Although it may be too 'simple' for your needs, I think the best Bittorrent client is 'bittorrent'. The downside is that version 4.0 and higher are not available in Debian, because they changed the license to be non-DFSG-free. Packages are available from my web site, however.
Re:Region-free, yes....
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Region-free PS3
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This is a stupid failing on Mozilla's part. It is not acceptable to tell people to start with a fresh profile over again when they upgrade their browser!
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Sudo vs. Root
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Can't the attacker use chflags to remove the append-only flag?:)
Re:How To Become Root on OS X
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The CUPS web admin does not need to run as root in the first place! I believe Ubuntu merely add the message that states that the web admin page is disabled.
If you want to use it, add the user that CUPS runs as to the shadow group: adduser cupsys shadow. This will allow CUPS to authenticate users against their passwords in/etc/shadow/.
It is not nonsense at all. Aterm's results are simply not comparable to the others: including its results would introduce an additional variable (font rendering method) into the test.
At the end of the day these numbers are meaningless anyway, because terminal emulators spend nearly all of their time waiting for ionput of the user. My purpose was merely to dispell the obligatory "gnome-terminal is slooooow" trolls that appear on Slashdot every time there is a discussion about GNOME.
Except copyright law, surely?. The BSD license does not release the covered work into the public domain.
Re:DRM to be used in GNOME's multimedia backend
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I am using GStreamer right now. You will please show me which file on my computer contains the evil DRM code? Please also tell me what prevents me from removing such a file, and replacing it with a Free alternative.
Such an alternative may be illegal in unfree countries such as the United States of America; however this applies equally to any plugin that would be created for KDE's GPL-only multimedia framework.
Re:DRM to be used in GNOME's multimedia backend
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You're never going to have a legal and free-as-in-speech mp3 plugin.
So you forsee the US Government unconstitutionally extending the life of MPEG-related patents, as it has done for Copyrights during this century?
Put another way, the ability to limit text to narrow (immensely readable) margins in combination with the absence of a horizontal scrollbar is what distinguishes Slashdot from most sites that offer news-related material.
Hear, hear! -- society for the preservation of tall, thin web browser windows
How do you get gnome-terminal to display bitmapped fonts? I'd like to give it a go for comparison purposes.
Also if you have the time, and if your UTF-8 file does not contain sensitive information, please file a bug at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ and attach the file.
I did not mention that all my tests were run with transparency disabled.
As I said to the AC who replied to me, aterm can't be compared against the other terminals since it only uses bitmapped fonts.
Finally, several years ago gnome-terminal was the slowest terminal emulator; however my testing of 2.12 shows that it is the quickest! Also, I just installed 2.13.93 and ran the test, and it takes 4.5 seconds to cat the data file; so it seems that gnome-terminal 2.14 is indeed yet faster than the already fast 2.12.:)
Thanks for the data point. On my system aterm 1.0.0 cats the file in 2.5 seconds; however this is not a fair comparison because aterm only uses bitmap fonts. I can't see how to make it use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 8 as used by the other terminal emulators in my test.
For comparison, xterm using the default bitmap font takes 4.5 seconds to cat the file.
Re:GNOME vs KDE (not flamebait!)
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I think this stems for the reason for the creation of the various products, and the re-invention that Gnome underwent for version 2.0.
The KDE project started off as a modern/nice looking replacement for CDE. The problem was that it used QT, which was only available under the a crappy license[0], the QPL, that made it impossible to distribute KDE in binary form. The GNOME project was started to provide a Free alternative to KDE.
At this point, GNOME's only reason for existing is to be a free alternative for KDE. GNOME has no overall vision or direction, so it ends up being pretty similar.
Eventually, Trolltech made QT available under the GPL as well as the non-free QPL; perhaps in response to GNOME's rising popularity.
However, the GNOME libraries were available under the much more commercial-friendly LGPL. GNOME was therefore chosen by Sun to replace their ageing CDE platform.
Sun did a lot of work on GNOME's usability and this became the project's focus. This is the point at which GNOME and KDE both have separate directions, and so they diverge. This is also the point that the GNOME/KDE disagreements really heated up.:)
Of course, this is probably very glib and facile and I'm sure I'll be corrected by someone who acutally worked on GNOME/KDE in the days of yore.:)
I don't understand people who say that gnome-terminal is slow... I find that it is the fastest terminal emulator. The trick is to actually compare like with like.
Let's say we use 8 point Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, and a terminal size of 80x24. Prepare the test data: $ dd bs=1M count=1 if=/dev/urandom | xxd > data
To run the test: $ time cat data
The results:
xterm -fa mono -fs 8 (209) The window is drawn very flickery. I couldn't use this for day to day use. real 1m28.686s user 0m4.370s sys 0m0.371s
gnome-terminal (2.12.0) The smoothest and fastest of the lot! real 0m6.401s user 0m3.425s sys 0m0.208s
rxvt-unicode -fn xft:mono:size=8 (5.3) Smooth but slowish real 0m41.071s user 0m0.871s sys 0m0.182s
konsole (3.3) Scrolling is jerky/stuttery, but not flickery. real 0m10.337s user 0m0.003s sys 0m0.091s
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What's the OS X equivalent of 'apt-get upgrade'?
Not to mention hunting down every single copy when there's a security update...
Please explain where he said that?
Photons? Why didn't he just use a torch?!
