I think E has been a lightweight option since Gnome/KDE 2 or so. Although I like the direction Gnome and KDE have been moving towards from an end-user standpoint, they have both become way more resource hungry with each release. Enlightenment still runs superbly on low power hardware, although some may argue this is because development of E stopped in 1998;-)
I really can't wait for E17 to be released. The development snapshots have been very promising.
Gnome apps work fine in E, or any other window manager or DE, provided the library dependencies are met. The nice thing about Ubuntu is its package manager offers cross desktop compatibility - it will automagically install a subset of the development platform (in this case, Gnome) sufficient to run an application in a different desktop environment (such as Enlightenment). Therefore, it's not necessary to install Gnome just to run a few Gnome applications.
I agree. I'm using a 333 Celeron, as my main computer because my other more powerful machines are all broken and I can't afford the luxury of an upgrade. As much as I like Linux, the modern distros are terribly sluggish on this particular machine. Win2k is golden, and despite the fact that this computer is so old, it still works like a champ, and does everything I need it to.
I'm a big fan of low-cost, low power computers. Very few people really need all that processing power which invariably is put to processing eye-candy than computation. The novelty of sizzle and flash wears off fast.
How was this modded insightful? In 1990 or 1991, a 386DX 50 mhz with 8 meg ram and a 200 MB hdd would have been a high end pc, probably costing around $3,000. This walmart pc would have been completely unheard of back then. Perhaps you meant 2000 or 2001.
I will vouch for your post and add a personal anecdote:
Around the age of 10, my cousin and I found a set of lawn darts in our grandmother's attic. After the initial appeal of playing the game proper wore off, we decided to see just how high we could throw the things. It was becoming dark outside, so visibility was becoming limited, but a competition was still underway. It was my throw, and as I was behind pointwise, I switched to a volatile underhanded throw. Both my cousin and I lost sight of the dart about 15 yards into the ascent, but it soon became startlingly clear that it was bearing down straight on top of him. It missed his skull by mere inches, and had it hit it probably would have killed him. We gathered up the darts and threw them in the trash.
A virtual chem lab is a great idea that I never would have thought of. A quick googling yielded several results that I'm off to check out right now.
I had several chemistry sets as a kid and spent many, many hours conducting experiments, often to my own harm (poisonous gases, chloral hydrate, etc...:-) High school chemistry almost got me arrested, and led in part to my expulsion from public school. Now, I'd like to get back into it, even if only for the theory, and as such a well designed virtual lab would suffice. Thanks for the idea, stoolpigeon!
That would be nice, except for the markets where Comcast is the ISP monolopy. Even *if* there are smaller ISPs in these markets, there is a good chance they are leasing bandwidth from Comcast anyway, which of course defeats the purpose.
I'm thankful that I live in a competitive market that offers several major ISPs.
Sheesh.. Doesn't anyone here understand the Messier catalogue?? If 42 has ever had a more apropos moment in recent/. convo, I'll eat my M104 with salsa...
Wrong again. The 2 points, ~200 million miles apart were used as points in a measure of parallax. The virtual aperture of the VLBA scope is ~5000 miles diameter, which isn't *quite* "nearly as big as earth". Still a pretty big aperture, even though it's not a complete circular area, the resolution provided is apparently sufficient to measure the stellar (nebular?) parallax wrt M42.
What I find more interesting in this article is the close relationship alluded to between the trapezium and the nebula...
She could have shoplifted the cds for a few hundred dollars in fines. Except she was fined for distributing the songs on Kazaa, not simply possessing them.
Thats a totally different scenario. Let this be a lesson to the new kids -- Better to shoplift a few CDs from the neighborhood music store than to download a few songs and accidentally make them available to others...
Disregarding the possible semantic problems with the word "choice", the point of open source software it that developers and end-users *can modify* the software code to suit their particular needs. Many people tend to tout the principle of "code reuse" in open software, but rarely mention "algorithm reuse", which I think is its best feature. So, if by choice you mean "selection of possible alternatives", then yes, there is a point to it. However, as stated, one can also *choose* to modify the code, so by [this] definition open source does in fact give more choices which is perhaps the point itself...
One time, a buddy and I went into a homeopathy/herbal healing store and noticed the ear candles. When we asked the lady what they do she said "It's like smudging your insides!" We immediately left the store to relieve the uproarious laughter from such a nonsensical, yet enthusiastic response.
Quack cult people are a strange breed. How is the layman supposed to be able to decipher their inane technobabble?
I assume you mean the Bortle Scale, in which case class 3 and 2 skies are *fairly* common away from the populated areas (ie non coastal regions). I live in a 250,000 person city in the midwest USA and have class 3 sky about 25 miles away, class 2 is about 50 miles...
I don't think one could find a class 1 sky here, except possibly in the most remote regions of Montana or the southwest desert.
"Whoosh!!" is the sound of the joke going over your head...
And for the record, it was probably Indica that the parent was smoking when he/she came up with the idea, which strangely enough seems to be of the same strain that Microsoft was smoking when they came up with the idea first. Probably grown just outside of Vancouver, if that makes any difference...
Hey, give Geller a break. At least that huckster can now claim to have bent *something* with his mind and avoid the wrath of The Amazing Randi!!
Oh, wait... what?
