Bash is really rather magical. For instance, I don't use history - I don't know it, and I really don't need it. Rather:
* Ctrl + R: Reverse search in the bash history. This is a must-have tool! * Ctrl + L: Clear terminal. * CtrL + D: Normal logout. Faster than typing exit. * Tab completion can be activated for most things, such as ssh, man pages and apt-get (if you use that). Just look at/etc/bash.bashrc.
Not really clear enough, if it's not a significant other... It needs to be: I want sex. With you! Now!
And even that tends to be too little... I have a friend who's had something along those lines said to him (sadly I don't have girls tell me that), but a girl he found fairly attractive, and still he managed to fumble. Still, being completely direct still raises the chances of success from about 5-10% to at least 50%.;)
I prefer the clit (Nipple/Trackpoint/whathaveyou). I find the touchpad incredibly annoying and much less efficient. But then, you haven't met me. The sad thing is that most people don't even know the clit. I always disable the touchpad because it's in the way when I use the keyboard. When people have to use my laptop they have no idea how to move the mouse. They know the touchpad, they have no idea what that little red thing is - they've never seen it before.
Popularity doesn't have anything to do with superiority.
In my experience the 3D effects mostly makes my computer feel non-responsive... Mainly because it is. I'm not saying that the effects are taking up valuable resources (which they are), but that they take time. The difference between a window just popping up, and a window flying onscreen, starting when it would otherwise pop up, is noticeable. To me, wobbly windows are especially annoying, since they give me a feeling of everything lagging behind, when I'm moving windows around.
That being said, I run Compiz Fusion, since I'm a whore for eye candy - but I disable wobbly windows. However, when I run Openbox or some other non-composited light weight window manager I get surprised by how fast everything is going. But then my desktop isn't as exciting:(.
Instead you use Windows... Do they boot on a live CD yet? Oh, and when did their installer go graphical (Really, I don't know)? Oh yeah, and last time I installed Windows (XP SP2) the installer crashed... Several times. I think I finally got through on the 5th or 6th attempt. So now what will you use? OS/2?;)
Weeeell, mp3s are not illegal. There are a LOT of music out there, that is free, so mp3s4free could easily be a site linking to those specific mp3s. I just find it rather scary that you can get punished for linking to someone who links to copyrighted material. So if I link to Google and Google links to something illegal, then I can get sued?
Also, from the/. article:
"if you more or less condone someone else doing it, that's an infringing act."
As I read this, this means that I am infringing if I think it's okay that you infringe. Which also means that if I argue that it should be legal to infringe on copyrighted material, then I am already infringing.
Hibernate is pretty expensive (since you have to write all the RAM to the disk), and it also takes some time. If you just want to go from one place to another then hibernate will really eat up your battery (especially if you do it often). Now the real question is: Why is there a shutdown, when you have hibernate? When do you ever want to not start up into your old session (Except if it's broken because some operating system can't keep track of it's memory, of course)? I like to have the sleep option.
Weeeeell... I guess it's in the definition of the word. I didn't say it's a bad thing - however a lot of people accuse the Linux community of merely copying features found in other systems and not coming up with ideas of their own, and that is a pretty annoying accusation to have hanging over your head. All I'm saying (really) is that while most of the features from other interfaces are copied, there are also a lot of innovative things.
Ok, I agree, the Linux people are major ripoff artists. That being said, when most things _are_ ripped off (which, being great artists, happens rather fast), new features do appear. The window manager Beryl (which is a fork of Compiz) has gone above and beyond in imitating the new graphical bling of Vista. And a lot of the bling from OSX too. I dare say that a lot of this bling comes at a smaller price (hardware wise) than what you get from Vista.
When I first saw screenshots of Vista I was impressed. Impressed with what could be done. Sadly, I haven't really seen them move any further with the bling since the first screenshot was released, and now that I have Beryl up and running I really couldn't care less.
If you look at the forum for Beryl you'll see a LOT of input from users, requesting (granted, a lot of stuff seen elsewhere, but also) new and innovative features and bling, that might actually prove useful when working (and naturally a lot that's pure bling).
What I'm basically looking for is what makes Vista stand out from something like Beryl, except for the fact that you can actually run (some) windows programs on it. Why are people getting so excited over this, when you can have Beryl running on your computer today? Or Compiz? Or Metacity?
Clearly you haven't studied how reiserfs (3 at least) works. It doesn't use block sizes, it puts the data as compact as possible and uses a tree to figure out exactly where it is. This is obviously important if the police is ever to have a chance at finding the body. He'll probably have an algorithm at home, such that if they find one piece, they can find the rest following that.:)
How can they be just as stable as debian, if they keep releasing new versions? Doesn't that mean that the programs keep changing behavior, ie. are unstable? The point of Debian is that if you install a program you will have that program for years, and the behavior will stay the same. You will still have all those nice bugfixes and security updates, but they can be applied with a minimum of effort. For most professionals it is far more important to have a stable system, than to have a system with all the newest fluff. Fluff is for hobbyists!;)
My impression (Much like parents): Decent graphics. Weird albeit interesting plot. Crappy sound effect (Horrible actors). Crappy animation.
