The fedora test list is very much a bug reporting list. Mainly heaps of uers chime in and beeyatch about how some feature doesn't work or how some hardware isn't supported. Then it is expected that whoever is listening does something.
I doubt most of the regulars actually do any coding.
Even though you have a free OS, as long as there are no comparable free GPLed apps available people are stuck with a proprietary evil that can dictate how/when you use your own files.
Real is no saviour either. I made some old.rm files and now they are useless and no longer playable on todays realplayer. I'm a victim of tech-rot. I may as well have made analogue copies on cassette and watched them slowly demagnetize.
Until a decent open source format can be found for video, we're going to suffer the consequences.
If they want ideas to talk about instead of continuing to bleat that this year is the year of Linux on the desktop (It's not yet), I'll give them a few.
* Better hardware support. I have some new motherboards which don't work under Linux because the ATI northbridge chips in them aren't detected. This is ATIs fault as much as Linux's - but it's slowing acceptance.
We need more vendors writing drivers for Linux.
* Better software installation, etc. The great thing about Linux is customisability. Thing is, it's a pain for most users, and is a pain for me even though I can use a command line. Something needs to be done about it. Something like an add/remove program tab to keep track of packages/source code. Standard libraries that all desktop linux should have. Better interfaces between this code and the desktop etc.
Half the time you'll never know what's in your machine until you look, and THEN you have to know where it is, and what package it is, and what that package is for, and what depends on it etc.etc.
In a perfect world, a newbie user should be able to compile a source coded package for a desktop distro with a single click, with seamless configure && make && make install.... as if it were an MSI install package.
They've got to be kidding if they're going to put 3 CPUs in the thing. MS better expect a lot of returns when they over-heat.
Worse yet, is that keeping just 1 CPU cooled is hard enough on a PC without making it sounds like a vacuum cleaner. Having 3 CPUs cooled is going to make the Xbox gets it's new nicknake as the Dust-Buster.
But the way things are going.... all the major consoles are going to be using Power CPUs, and going with ATI graphics. In what way will they technically be any different?
the largest benefit of religions as it applies to this life - are the metaphors and the lessons taken.
Exactly. Good comment.
So why do we have all these people who really care to prove that God or Noah's ark exists, that Jesus was real, and that their religion is the Uber-religion? Boggles the mind...
As Jesus said, "The first will be last and the last will be first.", but this doesn't apply to Soviet Russia otherwise it goes back on itself ad infinitum.
I dual SID chipped it, added a Hard drive, and whacked the SuperCPU expansion cartridge on it. I even have a printer port mod, a kernel ROM mod, and a 3.5" floppy drive that holds 1.6MB of space and can read MSDOS formatted 1.4MB format as well.
Doesn't play games any better though, but it gave the C64 the ability to surf the web and use a GUI OS at full speed. Also great for developers too. Zipping and compacting code took forever on 1Mhz. 20Mhz made a huge difference.
There's even a new OS called Wheels which is like a Linux clone for heavily modded C64s.
All the democratizing functions, promises of free education, free dispersion of information, increased international communication and understanding..... all these things that the internet promised is being brought to it's knees because of penis enlargements, nigerian fraudsters, and greedy marketers all wanting to make a buck!
Don't mod this funny! It's NOT!
(Actually, now that I think of it, TV suffered the same fate. Originally touted as an educational resource, it turned into the junk box it is today. It's just history repeating.)
I'm one of these few people who has a rather fast PC by today's standards. I also enjoy a good blast at Uneal Tournament 2004.
Mind you, that game is pretty... but as for gameplay? I've pretty much seen it all before... so in a way I was a bit unimpressed by it.
With internet gaming, buying that game really FEELS as if you've just joined a club of elite game players.... who all play this well-known video game.
During the early Pentium years, there was NO WAY I could afford to shell out on a PC. I remember hearing about people who did and felt ripped off when their old 486 began to be obsolete.
During those days, I was stuck with my trusty Commodore 64 (even until the mid 90's), which seemed to have a never-ending pile of fun games - and was also competant at producing printed essays for school and beyond.
Didn't cost as much, but it was still fun in its own way.
Yep, the jp106 keyboard layout is QWERTY, but has a few extra buttons to handle jumping between character sets.
The space bar is much smaller as a result.... and the backslash is replaced with the yen symbol.
And yes, in Japanese Windows as there is no backslash, you can imagine what the filename paths look like.
I just wish the keyboard would work properly with DOSbox and Bochs... for some reason the DOS emulators get confused when dealing with Japanese keyboards. I can't get the colon to come out.
Well, if they can at least get some reliable results from pushing this particle accelerator thingy at close to the speed limit AND TEST IT....where's my particle accelerator drive?
"The approach is really simple," says lead researcher Eugenia Kumacheva...... They start with colored colloids--polymeric nanospheres labeled with a dye--for example, an ultraviolet dye. Then they envelop the nanosphere, what Kumacheva calls the core, with a shell of another polymer labeled with a dye that has a spectrum entirely distinct from the first--say,...blah blah blah!
