And don't think it stops with your school. It is like this at work too, get used to it and you'll never pay attention to it again. When you continously are using headphones to listen to music and suddenly take them off, the world around you will sound loud and very noisy. It's like living next door to a railroad line or an airport, after a while you'll never pay attention to a passing train or an airplane taking off. Using headphones all the time will give you a shock when you take them off and a train rambles by.
With some practice, the noise around you is automatically shut out if you don't listen to music all the time.
Well, you are not exactly helping KDE to run fast on your old hardware either. I'm not sure how many desktops you have, but a different background on each will eat memory and CPU cycles no matter which WM you are using.
I run Gentoo and KDE 3.2 on a 2.4 Ghz P4 with 1GB ram and KDE is lightening fast. I also run this in 1600x1200x16 on an i810 graphics chip so it is not like I have the best graphics hardware in the world either. Of course it is slow if you want repsonse times in milliseconds on your hardware, but as I have said before, things can't happen before you initate them.
Startup times has been another issue people are complaining about. Quite frankly, if you can't endure 5, 10, 15 second or more startup times, then I'm not sure what your requirements are in general, but one thing I can say, you need to buy better hardware if that is important. I normally only start up KDE after I have rebooted, and I really don't care how long it takes to load KDE after I have logged in, I can wait those few seconds anyway. I also always keep my applications loaded, why do I need to terminate my browser all the time when it is my most used app?
Gnome is still IMHO immature and has a feel to it that I can't cope with. It's unintuitive and brutish ugly no matter what theme or color scheme you use. Too bad...
Ummm.. no....
Speeds from 10Mbit to 100Mbit at home in japan is starting to become quite common. Many European countries have 10Mbit speeds available for their home subscribers too, so I think you are a bit out of thouch with reality. I know that Americans want to be the best and biggest in everything and now they are in spam at least. Oh btw, I live in USA.
I haven't used MS Office since I moved to Linux full time in 1995. Granted, the first few years could be a pain not to have Office, but for the past 4-5 yearsIi haven't had any problems. I do work for a large software company with over 40000 employees world-wide and we have a lot of Office generated documents flying around.
For the needs I have, OO has been just fine. This should hold water for most people unless you have some very specialized apps running in MS Office. Typically VB stuff.
Anyway, the old 80/20 rule is valid here too. 80% of all users use only 20% of the features in the product, hence for 80% of MS Office users, they could easily move to OO and never look back. Anything else is just pure marketing babble.
With money in your "pocket", your electronic account can't be emptied by scumbags. Nor do you have to worry about banks charging outragous fees for their services. Of course there are other problems related to having money in your pocket.
Here are a few links to a page on Norways biggest Newspapers website that show all the picture uncensored and even have the uncensored movie of her. Oh yes, it also includes the streaker that nobody in the US saw.
Oh yes!!! I remember! That was the same arguments used when moving from 16-bit to 32-bit some years ago. Now, why did we move to 32-bit at that time? Or maybe you think we should have stayed at 16-bit?
I'd rather not get a piece of hardware and software that is equally prone to receiving viruses and not to mention security holes, as the current line of MS products.
Until MS can demonstrate their abilities to secure their products from beeing attacked at all time, a new XBOX with "home multimedia theater" capabilities is scary. I can see all the script kiddies and virus writers attack the box in full force. Esp. since most of them probably will be hooked up to the Internet for on-line game playing, music downloads, movie downloads etc...
Come to think of it, maybe now is the time to buy shares in security companies?
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You must be using one of those old and technologically outdated Linux distros as RedHat, SuSE or Debian.
All I do is emerge sync && emerge mydoom and I'm good to go. Ebuild is currently in Portage, just sync your systems:) Oh yeah, forgot to mention, Gentoo baby. LOL
When I said used, I meant as in daily use. I have tried OSX on several occasions and I'm fairly competent computer user, been working in the software industry since 1983.
If you can explain how the little colored circles are intuitive is beyond me. Normally one would associate the colors with traffic colors, red is stop, yellow is caution, green is go. How that relates to their use in OSX is beyond me. Maybe that's the reason why they need to have those bubbles popping up with an explanation of their use when the mouse hovers over them?
I know it is considered leet these days to think of Apple as a sort of God in the computer industry, but I personally find Apple to be more of a curiosa than a serious player.
I've never used an Apple product in my life. I have looked at OSX a few times but find it very unintuitive and I don't much care for beeing locked into ONE vendor for both software and hardware, pluss the fact that anything branded Apple is as expensive as a minor nuclear device.
I know I'm going to be flamed by the 1337 Apple zealots but i couldn't care less.
