Yes, this also annoys me very much, as I have to use Windows at work; strangely though, this seems to be application specific. For example, Notepad++ doesn't "steal" mouse wheel events but will pass them to the window which has the mouse cursor, while still retaining keyboard focus. The person who tells how to make this the default behavior in every app wins two internets.
I don't know about the 4.x series, but I have an ancient laptop (PIII @ 700MHz, 256MB RAM) that runs KDE 3.5.10 just fine. Mind you, it's running Arch so while it does take more work to get up and running, once setup it's certainly faster than *buntu.
The best package manager? That's a highly subjective assertion. I run Arch on my desktops and laptops, but decided to give Eeebuntu a try when I bought this netbook. Granted, it does have some benefits - suspend/wakeup works flawlessly out of the box, as does turning features on/off and adjusting cpu frequency via a GUI. But pacman, how I miss thee. Apt is just painfully slow. When I want to install a package, I expect the package manager to do just that, not try to calculate the answer to life, the universe and everything in the process. And abs/makepkg combo is much more convenient method for building custom packages; and creating PKGBUILDs for your own packages is trivial. There are certainly benefits for desktop usage in *buntus, but apt is IMHO not one of them.
Syncinc to vblank is trivial with (closed source, but unfortunately still the top performer) NVidia drivers, it's a simple checkbox in nvidia-settings. But as you mention UXA I gather you have an Intel chipset, and at the moment they kind of blow in Linux. Granted, I haven't tried the latest kernels/drivers with UXA, so perhaps the situation has improved. But you might want to try this, it removes tearing for me.
If I have less then $200 to spend, doesn't that mean I can't afford ANY of the consoles? Especially if I want to play ALL the games....
You can probably find a used Wii with not-so-recent firmware and a copy of Twilight Princess for less than that. And you probably have a spare SD card somewhere. Softmodding the Wii is trivial. So you can play ALL the games for less than 200$, at least with one of the consoles;-)
Oh yes, bleeding-edge W3C specs. Like CSS level 2, which was released in... 1998! Yes, I'm aware of CSS 2.1. I'm aware MS supposedly supports it. Yet 99% of the time, IE (in its various incarnations, this includes IE8 as well) is the only browser that gives me headaches when developing cross-browser sites. I really wish it would die a already.
Great idea, though. I hope MS implements it in future versions of IE.
Yeah, it's a great idea, which is why MS will probably implement it as fast as they did position:fixed,:hover for other elements than anchors and PNG transparency (there were five years between IE6 and IE7).
The reason MSFT knows own the Netbook market, with a decade old OS to your brand new Linux, isn't some plot and the sooner you accept it the better. It is because the GUI in 10 year old XP works better than the 2009 GUI in Linux.
To each his own I guess, this netbook came with XP preinstalled and I quickly replaced it with Eeebuntu; XP isn't really suited for small displays in my opinion. And the performance is much better, wifi was somehow really unstable under XP. And no, up to this point (and I recon I have done much more with this puter than the average user ever will) I've never done anything that couldn't have been done via the GUI; however CLI is much more convenient if you know how to use it. Actually an usable shell is one of the major things missing from XP.
1: It takes away valuable vertical screen real estate and cannot be repositioned to less valuable side areas.
Word! (pun not intended) I'm typing this on a netbook with a 1024x600 screen, and having "the Ribbon" visible would use probably most of it. Yes, this (thankfully) isn't my only/main computer, but I like to write documents on the go every now and then.
Isn't this just reverse physical modeling, that is, instead of calculating how an instrument with certain physical qualities would sound, they calculated what physical qualities an instrument with a certain sound would have? But PM is hardly new so I don't see why this is news.
Science and technology? Yeah, right. Like in the pilot episode, where the female agent (can't recall the name, haven't watched that many episodes as I find the show terrible) has some wires stuck to her neck, gets injected with a nice cocktail of LSD and ketamine, is placed in a floating tank after which in just a few moments a) she is able to read the mind of the male agent and b) she gets out of the tank without being intoxicated the slightest. Even if a) were possible (and I certainly don't think it is), there's no way b) is.
I've never had to reset my N800 to get the browser working properly, but granted, MicroB is sluggish. It seems Gecko is really not suited for mobile platforms without major tweaks, we'll see how well Fennec (the upcoming "mobile Firefox") manages. But yes, the Webkit-based Tear browser is great, definitely much more responsive than MicroB. Now it only needs a proper AdBlocker (about the only that MicroB does better).
(Offtopic, but regarding music and media in general, be sure to check out Canola 2. A wonderful app, can be operated just fine without a stylus)
Really, web pages have become so bloated now that for dialup users it's like being way back in 95 or something.
