I have a *lot* of windows open, usually 4 browsers with 20 tabs each. When 1 window crashes, ALL of them crash. (I copied an url from Mozilla into OpenOffice and had them both stall:(
Everytime there's a story about browsers someone posts something like this. I've always wondered; what the hell are you doing with all these pages open?
Ah, yes. The rich will buy a pair of boots at 100$ that will last him 10 years and the poor will buy a pair of boots that will last him 1 year, paying twice as much.
Great idea! There are so many things that we keep doing in a wasteful and inelegant way just because it's "good enough" (or at least was in the past -- when things get wider distribution, problems are magnified).
Power supplies are a good example, as are cars (so much wasted energy -- hybrids are better in that regard, though, like in converting braking energy into electrical energy that can be re-used later to help the engine when it's at its most inefficient RPM levels).
Isn't the quality of linux software rooted in that there are no timetables to get things working?
I think that in the case of most bounties, the point is not to get something faster but to get something at all; it's to encourage coders to work on some areas that may be less fun or obvious.
Once the bounty is fufilled, nothing keeps people from taking their time and making it as good as possible.
What the hell are you talking about? Did you even bother to read anything about slackware? Did you intend to post in a Debian thread and your words got carried by the wind?
Yes, I agree that it's quite cool of her and that her extreme competence and visibility are big assets, but I also think thr open source world should keep in mind that parallel work can be useful in some things, and can just slow you down in others.
Okay, fine. Completely switching is hard since many people still use ICQ/AIM/etc, but that's what clients that support multiple protocols, like gaim and trilliant, are for.
But whenever you have a chance, for projects, friends, etc. Use Jabber, the future will thank you.
Something quite interesting I read in a Reg article about DRM and other "protection" schemes:
"As your reporter sees it, music is created to be shared, so there's little sense in finding technological solutions that try to stop people sharing. The real problem is that the artists aren't being compensated, so rather than engaging in futile attempts to make people not share music, something we have always done and will not stop doing, the much simpler task of compensating the artist can then be addressed."
I'm trying to adapt to Linux, but it's painfully slow. I've got a 300MHz K6-2 with 192MB RAM, but I'm going to have to try a slim window manager because KDE bogs everything down.
I have a AMD K6-2 450mhz on an old crappy motherboard with 192megs of PC100 ram and it runs KDE perfectly fine.
Everything was slow when I first tried mandrake, but now that I'm in Slackware (Kernel 2.6.6, KDE 3.2.3) everything is faster than WinXP.
I suggest that the problem is with the "friendly" distros and all the things they add (change to code, more services running, GUIs everywhere), not with Linux or KDE or whatever.
You should probably give Slackware (or FreeBSD, which is pretty close) a try on your old hardware.
Just rzip (better than bzip2 with large files) the email archive and burn it to DVDrs. So in case of real legal necessity, it's possible to access it and the whole setup (DVD-burner + media) probably cost around 100$.
Why is Ogg Vorbis format so good if it requires such extensive resources to play? Particularly when the most popular digital audio player doesn't support it?
This, to me, is evidence of the problems with Ogg Vorbis, not of problems with the iPod...
Yeah, and DivX was flawed a few years ago because it took more CPU cycles to decode and wasn't supported by DVD players.
XviD is displacing DivX, and that's good. Too bad that mp3 will be much harder to avoid; still, doesn't mean that we who prefer OGG shouldn't keep spreading the word and asking companies for OGG support.
Ogg does sound better. and it tends to be a smaller file. So you could fit more songs on that 15GB disk.
Yes, and ogg is VBR by default, which is the sane choice. I'm still wondering why people don't encore their mp3s as VBR.. Absolutely no reason to use CBR except if the mp3 will be used for streaming audio and you need to know the bandwidth needed.
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Yes, 4-5 tabs on average I can understand. A max of a dozen and more for a certain amount of time, okay.
But I've seen so many people claim that they *constantly* have in excess of 80 tabs open. That I don't understand.
I have a *lot* of windows open, usually 4 browsers with 20 tabs each. When 1 window crashes, ALL of them crash. (I copied an url from Mozilla into OpenOffice and had them both stall :(
Everytime there's a story about browsers someone posts something like this. I've always wondered; what the hell are you doing with all these pages open?
Honest question.
8.5 ppl are 97.3% certain that your numbers are pulled from your ass
Yeah, either that or the release notes. RTFA.
Ah, yes. The rich will buy a pair of boots at 100$ that will last him 10 years and the poor will buy a pair of boots that will last him 1 year, paying twice as much.
Great idea! There are so many things that we keep doing in a wasteful and inelegant way just because it's "good enough" (or at least was in the past -- when things get wider distribution, problems are magnified).
