A major mysql update should certainly not be done without planning. However, the OP's point was that a standard stabe update included a major mysql upgrade which broke his functionality. If that's indeed the case, there is something very wrong with the way Gentoo manages its packages, and exactly why you wouldn't want it running on any kind of production system.
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I use Windows MCE and in spite of its quirks getting it up and running has been largely trivial.
That's sort of the point. You're using Windows MCE, not plain XP/2003/Vista/whatever. You have a version of Windows which has been designed as a media centre OS, so it's going to be pretty straightforward to get working (hopefully).
Getting Myth working on a standard Linux distribution is difficult for the inexperienced user, but how much chance would a non-technical Windows user have of setting up a fully functional media centre on his Windows XP box?
This is where KnoppMyth/Mythdora/etc. come in - they are, basically, media centre editions for Linux. "Linux MCE" if you like (though I suspect many don't:-)
The only people I ever hear complain about the camera are WoW players.
I've never played WoW. I used to play NWN regularly. The camera in NWN2 is so badly implemented that I find the game completely unplayable - it does not work like the old NWN camera did. The group of people I used to play NWN with all agree - we'd hoped to get a regular weekly NWN2 evening going, but that won't be happening until (if?) some of the suckage has been fixed. A real shame.
And don't get me started on the lack of a Linux dedicated server. I can understand not wanting to bother with a Linux client, but lack of a server is just braindamaged.
You're completely right about the UK's totally broken voting system, but even with PR in place, the UK would still have re-elected a pro-war party last year. Both Labour and the Tories toed the US line on Iraq. Only the Lib Dems opposed the war from the start, and they only got ~22% of the vote, because they don't have an electable image.
The reason is "traditional" voting. I know plenty people who were strongly opposed to the war (not to menion some other highly questionable government policies) but still voted for Labour last year simply because voting for any other party was inconceivable to them. These are people who always voted Labour, since back in the days when it wasn't just another bunch of right-wing corporate lackeys.
Still, Labour's support was down last year, and with any luck it'll be down more in the next election. Labour voters may finally be beginning to realise that New Labour is not Labour.
Roadside IED go off and kill US troops? The neighborhood will suffer as a result. Teach the populace that all harboring and capitulation with the terrorists won't save them any trouble, and that they need to take care of their own problems if they want the US to leave.
This is known as collective punishment, and is a war crime. Sure, it'll work in the short term - worked great for Hitler, Stalin, and Olmert, at least for a while - but do you really want to join that club?
The OpenChrome drivers are a fork of the original VIA code, because a) the original VIA drivers suck, and b) VIA have never shown any interest in improving these drivers or even sharing the necessary information to allow open source developers to improve the drivers (despite a lot of "open source friendly" PR).
So it's a fair comment to say that the current OpenChrome drivers are completely unsupported by VIA. VIA don't even acknowledge the existence of alternative drivers for the Unichrome chipset.
I think the point of that comment is that you don't need Western-style affluence to have a happy life. It doesn't hurt to have it, but material possessions only contribute to happiness up to a certain degree. (The response to that comment you've linked to says more about the poster than it does about Mr. Monbiot - a nasty little quip about how Ethiopians must be happy because they'll soon be dead and won't have to listen to Mr. Monbiot for much longer).
So, no - it's not anti-technology. It's just saying that there's more to life than technology alone, which is quite true IMHO. If you feel that you must have your cellphone, computer, SUV, 6-figure bank account, etc. just to be happy, then I feel sorry for you.
There was a survey done by the London School of Economics a few years ago which interestingly found that the happiest nation - as measured by how happy people felt about their own lives - was Bangladesh, also one of the world's poorest nations. Interestingly, the US ranked around 50th in the world. Of course, such surveys are highly subjective, but strong evidence that you don't need to be rich to be happy.
Have you ever programmed with X? I mean, not with QT, or GTK, or some toolkit, but actually with X?
