I remember being infuriated by this message, it's meaningless and too casual. It doesn't provide any information as to the cause of the error nor does say "unkown error". It makes me wonder whom is it embarassing for. Me? Mozilla? Firefox itself? Does it mean "we're sorry for you using such crappy software"?
I wonder about how this message is perceived in company/corporate settings. It's an exemple of bad writing style to me. You've crashed, don't try to be familiar or funny about it.
There is Dokan, a japanese library that is similar to FUSE but works on Windows. it comes with a GUI assisted sshfs implementation which does work but is a bit slow. so writing a GoogleFS on top of it could be done.
Linux is about saving money on windows licenses, get rid of virus/antivirus hassles and using mostly unencumbered software. So why as a Linux user should I have to buy a locked down Sony computer plus TV, which costs the same as a PC anyway? now I have two computers with two sets of peripherals, one which cannot run arbitrary software, where I would need only one.
I would rather buy a graphics card - which is cheap if you get a 100 watt model such as radeon 6770 - and go back to windows. Currently as the linux situation sucks, and Wine just cannot run a random game I throw at it, I just avoid gaming those days.
those should still work under windows 7 32bit, you could test that. not that glassy bars and little squares will make them run any better, but it can be interesting for post 2014.
HDMI displays are rare, VGA displays are plentiful, higher quality and more versatile than the offered alternative which is a old TV with composite input.
a Rasperry with VGA would be better for its obvious use, as a game console loaded with emulators. there are truckloads of perfectly good 15" and 17" displays awaiting destruction as hazardous waste, having to buy a new hdmi display for a $25 toy or haul a big ass CRT TV and live with interlaced 640x480 is not fun.
Politics sure is the problem, when we see you parroting that ridiculous and insulting idea. This anti-science, pro-ignorance mindset that you fall victim to is very political in nature.
People buy shit they don't need or don't really care about, but buy it nonetheless out of advertisement or social pressure, and try to persuade themselves they like it, but in the end they know they didn't really like it in the first place then they bitch about their frustration.
Guess what, don't buy that overhyped jungle console fps or military simulator if you know it will be worse than quake 2 even before playing it. Stick to worthwile games or do something else with your time and money.
I've been using http://mozilla.debian.net/ it's nice when it works but left me with an unresolved xulrunner dependancy on one machine. so it's a bit brittle and unsupported, even though I was maybe in a time window where the maintainers were in vacation and didn't keep up.
Although not as explicitly stated as in the story that was about Ebay, you get in situations where the SSDs save you money. Either because it replaces a rack of high speed HDDs, or because it may saves you buying a server with 1TB memory (not cheap).
That article gives more numbers and testimonies. if you don't care, fine, get over it.
the geforce 6100 is still supported by the latest proprietary nvidia drivers. it's very slow but will run your quake 2 and quake 3, tux, 2D opengl games which are the only ones easily running on linux anyway.
you're in the market for prying optical drives from discarded and dead computers, then. you can even put two of them on the low end mobo's IDE port, and avoid the loud and fast models.
what's more, pages with html5 and fat javascript tend to be even more CPU and memory hungry than flash. they make 3GHz, not-pentium-4 computers struggle.
Never skimp on the PSU, it will make your hardware less durable, sound worse quality, will behave badly with power micro-outages, take down your PC in a thunderstorm instead of only it failing and so on.
You should cheap out on the rest, even get a Sempron if it's what it takes, as it's worth former $1000 CPUs such as Athlon FX 57 and Pentium 4 Extreme Edition. It even unlocks into Athlon X2 with a simple BIOS setting. You profit from not having to run an antivirus and adobe, java, quicktime etc. updater.
Regarding optical drive : get an used one from the trash, even the one from your Pentium 166 will install ubuntu just fine (and is better at ripping damaged CDs). Even the case can be scavenged from the pentium 2/3 era and will be a bit higher quality and easier to work with.
You should get a $40 PSU, not a $30 PSU + case. a 400W or 350WFortron / FSP group one is rock solid and will run your PC stable for a decade. Those a real watts too:).
sadly quake 3 has lower requirements than web browsing, especially on the memory front. also if you swap on a USB stick, that will be incredibly slow and kill the thumb stick.
The biggest flaw is you have to buy a DVI or HDMI capable display, a USB keyboard, USB mouse and a hub. all have to be bought new as what comes from the trash is PS/2 and VGA. you then need a USB to SATA or IDE adapter. Managing to not have all that recent and compact stuff not stolen is up to you.
