Since my ISP imposed a 2GB per month limit I've stopped using it altogether.
Hopefully that limit is just for usenet, and not your total connection
I just looked at my pfsense RRD graphs for the last 16 hours and I have transfered over 2.5 GB...
No, that's too easy. First, think up a really super cool idea. Second, make some sort of web service implementing that really super cool idea. Third, make up some cool name like twitter, meebo, digg, xylax, or whatever. Finally, make it open source and then tell the person interviewing you to go download the code and look for himself. Oh--and tell him you get more hits per day than Google.
Ironic you bring this up when thedailywtf.com posted this little bit today.
I stopped reading thedailywtf.com after I realized how bullshit his stories are.
I submitted a story that went along the lines of "Adam went to Bob's house to help him with a problem. He couldn't find the 'any' key, so Adam told him he could actually press any key."
After Alex Pampadopolioiiusijhoweverthefuckyouspellit finished with his editing and posted the story, it ended up including someone named Charlie who hated both Adam and Bob, and got pissed off about the any key, so he went and burned down Microsoft HQ.
Bad form to reply to my own comment, but I just realized the equivalent is the "Add/Remove Windows Components" section of the "Add/Remove Programs" control panel.
It lets you install some of the modular components in windows--the down side is that it usually requires a CD instead of downloading the 'packages' from the 'net.
Are there any good windows alternatives, or is it simply not needed thanks to windows having many a dedicated installation packaging program?
There really isn't an equivalent in Windows. I would imagine that it's because Linux is very modular, and almost all the software is free. Windows developers charge money and want you using their installer which (in some cases) requires license keys, etc...
It would be cool though if someone build a front-end for the Windows Installer (msiexec) that would let you 1-click download and install some of the open-source apps out there that are packaged as MSIs. (Think OpenOffice, Java, etc...)
Windows Software Update Services 3.0
Hell--I can restrict or allow any updates on the corporate network that I want!
(...as long as Microsoft gives me permission.)
before you understand something you shouldn't just state it. Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe that A) the elders are always right. and B) they do NOT teach everyone one is going to heaven. They teach that only a select few a going to heaven to reign as priests and judges, and the rest of mankind who made God happy and followed his laws, will live forever on a paradise earth.
You're right--I didn't word that correctly. If you go against that board of elders, you don't get into paradise.
For all I know there's more than one sect in that religion, but that's what they are teaching my wife's father.
We naturally assume the priesthood to be of good intention..
There's the problem. Man is fallible.
Any religion that would make salvation by a perfect being dependent on human imperfection it wrong.
(Catholics require a priest to absolve sins, Jehova's Witnesses have whatever they call that 'board of elders' that are always right and if you go against them you aren't going to heaven, etc...)
If there is a perfect God, and I was the lone survivor of a shipwreck/plane crash/whatever on an island, these religions would have you believe you're going to hell because you don't have a priest, elder, or whatever to save you.
now there is a monster that will get me riled up. Pepsi... disgusting stuff...
I like pepsi personally--I just wish restaurants didn't have to sign a contract for one or the other. Why can't they have both softdrinks? It's like Microsoft--but in softdrink form.
"Think about what ads in web-search did for Google."
Shame that is a radically different market. I mean really, while your shooting at Diablo are you going to stop and click on an Add to 'Al's Archery supply'
With Google, people are in the mindset that they will be looking at web pages already.
Well then, good news. Instead of seeing ads while shooting at diablo, you'll be fighting Diablo III's newest monster. The flying Pepsi can monster.
Guess it depends, if they said that they expect it to cost $X Million to make it for Linux, and if they got enough pre-orders to meet the cost, then they would start working on porting it over to linux. But then they have the hassle of refunding everyone if they don't meet the $X million in pre-orders.
Not a big deal. Go to any bank and say "over the next year I plan to have people deposit money which I will hold on to until such time as I need to spend it or refund it. Also, I expect at least $100,000 to be in there within the first month. Can you give me a great interest rate?"
The bank will say "hell yeah", and even if Blizzard has to refund everyone, there should be more than enough interest to pay for the trouble. Alternatively, they could say that $2 of your 'pre-order' is non-refundable to help cover transfer fees, etc... I'd still pre-order.
Pydev is entirely open source, licensed under the Free EPL. Pydev Extensions, however, is the commercial side of this product. It sounds like someone grabbed the wrong plugin.