I presume you're asking if anyone's programmed using Xlib directly ("X" is an alternative term for the X Window System, or possibly the "X" Protocol). Yeah, I wrote a simple Mandelbrot generator with it for educational purposes when I was first learning about X11, back in 1994 or so. It was instructive (taught me about event-driven programming and how to write an event loop), but the next thing I did was learn Motif (which I won't try to defend here:-)
If you're not actually trolling, your example is really, really, stupid. Nobody writes real applications using Xlib directly, just like nobody would write a Windows app using only the GDI.
Seriously, someone should redo X with a more modern focus.
Okay, so you are just trolling. X is being continually redone with a modern focus - that's what X extensions are for. You get nice things like Fontconfig, GLX, compositing, etc. for free when you use a toolkit such as KDE or Gnome, which are quite capable of taking advantage of such extensions.
You think you can do better? Put up or shut up. People have tried and failed - ever heard of Y-Windows or Berlin? So good luck to you. Meanwhile I'll happily continue to use something I know works just fine.
This is a pretty important point, actually. In the UK, getting HD basically means getting satellite (Sky), or cable (NTL or Telewest). Me, I'm perfectly happy with terrestrial Freeview. I've already got more programmes recorded (yay MythTV) than I'm likely to have time to watch, so I have no intention of paying an extra £15 a month or more for a handful of HD channels mixed in with a ton of SD dross.
Brand new £1000+ TV (I only bought a new CRT set 3 years ago), £300 Sky HD box, plus monthly subscription for a somewhat sharper clearer picture? (I've seen enough HD demos to know it ain't all that) Nah. Got better things to spend my money on.
Amen. The place deserves a lot more support than it currently gets, given its historical significance.
On the other, it currently has a lot of authenticity and a certain shabby charm - I'd really hate to see it turned into some kind of glossy ultra-modern WWII theme park.
Honestly, given that many/.ers spend much of their time creating non-physical thingsof value, I'd have expected better. Instead it's as if people are channeling all the twits from the early 80's who liked to mock people for wasting their time with those stupid computer thingies.
Huh? I'm not mocking anyone here. I have no problems with game playing (played quite a few online games myself), and I have no problem with the concept of virtual items being worth real money. But I have no time for losers who spend 400 hours playing a game and then somehow think they're owed something for it.
HOWEVER, these items in online games have MASSIVE intrinisic value based on labor. If there's only one of such item known in existence, and I've put 400 hours into obtaining said item, I can't simply go and pick up another one at the dollar store.
Yeah, but that's 400 hours that you chose to spend on playing a game to obtain an item with no physical reality. It's rarity is irrelevant. You didn't have to spend that time obtaining said item, and the time you spent is - by definition - leisure time.
Which is why I doubt that any real-world court is going to offer much sympathy, unless the in-game object can be shown to have direct real-world value (as someone else pointed out, Second Life has an official means of converting in-game money to US Dollars). It's hard to argue that an unofficial black market for virtual items gives them any real-world value in a legal sense if that sort of trading is explicitly banned by the game developers.
Those 400 hours of my life have massive value, both to me, and in the real world, where it could easily translate to $5000 or more dollars.
If by that you mean that you could have earned $5000 in those 400 hours that you chose to spend playing a game, I suspect a defense lawyer's response might be "so why didn't you?".
Can you name even one person who has been "shipped off sans due process to an offshore prison camp" who wasn't captured in a war zone under arms while not wearing a uniform?
Well, there were the 38 detainess who were released in March 2005 because the US government decided that they were not enemy combatants. None of these people received compensation for unjust imprisonment, and none of them have ever been told why they were arrested.
The United States has chosen to put those people into jail rather than execute them. That is a favor that the US is doing out of the kindness of its heart. Your welcome.
"Kindness of its heart"? Fuck off. Guantanamo is a fucking embarassment to the USA, and you should be ashamed of yourself for trying to defend it.
Digital terrestrial is not cable, at least in not a UK context. The "terrestrial" part means it's broadcast from ground-based transmitters, as opposed to satellites or cable. It still comes in to our houses over the airwaves.
It's easier to complain than check your facts, I guess.