So all in one it's better suited to hobbyism than low cost computing, you can buy a pentium 4 with 512MB, 17" CRT and PS/2 keyb/mouse for much cheaper than that.
a great use would be to use it as a homebrew console. I'm glad I've had a glance at TFA, as we can learn there's a much needed composite output! (can also serve for less than ideal but usable computing)
the second paragraph I forgot to write : its integrated graphics is ill supported. there are proprietary drivers, but only for ubuntu and suse. not debian! open source drivers are outdated and don't work, unless you find out you can build the SVN version and get a working 2D only one.
it's a very recent VX900 chipset, launched a year ago, less well supported than some 10-year-old cards (forget about the built-in h264 decoding, too!). I do use a very light desktop (startx and lxde-core) on the server for slow web browsing with firefox 6.
it's a pity that I can't run counterstrike 1.5 or quake 2.
funnily, the MESA announcement seems to include that chipset too.
asrock PV530 is a cpu+motherboard sold at 50 euros, making it the single less expensive way to build a dekstop PC or server from new parts. it's at 1.8GHz and needs an added gigabit card, so eats more power but you can finely set up frequency and voltage, even overclock it. It has been running nice as a NAS, DHCP, tftp, ssh etc. though with a lot of overhead from using ntfs-3g (haven't got the money to shift the storage to ext4 or something yet).
by your own arguments arabs living there for a few centuries have a more legitimate claim than foreigners coming from europe, russia, or north america.
The main issue for me is of extreme slowness even on contempory computers. html5/javascript games, or apps for text reading with "turning pages" not only are slow, they peg 100% of a core only to recreate 1990s level of computing. This has problems including heat, fan noise and electricity bill. I have no flame intentions, just pointing out what seems obvious.
I've had a try at "Pirates love daisies" for instance, and it runs quite a bit slow on a 3GHz computer, re-creating the experience of an Amiga game but with higher res and lower quality sound. also selecting a character results in the display of a black square, as the blending is not supported. Running firefox 5. It should run like total crap on a 1GHz ARM, and of course single-thread performance has hit a ceiling.
I have a feeling the java plug-in worked better back in the days. It even ran on low end cell phones years ago and allowed actual games. There still are some java games around, such as Yahoo games. They load quickly and run butter smooth. So, maybe java isn't open enough but I wish we could have such a solution with near native performance, rather than stuff that feels like it's run on a emulator written in QBASIC.
as it is the feature is totally undiscoverable, and is backed by no user experience - I've never ever used a context menu on a browing button, from windows 3.1 to nowadays. I wouldn't know of the feature if it were'nt for you pointing it out in a slashdot comment, thanskfully I tend to rely on tabs rather than back/forward. There's no excuse for an invisible and totally non standard UI control, as even advanced users can't know it is there.
Many people have longed forever for a clean, easy, task oriented interface. Either for themselves or for a familiy member. This looks like the best design to date, and is reminiscent of the Amstrad PCW, a successful task oriented all-in-one of the eighties. Or keyboard based monochrome PDAs, or even an Apple II or PC/XT, $favorite_computer where you just insert a floppy disk and run simple, straightforward software.
Notice the lack of translucency, dock, animation and all that crap. Not including these goes toward reducing the cognitive and visual load, I guess.
Missing is a tab for audio/video playback, CD audio ripping and the like. A commenter said, why doesn't it use 32GB flash instead? don't misunderestimate a grandma, they might well fill it up with 12 megapixel photos, CD rips or even record old audio cassettes, you never know. As were speaking, a secretary somewhere that has trouble finding the start menu pwns you at using Word no matter how good your debugging and compiling skills are.
Lastly here's a good showing for Linux, it's refreshing, after the firefox debacle ruling it out in business, on top of the desktops debacle and Open/Libre Office confusion.
there are pictures from many angles on the website, and a big "msi" brand is to be seen on the back. specs also tell implicitly it's a dual core 1.8GHz Atom.
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I remember being infuriated by this message, it's meaningless and too casual. It doesn't provide any information as to the cause of the error nor does say "unkown error". It makes me wonder whom is it embarassing for. Me? Mozilla? Firefox itself? Does it mean "we're sorry for you using such crappy software"?