Really, isn't using dialup like being way back in 95 or something? But your point is valid - when surfing on a 3G connection ad blocking really helps (incidentally, any ideas how to block ads on the Series 60 browser? MicroB has a port of ABP, but I don't have my tablet with me at all times)
Oh naturally the market for used textbooks has existed for ages - most public bulletin boards (of the physical kind) in any university/polytechnic are filled with such announcements. But this is the first renting service I'm aware of. And many commentators said they will try the service because they were so infuriated with the actions of TTVK.
Or maybe Finns on average are smart enough not to install Alexa Toolbar? Anyway, the service is quite new, and before this incident relatively unknown. At least I had never heard of it until this incident, and same applies to several people who discussed this on Helsingin Sanomat website (many of which noted they shall be using the service as text book prices are not reasonable for majority of students).
He even calls D-bus "inspired by DCOP" but ignores the fact that D-bus is not part of gnome, but gnome has instead switched to a universal standard that is not desktop-specific, and was already used by non-gnome applications on the system, including low-level components such as udev and hal. I'd wish KDE would do the same, no one needs a 2nd seperate message bus system on his machine.
...which is why, probably, KDE4 uses DBus. But don't let the facts get in the way of a good rant.
You are getting seriously ripped off. I pay 10e/month for unlimited use-as-you-see-fit data @384kbps. 1Mbps costs 20e/month and 2Mbps 30e/month, but so far I haven't had the need to have faster access when I can't find a hotspot.
Actually, although Notes 8 says it's "based on Eclipse" or something like that, it's not that different from previous versions. Quite workable if you have to use Notes/Domino. But the new 8.5 designer is really based on Eclipse, which means it's dreadfully slow in for example showing you the list of forms stored in an application (with no visible indication that it is actually doing anything) - yet despite this the editor component same as ever, so Java agents are as "fun" as always to write (this is the only aspect that Eclipse could have helped with). I seriously hope I can keep on using version 8 until we migrate to other technologies.
The Nokia browser is called MicroB, and is Gecko based so I'd hardly call it shit. You can get adblock for it as well. And the N8x0 support Flash 9, not lite.
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Yes, this also annoys me very much, as I have to use Windows at work; strangely though, this seems to be application specific. For example, Notepad++ doesn't "steal" mouse wheel events but will pass them to the window which has the mouse cursor, while still retaining keyboard focus. The person who tells how to make this the default behavior in every app wins two internets.
I don't know about the 4.x series, but I have an ancient laptop (PIII @ 700MHz, 256MB RAM) that runs KDE 3.5.10 just fine. Mind you, it's running Arch so while it does take more work to get up and running, once setup it's certainly faster than *buntu.
The best package manager? That's a highly subjective assertion. I run Arch on my desktops and laptops, but decided to give Eeebuntu a try when I bought this netbook. Granted, it does have some benefits - suspend/wakeup works flawlessly out of the box, as does turning features on/off and adjusting cpu frequency via a GUI. But pacman, how I miss thee. Apt is just painfully slow. When I want to install a package, I expect the package manager to do just that, not try to calculate the answer to life, the universe and everything in the process. And abs/makepkg combo is much more convenient method for building custom packages; and creating PKGBUILDs for your own packages is trivial. There are certainly benefits for desktop usage in *buntus, but apt is IMHO not one of them.
Are you kidding? I've been programming DNS for a long time, and if theirs one thing I learned, its that programmers like me don't make errors.
If one doesn't count spelling errors, apparently.
Syncinc to vblank is trivial with (closed source, but unfortunately still the top performer) NVidia drivers, it's a simple checkbox in nvidia-settings. But as you mention UXA I gather you have an Intel chipset, and at the moment they kind of blow in Linux. Granted, I haven't tried the latest kernels/drivers with UXA, so perhaps the situation has improved. But you might want to try this, it removes tearing for me.
HTH, HAND
If I have less then $200 to spend, doesn't that mean I can't afford ANY of the consoles? Especially if I want to play ALL the games....
You can probably find a used Wii with not-so-recent firmware and a copy of Twilight Princess for less than that. And you probably have a spare SD card somewhere. Softmodding the Wii is trivial. So you can play ALL the games for less than 200$, at least with one of the consoles ;-)
Oh yes, bleeding-edge W3C specs. Like CSS level 2, which was released in... 1998! Yes, I'm aware of CSS 2.1. I'm aware MS supposedly supports it. Yet 99% of the time, IE (in its various incarnations, this includes IE8 as well) is the only browser that gives me headaches when developing cross-browser sites. I really wish it would die a already.
Great idea, though. I hope MS implements it in future versions of IE.
Yeah, it's a great idea, which is why MS will probably implement it as fast as they did position:fixed, :hover for other elements than anchors and PNG transparency (there were five years between IE6 and IE7).
