Indeed. Does Herdy already have a GUI for configuring all the buttons of a multi-button mouse? And a GUI for configuring all the features supported by Synaptic touchpad drivers (that already are in kernel)?
If not, users still need to edit xorg.conf, and there is still work to be done.
And does it have a GUI for configuring xrandr defaults on X startup, so that users (with compatible drivers,of course) can easily set multi-monitor setups (that have full 3D acceleration support, unlike with Xinerama)?
If not, users still need to edit xorg.conf, and there is still work to be done.
And there are perhaps other severe GUI shortcomings as well, but these two have made myself feel pissed enough that I always remember them.
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Switched en-UK to en-US, and now it is shown. Thanks for the tip!
Hear, hear. And that's why I'm using PithHelmet for blocking ads with Safari. It costs $10, but it also has a good pre-defined ruleset (naturally fully customiseable) that makes it mostly set-it-and-forget-it app, unlike Firefox's AdBlock extension. Sometimes I really even forget that ads exist!
For this reason I'm not going to test Safari 3 in my Powerbook just yet, as PithHelmet is not available for it. But now that it is available for Windows I'll certainly test it under VMWare/Win XP in my Ubuntu development box at work.
Personally, I think all or at least most religions suck, be it christianity, islam, judaism or whatever. And what comes to your statement, fundamentally interpreted christianity is just as problematic as fundamentally implemented islam. OTOH, I don't find liberal islam any more problematic that liberal christianity.
Are you going to trust someone who makes $7/hr running a vacuum Well, if somebody has the permission to run
VACUUM;
, (s)he ought to make more than $7/hr.
More seriously, this remembered me of a story I once told: The office had a separate power wiring for computers, and the wiring was connected to an UPS. Servers were connected to the same UPS. AC sockets attached to those wires were clearly labeled as “IT ONLY”. Well, a janitor plugged in a vacuum cleaner to such outlet, and turned it on. Needless to say, the extra power surge took everything down... don't know, what happened afterwards, though.
I've also heard of a situation that went like this:
An employee leaves his computer on overnight to get an important job done...
...only to find it shutted down at the morning, along with a message left on the table:
“The computer had been left on, so I thought it was best to turn it off. Yours, janitor”
it's been a while since I've done this, but doesnt upgrading from XP to SP2 require the installation of SP1? Not to mention rebooting about 15 times.
No, it does not. Service Packs of MSFT's Win NT-line OSes have always been cumulative.
And the last time I did this, it required exactly one reboot, which could not be avoided on any os, because the kernel is upgraded. Installing all those critical hotfixes released after SP2 may require more than one additional reboot, however.
That said, Ubuntu is still vastly superiour, because APT automatically upgrades almost all of your userland software at the same time. This is definitely something no commercial OS can match. Actually many, if not most of the reboots during a typical XP installation are demanded by installations of various commercial supposed-do-be-userland-only apps.
Interestingly enough, Windows versions of OSS apps usually behave much better in this regard, and are relatively smoothly installable without any reboots. It seems that installer-mandated reboots are mostly disease of commercial apps.
FTFA: “RHEL 5 now includes Pirut and Yum, two packages direct from Fedora.”
It's good that it has yum, but I'd advise against installing this package called “pirut”. Must be a troijan designed to corrupt your RPM DB and slipped through Red Hat QA, as in Finnish “pirut” is plural form for “devil”.
Care to explain in more detail why do you think so? EDGE has far better coverage than UMTS and good enough data rate for web and mail. No, you're not going to watch DVB-H or some other streamed-live-over-mobile-network video with it, but it is not even marketed for that (and DVB-H is besides still vaporware). Practically, this combines Nokia N800, phone and iPod to same device and adds a very nice UI on top of that.
The only Nordic country where I see your point is Finland, where phone+contract bundles are only allowed for 3G phones. If Apple refuses to sell the device without a contract, they could perhaps decide skip Finnish market altogether (which would pretty much suck from my POV, as Finland is where I live). But this definitely does not apply to Scandinavia.
I see the lack of 3G be more severe shortcoming in UK and densely populated Central European countries (western Germany, BeNeLux), where network congnestion due to dense population strongly favors UMTS over GSM.
“The human body requires an atmospheric pressure to maintain normal physiologic processes. Below 6.3 kPa (0.9 psia) water will vaporize at body temperature.” (Chapter 2.1.)
According to Wikipedia, the athmospheric pressure of Mars is only 0.7-0.9 kPa.
Thank you for pointing out a reference to the specific bug. As a guy who is just heavily involved in developing new all-CSS fluid layouts – in which floats are one of the most important layout techniques – I'd say that this is the single worst bug that still haunts IE7. Without this crap the situation would already be quite tolerable. But not now.
