This is modded funny but I think it's a serious problem with the current graphics system on Linux. Bear with me here.
X gets a lot of flack from certain people here for being slow, archaic, and generally sluggish. They attribute this to the underlying networking code in X and too much eye-candy in Gnome or KDE. Having been playing around with various WMs on various Linux boxes through the years, I used to agree--dragging a window across the screen produces a painfully slow redraw and there is a noticable delay when clicking on, well, anything. Then I downloaded X.org--and some of this stuff is getting fixed! Somebody on Slashdot explained it awhile back: X, your WM, and your program are running in different time slices, creating a delay. X.org's XComposite (I think) fixes this somehow.
Anyway, I'm tired of X running about as fast as your average Swing app. End of newbish rant.
I'll second that; I've been the proud owner of an LL Bean Big Easy bag for the duration of this semester. It's kept my Thinkpad safe, secure, and DRY through a variety of nasty conditions (two hurricanes, the backseat of my car, carrying around all day, etc). The Big Easy also looks "average"--not something likely to be ripped off, IMHO.
Two files MISSING shouldn't indicate cheating. Invalid checksums on certain executables would...but I digress. As to your second point (about being raped in the ass), I voted with my dollars long ago; when OSI put in these movies during the Age of Shadows debacle, I quit. No eBay, no giving my stuff to other players, just me holding on to my $12 every month forevermore.
I still play on free, player-run shards though Like this one.
They can detect you renaming two.bik files in your music directory? Really? And they care? Well, it's their fault for making me watch "EA Games, Challenge EVERYTHING" everytime UO crashes. Challenge THIS!
MySQL is an interesting example of how you can be wildly successful if you're at the right place at the right time with a product that's just good enough for the mission people have in mind.
Like Windows?
*ducks*
Maybe this story kinda sucks...
Maybe all the mods got drunk and stayed in bed...
OR maybe no one has said anything funny, informative, or interesting...
We'll never know...
The Empire Strikes Back....
It is a dark time for the Rebellion. Although the Death OS has been discredited, Imperial microserfs have driven the Rebel forces from their hidden base and pursued them across the mindshare.
Evading the dreaded Imperial Software, a group of freedom fighters led by IBM has established a new secret base on the remote ice world of Canada.
The evil lord Darth Gates, obsessed with finding young FOSS(?), has dispatched thousands of Windows OSes into the far reaches of IT...
(Aplogies to Canada)
Slashdot Mirror
This is modded funny but I think it's a serious problem with the current graphics system on Linux. Bear with me here.
X gets a lot of flack from certain people here for being slow, archaic, and generally sluggish. They attribute this to the underlying networking code in X and too much eye-candy in Gnome or KDE. Having been playing around with various WMs on various Linux boxes through the years, I used to agree--dragging a window across the screen produces a painfully slow redraw and there is a noticable delay when clicking on, well, anything. Then I downloaded X.org--and some of this stuff is getting fixed!
Somebody on Slashdot explained it awhile back: X, your WM, and your program are running in different time slices, creating a delay. X.org's XComposite (I think) fixes this somehow.
Anyway, I'm tired of X running about as fast as your average Swing app. End of newbish rant.
Where did you get these numbers? And by what stretch of imagination did you get that one in four (desktop?) computers is a Mac?
I'll second that; I've been the proud owner of an LL Bean Big Easy bag for the duration of this semester. It's kept my Thinkpad safe, secure, and DRY through a variety of nasty conditions (two hurricanes, the backseat of my car, carrying around all day, etc). The Big Easy also looks "average"--not something likely to be ripped off, IMHO.
Two files MISSING shouldn't indicate cheating. Invalid checksums on certain executables would...but I digress.
As to your second point (about being raped in the ass), I voted with my dollars long ago; when OSI put in these movies during the Age of Shadows debacle, I quit. No eBay, no giving my stuff to other players, just me holding on to my $12 every month forevermore.
I still play on free, player-run shards though Like this one.
They can detect you renaming two .bik files in your music directory? Really? And they care?
Well, it's their fault for making me watch "EA Games, Challenge EVERYTHING" everytime UO crashes. Challenge THIS!
MySQL is an interesting example of how you can be wildly successful if you're at the right place at the right time with a product that's just good enough for the mission people have in mind.
Like Windows?
*ducks*
At this point somebody usually mentions using Aptitude instead of dselect.
Maybe this story kinda sucks...
Maybe all the mods got drunk and stayed in bed...
OR maybe no one has said anything funny, informative, or interesting...
We'll never know...
lid
Hmm... an obsessive, hard-ass X server that hounds you at every turn no matter how hard you try--we already got that.
Trying setting up X on a Virgin Web Appliance.
Was this one of those damned "multimedia PC" CD-ROMs that connected through the sound card?
A child of five could understand this! Fetch me a child of five.
Or maybe it's not that funny.
's not Unix
asses
The Empire Strikes Back.... It is a dark time for the Rebellion. Although the Death OS has been discredited, Imperial microserfs have driven the Rebel forces from their hidden base and pursued them across the mindshare. Evading the dreaded Imperial Software, a group of freedom fighters led by IBM has established a new secret base on the remote ice world of Canada. The evil lord Darth Gates, obsessed with finding young FOSS(?), has dispatched thousands of Windows OSes into the far reaches of IT... (Aplogies to Canada)
Sierra/Havas/Vivendi does this all the time; look at what they did to Quest for Glory and Space Quest.