The kernel support and userspace software for automated CPU scaling is already here. Ubuntu 5.10 runs powernowd by default, for example. I have a small Mini-ITX fileserver at home running this, and the CPU is currently running at 500MHz (normal maximum is 1GHz). As soon as the load climbs, the CPU speed is adjusted.
It helps to keep agents of the government like the FBI, ATF, and WTF off of our property.
That is the reason its in our constitution.
I presume you're joking. If you actually fired an automatic weapon at an FBI agent knocking on your door, I suspect you'd be either dead or in Guantanamo before the day was out.
So the product gets more expensive, encouraging consumers to look for an alternative, hopefully made by a company who hasn't been slapped with the cleanup tax. The tax that the government collects should be used to build better recycling facilities.
At least that's how it should work... the reality is probably closer to what you suggest, unfortunately.
When I see some chick whose main goal in life is to roast, the only impression it leaves on me is that of a pathetic, self-concious, insecure superficial prat
Too right. Not to mention the fact that by the time she's 30, she'll have the skin of a 50-year old. Assuming she hasn't died of a malignant melanoma or some such beforehand.
However, "get-process" is far more obvious as to intent
Really? "get-process" sounds like a command to get (or even create?) a process, not to list the current processes.
But who cares? Like I said already, you need to learn what "ps" means, and you need to learn what "get-process" does, and in both cases you have to remember the command. It's "ps", not "pr" or "lp", and it's "get-process", not "list-process" or even "list-processes". Neither is any more intuitive or memorable than the other, and based on that, I go for terseness over verbosity. I guess a lot of people disagree.
But, if someone can't even remember a basic 2 (or 11!) letter command, then they might as well hand in their sysadmin licence and go back to being l33t at Counterstrike, IMHO.
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A major mysql update should certainly not be done without planning. However, the OP's point was that a standard stabe update included a major mysql upgrade which broke his functionality. If that's indeed the case, there is something very wrong with the way Gentoo manages its packages, and exactly why you wouldn't want it running on any kind of production system.
Have you looked at E-UAE? http://www.rcdrummond.net/uae/
It's open source and MacOS X is supported, so I presume it should build fine on an Intel Macbook...
I use Windows MCE and in spite of its quirks getting it up and running has been largely trivial.
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That's sort of the point. You're using Windows MCE, not plain XP/2003/Vista/whatever. You have a version of Windows which has been designed as a media centre OS, so it's going to be pretty straightforward to get working (hopefully).
Getting Myth working on a standard Linux distribution is difficult for the inexperienced user, but how much chance would a non-technical Windows user have of setting up a fully functional media centre on his Windows XP box?
This is where KnoppMyth/Mythdora/etc. come in - they are, basically, media centre editions for Linux. "Linux MCE" if you like (though I suspect many don't
The only people I ever hear complain about the camera are WoW players.
I've never played WoW. I used to play NWN regularly. The camera in NWN2 is so badly implemented that I find the game completely unplayable - it does not work like the old NWN camera did. The group of people I used to play NWN with all agree - we'd hoped to get a regular weekly NWN2 evening going, but that won't be happening until (if?) some of the suckage has been fixed. A real shame.
And don't get me started on the lack of a Linux dedicated server. I can understand not wanting to bother with a Linux client, but lack of a server is just braindamaged.
You're completely right about the UK's totally broken voting system, but even with PR in place, the UK would still have re-elected a pro-war party last year. Both Labour and the Tories toed the US line on Iraq. Only the Lib Dems opposed the war from the start, and they only got ~22% of the vote, because they don't have an electable image.
The reason is "traditional" voting. I know plenty people who were strongly opposed to the war (not to menion some other highly questionable government policies) but still voted for Labour last year simply because voting for any other party was inconceivable to them. These are people who always voted Labour, since back in the days when it wasn't just another bunch of right-wing corporate lackeys.
Still, Labour's support was down last year, and with any luck it'll be down more in the next election. Labour voters may finally be beginning to realise that New Labour is not Labour.
Er, you just proved the OP's point. Scotland and Ireland were never occupied by the Romans.
