The one KDE desktop I did like was that of Fedora Core 2 and 3, it had an old-style start menu that shows everything and it looked neat/sharp enough. Konsole and Kate were the same way and it was mostly useful (e.g. Konsole's GUI helps you with copy/pasting stuff or tabs), these were the two main ones we had to use. Back then everyone only used 98se, 2000 or XP 32bit. Funnily a few years later I saw some vanilla KDE 3.5 elsewhere and it kind of sucked, with the ugly clock style and lack of hat icons. Ubuntu with Gnome 2 replaced it.
That file dragging feature was in 1990s Windows I believe, by dragging a file with a right-click. I've just tried it on Mate : that isn't possible, as a context menu for the original file opens instead. But you can do it with middle-mouse dragging. It's a bit stupid, because I would never have discovered it if not for your post, and because most laptops don't have middle mouse or have some way of doing it that varies depending on hardware and OS. I can confirm pcmanfm-qt works the same (the most recent of those nautilus 2.x clones ; Ubuntu 16.04 has a usable version)
For "fine grained" control I usually use copy/paste for files. I can even paste from the "Edit" menu like it's 1991, because I've not yet used a file manager that reserves some 'empty space' to right-click on or serve as a safe dropping target. You have empty space in icon views and not too many files in the directory, but that's 1980s file browsing (like the Atari ST or black and white Macintosh). I like my 1990s display of file size and date.
Ironically, 11.04 was a version I liked fine. It "offered" Unity (smooth, but empty), then after you spent a couple minute wondering how you get to launch a second terminal rather than constantly bringing the first one back, you could log out and choose a fully featured Gnome 2 instead. 12.04 seemed fine but on the machines I installed it on, it suffered a little name change and got called "Linux Mint 13" instead. I'd almost go back to it. I used to look forward new versions as they'd be faster, less buggy, now it's more about whether the support for my graphics card will worsen, if there's some random regression or if there's some new GTK3 goo (not a big problem currently for me. GTK3 open/save dialog seems to have improved even).
Amstrad was big in Europe, especially the CPC 6128. UK had Spectrums I guess, it's a Spectrum I've never seen although it was big on its own. The CPC was a bundle of color monitor, computer and built-in floppy, all needing a single power outlet (monitor provides 12V and 5V to the computer). Although green screen and cassette were options I've mostly seen the full deal. It was colorful and had amazing value, as people would get everything not just a C64 used on the TV and floppy-less. Over the long term, the floppy drive's belt always died out. But people kept them and used them anyway ; as a kid I did fairly deride them. In my microcosm, many did get a 486 DX/33 with 8MB and VLB (and L2 cache I presume), thanks to one of the dads who knew his stuff. Sound card and 2x CD even. That was powerful, you wouldn't believe how well Duke3D eventually ran on these. So in my mind that's still stayed as the minimum specs for a powerful PC. They ran word, paint shop pro and amazing or nice games.
Sure, the terminal a.k.a. the tty is great for doing terminal things like running Unix-like programs. But, as the 'tty' name indicate, it's a one-dimensional interface. It's made of 1D text, whereas BASIC supported 2D text. i.e. you may take control of the screen and get characters drawn wherever you like, with something like LOCATE 20,12 : PRINT "HELLO" This would print HELLO in the center of the screen, if your screen is 40x25
Isn't that nice? Sure, just use a library like curses but now you've made it a lot more complicated. Want graphics? Most CS students will probably find it hard. In BASIC you'll have some sort of PLOT or LINE command. Done.
In France you've got the Peugeot 205 diesel. Small car from 20 to 30 year old with a relatively high resale value. Well, if it gets banned people will want a 206 diesel instead.
I'm not even Argentinian but that looks like drawing a butt hole with your fingers and that's not a very good idea. Though in France, it might mean a derogatory "zero", which is slightly better than a butt hole but still sucks.
Different country/continent : forgetting fringe cars, all cars now have AC but home AC is still rare, we have no Arizona or Texas etc. here. Yes a 8088 was garbage, but an uncle had a 286 and I spotted an Amstrad PCW (8 bit) back then. a.k.a. keeping their first and only computer till a reason to change it. I know a friend from school who had a Pentium 90 at home, but another got some XT clone in like 1994. The CD-ROM multimedia thing was one such reason (or Doom, etc.), but not a universal one. Internet was another one, it began to be affordable around 1999, 2000, 2001, prior to that being billed by the minute was too big an expense. Before then, not owning any computer at all was very common too, save for the micro-controllers buried in everything like TV, VCR, microwave, or for the consoles.
