Gnome has been regressing for quite some time, and now this latest fiasco of multiple window browsing serves to show how its' developers are out of touch with the intended userbase.
This begs the question; Why was the default setting for this feature changed to something that would hinder the user, after Gnome has been developed for so long?
I would really like one of the Gnome developers to answer that here.
I'm not that old (only 31), but I've been using computers since 1982, and on a serious, regular basis since 1990. Along the way I've noticed the "price factor" has always remained relatively the same, in regards to hard drives, and total system breakpoint sales prices.
Back in 1988 I was lucky to play with a laptop that had a whopping 20megs in it, and 4mb of ram. I thought I was in heaven. Then I got my own computer a few years later that had a 500mb drive.
I never thought I could fill that much space, considering that at the time the largest filesize I was playing with were zipfiles downloaded via bbs latenite that were half a meg or so. I remember one nite downloading a new version of Remote BBS, and knowing it would take only 45 minutes on dialup (2400 baud modem, fast!:) I went to the store, went for a walk, etc.
And I thought that was FAST. Did I mention speedy? 1K every 4 seconds... Couldn't believe it.
What does this have to do with hard drive spaces? Well... I'll get to that.
A few years pass. I'm finally playing with a pentium and upgrade to a whopping 3 gigs! This was -just- before the time when mp3 was hitting the scene on this "new" web thing... I wish I knew how powerful the concepts were then, as I know now, but I digress... hindsight is perfect, and all that.
So, before napster came out, it was the thing to search personal webpages for mp3, and whoa! download them straight from the website...
There wasn't any real traffic issues in the day. Everyone was using fast 14.4k or if you were lucky bleeding-edge 28.8k modems, but the webservers were on T1's, and could easily handle the hundred thousand or so people actively getting mp3. It was a strange time. Exhilirating and always full of "what should we look for today" events while combing this new territory.
The growth of the internet and the growth of hard disk capacity have been in lockstep since the early nineties, I'd dare say that they each are compelling the other, but that's a story for another time.
So Napster hits the scene. People go apeshit and download/upload like crazy. Time to upgrade that hard drive to a whopping 8 GIGS! Get two of em'. And I still didn't think I would ever fill that much space inside of a year. Oh, how naive we are...;)
Now its about 1998 or so... Hard drive capacity is exceeding 10 gigs for the new drives, and steadily every month some new announcement comes out that pushes the standards. By this point I was ripping CD's from friends, from the library, from business associates, and having a great time all the while.
Divx movies? Not yet.. we'll get to that.
By the end of 1998 I had gone from perhaps 2 gigs of mp3 (when I first started seriously collecting via dialup) to over 50.
Again, the needs, requirements, passions, desires, consequences and usage of hard drives were changing upwards all the while. Hard drive manufacturers knew what was really pushing their sales, and they worked that much harder to fill the "need for space".
Divx movies. By this time I was downloading 2 movies a day, easily, via napster and my friends on BeShare. Getting a whopping 100k/sec in 1999 ROCKED, and I had amassed over 300 GIGS of just media (mp3 and movies only) within six months on disc.
No, I didn't store all of it on hard drive. I was a frequent purchaser of CDR at the local office supplies store, and got very good discounts.;) People would ask/wonder what I was doing buying 50 CDR at a time, each and every week almost... I would just smile and say, "backups".
Its amazing. I don't see an immediate end to the cycle yet. As for violations of the MPAA/RIAA... Fuck 'em. They're a monopoly, they don't deserve any money for the next 1000 years, and should wake up to the open nature of the internet. I feel absolutely no shame for collecting, burning, sharing, distributing and using thousands of GIGS worth of data over my short c
Or donate it to a school, church, library, or charity that WILL make use of it.
Amazing. Yours is the third such comment on throwing it away, without regard to:
a.) The environment. All this "stuff" ends up somewhere, despite how hard you squeeze your eyes shut. That somewhere is the local landfill, or worse yet, another country's landfill. (re: China, and US being the largest exporter of elec. rubbish to it.)
b.) Allowing someone to benefit from free or practically free stuff. Not everyone can afford a brand new router, modem, used hard drive, memory, cabling, network card, etc.
If it truly has no place/use in your home, then let someone who can benefit from it do so.
This goes hand in hand with lessening the effect of the Consumerism that has so gripped corporate america these past decades.
You'll take note that the error messages are database related. It has nothing to do with php not being able to handle the logic or programming needs of the website.
What is happening in this case is the database server has too many active connections at one time, and is denying the php script from any more connection attempts.
Another point. A wiki can be built using more languages than php. There are python powered wikis too, to name but one example.
I have a friend who runs an internet cafe, so this article is very informative for me.
My only question is: How do you tell Windows XP to use a unique computer name for each imaged machine?
