I actually don't have a physical revulsion to W7 on my new pimp rig, but it's just holding place until I can get a 10.5.7-based hackintosh installer that recognizes nehalem and my 1gb 4870..
That said, I'm surprised at the lack of suckage of W7, and pretty happy with the ATI folding@home client.. Wonder if it's available for linux and/or opensolaris?
(been on an osol kick lately, what with ZFS and suncluster for free...)
Only one who would DARE give us the raspberry....
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I remember the campus computing labs being as valuable for nerd socializing (MUDs, netrek, etc) as for getting academic work done. Not to mention it was a pretty decent place to work, and the experience I gained managing a computer lab was more valuable as a job skill than just about anything else I got whilst at university.
... I installed the netbook-desktop stuff on my new Aspire One, and it's quite nice once you get past losing titlebar, etc.. Now if only I could select icons to hide from alt-tab popup task switching, and if only I could have Verve commandline (or, dare I dream, KDE3 'run command') in GNOME...
Hey KDE guys,
Howsabout getting KDE4 feature-complete with KDE3 first? Then again, it doesn't really matter much to me anymore, I've already abandoned KDE4 for XFCE at work and GNOME/Ubuntu on my toy Aspire One at home..
Still, I'll miss having the konqi run command applet in kpanel, whipping off "gg:" and "man:/" commands there was super l33t and efficient.. Frankly, I only needed a few icons, the run command applet, the lock/logout applet, the running apps, and the status thing at the end to get everything I needed to do done.
Pretty much everywhere I've worked, I've either been escorted out immediately or within 2 weeks when I've given notice in the past. In fact, for the most part, even if I've offered more time in order to train whatever person is there to handle the work I did, they haven't taken me up on it. Of course, they call 2 weeks after I'm gone with a ton of questions and requests for free tech support, at which point I give them my hourly bill rate and wish them the best.
Heh.. Initially I started using KDE as a substitute for CDE/Motif (which wasn't available in free forms at the time).. Motif was sort of the Win3.1 of X (Microsoft was involved in the spec), CDE had a OS2/OSX-ish looking Dock, but the window decorations were all Motif..
GNOME feels far more MSish than KDE.. KDE (with KParts and data integration) felt more like a more powerful/garish/flaky/flexible OS X to me..
I just hope KDE4 gets more fixes and feature parity with KDE3 soon, before it's switcheroo time:/
H1-B people didn't cause this problem. There's nothing wrong w/having qualified professionals come into the country. Our country was built on immigrants after all..
I'm sorry, but being against the importation of cheaper labor to depress wages is _NOT_ xenophobic. H1-B is basically indentured servitude, for the purposes of providing labor at artificially lower rates.
I would be for H1-B IFF it were mandated that those hired under H1-B received double (or more) the average wage for a particular job. If a job truly can't be filled by a qualified American at double the prevailing wage, THEN it makes sense IMO.
Now the question becomes: does H1-B slow the wholesale outsourcing of jobs? Have a statistically significant number of people been replaced by small shell scripts? There is probably an argument to be made there, but from where I sit it hasn't been made credibly.
(and ditching that? Might as well go GNOME, but at this point so much of my favorite bits are missing I may as well start from scratch:p)
(BTW, main reason for going Fedora Rawhide was, ironically enough, consistency.. The previous build was a massive frankenfuck of CentOS 5 (upgraded from CentOS 4), plus freshrpms.repo, rpmforge.repo, kde.repo, livna.repo, livna-testing.repo, vlc.repo, pidgin.repo, greysector.repo.. So by going to the bleeding edge of Fedora I'm actually _more_ stable at this point (though I do have rpmfusion-*free.repo as well:p))
Which of my issues would be fixed by not using Fedora?
(and using the kde-repo for 3.5 in CentOS worked fine, for the most part, barring the occasional breakage of Adobe Flash+Konqi, and the annoying popup when using privoxy on doubleclick ads)
Frankly, I'd expect Rawhide KDE to have more bug fixes and functionality than standard Fedora, and the crashiness (such as: scroll the full font list in System Settings, *boom*) actually bothers me less than the brokenness of design and missing features...
So much stuff from KDE3 is broken, may as well use GNOME:
* kwin won't stop breaking gl xscreensaver hacks, disabled compositing and switched to XRender * konqi web shortcuts lost * kicker replacement is shite: ** won't stretch across multiple screens ** no 'Run command' konqi bar option ** won't let me change icons for shell scripts on the bar * still heinously buggy after 'release' version releases * where's my alt-drag? Now it only works in title bar or window edges, I want whole-window like before! * why did you break middle-mouse-button rearranging on the panel? * fix qt-gtk theming cooperation to at least as good as KDE3 * where's the Baghira aqua window candy?
So far, I'm very unsatisfied, and this is with Fedora Rawhide updated this AM..
So much stuff missing or broken, so many bugs in a 'stable' release, it really has me thinking of going to GNOME.
