That driver has a serious user-unfriendly limitation: No support for inodes larger than 128 bytes.
This means Linux users can't use GUI tools to format a USB stick (or a harddisk partition for sharing files with Windows) - they must use the command line and figure out how to persuade mkfs.ext2 not to default to 256 byte inodes. And this probably after learning of this limitation the hard way. Easy enough for you and me, but definitely not user friendly.
Also, this still leaves Windows users unable to format as ext2. A crashy driver is not enough.
That brings me to the third problem: I have yet to see a stable IFS (Installable FileSystem) driver for Windows. In my experience, perfectly stable Windows installations start crashing when an IFS driver is installed and in use. I suspect this part of Windows needs more debugging, or the API needs to be better documented, or both.
exFAT may be a patent encumbered extension to a lame filesystem, but the ext2 drivers for Windows are a lousy counter proposal.
Historical and genealogical research - making cursive unfamiliar will steepen the learning curve.
Cake decoration - its harder to break between letters with a frosting tube.
Firefox now shows the tab bar even when you only have 1 page open. What you're probably used to is the tab bar being hidden when only 1 page is open.
If you follow SecondaryOak's suggestion, you can close the tab and the whole Firefox window will disappear - because it's going from displaying 1 page to displaying 0 pages.
But I'm guessing that's NOT what you want - you don't really want to "close" the tab, you just want to hide it like you're used to.
So go to about:config and double click browser.tabs.autoHide to change it.
4. Spend the remaining energy teaching the rover to do the Hammer Dance with it's eight independently swiveling wheels. If you got to go down, go down doing the Hammer Dance that's what I always say which is maybe why nobody sits with me in the cafeteria.
Sure they're both controlled be a single company. But there is a critical difference.
For Flash Player to be lousy on alternative platforms hurt Flash adoption a little, but not fatally so.
If Silverlight were in any way difficult for Moonlight to be compatible with, it would: 1) hurt Silverlight adoption a little, but not fatally so 2) work in Microsoft's favor by reinforcing the monopoly position of Windows. "Linux sucks - blah blah and Silverlight animations look weird on it".
I prefer apathy to a troubling conflict of interest. At least Adobe doesn't gain anything from problems with the Linux version of Flash Player.
It's simple to understand (a kind of...), and if you show him some the graphical stuff (different resolutions, on text mode, graphical mode) it think will be courious to learn. (make sure that your windows/dosbox emulator supports that graphical modes)
There is no need to mess with an emulator. FreeBasic (when the compiler is run with the -lang qb switch) has identical syntax, including the graphical commands.
'Some compare Monsanto's hard-line approach to Microsoft's zealous efforts to protect its software from pirates. At least with Microsoft the buyer of a program can use it over and over again. But farmers who buy Monsanto's seeds can't even do that.'
Microsoft's approach has been far from zealous. If anything it is deliberately lax. The whole "One of your employees has installed unlicensed Microsoft software. Sign a long term contract with yearly fees and we'll forgive you." thing needs people who are used to pirating Windows to keep going.
The RIAA/MPAA and the way they're suing everybody would be a better analog for "hard-line approach [toward pirates]".
Even then it is a very poor and hardly meaningful comparison.
1. Hire people who would otherwise be a considerable asset to your competitor(s) If they like working for you, great - promote them! But if their heart is not in it then you can't trust them, so: 2. Give them busy work until they realize you are wasting their time 3. Make them sign a contract to not work for any of your competitors for X years after they leave 4. Profit!
Keep your tinfoil hat on and you'll see it too! It's an evil plot I tell you!
Seriously though, I'd like to know what kind of terms an MS employee must agree to. Is it possible that MS is monopolizing the workforce by contract?
You're forgetting a very common scenario: Imagine you're a PHP coder. You currently dev/test/debug with Apache or maybe IIS on a Windows desktop. Everything you write ends up on a Linux server anyway, so you'd like to try coding and testing on a Linux desktop.
Unfortunately, you receive all artwork in Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator format... Sure, you could use a virtual machine or remote desktop or even two separate machines. Linux for PHP coding/testing and Windows for exporting text and images from the Photoshop/Illustrator documents. But why deal with all that complication?
So you just stick with Windows.
This is typical of a lot of professional PHP developers.