Meh. Odd how I could have grabbed the wrong plugin by typing 'apt-get install eclipse eclipse-pydev'
Maybe the free pydev extension tries to get you to install the non-free extensions.
I keep trying to get away from eclipse, but you guys just keep dragging me back in.;)
I know I'm double-replying to you, but after I installed eclipse and pydev and fired everything up, eclipse said there were updates. So I clicked to install them, and then the license agreement popped up for pydev. It said pydev is not free and I am using a 30-day evaluation version, after that I have to purchase it.
...and that ends my looking at eclipse for python development.
1: Well you don't have to code java, so that should not matter.
I'll amend my statement. I despise coding in java, and I avoid running java apps whenever possible.;)
2: I don't think eclipse is that bad. It currently use less memmory then my Firefox 3.
Actually, this is the first time I've run eclipse on Ubuntu 8.04. It uses waaaay less memory that it did under previous versions, and it started quickly too.
3: Have you looked at eclipse? They use swt which mean that for linux they use real gtk widgets. (Swt is a wrapped to the native widget set of the platform. They even used to mave a swt-motif wrapper but that was stopped for some reason:}
Yeah--the interface is all curvey and stuff--but I just can't stand it personally. I think it's ugly as sin.
4: What java version was that? My eclipse only use a few seconds to start with sun jre 1.5, but if you used it with the gcj that comes as default with most linux, that might be your problem. Gcj+eclipse=Really Really bad!. (And crashing and throwing exceptions and other hell).
Whatever came with Ubuntu 7.10. I don't think it ever crashed on me, it was just slow as hell.
I suppose I'll give it a shot under 8.04 and see how well it works. It still doesn't take care of requirement 1 thought...;)
Of course I'll take java any day over.NET/mono on any platform.
Any specific reason you do not want to use Eclipse?
1. I despise Java.
2. Every single Java app from an IDE, all the way down to a text editor carries this bulky framework with it that immediately consumes all the memory in my system. It doesn't matter if I'm running it on Windows or Linux.
3. All Java apps are ugly as sin. And it's not that they just lack 'beauty', but I think they actually go out of the way to try and hurt the user. (Remember these Dilbert strips? dilbert-20020923dilbert-20020924 (I am also aware of the irony that my website looks like absolute crap. I am not a UI designer.)
4. It's a pain in the ass to start developing in Python when using Eclipse. Maybe it's just me, but it takes FOREVER to get Eclipse started, setup, and to begin developing.
I'm not trying to start a flamewar, but I toggle back and forth between vi and kate (but mostly vi) because the UI isn't horrible, and it's quick to start developing. Plus vi is easy to use when I'm connected to a remote machine to make some quick changes or debugging.
You don't even need to lay out the cash. Go try out Kdevelop, and file bugs. KDE 4.1 is around the corner, and they are seriously fixing bugs like crazy. I filed probably 20 in the past week, and five or so are already closed. Now's the time.
Maybe it's time to dust off kdevelop again and give it a shot. The last time I tried it was probably a year ago, and I couldn't stand it. Although I am taking a liking to the new KomodoEdit ActiveState recently open sourced.
On the other hand, I think many home Linux PC users aren't necessarily running ancient hardware, just something with an old enough graphics card and "only" 1 GB of RAM or less that just doesn't cut the requirements I presume Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 will have.
True, however instead of having to pay for the game, pay for a new machine including graphics hardware, and then pay for Windows, I can just pay for the game some graphics hardware, and maybe more RAM. Still much cheaper than buying a new system and Windows just so I can play Diablo.
1. Linux desktop users make up a tremendously small portion of the home PC market. The development effort to port everything to Linux and support it is likely not to cover the added costs.
True. But if Blizzard were to do something along the lines of accepting payments for a linux version of Diablo II at a slightly higher cost than the Windows version, we could speak with our pocketbooks. They could accept the money with the understanding that if they didn't receive enough funds to provide a linux version, we would get our money back. If they did receive enough funds, we get the game because we've 'pre-ordered' it.
2. Many people run Linux at home to get good use of hardware that can't handle Microsoft XP or Vista. Most modern games wouldn't run on those machines even if they were ported to Linux.
I would bet that's a small number. Sure, there are people out there who still have their 486SX running an ancient version of slackware because they don't want to throw away a 'perfectly good machine' or whatever--but the majority of Linux users out there most-likely have 'average' hardware in their systems. It's not the 'top of the line' crap you need to run Vista simply because Linux doesn't require that. If game developers start writing great games for Linux that require more horsepower, people will start buying more and more powerful Linux boxen.
