The story's specs are off. The SL-5500 has 16MB of flash and 64MB of RAM. The SL-5600 has 64MB of flash (in two partitions, one read-only by default) and only 32MB of RAM.
Personally, I'm rather disappointed, since while 32mb of RAM is plenty to do PIM things and even watch movies, it's not enough to keep many apps on "quick-load" (i.e., permanently loaded in memory).
On the other hand, since it's got XScale, OpenZaurus runs on the 2.4.19 kernel AND supports SD cards. Which is tempting.
Personally, I couldn't stand GNOME 1.4. I didn't even give 2.0 a fair chance. But as soon as 2.2 came out I decided I'd give it a shot, and it's simply here to stay. I think the greatest feature is that there are no useless features. It's not the speed or flexibility that sucked me in, it's that everything "just works."
And I'm a computer geek. It's just that when I look at the default KDE desktop and the default GNOME desktop, I wonder to myself that anybody besides the "I use linux because I'm l33t" people actually says KDE is easy to use.
A more concrete example: Open up a Nautilus window and right-click on an icon of a folder. You'll see around 15 menu options, with spacing in sane places. Open up Konqueror and do the same, for the same folder. On my KDE installation, I get 25 options. "Open with Gwenview?" what the heck is that? Why would this show up on every folder?
Simply put, GNOME lets me do what I want, faster. If KDE has twice the configurability, it won't be able to let me do things as quickly. I agree that some people prefer configurability and some prefer simplicity (read: usability). So I choose GNOME. Don't try and convince me I made the wrong choice.
I agree totally. It's a testament to a show's realism when more often than not I'm thinking to myself, "That's what I'd do" rather than, "that's impossible." And when I think to myself, "I use that program too!" instead of "who'd bother to spend two days making a 3D simulation when they could just type in an SQL query or two?"
There are still those times when you have to jump back to reality, though, like when he uses a single "ping" command with no special arguments to cause noticeable network lag to a major organization's Internet connection...
Shaving even 0.002 seconds off the back command is worthwhile because millions of button clicks worldwide will be a little more efficient, he says. "If we can save a tiny bit of frustration and confusion, that's the way to improve computer interfacing."
What I'm more interested in is how they propose that keeping thousands of thumbnails in memory (not to mention thousands of web page titles and urls) and displaying enormous menus including graphics will somehow take less time for my computer to render than the simple menu of ten titles I get with Galeon.
And here I was thinking that making a more simple interface would be the thing that makes things 0.002 seconds faster. I guess they've done enough research to prove me wrong!
Which 80% is missing? Besides mencoder, it seems to me they're about neck-and-neck. Xine has the huge advantage of separating its libraries from its UI.
Not to downplay the usefulness of mencoder, but Xine has most of the features MPlayer has, and they're implemented much better.
I got a Promise FastTrak 4X or something... and two 7200RPM 30GB drives to go with it. Got home, hooked everything together. I wanted RAID-0. I put in my Windows XP CD (I hadn't discovered the World of Linux back then) and the freakin' thing would go through all the install but fail after the first reboot. I spent about 4 nights solid trying to get the damned drivers to work. Emailed their tech support; they told me to use different drivers. Which didn't work.
After 4 days, I installed Windows 2000 and did an upgrade to XP. Surprisingly, it worked. And what was the speed difference? Miniscule. A bit noticeable when playing games, but that's it. And the damned thing added 45 seconds to my boot time! I mean, really!
Linux drivers were binary-only (I think that's changed now) and Linux recognized it as a normal IDE controller.
I returned the card and now have the two 30-gig drives on my motherboard's integrated IDE controller. I don't plan on getting RAID any time in the future (except perhaps when I'm very rich and go for a SCSI RAID-5 or something). None of my programs need it; and that extra 45 seconds every boot is painful, even if it's only once every two months. Considering my entire system's boot time is 30 seconds and the biggest program loads in 2 (well, barring games) I don't see myself needing RAID for personal use.
I'm a proud Canadian, but I have to say that the Americans are totally correct when they say Canada's military is a joke.
When's the last time someone's attacked Canadians? I most certainly would rather put tax dollars towards a better economy or food for the poor than funding an army which never kills (we have plenty of soldiers who help other countries through hard times, and our budget still covers them).
