My main complaint has been the sluggishness of gtk2 apps. Mainly text rendering is 20-50x slower than it ought to be, as though glyphs aren't being cached or something silly like that, making apps like gedit feel like they're running on a 486.
Wine works pretty well for some Windows apps and games, but I use the latest version from Wine's deb repository, not Ubuntu's. I haven't needed to use Wine recently, as I don't play a lot of games anymore. I've avoided using the Firefox in Ubuntu because in the past it has always been much slower and more problematic than the official builds I download from mozilla.org. Ubuntu Edgy for me has been less reliable than Dapper, in exchange for more experimental features, hence the name Edgy. Everything so far has had a workaround though. Totem is a surprisingly good DVD player, when playing discs that don't require libdvdcss. I use MPlayer for playing most videos. I naturally had to get the win32 codecs from a third party source, but otherwise it works well. On one system I had to configure grub to boot with the noapic kernel option to prevent Ubuntu from freezing at random times. It's a hardware related problem. I was able to add kubuntu (kde) and xubuntu (xfce) to my ubuntu system without much difficulty, apart from them overwriting each other's artwork. Even with all that, I was able to upgrade from Dapper to Edgy without losing anything, though it took some careful work. DosEMU runs dos programs natively in a window with better performance and compatibility than Windows could ever offer, though I think it took some extraordinary measures to get it installed right on Dapper. I can't remember what though.
At home I have Ubuntu on my main desktop (which I bought with no OS) and Windows Server 2003 on my second (cheaper) desktop for the sole reason that I got a free 1 year msdn subscription a few months ago. If being a serious desktop contender means you can use it professionally as your primary (or only) desktop, then Ubuntu has been since its first release. But having been previously comfortable with Visual Studio, I must admit I've been less productive than I was before, lacking a good (imho) alternative, even though Linux solves the main complaints I've had about Windows. Linux is less stressful and easier to administer at least. I don't curse at it every hour. And I don't plan to give MS another dime after all they've done in recent years.
There's no honor amongst thieves. I just wish something more could be done to screw these companies that fund spammers and malware advertisers, like law enforcement doing its job or something. Is paying someone to do something illegal also illegal? For example, it's illegal to hire a hitman.
To say the government can have an army in the Bill of Rights would be very out of place and redundant. The Bill of Rights generally refers to the rights of the people, and the right of the government to have an army is a given.
If, on a results page, I type into the search box before the page finishes loading, their onload script replaces what I just typed with my last search. They've had years to come up with a solution to this silly bug.
Maybe you've decided that open source will be the most profitable type of investment, but I think you chose open source for more ideological reasons. If your goal is simply to make as much money as possible, then pick your investments according to that goal.
The Windows EULA sets a $5 limit on damages. Apparently the possibility of getting $5 back (if you take them to court) is enough to make a policy of choosing MS software over open source.
I just can't imagine that many web developers being so careful. Popular sites are relatively secure, and open source code like online forums are secure, but the security of write-once code you find on average sites is just horrible. Just search google for things like 'allinurl: "isadmin=0"' and you'll know what I mean.
After using slackware, Linux begins to make sense, and the skills you gain are applicable to all distros. It was a very good starter distro for me, better than RedHat was, with all its smoke and mirrors to let me get by without learning what I ought to know.
That said, I currently tend to use Ubuntu on the desktop and CentOS on the server.
Where I last worked, I planned to install slackware on our first Linux servers, but it turned out that the hardware we bought wasn't well supported, and I tried several distros before finding one that supported everything, CentOS.
Disregarding their arbitrary scoring BS, and only looking at detection percentages, IE7 still did a good job, as expected from a Microsoft commissioned study. GeoTrust TrustWatch caught 99%, but had a 32% false positive rate. IE7 - 89% Netcraft Toolbar - 84% EarthLink ScamBlocker - 64% Firefox/Google - 53% eBay Toolbar - 46% Netscape 8.1 - 28% McAfee Site Advisor - 3%
How they came out with only 89% when they selected the sites themselves is anyone's guess.
I'm going to guess 2100, so that I might not live to be proven wrong. Having a fast computer isn't enough. We have to duplicate all the major optimizations in natural intelligence from over a billion years of evolution, or it won't matter how much processing power we have. I remember seeing an old twilight zone (or maybe outer limits?) episode about astronauts reaching Alpha Centauri in the year 1999. Like that'll happen in the next 10000 years.
Technology advances very rapidly, but rarely in the directions people predict.
Studies aren't usually commissioned to gather evidence and form a conclusion. They usually start with a conclusion, and gather statistics to support it.
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My main complaint has been the sluggishness of gtk2 apps. Mainly text rendering is 20-50x slower than it ought to be, as though glyphs aren't being cached or something silly like that, making apps like gedit feel like they're running on a 486.
Wine works pretty well for some Windows apps and games, but I use the latest version from Wine's deb repository, not Ubuntu's. I haven't needed to use Wine recently, as I don't play a lot of games anymore.
I've avoided using the Firefox in Ubuntu because in the past it has always been much slower and more problematic than the official builds I download from mozilla.org.
Ubuntu Edgy for me has been less reliable than Dapper, in exchange for more experimental features, hence the name Edgy. Everything so far has had a workaround though.