Roadside IED go off and kill US troops? The neighborhood will suffer as a result. Teach the populace that all harboring and capitulation with the terrorists won't save them any trouble, and that they need to take care of their own problems if they want the US to leave.
This is known as collective punishment, and is a war crime. Sure, it'll work in the short term - worked great for Hitler, Stalin, and Olmert, at least for a while - but do you really want to join that club?
The OpenChrome drivers are a fork of the original VIA code, because a) the original VIA drivers suck, and b) VIA have never shown any interest in improving these drivers or even sharing the necessary information to allow open source developers to improve the drivers (despite a lot of "open source friendly" PR).
So it's a fair comment to say that the current OpenChrome drivers are completely unsupported by VIA. VIA don't even acknowledge the existence of alternative drivers for the Unichrome chipset.
I think the point of that comment is that you don't need Western-style affluence to have a happy life. It doesn't hurt to have it, but material possessions only contribute to happiness up to a certain degree. (The response to that comment you've linked to says more about the poster than it does about Mr. Monbiot - a nasty little quip about how Ethiopians must be happy because they'll soon be dead and won't have to listen to Mr. Monbiot for much longer).
So, no - it's not anti-technology. It's just saying that there's more to life than technology alone, which is quite true IMHO. If you feel that you must have your cellphone, computer, SUV, 6-figure bank account, etc. just to be happy, then I feel sorry for you.
There was a survey done by the London School of Economics a few years ago which interestingly found that the happiest nation - as measured by how happy people felt about their own lives - was Bangladesh, also one of the world's poorest nations. Interestingly, the US ranked around 50th in the world. Of course, such surveys are highly subjective, but strong evidence that you don't need to be rich to be happy.
Have you ever programmed with X?
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I mean, not with QT, or GTK, or some toolkit, but actually with X?
I presume you're asking if anyone's programmed using Xlib directly ("X" is an alternative term for the X Window System, or possibly the "X" Protocol). Yeah, I wrote a simple Mandelbrot generator with it for educational purposes when I was first learning about X11, back in 1994 or so. It was instructive (taught me about event-driven programming and how to write an event loop), but the next thing I did was learn Motif (which I won't try to defend here
If you're not actually trolling, your example is really, really, stupid. Nobody writes real applications using Xlib directly, just like nobody would write a Windows app using only the GDI.
Seriously, someone should redo X with a more modern focus.
Okay, so you are just trolling. X is being continually redone with a modern focus - that's what X extensions are for. You get nice things like Fontconfig, GLX, compositing, etc. for free when you use a toolkit such as KDE or Gnome, which are quite capable of taking advantage of such extensions.
You think you can do better? Put up or shut up. People have tried and failed - ever heard of Y-Windows or Berlin? So good luck to you. Meanwhile I'll happily continue to use something I know works just fine.
This is a pretty important point, actually. In the UK, getting HD basically means getting satellite (Sky), or cable (NTL or Telewest). Me, I'm perfectly happy with terrestrial Freeview. I've already got more programmes recorded (yay MythTV) than I'm likely to have time to watch, so I have no intention of paying an extra £15 a month or more for a handful of HD channels mixed in with a ton of SD dross.
Brand new £1000+ TV (I only bought a new CRT set 3 years ago), £300 Sky HD box, plus monthly subscription for a somewhat sharper clearer picture? (I've seen enough HD demos to know it ain't all that) Nah. Got better things to spend my money on.
Amen. The place deserves a lot more support than it currently gets, given its historical significance.
On the other, it currently has a lot of authenticity and a certain shabby charm - I'd really hate to see it turned into some kind of glossy ultra-modern WWII theme park.
Honestly, given that many /.ers spend much of their time creating non-physical thingsof value, I'd have expected better. Instead it's as if people are channeling all the twits from the early 80's who liked to mock people for wasting their time with those stupid computer thingies.
Huh? I'm not mocking anyone here. I have no problems with game playing (played quite a few online games myself), and I have no problem with the concept of virtual items being worth real money. But I have no time for losers who spend 400 hours playing a game and then somehow think they're owed something for it.
