I have a Broadcom wireless card. Previously, Ubuntu was the only distro that I could get it to work with, albeit with considerable hacking. In Feisty, I was able to get it going with a minimal amount of tooling around. As I recall it involved downloading fwcutter, which also automatically downloaded the appropriate firmware from somewhere and I was good to go. I think ubuntuguide was where I got the directions from. It also has directions for damn near anything else you might want to set up.
The new Network Manager app also made WPA considerably easier.
"Opera also overrides the replacing of the status bar text, so you always know what you are clicking on before you click on it."
Firefox has an inbuilt 'annoyance eliminator' that does the the same thing.
This behaviour annoys me to no end. After a quick look around, I couldn't find how to enable this option. Where is it?
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I find it interesting that having read through this thread up to this point, this is the first time I've seen someone pull out the "FF is open source and Opera is not!" argument. Maybe a few bickerings about Opera's banner ad thingy -- but no direct mention of open source at all, until now. And yet, here are the screams of persecution at the hands "FOSS zealots". Heck, I don't even disagree with what you have to say (hello.sigmonster), necessarily. Just the time you chose to say it seems amusing.
That's true. The flurry of rants and rumors that/. has been covering could just be the indications of natural growing pains in these huge community projects.
That's the impression I got after reading through the thread on the gnome-devel mailing list, which is apparently what this is all about.
Seems like the gnome developers *want* to communicate through open channels, and thus maintain a level of open development, but are having a hard time hearing themselves and each other think with all the noise from "enthuisiasts" on what is supposed to be a list about development. So yeah. Maybe this is indicative of a growing community and associated growing pains. Or maybe, as has been suggested, it's an example of one person attention-whoring. Maybe it's both.
I've gotten the impression over the last few days of/. being more of a volatile rumor/rant site and not really a site dedicated to collecting important news.
Thankfully the developers have all the power. Imagine all of the inane features you would see in software that users want just because they think its handy. These users are the same ones who gleefully would install comet cursor, bonzai buddy, and gator on their computers. The world is safe as long as users aren't designing software.
This reminds me of that one episode of the Simpsons where Homer's brother (Herb?) lets him design a new car for his company: "The Car Designed by and for the Average Joe"
...If you haven't seen it, the conclusion is the car tanks and his brother's company goes out of business.
Try to port something like Neverwinter Nights to a console and you'll see just how "minimal" the differences can get.
I was just thinking that very thing. I play NWN on my PC, and make good use of the *36* quickslots ([ctrl|shift|nothing]F1-F12) for spells and other stuff. It's completely necessary to use them, as the right-click radial menu is too cumbersome to use when you've got a gang of baddies breathing down your neck and need to get that spell off quickly.
After playing NWN for some time I tried Baldur's Gate (Dark Alliance? I can't remember which one) where your quickslots were accessed by holding down L1 and then hitting one of square/triangle/circle/x, or by pressing up and down on the digital pad and hitting circle. So that's a total of 5 quickslots. Definitely not enough for a game like NWN, even if you're not a spellcaster. Can't see how it would be possible to port NWN to the console without having a keyboard.
Hmm, I didn't get very far into this thread before I just *couldn't* stand to see one more person say "it's the distro's fault!".
Here, click on the first download link. Read (the fucking) license. I'll leave it as an exercise for you to figure why most distros CAN'T distribute it.
I'm not the first, and I'm sure I won't be the last to have mentioned this, in this thread.
Some guy has had so much to drink that he passes out cold, then another guy comes along and starts wacking you over the head with the first guy's arm while he's passed out. In response, you lob a grenade at the guy, taking out yourself, the passed out guy, and several other innocent bystanders. Oh, and the real bad guy GETS AWAY.
Eh, sort of. The point is, the *only one* who doesn't get affected by all this, is the villain.
Instead of something which fights back, why not just block any IP which hits the website say over 60 times a minute?
Indeed. In fact, that's usually the best you can hope for, from what I understand. If it's a pure bandwidth attack, you may have to get your upstream provider to put a filter in place until the attack dies down.
Even worse is if the zombied machines are spoofing IP addresses, seems to me there's only two possible ways to stop this: 1. hope to find some kind of pattern in traffic; or (ideally) 2. have all ISPs implement egress filtering on their routers.
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(I have a sneaking suspicion that Perl vs. BASH is becoming the new emacs vs. vi.)
1) Are there groups out there (aside from large companies) that are doing focus groups and similar research aimed at the general public? If so, are they publishing this information and where?
I know you said aside from large companies, but I think Sun's gnome usability study applies here.