I wonder about how this message is perceived in company/corporate settings. It's an exemple of bad writing style to me. You've crashed, don't try to be familiar or funny about it.
There is Dokan, a japanese library that is similar to FUSE but works on Windows. it comes with a GUI assisted sshfs implementation which does work but is a bit slow. so writing a GoogleFS on top of it could be done.
Linux is about saving money on windows licenses, get rid of virus/antivirus hassles and using mostly unencumbered software. So why as a Linux user should I have to buy a locked down Sony computer plus TV, which costs the same as a PC anyway? now I have two computers with two sets of peripherals, one which cannot run arbitrary software, where I would need only one.
I would rather buy a graphics card - which is cheap if you get a 100 watt model such as radeon 6770 - and go back to windows. Currently as the linux situation sucks, and Wine just cannot run a random game I throw at it, I just avoid gaming those days.
those should still work under windows 7 32bit, you could test that. not that glassy bars and little squares will make them run any better, but it can be interesting for post 2014.
HDMI displays are rare, VGA displays are plentiful, higher quality and more versatile than the offered alternative which is a old TV with composite input.
a Rasperry with VGA would be better for its obvious use, as a game console loaded with emulators. there are truckloads of perfectly good 15" and 17" displays awaiting destruction as hazardous waste, having to buy a new hdmi display for a $25 toy or haul a big ass CRT TV and live with interlaced 640x480 is not fun.
Politics sure is the problem, when we see you parroting that ridiculous and insulting idea. This anti-science, pro-ignorance mindset that you fall victim to is very political in nature.
sadly, the hockey stick is true.
People buy shit they don't need or don't really care about, but buy it nonetheless out of advertisement or social pressure, and try to persuade themselves they like it, but in the end they know they didn't really like it in the first place then they bitch about their frustration.
Guess what, don't buy that overhyped jungle console fps or military simulator if you know it will be worse than quake 2 even before playing it. Stick to worthwile games or do something else with your time and money.
I've been using http://mozilla.debian.net/ it's nice when it works but left me with an unresolved xulrunner dependancy on one machine. so it's a bit brittle and unsupported, even though I was maybe in a time window where the maintainers were in vacation and didn't keep up.
Although not as explicitly stated as in the story that was about Ebay, you get in situations where the SSDs save you money. Either because it replaces a rack of high speed HDDs, or because it may saves you buying a server with 1TB memory (not cheap).
That article gives more numbers and testimonies. if you don't care, fine, get over it.
ECC is rare and so will command a higher motherboard price, you need an Intel "pro" motherboard or a single CPU socket C32 board with the cheapest opteron. one example : http://www.wiredzone.com/Supermicro-H8SCM-F-Motherboard-mATX-w--1x-Socket-C32(1207p)~10020354~0.htm
on the plus side it has two great network interfaces rather than one crappy one.
I would like to see VIA Nano X2 and X4 motherboards with ECC support on the market
the geforce 6100 is still supported by the latest proprietary nvidia drivers. it's very slow but will run your quake 2 and quake 3, tux, 2D opengl games which are the only ones easily running on linux anyway.
you're in the market for prying optical drives from discarded and dead computers, then. you can even put two of them on the low end mobo's IDE port, and avoid the loud and fast models.
what's more, pages with html5 and fat javascript tend to be even more CPU and memory hungry than flash. they make 3GHz, not-pentium-4 computers struggle.
Never skimp on the PSU, it will make your hardware less durable, sound worse quality, will behave badly with power micro-outages, take down your PC in a thunderstorm instead of only it failing and so on.
You should cheap out on the rest, even get a Sempron if it's what it takes, as it's worth former $1000 CPUs such as Athlon FX 57 and Pentium 4 Extreme Edition. It even unlocks into Athlon X2 with a simple BIOS setting. You profit from not having to run an antivirus and adobe, java, quicktime etc. updater.
Regarding optical drive : get an used one from the trash, even the one from your Pentium 166 will install ubuntu just fine (and is better at ripping damaged CDs). Even the case can be scavenged from the pentium 2/3 era and will be a bit higher quality and easier to work with.
You should get a $40 PSU, not a $30 PSU + case. a 400W or 350WFortron / FSP group one is rock solid and will run your PC stable for a decade. Those a real watts too :).
sadly quake 3 has lower requirements than web browsing, especially on the memory front. also if you swap on a USB stick, that will be incredibly slow and kill the thumb stick.
