Linux mint does automatically launches a little demon that enables ctrl-alt-backspace, when a graphical session is launched. It's one small and great nicety, present in at least the xfce and mate editions. Interestingly one feature disabled by default is multiple workspaces, but you can change that from panel settings. That's genuinely a feature that can confuse a novice user, but a "power user" can enable it back quickly without jumping through hoops.
Next what? No shading a window via the scroll wheel? Wait.. Crap.
I happen to think that's a crap feature.. I've missed the ability to close a window by double-clicking the "Windows 3.1 menu" on top left, and I didn't find how to do that in the gtk2 clones (mate, xfce, lxde)
Your disk actually had a Windows bootloader with an entry for Windows 8 and an entry for a linux partition, your CDROM drive has either died or can't read the LinuxMint DVD-R, and your USB isn't bootable. You're dead!
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I thought it was pretty dorky already when I had a communal PXE boot into Arkanoid - simply loads a 1440KB MS-DOS 7.10.img with the game and an autoexec.bat that launches the cutemouse driver, the game, and then a REBOOT.COM program. You had to type 'arkanoid' at the : prompt though, else the default was to boot as a LTSP thin client. But you could run it from any thin client, regular computer and even dead computers (unstable, dead hard drive, dead controller etc.)
That was a script kiddie job though (down to donwloading REBOOT.COM rather than making it myself but duh, it's not like typing a one-liner with COPY CON and feeding it to a program called MASM or FASM would have made me smarter. I did fail at booting DOS from iSCSI though, so I must suck. I wanted to run networked doom2 that way, with a universal packet driver.
Dunno why booting Zork from UEFI is so awesome, when UEFI setup program have mouse and graphics support. But it's cool. I don't understand the bitching about C library though, why not just write a DOS clone in less than 4096 bytes and run the DOS version of Zork?, or boot CP/M 86 and run Zork in that.
Dunno what UEFI can do either. With BIOS, PXE, iPXE, VGA or VESA you can already do universal high res graphics and networking, but sorely missing is sound, barring PC speaker or an automatic passthrough of PC speaker sound through the mobo's jack. The worst thing ever is when Sound Blaster emulation was "trusted" by Creative Labs, who bought Ensoniq ONLY so that sound blaster emulation under DOS could stay proprietary to them under threat of lawsuit. (even then I think you would get general midi but not adlib). If a workaround can be written I will be SO much grateful (other that buying a socket 1155 motherboard with ISA slot)
Manufacturer of what? There's flash plugin for sparc, but they stopped at version 11.2.202.223 while the current one on linux is 11.2.202.310 But surely there are other NPAPI plugins than Adobe ones, like the totem or mplayer plugins.
For a web browser, let's see iceweasel 17.0.9 : amd64 armel armhf i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 s390x sparc
uh? I ran a few java applets a few years ago, mostly one yahoo game. What was striking is how smooth the game's little 2D effects were, and it did not use a shit ton of CPU like flash and javascript do. Java is more akin to using a native app, UI can be anything non standard just like flash or elaborate websites. Starting the JVM was slow in 1997, but that long ago, plus we had mode PIO 16 hard drives and 120MHz CPUs.
A shame that Java was plagued with updating/installation and security issues.
Spending money on a bullshit "green" scams does not benefit mankind either. Green energy with Democrats in power is like defense with Republicans in power, a buzzword to facilitate transfer of taxpayer money to private hands.
A non-troll post that would probably not get the same treatment would have been written something like this: "Green energy programs in the past have not been very effective. After spending $90 billion on them, green sources still account for only 7.3% of energy consumption. This will be just yet another waste of money."
These two texts don't purvey the same meaning though, the first one's contempt gives information that he thinks something like the policies are a failure on purpose. There is something interesting and I can relate to it, though maybe from a different perspective than the original poster. Yes bullshit "green" scam is a flamebait, there should be a way to insult democrats and subsidized corporations without the hidden implications from insulting the "green" word. Your message gets ignored in the end, you can write something better next time..
(addressing the issue rather than the meta-issue : from a radical left-wing and pro-environment perspective it seems the so-called green subsdizing is a scam, that looks like Germany's energy policy : huge, arbitraries subsidies and distorting regulations to favor wind and solar, that in effect are corporate welfare paid by everybody and leads to increased CO2 emissions because of the incoherence and actual strong reliance on fossil fuels to make it work. There's an awesome read here http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/high-costs-and-errors-of-german-transition-to-renewable-energy-a-920288.html )
It's unavoidable, but it doesn't happen that much and you can have more trouble when saying KDE is shit. Honestly it's even a common occurrence that opposing viewpoints get both modded up, e.g. a libertarian one and a left wing one. Other modders usually correct the situation when an abusive troll or flamebait has been applied, and the richness of the moderation probably helps a lot : you can always use a neutral mod like 'underrated' or 'interesting'. But you need to hit the home key and click "check for comments" to see it. The real drivel or obvious propaganda is kept at bay too. (with a chance for a wrong downmod still).