2) Is there any kind of tool for submitting bug reports? I hate using Microsoft as an example, but when my Windows machines crash, there is an option to send Microsoft a bug report.
I don't use it, but that sounds the same as bug-buddy.
Sorry, I don't know much about KDE, so I couldn't say whether or not they've had anything similar going on. It's not like they couldn't learn from the two cited examples though, that's what OSS is all about, right?
I'd say you have that backwards. While I'm sure many people are using it on servers, some of us refuse to do so unless there's some kind of package freeze (eg only security updates).
I haven't had much problems with sound over my years. That almost certainly has to do with the fact that I've tried to stick with cheap c-media cards, they work great!
That said, I'm not sure I want to know how difficult it would be to setup something like a high-end Yamaha card[1]. I have a friend who does music production with one of these things, and judging by the problems he has getting it to do what he wants in W2K, it would probably be quite a headache to get working in Linux (not to mention the availability of quality production software).
Enter ALSA. I'm aware of the improved hardware support, and other various improvements to the sound system that I won't even pretend I know anything about. It may be great for those with bleeding edge hardware, or those who want some other new feature provided, but damn if it isn't a significant Pain to setup in comparison with OSS. And for someone like me who just wants to listen to MP3s/CDs/etc and has a supported soundcard, definitely not worth the hassle. I realize that newer releases of RH/Fedora and Mandrake etc will likely have all this stuff setup for you in true automagical fashion though. Personally, I can't see myself migrating away from OSS anytime soon.
Anyways, I ramble... just sharing my experiences on this issue. The rest of the migration process to 2.6 is pretty painless. For the most part, it seems the only thing necessary is to make sure to install the module-init-tools package for whatever your distribution is, and also to be wary of changes in module names when editing/etc/modules[.conf]. 2.6 shows excellent performance improvements for me!
[1] As far as I know, these are considered high-end, but I'm open to being corrected on that, and also on the state of sound production software for Linux, if any such experts are around...
Is it at all possible that anyone with enough brain cells capable of producing decent code is going to take legal advice from Anonymous Cowards on Slashdot?
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I have a Broadcom wireless card. Previously, Ubuntu was the only distro that I could get it to work with, albeit with considerable hacking. In Feisty, I was able to get it going with a minimal amount of tooling around. As I recall it involved downloading fwcutter, which also automatically downloaded the appropriate firmware from somewhere and I was good to go. I think ubuntuguide was where I got the directions from. It also has directions for damn near anything else you might want to set up. The new Network Manager app also made WPA considerably easier.
You associate Soviet Russia with paradise???
"Opera also overrides the replacing of the status bar text, so you always know what you are clicking on before you click on it." Firefox has an inbuilt 'annoyance eliminator' that does the the same thing.
This behaviour annoys me to no end. After a quick look around, I couldn't find how to enable this option. Where is it?And you're apparently looking for one of these: '\n',
and also one of these: </i>.
Ol' buddy ol' pal.
That 3 is padding.
I find it interesting that having read through this thread up to this point, this is the first time I've seen someone pull out the "FF is open source and Opera is not!" argument. Maybe a few bickerings about Opera's banner ad thingy -- but no direct mention of open source at all, until now. And yet, here are the screams of persecution at the hands "FOSS zealots". Heck, I don't even disagree with what you have to say (hello .sigmonster), necessarily. Just the time you chose to say it seems amusing.
Pre-emptive counter-attack then, I guess?
I have to wonder who participated in the survey. Elementary school kids and people who think AOL is the Internet?
Hah. Elementary school kids know better than that.
I used canadianisp.com in the past when shopping around for a new ISP.
Unfortunately, I'm stuck with Rogers - which is probably the biggest cable("media") outfit in the country, I'm surprised you've never heard of them.That's true. The flurry of rants and rumors that /. has been covering could just be the indications of natural growing pains in these huge community projects.
That's the impression I got after reading through the thread on the gnome-devel mailing list, which is apparently what this is all about.
Seems like the gnome developers *want* to communicate through open channels, and thus maintain a level of open development, but are having a hard time hearing themselves and each other think with all the noise from "enthuisiasts" on what is supposed to be a list about development. So yeah. Maybe this is indicative of a growing community and associated growing pains. Or maybe, as has been suggested, it's an example of one person attention-whoring. Maybe it's both.
I've gotten the impression over the last few days of /. being more of a volatile rumor/rant site and not really a site dedicated to collecting important news.
Thankfully the developers have all the power. Imagine all of the inane features you would see in software that users want just because they think its handy. These users are the same ones who gleefully would install comet cursor, bonzai buddy, and gator on their computers. The world is safe as long as users aren't designing software.
