The GP was wrong. The correct URL is http://www.turnofftheinternet.com/. Unfortunately it does not look that nice in current version of FF as it did in some older IE6.
The same thing happened in Slovakia in October 1994. A political party (HZDS), that won the election, was unable to get a clear majority in parliament. During second session of parliament HZDS started voting about leading position of all significant offices. The session lasted 22 hours and ended in the morning. There were 86 out of 150 members of parliament present. Only 3 belonged to opposition. During that night HZDS and its allies got control of state controlled TV and radio, committee tasked with oversight of secret service, the general attorney, chairmen and deputies of Supreme Audit Office, National Property Fund etc etc. All together 38 positions. The country went into political isolation for 8 years. The event is known here as "Night of long knives" after similar event in Nazi Germany.
Linux just doesn't love critics who won't roll up their sleeves and fix things.
Ideas are cheap.
And that is precisely why Linux doesn't get much penetration outside of techies. I'm not saying it's wrong, but that's why Linux is NOT on the desktop.
So if the goal is Linux on the desktop then that attitude has got to change.
Which attitude? The one of Linux or the one of critics-that-don't-want-to-roll-up-the-sleeves?
KDE has done what's necessary and ripped the bandage off the scab.
Slackware moved KDE4 from testing into -current only a few weeks ago. So I was expecting that it is considered ready for general use. I was disappointed to find out, that the major applications such as KDevelop, Quanta and K3B are missing. And they will not come out soon either. KDE 4.2.2 will be released in a few days and still it will not contain KDevelop/Quanta/K3B. There are no dates given beyond KDE 4.2.2. KDE 4.0 was released in January 2008 (with alfa and beta releases published months before that). A year later the major apps are not ported. The change is too drastic if the major applications can't catch up in reasonable timeframe.
Fridge is an amazing thing. Without electricity any food in the fridge is of no use in 2-3 days. I live in a town of 60000 people. Let's guess that is 20000 fridges. Can you imagine 20000 generators (with fuel) that can supply the fridges with electricity? I can't. If there was 600 cows/pigs in our town, then we would have 1 kg of meat per man. That lasts what? Three days? I doubt there is 600 cows/pigs in my town. How long can be the potatoes (or any vegetables or fruit) kept fresh in 20 C or higier temperatures?
I know that people managed to do without fridges in 19th century. I don't think that that lifestyle can be re-applied now.
Without being able to draw a valid "this ok, this not" line, the safest line to draw is "none are ok".
Are you kidding? What about multi-vitamins tabs? Should I be worried when I take them to place having "zero drug tolerance policy" ? What about vitamin-rich skin care cream? May I bring a iron-rich spinach leaves, please?
What happened to that girl is unacceptable. The fact, that lower-level court did not see that, is unacceptable. The fact, that appeals court ruled by 6-5 vote (i.e. it was not overturned unanimously), is unacceptable. As far as I can see, there are NO people with half a brain in any decision-making posts in US. Starting with foreign policy, through economics and now even in education.
1) Apps are labelled by task rather than name. I had to use google to find out that the "File Browser" was called "nautilus". Gee - could you label it using the app's name, or make it launchable by entering something like "file-browser" in the run box?
Would you mind to tell me what is the "task name" for terminal services client on Vista? Because no matter what I type in the orb-menu, it does not offer me what I want. Unless I type in "mstsc". Lucky me knowing the name for that from XP.
Second question: did you use KDE4? I admit that it is not that stable as it could, but it does exactly that - you type in the task name and offers you the matching applications - and it displays the name of binary too.
We run a marathon. If I stop now to reconsider my strategy, the other guys will keep going and leave me behind. If I come up with better strategy while thinking, I will make up the loss sooner or later. However the rules are different here: If the gap between the main group and me grows too much, I get disqualified. Now the question is whether I can come up with better strategy at all and whether I can do it before the gap grows too much.
McLeroy said that it wasn't until he met his future wife, Nan, that he decided to rethink his faith. She said she would date him only if he were a Christian.... He is now a young earth creationist, meaning that he believes God created Earth between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago.
For a shorter commit time, simply stay with ext3. You can also mount your filesystems "sync" for a dramatic performance hit, but no write delay at all.
Why there can't be a mount option for ext4 specifying the commit delay in seconds?
As the article says, a large number of configuration files are opened and written to as KDE starts up.
Why KDE needs to write configuration files on startup? I thought that it reads the configuration on startup.
The proper sequence is to create a new file, sync, rename the new file on top of the old one, optionally sync.
An now imagine that the original file had hard-links. Your suggestion breaks them.
(as in: why the fuck are you rewriting a file with hardlinks in the manner? Use symlinks if you want "follow the changes" and hardlinks if you want "copy on write", easy)
1) I don't check the number of hardlinks on a file I'm going to write to. Perhaps I should. Do you?
2) if the file you are going to update is a symlink, then your suggested action "rename the new file on top of the old one" means removing the old file (the symlink) and changing the name of the file to the name that the symlink had - the result: symlink is gone.
This is, with respect, complete rubbish. Most "clueless users" have other things to do and don't want their computer getting in the way. Not everyone is an anally retentive command-line nerd, or has dreams about being one. I shudder reading this guy's Linux experiences. I wouldn't use it as it is now. My life is too short.
