Flash on FreeBSD is rather a joke, which is not to say that the people who work on the flash ports aren't doing well, but going to any flash site is a gamble.
I don't think Flash is something, you cannot live without on a desktop. I don't use Flash, even when I use MS-Windows. I don't like it. I don't visit websites that are overloaded with animations. They are simply unusable.
Java is a real pain in the arse on FreeBSD. In my experience, the chances of a successful build are about 50/50 at best.
This is not true. I never had any problems building my JDK. I'm using Java constantly. I wished they had licensed it more in a human way, so you can distribute it as a package.
So you may have six ways to say exactly the same thing -- which words you choose depend on whether you are honored more, less, or the same as your listener and to what degree.
Yes. But these are 6 (or even more?) different Javanese languages. My girlfriend only speaks simple Javanese "Ngoko". If she speaks to persons of respect, she wouldn't use that of couse. She uses plain Indonesian. She cannot speak any other type of Javanese language. Other people, mostly older people or people in cities like Yogyakarta, speak Krama that also has different levels of respect. When you look at one kind of Javanese language, you would recognize parallel grammar structure. As far as I have seen it, Krama and others have also this simple Indonesian grammar, but the vocabulary is totally different.
I also mentioned that Javanese, being an older and natural language when you compare it with the artificially made Indonesian, is more "polluted" with some kind of traps in its grammar.
I always suspected that this language has been designed in a university. There are too many untypical grammar rules that come from Europe (latin). And there are of course many typical asian influences as well (mostly used in colloquial language). What's missing there are the most difficult parts of European grammars: genders, tenses, plural forms and much more. Everything is simple and follows one typical sentence order that you can learn within minutes.
This is far too good to be an old natural language.
I find the article interesting, because it mentions Indonesian. I've learned Indonesian, because of my ex-girl-friend. It's very interesting and much easier than English. When you take a closer look at it, it seems as someone really thought about it and removed every trace of difficult grammar. The one thing you have to learn is the vocabulary.
When I travelled to Jakarta (capital of Indonesia) the first time, I found out that that noone really speaks Indonesian there. The whole beautiful language does not exist, because everyone speaks slang there and this is difficult. Indonesian is only being written and not talked.
Two years later I got to know my current girl-friend. She is from same island as Jakarta (Java). She speaks Javanese and I realized that all my efforts to learn Indonesian have been waste of time. The vocabulary is completely different (remember what I said before about the vocabulary being the only thing you really have to learn). The easy kind of grammar is the only thing both these languages have in common.
Oh my god. I mixed up some numbers. Sorry for that. The maximal temperature in Celsius is 89C for a P3 500MHz. I don't have the exact numbers. I think it must be somewhere around 30W. My complete system took 95W when idle.
The 10,5W P-M CPUs are all 90nm and start at 200 here.
I'm typing since a short time on a German Dvorak type II layout. I like it very much.
I swapped all my keys to see the layout directly.
The funny thing is that my girlfriend got adapted to this layout, too. She was really mad at me first time she has seen the keyboard.
What I don't really like are the difficulties with typing text before the operating system is up. I don't mean single keystokes like Y(es) and N(o), but longer commands in bootmanagers for example. I cannot type with 10 fingers on QWERTZ, so it's a pain for me.
After adapting to German Dvorak type II, you'll find yourself typing 'e' instead of '.' quite often. The dot is simply in better position on my Dvorak keyboard. One further positive aspect is that I can finally type '/' without using the shift key, which is pretty convenient for URLs.
I would always recommend this layout to people who type a lot in German. And btw, it's not only about vowels being in the home row. The many common words are in this row. You should take a look at the distances which your fingers have to reach with QWERTZ and Dvorak. As far as I know, the fingers of QWERTZ typers move 10 times the distance of Dvorak typers. And this is quite much.
Anime has different flavors. You cannot just pick one out and then say it's boring. I can also pick out one bad Holywood movie and tell everyone that I have bad experience with Holywood movies in general.
I like animes very much. But I like them best in MY style. I like them funny and with an acceptable story. I don't really like many animes which are often seen as "the typical anime", e.g. Akira, Perfect Blue etc. This is totally boring!
Watch Slayers (my favorite) or Berserk (everyone likes this one). These are real animes for me.