Fox distorted, he complied. :)
Although it may be too 'simple' for your needs, I think the best Bittorrent client is 'bittorrent'. The downside is that version 4.0 and higher are not available in Debian, because they changed the license to be non-DFSG-free. Packages are available from my web site, however.
We will not let you go!
I've yet to see a site that doesn't work on non-IE browsers and that has any worthwhile content.
This is a stupid failing on Mozilla's part. It is not acceptable to tell people to start with a fresh profile over again when they upgrade their browser!
Can't the attacker use chflags to remove the append-only flag? :)
The CUPS web admin does not need to run as root in the first place! I believe Ubuntu merely add the message that states that the web admin page is disabled.
/etc/shadow/.
If you want to use it, add the user that CUPS runs as to the shadow group: adduser cupsys shadow. This will allow CUPS to authenticate users against their passwords in
It is not nonsense at all. Aterm's results are simply not comparable to the others: including its results would introduce an additional variable (font rendering method) into the test.
At the end of the day these numbers are meaningless anyway, because terminal emulators spend nearly all of their time waiting for ionput of the user. My purpose was merely to dispell the obligatory "gnome-terminal is slooooow" trolls that appear on Slashdot every time there is a discussion about GNOME.
Except copyright law, surely?. The BSD license does not release the covered work into the public domain.
I am using GStreamer right now. You will please show me which file on my computer contains the evil DRM code? Please also tell me what prevents me from removing such a file, and replacing it with a Free alternative.
Such an alternative may be illegal in unfree countries such as the United States of America; however this applies equally to any plugin that would be created for KDE's GPL-only multimedia framework.
That had already ocurred to me; however I do not know of any other way to demonstrate the performance of the various terminals.
You could use apt-cache dotty, however I find that the graphs it generates are far too complicated to be drawn. :(
If you install debian-goodies you can run 'dpigs' which lists the biggest packages installed on your system:
$ dpigs
139256 jdk-1.5.0
102652 vmware
81352 openoffice.org-core
56096 openoffice.org-common
53268 tetex-base
49920 xserver-xorg-dbg
47626 wine
44332 linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7
43592 mingw32
39176 tetex-extra
and remove from there.
You may also wish to check out deborphan or, if you use aptitude, the automatic dependancy tracking feature.
Shouldn't the last step be apt-get dselect-upgrade? Maybe both work.
How do you get gnome-terminal to display bitmapped fonts? I'd like to give it a go for comparison purposes.
Also if you have the time, and if your UTF-8 file does not contain sensitive information, please file a bug at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ and attach the file.
I did not mention that all my tests were run with transparency disabled.
:)
As I said to the AC who replied to me, aterm can't be compared against the other terminals since it only uses bitmapped fonts.
Finally, several years ago gnome-terminal was the slowest terminal emulator; however my testing of 2.12 shows that it is the quickest! Also, I just installed 2.13.93 and ran the test, and it takes 4.5 seconds to cat the data file; so it seems that gnome-terminal 2.14 is indeed yet faster than the already fast 2.12.
Thanks for the data point. On my system aterm 1.0.0 cats the file in 2.5 seconds; however this is not a fair comparison because aterm only uses bitmap fonts. I can't see how to make it use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 8 as used by the other terminal emulators in my test.
For comparison, xterm using the default bitmap font takes 4.5 seconds to cat the file.
I think this stems for the reason for the creation of the various products, and the re-invention that Gnome underwent for version 2.0.
:)
:)
The KDE project started off as a modern/nice looking replacement for CDE. The problem was that it used QT, which was only available under the a crappy license[0], the QPL, that made it impossible to distribute KDE in binary form. The GNOME project was started to provide a Free alternative to KDE.
At this point, GNOME's only reason for existing is to be a free alternative for KDE. GNOME has no overall vision or direction, so it ends up being pretty similar.
Eventually, Trolltech made QT available under the GPL as well as the non-free QPL; perhaps in response to GNOME's rising popularity.
However, the GNOME libraries were available under the much more commercial-friendly LGPL. GNOME was therefore chosen by Sun to replace their ageing CDE platform.
Sun did a lot of work on GNOME's usability and this became the project's focus. This is the point at which GNOME and KDE both have separate directions, and so they diverge. This is also the point that the GNOME/KDE disagreements really heated up.
Of course, this is probably very glib and facile and I'm sure I'll be corrected by someone who acutally worked on GNOME/KDE in the days of yore.
[0] http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19981008
I don't understand people who say that gnome-terminal is slow... I find that it is the fastest terminal emulator. The trick is to actually compare like with like.
Let's say we use 8 point Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, and a terminal size of 80x24. Prepare the test data:
$ dd bs=1M count=1 if=/dev/urandom | xxd > data
To run the test:
$ time cat data
The results:
xterm -fa mono -fs 8 (209)
The window is drawn very flickery. I couldn't use this for day to day use.
real 1m28.686s
user 0m4.370s
sys 0m0.371s
gnome-terminal (2.12.0)
The smoothest and fastest of the lot!
real 0m6.401s
user 0m3.425s
sys 0m0.208s
rxvt-unicode -fn xft:mono:size=8 (5.3)
Smooth but slowish
real 0m41.071s
user 0m0.871s
sys 0m0.182s
konsole (3.3)
Scrolling is jerky/stuttery, but not flickery.
real 0m10.337s
user 0m0.003s
sys 0m0.091s
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