Window Managers was just one example. Btw, from my Trolltech QT programming days, I discovered that interprocess communication in KDE is not like interprocess communication in Gnome ), when you need to remote control a KDE app from a non-KDE apps, you have to register the non-KDE apps with the interprocess "bus" first, this caused me no end of pain as I didn't want to have to detect with WM was running and then run the correct registration routines for that particular environment, as there are way too many.
I agree, and would mod you up if I had the points. Overrall, I think we should keep the diversity but standardize the "layers" of a Linux install. What I mean is from kernel space to user space, including graphical functions, should all have written standards as to how they behave. So if GTK wants to draw a button on the screen, fine, but the function would have to conform to the syntax "drawButton( width, height, position )" the same as Gnome, so that any application/toolkit could make use of the function to draw a button on the screen. In fact, the app should not need to know which Window Manager was running, it should "just work". Same thing for printing, same thing for communication between applications, same for package management. Standard commands, and differerent possible implementations, but the end user should not need to know which one is being used.
One more example, for package management tool should be transparent enough such the user clicks on/types "install application", and it gets installed, whethere the system is using apt-get, yum, or any other package manager. The specific commands would be hidden from the user, as they would just type in the _standard_ package management command and care less how the package is actually installed.
Same problem here. One thing I did recently was to replace my two CRT's with LCD's, that helped a little. Opening the window doesn't help as it is 90-100 F outside, so it will actually get hotter if I open it. Something I am experimenting with is putting air filter material on all of the air ducts except the one in the 'office' room. I figure if that room is the path of least resistance, it will get more of the cool air.
Most definitely my next round of computer upgrades will be concentrating on getting equipment that produces less heat and also quieter ( though I already have expensive quiet cases and 120mm fans ).
Yep, there is nothing like the thrill of competition, beating your opponents with good timing and clever strategy without cheating gives the ultimate high. Not having any competition leaves you without any bragging rights. Think "Company X wins the award in this category again, beating...no one. But here is the trophy anyway."
I second this. When I need to edit/convert audio files, Audacity gets the job done in a jiffy. If you have a package manager like Synaptic, you can download and install Audicity like so: "apt-get -y install audacity"
I agree there. The feature list of what something Oracle has from Database Design/Development(PL/SQL/Java/C++ modules) to scalability ( Real Application Cluster, anyone? ) compared with MySQL makes the database selection for a high availability system a no-brainer.
I haven't tried Reiser, but I use an old ( 1999! ) 13GB IDE drive for boot, and 6 400GB IDE drives ( each primary on its own controller ) as a RAID5 set created with mdadm and the xfs file system. I did run this setup with two drives per IDE bus, but it wasn't very fast. Transfers over the 1GB ethernet connection were about 4.6-5MBbps with the old setup, with the current setup I get between 11 and 20MBps, a nice speed increase.
File usage varies, but since I push/pull DVD images over the wire from the RAID set, I felt XFS would be the best, and RAID5 is worth it because I have had a drive go 'wonky' on me. Rebuilding it using mdadm utilities was a snap. It did cost me downtime for the rebuild as I don't have hot-swap capability.:(
Me too. When you see different technologies that can do similar things ( say they do something with photons that takes less space, costs more ), and try to predict which one will become commonly used. Take for example WiFi phones versus Satellite phones versus Cellular phones, right now one might think that WiFi is the emerging technology that will come out on top, but with the growing popularity of XM/Sirius radio, there may soon be breakthroughs in technology that make Satellite phone the better choice ( cost/performance wise ) than WiFi or GSM.
Who know, perhaps a by-product of single molecular transitor will be that breakthrough?
If by slow, he means, ceterus paribus, if I run an application implemented in language A and then run it implemented in version B, one is less responsive ( i.e. does few actions in the same amount of time, perhaps includes the delay from the time I click on a button to the time the application reacts to that click ), then Java is slower than say, C++ or C( and perhaps even Flash/Flash Actionscript ). If you only care about the CPU being the same between the two tests ( meaning you can change the memory, system bus speed, etc ), then Java may still be a little 'slow', but better than in the first example I gave. Of course, you may simply just by CPU cycles, and with all of the converting/translation between byte code and binary code that goes on in Java (2), then Java will surely be slow relative to applications that start off in a form "native" to the system they are running on.