When I'm out and the cities have replaced the old yellow lamps with strong white spectrum lights, I'm the nocturnal animal and the lights piss me off. Or until I can afford prescription sun glasses.
For moonlight, it's actually natural, i.e. if there were plants whose regulation systems were triggered by moonlight, mistaking it for daylight, they likely died off and were replaced by more adapted plants.
a Counterstrike 1.5 server would be not bad. Quake-like is a great interface to move yourself around in the virtual "world", there is some lag compensation (predictive movement), simple stereo sound pinpoints the sound sources well enough and get this.. the old Half-Life 1 synced the "lips" to voices already, or more accurately moved what passes for a mouth up and down. It works with Counterstrike in-game voice talk. Server plug-ins can prevent people be killed (or an admin or people wronged can slap them trolls)
Doesn't deal with audio lag and dropped packets probably (or firewall punching) and I doubt the idea could be taken that seriously. Everyone has his mike and speakers or headphone. So there's that, it may work well. Also, referencing your own PC is hard if you have a video game taking monitor room and input focus.
Really, for the video conference room.. One that will fit many people that all want to be clearly heard, and would like to interact with another room worth of people behind a "video wall". First you likely need fiber internet to not care about issues on your end, and perhaps even have some real time 1080p or 60fps. It's a problem if the ISP will ask $15000 for running a fiber to your company, or whatever they'll ask. But let's say it's not a big deal to eat it up. The real solution is likely to have a purpose-built room, engineered so that it isn't is a mix of echos and faint voices (the physical sound side), with the right microphones and adequate other hardware, and hire a technician who otherwise works in concert halls, radio stations, setting up the gear for a concert or DJ evening in a bar etc. ; perhaps even for every time you use the room, or at least when there are particularly important persons and deals and situations. Even the lighting needs to be deal with, you're building some kind of amateur TV set. For best results.. all sides ought to be of similar quality!
So, if you're going to tear down walls, hire an accoustician, have a good swich and QoS things, have pseudo broadcast grade stuff (perhaps relatively cheap), get furniture even, hire a technician.. Could cost like $100K? just a figure I pull out of nowhere to try and appreciate it. I wonder if you could get much of non-verbal cues (some will always be missing, like.. body odor or whatnot)
In the mid 90s 8088 systems were not that old. About as old as a Core i7 920 or a Q6600 is today. Some people still had 8 bit computers and Atari ST etc. at home. The most common kind of handheld computer was the 1989 Game Boy and cars without air conditioning were a thing.
I have a theory that after about 1995 when every PC came with a CD drive and most software including the OS came on CD, the quality control went down the toilet. I had a drive that punched tiny holes in disks and itself, but after that it was common to get a drive that only worked a few times and same for the disks. Lowest bidder don't give a shit checkbox manufacturing. The badness culminated in the early 00s when we were sold RAM and power supplies that don't work.
On the other hand when I tried 15-20 year-old 360KB and Apple II floppies everything worked, but you can accidentally fold one slightly so that it won't read anymore.
That's a good thing actually. Light pollution is pollution. If it glows strong, it will make the surrounded plants retarded and make thousands of nocturnal animals insane. Even then, I wonder if they made the right choice of wavelength or if another one would have been better.
Isn't it about an 'Assistant' that works with the data that's in Google's silos? Let's say, Amazon has data about physical purchases you make with them, e-books if you use them, movie streaming if you use them instead of 15 other vendors. Apple has your "itunes", but if you don't buy/rent your music and movies there they mostly just know about your installed apps and your messages/SMS/phone calls, perhaps browser history if they steal it from you. Google has your searches and google maps searches and youtube views if you're logged into them, and for quite many of these people their entire email, then maybe shit like calendars, documents and what not. Who uses Apple email servers, or Amazon calendars? Do these even exist? Or do people use gmail on their Apple phone and Windows desktop, instead.
Like playing DOS games on Windows 95 and 98 at full speed and features? Believe it or not, sometimes the software "engineers" come up with things that actually work.
