Because I use openSUSE, I get a new kernel every time they give me one, and the sources to match.
I would really like to know which of the.config options disables this "vmslice" routine without the use of a patch, which will be overwritten by the new kernel-source-point.update.RPM.
Which part of "menuconfig" or "xconfig" should I be dropping?
(not specifically to you, but can't find this answer lower down the tree)
While you're at it, why not put AdBlock Plus in there and FlashBlock and Greasemonkey and Fasterfox and GMail Notifier and...
Some people don't want everything included in the distribution, some developers don't want to have to make all those things work with every release and compile they do of test builds.
AutoUpdate of things you choose to install works just fine, and the people who build the add-ons make sure they work without having to work for MozFoundation.
Think of it like the spam token email maths.
If you want to send 1 message your computer will spend approximately 1 second longer than it used to to compute these sums.
If you want to send a million it will take so long in total that it isn't worth doing.
People making common and lazy grammatical and typographical errors are expecting me to stop reading, put whatever idea they were conveying on hold, decipher their words and refit them at the end of the thought train that was just paused. Yes, even describing that process is hard work, isn't it?
Why should everyone who reads their text make the effort here? Why can't the person doing the typing up their game a little for all those people that will be reading their words?
The net isn't perfect, and neither am I. I don't want anyone to be perfect, but I would like to have the average level raised a little.
God said unto Moses, take these tablets down the mountain, there are ten of them and each one comes from a different English speaking part of the world.
Moses arrived in the UK a little late to help out the Bard, but these days we're on fairly solid ground when it comes to the en_GB dictionary. No, really. Every Linux distro I've used has it, and it's installed as default in my copy of Firefox, I can even download OpenOffice and Firefox with all the British language packs installed, I swear to god!
Yes, because learning perl, C++, Java and.NET is easy compared to spelling words properly. Hell, that built in spell-checker is so counter-intuitive that people think the red line that appears under words means they have emphasis added.
Who cares if you look like a fool on Slashdot, you're probably far too busy to care, what with reading your bugtracker and fixing all those spelling and grammatical errors in your oooh shiney! new GUI? You know, the one that won't compile because you typo'd a function name or declared a variable that you misspelled later on.
You just go ahead and bait people. Better still... Do it in txt spk, that really gets them. Illiteracy is so much fun, we should encourage a generation of undereducated kids to have trouble communicating their ideas to older folks with brains. That way the government won't even have to censor the internet, people just won't go looking for fresh new ideas from the younger mindset!
English isn't the easiest language to learn, but pointing out common errors is one way to teach people.
Did you miss the bit where GP said "perl poetry"?
Perl is just child abuse in a way that MicroSoft dream of!
If only schools would teach Vi instead of Emacs *sigh*
Mods: Jay Oh Kay Ee. (Retarded mods: JOKE, as in not flaimbait, more a comment on the MS structured environment presented by most educational establishments).
Silly me, ponies!!!!!!!1111111one!!!1
Have you seen gOS?
It has the option to install just about anything you want with one command, yet as an OS it has a market because most people just use it to play with the internet and the apps available on websites. Mail, Calendar, Documents, Picasa all provided by Google. Facebook Myspace and iTunes are all right there on the desktop with Blogging sites too.
I'm not saying everyone should use these, I certainly don't, but this is what a lot of people think computers are these days.
WinXP came with a whole heap of sub-par applications (CD burning, IE, Wordpad, Defrag, Paint, Sound Recorder, WMP, Compressed Folders, (list goes on)) that people replaced with ful-featured packages if they wanted to use the functionality of the program.
Compatibility
I posted here on that one and got some comments, but I also posted here on Linux making life hard too.
When you bear in mind that WinModems and GFX cards were specifically designed to run fast under Windows it is a wonder that the OSS world can use them at all, and to be fair, I still can't run Compiz (or KDE4's compositing features) on my 9600XT 256MB. But I can sit here and type this message, I can run a VM for Photoshop, and I can browse my photo collection at the maximum resolution my monitor supports. I think that qualifies as usage requirements. I do keep Vista and XP partitions. Vista is pretty but I can't access my games, XP is insecure so I can't use the web, Linux won't play games and I haven't yet missed the prettiness because of Domino (which openSUSE is including in the distro now).
Upshot is, I haven't yet found anything I can't make work with openSUSE, my distro of choice, that upsets me.
Third option
Sheesh, I couldn't even go there without a link to Sinulate,which I found for a post I just made =)
I dunno why british citizens put up with all the tracking and spying bullshit as it is right now.
Blowing stuff up without being part of an EXCELLENT movie is slightly off the menu, for obvious reasons.