3. A portion of the Linux user-base are free software advocates, so some are philosophically opposed to purchasing proprietary software.
Once again, I'd bet that's a small number. I started using Linux because it was free and I didn't want to pay for Windows again. (Can't transfer your OEM copy of Windows to a new machine.) But I do pay for applications. I bought moneydance because it's a decent home finance package. All the 'free' versions for Linux suck. If someone came out with a development IDE similar to Visual Studio (circa 2002) that handled python, javascript, and HTML, I would lay down some cash.
It boils down to the fact that there are some great open source applications out there--but when there's a void that can be filled by a commercial product, a lot of people will consider buying it. And those zelots that are running Linux because it's 'free' are also the kind of users who won't run windows or buy Diablo because it isn't 'free', so we can leave them out of the picture.
Seriously though--Blizzard should open up pre-orders for Diablo III and StarCraft II on Linux. I'd bet there's enough demand to make it worth their while.
Damnit. I just spent the last 30 minutes trying to find that stupid ascii of a stick figure with a joke flying over his head to point out that I totally missed it--but how the f*ck do you search for a stick figure on google??
IE7 and Firefox are basically equal in terms of features, unless you care about add-ons
...or that when IE7 crashes I lose all my tabs. ...or I close a tab accidentally in IE7 and want it back...no undo. ...or how IE7 uses totally intuitive shortcuts like when I right-click on a link and expect to his 't' for opening a new tab, but IE7 uses the totally intuitive 'w' for new tab which should actually be for new window. ...or how I can't change those keys in IE7 to suit my preference.
Slashdot Mirror
Since my ISP imposed a 2GB per month limit I've stopped using it altogether.
Hopefully that limit is just for usenet, and not your total connection
I just looked at my pfsense RRD graphs for the last 16 hours and I have transfered over 2.5 GB...
Someone else's code
No, that's too easy. First, think up a really super cool idea. Second, make some sort of web service implementing that really super cool idea. Third, make up some cool name like twitter, meebo, digg, xylax, or whatever. Finally, make it open source and then tell the person interviewing you to go download the code and look for himself. Oh--and tell him you get more hits per day than Google.
Ironic you bring this up when thedailywtf.com posted this little bit today.
I stopped reading thedailywtf.com after I realized how bullshit his stories are.
I submitted a story that went along the lines of "Adam went to Bob's house to help him with a problem. He couldn't find the 'any' key, so Adam told him he could actually press any key."
After Alex Pampadopolioiiusijhoweverthefuckyouspellit finished with his editing and posted the story, it ended up including someone named Charlie who hated both Adam and Bob, and got pissed off about the any key, so he went and burned down Microsoft HQ.
That's the real WTF.
There really isn't an equivalent in Windows.
Bad form to reply to my own comment, but I just realized the equivalent is the "Add/Remove Windows Components" section of the "Add/Remove Programs" control panel.
It lets you install some of the modular components in windows--the down side is that it usually requires a CD instead of downloading the 'packages' from the 'net.
Are there any good windows alternatives, or is it simply not needed thanks to windows having many a dedicated installation packaging program?
There really isn't an equivalent in Windows. I would imagine that it's because Linux is very modular, and almost all the software is free. Windows developers charge money and want you using their installer which (in some cases) requires license keys, etc...
It would be cool though if someone build a front-end for the Windows Installer (msiexec) that would let you 1-click download and install some of the open-source apps out there that are packaged as MSIs. (Think OpenOffice, Java, etc...)
True, I can't set up a bogus mirror for Windows
Windows Software Update Services 3.0
Hell--I can restrict or allow any updates on the corporate network that I want!
(...as long as Microsoft gives me permission.)
before you understand something you shouldn't just state it. Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe that A) the elders are always right. and B) they do NOT teach everyone one is going to heaven. They teach that only a select few a going to heaven to reign as priests and judges, and the rest of mankind who made God happy and followed his laws, will live forever on a paradise earth.
You're right--I didn't word that correctly. If you go against that board of elders, you don't get into paradise.
For all I know there's more than one sect in that religion, but that's what they are teaching my wife's father.
We naturally assume the priesthood to be of good intention..
There's the problem. Man is fallible.
Any religion that would make salvation by a perfect being dependent on human imperfection it wrong.
