I think of myself as almost vegetarian, only you visit a friend and are presented with a preparation containing beef, what are you going to do? well, eat it. But I think I want to be similar to a "pescatarian", not eating too much fish (there's not enough fish in the oceans, now) but willing to eat poultry. That's because chicken are pretty energy efficient and dumb enough, and quickly killed I guess. Else, eggs and dairy could be enough. The problem about cheese is, not only the reaction is kickstarted with an animal product from calf's stomach, but we know (I hope) what happens to the cows, they don't die of old age. So I could make a moral choice of eating meat from dumb animal and not eating cheese (but I'm afraid I like cheese too much, and living on bread and cheese can be great)
It sometimes happens, in France too, that someone runs a "micro-business" (i.e. no employee, there's only the business owner) and ends up depending on a single, big, crucial "client".. working on the client's premises, etc. Needless to say, the "independant", "self owned business" guy is fucked. You end up with all the duties of an employee and none of the rights.
The "self employed" guy simply has no bargaining power whatsoever, if he's just getting by and struggling to support himself, or herself. Of course this all depends on the kind of work done and on each particular situation. Some cases are egregious and an "entrepreneur" who is actually a disguised employee (with employee-like, subordination constraints on the contract that links him to his "client") can get this all overturned by a judge and become an actual employee, at least in theory.
Sounds like the flash plugin hijacking the keyboard? That's nothing new, and I thought it was by design. Just use flashblock, which makes the issue both less common and more obvious - you can't do ctrl-t when in a flash object, but hell you don't expect every key combo to work when you're running a VM in virtualbox or something, either. Your key presses are trapped by the VM. As for the Firefox UI it's stayed the same since Firefox 4 and you've been able to move buttons and bars around since even longer than that.
I don't need more aggressive people, now I'll fear people with smartphones are out there to stalk me and shoot me and that the devices are concealed weapons. I know they have "point and shoot" cameras.
You could build a B-1 with passenger seats and no radar-evading skin and sell it if you wanted.
There was the Concorde already, not a very useful plane. It's like they made it and operated it (the french and british) just so that people can fap at it. A bit like the space shuttle. Waste of money and time.
1280x2160 might be just over the spec that a single-link DVI or HDMI equipment can do. 1920x1200 or 2048x1152 are about max res, 2160x1280 would be resp. 20% and 17% more pixels than that. So in your suggestion, instead of two simultaneous high bandwith links, found on latest gen graphics cards/integrated GPU (not all of them, ommitting the displayport connector is popular), you now need three high bandwith links.
Worst thing about a 1080p monitor is web sites are annoyingly wide in a maximized web browser. Coupled with lousy panels and leaky lighting, on the cheap panels at least, that can make a rather bad browsing experience. You can size the window so it takes about three quarters of your display area, now you have other windows/desktop icons and the like showing, which is ugly and distracting. And not that much space left for other apps (what are you going to do in a width of 500 or 600 pixels?),
Make uninstall is sometimes available and sometimes, probably most times, not. While you tried to be a dick, I guess the suggestion to use synaptic is useful, I will install it on my system. Yes there's some binary stuff.. the DeadBeef music player (statically linked) is distributed as such (just a tarball), the author probably thought packaging it the regular way would be a pain in the ass/supported on too few distro versions.
I would have to switch from my 2008 desktop with 3GB memory and CRT monitor to a brand new netbook (with 22nm Atom or AMD Jaguar). Not a big deal. I would have trouble losing my electric water heater, electric cooktop and electric oven, sure. I also use the kettle and toaster. Losing the fridge would be an annoyance but I'm perfectly able to live without it (eggs and oil need not to go in the fridge)
But I don't know what are you arguing with me. You go spend 10 billion dollars building moutain roads, power lines and a nuclear reactor for the people spoken about in the article, if you can. I don't have that money on my bank account.
I now only use linux and have been that way for a couple years, but I don't delude myself. It's a lot more easier to download a setup.exe then double-click on it (which works even for drivers). On linux, I don't know how to list programs installed from ppas / 3rd party repositories so I can get rid of them or revert them to main repo's version. You can't uninstall a program installed with./configure ; make ; make install (feels like installer from 1992 or 1993 putting crap in C:\Windows\System). This despite me having six years of experience in use, sysadmin tasks and troubleshooting. Windows had that crap solved in 1995 with the Add/Remove applet in the control panel.
Oh, Windows users don't compile from git/svn, they download a nightly build and run it. And we wouldn't be able to install anything without broadband internet. The trade off is we don't have those slow windows updates and slow and boring viruses scans (hell on earth is doing a virus scan, a spyware scan, a "sfc/scannow", running all windows updates, then why not running the defragmenter on C:\ for good measure).