He could actually pick and choose laywers and no matter who he chooses, the state will pay an already agreed upon per hour fee for the lawyer.
Norway has a pretty good system to ensure that you as a civilian can get a fair and decent trial despite your lack of money. I.e no big corp can push you over in the judical system. The law is trying to be fair in that area.
I have done a lot of research in the field of cosmology and I'm going to do the same with the gravastar theory. Not finding much published work by the authors doesn't mean squat except for ego-inflated physcists. If the theory holds water, it will be disected over the next few years with a steady stream of additions. If it is without merit, the astro-physics community will find out and the theory will be dropped. This is how it has worked for eons and how it will continue to work.
Einstein wasn't exactly world-famous either when he published his first papers. Was he wrong?
Well, I think that may be due to the kernel version you are running. I have a 400 Mhz PII machine running 2.4.2x and 2.6.1-mm2. When using the 2.4 kernel, I see the same symptoms as you do, with the 2.6 kernel and using the CFQ elevator, it's really snappy.
I honestly don't know what kind of hardware you run, but on my P4 2.4Ghz, KDE is lightening fast. If the whole KDE system takes up 3GB of disk space on my dual 320GB system, who cares?
I've heard this bloat and speed thingy about KDE and Gnome for years, but I have never experienced it myself! I have also used XFCE4 a lot, but it lacks all of the little things I use from KDE.
Another argument is the startup time of KDE (Gnome), but i don't care if it takes 1 second or 30 seconds, I normally only start the GUI every time I need to boot into a new kernel, so it is not an issue.
I think it is just the new and 1337 thing to call everything but the most uber-cool and geeky WM for bloated and slow. Pay no attention to these fools:)
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My great grandmother drank coffee all day long and smoked like a chimeny, yet she passed away at the ripe age of 103, mentally sharp to the last day.
I personally prefer Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee along with a glass of Hennesey XO and a nice Cuban cigar. Life can't get any better than that!
Welcome to the REAL world!
And don't think it stops with your school. It is like this at work too, get used to it and you'll never pay attention to it again. When you continously are using headphones to listen to music and suddenly take them off, the world around you will sound loud and very noisy. It's like living next door to a railroad line or an airport, after a while you'll never pay attention to a passing train or an airplane taking off. Using headphones all the time will give you a shock when you take them off and a train rambles by.
With some practice, the noise around you is automatically shut out if you don't listen to music all the time.
Well, you are not exactly helping KDE to run fast on your old hardware either. I'm not sure how many desktops you have, but a different background on each will eat memory and CPU cycles no matter which WM you are using.
I run Gentoo and KDE 3.2 on a 2.4 Ghz P4 with 1GB ram and KDE is lightening fast. I also run this in 1600x1200x16 on an i810 graphics chip so it is not like I have the best graphics hardware in the world either. Of course it is slow if you want repsonse times in milliseconds on your hardware, but as I have said before, things can't happen before you initate them.
Startup times has been another issue people are complaining about. Quite frankly, if you can't endure 5, 10, 15 second or more startup times, then I'm not sure what your requirements are in general, but one thing I can say, you need to buy better hardware if that is important. I normally only start up KDE after I have rebooted, and I really don't care how long it takes to load KDE after I have logged in, I can wait those few seconds anyway. I also always keep my applications loaded, why do I need to terminate my browser all the time when it is my most used app?
Gnome is still IMHO immature and has a feel to it that I can't cope with. It's unintuitive and brutish ugly no matter what theme or color scheme you use. Too bad...
I think the FedEx commercial shows a true MBA best.
"I don't do shipping, I have an MBA..."
Ummm.. no....
Speeds from 10Mbit to 100Mbit at home in japan is starting to become quite common. Many European countries have 10Mbit speeds available for their home subscribers too, so I think you are a bit out of thouch with reality. I know that Americans want to be the best and biggest in everything and now they are in spam at least. Oh btw, I live in USA.
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I guess you didn't check the link, did you?
If you had, you would have seen that Bin-Laden is one of the bidders!
I haven't used MS Office since I moved to Linux full time in 1995. Granted, the first few years could be a pain not to have Office, but for the past 4-5 yearsIi haven't had any problems. I do work for a large software company with over 40000 employees world-wide and we have a lot of Office generated documents flying around.
For the needs I have, OO has been just fine. This should hold water for most people unless you have some very specialized apps running in MS Office. Typically VB stuff.
Anyway, the old 80/20 rule is valid here too. 80% of all users use only 20% of the features in the product, hence for 80% of MS Office users, they could easily move to OO and never look back. Anything else is just pure marketing babble.