(Catholics require a priest to absolve sins, Jehova's Witnesses have whatever they call that 'board of elders' that are always right and if you go against them you aren't going to heaven, etc...)
If there is a perfect God, and I was the lone survivor of a shipwreck/plane crash/whatever on an island, these religions would have you believe you're going to hell because you don't have a priest, elder, or whatever to save you.
now there is a monster that will get me riled up. Pepsi... disgusting stuff...
I like pepsi personally--I just wish restaurants didn't have to sign a contract for one or the other. Why can't they have both softdrinks? It's like Microsoft--but in softdrink form.
"Think about what ads in web-search did for Google."
Shame that is a radically different market. I mean really, while your shooting at Diablo are you going to stop and click on an Add to 'Al's Archery supply'
With Google, people are in the mindset that they will be looking at web pages already.
Well then, good news. Instead of seeing ads while shooting at diablo, you'll be fighting Diablo III's newest monster. The flying Pepsi can monster.
Philosophically speaking, it applies to all people
...all people, except the people trying to deny those rights to others.
...what? I'm sure you know this, but Cyrillic is the alphabet that written Russian uses.
;)
Yes. Perhaps you missed my humorous combining of the words 'pornography' and 'hieroglyphics'.
This probably explains why my ICQ account gets at least one or two random spam add requests in Cyrillic every day.
Cyrillic? So that's the fancy way of saying pornoglyphics?
Every single add request I get contains a URL--usually to a porn site.
Guess it depends, if they said that they expect it to cost $X Million to make it for Linux, and if they got enough pre-orders to meet the cost, then they would start working on porting it over to linux. But then they have the hassle of refunding everyone if they don't meet the $X million in pre-orders.
Not a big deal. Go to any bank and say "over the next year I plan to have people deposit money which I will hold on to until such time as I need to spend it or refund it. Also, I expect at least $100,000 to be in there within the first month. Can you give me a great interest rate?"
The bank will say "hell yeah", and even if Blizzard has to refund everyone, there should be more than enough interest to pay for the trouble. Alternatively, they could say that $2 of your 'pre-order' is non-refundable to help cover transfer fees, etc... I'd still pre-order.
Pydev is entirely open source, licensed under the Free EPL. Pydev Extensions, however, is the commercial side of this product. It sounds like someone grabbed the wrong plugin.
;)
Meh. Odd how I could have grabbed the wrong plugin by typing 'apt-get install eclipse eclipse-pydev'
Maybe the free pydev extension tries to get you to install the non-free extensions.
I keep trying to get away from eclipse, but you guys just keep dragging me back in.
Have you looked at eclipse?
...and that ends my looking at eclipse for python development.
I know I'm double-replying to you, but after I installed eclipse and pydev and fired everything up, eclipse said there were updates. So I clicked to install them, and then the license agreement popped up for pydev. It said pydev is not free and I am using a 30-day evaluation version, after that I have to purchase it.
1: Well you don't have to code java, so that should not matter.
;)
:}
;)
.NET/mono on any platform.
I'll amend my statement. I despise coding in java, and I avoid running java apps whenever possible.
2: I don't think eclipse is that bad. It currently use less memmory then my Firefox 3.
Actually, this is the first time I've run eclipse on Ubuntu 8.04. It uses waaaay less memory that it did under previous versions, and it started quickly too.
3: Have you looked at eclipse? They use swt which mean that for linux they use real gtk widgets. (Swt is a wrapped to the native widget set of the platform. They even used to mave a swt-motif wrapper but that was stopped for some reason
Yeah--the interface is all curvey and stuff--but I just can't stand it personally. I think it's ugly as sin.
4: What java version was that? My eclipse only use a few seconds to start with sun jre 1.5, but if you used it with the gcj that comes as default with most linux, that might be your problem. Gcj+eclipse=Really Really bad!. (And crashing and throwing exceptions and other hell).
Whatever came with Ubuntu 7.10. I don't think it ever crashed on me, it was just slow as hell.
I suppose I'll give it a shot under 8.04 and see how well it works. It still doesn't take care of requirement 1 thought...
Of course I'll take java any day over
Any specific reason you do not want to use Eclipse?
1. I despise Java.
2. Every single Java app from an IDE, all the way down to a text editor carries this bulky framework with it that immediately consumes all the memory in my system. It doesn't matter if I'm running it on Windows or Linux.