Wouldn't gravity (in conjunction with the magnets) be the main source of energy for the perpetual machine?
I mean, gravity is a huge source of energy coming from the core of the earth. Most of the time, it's wasted holding us down - like a fast CPU with few processes - instead of doing something creative.
Thee big-uns which threaten the linux desktop include:
*Compatibility - I'm talking compatibility with MS stuff here, and I don't mean just file formats or applications. Some hardware goes unsupported in Linux. I currently have a winputer at home. Linux won't work on it (yet) satisfactory enough to use as a server (the network card goes undetected). Not to mention that the VGA chipset and sound is not found either.
* Applications - we need more of them for business purposes. At the moemnt, we have a bazillion geek tools and standard office apps... but how about custom payroll software and other stuff like that? Where are they to be found? Who is writing that software?
* Installations. Linux has dependancy hell, and doing the config,make,make install dance is harder than it has to be. It's hard enough trying to explain the *concept* of a software program to grandma, let alone asking her to install a package or program from source with the command line. If the clusers can't use the PC like a telephone - they give up.
I can't see how used games is really any different than used book sales. Publishers also have to deal with these things called public libraries, where books can be traded and lent around freely. A new release book often sports the same price tag as a new release game.
I honestly don't see Mills and Boon whining about how much of their stuff is in a used book shop.
I suppose if the game industry wants to cut down on used game sales, they could always re-release their old stuff as an added bonus with the new game.
Actually Lindows had some kind of sticker for Lindows accredited hardware... much like the "Designed for Windows XP" stickers you see on most OEM computers.
I went to a trade show where Lindows made an appearance. In their display PC line up, amongst the hand-built beige boxes, they had a laptop there which was obviously designed with Windows in mind (It had two Windows keys), but they went and stickered over the Windows sticker with the Lindows one!
"I can't believe it's not Windows!"
On another note, I just found out that Lindows has it's own Knoppix now. "Lindows Smile"!
Slashdot Mirror
Forgot the URL for that:- so here it is.
This reminds me of some of the fake irc logs between Kim Jong Il, George Bush, and Saddam Hussein that someone on the internet did.
The fedora test list is very much a bug reporting list. Mainly heaps of uers chime in and beeyatch about how some feature doesn't work or how some hardware isn't supported. Then it is expected that whoever is listening does something.
I doubt most of the regulars actually do any coding.
And you could crash C64 BASIC by typing in:
PRINT ""+-0
Hey, if this is a good enough stunt for Lindows to pull on Microsoft... why can't Microsoft do it too?
(But this time do it right by getting patents)
Maybe Apple can retaliate by getting a patent on a particular type of four-paned window.....
With Sun losing so much money, why would they open source Java?
Their new found buddies in Microsoft would probably pay very nicely to buy Java off Sun, and if that's not enough, buy them out completely.
Even though you have a free OS, as long as there are no comparable free GPLed apps available people are stuck with a proprietary evil that can dictate how/when you use your own files. Real is no saviour either. I made some old .rm files and now they are useless and no longer playable on todays realplayer. I'm a victim of tech-rot. I may as well have made analogue copies on cassette and watched them slowly demagnetize.
Until a decent open source format can be found for video, we're going to suffer the consequences.
If they want ideas to talk about instead of continuing to bleat that this year is the year of Linux on the desktop (It's not yet), I'll give them a few. * Better hardware support. I have some new motherboards which don't work under Linux because the ATI northbridge chips in them aren't detected. This is ATIs fault as much as Linux's - but it's slowing acceptance. We need more vendors writing drivers for Linux. * Better software installation, etc. The great thing about Linux is customisability. Thing is, it's a pain for most users, and is a pain for me even though I can use a command line. Something needs to be done about it. Something like an add/remove program tab to keep track of packages/source code. Standard libraries that all desktop linux should have. Better interfaces between this code and the desktop etc. Half the time you'll never know what's in your machine until you look, and THEN you have to know where it is, and what package it is, and what that package is for, and what depends on it etc.etc. In a perfect world, a newbie user should be able to compile a source coded package for a desktop distro with a single click, with seamless configure && make && make install.... as if it were an MSI install package.
They've got to be kidding if they're going to put 3 CPUs in the thing. MS better expect a lot of returns when they over-heat. Worse yet, is that keeping just 1 CPU cooled is hard enough on a PC without making it sounds like a vacuum cleaner. Having 3 CPUs cooled is going to make the Xbox gets it's new nicknake as the Dust-Buster. But the way things are going.... all the major consoles are going to be using Power CPUs, and going with ATI graphics. In what way will they technically be any different?
the largest benefit of religions as it applies to this life - are the metaphors and the lessons taken.
Exactly. Good comment.
So why do we have all these people who really care to prove that God or Noah's ark exists, that Jesus was real, and that their religion is the Uber-religion? Boggles the mind...
As Jesus said, "The first will be last and the last will be first.", but this doesn't apply to Soviet Russia otherwise it goes back on itself ad infinitum.