I have been running KDE since 1996 or 1997, after balking at paying for Motif/CDE on a linux workstation (though IIRC RedHat at the time bundled Motif with its desktop distro, I don't think there was a feature-complete free CDE at the time).
Migrating from KDE2 to KDE3 was painful, but not nearly this painful. At least there's no ARTS mangling this time around..
I have to wait for all the damn dcopservers, kio_slaves, kdeinits, etc. to load and it's a royal pain in the ass. The kde environment is bloated and irritating for anyone who doesn't want to run the kde wm. The gtk and gnome apps have no such irritations.
I wonder if what we observe as "collapsing the wave function" of matter is akin to "tuning it in", with the universe as an underlying "carrier wave"?
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Presumably, if folks want to make changes to the libraries themselves, they'd need to make those changes public when redistributing the binaries.. Sort of defeats the purpose if you ask me, but I'm sure there's potential customers who would demand commercial licenses for dopey legal reasons, and perhaps they'll only offer support on the non-LGPL?
But it drives me nuts the people that still continue to grab their music illegally which just helps prolong and reinforce the idea that the RIAA is needed (to record companies). Buy a CD, buy from iTunes, buy from Amazon, I don't care. I know people who can absolutely afford to purchase their music legally, but don't. Not because of any stance against record companies or compensation for artists. They just do it, 'because'.
How about there being some music worth paying money for to start with?
So much derivative crap out there, why buy a band that sounds like The Cure or Zeppelin when you already own The Cure or Zeppelin?
Granted, hearing it live might be entertaining and worth paying for, but there's precious little that I've heard lately that I've wanted to hear again, let alone pay for.
I read that as "the Mythical Man-Moth." I bet that would be a great book.
Or a movie?
Where Richard Gere is drawn to a small West Virginia-based software consultancy, whose master hacker, living unseen in a locked, windowless office, demands a constant flow of wool sweaters be slipped under the door.. All wonder how so much code can be written so quickly..
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I actually don't have a physical revulsion to W7 on my new pimp rig, but it's just holding place until I can get a 10.5.7-based hackintosh installer that recognizes nehalem and my 1gb 4870..
That said, I'm surprised at the lack of suckage of W7, and pretty happy with the ATI folding@home client.. Wonder if it's available for linux and/or opensolaris?
(been on an osol kick lately, what with ZFS and suncluster for free...)
LONE STAR!!!
LONE STAR!!!
You mean how a 1.6ghz Atom CPU's hyperthreading means it has 2 800mhz threads?
Care to share your crack pipe with the rest of the class?
/agree++++
I dropped pam_abl on a loadbalancer that had been getting sshspam'd, works very nice, though unfortunately it's not (yet) in Ubuntu (at least 8.04)..
Only feature request I would have would be for pam_abl to have a 'blackhole to 127.0.0.1' host route option.
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/songs/sgi/index.html
I remember the campus computing labs being as valuable for nerd socializing (MUDs, netrek, etc) as for getting academic work done. Not to mention it was a pretty decent place to work, and the experience I gained managing a computer lab was more valuable as a job skill than just about anything else I got whilst at university.
It would be a shame for that aspect to be lost.
... I installed the netbook-desktop stuff on my new Aspire One, and it's quite nice once you get past losing titlebar, etc.. Now if only I could select icons to hide from alt-tab popup task switching, and if only I could have Verve commandline (or, dare I dream, KDE3 'run command') in GNOME...
I wonder if they're running OpenSolaris/ZFS on these hosts...
Hey KDE guys,
Howsabout getting KDE4 feature-complete with KDE3 first? Then again, it doesn't really matter much to me anymore, I've already abandoned KDE4 for XFCE at work and GNOME/Ubuntu on my toy Aspire One at home..
Still, I'll miss having the konqi run command applet in kpanel, whipping off "gg:" and "man:/" commands there was super l33t and efficient.. Frankly, I only needed a few icons, the run command applet, the lock/logout applet, the running apps, and the status thing at the end to get everything I needed to do done.
Pretty much everywhere I've worked, I've either been escorted out immediately or within 2 weeks when I've given notice in the past. In fact, for the most part, even if I've offered more time in order to train whatever person is there to handle the work I did, they haven't taken me up on it. Of course, they call 2 weeks after I'm gone with a ton of questions and requests for free tech support, at which point I give them my hourly bill rate and wish them the best.
IIRC jwz has migrated to OS X.
At the very least, all the xscreensaver hacks have been ported to OS X's native screensaver.
I would bet a pint of massively dry-hopped microbrew that OS X is basically what he wanted from IRIX, without so much of the overpriced fail.
(and if you think Apple hardware is overpriced, just check the proprietary SGI RAM from that era...)
Heh.. Initially I started using KDE as a substitute for CDE/Motif (which wasn't available in free forms at the time).. Motif was sort of the Win3.1 of X (Microsoft was involved in the spec), CDE had a OS2/OSX-ish looking Dock, but the window decorations were all Motif..
