You can say what you want about cleanroom testing, but in my experience it never even gets close to what real-life experience can offer...
Things usually break the way you least expected it, or didn't simulate in the cleanroom...
*Bzzt* oil doesn't boil at low temperatures, oilve oil is the one with the lowest boilingpoint of common oils for food... it boils at ~190C, this is rather sketchy though as you won't see boiling as in boiling water (bubbles and shit) before you reach closer to 300C as the oil start to smoke as the smokepoint is much lower than the boilingpoint...
This is also the reason you don't extinguish oil-fires with water, because the oil is so much warmer than the water that it makes the water boil instantaneous and therefore spread the oil everywhere...
Gentoo is actually so *bleeding* edge that they managed to stuff a broken GCC in their release-stream a few weeks back...
It'll be some time before slackware does the same;-)
last time I checked a DVD contained several gigabytes, it'd guess most games don't require more than a few gigabytes, ie. 2-3 gigabytes, and your windows installation doesn't require much more than 1 gigabyte just to play the game... Still well within the reach of a DVD... most games would probably fit on a CD too... Enemy Territory is only like 270M installed on my linux box...
That could easily be burned on one CD including a stripped down knoppix/gnoppix system...
Funny that you list using ports as a fundamental human right when everybody else seems to agree that the internet isn't a basic human right.
If it was, I guess we'd see more prisons, schools, hospitals and others providing their pupils, inmates, patients with inet-connections...
While having the internet available nifty, it doesn't amount to much of a human right in this crazy world...
you know that pop3 can preview messages (using top msgnum no_lines) and delete with the command "dele msgnum".
So you don't have to download all the files to delete them, pop3 has features in place. You just need a decent mailreader or telnet to use the functionality (some MUAs does implement a kind of preview before download).
IIRC bash isn't bundled, only tcsh is. I guess that's the big complaint, me personally I downloaded bash myself and now have several shells installed for my personal abuse....
And a better solution is what? Postscript ?
Start counting the number of times you've gotten to a webpage and some bumdick has slapped a Microsoft Office Document in there instead of HTML (or PDF).
What would you rather do ?
a) Fire up a OpenOffice/KOffice/Your-favourite ?
b) Let gs/xpdf/kghost/your-favourite handle it inside your favourite browser?
if you examine your options, b would always be my favourite. Word documents doesn't look the same across several platforms, PDFs does. PDFs are also dependable whereas you'll never know when Microsoft decides to change the word-document-format... and you'll be back to square one...
All the designers I've spoken to prefer Photoshop to The GIMP; some of them prefer Linux to Windows and Mac, but they still go back to Photoshop.
Me personally I find The GIMP does most things I do in Photoshop anyway, but usually it takes more clicks or several operations. Cutting down multiple clicks is something I regard as a good UI feature, while it isn't necessarily intuitive, it might be great...
Take Mozilla's type-ahead link-search, it's definately not intuitive the first couple of times you accidentally hit a key; but when you get into the mindset it's defininately a timesaver...
40+ I guess... I never got around to counting them as The GIMP wouldn't open it or it did open it, but only the rasterized version that Photoshop always saves....
Have you tried opening a photoshop document with tons of layers in The Gimp ?
It fails faster than you can say "crash'n'burn"... at least it did so the last time I tried (1.2.5)
But look at it from Apple's perspective, say that somebody comes along with a piece of software for windows that can matchup with final cut pro. Or Adobe shapes up Premiere to become a proper videosuite. Then Adobe decides to ditch Apple.
Adobe and Apple form a symbiant circle, if one ditches the other it will cause shit for both.
Today with Intel hardware supposedly faster than Apple hardware (or atleast according to some tests) a proper videosuite on Windows wouldn't be a dumb idea. XP has probably most of the idiotic features that makes artsyfartsy designers prefer Apple, too.
No learning curve is not the same as a good UI. I can certainly make a rubberhead UI, but it will defininately not scale to the advanced level that designers use Photoshop for...
The reason people complain about Photoshop is usually because they got their hands on a pirated copy and started using it for the wrong things. Like all other professional software, it's designed to be used by professionals for professional stuff
Well Photoshop is probably Adobe's top selling product and basicly the flagship of the whole corporation. The only other product they have that doesn't suck is Acrobat, but you can do the same as acrobat for free so that kinda leaves Photoshop.
The reason they discontinued Premiere for the Mac is because it sucks compared to the competition (Avid and Final Cut Pro). Final Cut Pro was so much better than Premiere that they started marketing Premiere for the low-end / high-end-home marked. With Final Cut Express covering that bit, and doing it much better... It kinda leaves Premiere in the cold... and yes, Final Cut is in a totally different league than Premiere...
CVS is hard id the fileformat is binary and/or unknown. If somebody got around to creating a conflict your probably shit-outta-luck as resolving a binary conflict is pretty hard...
Slashdot Mirror
(With multiprocessor, AFAIK)
Hope so, otherwise, what would run the kernel while swapping ?
a kitchen sink!