Going to meetings is informative yet frustrating because the people at the big desk are incompetent, selfish, ass covering simpering yes men (or women) who fall out of favour if they overstep their marks enough to become objects of ridicule when espousing ideas out of vogue and become ex-(insert job title)s for their trouble.
Even those who have brains, constructive ideas, time and patience, charisma and ability get screwed over by their bosses, colleagues and have their backs stabbed by their staff to the point where they "just do their jobs" because the entire system is geared against making a difference and trying to help people out of the pits they live their lives in.
If only more people would risk arrest the way Mark Thomas does we might have a chance of becoming civilised again.
As a citizen of England, I cannot think of one single thing that I could personally do to make a difference. Can you?
When using a search engine you should be able to find what you are looking for without having to install Greasemonkey to filter out all the Kelkoo and other commercial sites.
You should be able to turn off PageRank easily and just get the best results based on what you typed rather than who paid the most to the search engine or the linkfarm or bloggerverse.
Sometimes Wikipedia isn't the leading authority on what you typed and you'd prefer it to be down in 100th position instead of the guaranteed top 10.
Omitting search results, respelling terms without confirmation, ignoring completely "I only want English" or "pages from the UK only" options, insisting that no matter how many times you don't want SafeSearch on it just will be, cached pages getting messed up, PDF-HTML being about as much use as trying to use Flash in Lynx,...
Google is just the best there is at the moment, but we could all benefit from a better search engine.
If "regular people" don't have the wit to change the search engine in the box they cannot be said to be using the preinstalled option "on purpose", merely by default.
I'm assuming you thought of using a CAPTCHA but couldn't for some reason?
I had one for registrations, but didn't want to put my users through the hassle of doing one every time they logged in. Installing it was a breeze, and it worked well once the registration pages included things like "This is case sensitive" which seems to be noticably missing from most CAPTCHAs.
But the plastic is recyclable. Why don't they make the install DVD +/-RW so we can recycle the disc we just paid £369.99 (PCWorld shelf price - Ultimate) for too?
Re:Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice...
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Time for a Vista Do-Over?
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Tell you what, Microsoft: You come up with an OS that outperforms XP Pro SP2, has some useful new features, is efficient, compatible, maybe even costs less, and then blow me, and I'll give your new OS a try. How's that sound?
Sounds like you haven't found ALL the great things about Linux yet.
I got a Linksys card because of that very reason, my WRT54G is awesome, ran Linux when I bought it and runs DD-WRT (Linux) now.
To go with it, as I was in a rush, I popped into PCWorld and grabbed a Linksys PCMCIA card and whacked it in my T22 lappy.
I use openSUSE (10.2 on that, 10.3 on this desktop), and configuring it was a nightmare.
First: No Linux driver. Solution: ndiswrapper. Easy (yes, I downloaded the source and compiled a module, maybe I'm not Joe Sixpack).
Second: How to use the damn thing, first experience of WiFi on Linux. Solution: YaST's networking panel, console to delete and edit card profiles, lots of attempts to try and fix exactly which type of key and encryption I was using (different terms), putting in the 63 character key several times in several places and finally deciding that the command line wasn't the place to do it. Deciding to use NetworkManager and wondering just how clever it is to have a text file somewhere with my key in cleartext, then having a bloody wallet application save the key and have to log in to KDE just to get on the net the first time. Hard and time consuming.
Third: Going to Starbucks and wanting to use an open access point. Oh no, the whole lot over again, not as simple as clicking the "Starbucks free internet" entry in the NetworkManager list. Medium, annoying in a public place with no Google.
So as far as I'm concerned WiFi on Linux is shit, but you can shed sweat blood and tears (while your SO is wondering why you're swearing so much) to make it work if you're patient and have access to Google while you're doing it.
Not for newbies.
Just install Linux on that old laptop and use the key on the bottom of it to install XP (from a bittorrent disc, try the XP 8-in-1 and use the OEM Home/Pro option) on your new PC.
Even if it involves a call (free) to MS to activate, don't tell them more than you have to and read the numbers off the Genuine OEM sticker on the laptop.
You OWN a license to run one copy of XP by virtue of that sticker. You bought and paid for it when you were charged the Windows tax on the laptop, screw them telling you which computer you have to run it on.
With the building plans here in the UK eating up all our Greenbelt and the EU rules messing about with farming and agriculture so we have to import food and export waste I already feel like I'm living on Trantor.
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Because I use openSUSE, I get a new kernel every time they give me one, and the sources to match.
.config options disables this "vmslice" routine without the use of a patch, which will be overwritten by the new kernel-source-point.update.RPM.
I would really like to know which of the
Which part of "menuconfig" or "xconfig" should I be dropping?