If you have room, maybe install panels somewhere next to the house. Yes, it's crap if you want to run all kinds of high powered equipments including fridge, gaming PC (or old CRT), big TV, clothes drier, kettle etc. and I forgot home A/C, which is common in the US (but not so much in european countries). And wanting to do this at any time.
The equation changes if you start with a home with no electricity. I assume heating/cooking is done with wood, maybe alcohol and bottles of natural gas, and you may have occasional use of a lamp and a radio powered by non rechargeable batteries. Scale down your solar installation by 20x or 50x, and you'll maybe run a couple LED lamps, a netbook, cell phone, a class D amplifier (standalone or in a powered pair of speakers). You can certainly have light, music, computing, and movies (even if watching them on a netbook or tablet screen, which millions people do anyway)
The extreme example would be solar calculators, which I remember as a kid, the thing needs milliwatts to operate.
In moutainous areas, you have torrents rather than rivers, i.e. very irregular and seasonal streams. You'll get a lot of power when snow and ice melts but the rest of the year, not so much, possibly zero watt for monthes end.
Nvidia ported the blob driver that runs on Linux, Windows, Solaris etc. to ARM, actually. They showed it off on Ubuntu 12.04 with Xorg. It doesn't work on cell phone or tablet though, right now that only works on Tegra 3 dev boards with a desktop GPU on PCIe slot (see Kayla platform). It *will* work on Tegra 5 and further, which will use the desktop/laptop GPU architectures rather than a specific mobile one.
I forgot : once it's done (if it works, and after having spent time researching the issue and hoping I don't forget something) I won't really know how to go back.
It's easy to use, but try installing a new driver without reinstalling the entire operating system to a new version. Oh right, let's try random ppas. I'm about to try updating ALSA, kernel and Wine at the same time to get rid of consistent garbled sound in Wine (hoping it fixes zsnes too) but that will be terminal and/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ time, not double-clicking foosetup.exe as in Windows.
Go to "Services" and disable the print spooler : you've had your 0.1 second gain on boot and didn't need a separate Windows version. I find your suggestion to be a bit horrific, Windows is already crippled too much. Want to connect a thin client to your incredibly powerful desktop PC? (even a low end one is more than capable enough). That will be $1000 in licensing costs.
X86 machines exploded in performance too, the first warning was Pentium Pro with SMP support, possibly the fastest CPU (tied with Alpha) for a short while. Then when we were up to dual Pentium III with 1GB RAM the game was over. All Unix workstations disappeared. (funnily it was more Windows NT 4.0 and 2000 that killed them, rather than linux). So, overnight your Solaris/AIX/HP-UX/whatever becomes a server-only operating system : there's not the same incentive to run it, and people will no longer have first-hand experience with it. The install base mechanically retreats.
Agreed, when I do a search and replace in notepad I then check everything was replaced. Then when I do a multiplication of two big numbers in a calculator I check the result by calcuting it by hand.
I agree a SSD (and RAM) is all what's needed but "recent" laptop computers sporting a Pentium M or socket 754 Sempron (perfectly usable and with say a 1280x800 display) still are on IDE.
This thing specs's says 768MB ram max. You may try running Windows 7, whose 32bit incarnation supports XP driver, on a more recent and faster laptop IDE HDD (if you haven't changed it already)
I use flash 12.2 under firefox with flashblock, no problem. 12.2 is the version that stays at 12.2 and gets updated with security updates till 2017 (though it seems I have to install them manually on my system, which I don't, cause I did a manual install in the first place)
You probably have a buggy graphics driver, maybe try 12.2 again and make sure to disable useless "graphics acceleration" in the web browser, and in flash if there's a checkbox option somewhere.
Come to think of it, even antivirus will be unsupported. They will refuse to install, update, or enable the resident protection and at the very least prompt for an upgrade to a newer Windows version.
You might stumble on machines with only two ram slots though. If it's two SDRAM slots, the situation sucks (even with four SDRAM slots on a really old machine with shenanigans about density/sides). Two ddr1 slots, it might suck as well, 1 GB sticks cost money, 512MB sticks are plentiful and free.. if you have them. And tested them all with memtest86
If upgrading memory gets not very practical, maybe you should get new hardware altogether. An option would be a motherboard like Gigabyte GA-C847N : no need to junk the entire PC, you put this mobo with soldered low power Celeron 1.1GHz (recent gen, dual core, it's much better than a Celeron 2.4GHz actually), a stick of ddr3 (2GB or 4GB), and that's all I guess. It has both SATA and IDE (one port), two PS/2 ports, VGA, HDMI, ethernet, sound. So you could reuse case, PSU, hard disk, optical drive, keyb/mouse, display, peripherals. even a parallel printer if you use the header on motherboard.