The sound effects have nothing to do with the tools used, that just shows that the crew isn't all that good at making cartoons. The animation might be an outcome of the bad tools, but it may again just be the animators who don't have the proper skills.
In the end, this "feature" could be a lot more impressive, and failed in showing that OSS tools can be as good as the professional tools. It came pretty close though - an other crew might be able to pull it off!
To me it looks like he's comparing Microsoft to Bridgestone... Then he isn't committing blasphemy in the process, so I can live with that. (Now I just try not to think about who it is he's actually comparing to ferrari)
Technically you're wrong. With a given Windows license you pay per CPU, not per instance of the program, and since all your virtual machines will be running on the same CPUs you won't have to pay extra for running it multiple times on the same machine. The problem to solve is Microsofts, as they probably don't know that it's the same CPU, but you have paid for the right to use Windows as you do.
You are granted the right to use what they made in some restricted fashion, when you pay them money. This is the law (and you know the law, don't you? You have to! It's the law)!
Now, speaking about danish conditions, a lot of tax was payed when we bought blank tapes to compensate the artists for lost profit. This is also why we have to pay money for each copy when we use a photocopy machine. The main difference between analog tapes and digital cds is that you can now copy the work losslessly. The music/movie industry finds this very troublesome, so they demand that stricter laws must apply. So now you (we) don't pay as much tax on blank media, but we aren't allowed to do as much with our purchased goods.
But of course, on the larger projects Debian is always way behind. A very real example is X.org which Debian won't include until the next stable Debian has been released. Most other distros will have changed at that point. The same goes for XFree (which took forever to be updated to 4.0) and for KDE. Probably a lot of other programs too. Personally I don't care, but a lot of people out there do.
In general Debian is very up to date, but on the larger projects with large version changes, Debian tend to get way behind. That's where people get the impression that Debian in general is behind.
I quake in my pants thinking of "intelligent houses" already... I find the whole idea of having my house connected to the internet fucking scary, so no way in hell I'd ever consider getting my eyes online. Just consider what will happen if you get hacked!
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Bash is really rather magical. For instance, I don't use history - I don't know it, and I really don't need it. Rather:
/etc/bash.bashrc.
* Ctrl + R: Reverse search in the bash history. This is a must-have tool!
* Ctrl + L: Clear terminal.
* CtrL + D: Normal logout. Faster than typing exit.
* Tab completion can be activated for most things, such as ssh, man pages and apt-get (if you use that). Just look at
Not really clear enough, if it's not a significant other... It needs to be: I want sex. With you! Now!
;)
And even that tends to be too little... I have a friend who's had something along those lines said to him (sadly I don't have girls tell me that), but a girl he found fairly attractive, and still he managed to fumble. Still, being completely direct still raises the chances of success from about 5-10% to at least 50%.
I prefer the clit (Nipple/Trackpoint/whathaveyou). I find the touchpad incredibly annoying and much less efficient. But then, you haven't met me. The sad thing is that most people don't even know the clit. I always disable the touchpad because it's in the way when I use the keyboard. When people have to use my laptop they have no idea how to move the mouse. They know the touchpad, they have no idea what that little red thing is - they've never seen it before.
Popularity doesn't have anything to do with superiority.
In my experience the 3D effects mostly makes my computer feel non-responsive... Mainly because it is. I'm not saying that the effects are taking up valuable resources (which they are), but that they take time. The difference between a window just popping up, and a window flying onscreen, starting when it would otherwise pop up, is noticeable. To me, wobbly windows are especially annoying, since they give me a feeling of everything lagging behind, when I'm moving windows around.
:(.
That being said, I run Compiz Fusion, since I'm a whore for eye candy - but I disable wobbly windows. However, when I run Openbox or some other non-composited light weight window manager I get surprised by how fast everything is going. But then my desktop isn't as exciting
Instead you use Windows... Do they boot on a live CD yet? Oh, and when did their installer go graphical (Really, I don't know)? Oh yeah, and last time I installed Windows (XP SP2) the installer crashed... Several times. I think I finally got through on the 5th or 6th attempt. So now what will you use? OS/2? ;)
Weeeell, mp3s are not illegal. There are a LOT of music out there, that is free, so mp3s4free could easily be a site linking to those specific mp3s. I just find it rather scary that you can get punished for linking to someone who links to copyrighted material. So if I link to Google and Google links to something illegal, then I can get sued?
/. article:
"if you more or less condone someone else doing it, that's an infringing act."
As I read this, this means that I am infringing if I think it's okay that you infringe. Which also means that if I argue that it should be legal to infringe on copyrighted material, then I am already infringing.
Also, from the
There's no doubt about bbspot's credibility.. It's a satire site - they have none!