I also like many other types of anime. I would buy them, if I could but the industry only sells animes with "big names", which is generally boring as you say. I'm thankful for fansubs and without them I would never have spent that much money on original anime DVDs. In my opinion fansubs are good advertisement.
I've got problems with getting the file listing (with smbclient) on FreeBSD on the amd64-platform. I can tell you that it's a problem with samba and not smbfs. I've verified this.
This happens when I try to connect with some unpatched MS-Windows XP machines.
There are a variety of Java engines for FreeBSD. All are compilable/downloadable from ports. FreeBSD has native engines and I'm using this Sun engine for FreeBSD for my projects:
java version "1.4.2-p6"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2-p6-koinu_17_apr_2004_23_41)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2-p6-koinu_17_apr_2004_23_41, mixed mode)
Secondly, the linux emulation is fast. It's as fast as linux. I play various commercial 3D Linux-Games on FreeBSD and they run all fine. There is also no native acrobat reader for FreeBSD and I start it sometimes using linux emulation. There are no differences in speed, in my opinion.
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There is no question. This book is useful and one of the best books that I've seen for a long time.
I'm using FreeBSD 4 and 5. That's why I like this book really much. It gives so many examples how to cope with shell settings, file systems, backups and many other typical problems. I have learned a lot from this book.
This here, is not the whole truth:
The majority of hacks are applicable to all the BSDs, including Darwin and OS X, although some are specific to one BSD or another.
While reading this book you will find quite a lot passages saying: "For NetBSD, look at: http://...", "For OpenBSD, try: http://...", "Unfortunatelly, NetBSD..." or explaining NetBSD/OpenBSD features in one short paragraph and pointing to man-pages, while FreeBSD is explained with lots of details. I mean, this does not disturb me, but it might be annoying for other users.
It is really annoying to click through all these licenses to get the sources (and the patches too). I think we can expect the JDK to be better adapted to the ports collection (instant download), if JDK is "open source" (for slashdot users it seems to be equivalent to GPL only, I guess).
I wonder what license they will really take instead of their current "open source" license.
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Flash on FreeBSD is rather a joke, which is not to say that the people who work on the flash ports aren't doing well, but going to any flash site is a gamble.
I don't think Flash is something, you cannot live without on a desktop. I don't use Flash, even when I use MS-Windows. I don't like it. I don't visit websites that are overloaded with animations. They are simply unusable.
Java is a real pain in the arse on FreeBSD. In my experience, the chances of a successful build are about 50/50 at best.
This is not true. I never had any problems building my JDK. I'm using Java constantly. I wished they had licensed it more in a human way, so you can distribute it as a package.
I have more reliable sources than wikipedia: Linux.
I know why I'm using FreeBSD.
Yes. But these are 6 (or even more?) different Javanese languages. My girlfriend only speaks simple Javanese "Ngoko". If she speaks to persons of respect, she wouldn't use that of couse. She uses plain Indonesian. She cannot speak any other type of Javanese language. Other people, mostly older people or people in cities like Yogyakarta, speak Krama that also has different levels of respect. When you look at one kind of Javanese language, you would recognize parallel grammar structure. As far as I have seen it, Krama and others have also this simple Indonesian grammar, but the vocabulary is totally different. I also mentioned that Javanese, being an older and natural language when you compare it with the artificially made Indonesian, is more "polluted" with some kind of traps in its grammar.
This is far too good to be an old natural language.
When I travelled to Jakarta (capital of Indonesia) the first time, I found out that that noone really speaks Indonesian there. The whole beautiful language does not exist, because everyone speaks slang there and this is difficult. Indonesian is only being written and not talked.
Two years later I got to know my current girl-friend. She is from same island as Jakarta (Java). She speaks Javanese and I realized that all my efforts to learn Indonesian have been waste of time. The vocabulary is completely different (remember what I said before about the vocabulary being the only thing you really have to learn). The easy kind of grammar is the only thing both these languages have in common.
Oh my god. I mixed up some numbers. Sorry for that. The maximal temperature in Celsius is 89C for a P3 500MHz. I don't have the exact numbers. I think it must be somewhere around 30W. My complete system took 95W when idle.