There's even some real beauty when someone will mod, but then drop their moderation and opt to answer the comment instead.
Why are people like you so pissy because some homeless people happen to live better than dogs? And why do you feel you have to care? if you want to live your self-centered, hateful and ignorant life then mind your own business.
Please, processor speed is only remotely correlated with MHz. The Raspberry uses an ancient CPU design, made for low power and simplicity above speed. So at matched clockspeed the Atom will be much, much faster. USB networking and storage add CPU overhead, making the Raspberry even worse still - they make for a slow NAS and that's without using encryption or ntfs-3g.
Also if you don't have a TV.. Then you have to cart around a huge ass old CRT TV to use the composite on, negating the low footprint of a pi, both in physical space and power use. So what is it for? You can use an old Pentium II or Pentium III PC if you want a crappy machine, that will be cheaper ($0, but uses more electricity). If you want some headless toy you ssh into, you can have a VM (or a virtual private server). If you want to flash LEDs there's Arduino, though a Pi might be more convenient with ssh and linux. It's great for some projects maybe, homemade industrial stuff, frontend to Arduinos or whatever but not so much as a generic computer toy or children's toy, and it mostly sells to people with too much money who have no idea what they need it for.
There are "da/ad", it's the audio input and output. Audio input can be used as a ghetto ADC for one thing. PCs used to have the joystick connector for that too:)
Purchasing from Iran would be hard, as they don't have a nuclear weapons program. NK does make plutonium based bombs, but just a handful. You won't get much from them. Pu 238 is the finest, most valuable nuclear waste around, rare and mostly obtained from the absurd nuclear weapons production of the US and Soviets. You'd better ask Israel for some of it. I dunno how much you would get, a guess would be maybe just enough for one deep space mission.
These long, hundreds millions or billions years half-lives are precisely why Uranium is not a big radiation hazard. Of course, an operating nuclear reactor or its waste products, that's another matter. The metal toxicity of Uranium is another problem, maybe that's what's causing all those deformed babies born or stillborn in Iraq.
“We discovered that the private mannerisms of most people, if seen in public, would be considered nearly identical to the those of a person with a severe case of schizophrenia,” Gibbon stated. “For example, if you were to witness someone on a subway car obsessively pulling their elbow skin to check its elasticity or see an individual randomly say to themselves, ‘Okay, okay, I’ll call her’ to no one in particular, your immediate reaction would be to think, ‘This person is insane and needs professional help.’”
People do routinely dig ditches, pick up trash and unload trucks (though it's more accurate to say ditches are dug by machines). There are already people doing those jobs, that's the general workforce you dumbnut! And you won't find such a kind of job all that easily in a country with mass unemployment.
If humanity listened to those who think like you, humanity would likely already be extinct or still running and hiding from predators in Africa while dying before reaching 30, and Neanderthals would still occupy Europe.
Uh, Neanderthals were the closest known species to the current one, with interbreeding.
Why do you assume resources are unlimited in your shitty space habitat on Lagrange, and limited in underground Earth or the oceans? It's making no fucking sense. Endless energy sources : check, nuclear and geothermal. Huge amount of materials : the Earth is quite bigger than your asteroid. Nice metals and stuff in asteroids I guess, but how can MOVING an asteroid to Lagrange points be possibly a net economic gain? Biopshere and geomagnetic shielding : it's going on much better on Earth thanks. If anything, it will only take a big solar flare to disrupt your space colony's vital and you'll die a horrible death.
nvidia released a Windows 8 driver for the geforce 6/7 (including geforce 6100/7025 chipsets), they have a history of being the vendor which provides longest support for GPUs. It's true the Tegra 5 will be much better though in allowing e.g. running real linux (so that you can run grand stuff like blender and, er, openarena)
Funnily it was a superior platform for playing FPS games, Goldeneye was the apex of FPS gaming on a console. You could aim, and there was some nice difficulty, environment, mission based rather than a movie-like rail and cutscene game from start to finish.
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Linux mint does automatically launches a little demon that enables ctrl-alt-backspace, when a graphical session is launched. It's one small and great nicety, present in at least the xfce and mate editions.
Interestingly one feature disabled by default is multiple workspaces, but you can change that from panel settings. That's genuinely a feature that can confuse a novice user, but a "power user" can enable it back quickly without jumping through hoops.