Unix changed owners so many times, until finally being owned by the Novell, who made a contract giving the Santa Cruise Operation some very limited control, and then S.C.O. sells it's UNIX division to Caldera, now known as The SCO Group (or something like that, correct me if I'm wrong)... and you're telling me Caldera inherited the supposed super secret incriminating info along with it?
If there's any evidence of shading dealings between AT&T and the US Government that hasn't been shredded, it's just as likely as anywhere else to still be at AT&T.
I don't claim to be very knowledgeable about Mormonism, but I thought they believe that the Jews in the bible were actually Americans and the Jerusalem is somewhere in the US? (Someone fill me in please) No, neither of those. The belief is that God helped some Jews come to America.
In software, deprecate means to officially warn that they're planning to remove the feature in question later - after everyone else (like other software that might assume said feature is present) has had a fair chance to prepare for its removal.
In a standard, deprecated can mean something like it does for software, or it can refer to stuff that's optional or old and that usually has an alternative you're encouraged to use instead.
Many slashdotters fail to make any distinction between the honest hard working programmers/researchers who deserve their pay and the not so honest business execs, lawyers, and lobbiests on some of whom Microsoft's bad behavior can be blamed, lumping them all together as a single entity: "M$".
Nobody's hoping to see software engineers starve, it's just easy to get carried away hating Microsoft for all the monopolizing, anti-FOSS, and other damage it's responsible for. Can you really blame the GP for having no sympathy for Microsoft's bottom line?
It's probably because US retailers think it should count that they bundled Windows with sponsored crapware bringing net cost down to $10, while the Italian Judge (quite reasonably) thought it shouldn't.
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You mean Earth's magnetosphere. If it were within the atmosphere enough to be protected by it, it would never be able to remain in order due to drag.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iss#Radiation
You mean Pushing Ice, right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushing_Ice
That driver has a serious user-unfriendly limitation: No support for inodes larger than 128 bytes.
This means Linux users can't use GUI tools to format a USB stick (or a harddisk partition for sharing files with Windows) - they must use the command line and figure out how to persuade mkfs.ext2 not to default to 256 byte inodes. And this probably after learning of this limitation the hard way. Easy enough for you and me, but definitely not user friendly.
Also, this still leaves Windows users unable to format as ext2. A crashy driver is not enough.
That brings me to the third problem: I have yet to see a stable IFS (Installable FileSystem) driver for Windows. In my experience, perfectly stable Windows installations start crashing when an IFS driver is installed and in use. I suspect this part of Windows needs more debugging, or the API needs to be better documented, or both.
exFAT may be a patent encumbered extension to a lame filesystem, but the ext2 drivers for Windows are a lousy counter proposal.
Historical and genealogical research - making cursive unfamiliar will steepen the learning curve.
Cake decoration - its harder to break between letters with a frosting tube.
Firefox now shows the tab bar even when you only have 1 page open. What you're probably used to is the tab bar being hidden when only 1 page is open.
If you follow SecondaryOak's suggestion, you can close the tab and the whole Firefox window will disappear - because it's going from displaying 1 page to displaying 0 pages.
But I'm guessing that's NOT what you want - you don't really want to "close" the tab, you just want to hide it like you're used to.
So go to about:config and double click browser.tabs.autoHide to change it.
elanthis at phoronix explained how Wayland was never intended for normal desktops running Gnome/KDE:
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showpost.php?p=51097&postcount=6
It will take something different to replace Xorg.
4. Spend the remaining energy teaching the rover to do the Hammer Dance with it's eight independently swiveling wheels. If you got to go down, go down doing the Hammer Dance that's what I always say which is maybe why nobody sits with me in the cafeteria.
Or we could teach it Daisy Bell
Or give it a frisbee and have it dance to Put On Your Sunday Clothes.
A QT4 version of the official release is also available, but only for 32 bit x86.
Downloadable here:
ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/960/final/en/i386/
Gentoo's ebuild will install the QT4 version on 32 bit x86 if you have the qt-static flag on and the qt3-static flag off.
Sure they're both controlled be a single company. But there is a critical difference.
For Flash Player to be lousy on alternative platforms hurt Flash adoption a little, but not fatally so.
If Silverlight were in any way difficult for Moonlight to be compatible with, it would:
1) hurt Silverlight adoption a little, but not fatally so
2) work in Microsoft's favor by reinforcing the monopoly position of Windows. "Linux sucks - blah blah and Silverlight animations look weird on it".