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I think of myself as almost vegetarian, only you visit a friend and are presented with a preparation containing beef, what are you going to do? well, eat it. But I think I want to be similar to a "pescatarian", not eating too much fish (there's not enough fish in the oceans, now) but willing to eat poultry. That's because chicken are pretty energy efficient and dumb enough, and quickly killed I guess.
Else, eggs and dairy could be enough. The problem about cheese is, not only the reaction is kickstarted with an animal product from calf's stomach, but we know (I hope) what happens to the cows, they don't die of old age. So I could make a moral choice of eating meat from dumb animal and not eating cheese (but I'm afraid I like cheese too much, and living on bread and cheese can be great)
It sometimes happens, in France too, that someone runs a "micro-business" (i.e. no employee, there's only the business owner) and ends up depending on a single, big, crucial "client".. working on the client's premises, etc.
Needless to say, the "independant", "self owned business" guy is fucked. You end up with all the duties of an employee and none of the rights.
The "self employed" guy simply has no bargaining power whatsoever, if he's just getting by and struggling to support himself, or herself.
Of course this all depends on the kind of work done and on each particular situation. Some cases are egregious and an "entrepreneur" who is actually a disguised employee (with employee-like, subordination constraints on the contract that links him to his "client") can get this all overturned by a judge and become an actual employee, at least in theory.
Sounds like the flash plugin hijacking the keyboard? That's nothing new, and I thought it was by design. Just use flashblock, which makes the issue both less common and more obvious - you can't do ctrl-t when in a flash object, but hell you don't expect every key combo to work when you're running a VM in virtualbox or something, either. Your key presses are trapped by the VM.
As for the Firefox UI it's stayed the same since Firefox 4 and you've been able to move buttons and bars around since even longer than that.
I don't need more aggressive people, now I'll fear people with smartphones are out there to stalk me and shoot me and that the devices are concealed weapons. I know they have "point and shoot" cameras.
You could build a B-1 with passenger seats and no radar-evading skin and sell it if you wanted.
There was the Concorde already, not a very useful plane. It's like they made it and operated it (the french and british) just so that people can fap at it. A bit like the space shuttle. Waste of money and time.
1280x2160 might be just over the spec that a single-link DVI or HDMI equipment can do. 1920x1200 or 2048x1152 are about max res, 2160x1280 would be resp. 20% and 17% more pixels than that. So in your suggestion, instead of two simultaneous high bandwith links, found on latest gen graphics cards/integrated GPU (not all of them, ommitting the displayport connector is popular), you now need three high bandwith links.
Worst thing about a 1080p monitor is web sites are annoyingly wide in a maximized web browser. Coupled with lousy panels and leaky lighting, on the cheap panels at least, that can make a rather bad browsing experience.
You can size the window so it takes about three quarters of your display area, now you have other windows/desktop icons and the like showing, which is ugly and distracting. And not that much space left for other apps (what are you going to do in a width of 500 or 600 pixels?),
Make uninstall is sometimes available and sometimes, probably most times, not.
While you tried to be a dick, I guess the suggestion to use synaptic is useful, I will install it on my system.
Yes there's some binary stuff.. the DeadBeef music player (statically linked) is distributed as such (just a tarball), the author probably thought packaging it the regular way would be a pain in the ass/supported on too few distro versions.
Are you willing never to use you computer again?
I would have to switch from my 2008 desktop with 3GB memory and CRT monitor to a brand new netbook (with 22nm Atom or AMD Jaguar). Not a big deal.
I would have trouble losing my electric water heater, electric cooktop and electric oven, sure. I also use the kettle and toaster. Losing the fridge would be an annoyance but I'm perfectly able to live without it (eggs and oil need not to go in the fridge)
But I don't know what are you arguing with me. You go spend 10 billion dollars building moutain roads, power lines and a nuclear reactor for the people spoken about in the article, if you can. I don't have that money on my bank account.
I now only use linux and have been that way for a couple years, but I don't delude myself. It's a lot more easier to download a setup.exe then double-click on it (which works even for drivers). ./configure ; make ; make install (feels like installer from 1992 or 1993 putting crap in C:\Windows\System). This despite me having six years of experience in use, sysadmin tasks and troubleshooting. Windows had that crap solved in 1995 with the Add/Remove applet in the control panel.
On linux, I don't know how to list programs installed from ppas / 3rd party repositories so I can get rid of them or revert them to main repo's version. You can't uninstall a program installed with
Oh, Windows users don't compile from git/svn, they download a nightly build and run it. And we wouldn't be able to install anything without broadband internet. The trade off is we don't have those slow windows updates and slow and boring viruses scans (hell on earth is doing a virus scan, a spyware scan, a "sfc /scannow", running all windows updates, then why not running the defragmenter on C:\ for good measure).
Actually a few billion people do not have refrigeration, computers, bright lights or washing machines.
If you have room, maybe install panels somewhere next to the house.
