CD-ROM was being "used" by a dead cp process which I killed, but the drive just kept reading. I searched for about an hour for a solution on the web and in #gentoo, #linuxhelp, and #debian on Freenode yet was unable to find any other solution than to simply reboot. IMO, such situations should *never* happen.
If you listen to many prog bands such as Dream Theater, Spock's Beard, Yes, King Crimson, etc, their drummers all do really interesting things with a variety of percussion instruments (timpani, kettle drums, chromatically tuned toms or cymbals, etc). If you haven't already heard of some of these bands, definitely make a point to grab a few of their tunes some time and give them a listen. I could recommend some songs if you would like.
Why should they read the documentation? So they know what the hell they are doing, obviously. I'd be impressed if you could show me anyone who with little or no prior experience, and without reading the documentation, was able to set up a decent reliable Windows network.
This isn't really a fair comparison as most engienering projects don't work on a profit sharing model. While artists get a cut of the money taht their albums sell, Engineers are usually on a salary or work on a contract basis, so they get paid regardless whether or not the product they design sells.
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I think you hit the nail on the head with this comment. I can certainly relate to the foregin language thing as people always ask me "Say something in Polish", and I'm left there looking stupid.
Similarly with programming languages, I can never pick one up unless I really need to do something that I think it will help me solve.
In fact I have compression turned on. Perhaps it's just PAN that exhibits this effect, it's the only one that's I've seen so far that is unbearably slow, although Gaim and other apps are also much slower than any Qt apps I tunnel over SSH. Maybe it's because PAN use Pango or whatever that library is called..
Ever tried to use a Gnome app over an SSH tunnel? I have tried running PAN and Gaim from school by SSH'ing in to my home computer, and it's unbearably slow. It can take up to a minute to redraw the headers pane in PAN, because for some reason it slowly draws each header bit by bit.. you can actually see them refreshing slowly.
As an experiment, I tried running some KDE apps over the same connection, and KNode refreshes its whole window nearly as fast as when I use it on my local machine.
Now, I'm not writing this to rag on Gnome or its apps, because quite frankly I think PAN is the better news reader, and Gaim is my IM client of choice, it's just that for whatever reason they really suck over the network.
I hope the Gnome developers don't forget that some people still like to run apps over a remote X connection.
I think he means that he speaks in to his viola. Definitely a strange way to interface with a computer.
"Obviously you'll miss the lectures"
How come? There's nothing preventing you from walking in to the lecture hall and listening to the prof give his lecture. People do this at my school all the time, it's called auditing. Some of my crazy friends even do the assignments, or help groups with their group work, even if they aren't enrolled in the course!
Well that's you. On the other hand, more than half the games I play on my PS2 are PS1 games for example FF7-9, Lunar, etc. Why? Because PS1 games are cheap, and sometimes I can even get them for free from people who don't want them any more. Another plus for backwards compatibility is that you don't have to have your old console hooked up to your TV as well as your new one, less clutter around your entertainment center.
That sounds like an interesting theory, do you have any links to back that up?
There's a Linux clone project? Got a URL? I couldn't find any references to it through google.
Qt has excellent bindings for Python and Perl (and no doubt others, just I've never used them), and arguably, it's much easier to program from Python than it is from C++.
As is mentioned in any article related to X10 home automation, the X10 in this case is *not* the same as those annoying camera advertisements we used to see all over the place. It's unfortunate that some shady advertisements gave a legitimate technology a bad name in that kind a of way.
Sorry man, but FPGA's are not cheap at all. Even a small to mid density FPGA on an evaluation board costs $500-$700 USD. If you want an FPGA with enough performance and a high enough clock rate to do something like 3D graphics, you're looking at that same price, but just for the chip alone, nevermind memory etc. If you were to purchase an entire board, or build one yourself, you're looking at a $1600-$3000 investment, depenind on the features you want.
Additionally, an AGP interface is not exactly a trivial thing to implement, and getting a license for a PCI or AGP core costs several thousand dollars as well.
I think we can safely say that open source FPGA hardware is well out of the reach of the vast majority of Linux / other OSS operating system users. Even if someone managed to implement all these devices, paying for the boards for all of them would costs 5-10x as much as a PC does now, a premium I'm sure most people are not willing to pay just to get open hardware.
Funny, I don't seem to recall the line after "Our home and native land" being "w00t". Is this some new modernized version for the internet generation?
"Glorious and free....ph33r 0ur m4d p2p skillz!"
> I think we should tone done the M$ and SCO crap for a while.
;)
I think you're reading the wrong site
Actually when I tried the same bad CD on my Windows laptop, I was able to simply push the eject button to remove it when the drive got stuck. Then Windows simply complained there was no media in the drive (read error, or whatever it says) and I was able to carry on what I was doing. In Linux, I was not even able to get the drive to spit out my CD without rebooting first.
The problem here is I could not unmount it at all. Umount kept saying the device was busy, and using umount -l simply did nothing.
While we're bitching about Linux stuff, I might as well complain about X font rendering. This might not be an isssue restricted to X on Linux, but it certainly is visible there. Even with the latest FreeType, Anti-Aliased fonts etc, X font rendering simply doesn't look as good and clear as font rendering on other platforms (yes, this is a comparison, yada yada yada). The spacing between letters sometimes seems too small, to the point where you can mistake "rn" for "m" with some fonts.
;)
The cruddy font rendering is mostly apparent in applications where you have white text being rendered on a near-black background, ie: a terminal or a web page with a dark color scheme. The letters just seem too thin, and are difficult to read.
I have even moved to slightly bigger fonts than I usually use to help alleviate this problem, but it's still not nearly as good as when I am reading text on another system such as Windows or MacOS.
Anyway, I'm confident these issues will get fixed eventually, as the font rendering is already vastly improved since I started using Linux. Right now it's just an "annoyance"
If the CD has errors on it sometimes even the lazy switch does not work. I ahd a few occasions where the only way I could eject a CD was to reboot my machine. Basically the CD-ROM got stuck reading some sector on the disk.. it would just sit there and the green light would flash at regular intervals. The CD-ROM was being "used" by a dead cp process which I killed, but the drive just kept reading. I searched for about an hour for a solution on the web and in #gentoo, #linuxhelp, and #debian on Freenode yet was unable to find any other solution than to simply reboot. IMO, such situations should *never* happen.
You send me the code.. and I will "examine" it to see if it would be legal. I'll get back to you about it after next semester? :D
If you listen to many prog bands such as Dream Theater, Spock's Beard, Yes, King Crimson, etc, their drummers all do really interesting things with a variety of percussion instruments (timpani, kettle drums, chromatically tuned toms or cymbals, etc). If you haven't already heard of some of these bands, definitely make a point to grab a few of their tunes some time and give them a listen. I could recommend some songs if you would like.
Why should they read the documentation? So they know what the hell they are doing, obviously. I'd be impressed if you could show me anyone who with little or no prior experience, and without reading the documentation, was able to set up a decent reliable Windows network.
what "extend your penis size by up to 3 inches!" sounds like as music.
Did anyone else first read the title as "The Sims - Photo Album Amateurs" ?
Damn was I sorely disappointed when I went looking for pics of nasty underage teen sims having wild barnyard sex in their dorm.
Sure. If it compiles it probably works. Assuming, of course, that "works" does not necessarily imply it does what you intended it to do :D
Actually, the Toshiba in the article supports up to 2GB.
This isn't really a fair comparison as most engienering projects don't work on a profit sharing model. While artists get a cut of the money taht their albums sell, Engineers are usually on a salary or work on a contract basis, so they get paid regardless whether or not the product they design sells.