I understand how to arrange dhcp ip addresses and so forth, its just the computer name that I've had to do manually, which bugs me. Is there a handy shortcut?
First, let me state that it doesn't matter -what- Operating System one uses. There will always be exploits, security holes, and just plain bugs that creep in over time.
The fact of the matter is, the computer landscape is evolutionary, changing over time in such a way that the "computer" has greater and more expansive expectations put upon it.
Your statement about "...since I keep it updated and firewalled,..." could be applied to just about any computer system created. Try applying this theory to a 486 system running DOS 5.0, however. Sure, it might be stable, and doesn't produce reboot/crashes, but can you run Photoshop on it? Can you play Quake 3, Diablo II, or any of the far reaching technologically driven products coming next year?
The real issue here is not so much what the system is still capable of, simply because you update it.
The issue is what the system allows YOU to do, once you have asserted your right to choose. People seem to forget that one of the founding notions upon which our purchasing decision is based on is that the computer is an enabler for doing work we want to get done. It's also more than that. It's a device that allows oneself to escape the realities and pressures of our society from time to time.
It's been far too long now that the choices we've been given have been dictated by a company seemingly uninterested in the desires of their target market. I do not think that Microsoft products are necessarily evil, ill-produced or stagnate the market, insomuch as the company goals seem to be in line with only serving the bottom dollar mentality, and far from the desires of the customer.
It's time to give room for competition. Competition encourages growth, quality, and listening to customers' needs.
It's really great to read all of these posts regarding cpu hotplug support...
However, I want to address the more common features for the "desktop" linux (read: consumers) that I feel is missing at this point.
resolution change on the fly
network authentication (PAM modules)
drive management
Resolution Change
I have yet to find a distribution that allows quick and easy video graphic resolution change. By this I mean being able to click an icon (ala monitor icon in winblows) and choose the resolution to flip to, instantly.
Can someone tell me a way to make this easier than logging out, adjusting xfre86 configuration and logging back in again? If there's an easier way, I'm all ears.
I am very impressed at the support for monitors, I mean the list is huge in xfree86. I just wish there was better presentation of all the available values one could set.
Network Authentication
The authentication module and the SMB browsing password prompt must go further. It should be possible to have a per-machine user/password setting so that when one browses a win2k network that have differing authentication schemes, it will be smart and use the values you told it earlier.
For that matter, PAM support still is not complete. Various HOWTO sites give a nice guide, but this kind of thing can be better configured in the first place, no?
Drive Management
I noticed something when changing what I thought was the label of a mounted drive on the desktop in RedHat9 recently... It started to immediately copy files when I hit Enter to accept my name change. WTF? Isn't linux smart enough to be able to change the mounted volume name? That is most bizaare.
Some sort of Mounted Volumes manager must be easily accessible from the desktop. It's not. Can this be changed?
These are my three points for the day. I'm not trying to be too critical. I love linux and the direction it's heading in. I just feel there are a couple of "common feature" issues that need addressing.
Thanks. I hope someone more qualified than I can answer my questions.
The correct url for the Zeta Beta 5 preview that The BeOSJournal did on June 3, 2003.
Thanks go to Daniel "Daat" Teixeira for doing the preview when he worked for us. He now runs IsComputerOn and is expected to deliver a review of the upcoming retail version of Zeta.
Slashdot Mirror
Here: http://freecache.org/http://www.meccano.us/differe ntial_analyzers/robinson_da/index.html.
Here's a zx81 emulator fanpage:
:)
http://www.mypenguin.de/zx81/index.php3
Here's the game:
http://www.mypenguin.de/zx81/ftp/lab.zip
Enjoy.
Gnome has been regressing for quite some time, and now this latest fiasco of multiple window browsing serves to show how its' developers are out of touch with the intended userbase.
This begs the question; Why was the default setting for this feature changed to something that would hinder the user, after Gnome has been developed for so long?
I would really like one of the Gnome developers to answer that here.
Why isnt this being done?
.torrent file.
A simple wget -m http://www.somesite.com, gzip, create a torrent, and share the
I know exactly what you mean.
:) I went to the store, went for a walk, etc.
;)
;) People would ask/wonder what I was doing buying 50 CDR at a time, each and every week almost... I would just smile and say, "backups".
I'm not that old (only 31), but I've been using computers since 1982, and on a serious, regular basis since 1990. Along the way I've noticed the "price factor" has always remained relatively the same, in regards to hard drives, and total system breakpoint sales prices.
Back in 1988 I was lucky to play with a laptop that had a whopping 20megs in it, and 4mb of ram. I thought I was in heaven. Then I got my own computer a few years later that had a 500mb drive.
I never thought I could fill that much space, considering that at the time the largest filesize I was playing with were zipfiles downloaded via bbs latenite that were half a meg or so. I remember one nite downloading a new version of Remote BBS, and knowing it would take only 45 minutes on dialup (2400 baud modem, fast!