I beg to ask, what's stupid about this attitude? Canada has never needed more soldiers and never will. I am proud to live in a country which doesn't resort to war for every international problem (and doesn't pull stupid publicity stunts like "war on Bin Laden"), and I give our few forces the honour they deserve for giving help in other countries with no thought of reward.
There are several apps that do this. I use bbkeys (since I use blackbox). The thing more apps should have is a command-line option to attach to the existing process and send it a signal - that way you could bind "gaim --get-next-message" and your gaim window would listen (galeon has this to some extent, and you can bind a key to create a new empty tab or resize the window to a pre-specified geometry, for instance).
I never use a keyboard or mouse. I just run "Meta-E" for e-mail or "Meta-G" for galeon, "Meta-X" for xterm... or as a last resort "Meta-R" for bbrun (insert your favorite launcher here) then I type in the name of the program.
I have no idea why the KDE guys haven't added this kind of keybinding configuration yet.
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Of course almost all of these points only affect you only if you actually develop your own inhouse programs.
I'll bite too...
That's dead wrong. You can do whatever you want as long as you license your in-house programs GPL. What's wrong with that? You don't have to give them to anybody, so you don't have to give away your source! There's absolutely no reason to worry about it.
It most certainly does support full screen. You can also play on battle.net with winehq -- just fool around with symlinks and a little bash script. And who cares about copy protection when the cracks are so readily available?
And what are "a few other things"? I didn't find any others.
I use winehq because for me it's faster and looks slightly better. In-game movies don't work, but xine and mplayer play them fine. I'm happy.
Yeah, but nowadays they're most likely to be Microdrives, which actually have platters and spin and suck your battery's life out. It'd be a race between which is finished first, the movie or the battery.
256 is *plenty* for a divx movie. Converting 640x480 to 320x240 already knocks a 700MB movie down to 175MB, no more compression required.
Microsoft could probably find the legal loopholes and make a cross-service messenger that'd take over your computer and make it easier to catch viruses (like MSN messenger). It could also convince you that you need this piece of software, and look, we'll give it to you for free! Just ignore the ads....
Since I can't see anyone but Microsoft doing it, and if anyone else tried Microsoft (or AOL) would snap 'em up, I'll stick with Gaim and Trillian, thank you very much. The probability of a cross-service instant messenger being benificial to actual users is just too low.
I'll never, ever, EVER make any of my sites render properly only on IE. I promise this to the world.
Of course, since I comply with W3 standards and use lots of CSS2 features, my sites look quite bad by default on IE (text-align: center; is NOT the same as margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;). IE is a giant pain in the ass. My biggest pet peeve ever is when people say IE renders properly while Mozilla doesn't. 99.9% of the time this is completely untrue.
Netscape 4 isn't woth supporting any more. It'll just make your code twice as complicated as it should be.
Anyway, browsing around the other day I found a neat site called the Viewable with Any Browser Campaign. Thought people might be interested.
Does MySQL even do foreign keys yet? Even if it does, they were bolted on as an afterthought, whereas most databases have them from day 1.
This is rather... er... not researched. InnoDB, the new MySQL table handler, supports foreign keys and they were built into it from the ground up.
I won't pretend MySQL has all the features other RDBMS's have, but I will stick up for it when people bash it without even researching it. In certain places (websites come to mind) it is the #1 choice, even if money is no object.
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What does 4.0 have that msyql-max 3.23 not have? I switched to mysql-max so I could use InnoDB.
What do you think the Changelog is for?
There was another proposed feature that was cryptic to me: it looked like it would provide support for database redundancy. Is this correct?
Do you mean replication? That's been around forever. Check out http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Replication.html
You forgot a mini-flashlight. I recommend one of those cool LED lights. I got one for Christmas, don't see how I lived without it.
The story's specs are off. The SL-5500 has 16MB of flash and 64MB of RAM. The SL-5600 has 64MB of flash (in two partitions, one read-only by default) and only 32MB of RAM.
Personally, I'm rather disappointed, since while 32mb of RAM is plenty to do PIM things and even watch movies, it's not enough to keep many apps on "quick-load" (i.e., permanently loaded in memory).