There's an actual Linux Mint with sysvinit, it's LMDE 2 (debian jessie with Mate or Cinnamon) It may change with an LMDE 3 based on debian stretch, and I think that may be likely, but I don't know afterall.
Even Nintendo's NES has out of tune notes due to tehcnical limitations. Game developers had a choice of using a few wrong tones here and there, or designing music around the missing notes. Surprising, but it was that way.
When Jennifer Null tries to buy a plane ticket, she gets an error message on most websites. The site will say she has left the surname field blank and ask her to try again. (...)
It's likely that the codec is old as fuck. It is meant for music somewhat, but it is old crap (made with the constraints of the medium and low power battery powered CPUs of the late 90s) and you would need your receiver hardware to have a newer Bluetooth version, plus a patented codec.
MP3 will become unpatented in April 2017 (!) for an exemple. Let's wait for AptX codec to become patent free, then for a car audio system with AptX be designed, for the car to be manufactured three or five years later with that old audio system, and for the car to be one year old when you rent it. Then you'll have good Bluetooth sound when you rent a car in 2033, if Bluetooth still is a thing.
There are those where unetbootin doesn't work (good easy to use software that doesn't delete all your flash drive). Instead you have to use dd or a program that mimics dd, which deletes all data on the drive and leaves you with a read-only one. Bummers. That's for debian on BIOS machines.
Been in a situation where PXE was great. 10x or so mark-up on CD-R / DVD-R in this country because of a tax from a RIAA equivalent, and buying USB drives was an expense. But there was a network to install things from. Alas, Linux Mint doesn't support PXE. That put an end to most of it. For other messing, I tried to make a 2.88MB floppy image to get a DOS PXE floppy with more funny stuff on it but that didn't work. Shouldn't that work? lol.
Actually I liked it better when it was a cesspool of porn. Now it's a cesspool of selfies, a cesspool of manipulation and a cesspool of propaganda in addition to a cesspool of porn.
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The one KDE desktop I did like was that of Fedora Core 2 and 3, it had an old-style start menu that shows everything and it looked neat/sharp enough. Konsole and Kate were the same way and it was mostly useful (e.g. Konsole's GUI helps you with copy/pasting stuff or tabs), these were the two main ones we had to use.
Back then everyone only used 98se, 2000 or XP 32bit.
Funnily a few years later I saw some vanilla KDE 3.5 elsewhere and it kind of sucked, with the ugly clock style and lack of hat icons. Ubuntu with Gnome 2 replaced it.
That file dragging feature was in 1990s Windows I believe, by dragging a file with a right-click. I've just tried it on Mate : that isn't possible, as a context menu for the original file opens instead. But you can do it with middle-mouse dragging.
It's a bit stupid, because I would never have discovered it if not for your post, and because most laptops don't have middle mouse or have some way of doing it that varies depending on hardware and OS.
I can confirm pcmanfm-qt works the same (the most recent of those nautilus 2.x clones ; Ubuntu 16.04 has a usable version)
For "fine grained" control I usually use copy/paste for files. I can even paste from the "Edit" menu like it's 1991, because I've not yet used a file manager that reserves some 'empty space' to right-click on or serve as a safe dropping target. You have empty space in icon views and not too many files in the directory, but that's 1980s file browsing (like the Atari ST or black and white Macintosh). I like my 1990s display of file size and date.
Ironically, 11.04 was a version I liked fine. It "offered" Unity (smooth, but empty), then after you spent a couple minute wondering how you get to launch a second terminal rather than constantly bringing the first one back, you could log out and choose a fully featured Gnome 2 instead.
12.04 seemed fine but on the machines I installed it on, it suffered a little name change and got called "Linux Mint 13" instead. I'd almost go back to it. I used to look forward new versions as they'd be faster, less buggy, now it's more about whether the support for my graphics card will worsen, if there's some random regression or if there's some new GTK3 goo (not a big problem currently for me. GTK3 open/save dialog seems to have improved even).
Amstrad was big in Europe, especially the CPC 6128. UK had Spectrums I guess, it's a Spectrum I've never seen although it was big on its own.