Yes, it's crap if you want to run all kinds of high powered equipments including fridge, gaming PC (or old CRT), big TV, clothes drier, kettle etc. and I forgot home A/C, which is common in the US (but not so much in european countries). And wanting to do this at any time.
The equation changes if you start with a home with no electricity. I assume heating/cooking is done with wood, maybe alcohol and bottles of natural gas, and you may have occasional use of a lamp and a radio powered by non rechargeable batteries.
Scale down your solar installation by 20x or 50x, and you'll maybe run a couple LED lamps, a netbook, cell phone, a class D amplifier (standalone or in a powered pair of speakers). You can certainly have light, music, computing, and movies (even if watching them on a netbook or tablet screen, which millions people do anyway)
The extreme example would be solar calculators, which I remember as a kid, the thing needs milliwatts to operate.
In moutainous areas, you have torrents rather than rivers, i.e. very irregular and seasonal streams. You'll get a lot of power when snow and ice melts but the rest of the year, not so much, possibly zero watt for monthes end.
That's interesting, get x86/amd64 Windows RT for free ;)
That may be nice. It won't support all those win32 games, though.
Nvidia ported the blob driver that runs on Linux, Windows, Solaris etc. to ARM, actually. They showed it off on Ubuntu 12.04 with Xorg. It doesn't work on cell phone or tablet though, right now that only works on Tegra 3 dev boards with a desktop GPU on PCIe slot (see Kayla platform). It *will* work on Tegra 5 and further, which will use the desktop/laptop GPU architectures rather than a specific mobile one.
I forgot : once it's done (if it works, and after having spent time researching the issue and hoping I don't forget something) I won't really know how to go back.
It's easy to use, but try installing a new driver without reinstalling the entire operating system to a new version. Oh right, let's try random ppas. I'm about to try updating ALSA, kernel and Wine at the same time to get rid of consistent garbled sound in Wine (hoping it fixes zsnes too) but that will be terminal and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ time, not double-clicking foosetup.exe as in Windows.
Go to "Services" and disable the print spooler : you've had your 0.1 second gain on boot and didn't need a separate Windows version.
I find your suggestion to be a bit horrific, Windows is already crippled too much. Want to connect a thin client to your incredibly powerful desktop PC? (even a low end one is more than capable enough). That will be $1000 in licensing costs.
X86 machines exploded in performance too, the first warning was Pentium Pro with SMP support, possibly the fastest CPU (tied with Alpha) for a short while.
Then when we were up to dual Pentium III with 1GB RAM the game was over. All Unix workstations disappeared. (funnily it was more Windows NT 4.0 and 2000 that killed them, rather than linux). So, overnight your Solaris/AIX/HP-UX/whatever becomes a server-only operating system : there's not the same incentive to run it, and people will no longer have first-hand experience with it. The install base mechanically retreats.
Agreed, when I do a search and replace in notepad I then check everything was replaced. Then when I do a multiplication of two big numbers in a calculator I check the result by calcuting it by hand.
I agree a SSD (and RAM) is all what's needed but "recent" laptop computers sporting a Pentium M or socket 754 Sempron (perfectly usable and with say a 1280x800 display) still are on IDE.
This thing specs's says 768MB ram max. You may try running Windows 7, whose 32bit incarnation supports XP driver, on a more recent and faster laptop IDE HDD (if you haven't changed it already)
I use flash 12.2 under firefox with flashblock, no problem. 12.2 is the version that stays at 12.2 and gets updated with security updates till 2017 (though it seems I have to install them manually on my system, which I don't, cause I did a manual install in the first place)
You probably have a buggy graphics driver, maybe try 12.2 again and make sure to disable useless "graphics acceleration" in the web browser, and in flash if there's a checkbox option somewhere.
Come to think of it, even antivirus will be unsupported. They will refuse to install, update, or enable the resident protection and at the very least prompt for an upgrade to a newer Windows version.
You might stumble on machines with only two ram slots though. If it's two SDRAM slots, the situation sucks (even with four SDRAM slots on a really old machine with shenanigans about density/sides). Two ddr1 slots, it might suck as well, 1 GB sticks cost money, 512MB sticks are plentiful and free.. if you have them. And tested them all with memtest86
If upgrading memory gets not very practical, maybe you should get new hardware altogether.
An option would be a motherboard like Gigabyte GA-C847N : no need to junk the entire PC, you put this mobo with soldered low power Celeron 1.1GHz (recent gen, dual core, it's much better than a Celeron 2.4GHz actually), a stick of ddr3 (2GB or 4GB), and that's all I guess. It has both SATA and IDE (one port), two PS/2 ports, VGA, HDMI, ethernet, sound. So you could reuse case, PSU, hard disk, optical drive, keyb/mouse, display, peripherals. even a parallel printer if you use the header on motherboard.