(not specifically to you, but can't find this answer lower down the tree)
Or you could use the incredibly good PasswordHasher extension.
God save us all from creature feep.
...
While you're at it, why not put AdBlock Plus in there and FlashBlock and Greasemonkey and Fasterfox and GMail Notifier and
Some people don't want everything included in the distribution, some developers don't want to have to make all those things work with every release and compile they do of test builds.
AutoUpdate of things you choose to install works just fine, and the people who build the add-ons make sure they work without having to work for MozFoundation.
Think of it like the spam token email maths.
If you want to send 1 message your computer will spend approximately 1 second longer than it used to to compute these sums.
If you want to send a million it will take so long in total that it isn't worth doing.
People making common and lazy grammatical and typographical errors are expecting me to stop reading, put whatever idea they were conveying on hold, decipher their words and refit them at the end of the thought train that was just paused. Yes, even describing that process is hard work, isn't it?
Why should everyone who reads their text make the effort here? Why can't the person doing the typing up their game a little for all those people that will be reading their words?
The net isn't perfect, and neither am I. I don't want anyone to be perfect, but I would like to have the average level raised a little.
God said unto Moses, take these tablets down the mountain, there are ten of them and each one comes from a different English speaking part of the world.
Moses arrived in the UK a little late to help out the Bard, but these days we're on fairly solid ground when it comes to the en_GB dictionary. No, really. Every Linux distro I've used has it, and it's installed as default in my copy of Firefox, I can even download OpenOffice and Firefox with all the British language packs installed, I swear to god!
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it in good English"
There. Fixed that for you.
(This is a
Yes, because learning perl, C++, Java and .NET is easy compared to spelling words properly. Hell, that built in spell-checker is so counter-intuitive that people think the red line that appears under words means they have emphasis added.
... Do it in txt spk, that really gets them. Illiteracy is so much fun, we should encourage a generation of undereducated kids to have trouble communicating their ideas to older folks with brains. That way the government won't even have to censor the internet, people just won't go looking for fresh new ideas from the younger mindset!
Who cares if you look like a fool on Slashdot, you're probably far too busy to care, what with reading your bugtracker and fixing all those spelling and grammatical errors in your oooh shiney! new GUI? You know, the one that won't compile because you typo'd a function name or declared a variable that you misspelled later on.
You just go ahead and bait people. Better still
English isn't the easiest language to learn, but pointing out common errors is one way to teach people.
Did you miss the bit where GP said "perl poetry"?
Perl is just child abuse in a way that MicroSoft dream of!
If only schools would teach Vi instead of Emacs *sigh*
Mods: Jay Oh Kay Ee. (Retarded mods: JOKE, as in not flaimbait, more a comment on the MS structured environment presented by most educational establishments).
Silly me, ponies!!!!!!!1111111one!!!1
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This post written whilst drunk!
Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter ...
Oh wait, you're too scared to post that with your ID, I guess your email address is hot to touch too?
Useful new features
Have you seen gOS?
It has the option to install just about anything you want with one command, yet as an OS it has a market because most people just use it to play with the internet and the apps available on websites. Mail, Calendar, Documents, Picasa all provided by Google. Facebook Myspace and iTunes are all right there on the desktop with Blogging sites too.
I'm not saying everyone should use these, I certainly don't, but this is what a lot of people think computers are these days.
WinXP came with a whole heap of sub-par applications (CD burning, IE, Wordpad, Defrag, Paint, Sound Recorder, WMP, Compressed Folders, (list goes on)) that people replaced with ful-featured packages if they wanted to use the functionality of the program.
Compatibility
I posted here on that one and got some comments, but I also posted here on Linux making life hard too.
When you bear in mind that WinModems and GFX cards were specifically designed to run fast under Windows it is a wonder that the OSS world can use them at all, and to be fair, I still can't run Compiz (or KDE4's compositing features) on my 9600XT 256MB. But I can sit here and type this message, I can run a VM for Photoshop, and I can browse my photo collection at the maximum resolution my monitor supports. I think that qualifies as usage requirements. I do keep Vista and XP partitions. Vista is pretty but I can't access my games, XP is insecure so I can't use the web, Linux won't play games and I haven't yet missed the prettiness because of Domino (which openSUSE is including in the distro now).
Upshot is, I haven't yet found anything I can't make work with openSUSE, my distro of choice, that upsets me.
Third option
Sheesh, I couldn't even go there without a link to Sinulate,which I found for a post I just made =)
CONFIG_SINULATE=y
Should do the trick!
Blowing stuff up without being part of an EXCELLENT movie is slightly off the menu, for obvious reasons.