Hibernate is pretty expensive (since you have to write all the RAM to the disk), and it also takes some time. If you just want to go from one place to another then hibernate will really eat up your battery (especially if you do it often). Now the real question is: Why is there a shutdown, when you have hibernate? When do you ever want to not start up into your old session (Except if it's broken because some operating system can't keep track of it's memory, of course)? I like to have the sleep option.
Weeeeell... I guess it's in the definition of the word. I didn't say it's a bad thing - however a lot of people accuse the Linux community of merely copying features found in other systems and not coming up with ideas of their own, and that is a pretty annoying accusation to have hanging over your head. All I'm saying (really) is that while most of the features from other interfaces are copied, there are also a lot of innovative things.
Ok, I agree, the Linux people are major ripoff artists. That being said, when most things _are_ ripped off (which, being great artists, happens rather fast), new features do appear. The window manager Beryl (which is a fork of Compiz) has gone above and beyond in imitating the new graphical bling of Vista. And a lot of the bling from OSX too. I dare say that a lot of this bling comes at a smaller price (hardware wise) than what you get from Vista.
When I first saw screenshots of Vista I was impressed. Impressed with what could be done. Sadly, I haven't really seen them move any further with the bling since the first screenshot was released, and now that I have Beryl up and running I really couldn't care less.
If you look at the forum for Beryl you'll see a LOT of input from users, requesting (granted, a lot of stuff seen elsewhere, but also) new and innovative features and bling, that might actually prove useful when working (and naturally a lot that's pure bling).
What I'm basically looking for is what makes Vista stand out from something like Beryl, except for the fact that you can actually run (some) windows programs on it. Why are people getting so excited over this, when you can have Beryl running on your computer today? Or Compiz? Or Metacity?
Clearly you haven't studied how reiserfs (3 at least) works. It doesn't use block sizes, it puts the data as compact as possible and uses a tree to figure out exactly where it is. This is obviously important if the police is ever to have a chance at finding the body. He'll probably have an algorithm at home, such that if they find one piece, they can find the rest following that. :)
No, but it would be nice to run on my AMD64 desktop.
Except, of course, that often the missing 10% are useless things like openoffice, which can be quite annoying programs to be missing.
My impression (Much like parents):
Decent graphics.
Weird albeit interesting plot.
Crappy sound effect (Horrible actors).
Crappy animation.
The sound effects have nothing to do with the tools used, that just shows that the crew isn't all that good at making cartoons.
The animation might be an outcome of the bad tools, but it may again just be the animators who don't have the proper skills.
In the end, this "feature" could be a lot more impressive, and failed in showing that OSS tools can be as good as the professional tools. It came pretty close though - an other crew might be able to pull it off!
To me it looks like he's comparing Microsoft to Bridgestone... Then he isn't committing blasphemy in the process, so I can live with that. (Now I just try not to think about who it is he's actually comparing to ferrari)
Technically you're wrong. With a given Windows license you pay per CPU, not per instance of the program, and since all your virtual machines will be running on the same CPUs you won't have to pay extra for running it multiple times on the same machine. The problem to solve is Microsofts, as they probably don't know that it's the same CPU, but you have paid for the right to use Windows as you do.
$ ls -l `which openbox` /usr/bin/openbox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 204536 2005-02-21 23:59
I guess that's pretty damned small, but then, what about all the helper files?
"Openbox (which appears dead..)"
If you look at the openbox mailinglist you'll see that they're preparing a new release. They're at RC1 at the moment.
Is google free software? Or has free just become a new synonyme for "Not Microsoft"?
If memory serves right they didn't surrender the last time when a superior power tried to convince them to help invade Iraq illegally.
Clap it with me:
Co-py-right
You are granted the right to use what they made in some restricted fashion, when you pay them money. This is the law (and you know the law, don't you? You have to! It's the law)!
Now, speaking about danish conditions, a lot of tax was payed when we bought blank tapes to compensate the artists for lost profit. This is also why we have to pay money for each copy when we use a photocopy machine. The main difference between analog tapes and digital cds is that you can now copy the work losslessly. The music/movie industry finds this very troublesome, so they demand that stricter laws must apply. So now you (we) don't pay as much tax on blank media, but we aren't allowed to do as much with our purchased goods.
What's an iceburg?
But of course, on the larger projects Debian is always way behind. A very real example is X.org which Debian won't include until the next stable Debian has been released. Most other distros will have changed at that point. The same goes for XFree (which took forever to be updated to 4.0) and for KDE. Probably a lot of other programs too. Personally I don't care, but a lot of people out there do.
In general Debian is very up to date, but on the larger projects with large version changes, Debian tend to get way behind. That's where people get the impression that Debian in general is behind.
I quake in my pants thinking of "intelligent houses" already... I find the whole idea of having my house connected to the internet fucking scary, so no way in hell I'd ever consider getting my eyes online. Just consider what will happen if you get hacked!