And I thought that was FAST. Did I mention speedy? 1K every 4 seconds... Couldn't believe it.
What does this have to do with hard drive spaces? Well... I'll get to that.
A few years pass. I'm finally playing with a pentium and upgrade to a whopping 3 gigs! This was -just- before the time when mp3 was hitting the scene on this "new" web thing... I wish I knew how powerful the concepts were then, as I know now, but I digress... hindsight is perfect, and all that.
So, before napster came out, it was the thing to search personal webpages for mp3, and whoa! download them straight from the website...
There wasn't any real traffic issues in the day. Everyone was using fast 14.4k or if you were lucky bleeding-edge 28.8k modems, but the webservers were on T1's, and could easily handle the hundred thousand or so people actively getting mp3. It was a strange time. Exhilirating and always full of "what should we look for today" events while combing this new territory.
The growth of the internet and the growth of hard disk capacity have been in lockstep since the early nineties, I'd dare say that they each are compelling the other, but that's a story for another time.
So Napster hits the scene. People go apeshit and download/upload like crazy. Time to upgrade that hard drive to a whopping 8 GIGS! Get two of em'. And I still didn't think I would ever fill that much space inside of a year. Oh, how naive we are...
Now its about 1998 or so... Hard drive capacity is exceeding 10 gigs for the new drives, and steadily every month some new announcement comes out that pushes the standards. By this point I was ripping CD's from friends, from the library, from business associates, and having a great time all the while.
Divx movies? Not yet.. we'll get to that.
By the end of 1998 I had gone from perhaps 2 gigs of mp3 (when I first started seriously collecting via dialup) to over 50.
Again, the needs, requirements, passions, desires, consequences and usage of hard drives were changing upwards all the while. Hard drive manufacturers knew what was really pushing their sales, and they worked that much harder to fill the "need for space".
Divx movies. By this time I was downloading 2 movies a day, easily, via napster and my friends on BeShare. Getting a whopping 100k/sec in 1999 ROCKED, and I had amassed over 300 GIGS of just media (mp3 and movies only) within six months on disc.
No, I didn't store all of it on hard drive. I was a frequent purchaser of CDR at the local office supplies store, and got very good discounts.
Its amazing. I don't see an immediate end to the cycle yet. As for violations of the MPAA/RIAA... Fuck 'em. They're a monopoly, they don't deserve any money for the next 1000 years, and should wake up to the open nature of the internet. I feel absolutely no shame for collecting, burning, sharing, distributing and using thousands of GIGS worth of data over my short c
I too would like the source, if you ever desire to release it.
;)
Or I can help you improve/develop it. I'm quite a capable php/mysql guy.
Thanks for sparking my interest.
ed2k://|file|Windows.Source.Code.w2k.nt4.wxp.tar.b z2|142290587|82C8F97ACFABA434AEB7592A46DCC7D9|/
Very nice to get the inside dirt, as it were.
I'm heading to the Phillipines in a few years, and preparing now by researching what its like to live there, etc.
Any chance you can email me privately about this topic?
Thanks for the info!
The "webmaster" who wrote the linked page of demos is linking to ASX files, which in turn link straight to the self-named mp3 files on the server.
In case the direct "save/play" links do not work with your browser and OS, just replace the asx with mp3, and enjoy.
Or donate it to a school, church, library, or charity that WILL make use of it.
Amazing. Yours is the third such comment on throwing it away, without regard to:
a.) The environment. All this "stuff" ends up somewhere, despite how hard you squeeze your eyes shut. That somewhere is the local landfill, or worse yet, another country's landfill. (re: China, and US being the largest exporter of elec. rubbish to it.)
b.) Allowing someone to benefit from free or practically free stuff. Not everyone can afford a brand new router, modem, used hard drive, memory, cabling, network card, etc.
If it truly has no place/use in your home, then let someone who can benefit from it do so.
This goes hand in hand with lessening the effect of the Consumerism that has so gripped corporate america these past decades.
This attitude is precisely why the United States is looked upon as king of the hill.
The trash hill that is.
When are you going to break out of this whole disposable mindset?
Really. How you got moderated UP for a comment that says to throw it all away, is beyond me.
But not very friendly to the environment, nor does it help anyone else that might make use of it.
One mans trash is another mans treasure... Isn't that how the saying goes?
Why not donate your old junk to a local church, charity, or library?
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/onlineTra
then I think this qualifies:o nnections.php
http://nl.php.net/manual/en/features.persistent-c
I use persistant connections in my php programming all the time, and the difference in impact on the server is quite noticeable.
To combine your reply and the other reply at the time of this writing, here's a timely (coincidental) bit of news...