GNOME feels far more MSish than KDE.. KDE (with KParts and data integration) felt more like a more powerful/garish/flaky/flexible OS X to me..
I just hope KDE4 gets more fixes and feature parity with KDE3 soon, before it's switcheroo time :/
H1-B people didn't cause this problem. There's nothing wrong w/having qualified professionals come into the country. Our country was built on immigrants after all..
I'm sorry, but being against the importation of cheaper labor to depress wages is _NOT_ xenophobic. H1-B is basically indentured servitude, for the purposes of providing labor at artificially lower rates.
I would be for H1-B IFF it were mandated that those hired under H1-B received double (or more) the average wage for a particular job. If a job truly can't be filled by a qualified American at double the prevailing wage, THEN it makes sense IMO.
Now the question becomes: does H1-B slow the wholesale outsourcing of jobs? Have a statistically significant number of people been replaced by small shell scripts? There is probably an argument to be made there, but from where I sit it hasn't been made credibly.
I ain't got no .kde4 dir, just .kde ...
(and ditching that? Might as well go GNOME, but at this point so much of my favorite bits are missing I may as well start from scratch :p)
(BTW, main reason for going Fedora Rawhide was, ironically enough, consistency.. The previous build was a massive frankenfuck of CentOS 5 (upgraded from CentOS 4), plus freshrpms.repo, rpmforge.repo, kde.repo, livna.repo, livna-testing.repo, vlc.repo, pidgin.repo, greysector.repo.. So by going to the bleeding edge of Fedora I'm actually _more_ stable at this point (though I do have rpmfusion-*free.repo as well :p))
Which of my issues would be fixed by not using Fedora?
(and using the kde-repo for 3.5 in CentOS worked fine, for the most part, barring the occasional breakage of Adobe Flash+Konqi, and the annoying popup when using privoxy on doubleclick ads)
Frankly, I'd expect Rawhide KDE to have more bug fixes and functionality than standard Fedora, and the crashiness (such as: scroll the full font list in System Settings, *boom*) actually bothers me less than the brokenness of design and missing features...
So much stuff from KDE3 is broken, may as well use GNOME:
* kwin won't stop breaking gl xscreensaver hacks, disabled compositing and switched to XRender
* konqi web shortcuts lost
* kicker replacement is shite:
** won't stretch across multiple screens
** no 'Run command' konqi bar option
** won't let me change icons for shell scripts on the bar
* still heinously buggy after 'release' version releases
* where's my alt-drag? Now it only works in title bar or window edges, I want whole-window like before!
* why did you break middle-mouse-button rearranging on the panel?
* fix qt-gtk theming cooperation to at least as good as KDE3
* where's the Baghira aqua window candy?
So far, I'm very unsatisfied, and this is with Fedora Rawhide updated this AM..
So much stuff missing or broken, so many bugs in a 'stable' release, it really has me thinking of going to GNOME.
I have been running KDE since 1996 or 1997, after balking at paying for Motif/CDE on a linux workstation (though IIRC RedHat at the time bundled Motif with its desktop distro, I don't think there was a feature-complete free CDE at the time).
Migrating from KDE2 to KDE3 was painful, but not nearly this painful. At least there's no ARTS mangling this time around..
I have to wait for all the damn dcopservers, kio_slaves, kdeinits, etc. to load and it's a royal pain in the ass. The kde environment is bloated and irritating for anyone who doesn't want to run the kde wm. The gtk and gnome apps have no such irritations.
Mono.
BOOM HEADSHOT
1up
HEAD SHOT
loltastic!
Fag.
I wonder if what we observe as "collapsing the wave function" of matter is akin to "tuning it in", with the universe as an underlying "carrier wave"?
Presumably, if folks want to make changes to the libraries themselves, they'd need to make those changes public when redistributing the binaries.. Sort of defeats the purpose if you ask me, but I'm sure there's potential customers who would demand commercial licenses for dopey legal reasons, and perhaps they'll only offer support on the non-LGPL?
But it drives me nuts the people that still continue to grab their music illegally which just helps prolong and reinforce the idea that the RIAA is needed (to record companies). Buy a CD, buy from iTunes, buy from Amazon, I don't care. I know people who can absolutely afford to purchase their music legally, but don't. Not because of any stance against record companies or compensation for artists. They just do it, 'because'.
How about there being some music worth paying money for to start with?
So much derivative crap out there, why buy a band that sounds like The Cure or Zeppelin when you already own The Cure or Zeppelin?
Granted, hearing it live might be entertaining and worth paying for, but there's precious little that I've heard lately that I've wanted to hear again, let alone pay for.
Earth to Recording Industry: STOP SUCKING...
I read that as "the Mythical Man-Moth." I bet that would be a great book.
Or a movie?
Where Richard Gere is drawn to a small West Virginia-based software consultancy, whose master hacker, living unseen in a locked, windowless office, demands a constant flow of wool sweaters be slipped under the door.. All wonder how so much code can be written so quickly..