HOWEVER, these items in online games have MASSIVE intrinisic value based on labor. If there's only one of such item known in existence, and I've put 400 hours into obtaining said item, I can't simply go and pick up another one at the dollar store.
Yeah, but that's 400 hours that you chose to spend on playing a game to obtain an item with no physical reality. It's rarity is irrelevant. You didn't have to spend that time obtaining said item, and the time you spent is - by definition - leisure time.
Which is why I doubt that any real-world court is going to offer much sympathy, unless the in-game object can be shown to have direct real-world value (as someone else pointed out, Second Life has an official means of converting in-game money to US Dollars). It's hard to argue that an unofficial black market for virtual items gives them any real-world value in a legal sense if that sort of trading is explicitly banned by the game developers.
Those 400 hours of my life have massive value, both to me, and in the real world, where it could easily translate to $5000 or more dollars.
If by that you mean that you could have earned $5000 in those 400 hours that you chose to spend playing a game, I suspect a defense lawyer's response might be "so why didn't you?".
Can you name even one person who has been "shipped off sans due process to an offshore prison camp" who wasn't captured in a war zone under arms while not wearing a uniform?
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Well, there were the 38 detainess who were released in March 2005 because the US government decided that they were not enemy combatants. None of these people received compensation for unjust imprisonment, and none of them have ever been told why they were arrested.
Or how about "Adel" - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti
Or how about the five Chinese detainees who have been found not to be enemy combatants, but are still sitting in Guantanamo? http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0213/p03s03-usju.ht
The United States has chosen to put those people into jail rather than execute them. That is a favor that the US is doing out of the kindness of its heart. Your welcome.
"Kindness of its heart"? Fuck off. Guantanamo is a fucking embarassment to the USA, and you should be ashamed of yourself for trying to defend it.
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Digital terrestrial is not cable, at least in not a UK context. The "terrestrial" part means it's broadcast from ground-based transmitters, as opposed to satellites or cable. It still comes in to our houses over the airwaves.
It's easier to complain than check your facts, I guess.
The kernel support and userspace software for automated CPU scaling is already here. Ubuntu 5.10 runs powernowd by default, for example. I have a small Mini-ITX fileserver at home running this, and the CPU is currently running at 500MHz (normal maximum is 1GHz). As soon as the load climbs, the CPU speed is adjusted.
See:
http://www.deater.net/john/powernowd.html
If you're playing WoW, you deserve everything you get.
It helps to keep agents of the government like the FBI, ATF, and WTF off of our property.
That is the reason its in our constitution.
I presume you're joking. If you actually fired an automatic weapon at an FBI agent knocking on your door, I suspect you'd be either dead or in Guantanamo before the day was out.
So the product gets more expensive, encouraging consumers to look for an alternative, hopefully made by a company who hasn't been slapped with the cleanup tax. The tax that the government collects should be used to build better recycling facilities.
At least that's how it should work... the reality is probably closer to what you suggest, unfortunately.
He said simple. He never mentioned efficient or economic.
Agreed 100%. Dealing with Frontpage extensions brings a new meaning to the word "frustration". Avoid like the plague.
When I see some chick whose main goal in life is to roast, the only impression it leaves on me is that of a pathetic, self-concious, insecure superficial prat
Too right. Not to mention the fact that by the time she's 30, she'll have the skin of a 50-year old. Assuming she hasn't died of a malignant melanoma or some such beforehand.
However, "get-process" is far more obvious as to intent
Really? "get-process" sounds like a command to get (or even create?) a process, not to list the current processes.
But who cares? Like I said already, you need to learn what "ps" means, and you need to learn what "get-process" does, and in both cases you have to remember the command. It's "ps", not "pr" or "lp", and it's "get-process", not "list-process" or even "list-processes". Neither is any more intuitive or memorable than the other, and based on that, I go for terseness over verbosity. I guess a lot of people disagree.
But, if someone can't even remember a basic 2 (or 11!) letter command, then they might as well hand in their sysadmin licence and go back to being l33t at Counterstrike, IMHO.