This reminds me of that one episode of the Simpsons where Homer's brother (Herb?) lets him design a new car for his company: "The Car Designed by and for the Average Joe"
Indeed. The notion that APIs and microkernels are "academic fads that come and go by year" is pretty funny as well.
I was just thinking that very thing. I play NWN on my PC, and make good use of the *36* quickslots ([ctrl|shift|nothing]F1-F12) for spells and other stuff. It's completely necessary to use them, as the right-click radial menu is too cumbersome to use when you've got a gang of baddies breathing down your neck and need to get that spell off quickly.
After playing NWN for some time I tried Baldur's Gate (Dark Alliance? I can't remember which one) where your quickslots were accessed by holding down L1 and then hitting one of square/triangle/circle/x, or by pressing up and down on the digital pad and hitting circle. So that's a total of 5 quickslots. Definitely not enough for a game like NWN, even if you're not a spellcaster. Can't see how it would be possible to port NWN to the console without having a keyboard.
Hmm, I didn't get very far into this thread before I just *couldn't* stand to see one more person say "it's the distro's fault!".
Here, click on the first download link. Read (the fucking) license. I'll leave it as an exercise for you to figure why most distros CAN'T distribute it.
I'm not the first, and I'm sure I won't be the last to have mentioned this, in this thread.Which? (ac, mm, etc patchsets don't count)
"Verbogeny is one of the pleasurettes of a creative thinkerizer."
(Sorry, forget the source)
The stylesheet is server-side, end-users don't need to install anything.
Me too. Come to think of it, *all* the BSODs I've got have come from Windows ;)
Think of it like this:
Some guy has had so much to drink that he passes out cold, then another guy comes along and starts wacking you over the head with the first guy's arm while he's passed out. In response, you lob a grenade at the guy, taking out yourself, the passed out guy, and several other innocent bystanders. Oh, and the real bad guy GETS AWAY.Eh, sort of. The point is, the *only one* who doesn't get affected by all this, is the villain.
Indeed. In fact, that's usually the best you can hope for, from what I understand. If it's a pure bandwidth attack, you may have to get your upstream provider to put a filter in place until the attack dies down.
Even worse is if the zombied machines are spoofing IP addresses, seems to me there's only two possible ways to stop this: 1. hope to find some kind of pattern in traffic; or (ideally) 2. have all ISPs implement egress filtering on their routers.
I think it's Perl vs Python (vs Ruby).
What's funny about this post is, despite using strict, you neglected to declare $html.
Tsk tsk. always indeed.I know you said aside from large companies, but I think Sun's gnome usability study applies here.
2) Is there any kind of tool for submitting bug reports? I hate using Microsoft as an example, but when my Windows machines crash, there is an option to send Microsoft a bug report.I don't use it, but that sounds the same as bug-buddy.
Sorry, I don't know much about KDE, so I couldn't say whether or not they've had anything similar going on. It's not like they couldn't learn from the two cited examples though, that's what OSS is all about, right?
Fortunately, someone has thought of this, and is making it happen.
I haven't had much problems with sound over my years. That almost certainly has to do with the fact that I've tried to stick with cheap c-media cards, they work great!
That said, I'm not sure I want to know how difficult it would be to setup something like a high-end Yamaha card[1]. I have a friend who does music production with one of these things, and judging by the problems he has getting it to do what he wants in W2K, it would probably be quite a headache to get working in Linux (not to mention the availability of quality production software).
Enter ALSA. I'm aware of the improved hardware support, and other various improvements to the sound system that I won't even pretend I know anything about. It may be great for those with bleeding edge hardware, or those who want some other new feature provided, but damn if it isn't a significant Pain to setup in comparison with OSS. And for someone like me who just wants to listen to MP3s/CDs/etc and has a supported soundcard, definitely not worth the hassle. I realize that newer releases of RH/Fedora and Mandrake etc will likely have all this stuff setup for you in true automagical fashion though. Personally, I can't see myself migrating away from OSS anytime soon.
Anyways, I ramble... just sharing my experiences on this issue. The rest of the migration process to 2.6 is pretty painless. For the most part, it seems the only thing necessary is to make sure to install the module-init-tools package for whatever your distribution is, and also to be wary of changes in module names when editing /etc/modules[.conf]. 2.6 shows excellent performance improvements for me!
[1] As far as I know, these are considered high-end, but I'm open to being corrected on that, and also on the state of sound production software for Linux, if any such experts are around...So YAAL then?
What law firm do you work for?
Is it at all possible that anyone with enough brain cells capable of producing decent code is going to take legal advice from Anonymous Cowards on Slashdot?
Yeah, I know, IHBT.