The reason MSFT knows own the Netbook market, with a decade old OS to your brand new Linux, isn't some plot and the sooner you accept it the better. It is because the GUI in 10 year old XP works better than the 2009 GUI in Linux.
To each his own I guess, this netbook came with XP preinstalled and I quickly replaced it with Eeebuntu; XP isn't really suited for small displays in my opinion. And the performance is much better, wifi was somehow really unstable under XP. And no, up to this point (and I recon I have done much more with this puter than the average user ever will) I've never done anything that couldn't have been done via the GUI; however CLI is much more convenient if you know how to use it. Actually an usable shell is one of the major things missing from XP.
Even that seems expensive. Payg here in .fi is (depending on the telco) about 0.065€ /min or /SMS, which would translate to about 0.056 £.
1: It takes away valuable vertical screen real estate and cannot be repositioned to less valuable side areas.
Word! (pun not intended) I'm typing this on a netbook with a 1024x600 screen, and having "the Ribbon" visible would use probably most of it. Yes, this (thankfully) isn't my only/main computer, but I like to write documents on the go every now and then.
This is exactly the problem, browser sniffer should not sniff for products but for render engines.
*beep* Wrong. UA strings can be forged, so relying on them is not advisable. Instead one should detect browser features.
Isn't this just reverse physical modeling, that is, instead of calculating how an instrument with certain physical qualities would sound, they calculated what physical qualities an instrument with a certain sound would have? But PM is hardly new so I don't see why this is news.
Science and technology? Yeah, right. Like in the pilot episode, where the female agent (can't recall the name, haven't watched that many episodes as I find the show terrible) has some wires stuck to her neck, gets injected with a nice cocktail of LSD and ketamine, is placed in a floating tank after which in just a few moments a) she is able to read the mind of the male agent and b) she gets out of the tank without being intoxicated the slightest. Even if a) were possible (and I certainly don't think it is), there's no way b) is.
I've never had to reset my N800 to get the browser working properly, but granted, MicroB is sluggish. It seems Gecko is really not suited for mobile platforms without major tweaks, we'll see how well Fennec (the upcoming "mobile Firefox") manages. But yes, the Webkit-based Tear browser is great, definitely much more responsive than MicroB. Now it only needs a proper AdBlocker (about the only that MicroB does better).
(Offtopic, but regarding music and media in general, be sure to check out Canola 2. A wonderful app, can be operated just fine without a stylus)
Really, web pages have become so bloated now that for dialup users it's like being way back in 95 or something.
Really, isn't using dialup like being way back in 95 or something? But your point is valid - when surfing on a 3G connection ad blocking really helps (incidentally, any ideas how to block ads on the Series 60 browser? MicroB has a port of ABP, but I don't have my tablet with me at all times)
Oh naturally the market for used textbooks has existed for ages - most public bulletin boards (of the physical kind) in any university/polytechnic are filled with such announcements. But this is the first renting service I'm aware of. And many commentators said they will try the service because they were so infuriated with the actions of TTVK.
Or maybe Finns on average are smart enough not to install Alexa Toolbar? Anyway, the service is quite new, and before this incident relatively unknown. At least I had never heard of it until this incident, and same applies to several people who discussed this on Helsingin Sanomat website (many of which noted they shall be using the service as text book prices are not reasonable for majority of students).
He even calls D-bus "inspired by DCOP" but ignores the fact that D-bus is not part of gnome, but gnome has instead switched to a universal standard that is not desktop-specific, and was already used by non-gnome applications on the system, including low-level components such as udev and hal. I'd wish KDE would do the same, no one needs a 2nd seperate message bus system on his machine.
...which is why, probably, KDE4 uses DBus. But don't let the facts get in the way of a good rant.
You are getting seriously ripped off. I pay 10e/month for unlimited use-as-you-see-fit data @384kbps. 1Mbps costs 20e/month and 2Mbps 30e/month, but so far I haven't had the need to have faster access when I can't find a hotspot.
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
Actually, although Notes 8 says it's "based on Eclipse" or something like that, it's not that different from previous versions. Quite workable if you have to use Notes/Domino. But the new 8.5 designer is really based on Eclipse, which means it's dreadfully slow in for example showing you the list of forms stored in an application (with no visible indication that it is actually doing anything) - yet despite this the editor component same as ever, so Java agents are as "fun" as always to write (this is the only aspect that Eclipse could have helped with). I seriously hope I can keep on using version 8 until we migrate to other technologies.
...am I the only one who thought "Zootube? Haven't heard of that one yet" and subsequently tried googling it?
The Nokia browser is called MicroB, and is Gecko based so I'd hardly call it shit. You can get adblock for it as well. And the N8x0 support Flash 9, not lite.