Going to meetings is informative yet frustrating because the people at the big desk are incompetent, selfish, ass covering simpering yes men (or women) who fall out of favour if they overstep their marks enough to become objects of ridicule when espousing ideas out of vogue and become ex-(insert job title)s for their trouble.
Even those who have brains, constructive ideas, time and patience, charisma and ability get screwed over by their bosses, colleagues and have their backs stabbed by their staff to the point where they "just do their jobs" because the entire system is geared against making a difference and trying to help people out of the pits they live their lives in.
If only more people would risk arrest the way Mark Thomas does we might have a chance of becoming civilised again.
As a citizen of England, I cannot think of one single thing that I could personally do to make a difference. Can you?
You should stay in more.
...
When using a search engine you should be able to find what you are looking for without having to install Greasemonkey to filter out all the Kelkoo and other commercial sites.
You should be able to turn off PageRank easily and just get the best results based on what you typed rather than who paid the most to the search engine or the linkfarm or bloggerverse.
Sometimes Wikipedia isn't the leading authority on what you typed and you'd prefer it to be down in 100th position instead of the guaranteed top 10.
Omitting search results, respelling terms without confirmation, ignoring completely "I only want English" or "pages from the UK only" options, insisting that no matter how many times you don't want SafeSearch on it just will be, cached pages getting messed up, PDF-HTML being about as much use as trying to use Flash in Lynx,
Google is just the best there is at the moment, but we could all benefit from a better search engine.
If "regular people" don't have the wit to change the search engine in the box they cannot be said to be using the preinstalled option "on purpose", merely by default.
So yes and no as "joss" points out.
I'm assuming you thought of using a CAPTCHA but couldn't for some reason?
I had one for registrations, but didn't want to put my users through the hassle of doing one every time they logged in. Installing it was a breeze, and it worked well once the registration pages included things like "This is case sensitive" which seems to be noticably missing from most CAPTCHAs.
But the plastic is recyclable. Why don't they make the install DVD +/-RW so we can recycle the disc we just paid £369.99 (PCWorld shelf price - Ultimate) for too?
Sounds like you haven't found ALL the great things about Linux yet.
This is a reply to comment above too.
I got a Linksys card because of that very reason, my WRT54G is awesome, ran Linux when I bought it and runs DD-WRT (Linux) now.
To go with it, as I was in a rush, I popped into PCWorld and grabbed a Linksys PCMCIA card and whacked it in my T22 lappy.
I use openSUSE (10.2 on that, 10.3 on this desktop), and configuring it was a nightmare.
First: No Linux driver. Solution: ndiswrapper. Easy (yes, I downloaded the source and compiled a module, maybe I'm not Joe Sixpack).
Second: How to use the damn thing, first experience of WiFi on Linux. Solution: YaST's networking panel, console to delete and edit card profiles, lots of attempts to try and fix exactly which type of key and encryption I was using (different terms), putting in the 63 character key several times in several places and finally deciding that the command line wasn't the place to do it. Deciding to use NetworkManager and wondering just how clever it is to have a text file somewhere with my key in cleartext, then having a bloody wallet application save the key and have to log in to KDE just to get on the net the first time. Hard and time consuming.
Third: Going to Starbucks and wanting to use an open access point. Oh no, the whole lot over again, not as simple as clicking the "Starbucks free internet" entry in the NetworkManager list. Medium, annoying in a public place with no Google.
So as far as I'm concerned WiFi on Linux is shit, but you can shed sweat blood and tears (while your SO is wondering why you're swearing so much) to make it work if you're patient and have access to Google while you're doing it.
Not for newbies.
Just install Linux on that old laptop and use the key on the bottom of it to install XP (from a bittorrent disc, try the XP 8-in-1 and use the OEM Home/Pro option) on your new PC.
Even if it involves a call (free) to MS to activate, don't tell them more than you have to and read the numbers off the Genuine OEM sticker on the laptop.
You OWN a license to run one copy of XP by virtue of that sticker. You bought and paid for it when you were charged the Windows tax on the laptop, screw them telling you which computer you have to run it on.
Some of us were using Win95 a long time before Win95 came out.
At the time DOS was better than Win 3.11, Win 95, OS/2 Warp or Linux, when Doom and Quake were big on PCs.
Obscure?
With the building plans here in the UK eating up all our Greenbelt and the EU rules messing about with farming and agriculture so we have to import food and export waste I already feel like I'm living on Trantor.
Yes yes yes, we have all read it, but have you played it?
That only means it would break on Patch Tuesdays, how about submitting to bugzilla if it doesn't work on any Tuesday?
Could have it fixed by 15:00 =)
Will a 256bit processor and OS be able to run a calculator that defines PI more accurately than 3.1415927?
He who denied it ... Supplied it.