Ah yes, makes sense. Like that time I was trying to use xrandr not in the Xorg session context. "Can't open display". Duh. To script xrandr, I ended up doing a setuid on xrandr and running the script in Mate's "start up programs" for what would have been Modelines in the xorg.conf, if that feature hadn't been removed.
I'm not sure what better way I should use to please the session gods and the display gods.
I am among some many users still on Ubuntu 14.04 and waiting for 16.04 or on Mint 17, waiting for Mint 18 so not caring much yet. In fact, I'm more concerned about whether the driver support will get better and the applications better and less buggy.
Reminds me of Microsoft TweakUI which I swore by 10/15 years ago. Although it was for little things (Autorun, auto-login, make arrows on shortcuts smaller etc.) not a replacement for control panel and start menu editing and so on.
I've even tried the latest Cinnamon and I thought there were some paper cuts in there still. Although maybe a wider monitor (to get more task bar space) and a recent graphics card or GPU would fix some of that.
Mate is predictable regardless of your hardware or whether you use a bleeding edge distro or a stable one. No hunt for applets : too bad if you wanted an ecosystem of little applet and widget things, but the built-in ones are dependable.
If you were into making explosives from grease perhaps you would buy new grease?, instead of scrapping smelly, sticky substances mixed with excrements and used toilet paper from a tunnel that would have trouble fitting a Vietcong midget.
In fact even working with raw and clean human excrements would be better than that, if you have some process to exploit the vast potential chemical energy left in it.
You know what, if you want to defeat terrorists, try to not provide them with weapons and political support for a start. We got these blow back attacks because France has supported terrorism as a geopolitical weapon against Syria, among other state sponsors of terrorism such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and the US. So don't support terrorism and let Syria defend itself if you don't want terrorism.
I believe Firefox OS was a wide deployment of the browser with "e10s" (multi-process), and without the XUL stuff? So it must have helped, but the desktop browser is that huge beast with everything and the kitchen sink that you can't easily shrink down to a featureless, crippled GUI (like Microsoft Edge) without ruining user workflows and the vibrant ecosystem of add-ons and stuff.
There is going to be a hard transition in all cases with hundreds of extensions dying off, but it needs to happen. I hope that at least Mozilla will push Firefox 45 ESR as the last "legacy-enabled" release that users are free to cling to for a while, and that 46 or even 45 proper will be a "fast out of the box" version.
I think that's way overdue. I've again lanched Chromium because I wanted to quickly check something without getting bogged down. The web is not becoming lighter, even if blocking ads and trackers. Firefox has now become the Windows 3.1 or Mac OS 8 of browsers and I can't wait for the day it's more of a "Windows NT" on performance and robustness of that performance. By default, on the main release channel.
In general though, a bigger more recent SSD ought to be more reliable than a smaller older one. Bigger is more reliable : more spare blocks, file system not full, and more consistent write performance. But bigger also means faster though you can rather quickly hit the interface's speed. So, I'd like a slow and reliable drive too, but I don't think there is much point to it.
Wait, US is that country where you can't even drink in the streets and people resort to making fake IDs (!) to drink. I think that may be why you are afraid of such "totalitarian" policies as you reading or hearing on TV or radio about a recommendation once in a while. What such evil "government" intrusion (if somehow physicians and University of Cambridge count as "the government").
The reality though is it's you Americans who are fined and jailed for drinking and jay walking and so on, AND you get little "socialized" healthcare. So I don't think oppression and healthcare are actually related.
I believe these republican talking points (and "talking points" going back 15-20 years regarding the need for the US to attack Iran, Iraq, Syria etc.) are read on the internet by DPRK's military elites, which are synonymous with political elites in that country.