3. All Java apps are ugly as sin. And it's not that they just lack 'beauty', but I think they actually go out of the way to try and hurt the user. (Remember these Dilbert strips? dilbert-20020923 dilbert-20020924 (I am also aware of the irony that my website looks like absolute crap. I am not a UI designer.)
4. It's a pain in the ass to start developing in Python when using Eclipse. Maybe it's just me, but it takes FOREVER to get Eclipse started, setup, and to begin developing.
I'm not trying to start a flamewar, but I toggle back and forth between vi and kate (but mostly vi) because the UI isn't horrible, and it's quick to start developing. Plus vi is easy to use when I'm connected to a remote machine to make some quick changes or debugging.
You don't even need to lay out the cash. Go try out Kdevelop, and file bugs. KDE 4.1 is around the corner, and they are seriously fixing bugs like crazy. I filed probably 20 in the past week, and five or so are already closed. Now's the time.
Maybe it's time to dust off kdevelop again and give it a shot. The last time I tried it was probably a year ago, and I couldn't stand it. Although I am taking a liking to the new KomodoEdit ActiveState recently open sourced.
On the other hand, I think many home Linux PC users aren't necessarily running ancient hardware, just something with an old enough graphics card and "only" 1 GB of RAM or less that just doesn't cut the requirements I presume Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 will have.
True, however instead of having to pay for the game, pay for a new machine including graphics hardware, and then pay for Windows, I can just pay for the game some graphics hardware, and maybe more RAM. Still much cheaper than buying a new system and Windows just so I can play Diablo.
1. Linux desktop users make up a tremendously small portion of the home PC market. The development effort to port everything to Linux and support it is likely not to cover the added costs.
True. But if Blizzard were to do something along the lines of accepting payments for a linux version of Diablo II at a slightly higher cost than the Windows version, we could speak with our pocketbooks. They could accept the money with the understanding that if they didn't receive enough funds to provide a linux version, we would get our money back. If they did receive enough funds, we get the game because we've 'pre-ordered' it.
2. Many people run Linux at home to get good use of hardware that can't handle Microsoft XP or Vista. Most modern games wouldn't run on those machines even if they were ported to Linux.
I would bet that's a small number. Sure, there are people out there who still have their 486SX running an ancient version of slackware because they don't want to throw away a 'perfectly good machine' or whatever--but the majority of Linux users out there most-likely have 'average' hardware in their systems. It's not the 'top of the line' crap you need to run Vista simply because Linux doesn't require that. If game developers start writing great games for Linux that require more horsepower, people will start buying more and more powerful Linux boxen.
3. A portion of the Linux user-base are free software advocates, so some are philosophically opposed to purchasing proprietary software.
Once again, I'd bet that's a small number. I started using Linux because it was free and I didn't want to pay for Windows again. (Can't transfer your OEM copy of Windows to a new machine.) But I do pay for applications. I bought moneydance because it's a decent home finance package. All the 'free' versions for Linux suck. If someone came out with a development IDE similar to Visual Studio (circa 2002) that handled python, javascript, and HTML, I would lay down some cash.
It boils down to the fact that there are some great open source applications out there--but when there's a void that can be filled by a commercial product, a lot of people will consider buying it. And those zelots that are running Linux because it's 'free' are also the kind of users who won't run windows or buy Diablo because it isn't 'free', so we can leave them out of the picture.
Seriously though--Blizzard should open up pre-orders for Diablo III and StarCraft II on Linux. I'd bet there's enough demand to make it worth their while.
It was a poor attempt at a joke.
Damnit. I just spent the last 30 minutes trying to find that stupid ascii of a stick figure with a joke flying over his head to point out that I totally missed it--but how the f*ck do you search for a stick figure on google??
I probably could have drawn it in 30 minutes...
IE7's UI is several huge steps backwards, for no apparent reason.
;)
It has a reason--it's the bastard step-child of the new Office Ribbon Bar...
That's poopycock. Keybindings are not hard to change in Windows.
Apparently I'm an idiot then. Care to tell me how I can remap 't' in IE7's context menu to open a new tab?
IE7 and Firefox are basically equal in terms of features, unless you care about add-ons
...or that when IE7 crashes I lose all my tabs.
...or I close a tab accidentally in IE7 and want it back...no undo.
...or how IE7 uses totally intuitive shortcuts like when I right-click on a link and expect to his 't' for opening a new tab, but IE7 uses the totally intuitive 'w' for new tab which should actually be for new window.
...or how I can't change those keys in IE7 to suit my preference.
Do I need to continue?