Are you saying, that you don't have time to learn using tools, that can save you time? I see...
Isn't it so, that quantum cryptography prevents attacker from obtaining the message without being noticed, but does not stop attacker that does not care whether he is noticed?
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And this is what it looks like .
The GP was wrong. The correct URL is http://www.turnofftheinternet.com/. Unfortunately it does not look that nice in current version of FF as it did in some older IE6.
The same thing happened in Slovakia in October 1994. A political party (HZDS), that won the election, was unable to get a clear majority in parliament. During second session of parliament HZDS started voting about leading position of all significant offices. The session lasted 22 hours and ended in the morning. There were 86 out of 150 members of parliament present. Only 3 belonged to opposition. During that night HZDS and its allies got control of state controlled TV and radio, committee tasked with oversight of secret service, the general attorney, chairmen and deputies of Supreme Audit Office, National Property Fund etc etc. All together 38 positions. The country went into political isolation for 8 years. The event is known here as "Night of long knives" after similar event in Nazi Germany.
Obviously Mr. Sarkozy learns from history.
Which attitude? The one of Linux or the one of critics-that-don't-want-to-roll-up-the-sleeves?
That sucks.
Right. The GP mistook 3.4 for 4.3. The Release schedule for 4.3 is not yet defined. Just like Release goals. The Feature plan does not list kdevelop/quanta/k3b.
Slackware moved KDE4 from testing into -current only a few weeks ago. So I was expecting that it is considered ready for general use. I was disappointed to find out, that the major applications such as KDevelop, Quanta and K3B are missing. And they will not come out soon either. KDE 4.2.2 will be released in a few days and still it will not contain KDevelop/Quanta/K3B. There are no dates given beyond KDE 4.2.2. KDE 4.0 was released in January 2008 (with alfa and beta releases published months before that). A year later the major apps are not ported. The change is too drastic if the major applications can't catch up in reasonable timeframe.
All you need to do is to use AF_UNSPEC instead of forcing IPv4 in following piece of code.
No other changes needed to make your app IPv6 ready. IMHO.
- ... Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. ...
- Come on officer. You behave like a toddler!
Fridge is an amazing thing. Without electricity any food in the fridge is of no use in 2-3 days. I live in a town of 60000 people. Let's guess that is 20000 fridges. Can you imagine 20000 generators (with fuel) that can supply the fridges with electricity? I can't. If there was 600 cows/pigs in our town, then we would have 1 kg of meat per man. That lasts what? Three days? I doubt there is 600 cows/pigs in my town. How long can be the potatoes (or any vegetables or fruit) kept fresh in 20 C or higier temperatures?
I know that people managed to do without fridges in 19th century. I don't think that that lifestyle can be re-applied now.
The system replied with something like:
The memories still make me chuckle ;-)
That it. I have enough. I'm starting to make backups. Some of them offsite.
Are you kidding? What about multi-vitamins tabs? Should I be worried when I take them to place having "zero drug tolerance policy" ? What about vitamin-rich skin care cream? May I bring a iron-rich spinach leaves, please?
What happened to that girl is unacceptable. The fact, that lower-level court did not see that, is unacceptable. The fact, that appeals court ruled by 6-5 vote (i.e. it was not overturned unanimously), is unacceptable. As far as I can see, there are NO people with half a brain in any decision-making posts in US. Starting with foreign policy, through economics and now even in education.
Would you mind to tell me what is the "task name" for terminal services client on Vista? Because no matter what I type in the orb-menu, it does not offer me what I want. Unless I type in "mstsc". Lucky me knowing the name for that from XP.
Second question: did you use KDE4? I admit that it is not that stable as it could, but it does exactly that - you type in the task name and offers you the matching applications - and it displays the name of binary too.
We run a marathon. If I stop now to reconsider my strategy, the other guys will keep going and leave me behind. If I come up with better strategy while thinking, I will make up the loss sooner or later. However the rules are different here: If the gap between the main group and me grows too much, I get disqualified. Now the question is whether I can come up with better strategy at all and whether I can do it before the gap grows too much.
What are you doing here on /. , traitor?
Amazing what a man would do just to get laid.
Why there can't be a mount option for ext4 specifying the commit delay in seconds?
Why KDE needs to write configuration files on startup? I thought that it reads the configuration on startup.
1) I don't check the number of hardlinks on a file I'm going to write to. Perhaps I should. Do you?
2) if the file you are going to update is a symlink, then your suggested action "rename the new file on top of the old one" means removing the old file (the symlink) and changing the name of the file to the name that the symlink had - the result: symlink is gone.
An now imagine that the original file had hard-links. Your suggestion breaks them.
Are you saying, that you don't have time to learn using tools, that can save you time? I see ...
Wow. I don't know if you are right, sir, but you have talent for explaining things. Thanks for that post.
Isn't it so, that quantum cryptography prevents attacker from obtaining the message without being noticed, but does not stop attacker that does not care whether he is noticed?
Exactly! I was told on cryptography class, that having blueprints does not help the attacker at all!
Mod parent UP!