Just some of my thoughts on the subject. Personnally I like the idea of Java, and was even thinking of doing all my apps in it, but currently I think it is best suited to Server-Side applications. I do use java apps like Eclipse, and have heard good things about Jedit.
Yeah. Someone should come up with a folder where user profiles are stored and the user has full control of, oh, and when they log in, that is automatically their starting directory. Call it "home" or something. Maybe the idea will take root and become popular. Oh, how about "/home" ( home under the root directory ).
If you use your computer as a media center, and wireless keyboard/mouse as the "remote controls, its best not to have a 'pad' at all. I like just grabbing the mouse and/or the keyboard and take it to the kitchen ( where I can still see the computer display on the 84" projector screen ) and control the video that is playing ( usually French video capture, music or news ) while making coffee/eggs/etc. Heck, I like being able to use the mouse on the arm of a couch, a table, or whatever surface is nearby. It is extremely convenient ( in this situation ).
Anyway, the point of this post is to show another environment in which computer mice are used.
**Spoilers ** I agree. After he chops of the Jedi master's hand to save Darth Sidious, he instantly regrets his action and repeats "What did I do?", looking very sad and regretful of his choice two seconds later, he is swearing fealty to Darth Sidious with zero conviction ( i.e. he doesn't look to enthused to get himself a new master, but he does it anyway...why? ). This does not make sense! If he really had turned to the dark side, he would be joyful in killing the Jedi master ( like saying "That's for not making me a Jedi Master on the council!" )
Other pet peeves are the wookies making the Tarzan call in the battle of Kashyk ( however you spell it ), did Tarzan teach them that? Sound effects in space ( without air, how are the sound waves travelling? ), the little Buzz droids in the begining being blown off the wing of Annakin's ship after R2 zaps its middle eye ( again, no air in space ), the extreme lack of medical technology for birth - i.e. they could not perform a c-section or even put Padme on life support while she gave birth? How about Obi-wan having to give R2 a communicator? We have WiFi cards now, radios, etc, are you telling me these ( or something much more advanced ) didn't exist in the SW universe? Droids do not have any wireless communication devices built-in?
I could go one. Overrall I liked the movie, but these were things that bugged me while I watched it. It definitely needed to do more to convince the viewer that Annakin wanted to do want he did, instead of just following the script.
I could see Microsoft doing things like making.met a default document editing tool, or Outlook mail format, and then if someone tries to save as another format it does the Excel-like action of popping up a Window that warns "You may lose precious formatting options or other features if you don't save in.metro format, are you sure you want to do this?"
Many people will get nervous and decided to save in.metro format, causing the number of Metro users to baloon quickly.
The licensing could be incorporated into OEM installs of Windows also, to help Microsoft boost the number "licensed users" of Metro, to further encourage people to get on what could start as a non-existent band-wagon, but turn into a real one.
Handy product for offices where people want to semi-permanently store their email without having them make.pst files ( for Outlook users ) all over the place that become a pain to support, or try and store sensitive company information on a external ( to the company ) email server ( GMail ).
Here is a link that gives an overview, I think it only works with MS Exchange/MS Outlook setups, though. -> http://www.veritas.qassociates.co.uk/email-managem ent-exchange.htm
At home I just back up my system ( including email folders ) and then delete whatever I don't immediately need as I can always get it back later. Oh, in the case where you run your email server, 2GB is not a big deal, 100-400GB is not out of the question, depending on homw much drive space YOU feel your mailserver needs for storage. Same thing for the client-side email storage.
Tell me about it. I bought a 40GB Neo Jukebox back in 2001 for my car, and I am still always changing the music in it, making new playlists, etc. Control is important as music is best when it fits the mood. If I am in a philosophical mood, the music should be, too. If I am in an angry mood, the music should be able to match!
>> How do you make this simpler? Insert the Linux install DVD and press the reset button. Follow the instructions on the screen after the computer boots from the DVD.
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Window Managers was just one example. Btw, from my Trolltech QT programming days, I discovered that interprocess communication in KDE is not like interprocess communication in Gnome ), when you need to remote control a KDE app from a non-KDE apps, you have to register the non-KDE apps with the interprocess "bus" first, this caused me no end of pain as I didn't want to have to detect with WM was running and then run the correct registration routines for that particular environment, as there are way too many.