Somehow there is extremely aggressive rhetoric coming from the US all the time, but so much of the world is peaceful or safe (Europe, China, Japan etc.) we don't bat an eye. With DPRK's own aggressive/defensive behavior that makes a naturally self-reinforcing loop. It is extremely easy for the regime to "teach" its people about such US behavior and statements. They own the few newspapers, the one TV channel and the radio channel(s) thus media, politics and military are one and the same.
The "axis of evil" speech alone was enough to rally the korea nation (well the part freed from imperialism in their view) against the american rabid dogs / wolves / bloodthirsty and cruel beasts ready to slaughter the innocent, pure and well-meaning korean people like a fox in the hen house and for that they need to train hard and be ready to fight to the last drop of blood (with a determination reminiscent of Imperial Japan, but don't tell them!)
They can't do a flight test of an ICBM warhead without everyone getting really pissed about it, let alone retrieving parts from the ocean for examination. Basically they can make ICBMs but they can't test them - which maybe means they can't make meaningful ICBMs.
I don't know much about thermodynamics, but the Carnot cycle is a theoretical device not something real. It implies an absolutely perfect, impossible to build car engine or power plant would have an efficiency of about 66% not 100% (don't ask me where that 66% figure comes from, I just remember it from some article or story)
Car engine does run at less than 50% of that figure and the best power plant does run at about 90% that figure (gas turbine that benefit from the control you refer to, and recycles waste heat to do some more work)
Overnight there is going to be zillions of articles copy-pasted illegally[*] and that's going to create a mess. I'm concerned that it will make the business of media and news even more worthless. It will also make it even easier for people to self-publish as getting a blog or domain main is a small barrier to entry, which is a good thing. Yet journalist college degrees etc. and credentials will even get more meaningless.
I'm pissed that newspaper physically shrank and are rarely read anymore. Give me back newspapers from the 90s. Even the TV news are rarely watched these days. Although there's no conspiracy behind this, people get increasingly isolated and ill-informed or not informed these days and I suppose that's threatening western democracy itself. Yes you can read in amazing detail about any topic you like but only you will have read it. Other people will read into their echo chambers, including old-fashioned (very unhelpful) bullshit comments about such and such issue being the Jews's fault. (in association with the Rothschilds, the media, Israel, the US, the terrorists or any group you can think of)
Your ICE and energy station figures are dubious, or did you meant percentages of the absolute best possible efficiency? (Carnot efficiency)
With electric vehicles I agree you get a "clean" burn at the power station and the efficiency is decent, but it favors suburbia to be able to charge your car at home. Or let's take a semi-dense 500,000 people town : installing 50,000 charging stations and the wiring to move the currents is going to have insane costs. Even with "only" 10,000 I wonder where you are going to put them. I hope electric delivery vehicles can makes sense as well as a few fleets of small vehicles. Even electric garbage trucks would be welcome but I don't know if battery capacity is quite enough yet.
There is one thing Windows still is needed for : to run chkdsk. That and maybe upgrading firmware on non-PC hardware. For flashing PC components I used DOS.
Indeed, doing sysadmin work to play a game is hardly fun. Setting up a boot server or ssh may be mildly fun on its own but that's not related to games. Even creating a shortcut and adding it to an environment's "start menu" feels like work, under linux.
Windows 7 isn't without its faults though. Slow as shit on a hard drive, get me nervous the second Windows Update doesn't work. Horrible file manager that's both untabbed and too big to fit two side by side on a low res screen. The XP days without antivirus were easier, as well as the 98SE days. Can't even play random old games comfortably without buying new hardware : an SSD or new HDD for Windows, or a new graphics card for linux - you'd better have a less than 5-year-old nvidia card so as to have the latest drivers.
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During ice ages, i.e. perhaps most of the times Indonesia is a big land bridge.
Ah yes, makes sense.
Like that time I was trying to use xrandr not in the Xorg session context. "Can't open display". Duh.
To script xrandr, I ended up doing a setuid on xrandr and running the script in Mate's "start up programs" for what would have been Modelines in the xorg.conf, if that feature hadn't been removed.