The biggest flaw is you have to buy a DVI or HDMI capable display, a USB keyboard, USB mouse and a hub. all have to be bought new as what comes from the trash is PS/2 and VGA. you then need a USB to SATA or IDE adapter. Managing to not have all that recent and compact stuff not stolen is up to you.
So all in one it's better suited to hobbyism than low cost computing, you can buy a pentium 4 with 512MB, 17" CRT and PS/2 keyb/mouse for much cheaper than that.
a great use would be to use it as a homebrew console. I'm glad I've had a glance at TFA, as we can learn there's a much needed composite output! (can also serve for less than ideal but usable computing)
the second paragraph I forgot to write : its integrated graphics is ill supported. there are proprietary drivers, but only for ubuntu and suse. not debian! open source drivers are outdated and don't work, unless you find out you can build the SVN version and get a working 2D only one.
it's a very recent VX900 chipset, launched a year ago, less well supported than some 10-year-old cards (forget about the built-in h264 decoding, too!). I do use a very light desktop (startx and lxde-core) on the server for slow web browsing with firefox 6.
it's a pity that I can't run counterstrike 1.5 or quake 2.
funnily, the MESA announcement seems to include that chipset too.
asrock PV530 is a cpu+motherboard sold at 50 euros, making it the single less expensive way to build a dekstop PC or server from new parts. it's at 1.8GHz and needs an added gigabit card, so eats more power but you can finely set up frequency and voltage, even overclock it. It has been running nice as a NAS, DHCP, tftp, ssh etc. though with a lot of overhead from using ntfs-3g (haven't got the money to shift the storage to ext4 or something yet).
I did play 720p video on ATI rage pro and ATI radeon 7000 successfully.
by your own arguments arabs living there for a few centuries have a more legitimate claim than foreigners coming from europe, russia, or north america.
The main issue for me is of extreme slowness even on contempory computers. html5/javascript games, or apps for text reading with "turning pages" not only are slow, they peg 100% of a core only to recreate 1990s level of computing. This has problems including heat, fan noise and electricity bill. I have no flame intentions, just pointing out what seems obvious.
I've had a try at "Pirates love daisies" for instance, and it runs quite a bit slow on a 3GHz computer, re-creating the experience of an Amiga game but with higher res and lower quality sound. also selecting a character results in the display of a black square, as the blending is not supported. Running firefox 5. It should run like total crap on a 1GHz ARM, and of course single-thread performance has hit a ceiling.
I have a feeling the java plug-in worked better back in the days. It even ran on low end cell phones years ago and allowed actual games. There still are some java games around, such as Yahoo games. They load quickly and run butter smooth. So, maybe java isn't open enough but I wish we could have such a solution with near native performance, rather than stuff that feels like it's run on a emulator written in QBASIC.
as it is the feature is totally undiscoverable, and is backed by no user experience - I've never ever used a context menu on a browing button, from windows 3.1 to nowadays. I wouldn't know of the feature if it were'nt for you pointing it out in a slashdot comment, thanskfully I tend to rely on tabs rather than back/forward. There's no excuse for an invisible and totally non standard UI control, as even advanced users can't know it is there.
Many people have longed forever for a clean, easy, task oriented interface. Either for themselves or for a familiy member. This looks like the best design to date, and is reminiscent of the Amstrad PCW, a successful task oriented all-in-one of the eighties. Or keyboard based monochrome PDAs, or even an Apple II or PC/XT, $favorite_computer where you just insert a floppy disk and run simple, straightforward software.
Notice the lack of translucency, dock, animation and all that crap. Not including these goes toward reducing the cognitive and visual load, I guess.
Missing is a tab for audio/video playback, CD audio ripping and the like. A commenter said, why doesn't it use 32GB flash instead? don't misunderestimate a grandma, they might well fill it up with 12 megapixel photos, CD rips or even record old audio cassettes, you never know. As were speaking, a secretary somewhere that has trouble finding the start menu pwns you at using Word no matter how good your debugging and compiling skills are.
Lastly here's a good showing for Linux, it's refreshing, after the firefox debacle ruling it out in business, on top of the desktops debacle and Open/Libre Office confusion.
there are pictures from many angles on the website, and a big "msi" brand is to be seen on the back. specs also tell implicitly it's a dual core 1.8GHz Atom.