I agree, and would mod you up if I had the points. Overrall, I think we should keep the diversity but standardize the "layers" of a Linux install. What I mean is from kernel space to user space, including graphical functions, should all have written standards as to how they behave. So if GTK wants to draw a button on the screen, fine, but the function would have to conform to the syntax "drawButton( width, height, position )" the same as Gnome, so that any application/toolkit could make use of the function to draw a button on the screen. In fact, the app should not need to know which Window Manager was running, it should "just work". Same thing for printing, same thing for communication between applications, same for package management. Standard commands, and differerent possible implementations, but the end user should not need to know which one is being used.
One more example, for package management tool should be transparent enough such the user clicks on/types "install application", and it gets installed, whethere the system is using apt-get, yum, or any other package manager. The specific commands would be hidden from the user, as they would just type in the _standard_ package management command and care less how the package is actually installed.
We are not just talking about any firewall, we are talking about Microsoft's integrated software firewall. I hope this clarifies why it is unsecure.
Same problem here. One thing I did recently was to replace my two CRT's with LCD's, that helped a little. Opening the window doesn't help as it is 90-100 F outside, so it will actually get hotter if I open it.
Something I am experimenting with is putting air filter material on all of the air ducts except the one in the 'office' room. I figure if that room is the path of least resistance, it will get more of the cool air.
Most definitely my next round of computer upgrades will be concentrating on getting equipment that produces less heat and also quieter ( though I already have expensive quiet cases and 120mm fans ).
Any other ideas?
Yep, there is nothing like the thrill of competition, beating your opponents with good timing and clever strategy without cheating gives the ultimate high. Not having any competition leaves you without any bragging rights. Think "Company X wins the award in this category again, beating...no one. But here is the trophy anyway."
I second this. When I need to edit/convert audio files, Audacity gets the job done in a jiffy. If you have a package manager like Synaptic, you can download and install Audicity like so: "apt-get -y install audacity"
Could it get any simpler?
I agree there. The feature list of what something Oracle has from Database Design/Development(PL/SQL/Java/C++ modules) to scalability ( Real Application Cluster, anyone? ) compared with MySQL makes the database selection for a high availability system a no-brainer.
I haven't tried Reiser, but I use an old ( 1999! ) 13GB IDE drive for boot, and 6 400GB IDE drives ( each primary on its own controller ) as a RAID5 set created with mdadm and the xfs file system. I did run this setup with two drives per IDE bus, but it wasn't very fast. Transfers over the 1GB ethernet connection were about 4.6-5MBbps with the old setup, with the current setup I get between 11 and 20MBps, a nice speed increase.
:(
File usage varies, but since I push/pull DVD images over the wire from the RAID set, I felt XFS would be the best, and RAID5 is worth it because I have had a drive go 'wonky' on me. Rebuilding it using mdadm utilities was a snap. It did cost me downtime for the rebuild as I don't have hot-swap capability.
Neither one had an affect on my system, Linux /Mozilla.
An atom of an element is also a molecule. If you remember from Chemistry, a mole is number of molecules, and you can have a mole of Oxygen,Gold, etc.
Me too. When you see different technologies that can do similar things ( say they do something with photons that takes less space, costs more ), and try to predict which one will become commonly used. Take for example WiFi phones versus Satellite phones versus Cellular phones, right now one might think that WiFi is the emerging technology that will come out on top, but with the growing popularity of XM/Sirius radio, there may soon be breakthroughs in technology that make Satellite phone the better choice ( cost/performance wise ) than WiFi or GSM.
Who know, perhaps a by-product of single molecular
transitor will be that breakthrough?
If by slow, he means, ceterus paribus, if I run an application implemented in language A and then run it implemented in version B, one is less responsive
( i.e. does few actions in the same amount of time, perhaps includes the delay from the time I click on a button to the time the application reacts to that click ), then Java is slower than say, C++ or C( and perhaps even Flash/Flash Actionscript ). If you only care about the CPU being the same between the two tests ( meaning you can change the memory, system bus speed, etc ), then Java may still be a little 'slow', but better than in the first example I gave. Of course, you may simply just by CPU cycles, and with all of the converting/translation between byte code and binary code that goes on in Java (2), then Java will surely be slow relative to applications that start off in a form "native" to the system they are running on.
Just some of my thoughts on the subject. Personnally I like the idea of Java, and was even thinking of doing all my apps in it, but currently I think it is best suited to Server-Side applications. I do use java apps like Eclipse, and have heard good things about Jedit.