That is correct, A Danish is actually from Austria and is called, the more appropriate "Wienerbrod", translates in English to "Bread from Vienna"
Why?
If I wanted to enlarge my "friend" from 9" to 11" by using such a product and it didn't work, why do I have to be embarassed?
Damn right!
With money in your "pocket", your electronic account can't be emptied by scumbags. Nor do you have to worry about banks charging outragous fees for their services. Of course there are other problems related to having money in your pocket.
Here are a few links to a page on Norways biggest Newspapers website that show all the picture uncensored and even have the uncensored movie of her. Oh yes, it also includes the streaker that nobody in the US saw.
Click on "Neste Bilde" to see the next picture
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Yes, but the new version is called Doom III!
It would have been easier to just allow them to buy Microsoft Windows legally. It would have done greater damage than what happened!
Why does this sound familiar????
Oh yes!!! I remember! That was the same arguments used when moving from 16-bit to 32-bit some years ago. Now, why did we move to 32-bit at that time? Or maybe you think we should have stayed at 16-bit?
I'd rather not get a piece of hardware and software that is equally prone to receiving viruses and not to mention security holes, as the current line of MS products.
Until MS can demonstrate their abilities to secure their products from beeing attacked at all time, a new XBOX with "home multimedia theater" capabilities is scary. I can see all the script kiddies and virus writers attack the box in full force. Esp. since most of them probably will be hooked up to the Internet for on-line game playing, music downloads, movie downloads etc...
Come to think of it, maybe now is the time to buy shares in security companies?
You must be using one of those old and technologically outdated Linux distros as RedHat, SuSE or Debian. :) Oh yeah, forgot to mention, Gentoo baby. LOL
All I do is emerge sync && emerge mydoom and I'm good to go. Ebuild is currently in Portage, just sync your systems
When I said used, I meant as in daily use. I have tried OSX on several occasions and I'm fairly competent computer user, been working in the software industry since 1983.
If you can explain how the little colored circles are intuitive is beyond me. Normally one would associate the colors with traffic colors, red is stop, yellow is caution, green is go. How that relates to their use in OSX is beyond me. Maybe that's the reason why they need to have those bubbles popping up with an explanation of their use when the mouse hovers over them?
I know it is considered leet these days to think of Apple as a sort of God in the computer industry, but I personally find Apple to be more of a curiosa than a serious player.
I've never used an Apple product in my life. I have looked at OSX a few times but find it very unintuitive and I don't much care for beeing locked into ONE vendor for both software and hardware, pluss the fact that anything branded Apple is as expensive as a minor nuclear device.
I know I'm going to be flamed by the 1337 Apple zealots but i couldn't care less.
Not to mention, the number 1 DVD and he has to sit through at least 10 showings in a row: GIGLI!
He could actually pick and choose laywers and no matter who he chooses, the state will pay an already agreed upon per hour fee for the lawyer.
Norway has a pretty good system to ensure that you as a civilian can get a fair and decent trial despite your lack of money. I.e no big corp can push you over in the judical system. The law is trying to be fair in that area.
I took the test, scored enough to be accepted but declined. I saw too many members with the same attitude as the Bad Joke poster and I don't like it.
I have done a lot of research in the field of cosmology and I'm going to do the same with the gravastar theory. Not finding much published work by the authors doesn't mean squat except for ego-inflated physcists. If the theory holds water, it will be disected over the next few years with a steady stream of additions. If it is without merit, the astro-physics community will find out and the theory will be dropped. This is how it has worked for eons and how it will continue to work.
Einstein wasn't exactly world-famous either when he published his first papers. Was he wrong?
Well, I think that may be due to the kernel version you are running. I have a 400 Mhz PII machine running 2.4.2x and 2.6.1-mm2. When using the 2.4 kernel, I see the same symptoms as you do, with the 2.6 kernel and using the CFQ elevator, it's really snappy.
I honestly don't know what kind of hardware you run, but on my P4 2.4Ghz, KDE is lightening fast. If the whole KDE system takes up 3GB of disk space on my dual 320GB system, who cares?
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I've heard this bloat and speed thingy about KDE and Gnome for years, but I have never experienced it myself! I have also used XFCE4 a lot, but it lacks all of the little things I use from KDE.
Another argument is the startup time of KDE (Gnome), but i don't care if it takes 1 second or 30 seconds, I normally only start the GUI every time I need to boot into a new kernel, so it is not an issue.
I think it is just the new and 1337 thing to call everything but the most uber-cool and geeky WM for bloated and slow. Pay no attention to these fools