It is interesting that Jones accuses OO.o for extending the ODF spec. From his blog:
“OpenOffice has actually made the decision to extend the spec in ways that don't actually appear to be allowed (like with numbering formats), and I'm not sure if that's the right way to go. I've seen a lot of problems when moving documents from OpenOffice to KOffice for example, and I'm sure these divergences from the spec don't help out. Is the right thing to extend in the same ways OpenOffice did, or is it best to wait for OASIS to release the next version of the spec and hope that it specifies some of those missing features? Nobody wants a format that's constantly changing, so if you do decide to extend the format like OpenOffice did, what happens when ODF 2.0 comes out and it specifies that feature differently from how OpenOffice did it? What about features that aren't in ODF or in OpenOffice? Should we create new extensions ourselves or just lose that information? It's going to be fun working with everyone to figure this stuff out.”
I'm not capable to judge whether this is true or just FUD, but it is interesting nevertheless.
If you'd been interested in understanding the point I was making rather than simply trying to "win" teh internet debatezorz you'd realize that the analogy is very apt. Sure, electricity is a public utility now, but did it start out that way? In the early years it was a private venture and had lots of bugs (like randomly giving pedestrians random jolts of electricity). And therefore it had lots of nay-sayers. (These nay-sayers, if they existed today, would be fighting the pro-electricity "fanbois" on le interweb.)
While this is true, your original analogy still has the problem that knocking one power plant off the grid won't (or at least should't...) bring down the whole transmission network, and end users will thus still have an uninterrupted service; same goes for web routers if an alternative route exists.
Webapps, however, are far more vulnerable: if a singe site – the one hosting the app – is offline, you'll already have the equivalent of a power blackout, despite the fact that both your own system and the rest of the internet are still functioning.
Huh? What part of “unauthorised access” you did not understand? Just make it possible to somehow lock the memory door, so that only you yourself or authorised service personnel can access the slots.
And FWIW, I have filevault on in my PowerBook. But this is all about recovering stolen machines and/or preventing theft altogether, not data safety.
The problem with Orbicule's approach is that their software can easily be removed by wiping the disk. Orbicule claims that setting a firmware password would help, but at least in PPC macs the OF password can be reset by changing the amount of RAM installed and then zapping PRAM three times, thus offering virtually no protection against thieves. It would be nice if unauthorised physical access to DIMM slots could be hardened somehow, so that complete disassembling of the laptop would be necessary to change the amount of RAM. That would hopefully make things complicated enough to get thieves to abandon the computer.
Apple's documentation does not explain the procedure for x86 Macs, so I don't know about those.
In the beginning there was PReP - PowerPC Reference Platform
A year or two later this was revised to CHRP - Common Hardware Reference Platform
Parent is correct. CHRP was a successor of PReP. PReP was quite flawed from Apple's perspective, and while CHRP was better, probably only few boxes actually complied with it. Some of those that did were Motorola's StarMax Pro 6000s, running 233 or 266 MHz G3s.
Those systems were announced at mid-1997, but they never shipped, as Apple decided to kill the clones. Some are still using those few that were made, though.
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Indeed. Does Herdy already have a GUI for configuring all the buttons of a multi-button mouse? And a GUI for configuring all the features supported by Synaptic touchpad drivers (that already are in kernel)?
If not, users still need to edit xorg.conf, and there is still work to be done.
And does it have a GUI for configuring xrandr defaults on X startup, so that users (with compatible drivers,of course) can easily set multi-monitor setups (that have full 3D acceleration support, unlike with Xinerama)?
If not, users still need to edit xorg.conf, and there is still work to be done.
And there are perhaps other severe GUI shortcomings as well, but these two have made myself feel pissed enough that I always remember them.
Switched en-UK to en-US, and now it is shown. Thanks for the tip!
Hear, hear. And that's why I'm using PithHelmet for blocking ads with Safari. It costs $10, but it also has a good pre-defined ruleset (naturally fully customiseable) that makes it mostly set-it-and-forget-it app, unlike Firefox's AdBlock extension. Sometimes I really even forget that ads exist!
For this reason I'm not going to test Safari 3 in my Powerbook just yet, as PithHelmet is not available for it. But now that it is available for Windows I'll certainly test it under VMWare/Win XP in my Ubuntu development box at work.
Personally, I think all or at least most religions suck, be it christianity, islam, judaism or whatever. And what comes to your statement, fundamentally interpreted christianity is just as problematic as fundamentally implemented islam. OTOH, I don't find liberal islam any more problematic that liberal christianity.
/., nobody is going to sue you (though you might get modded down). Same naturally applies to Bible.
The particular problem with CoS, however, is that they're in reality for-profit organisation that aims to extort money from their members, and they abuse all kind of IP legislation (like ©+DMCA & trademark legislation) to silence their critics. Islam is very different—even if you go and copy-paste the entire Qur'an on
More seriously, this remembered me of a story I once told: The office had a separate power wiring for computers, and the wiring was connected to an UPS. Servers were connected to the same UPS. AC sockets attached to those wires were clearly labeled as “IT ONLY”. Well, a janitor plugged in a vacuum cleaner to such outlet, and turned it on. Needless to say, the extra power surge took everything down... don't know, what happened afterwards, though.
I've also heard of a situation that went like this:
They're not the same thing?