Yeah. Someone should come up with a folder where user profiles are stored and the user has full control of, oh, and when they log in, that is automatically their starting directory. Call it "home" or something. Maybe the idea will take root and become popular. Oh, how about "/home" ( home under the root directory ).
I think I am on to something...
Cmon, discussing spelling is on-topic in that it provides information useful for understanding the topic in full. Really....I am not kidding you!
Like when you use a computer as a media center -2 9&threshold=1&commentsort=0&tid=227&tid=126&tid=1& mode=thread&pid=12666358#12669871
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If you use your computer as a media center, and wireless keyboard/mouse as the "remote controls, its
best not to have a 'pad' at all. I like just grabbing the mouse and/or the keyboard and take it to the kitchen ( where I can still see the computer display on the 84" projector screen ) and control the video that is playing ( usually French video capture, music or news ) while making coffee/eggs/etc. Heck, I like being able to use the mouse on the arm of a couch, a table, or whatever surface is nearby. It is extremely convenient ( in this situation ).
Anyway, the point of this post is to show another environment in which computer mice are used.
**Spoilers **
I agree. After he chops of the Jedi master's hand to save Darth Sidious, he instantly regrets his action and repeats "What did I do?", looking very sad and regretful of his choice two seconds later, he is swearing fealty to Darth Sidious with zero conviction ( i.e. he doesn't look to enthused to get himself a new master, but he does it anyway...why? ). This does not make sense! If he really had turned to the dark side, he would be joyful in killing the Jedi master ( like saying "That's for not making me a Jedi Master on the council!" )
Other pet peeves are the wookies making the Tarzan call in the battle of Kashyk ( however you spell it ), did Tarzan teach them that? Sound effects in space ( without air, how are the sound waves travelling? ), the little Buzz droids in the begining being blown off the wing of Annakin's ship after R2 zaps its middle eye ( again, no air in space ), the extreme lack of medical technology for birth - i.e. they could not perform a c-section or even put Padme on life support while she gave birth? How about Obi-wan having to give R2 a communicator? We have WiFi cards now, radios, etc, are you telling me these ( or something much more advanced ) didn't exist in the SW universe? Droids do not have any wireless communication devices built-in?
I could go one. Overrall I liked the movie, but these were things that bugged me while I watched it. It definitely needed to do more to convince the viewer that Annakin wanted to do want he did, instead of just following the script.
Between Vader and Kenobi, who's Schwartz is bigger!
Please reconsider, you know how GeeDubyah reacts to rejection.
I could see Microsoft doing things like making .met a default document editing tool, or Outlook mail format, and then if someone tries to save as another format it does the Excel-like action of popping up a Window that warns "You may lose precious formatting options or other features if you don't save in .metro format, are you sure you want to do this?"
.metro format, causing the number of Metro users to baloon quickly.
Many people will get nervous and decided to save in
The licensing could be incorporated into OEM installs of Windows also, to help Microsoft boost the number "licensed users" of Metro, to further encourage people to get on what could start as a non-existent band-wagon, but turn into a real one.
I run Linux( not as root ), surf with Firefox, and keep the "install software" option turned off.
:)
Perhaps there is a way to set up a system ( install and configure everything ), then mount the filesystem as 'readonly' to keep spyware off?
Do they mean something like Dockapps ,GDesklets, or Superkaramba? Or perhaps gKrellm?Yeah, that is new. :)
Handy product for offices where people want to semi-permanently store their email without having them make .pst files ( for Outlook users ) all over the place that become a pain to support, or try and store sensitive company information on a external ( to the company ) email server ( GMail ).
m ent-exchange.htm
Here is a link that gives an overview, I think it only works with MS Exchange/MS Outlook setups, though. -> http://www.veritas.qassociates.co.uk/email-manage
At home I just back up my system ( including email folders ) and then delete whatever I don't immediately need as I can always get it back later. Oh, in the case where you run your email server, 2GB is not a big deal, 100-400GB is not out of the question, depending on homw much drive space YOU feel your mailserver needs for storage. Same thing for the client-side email storage.
Tell me about it. I bought a 40GB Neo Jukebox back in 2001 for my car, and I am still always changing the music in it, making new playlists, etc. Control is important as music is best when it fits the mood. If I am in a philosophical mood, the music should be, too. If I am in an angry mood, the music should be able to match!
>> How do you make this simpler?
Insert the Linux install DVD and press the reset button. Follow the instructions on the screen after the computer boots from the DVD.