Java is coming to BeOS. Read more about it in an interview I posted recently.
Enjoy. ;)
Sigh. I hate trolls, but I will respond anyhow.
You'll take note that the error messages are database related. It has nothing to do with php not being able to handle the logic or programming needs of the website.
What is happening in this case is the database server has too many active connections at one time, and is denying the php script from any more connection attempts.
Another point. A wiki can be built using more languages than php. There are python powered wikis too, to name but one example.
I have a friend who runs an internet cafe, so this article is very informative for me.
My only question is: How do you tell Windows XP to use a unique computer name for each imaged machine?
I understand how to arrange dhcp ip addresses and so forth, its just the computer name that I've had to do manually, which bugs me. Is there a handy shortcut?
Exactly as someone else just pointed out.
There is a ton of software out there that can rip an audio CD.
Even nicer on BeOS is its ability to simply view/copy the WAV audio as you would with files.
From the article:
..."
"It looks like they'll be releasing multi-sessioned discs with normal audio in the first session
Tell me again how a downloaded AAC file from iTunes beats out CD quality audio that you can rip at your convenience?
Also, what is stopping anyone from ripping the audio tracks instead of using the obviously crippled DRM session?
It's called a joke. Laugh. ;)
You're new here aren't ya...
I can almost hear the screams of joy from the underground book pirates.
How easy can this service be abused, with automatic webbots doing the searching?
I can imagine there might be filters, time limits, and max searchs/day limits for something of this scale, no?
Ok, I'll bite.
..." could be applied to just about any computer system created. Try applying this theory to a 486 system running DOS 5.0, however. Sure, it might be stable, and doesn't produce reboot/crashes, but can you run Photoshop on it? Can you play Quake 3, Diablo II, or any of the far reaching technologically driven products coming next year?
First, let me state that it doesn't matter -what- Operating System one uses. There will always be exploits, security holes, and just plain bugs that creep in over time.
The fact of the matter is, the computer landscape is evolutionary, changing over time in such a way that the "computer" has greater and more expansive expectations put upon it.
Your statement about "...since I keep it updated and firewalled,
The real issue here is not so much what the system is still capable of, simply because you update it.
The issue is what the system allows YOU to do, once you have asserted your right to choose. People seem to forget that one of the founding notions upon which our purchasing decision is based on is that the computer is an enabler for doing work we want to get done. It's also more than that. It's a device that allows oneself to escape the realities and pressures of our society from time to time.
It's been far too long now that the choices we've been given have been dictated by a company seemingly uninterested in the desires of their target market. I do not think that Microsoft products are necessarily evil, ill-produced or stagnate the market, insomuch as the company goals seem to be in line with only serving the bottom dollar mentality, and far from the desires of the customer.
It's time to give room for competition. Competition encourages growth, quality, and listening to customers' needs.
Oops.
;)
;=)
I guess that was the one word that I overlooked.
"kernel".
Yeah, I'll try to make these suggestions to the right people, as you suggest.
thanks.
It's really great to read all of these posts regarding cpu hotplug support...
However, I want to address the more common features for the "desktop" linux (read: consumers) that I feel is missing at this point.
Resolution Change
I have yet to find a distribution that allows quick and easy video graphic resolution change. By this I mean being able to click an icon (ala monitor icon in winblows) and choose the resolution to flip to, instantly.
Can someone tell me a way to make this easier than logging out, adjusting xfre86 configuration and logging back in again? If there's an easier way, I'm all ears.
I am very impressed at the support for monitors, I mean the list is huge in xfree86. I just wish there was better presentation of all the available values one could set.
Network Authentication
The authentication module and the SMB browsing password prompt must go further. It should be possible to have a per-machine user/password setting so that when one browses a win2k network that have differing authentication schemes, it will be smart and use the values you told it earlier.
For that matter, PAM support still is not complete. Various HOWTO sites give a nice guide, but this kind of thing can be better configured in the first place, no?
Drive Management
I noticed something when changing what I thought was the label of a mounted drive on the desktop in RedHat9 recently... It started to immediately copy files when I hit Enter to accept my name change. WTF? Isn't linux smart enough to be able to change the mounted volume name? That is most bizaare.
Some sort of Mounted Volumes manager must be easily accessible from the desktop. It's not. Can this be changed?
These are my three points for the day. I'm not trying to be too critical. I love linux and the direction it's heading in. I just feel there are a couple of "common feature" issues that need addressing.
Thanks. I hope someone more qualified than I can answer my questions.
The correct url for the Zeta Beta 5 preview that The BeOSJournal did on June 3, 2003.
Thanks go to Daniel "Daat" Teixeira for doing the preview when he worked for us. He now runs IsComputerOn and is expected to deliver a review of the upcoming retail version of Zeta.
What's wrong with the file dialog that needs fixing?