I prefer apathy to a troubling conflict of interest. At least Adobe doesn't gain anything from problems with the Linux version of Flash Player.
It's simple to understand (a kind of...), and if you show him some the graphical stuff (different resolutions, on text mode, graphical mode) it think will be courious to learn. (make sure that your windows/dosbox emulator supports that graphical modes)
There is no need to mess with an emulator. FreeBasic (when the compiler is run with the -lang qb switch) has identical syntax, including the graphical commands.
It's possible that they choose not the count downloads in the dumbest possible way, you know...
Multiple downloads from the same IP+useragent probably count as a single download.
Could Firefox's fsync() problem be related?
http://shaver.off.net/diary/2008/05/25/fsyncers-and-curveballs/
'Some compare Monsanto's hard-line approach to Microsoft's zealous efforts to protect its software from pirates. At least with Microsoft the buyer of a program can use it over and over again. But farmers who buy Monsanto's seeds can't even do that.'
Microsoft's approach has been far from zealous. If anything it is deliberately lax. The whole "One of your employees has installed unlicensed Microsoft software. Sign a long term contract with yearly fees and we'll forgive you." thing needs people who are used to pirating Windows to keep going.
The RIAA/MPAA and the way they're suing everybody would be a better analog for "hard-line approach [toward pirates]".
Even then it is a very poor and hardly meaningful comparison.
1. Hire people who would otherwise be a considerable asset to your competitor(s)
If they like working for you, great - promote them! But if their heart is not in it then you can't trust them, so:
2. Give them busy work until they realize you are wasting their time
3. Make them sign a contract to not work for any of your competitors for X years after they leave
4. Profit!
Keep your tinfoil hat on and you'll see it too! It's an evil plot I tell you!
Seriously though, I'd like to know what kind of terms an MS employee must agree to. Is it possible that MS is monopolizing the workforce by contract?
Does Daniel Robbins read Slashdot?
I've heard that modern implementations will move existing data around to keep the free space fresh enough for wear leveling.
That's true. I'm just saying, demand for Photoshop/Illustrator on Linux is often underestimated.
You're forgetting a very common scenario:
Imagine you're a PHP coder. You currently dev/test/debug with Apache or maybe IIS on a Windows desktop. Everything you write ends up on a Linux server anyway, so you'd like to try coding and testing on a Linux desktop.
Unfortunately, you receive all artwork in Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator format... Sure, you could use a virtual machine or remote desktop or even two separate machines. Linux for PHP coding/testing and Windows for exporting text and images from the Photoshop/Illustrator documents. But why deal with all that complication?
So you just stick with Windows.
This is typical of a lot of professional PHP developers.
Unix changed owners so many times, until finally being owned by the Novell, who made a contract giving the Santa Cruise Operation some very limited control, and then S.C.O. sells it's UNIX division to Caldera, now known as The SCO Group (or something like that, correct me if I'm wrong)... and you're telling me Caldera inherited the supposed super secret incriminating info along with it?
If there's any evidence of shading dealings between AT&T and the US Government that hasn't been shredded, it's just as likely as anywhere else to still be at AT&T.
In software, deprecate means to officially warn that they're planning to remove the feature in question later - after everyone else (like other software that might assume said feature is present) has had a fair chance to prepare for its removal.
In a standard, deprecated can mean something like it does for software, or it can refer to stuff that's optional or old and that usually has an alternative you're encouraged to use instead.
And here I was picturing the way they decommissioned that printer in Office Space after reading the article title.
Many slashdotters fail to make any distinction between the honest hard working programmers/researchers who deserve their pay and the not so honest business execs, lawyers, and lobbiests on some of whom Microsoft's bad behavior can be blamed, lumping them all together as a single entity: "M$".
Nobody's hoping to see software engineers starve, it's just easy to get carried away hating Microsoft for all the monopolizing, anti-FOSS, and other damage it's responsible for. Can you really blame the GP for having no sympathy for Microsoft's bottom line?
It's probably because US retailers think it should count that they bundled Windows with sponsored crapware bringing net cost down to $10, while the Italian Judge (quite reasonably) thought it shouldn't.
The review site you wished for: www.phoronix.com
Some of FF's default settings change depending on how much ram you have, like this one:m ax_total_viewers
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.sessionhistory.
You could try searching for such settings and turning them back down 1-gig-of-ram levels.