So yeah. RIP, the slashdot that I once cared about:-(
(That, and even the community has dropped in quality recently; witness how every ubuntu story is full of people who are too dumb to apt-get install a different WM to replace unity -_- Back in my day, customising your OS to fit your needs was the norm, nay, the entire point of using linux - people would be shunned away from the site for being noobs if they dare complain about how hard it is to compile their own desktop environment from source...)
I wish slashdot editors would append this hint to the end of every ubuntu-related story. As it is, 50% of the replies are just "I don't like one of the default settings, I'm going to switch distro"... (The other 50% being complaints about the choice of animal in the behind-the-scenes codename)
There was once a saying that the worst thing Microsoft has done to the computing industry is lowering the user's expectations of quality - now I think we're seeing a similar effect from Apple: to a modern computer user, it is inconceivable that an OS would give them freedom to change the vendor-supplied defaults:-(
If you want lxde, what's wrong with "apt-get install lxde"? This is linux, not OSX, you are allowed to make your own decisions and ignore the distro's default settings:P
a power-user has little choice unless he/she wants to go to the trouble of installing an alternate shell
If "apt-get install [alternate desktop of choice]" is too hard for you, you are not a power user.
Seriously, kids these days. Back in my day*, linux was about having multiple choices for everything - not just the power users, but the regular users would all customise their desktops in whatever way suited them, and we liked it. (Well, most of us did. Those who came from the windows or mac worlds curled up into a ball and cried when presented with multiple valid options to choose from, and insisted that somebody else choose "the best" to be preinstalled for them. And thus, Ubuntu was born to give them what they asked for)
* I'm barely out of my teens, but I'm old enough to remember when "power user" meant "someone who'd customise their desktop by hacking the C code"; Then it got degraded into "someone who could compile from source without modification"; then "someone who'd install packages from outside the distro's repository"; then "someone who'd install packages from the repository to replace the defaults"... and now apparently "power user" means "someone who can install ubuntu and doesn't change the default settings". This makes me sad:-(
Reading the motivations, it seems we should also be thankful to microsoft for this -- part of the motivation for their devs to work on it is that linux is slowly getting better on the desktop*, but the other part is that windows is rapidly getting worse:P
* or slowly getting worse, if you use ubuntu and don't know how to install an alternative window manager; but Metro is still ahead of Unity in that respect
I believe in things being as lean as possible and having to prove or justify any excess
This is pretty much the reason *for* Wayland -- whether you use Xorg or Wayland you have support for all the excess eyecandy (not that you have to use it), but Xorg is an exponentially growing pile of add-ons while Wayland has the features planned from day one, plus it's even smaller than that, because it lets the kernel do the heavy lifting of driver support.
Watching the video now, it appears to be "dump ALL the radio signals to disk, for later analysis", so you can then use software to pick out audio / text / morse code / etc signals
To be fair, the summary says it officially doesn't get support, which to me brings images of the CEO phoning up some newspapers and saying "We don't support open source work. That is all, *click*"...
Nope; 7/8/9 had 3D elements (eg the character models, and battles), but the bulk of the explorable world was made of unique 2D backgrounds - 6 and earlier were repetitive 2D sprites, 10 and later are repetitive 3D textures. Though come to think of it, replacing the low-res 3D character models with nice 2D sprites would be an improvement too...
They said it would be almost impossible to update those games to PS3 graphics because the amount of work involved to produce such a game would be too high.
Personally I don't want "PS3 graphics" if that means looking like the modern games -- the whole reason I think FF 7/8/9 are so beautiful is that the worlds are largely hand-drawn 2D; all I really want changed in a remake is to have those same drawings re-scanned at a higher res:-P
I say use Google. At least it is always up to date.
True, current google is more up to date than a 2010 OSM dump. But current OSM is more up to date than a 2010 google dump. Not sure how that makes either better than the other...
You misunderstood his comment. From his perspective as a German, the attention to detail in OSM is lacking. I mean, in that example, there is no mention of where the nearest trash can is
My hobby is adding the locations of trash cans to openstreetmap, because everything larger or more significant is already on there...
Other window managers are about 5 seconds away via apt-get. Switching away from a generally solid distro because you don't know how to change one of the default settings is really dumb.