The 10,5W P-M CPUs are all 90nm and start at 200 here.
Because a P3 with 500MHz runs on 89W and a P-M with 1500MHz only 10W.
I swapped all my keys to see the layout directly.
The funny thing is that my girlfriend got adapted to this layout, too. She was really mad at me first time she has seen the keyboard.
What I don't really like are the difficulties with typing text before the operating system is up. I don't mean single keystokes like Y(es) and N(o), but longer commands in bootmanagers for example. I cannot type with 10 fingers on QWERTZ, so it's a pain for me.
After adapting to German Dvorak type II, you'll find yourself typing 'e' instead of '.' quite often. The dot is simply in better position on my Dvorak keyboard. One further positive aspect is that I can finally type '/' without using the shift key, which is pretty convenient for URLs.
I would always recommend this layout to people who type a lot in German. And btw, it's not only about vowels being in the home row. The many common words are in this row. You should take a look at the distances which your fingers have to reach with QWERTZ and Dvorak. As far as I know, the fingers of QWERTZ typers move 10 times the distance of Dvorak typers. And this is quite much.
I like animes very much. But I like them best in MY style. I like them funny and with an acceptable story. I don't really like many animes which are often seen as "the typical anime", e.g. Akira, Perfect Blue etc. This is totally boring!
Watch Slayers (my favorite) or Berserk (everyone likes this one). These are real animes for me.
I also like many other types of anime. I would buy them, if I could but the industry only sells animes with "big names", which is generally boring as you say. I'm thankful for fansubs and without them I would never have spent that much money on original anime DVDs. In my opinion fansubs are good advertisement.
APG
This is my favorite series.
I've got problems with getting the file listing (with smbclient) on FreeBSD on the amd64-platform. I can tell you that it's a problem with samba and not smbfs. I've verified this.
This happens when I try to connect with some unpatched MS-Windows XP machines.
Look here:
Presentation on new things in Network Stack for 5.3
Now I'm confused.
@SCO: don't forget that it is also necessary for a successful ruling that Darl McBribe is the the judge.
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There are a variety of Java engines for FreeBSD. All are compilable/downloadable from ports. FreeBSD has native engines and I'm using this Sun engine for FreeBSD for my projects:
java version "1.4.2-p6" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2-p6-koinu_17_apr_2004_23_41) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2-p6-koinu_17_apr_2004_23_41, mixed mode)Secondly, the linux emulation is fast. It's as fast as linux. I play various commercial 3D Linux-Games on FreeBSD and they run all fine. There is also no native acrobat reader for FreeBSD and I start it sometimes using linux emulation. There are no differences in speed, in my opinion.
There is no question. This book is useful and one of the best books that I've seen for a long time.
I'm using FreeBSD 4 and 5. That's why I like this book really much. It gives so many examples how to cope with shell settings, file systems, backups and many other typical problems. I have learned a lot from this book.
This here, is not the whole truth:
The majority of hacks are applicable to all the BSDs, including Darwin and OS X, although some are specific to one BSD or another.While reading this book you will find quite a lot passages saying: "For NetBSD, look at: http://...", "For OpenBSD, try: http://...", "Unfortunatelly, NetBSD..." or explaining NetBSD/OpenBSD features in one short paragraph and pointing to man-pages, while FreeBSD is explained with lots of details. I mean, this does not disturb me, but it might be annoying for other users.
I think that people who tend to measure their walk distances in "blocks" obviously have not accepted their own system yet.
Me, I know "inch"<->"cm" conversion, but that's all I need besides the metric system.
It is really annoying to click through all these licenses to get the sources (and the patches too). I think we can expect the JDK to be better adapted to the ports collection (instant download), if JDK is "open source" (for slashdot users it seems to be equivalent to GPL only, I guess).
I wonder what license they will really take instead of their current "open source" license.
Don't they use C or C++ anymore?
Gentoo is a subset of FreeBSD. /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-gentoo-stage1
Now, when many people convert to FreeBSD.
Is it really that difficult to make a working port for systems which are really good for desktops?
I wonder how different Mac OS X and FreeBSD really is and if it's just a matter of compiling a 3D-shooter on the proper platform.
The 20 year-old Soviet weapons must be damned good!