2. Enter said writing in password field for new account.
3. Chew and swallow sheet with spirit writing
With this method passwords are nearly unbreakable, unless someone else can channel the spirit you used. And by eating the evidence, there is no need to memorize anything! It gets digested naturally!
The only real problem with this is that a lot of the spirits give out really crummy passwords that don't always work...
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I really can't wait for E17 to be released. The development snapshots have been very promising.
Gnome apps work fine in E, or any other window manager or DE, provided the library dependencies are met. The nice thing about Ubuntu is its package manager offers cross desktop compatibility - it will automagically install a subset of the development platform (in this case, Gnome) sufficient to run an application in a different desktop environment (such as Enlightenment). Therefore, it's not necessary to install Gnome just to run a few Gnome applications.
I'm a big fan of low-cost, low power computers. Very few people really need all that processing power which invariably is put to processing eye-candy than computation. The novelty of sizzle and flash wears off fast.
How was this modded insightful? In 1990 or 1991, a 386DX 50 mhz with 8 meg ram and a 200 MB hdd would have been a high end pc, probably costing around $3,000. This walmart pc would have been completely unheard of back then. Perhaps you meant 2000 or 2001.
Around the age of 10, my cousin and I found a set of lawn darts in our grandmother's attic. After the initial appeal of playing the game proper wore off, we decided to see just how high we could throw the things. It was becoming dark outside, so visibility was becoming limited, but a competition was still underway. It was my throw, and as I was behind pointwise, I switched to a volatile underhanded throw. Both my cousin and I lost sight of the dart about 15 yards into the ascent, but it soon became startlingly clear that it was bearing down straight on top of him. It missed his skull by mere inches, and had it hit it probably would have killed him. We gathered up the darts and threw them in the trash.
Those things were *extremely* dangerous.
I had several chemistry sets as a kid and spent many, many hours conducting experiments, often to my own harm (poisonous gases, chloral hydrate, etc...:-) High school chemistry almost got me arrested, and led in part to my expulsion from public school. Now, I'd like to get back into it, even if only for the theory, and as such a well designed virtual lab would suffice. Thanks for the idea, stoolpigeon!
I'm thankful that I live in a competitive market that offers several major ISPs.
Yep. That's exactly what it is. Not exactly revolutionary, but interesting nonetheless...
Sheesh.. Doesn't anyone here understand the Messier catalogue?? If 42 has ever had a more apropos moment in recent /. convo, I'll eat my M104 with salsa...
What I find more interesting in this article is the close relationship alluded to between the trapezium and the nebula...
Thats a totally different scenario. Let this be a lesson to the new kids -- Better to shoplift a few CDs from the neighborhood music store than to download a few songs and accidentally make them available to others...
Disregarding the possible semantic problems with the word "choice", the point of open source software it that developers and end-users *can modify* the software code to suit their particular needs. Many people tend to tout the principle of "code reuse" in open software, but rarely mention "algorithm reuse", which I think is its best feature. So, if by choice you mean "selection of possible alternatives", then yes, there is a point to it. However, as stated, one can also *choose* to modify the code, so by [this] definition open source does in fact give more choices which is perhaps the point itself...
I've been trying to use the win32 version of vlc to save this (and other streams) to no avail. Somehow I forgot all about mplayer.
Works beautifully!
Unless you're a ruby (on rails) dev...
Uh, yea, I guess there is. Notwithstanding the implications of the word "fuse" in an enema... Ahh hell, let marketing figure that one out.
One time, a buddy and I went into a homeopathy/herbal healing store and noticed the ear candles. When we asked the lady what they do she said "It's like smudging your insides!" We immediately left the store to relieve the uproarious laughter from such a nonsensical, yet enthusiastic response.
Quack cult people are a strange breed. How is the layman supposed to be able to decipher their inane technobabble?
I assume you mean the Bortle Scale, in which case class 3 and 2 skies are *fairly* common away from the populated areas (ie non coastal regions). I live in a 250,000 person city in the midwest USA and have class 3 sky about 25 miles away, class 2 is about 50 miles... I don't think one could find a class 1 sky here, except possibly in the most remote regions of Montana or the southwest desert.
nice sig...
And for the record, it was probably Indica that the parent was smoking when he/she came up with the idea, which strangely enough seems to be of the same strain that Microsoft was smoking when they came up with the idea first. Probably grown just outside of Vancouver, if that makes any difference...
Hey, give Geller a break. At least that huckster can now claim to have bent *something* with his mind and avoid the wrath of The Amazing Randi!! Oh, wait... what?
You should have used an acoustic coupling modem and blue-boxed the call!
I thought those were pretty damn funny. Then again, what do I know? I've still got an onion strapped to my belt.
I did get a real good laugh out of it though, so thanks for that too!
1. Spirit Write password on sheet of paper.
2. Enter said writing in password field for new account.
3. Chew and swallow sheet with spirit writing
With this method passwords are nearly unbreakable, unless someone else can channel the spirit you used. And by eating the evidence, there is no need to memorize anything! It gets digested naturally!
The only real problem with this is that a lot of the spirits give out really crummy passwords that don't always work...
Hey people, you see those things on the end of your legs? They're called feet! Try walking!
See! I can play too. And for free and free!