Perhaps this is another form of secrecy - the number of pages indexed never seems to go up, except in huge jumps. According to archive.org, it's been stuck on 4,285,199,774 pages for about a year now:/
That seems to happen too much... RvB was good, but now it sucks because it's no longer a gaming comic, megatokyo sucks because it's no longer a gaming comic, penny arcade is starting to suck because it's not always entirely 100% about gaming...
Methinks the gamers are just pissed off because they think that the internet should cater to their minority needs, and they don't like it to be pointed out that the world doesn't revolve around them and their (in the eyes of the public) nerdy little hobbies.
Last time I checked, pretty much all the dyndns names were blocked (*.kicks-ass.net, *.mine.nu, *.dyndns.org, etc), so you can't get at any of the sites.
1) Find a user
2) Put them in front of a linux box
3) Whenever they can't do something, fix the program
4) Repeat
Note that it's the programs that need fixing - basic operation of a program shouldn't require a manual; Documentation is for those who want to know how something works, to get/extra/ benefit from it.
Taking GAIM as an example - it's one binary, but with many separate modules - AIM, ICQ, MSN, etc, are all in their own libraries, and could be maintained as entirely separate projects.
To put in in the phrase - They've created several small modules that do one thing well each, and interface with the others so cleanly that it can be mistaken for a single program.
In theory, an entirely separate IM program could use GAIM's modules*, which shows that they are indeed separate from the main program.
* Although it would be a hack, because GAIMs modules were never/designed/ to be used by a different program
As far as I can see, if I can get $media to come out of my $output_device, then I can just get a cable to pipe my $output_device into my $recording_device, correct?
Another point -> the "wxWindows" team got threatened, becuase of containing the phrase "windows". How far away does the "companies in different industries can have the same name" rule apply? Yeah, they're both computer things, but within computing an OS and a programming toolkit are quite different...
run his business like he actually wants it to
succeed - I don't think he does, I think he
wants it to bomb so he can sue [the competitor],
blaming them.
Seems like a common enough business practice nowadays...
So I'm seeing X.org, freedesktop.org, the old xfree86, X-on-framebuffer, that guy's X + alpha blending project. Y is also coming along nicely, and is supposed to be backwards compatible with the right modules.
Why are there so many? Which should I be using? Which are being left to die in order shift progress-making to another branch?
Seriously - while RPM / deb / portage is good enough for most apps, most closed source apps (and some others, eg openoffice.org), want to have their own custom installers. IMHO the best thing to do would be to get a standard thing like RPM / deb / etc, with all the Good Things of all systems. But assuming that even if it is standardised big corps won't use it, a standard installer binary would be the next best thing.
Winamp 5 *is* winamp 2, it just has a load of extra plugins, to give it all the cool features of 3. Disable all the extra things like modern skinning and such, and all you have left is winamp 2 + bugfixes + misc non-bloat improvements.
I'm not at my linux box, so no exact numbers, but even with all eyecandy turned on it runs fine on my 200MHz, whilst doing an emerge and kernel build (2.6 + preemption helps, I think)
Since when was XP eyecandy? Looks like they haven't looked at enlightenment recently... You get multiple desktops *overlapping*, the bottom of the screen ripples and waves with a watery reflection of the windows, windows slide in smoothly rather than just appear, the list goes on!
Another thing, which may or may not be what is being discussed. Also, this is from memory, so I might be a bit off ^_^
mount -o noexec/dev/hdb1/home
Now no user can run programs from their home directories. I would think that you can still do "/bin/bash/home/dude/program.sh" to have it interpreted though:/
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Are you not using FireFox or something?
Perhaps this is another form of secrecy - the number of pages indexed never seems to go up, except in huge jumps. According to archive.org, it's been stuck on 4,285,199,774 pages for about a year now :/
So Microsoft aren't passing mails through the NSA filters? When did they stop?
No, we'll just use PNG, and be happy forever (assuming that nobody's secretly got a PNG patent...)
I thought they were using 320kbps AAC (lossless, IIRC) - there's not much quality you can add to that :/
Methinks the gamers are just pissed off because they think that the internet should cater to their minority needs, and they don't like it to be pointed out that the world doesn't revolve around them and their (in the eyes of the public) nerdy little hobbies.
Last time I checked, pretty much all the dyndns names were blocked (*.kicks-ass.net, *.mine.nu, *.dyndns.org, etc), so you can't get at any of the sites.
It did exist, but not any more :/
Post the password here, let's see if anyone else can get it to work...
2) Put them in front of a linux box
3) Whenever they can't do something, fix the program
4) Repeat
Note that it's the programs that need fixing - basic operation of a program shouldn't require a manual; Documentation is for those who want to know how something works, to get /extra/ benefit from it.
So if I put -fstack-protector in my global CFLAGS, I can ignore all the critical buffer overflow exploit warnings? Why isn't it on by default?
To put in in the phrase - They've created several small modules that do one thing well each, and interface with the others so cleanly that it can be mistaken for a single program.
In theory, an entirely separate IM program could use GAIM's modules*, which shows that they are indeed separate from the main program.
* Although it would be a hack, because GAIMs modules were never /designed/ to be used by a different program
As far as I can see, if I can get $media to come out of my $output_device, then I can just get a cable to pipe my $output_device into my $recording_device, correct?
*points to the vaguely waffle-like being stuck to the ceiling*
Note to people who publicise linux in general - use a good theme! this is good, this makes me want to hurt someone
Porsche: there simply is no substitute. -- Risky Business
Another point -> the "wxWindows" team got threatened, becuase of containing the phrase "windows". How far away does the "companies in different industries can have the same name" rule apply? Yeah, they're both computer things, but within computing an OS and a programming toolkit are quite different...
Seems like a common enough business practice nowadays...
Why are there so many? Which should I be using? Which are being left to die in order shift progress-making to another branch?
Seriously - while RPM / deb / portage is good enough for most apps, most closed source apps (and some others, eg openoffice.org), want to have their own custom installers. IMHO the best thing to do would be to get a standard thing like RPM / deb / etc, with all the Good Things of all systems. But assuming that even if it is standardised big corps won't use it, a standard installer binary would be the next best thing.
Winamp 5 *is* winamp 2, it just has a load of extra plugins, to give it all the cool features of 3. Disable all the extra things like modern skinning and such, and all you have left is winamp 2 + bugfixes + misc non-bloat improvements.
I'm not at my linux box, so no exact numbers, but even with all eyecandy turned on it runs fine on my 200MHz, whilst doing an emerge and kernel build (2.6 + preemption helps, I think)
Since when was XP eyecandy? Looks like they haven't looked at enlightenment recently... You get multiple desktops *overlapping*, the bottom of the screen ripples and waves with a watery reflection of the windows, windows slide in smoothly rather than just appear, the list goes on!
Another thing, which may or may not be what is being discussed. Also, this is from memory, so I might be a bit off ^_^
mount -o noexec /dev/hdb1 /home
Now no user can run programs from their home directories. I would think that you can still do "/bin/bash /home/dude/program.sh" to have it interpreted though :/
OpenGL is as good with graphics as DirectX
Never heard of wesnoth, how do you blame X for it not working?