The CPC was a bundle of color monitor, computer and built-in floppy, all needing a single power outlet (monitor provides 12V and 5V to the computer). Although green screen and cassette were options I've mostly seen the full deal. It was colorful and had amazing value, as people would get everything not just a C64 used on the TV and floppy-less. Over the long term, the floppy drive's belt always died out. But people kept them and used them anyway ; as a kid I did fairly deride them.
In my microcosm, many did get a 486 DX/33 with 8MB and VLB (and L2 cache I presume), thanks to one of the dads who knew his stuff. Sound card and 2x CD even. That was powerful, you wouldn't believe how well Duke3D eventually ran on these. So in my mind that's still stayed as the minimum specs for a powerful PC. They ran word, paint shop pro and amazing or nice games.
Sure, the terminal a.k.a. the tty is great for doing terminal things like running Unix-like programs.
But, as the 'tty' name indicate, it's a one-dimensional interface. It's made of 1D text, whereas BASIC supported 2D text. i.e. you may take control of the screen and get characters drawn wherever you like, with something like LOCATE 20,12 : PRINT "HELLO"
This would print HELLO in the center of the screen, if your screen is 40x25
Isn't that nice?
Sure, just use a library like curses but now you've made it a lot more complicated.
Want graphics? Most CS students will probably find it hard. In BASIC you'll have some sort of PLOT or LINE command. Done.
In France you've got the Peugeot 205 diesel. Small car from 20 to 30 year old with a relatively high resale value. Well, if it gets banned people will want a 206 diesel instead.
I'm not even Argentinian but that looks like drawing a butt hole with your fingers and that's not a very good idea. Though in France, it might mean a derogatory "zero", which is slightly better than a butt hole but still sucks.
Different country/continent : forgetting fringe cars, all cars now have AC but home AC is still rare, we have no Arizona or Texas etc. here.
Yes a 8088 was garbage, but an uncle had a 286 and I spotted an Amstrad PCW (8 bit) back then. a.k.a. keeping their first and only computer till a reason to change it. I know a friend from school who had a Pentium 90 at home, but another got some XT clone in like 1994. The CD-ROM multimedia thing was one such reason (or Doom, etc.), but not a universal one. Internet was another one, it began to be affordable around 1999, 2000, 2001, prior to that being billed by the minute was too big an expense. Before then, not owning any computer at all was very common too, save for the micro-controllers buried in everything like TV, VCR, microwave, or for the consoles.
When I'm out and the cities have replaced the old yellow lamps with strong white spectrum lights, I'm the nocturnal animal and the lights piss me off. Or until I can afford prescription sun glasses.
For moonlight, it's actually natural, i.e. if there were plants whose regulation systems were triggered by moonlight, mistaking it for daylight, they likely died off and were replaced by more adapted plants.
a Counterstrike 1.5 server would be not bad. Quake-like is a great interface to move yourself around in the virtual "world", there is some lag compensation (predictive movement), simple stereo sound pinpoints the sound sources well enough and get this.. the old Half-Life 1 synced the "lips" to voices already, or more accurately moved what passes for a mouth up and down. It works with Counterstrike in-game voice talk. Server plug-ins can prevent people be killed (or an admin or people wronged can slap them trolls)
Doesn't deal with audio lag and dropped packets probably (or firewall punching) and I doubt the idea could be taken that seriously.
Everyone has his mike and speakers or headphone. So there's that, it may work well. Also, referencing your own PC is hard if you have a video game taking monitor room and input focus.
Really, for the video conference room.. One that will fit many people that all want to be clearly heard, and would like to interact with another room worth of people behind a "video wall". First you likely need fiber internet to not care about issues on your end, and perhaps even have some real time 1080p or 60fps. It's a problem if the ISP will ask $15000 for running a fiber to your company, or whatever they'll ask. But let's say it's not a big deal to eat it up.
The real solution is likely to have a purpose-built room, engineered so that it isn't is a mix of echos and faint voices (the physical sound side), with the right microphones and adequate other hardware, and hire a technician who otherwise works in concert halls, radio stations, setting up the gear for a concert or DJ evening in a bar etc. ; perhaps even for every time you use the room, or at least when there are particularly important persons and deals and situations. Even the lighting needs to be deal with, you're building some kind of amateur TV set.
For best results.. all sides ought to be of similar quality!