On the other hand, since it's got XScale, OpenZaurus runs on the 2.4.19 kernel AND supports SD cards. Which is tempting.
and I want a choice of a dozen convenient browsers
... if I were less lazy I'd come up with others.
Personally, I couldn't stand GNOME 1.4. I didn't even give 2.0 a fair chance. But as soon as 2.2 came out I decided I'd give it a shot, and it's simply here to stay. I think the greatest feature is that there are no useless features. It's not the speed or flexibility that sucked me in, it's that everything "just works."
And I'm a computer geek. It's just that when I look at the default KDE desktop and the default GNOME desktop, I wonder to myself that anybody besides the "I use linux because I'm l33t" people actually says KDE is easy to use.
A more concrete example: Open up a Nautilus window and right-click on an icon of a folder. You'll see around 15 menu options, with spacing in sane places. Open up Konqueror and do the same, for the same folder. On my KDE installation, I get 25 options. "Open with Gwenview?" what the heck is that? Why would this show up on every folder?
Simply put, GNOME lets me do what I want, faster. If KDE has twice the configurability, it won't be able to let me do things as quickly. I agree that some people prefer configurability and some prefer simplicity (read: usability). So I choose GNOME. Don't try and convince me I made the wrong choice.
I agree totally. It's a testament to a show's realism when more often than not I'm thinking to myself, "That's what I'd do" rather than, "that's impossible." And when I think to myself, "I use that program too!" instead of "who'd bother to spend two days making a 3D simulation when they could just type in an SQL query or two?"
There are still those times when you have to jump back to reality, though, like when he uses a single "ping" command with no special arguments to cause noticeable network lag to a major organization's Internet connection...
Shaving even 0.002 seconds off the back command is worthwhile because millions of button clicks worldwide will be a little more efficient, he says. "If we can save a tiny bit of frustration and confusion, that's the way to improve computer interfacing."
What I'm more interested in is how they propose that keeping thousands of thumbnails in memory (not to mention thousands of web page titles and urls) and displaying enormous menus including graphics will somehow take less time for my computer to render than the simple menu of ten titles I get with Galeon.
And here I was thinking that making a more simple interface would be the thing that makes things 0.002 seconds faster. I guess they've done enough research to prove me wrong!
I can't say much about which has more features, but I'll say that xine's interface is, lets say, not particularly well designed.
Maybe you were using the default skin? I'll agree, it's horrible. The 'cloudy' skin (which comes with Xine-ui) is great.
Also, Xine's libraries are used in a few other apps, most of which have simpler interfaces.
But Xine doesn't have 20% of MPlayer's features.
Which 80% is missing? Besides mencoder, it seems to me they're about neck-and-neck. Xine has the huge advantage of separating its libraries from its UI.
Not to downplay the usefulness of mencoder, but Xine has most of the features MPlayer has, and they're implemented much better.
I got a Promise FastTrak 4X or something... and two 7200RPM 30GB drives to go with it. Got home, hooked everything together. I wanted RAID-0. I put in my Windows XP CD (I hadn't discovered the World of Linux back then) and the freakin' thing would go through all the install but fail after the first reboot. I spent about 4 nights solid trying to get the damned drivers to work. Emailed their tech support; they told me to use different drivers. Which didn't work.
After 4 days, I installed Windows 2000 and did an upgrade to XP. Surprisingly, it worked. And what was the speed difference? Miniscule. A bit noticeable when playing games, but that's it. And the damned thing added 45 seconds to my boot time! I mean, really!
Linux drivers were binary-only (I think that's changed now) and Linux recognized it as a normal IDE controller.
I returned the card and now have the two 30-gig drives on my motherboard's integrated IDE controller. I don't plan on getting RAID any time in the future (except perhaps when I'm very rich and go for a SCSI RAID-5 or something). None of my programs need it; and that extra 45 seconds every boot is painful, even if it's only once every two months. Considering my entire system's boot time is 30 seconds and the biggest program loads in 2 (well, barring games) I don't see myself needing RAID for personal use.
It's spelled "rumor" you frog.
Only Americans spell it 'rumor.' English spelling is 'rumour.'
I'm a proud Canadian, but I have to say that the Americans are totally correct when they say Canada's military is a joke.
When's the last time someone's attacked Canadians? I most certainly would rather put tax dollars towards a better economy or food for the poor than funding an army which never kills (we have plenty of soldiers who help other countries through hard times, and our budget still covers them).
