I use vim/gvim daily, and have never, NEVER, used the HJKL keys to navigate for any purpose other than to see what it is like. And yet I often see Vim equated with love for HJKL. Do all you vi/vim users here really use these keys for navigation?
To me they're much less functional than the arrow keys because they suddenly stop working in Insert mode. I get the argument for them - that you don't need to take your hand off the "home row" to use them, but you still need to move your fingers to a non-standard position (one key to the left), and need to reach up to ESC to get out of Insert mode first anyway.
To those of you asking who really voted for ACTA in the above constituencies, the answer is: We did. With our wallets.
Every time we purchased a CD, DVD, online music or movie ticket from a MAFIAA equivalent group member we gave them money to lobby their respective governments.
The next question to ask yourself is, what are we going to vote for next?
KDE 3 was never seen as crap. The overarching opinion was that KDE 3 was an improvement over KDE 2. Not so for KDE 4 SC. Even at version 4.7 it is *still* less stable than any version of 3 that I have seen. Stable as in elements disappearing or moving for no good reason within a single desktop session as well as random crashes
I agree that RAID5 is a much less sensible option than in the past. For large volumes (>1TB) I'm now favouring RAID10 across >=4 drives, but for anything smaller plain old RAID1 on 3 drives makes more sense to me. The result is this: true 3x redundancy, nearly 3x read speed and nearly 1x write speed.
Almost - they are for the most part taken from a 1080 HDTV broadcast of the 2004 DVD master, so no upscaling needs to apply there. In de-specialising it, upscaled elements (such as the sarlac's mouth and Anakin ghost) needed to be added. Those bits are clearly noticeable as upscaled (ie not originally HD)
Unfortunately in many cases the only way to even get the content one wants is by piracy.
Consider the original Star Wars trilogy. The only way to see the theatrical versions in HD (or even anything more than LaserDisc quality) is to download or otherwise obtain fan-edited versions, which have been meticulously reconstructed from several different sources. Official versions just don't exist, except deep in Lucasfilm vaults and probably won't see the light of day again until they have degraded beyond a usable condition.
All those "make sure you're getting the genuine product" ads can bite me.
Pro-choice more accurately describes one side than pro-life?
Tell me, do you then propose we also apply the pro-choice label for depressed mothers who want to kill their 5 year old children, because it's EXACTLY THE SAME THING.
All this "telling women what to do with their bodies" mantra is extremely one-sided and a stellar example of a strawman argument.
How much does your course depend on RIAA-licenced music? Could you for example move to less encumbered music, such as that released under Creative Commons licences?
And I think you'll find that most of the people who visit this site do too. Remember we are not the vast majority of users, and know that 170MB for an android phone that you know is going to have several apps running at once won't cut it.
Most folks will just ask questions at the local Buy More or the geniuses at the Apple Store. Heaven help them.
I agree that there's likely nothing that can recover a modern (12 years old) hard drive that has been over-written with zeroes. However magnetic imaging may improve in the future and microscopic alignment differences may become detectable in the future.
For that reason I recommend dd-ing/dev/frandom a couple of times (/dev/urandom is too slow and/dev/random isn't worth mentioning for a 2TB drive). If only it was included in mainstream kernels.
If the drive is sufficiently damaged that the wiping can't take place in a reasonable amount of time, then it's Hammer Time.
I moved to GNOME 2.x after the KDE 4 disaster (okay, I stuck around until 4.6 to give them a chance). Once 2.x (or "classic" mode) stops being supported I will move to something else. Possibly XFCE or LXDE *sigh*
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I use vim/gvim daily, and have never, NEVER, used the HJKL keys to navigate for any purpose other than to see what it is like. And yet I often see Vim equated with love for HJKL. Do all you vi/vim users here really use these keys for navigation?
To me they're much less functional than the arrow keys because they suddenly stop working in Insert mode. I get the argument for them - that you don't need to take your hand off the "home row" to use them, but you still need to move your fingers to a non-standard position (one key to the left), and need to reach up to ESC to get out of Insert mode first anyway.
And whose fault is that?