TBH I don't have much experience buying DVDs; the only ones I've looked for recently have been the Invader Zim boxed set - Amazon has it for ~£250 (~$400) imported, and I've never even seen a copy in the UK:-|
I'd still rather pay 10c for a fast and simple criminal service that treats me with respect than pay $20 for a legitimate fiddly DVD that treats me like a criminal... (also this)
For a site hosted on a VM, a 2GB setup would be 8x as expensive as a 256MB setup:-P (I presume we're both hosted on bare metal now, so my setup simply leaves more space for cache; but nginx's slimness did allow me to to stay on a cheap VM until recently)
1 GB RAM vs delay + reading books, code and googling.
If you're already an apache expert and an nginx noob, then sure, stick with what you know; but I found nginx only took a couple of days to grok, and now that I know both, nginx is faster and easier to administer
Step 1: Create rules that are easy to work around
Step 2: Nobody complains, because workarounds are easy
Step 3: Because everybody accepts the rules, they get turned into laws. You are now a criminal, and anyone who doesn't like you can have you arrested:P
As much as I love bashing the TSA, could we please get some statistics to back this up first, and then deal with it properly rather than just whining? I want to get the problem solved, but "I feel like some crime has been committed against me" is even weaker than the standard RIAA logic...
If your test is simple enough that it can be turned into a script for a person to run, turn it into a script for a computer to run, and then go test some other more interesting part of the system
I feel that the default desktop of a distro is the one that gets the lion's share of the TLC
From the distro, sure; but isn't most work on all desktops done by the upstreams? Enlightenment isn't officially supported by any distro AFAIK, and it runs wonderfully just having the official E team working on it and no interference:P
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So yeah. RIP, the slashdot that I once cared about :-(
(That, and even the community has dropped in quality recently; witness how every ubuntu story is full of people who are too dumb to apt-get install a different WM to replace unity -_- Back in my day, customising your OS to fit your needs was the norm, nay, the entire point of using linux - people would be shunned away from the site for being noobs if they dare complain about how hard it is to compile their own desktop environment from source...)
I wish slashdot editors would append this hint to the end of every ubuntu-related story. As it is, 50% of the replies are just "I don't like one of the default settings, I'm going to switch distro"... (The other 50% being complaints about the choice of animal in the behind-the-scenes codename)
There was once a saying that the worst thing Microsoft has done to the computing industry is lowering the user's expectations of quality - now I think we're seeing a similar effect from Apple: to a modern computer user, it is inconceivable that an OS would give them freedom to change the vendor-supplied defaults :-(
If you want lxde, what's wrong with "apt-get install lxde"? This is linux, not OSX, you are allowed to make your own decisions and ignore the distro's default settings :P
a power-user has little choice unless he/she wants to go to the trouble of installing an alternate shell
If "apt-get install [alternate desktop of choice]" is too hard for you, you are not a power user.
Seriously, kids these days. Back in my day*, linux was about having multiple choices for everything - not just the power users, but the regular users would all customise their desktops in whatever way suited them, and we liked it. (Well, most of us did. Those who came from the windows or mac worlds curled up into a ball and cried when presented with multiple valid options to choose from, and insisted that somebody else choose "the best" to be preinstalled for them. And thus, Ubuntu was born to give them what they asked for)
* I'm barely out of my teens, but I'm old enough to remember when "power user" meant "someone who'd customise their desktop by hacking the C code"; Then it got degraded into "someone who could compile from source without modification"; then "someone who'd install packages from outside the distro's repository"; then "someone who'd install packages from the repository to replace the defaults"... and now apparently "power user" means "someone who can install ubuntu and doesn't change the default settings". This makes me sad :-(
Reading the motivations, it seems we should also be thankful to microsoft for this -- part of the motivation for their devs to work on it is that linux is slowly getting better on the desktop*, but the other part is that windows is rapidly getting worse :P
* or slowly getting worse, if you use ubuntu and don't know how to install an alternative window manager; but Metro is still ahead of Unity in that respect
I believe in things being as lean as possible and having to prove or justify any excess
This is pretty much the reason *for* Wayland -- whether you use Xorg or Wayland you have support for all the excess eyecandy (not that you have to use it), but Xorg is an exponentially growing pile of add-ons while Wayland has the features planned from day one, plus it's even smaller than that, because it lets the kernel do the heavy lifting of driver support.
I'm planning to too, when I find somewhere else with tech news and at least semi-clueful discussions -- any suggestions?