I'm not sure what better way I should use to please the session gods and the display gods.
Not sure what "evince" or "nautilus" are supposed to mean.
On the command line, try this one : gvfs-open. It's good if you simply want to open a file.
I am among some many users still on Ubuntu 14.04 and waiting for 16.04 or on Mint 17, waiting for Mint 18 so not caring much yet.
In fact, I'm more concerned about whether the driver support will get better and the applications better and less buggy.
Reminds me of Microsoft TweakUI which I swore by 10/15 years ago. Although it was for little things (Autorun, auto-login, make arrows on shortcuts smaller etc.) not a replacement for control panel and start menu editing and so on.
I've even tried the latest Cinnamon and I thought there were some paper cuts in there still.
Although maybe a wider monitor (to get more task bar space) and a recent graphics card or GPU would fix some of that.
Mate is predictable regardless of your hardware or whether you use a bleeding edge distro or a stable one.
No hunt for applets : too bad if you wanted an ecosystem of little applet and widget things, but the built-in ones are dependable.
If you were into making explosives from grease perhaps you would buy new grease?, instead of scrapping smelly, sticky substances mixed with excrements and used toilet paper from a tunnel that would have trouble fitting a Vietcong midget.
In fact even working with raw and clean human excrements would be better than that, if you have some process to exploit the vast potential chemical energy left in it.
You know what, if you want to defeat terrorists, try to not provide them with weapons and political support for a start.
We got these blow back attacks because France has supported terrorism as a geopolitical weapon against Syria, among other state sponsors of terrorism such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and the US.
So don't support terrorism and let Syria defend itself if you don't want terrorism.
(2^31)-1 dollars ought to be enough for anybody.
I believe Firefox OS was a wide deployment of the browser with "e10s" (multi-process), and without the XUL stuff?
So it must have helped, but the desktop browser is that huge beast with everything and the kitchen sink that you can't easily shrink down to a featureless, crippled GUI (like Microsoft Edge) without ruining user workflows and the vibrant ecosystem of add-ons and stuff.
There is going to be a hard transition in all cases with hundreds of extensions dying off, but it needs to happen.
I hope that at least Mozilla will push Firefox 45 ESR as the last "legacy-enabled" release that users are free to cling to for a while, and that 46 or even 45 proper will be a "fast out of the box" version.
I think that's way overdue. I've again lanched Chromium because I wanted to quickly check something without getting bogged down. The web is not becoming lighter, even if blocking ads and trackers. Firefox has now become the Windows 3.1 or Mac OS 8 of browsers and I can't wait for the day it's more of a "Windows NT" on performance and robustness of that performance. By default, on the main release channel.
In general though, a bigger more recent SSD ought to be more reliable than a smaller older one.
Bigger is more reliable : more spare blocks, file system not full, and more consistent write performance. But bigger also means faster though you can rather quickly hit the interface's speed.
So, I'd like a slow and reliable drive too, but I don't think there is much point to it.
"OCZ RevoDrive" does get brand recognition as a fast SSD on a PCIe card.
It would be fun to show them a Windows system installed on D:\. Good luck for running the software then.
Wait, US is that country where you can't even drink in the streets and people resort to making fake IDs (!) to drink.
I think that may be why you are afraid of such "totalitarian" policies as you reading or hearing on TV or radio about a recommendation once in a while. What such evil "government" intrusion (if somehow physicians and University of Cambridge count as "the government").
The reality though is it's you Americans who are fined and jailed for drinking and jay walking and so on, AND you get little "socialized" healthcare. So I don't think oppression and healthcare are actually related.
I believe these republican talking points (and "talking points" going back 15-20 years regarding the need for the US to attack Iran, Iraq, Syria etc.) are read on the internet by DPRK's military elites, which are synonymous with political elites in that country.