Somehow, I don't think the people of Deutschland will be too happy after you called their country Deutchland ;-)
No, it does not. Service Packs of MSFT's Win NT-line OSes have always been cumulative.
And the last time I did this, it required exactly one reboot, which could not be avoided on any os, because the kernel is upgraded. Installing all those critical hotfixes released after SP2 may require more than one additional reboot, however.
That said, Ubuntu is still vastly superiour, because APT automatically upgrades almost all of your userland software at the same time. This is definitely something no commercial OS can match. Actually many, if not most of the reboots during a typical XP installation are demanded by installations of various commercial supposed-do-be-userland-only apps.
Interestingly enough, Windows versions of OSS apps usually behave much better in this regard, and are relatively smoothly installable without any reboots. It seems that installer-mandated reboots are mostly disease of commercial apps.
FTFA: “RHEL 5 now includes Pirut and Yum, two packages direct from Fedora.”
It's good that it has yum, but I'd advise against installing this package called “pirut”. Must be a troijan designed to corrupt your RPM DB and slipped through Red Hat QA, as in Finnish “pirut” is plural form for “devil”.
Um, that means that you could do that in US, too.
Somehow, I don't see any reason to trust US courts more than Belgian ones.
Now that Hubble service mission has been given green light, may be NASA could do yet another service mission to fix this!
Oh, wait...
But sniff... I'm going to miss this.
I not yet quite up to the system requirements. You'll have to wait for the next version. ;)
Care to explain in more detail why do you think so? EDGE has far better coverage than UMTS and good enough data rate for web and mail. No, you're not going to watch DVB-H or some other streamed-live-over-mobile-network video with it, but it is not even marketed for that (and DVB-H is besides still vaporware). Practically, this combines Nokia N800, phone and iPod to same device and adds a very nice UI on top of that.
The only Nordic country where I see your point is Finland, where phone+contract bundles are only allowed for 3G phones. If Apple refuses to sell the device without a contract, they could perhaps decide skip Finnish market altogether (which would pretty much suck from my POV, as Finland is where I live). But this definitely does not apply to Scandinavia.
I see the lack of 3G be more severe shortcoming in UK and densely populated Central European countries (western Germany, BeNeLux), where network congnestion due to dense population strongly favors UMTS over GSM.
According to Wikipedia, the athmospheric pressure of Mars is only 0.7-0.9 kPa.
Thank you for pointing out a reference to the specific bug. As a guy who is just heavily involved in developing new all-CSS fluid layouts – in which floats are one of the most important layout techniques – I'd say that this is the single worst bug that still haunts IE7. Without this crap the situation would already be quite tolerable. But not now.
Yes. The current Aquafied beta is based on OOo 2.0.3.
I'm not capable to judge whether this is true or just FUD, but it is interesting nevertheless.
Sorry to spoil your Monty Python joke, but GG was trialled on heresy by Roman Inquisition, not the Spanish one. ;)
If you'd been interested in understanding the point I was making rather than simply trying to "win" teh internet debatezorz you'd realize that the analogy is very apt. Sure, electricity is a public utility now, but did it start out that way? In the early years it was a private venture and had lots of bugs (like randomly giving pedestrians random jolts of electricity). And therefore it had lots of nay-sayers. (These nay-sayers, if they existed today, would be fighting the pro-electricity "fanbois" on le interweb.)
While this is true, your original analogy still has the problem that knocking one power plant off the grid won't (or at least should't...) bring down the whole transmission network, and end users will thus still have an uninterrupted service; same goes for web routers if an alternative route exists.
Webapps, however, are far more vulnerable: if a singe site – the one hosting the app – is offline, you'll already have the equivalent of a power blackout, despite the fact that both your own system and the rest of the internet are still functioning.
Huh? What part of “unauthorised access” you did not understand? Just make it possible to somehow lock the memory door, so that only you yourself or authorised service personnel can access the slots.
And FWIW, I have filevault on in my PowerBook. But this is all about recovering stolen machines and/or preventing theft altogether, not data safety.
The problem with Orbicule's approach is that their software can easily be removed by wiping the disk. Orbicule claims that setting a firmware password would help, but at least in PPC macs the OF password can be reset by changing the amount of RAM installed and then zapping PRAM three times, thus offering virtually no protection against thieves. It would be nice if unauthorised physical access to DIMM slots could be hardened somehow, so that complete disassembling of the laptop would be necessary to change the amount of RAM. That would hopefully make things complicated enough to get thieves to abandon the computer.
Apple's documentation does not explain the procedure for x86 Macs, so I don't know about those.
In the beginning there was PReP - PowerPC Reference Platform
A year or two later this was revised to CHRP - Common Hardware Reference Platform
Parent is correct. CHRP was a successor of PReP. PReP was quite flawed from Apple's perspective, and while CHRP was better, probably only few boxes actually complied with it. Some of those that did were Motorola's StarMax Pro 6000s, running 233 or 266 MHz G3s.
Those systems were announced at mid-1997, but they never shipped, as Apple decided to kill the clones. Some are still using those few that were made, though.
You just need to give him $12,000 in return.