Power supplies are a good example, as are cars (so much wasted energy -- hybrids are better in that regard, though, like in converting braking energy into electrical energy that can be re-used later to help the engine when it's at its most inefficient RPM levels).
Isn't the quality of linux software rooted in that there are no timetables to get things working?
I think that in the case of most bounties, the point is not to get something faster but to get something at all; it's to encourage coders to work on some areas that may be less fun or obvious.
Once the bounty is fufilled, nothing keeps people from taking their time and making it as good as possible.
I think that distros try to keep up with each other so that newbies don't go: "Oh, Slackware only has Linux 9, Mandrake is already at Linux 10!"
In fact, I think it was one of the reasons Patrick himself mentioned for skipping a few version numbers with Slack.
I love slack, btw! Keep up the good work, Patrick!
Quit your whining, I'm sure you know someone, somewhere that has an internet connection and can help you download 2 CDs worth of material.
What the hell are you talking about? Did you even bother to read anything about slackware? Did you intend to post in a Debian thread and your words got carried by the wind?
I take back what I said, I hadn't noticed at first by Grokdoc and LQ.w have different aims and, anyway, both websites have the same webmaster.
Yes, I agree that it's quite cool of her and that her extreme competence and visibility are big assets, but I also think thr open source world should keep in mind that parallel work can be useful in some things, and can just slow you down in others.
Yes, LinuxQuestions.org's Wiki almost has 1600 articles and is pretty great.
Jabber.
Jabber.org.
Okay, fine. Completely switching is hard since many people still use ICQ/AIM/etc, but that's what clients that support multiple protocols, like gaim and trilliant, are for.
But whenever you have a chance, for projects, friends, etc. Use Jabber, the future will thank you.
Yeah, that too, but it's especially that the guy really knows marketing.
Incidentally, I'm reading _No Logo_ by Naomi Klein and it's very interesting. In depth look at marketing, branding and the concepts governing both.
Something quite interesting I read in a Reg article about DRM and other "protection" schemes:
"As your reporter sees it, music is created to be shared, so there's little sense in finding technological solutions that try to stop people sharing. The real problem is that the artists aren't being compensated, so rather than engaging in futile attempts to make people not share music, something we have always done and will not stop doing, the much simpler task of compensating the artist can then be addressed."
And what would you do if Microsoft set up a booth outside a Linux conference?
Easy!
Set up a booth outside of their booth which is outside of our booth.
To organize so that people give away free Linux CDs (Knoppix?) to the people attending these events?
I'm trying to adapt to Linux, but it's painfully slow. I've got a 300MHz K6-2 with 192MB RAM, but I'm going to have to try a slim window manager because KDE bogs everything down.
I have a AMD K6-2 450mhz on an old crappy motherboard with 192megs of PC100 ram and it runs KDE perfectly fine.
Everything was slow when I first tried mandrake, but now that I'm in Slackware (Kernel 2.6.6, KDE 3.2.3) everything is faster than WinXP.
I suggest that the problem is with the "friendly" distros and all the things they add (change to code, more services running, GUIs everywhere), not with Linux or KDE or whatever.
You should probably give Slackware (or FreeBSD, which is pretty close) a try on your old hardware.
Apparently it's an early draft of the new theme, it should look (much?) better in the final version.
I don't know if that final version will ship with 0.9 or 1.0, though.
Just rzip (better than bzip2 with large files) the email archive and burn it to DVDrs. So in case of real legal necessity, it's possible to access it and the whole setup (DVD-burner + media) probably cost around 100$.
Why is Ogg Vorbis format so good if it requires such extensive resources to play? Particularly when the most popular digital audio player doesn't support it?
This, to me, is evidence of the problems with Ogg Vorbis, not of problems with the iPod...
Yeah, and DivX was flawed a few years ago because it took more CPU cycles to decode and wasn't supported by DVD players.
XviD is displacing DivX, and that's good. Too bad that mp3 will be much harder to avoid; still, doesn't mean that we who prefer OGG shouldn't keep spreading the word and asking companies for OGG support.
I guess by your logic doing a mmap() is also bloatware, right?
By his "logic", DivX and XviD are bloatware because they are more CPU intensive than mpeg2.
Heh.
why in the world would anyone choose to get 75% performance with a negligable increase in sound quality (from headphones)?
Because it's better than not having the choice?
Because some (more everyday) prefer ogg vorbis to ACC and mp3?
Ogg does sound better. and it tends to be a smaller file. So you could fit more songs on that 15GB disk.
u dio-cbr-vs-vbr.html
Yes, and ogg is VBR by default, which is the sane choice. I'm still wondering why people don't encore their mp3s as VBR.. Absolutely no reason to use CBR except if the mp3 will be used for streaming audio and you need to know the bandwidth needed.
http://mikecapone.blogspot.com/2004/06/encoding-a