Somehow there is extremely aggressive rhetoric coming from the US all the time, but so much of the world is peaceful or safe (Europe, China, Japan etc.) we don't bat an eye. With DPRK's own aggressive/defensive behavior that makes a naturally self-reinforcing loop. It is extremely easy for the regime to "teach" its people about such US behavior and statements. They own the few newspapers, the one TV channel and the radio channel(s) thus media, politics and military are one and the same.
The "axis of evil" speech alone was enough to rally the korea nation (well the part freed from imperialism in their view) against the american rabid dogs / wolves / bloodthirsty and cruel beasts ready to slaughter the innocent, pure and well-meaning korean people like a fox in the hen house and for that they need to train hard and be ready to fight to the last drop of blood (with a determination reminiscent of Imperial Japan, but don't tell them!)
They can't do a flight test of an ICBM warhead without everyone getting really pissed about it, let alone retrieving parts from the ocean for examination.
Basically they can make ICBMs but they can't test them - which maybe means they can't make meaningful ICBMs.
This couple pictures exemplifies the difference between North and South :
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/n...
I don't know much about thermodynamics, but the Carnot cycle is a theoretical device not something real.
It implies an absolutely perfect, impossible to build car engine or power plant would have an efficiency of about 66% not 100% (don't ask me where that 66% figure comes from, I just remember it from some article or story)
Car engine does run at less than 50% of that figure and the best power plant does run at about 90% that figure (gas turbine that benefit from the control you refer to, and recycles waste heat to do some more work)
Overnight there is going to be zillions of articles copy-pasted illegally[*] and that's going to create a mess. I'm concerned that it will make the business of media and news even more worthless. It will also make it even easier for people to self-publish as getting a blog or domain main is a small barrier to entry, which is a good thing. Yet journalist college degrees etc. and credentials will even get more meaningless.
I'm pissed that newspaper physically shrank and are rarely read anymore. Give me back newspapers from the 90s. Even the TV news are rarely watched these days. Although there's no conspiracy behind this, people get increasingly isolated and ill-informed or not informed these days and I suppose that's threatening western democracy itself. Yes you can read in amazing detail about any topic you like but only you will have read it. Other people will read into their echo chambers, including old-fashioned (very unhelpful) bullshit comments about such and such issue being the Jews's fault. (in association with the Rothschilds, the media, Israel, the US, the terrorists or any group you can think of)
[*] It's nominally illegal most times.
I believe SMS is 160 chars in some countries and 140 in other, or it depends on text encoding.
Your ICE and energy station figures are dubious, or did you meant percentages of the absolute best possible efficiency? (Carnot efficiency)
With electric vehicles I agree you get a "clean" burn at the power station and the efficiency is decent, but it favors suburbia to be able to charge your car at home. Or let's take a semi-dense 500,000 people town : installing 50,000 charging stations and the wiring to move the currents is going to have insane costs. Even with "only" 10,000 I wonder where you are going to put them.
I hope electric delivery vehicles can makes sense as well as a few fleets of small vehicles. Even electric garbage trucks would be welcome but I don't know if battery capacity is quite enough yet.
There is one thing Windows still is needed for : to run chkdsk.
That and maybe upgrading firmware on non-PC hardware. For flashing PC components I used DOS.
Indeed, doing sysadmin work to play a game is hardly fun. Setting up a boot server or ssh may be mildly fun on its own but that's not related to games.
Even creating a shortcut and adding it to an environment's "start menu" feels like work, under linux.
Windows 7 isn't without its faults though. Slow as shit on a hard drive, get me nervous the second Windows Update doesn't work. Horrible file manager that's both untabbed and too big to fit two side by side on a low res screen.
The XP days without antivirus were easier, as well as the 98SE days.
Can't even play random old games comfortably without buying new hardware : an SSD or new HDD for Windows, or a new graphics card for linux - you'd better have a less than 5-year-old nvidia card so as to have the latest drivers.
In fact Earth was known not to be flat before there were christians.