Next what? No shading a window via the scroll wheel? Wait.. Crap.
I happen to think that's a crap feature.. I've missed the ability to close a window by double-clicking the "Windows 3.1 menu" on top left, and I didn't find how to do that in the gtk2 clones (mate, xfce, lxde)
Also the third mouse button was used for secondary fire in Unreal Tournament (under windows 9x)
Your disk actually had a Windows bootloader with an entry for Windows 8 and an entry for a linux partition, your CDROM drive has either died or can't read the LinuxMint DVD-R, and your USB isn't bootable.
You're dead!
I thought it was pretty dorky already when I had a communal PXE boot into Arkanoid - simply loads a 1440KB MS-DOS 7.10 .img with the game and an autoexec.bat that launches the cutemouse driver, the game, and then a REBOOT.COM program. You had to type 'arkanoid' at the : prompt though, else the default was to boot as a LTSP thin client.
But you could run it from any thin client, regular computer and even dead computers (unstable, dead hard drive, dead controller etc.)
That was a script kiddie job though (down to donwloading REBOOT.COM rather than making it myself but duh, it's not like typing a one-liner with COPY CON and feeding it to a program called MASM or FASM would have made me smarter. I did fail at booting DOS from iSCSI though, so I must suck. I wanted to run networked doom2 that way, with a universal packet driver.
Dunno why booting Zork from UEFI is so awesome, when UEFI setup program have mouse and graphics support. But it's cool. I don't understand the bitching about C library though, why not just write a DOS clone in less than 4096 bytes and run the DOS version of Zork?, or boot CP/M 86 and run Zork in that.
Dunno what UEFI can do either. With BIOS, PXE, iPXE, VGA or VESA you can already do universal high res graphics and networking, but sorely missing is sound, barring PC speaker or an automatic passthrough of PC speaker sound through the mobo's jack. The worst thing ever is when Sound Blaster emulation was "trusted" by Creative Labs, who bought Ensoniq ONLY so that sound blaster emulation under DOS could stay proprietary to them under threat of lawsuit. (even then I think you would get general midi but not adlib). If a workaround can be written I will be SO much grateful (other that buying a socket 1155 motherboard with ISA slot)
Perhaps it was about keeping a student status so the administrative aspects of being able to be there were easier.
Manufacturer of what?
There's flash plugin for sparc, but they stopped at version 11.2.202.223 while the current one on linux is 11.2.202.310
But surely there are other NPAPI plugins than Adobe ones, like the totem or mplayer plugins.
For a web browser, let's see iceweasel 17.0.9 :
amd64 armel armhf i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 s390x sparc
Great idea, let's serve a html renderer in javascript to render a website in the browser in a consistent way and without extraneous features.
uh?
I ran a few java applets a few years ago, mostly one yahoo game. What was striking is how smooth the game's little 2D effects were, and it did not use a shit ton of CPU like flash and javascript do. Java is more akin to using a native app, UI can be anything non standard just like flash or elaborate websites. Starting the JVM was slow in 1997, but that long ago, plus we had mode PIO 16 hard drives and 120MHz CPUs.
A shame that Java was plagued with updating/installation and security issues.
Spending money on a bullshit "green" scams does not benefit mankind either. Green energy with Democrats in power is like defense with Republicans in power, a buzzword to facilitate transfer of taxpayer money to private hands.
A non-troll post that would probably not get the same treatment would have been written something like this:
"Green energy programs in the past have not been very effective. After spending $90 billion on them, green sources still account for only 7.3% of energy consumption. This will be just yet another waste of money."
These two texts don't purvey the same meaning though, the first one's contempt gives information that he thinks something like the policies are a failure on purpose. There is something interesting and I can relate to it, though maybe from a different perspective than the original poster. Yes bullshit "green" scam is a flamebait, there should be a way to insult democrats and subsidized corporations without the hidden implications from insulting the "green" word. Your message gets ignored in the end, you can write something better next time..
(addressing the issue rather than the meta-issue : from a radical left-wing and pro-environment perspective it seems the so-called green subsdizing is a scam, that looks like Germany's energy policy : huge, arbitraries subsidies and distorting regulations to favor wind and solar, that in effect are corporate welfare paid by everybody and leads to increased CO2 emissions because of the incoherence and actual strong reliance on fossil fuels to make it work. There's an awesome read here http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/high-costs-and-errors-of-german-transition-to-renewable-energy-a-920288.html )
It's unavoidable, but it doesn't happen that much and you can have more trouble when saying KDE is shit.