Watching the video now, it appears to be "dump ALL the radio signals to disk, for later analysis", so you can then use software to pick out audio / text / morse code / etc signals
the compiler [...] dot-matrix printer
New project idea: compiler written in postscript that renders the binary :-O
It doesn't *officially* get support from Nvidia
To be fair, the summary says it officially doesn't get support, which to me brings images of the CEO phoning up some newspapers and saying "We don't support open source work. That is all, *click*"...
Nope; 7/8/9 had 3D elements (eg the character models, and battles), but the bulk of the explorable world was made of unique 2D backgrounds - 6 and earlier were repetitive 2D sprites, 10 and later are repetitive 3D textures. Though come to think of it, replacing the low-res 3D character models with nice 2D sprites would be an improvement too...
They said it would be almost impossible to update those games to PS3 graphics because the amount of work involved to produce such a game would be too high.
Personally I don't want "PS3 graphics" if that means looking like the modern games -- the whole reason I think FF 7/8/9 are so beautiful is that the worlds are largely hand-drawn 2D; all I really want changed in a remake is to have those same drawings re-scanned at a higher res :-P
I say use Google. At least it is always up to date.
True, current google is more up to date than a 2010 OSM dump. But current OSM is more up to date than a 2010 google dump. Not sure how that makes either better than the other...
You misunderstood his comment. From his perspective as a German, the attention to detail in OSM is lacking. I mean, in that example, there is no mention of where the nearest trash can is
My hobby is adding the locations of trash cans to openstreetmap, because everything larger or more significant is already on there...
Because "Everyone knows that X is true" and "X is true" are loosely correlated at best.
Apparently this is the newer wolfenstein games; I wanted to see what 8 GPUs worth of fancy effects could do to the original pre-Doom Wolfenstein :(
If you like Unity, great. Use it
If you don't like Unity, great. Don't use it.
Other window managers are about 5 seconds away via apt-get. Switching away from a generally solid distro because you don't know how to change one of the default settings is really dumb.
You say you are offended
Nope
that they think you will infringe their copyright
Nope
so to teach them how wrong they are
Nope
you are going to infringe their copyright?
Nope
TBH I don't have much experience buying DVDs; the only ones I've looked for recently have been the Invader Zim boxed set - Amazon has it for ~£250 (~$400) imported, and I've never even seen a copy in the UK :-|
I'd still rather pay 10c for a fast and simple criminal service that treats me with respect than pay $20 for a legitimate fiddly DVD that treats me like a criminal... (also this)
How much more RAM does it take for high loads than nginx?
202.6 MiB + 50.1 MiB = 252.7 MiB httpd (190)
940.2 MiB + 831.4 MiB = 1.7 GiB php-cgi (189)
From my own site, doing 1500 hits/sec:
# python ps_mem.py | grep -E "nginx|php"
16.4 MiB + 1.2 MiB = 17.6 MiB nginx (9)
186.4 MiB + 14.7 MiB = 201.1 MiB php5-fpm (44)
For a site hosted on a VM, a 2GB setup would be 8x as expensive as a 256MB setup :-P (I presume we're both hosted on bare metal now, so my setup simply leaves more space for cache; but nginx's slimness did allow me to to stay on a cheap VM until recently)
1 GB RAM vs delay + reading books, code and googling.
If you're already an apache expert and an nginx noob, then sure, stick with what you know; but I found nginx only took a couple of days to grok, and now that I know both, nginx is faster and easier to administer
Step 1: Create rules that are easy to work around :P
Step 2: Nobody complains, because workarounds are easy
Step 3: Because everybody accepts the rules, they get turned into laws. You are now a criminal, and anyone who doesn't like you can have you arrested
Female Passengers Say ...
As much as I love bashing the TSA, could we please get some statistics to back this up first, and then deal with it properly rather than just whining? I want to get the problem solved, but "I feel like some crime has been committed against me" is even weaker than the standard RIAA logic...
If your test is simple enough that it can be turned into a script for a person to run, turn it into a script for a computer to run, and then go test some other more interesting part of the system
I feel that the default desktop of a distro is the one that gets the lion's share of the TLC
From the distro, sure; but isn't most work on all desktops done by the upstreams? Enlightenment isn't officially supported by any distro AFAIK, and it runs wonderfully just having the official E team working on it and no interference :P