So, if you're going to tear down walls, hire an accoustician, have a good swich and QoS things, have pseudo broadcast grade stuff (perhaps relatively cheap), get furniture even, hire a technician.. Could cost like $100K? just a figure I pull out of nowhere to try and appreciate it.
I wonder if you could get much of non-verbal cues (some will always be missing, like.. body odor or whatnot)
In the mid 90s 8088 systems were not that old. About as old as a Core i7 920 or a Q6600 is today.
Some people still had 8 bit computers and Atari ST etc. at home.
The most common kind of handheld computer was the 1989 Game Boy and cars without air conditioning were a thing.
I have a theory that after about 1995 when every PC came with a CD drive and most software including the OS came on CD, the quality control went down the toilet. I had a drive that punched tiny holes in disks and itself, but after that it was common to get a drive that only worked a few times and same for the disks. Lowest bidder don't give a shit checkbox manufacturing. The badness culminated in the early 00s when we were sold RAM and power supplies that don't work.
On the other hand when I tried 15-20 year-old 360KB and Apple II floppies everything worked, but you can accidentally fold one slightly so that it won't read anymore.
That's a good thing actually. Light pollution is pollution. If it glows strong, it will make the surrounded plants retarded and make thousands of nocturnal animals insane.
Even then, I wonder if they made the right choice of wavelength or if another one would have been better.
Isn't it about an 'Assistant' that works with the data that's in Google's silos?
Let's say, Amazon has data about physical purchases you make with them, e-books if you use them, movie streaming if you use them instead of 15 other vendors. Apple has your "itunes", but if you don't buy/rent your music and movies there they mostly just know about your installed apps and your messages/SMS/phone calls, perhaps browser history if they steal it from you.
Google has your searches and google maps searches and youtube views if you're logged into them, and for quite many of these people their entire email, then maybe shit like calendars, documents and what not.
Who uses Apple email servers, or Amazon calendars? Do these even exist? Or do people use gmail on their Apple phone and Windows desktop, instead.
Like playing DOS games on Windows 95 and 98 at full speed and features?
Believe it or not, sometimes the software "engineers" come up with things that actually work.
There's an actual Linux Mint with sysvinit, it's LMDE 2 (debian jessie with Mate or Cinnamon)
It may change with an LMDE 3 based on debian stretch, and I think that may be likely, but I don't know afterall.
Does Ubuntu run Android apps? That's what I'm wondering about.
Get a standalone wireless charger, and plug it on the USB port. Problem solved!
Even Nintendo's NES has out of tune notes due to tehcnical limitations. Game developers had a choice of using a few wrong tones here and there, or designing music around the missing notes. Surprising, but it was that way.
The little problem with spelling out "NULL" :
When Jennifer Null tries to buy a plane ticket, she gets an error message on most websites. The site will say she has left the surname field blank and ask her to try again.
(...)
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It's likely that the codec is old as fuck. It is meant for music somewhat, but it is old crap (made with the constraints of the medium and low power battery powered CPUs of the late 90s) and you would need your receiver hardware to have a newer Bluetooth version, plus a patented codec.
MP3 will become unpatented in April 2017 (!) for an exemple. Let's wait for AptX codec to become patent free, then for a car audio system with AptX be designed, for the car to be manufactured three or five years later with that old audio system, and for the car to be one year old when you rent it. Then you'll have good Bluetooth sound when you rent a car in 2033, if Bluetooth still is a thing.
There are those where unetbootin doesn't work (good easy to use software that doesn't delete all your flash drive). Instead you have to use dd or a program that mimics dd, which deletes all data on the drive and leaves you with a read-only one. Bummers. That's for debian on BIOS machines.
Been in a situation where PXE was great. 10x or so mark-up on CD-R / DVD-R in this country because of a tax from a RIAA equivalent, and buying USB drives was an expense. But there was a network to install things from.
Alas, Linux Mint doesn't support PXE. That put an end to most of it.
For other messing, I tried to make a 2.88MB floppy image to get a DOS PXE floppy with more funny stuff on it but that didn't work. Shouldn't that work? lol.
Actually I liked it better when it was a cesspool of porn. Now it's a cesspool of selfies, a cesspool of manipulation and a cesspool of propaganda in addition to a cesspool of porn.
What's true is SATA seems good enough to handle the Vista/7 kind of sluggish OS.
600 MB/s used to be my theoretical RAM and FSB speed