You can say what you want about cleanroom testing, but in my experience it never even gets close to what real-life experience can offer...
Things usually break the way you least expected it, or didn't simulate in the cleanroom...
Basically they're looking for people to deploy a RC on a somewhat missioncritical system (definition being heavy-loaded system?)
Sounds scary...
This is also the reason you don't extinguish oil-fires with water, because the oil is so much warmer than the water that it makes the water boil instantaneous and therefore spread the oil everywhere...
Gentoo is actually so *bleeding* edge that they managed to stuff a broken GCC in their release-stream a few weeks back... It'll be some time before slackware does the same ;-)
Not if you choose -9.1 instead of -current in swaret.conf...
Still well within the reach of a DVD... most games would probably fit on a CD too... Enemy Territory is only like 270M installed on my linux box...
That could easily be burned on one CD including a stripped down knoppix/gnoppix system...
you know you can open ports for just certain IPs...
having tftp open for the wide world is just plain stupid!
Funny that you list using ports as a fundamental human right when everybody else seems to agree that the internet isn't a basic human right. If it was, I guess we'd see more prisons, schools, hospitals and others providing their pupils, inmates, patients with inet-connections... While having the internet available nifty, it doesn't amount to much of a human right in this crazy world...
was the sunrpc they shipped vulnerable to any known sploits ?
well Windows 2K/XP is, and it can even be infected by MSBlaster and others during installation (ie. before it *can* be patched).
you know that pop3 can preview messages (using top msgnum no_lines) and delete with the command "dele msgnum".
So you don't have to download all the files to delete them, pop3 has features in place. You just need a decent mailreader or telnet to use the functionality (some MUAs does implement a kind of preview before download).
read slashdot instead ?
IIRC bash isn't bundled, only tcsh is.
I guess that's the big complaint, me personally I downloaded bash myself and now have several shells installed for my personal abuse....
or if you wanna push it, an open format like ogg vorbis
Since they released MS Reason 1.0, it obliterates all other ways of reasoning...
Start counting the number of times you've gotten to a webpage and some bumdick has slapped a Microsoft Office Document in there instead of HTML (or PDF).
What would you rather do ?
a) Fire up a OpenOffice/KOffice/Your-favourite ?
b) Let gs/xpdf/kghost/your-favourite handle it inside your favourite browser?
if you examine your options, b would always be my favourite. Word documents doesn't look the same across several platforms, PDFs does. PDFs are also dependable whereas you'll never know when Microsoft decides to change the word-document-format... and you'll be back to square one...
All the designers I've spoken to prefer Photoshop to The GIMP; some of them prefer Linux to Windows and Mac, but they still go back to Photoshop.
Me personally I find The GIMP does most things I do in Photoshop anyway, but usually it takes more clicks or several operations. Cutting down multiple clicks is something I regard as a good UI feature, while it isn't necessarily intuitive, it might be great...
Take Mozilla's type-ahead link-search, it's definately not intuitive the first couple of times you accidentally hit a key; but when you get into the mindset it's defininately a timesaver...
40+ I guess... I never got around to counting them as The GIMP wouldn't open it or it did open it, but only the rasterized version that Photoshop always saves....
Have you tried opening a photoshop document with tons of layers in The Gimp ?
It fails faster than you can say "crash'n'burn"... at least it did so the last time I tried (1.2.5)
But look at it from Apple's perspective, say that somebody comes along with a piece of software for windows that can matchup with final cut pro. Or Adobe shapes up Premiere to become a proper videosuite. Then Adobe decides to ditch Apple.
Adobe and Apple form a symbiant circle, if one ditches the other it will cause shit for both.
Today with Intel hardware supposedly faster than Apple hardware (or atleast according to some tests) a proper videosuite on Windows wouldn't be a dumb idea. XP has probably most of the idiotic features that makes artsyfartsy designers prefer Apple, too.
No learning curve is not the same as a good UI. I can certainly make a rubberhead UI, but it will defininately not scale to the advanced level that designers use Photoshop for...
The reason people complain about Photoshop is usually because they got their hands on a pirated copy and started using it for the wrong things. Like all other professional software, it's designed to be used by professionals for professional stuff
Well Photoshop is probably Adobe's top selling product and basicly the flagship of the whole corporation. The only other product they have that doesn't suck is Acrobat, but you can do the same as acrobat for free so that kinda leaves Photoshop.
The reason they discontinued Premiere for the Mac is because it sucks compared to the competition (Avid and Final Cut Pro). Final Cut Pro was so much better than Premiere that they started marketing Premiere for the low-end / high-end-home marked. With Final Cut Express covering that bit, and doing it much better... It kinda leaves Premiere in the cold... and yes, Final Cut is in a totally different league than Premiere...
or has a dedicated person doing finances and that person is the only one who uses peachtree...
CVS is hard id the fileformat is binary and/or unknown. If somebody got around to creating a conflict your probably shit-outta-luck as resolving a binary conflict is pretty hard...