Well UT2004 doesn't have it. I've seen a few cheats run around on it.
I have one of those.
I dual SID chipped it, added a Hard drive, and whacked the SuperCPU expansion cartridge on it. I even have a printer port mod, a kernel ROM mod, and a 3.5" floppy drive that holds 1.6MB of space and can read MSDOS formatted 1.4MB format as well.
Doesn't play games any better though, but it gave the C64 the ability to surf the web and use a GUI OS at full speed. Also great for developers too. Zipping and compacting code took forever on 1Mhz. 20Mhz made a huge difference.
There's even a new OS called Wheels which is like a Linux clone for heavily modded C64s.
This is amazing really.
All the democratizing functions, promises of free education, free dispersion of information, increased international communication and understanding..... all these things that the internet promised is being brought to it's knees because of penis enlargements, nigerian fraudsters, and greedy marketers all wanting to make a buck!
Don't mod this funny! It's NOT!
(Actually, now that I think of it, TV suffered the same fate. Originally touted as an educational resource, it turned into the junk box it is today. It's just history repeating.)
I'm one of these few people who has a rather fast PC by today's standards. I also enjoy a good blast at Uneal Tournament 2004. Mind you, that game is pretty... but as for gameplay? I've pretty much seen it all before... so in a way I was a bit unimpressed by it. With internet gaming, buying that game really FEELS as if you've just joined a club of elite game players.... who all play this well-known video game. During the early Pentium years, there was NO WAY I could afford to shell out on a PC. I remember hearing about people who did and felt ripped off when their old 486 began to be obsolete. During those days, I was stuck with my trusty Commodore 64 (even until the mid 90's), which seemed to have a never-ending pile of fun games - and was also competant at producing printed essays for school and beyond. Didn't cost as much, but it was still fun in its own way.
That ain't no meteor shower son....
Yep, the jp106 keyboard layout is QWERTY, but has a few extra buttons to handle jumping between character sets. The space bar is much smaller as a result.... and the backslash is replaced with the yen symbol. And yes, in Japanese Windows as there is no backslash, you can imagine what the filename paths look like. I just wish the keyboard would work properly with DOSbox and Bochs... for some reason the DOS emulators get confused when dealing with Japanese keyboards. I can't get the colon to come out.
Well, if they can at least get some reliable results from pushing this particle accelerator thingy at close to the speed limit AND TEST IT....where's my particle accelerator drive?
/dev/myarse is symbolically linked to /dev/null
"The approach is really simple," says lead researcher Eugenia Kumacheva...... They start with colored colloids--polymeric nanospheres labeled with a dye--for example, an ultraviolet dye. Then they envelop the nanosphere, what Kumacheva calls the core, with a shell of another polymer labeled with a dye that has a spectrum entirely distinct from the first--say, ...blah blah blah!
... my arse!!! ;)
The approach is really simple
I was hoping that the Soviet Russia joke would go: In Soviet Russia, you don't file patents. Patents file YOU!
Wouldn't gravity (in conjunction with the magnets) be the main source of energy for the perpetual machine? I mean, gravity is a huge source of energy coming from the core of the earth. Most of the time, it's wasted holding us down - like a fast CPU with few processes - instead of doing something creative.
G'Day mate, how ya goin'!
I'm from the USA. The United States of Australia, that is!
Thee big-uns which threaten the linux desktop include:
*Compatibility - I'm talking compatibility with MS stuff here, and I don't mean just file formats or applications. Some hardware goes unsupported in Linux. I currently have a winputer at home. Linux won't work on it (yet) satisfactory enough to use as a server (the network card goes undetected). Not to mention that the VGA chipset and sound is not found either.
* Applications - we need more of them for business purposes. At the moemnt, we have a bazillion geek tools and standard office apps... but how about custom payroll software and other stuff like that? Where are they to be found?
Who is writing that software?
* Installations. Linux has dependancy hell, and doing the config,make,make install dance is harder than it has to be. It's hard enough trying to explain the *concept* of a software program to grandma, let alone asking her to install a package or program from source with the command line. If the clusers can't use the PC like a telephone - they give up.
I can't see how used games is really any different than used book sales. Publishers also have to deal with these things called public libraries, where books can be traded and lent around freely. A new release book often sports the same price tag as a new release game.
I honestly don't see Mills and Boon whining about how much of their stuff is in a used book shop.
I suppose if the game industry wants to cut down on used game sales, they could always re-release their old stuff as an added bonus with the new game.
Actually Lindows had some kind of sticker for Lindows accredited hardware... much like the "Designed for Windows XP" stickers you see on most OEM computers.
I went to a trade show where Lindows made an appearance. In their display PC line up, amongst the hand-built beige boxes, they had a laptop there which was obviously designed with Windows in mind (It had two Windows keys), but they went and stickered over the Windows sticker with the Lindows one!
"I can't believe it's not Windows!"
On another note, I just found out that Lindows has it's own Knoppix now. "Lindows Smile"!