Totem is a surprisingly good DVD player, when playing discs that don't require libdvdcss.
I use MPlayer for playing most videos. I naturally had to get the win32 codecs from a third party source, but otherwise it works well.
On one system I had to configure grub to boot with the noapic kernel option to prevent Ubuntu from freezing at random times. It's a hardware related problem.
I was able to add kubuntu (kde) and xubuntu (xfce) to my ubuntu system without much difficulty, apart from them overwriting each other's artwork. Even with all that, I was able to upgrade from Dapper to Edgy without losing anything, though it took some careful work.
DosEMU runs dos programs natively in a window with better performance and compatibility than Windows could ever offer, though I think it took some extraordinary measures to get it installed right on Dapper. I can't remember what though.
At home I have Ubuntu on my main desktop (which I bought with no OS) and Windows Server 2003 on my second (cheaper) desktop for the sole reason that I got a free 1 year msdn subscription a few months ago. If being a serious desktop contender means you can use it professionally as your primary (or only) desktop, then Ubuntu has been since its first release. But having been previously comfortable with Visual Studio, I must admit I've been less productive than I was before, lacking a good (imho) alternative, even though Linux solves the main complaints I've had about Windows. Linux is less stressful and easier to administer at least. I don't curse at it every hour. And I don't plan to give MS another dime after all they've done in recent years.
They kill a deer to build a robotic deer to catch people killing deer.
They had over 3 years to present their evidence. In that time they presented nothing.
If they're sure she's dead, then sure.
He's already taken the rest of his stuff.
Did anyone think the Zune would succeed?
There's no honor amongst thieves. I just wish something more could be done to screw these companies that fund spammers and malware advertisers, like law enforcement doing its job or something. Is paying someone to do something illegal also illegal? For example, it's illegal to hire a hitman.
Keith Olbermann said it:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=e7B6eLNRRmE
To say the government can have an army in the Bill of Rights would be very out of place and redundant. The Bill of Rights generally refers to the rights of the people, and the right of the government to have an army is a given.
If, on a results page, I type into the search box before the page finishes loading, their onload script replaces what I just typed with my last search. They've had years to come up with a solution to this silly bug.
Maybe you've decided that open source will be the most profitable type of investment, but I think you chose open source for more ideological reasons. If your goal is simply to make as much money as possible, then pick your investments according to that goal.
The Windows EULA sets a $5 limit on damages. Apparently the possibility of getting $5 back (if you take them to court) is enough to make a policy of choosing MS software over open source.
I just can't imagine that many web developers being so careful. Popular sites are relatively secure, and open source code like online forums are secure, but the security of write-once code you find on average sites is just horrible. Just search google for things like 'allinurl: "isadmin=0"' and you'll know what I mean.
After using slackware, Linux begins to make sense, and the skills you gain are applicable to all distros. It was a very good starter distro for me, better than RedHat was, with all its smoke and mirrors to let me get by without learning what I ought to know.
That said, I currently tend to use Ubuntu on the desktop and CentOS on the server.
Where I last worked, I planned to install slackware on our first Linux servers, but it turned out that the hardware we bought wasn't well supported, and I tried several distros before finding one that supported everything, CentOS.
Normally, posting a direct link to a large movie file would result in immediate slashdotting. Maybe I was just beat the rush.
"Under terms of the settlement agreement, PayPal said it is not admitting any liability for the allegations in the dispute."
Basically, PayPal pays states' legal fees and the lawsuit goes away.
They would have sued the parents of the child, but the parents don't have $600 million.
Disregarding their arbitrary scoring BS, and only looking at detection percentages, IE7 still did a good job, as expected from a Microsoft commissioned study.
GeoTrust TrustWatch caught 99%, but had a 32% false positive rate.
IE7 - 89%
Netcraft Toolbar - 84%
EarthLink ScamBlocker - 64%
Firefox/Google - 53%
eBay Toolbar - 46%
Netscape 8.1 - 28%
McAfee Site Advisor - 3%
How they came out with only 89% when they selected the sites themselves is anyone's guess.
That should be "In Soviet Russia..."
The more you tighten your grip, the more star^H^H^H^Husers will log in as administrator.
This kind of news makes me sick. Calling someone an idiot does not make you a terrorist, except in the US.
That's when WGA says the copy is non-genuine, and Microsoft's Genuine Advantage diagnostics tool disagrees and says it's genuine.
What I don't get is why they don't just take the flawless detection code from the diagnostics tool and put it into WGA.
Practicality and usefulness problems aside, you can fit over 6,000 6502 processors in the space of a P4, each running at several ghz.
I'm going to guess 2100, so that I might not live to be proven wrong. Having a fast computer isn't enough. We have to duplicate all the major optimizations in natural intelligence from over a billion years of evolution, or it won't matter how much processing power we have. I remember seeing an old twilight zone (or maybe outer limits?) episode about astronauts reaching Alpha Centauri in the year 1999. Like that'll happen in the next 10000 years.
Technology advances very rapidly, but rarely in the directions people predict.
Studies aren't usually commissioned to gather evidence and form a conclusion. They usually start with a conclusion, and gather statistics to support it.