Honestly it's even a common occurrence that opposing viewpoints get both modded up, e.g. a libertarian one and a left wing one. Other modders usually correct the situation when an abusive troll or flamebait has been applied, and the richness of the moderation probably helps a lot : you can always use a neutral mod like 'underrated' or 'interesting'. But you need to hit the home key and click "check for comments" to see it.
The real drivel or obvious propaganda is kept at bay too. (with a chance for a wrong downmod still).
There's even some real beauty when someone will mod, but then drop their moderation and opt to answer the comment instead.
A homeless already has to guard his shoes and backpack with his life all day and night.
Why are people like you so pissy because some homeless people happen to live better than dogs?
And why do you feel you have to care? if you want to live your self-centered, hateful and ignorant life then mind your own business.
Please, processor speed is only remotely correlated with MHz. The Raspberry uses an ancient CPU design, made for low power and simplicity above speed. So at matched clockspeed the Atom will be much, much faster. USB networking and storage add CPU overhead, making the Raspberry even worse still - they make for a slow NAS and that's without using encryption or ntfs-3g.
Also if you don't have a TV.. Then you have to cart around a huge ass old CRT TV to use the composite on, negating the low footprint of a pi, both in physical space and power use. So what is it for? You can use an old Pentium II or Pentium III PC if you want a crappy machine, that will be cheaper ($0, but uses more electricity). If you want some headless toy you ssh into, you can have a VM (or a virtual private server). If you want to flash LEDs there's Arduino, though a Pi might be more convenient with ssh and linux. It's great for some projects maybe, homemade industrial stuff, frontend to Arduinos or whatever but not so much as a generic computer toy or children's toy, and it mostly sells to people with too much money who have no idea what they need it for.
Microsoft made the netbook gain a hard drive and sell umpty millions.
There are "da/ad", it's the audio input and output. Audio input can be used as a ghetto ADC for one thing. PCs used to have the joystick connector for that too :)
Purchasing from Iran would be hard, as they don't have a nuclear weapons program.
NK does make plutonium based bombs, but just a handful. You won't get much from them. Pu 238 is the finest, most valuable nuclear waste around, rare and mostly obtained from the absurd nuclear weapons production of the US and Soviets. You'd better ask Israel for some of it. I dunno how much you would get, a guess would be maybe just enough for one deep space mission.
These long, hundreds millions or billions years half-lives are precisely why Uranium is not a big radiation hazard. Of course, an operating nuclear reactor or its waste products, that's another matter. The metal toxicity of Uranium is another problem, maybe that's what's causing all those deformed babies born or stillborn in Iraq.
Check this out then : most of the general population is made of psychotic, mentally ill maniacs. Study: Average Person Becomes Unhinged Psychotic When Alone In Own House
“We discovered that the private mannerisms of most people, if seen in public, would be considered nearly identical to the those of a person with a severe case of schizophrenia,” Gibbon stated. “For example, if you were to witness someone on a subway car obsessively pulling their elbow skin to check its elasticity or see an individual randomly say to themselves, ‘Okay, okay, I’ll call her’ to no one in particular, your immediate reaction would be to think, ‘This person is insane and needs professional help.’”
People do routinely dig ditches, pick up trash and unload trucks (though it's more accurate to say ditches are dug by machines). There are already people doing those jobs, that's the general workforce you dumbnut! And you won't find such a kind of job all that easily in a country with mass unemployment.
vital systems, I meant.
If humanity listened to those who think like you, humanity would likely already be extinct or still running and hiding from predators in Africa while dying before reaching 30, and Neanderthals would still occupy Europe.
Uh, Neanderthals were the closest known species to the current one, with interbreeding.
Why do you assume resources are unlimited in your shitty space habitat on Lagrange, and limited in underground Earth or the oceans? It's making no fucking sense. Endless energy sources : check, nuclear and geothermal. Huge amount of materials : the Earth is quite bigger than your asteroid. Nice metals and stuff in asteroids I guess, but how can MOVING an asteroid to Lagrange points be possibly a net economic gain? Biopshere and geomagnetic shielding : it's going on much better on Earth thanks.
If anything, it will only take a big solar flare to disrupt your space colony's vital and you'll die a horrible death.
nvidia released a Windows 8 driver for the geforce 6/7 (including geforce 6100/7025 chipsets), they have a history of being the vendor which provides longest support for GPUs. It's true the Tegra 5 will be much better though in allowing e.g. running real linux (so that you can run grand stuff like blender and, er, openarena)
Does this thing have USB host?, so you can plug in USB peripherals. That would be nice to have on such a powerful computer.
Funnily it was a superior platform for playing FPS games, Goldeneye was the apex of FPS gaming on a console. You could aim, and there was some nice difficulty, environment, mission based rather than a movie-like rail and cutscene game from start to finish.