I beg to ask, what's stupid about this attitude? Canada has never needed more soldiers and never will. I am proud to live in a country which doesn't resort to war for every international problem (and doesn't pull stupid publicity stunts like "war on Bin Laden"), and I give our few forces the honour they deserve for giving help in other countries with no thought of reward.
There are several apps that do this. I use bbkeys (since I use blackbox). The thing more apps should have is a command-line option to attach to the existing process and send it a signal - that way you could bind "gaim --get-next-message" and your gaim window would listen (galeon has this to some extent, and you can bind a key to create a new empty tab or resize the window to a pre-specified geometry, for instance).
I never use a keyboard or mouse. I just run "Meta-E" for e-mail or "Meta-G" for galeon, "Meta-X" for xterm... or as a last resort "Meta-R" for bbrun (insert your favorite launcher here) then I type in the name of the program.
I have no idea why the KDE guys haven't added this kind of keybinding configuration yet.
Of course almost all of these points only affect you only if you actually develop your own inhouse programs.
I'll bite too...
That's dead wrong. You can do whatever you want as long as you license your in-house programs GPL. What's wrong with that? You don't have to give them to anybody, so you don't have to give away your source! There's absolutely no reason to worry about it.
So you're even more right than you think ;)
Very off-topic, but check out xine (http://xine.sf.net) and mplayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu). Xine works best for me.
:)
As for ICQ, get gaim (http://gaim.sf.net).
And who needs installer wizards? I think "apt-get install " is easier
It most certainly does support full screen. You can also play on battle.net with winehq -- just fool around with symlinks and a little bash script. And who cares about copy protection when the cracks are so readily available?
And what are "a few other things"? I didn't find any others.
I use winehq because for me it's faster and looks slightly better. In-game movies don't work, but xine and mplayer play them fine. I'm happy.
Yeah, but nowadays they're most likely to be Microdrives, which actually have platters and spin and suck your battery's life out. It'd be a race between which is finished first, the movie or the battery.
256 is *plenty* for a divx movie. Converting 640x480 to 320x240 already knocks a 700MB movie down to 175MB, no more compression required.
Any decent browser nowadays can block popups while keeping Javascript enabled. Go get Mozilla, Galeon, Opera, Konqueror... the list goes on and on.
In short: Don't use IE, and you won't get popups. Your browsing experience will also be faster and more intuitive.
Video is over-rated! All you need is the audio; you can play The Two Towers trailer's audio with xine and mplayer :).
This must be the first question that has 99.9% of the /. community thinking the same answer.
Microsoft could probably find the legal loopholes and make a cross-service messenger that'd take over your computer and make it easier to catch viruses (like MSN messenger). It could also convince you that you need this piece of software, and look, we'll give it to you for free! Just ignore the ads....
Since I can't see anyone but Microsoft doing it, and if anyone else tried Microsoft (or AOL) would snap 'em up, I'll stick with Gaim and Trillian, thank you very much. The probability of a cross-service instant messenger being benificial to actual users is just too low.
Yeah, but it needs CSS support. If this gets CSS and text becomes selectable, I might use it as my permanent browser.
Until then, Galeon!
I'll never, ever, EVER make any of my sites render properly only on IE. I promise this to the world.
Of course, since I comply with W3 standards and use lots of CSS2 features, my sites look quite bad by default on IE (text-align: center; is NOT the same as margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;). IE is a giant pain in the ass. My biggest pet peeve ever is when people say IE renders properly while Mozilla doesn't. 99.9% of the time this is completely untrue.
Netscape 4 isn't woth supporting any more. It'll just make your code twice as complicated as it should be.
Anyway, browsing around the other day I found a neat site called the Viewable with Any Browser Campaign. Thought people might be interested.
Does MySQL even do foreign keys yet? Even if it does, they were bolted on as an afterthought, whereas most databases have them from day 1.
This is rather... er... not researched. InnoDB, the new MySQL table handler, supports foreign keys and they were built into it from the ground up.
I won't pretend MySQL has all the features other RDBMS's have, but I will stick up for it when people bash it without even researching it. In certain places (websites come to mind) it is the #1 choice, even if money is no object.