So when will we see a kernel driver merged so we can start using it?
How this article has nothing to do with Opera, the browser. Despite the /. icon for this story being the trademark red O.
I think they just did.
To those of you asking who really voted for ACTA in the above constituencies, the answer is: We did. With our wallets.
Every time we purchased a CD, DVD, online music or movie ticket from a MAFIAA equivalent group member we gave them money to lobby their respective governments.
The next question to ask yourself is, what are we going to vote for next?
Only if you use an ancient operating system. What modern system doesn't allocate a large chunk of available RAM as a disk cache?
Currently my 8GB workstation is using 3.2GB as disk cache.
Software RAID works just fine for RAID 1.
KDE 3 was never seen as crap. The overarching opinion was that KDE 3 was an improvement over KDE 2. Not so for KDE 4 SC. Even at version 4.7 it is *still* less stable than any version of 3 that I have seen. Stable as in elements disappearing or moving for no good reason within a single desktop session as well as random crashes
I agree that RAID5 is a much less sensible option than in the past. For large volumes (>1TB) I'm now favouring RAID10 across >=4 drives, but for anything smaller plain old RAID1 on 3 drives makes more sense to me. The result is this: true 3x redundancy, nearly 3x read speed and nearly 1x write speed.
Who cares about that copycat? We all know that Steve Jobs invented the World Wide Web, along with Pixar, the light bulb, fire, I could go on.
Almost - they are for the most part taken from a 1080 HDTV broadcast of the 2004 DVD master, so no upscaling needs to apply there. In de-specialising it, upscaled elements (such as the sarlac's mouth and Anakin ghost) needed to be added. Those bits are clearly noticeable as upscaled (ie not originally HD)
Unfortunately in many cases the only way to even get the content one wants is by piracy.
Consider the original Star Wars trilogy. The only way to see the theatrical versions in HD (or even anything more than LaserDisc quality) is to download or otherwise obtain fan-edited versions, which have been meticulously reconstructed from several different sources. Official versions just don't exist, except deep in Lucasfilm vaults and probably won't see the light of day again until they have degraded beyond a usable condition.
All those "make sure you're getting the genuine product" ads can bite me.
That is truly delicious iRony there...
Pro-choice more accurately describes one side than pro-life?
Tell me, do you then propose we also apply the pro-choice label for depressed mothers who want to kill their 5 year old children, because it's EXACTLY THE SAME THING.
All this "telling women what to do with their bodies" mantra is extremely one-sided and a stellar example of a strawman argument.
Don't they have momentum, as observed in radiation pressure?
The unprocessed image looks like it would make a great explosion sprite for a 16-bit era game.
+1
The reason we're in this mess is because ordinary folks like you and me for some reason keep giving these sods money to buy laws.
Well not me. Not anymore.
That is awful.
How much does your course depend on RIAA-licenced music? Could you for example move to less encumbered music, such as that released under Creative Commons licences?
If you cannot cope with lame and tired memes, then perhaps Slashdot is not for you.
I for one appreciated the gallows humour.
Samsung also make container ships and power plants. They're quite safe.
Sounds like the beginnings of Rage@home
I care.
And I think you'll find that most of the people who visit this site do too. Remember we are not the vast majority of users, and know that 170MB for an android phone that you know is going to have several apps running at once won't cut it.
Most folks will just ask questions at the local Buy More or the geniuses at the Apple Store. Heaven help them.
I agree that there's likely nothing that can recover a modern (12 years old) hard drive that has been over-written with zeroes. However magnetic imaging may improve in the future and microscopic alignment differences may become detectable in the future.
For that reason I recommend dd-ing /dev/frandom a couple of times (/dev/urandom is too slow and /dev/random isn't worth mentioning for a 2TB drive). If only it was included in mainstream kernels.
If the drive is sufficiently damaged that the wiping can't take place in a reasonable amount of time, then it's Hammer Time.
I moved to GNOME 2.x after the KDE 4 disaster (okay, I stuck around until 4.6 to give them a chance). Once 2.x (or "classic" mode) stops being supported I will move to something else. Possibly XFCE or LXDE *sigh*