I love Azureus... in fact, I cannot stand to use any other linux bittorrent client... but I really dislike using it. Conflicted? Why, yes I am!
It is slow to start, slow to react while already running, takes up far more processing power than reasonable, takes up far far more memory than reasonable, and the memory usage/processing power requirements grow over time. My computer can keep going for weeks at a time, but I have to restart Azureus every couple of days or else it becomes GUI-unresponsive. (I don't know if it actually stops working... can't tell; the gui is just no longer refreshed.)
And these annoyances are pretty typical of my other Java (admittedly client-side) experiences.
I'll take your word of its strengths on the server side (and liking Python, I cannot disagree with your argument). But I really must say client-side Java is probably as much a curse as it is a blessing to more serious and useful Java technologies.
Do you *know by experience* any difference between running vanilla and gentoo-sources?
I've done both, and tried some other ones too in the past... but I must admit that unless the computer stop working in some specific way, it worked just as well under one as under another.
Anyone else gets nauseated at even the sight of any J* or *Java* technologies? Kind of bizarre how Java is seen as godsend by some and satan-spawn by others. (myself tending toward the latter group)
Even as an end user, I only grudgingly relent to using Java alternatives, and only when all other solutions are technically inferior... in my current computing universe (gentoo linux & windows xp), this happy-but-disdained group includes only Azureus.
To touch on the topic at hand: is JBoss / are J2EE App Servers any good? Do any people think so who don't think everyone should program in Java?
What exactly would possess someone to run Java on the server as oppposed to PHP, ASP, Python, C, or Lisp?
I was going for a healthy mixture of +1 Funny and -1 Redundant.
My complaint is wholly faux and not meant to be taken seriously. =)
But, good Sir, you are absolutely right of course... assuming one already downloaded and unpacked the 2.6.13 kernel and symlinked it up to/usr/src/linux.
According to news in the LA Times, Microsoft will release two Xbox
360 packages when the console is launched later this year. The basic
package will retail for $299 and will not include a hard disk, nor
will it include a wireless controller, instead shipping with a wired
pad.
The second package will retail for $399 and will include a 20 Gb hard
disk, wireless controller, wireless headset, Ethernet cable and remote
control. No release date has been revealed, but a mid to late November
date is expected.
OR!! Save a hundred bucks which then you can spend to pay for
half-to-most of the cost of modding and adding in a 200+ GB hard
drive.
That innovative Microsoft... really... *rolls eyes*
And here was I thinking the actual news in this article was that the Tivo service would be legal - a concept obviously not understood by many posters here - and that it would be geared towards the mass market rather than those who know how to use Bittorrent and connect a computer to their TV, etc.
Oh, you're so so smart. I wish I could miss the obvious just like you!!!
But come on now! Were you *really* thinking?
I thought the irony of the news was that years after TV shows have become massively available to computer users (and there are near-luddites that use bittorrent, and many people that watch shows on their monitor) there's big hoopla about a legal service that will start offering THREE SHOWS FROM "THE INDEPENDENT FILM CHANNEL".
Way to compete! Perhaps you should give them a call. With a plan like that, they sorely need more marketing guys with your unique abilities.
They acknowledged in an SEC filing that a lawsuit from Apple would potentially be very damaging to the companies bottom line, as it accepts that a court might not agree that the reverse-engineering is legal.
That statement alone's damaging IMHO, as now when they continue pushing this technology, Apple can come back in a year (when it might actually be turning some form of profit for them) and sue saying "You clearly understood that this w
From what I recall SEC filings have to consider every possibility. I believe SCO's filings have in there the possibility that they'll lose their Linux IP battle. (Though they are yet to give any other hint that they are even aware of that potential.)
A statement in a SEC filing does not speak of grave and presumably imminent danger--it speaks of ANY danger conceivable by a legion of paranoid lawyers and their monkey overlords!
I think both BluRay and HD-DVD *have been made with enough layers* to achieve such capacity. Of course, "have been made" does not mean it will actually get produced as a reasonably priced and genuinely useful consumer product... but there is always hope. And sooner or later we'll get there, I'm sure.
I have a 320 GB drive now which, formatted with ReiserFS, gives 300 GB usable space. It is nice and roomy... but ultimately already too small for me.
How long before 1 TB capacity storage will become affordable for home desktop computers? Not having money to throw around (and having a DVD writer) I couldn't bring myself to spend more than $400 CAD (after taxes) on a hard drive... even if it is a 1 TB one.
Maybe in 2 years? I sure hope! Of course... by that time, 1 TB will be once again not quite enough. But perhaps by then, I will be able to backup onto 200+ MB next generation DVD discs. That would help too.
Gee, when the area covered by the intense cold of the Siberian High winter pattern gets warmer, it warms more than other places. How about that? When one of the coldest places warms up, it warms faster than warm places do. How insightful.
I second that. Why, just the other day, when I went outside with my martini glass; while my already warm body was just pleasantly tanned by the noon sun, my ICE-CUBES LITERALLY CAUGHT FIRE!!!
I understand what you are *trying* to say. But what you *are* saying isn't the same thing.
The lack of something being a boundary is a very imprecise use of the word. And the moment you use it so imprecisely, it becomes a boundary that is ineligible for mathematical arguments. (The right word, IMHO, would be "limitation"--nothing mathematical about it though.)
You need to think of a line as being a complete universe of its own. You can move forwards, and backwards on the line (presuming you are an unhappy inhabitant of said universe). And though you cannot move sideways; it isn't because of some boundary--after all the line being infinitely thin means that *everything that exists* is the same "width"... which in effect means that no such concept as "width" or "sideways" exists or is applicable to our little line universe. Am I making sense?
I now get your point, but still do not think it is valid.
We were discussing the miserable failure by the way... judging by the title of the slashdot article.
Getting people to take advantage of services available to them is a big part of social work.
I quite agree with you, that there aren't likely to be any starving people who have no recourse. But starving people who don't know better or for whatever reason are choosing to forego assistance represent a failure of sorts nonetheless.
I'm not qualified to tell you what all the various root causes are, or what the solutions may be (other than ongoing outreach work--which is done). But I can tell you without any doubt that the problem exists.
Sure, a line has no boundaries by that definition. Perhaps I should rephrase what I said. A line is infinite in length, but not in width. A plane is infinite in length and width but not depth, and so forth. Thus a line is essentially bounded in comparison to a plane, as a plane has extension where a line does not. Does that make more sense?
Does it make sense? Well, what you define to be a line, isn't a line.
But whatever it should rightly be called, does have the properties you claim it to have.
Do you personally know anyone in the US who is currently starving?
Unsavoury characters as such are not to be indulged by socialising. I know what you are trying to say, but if he is posting comments on the internet; chances are overwhelmingly against him knowing anyone as such (regardless of whether or not such people exist).
Have you used libreiserfs via parted?
I can assume you it is "teh suck".
Suse can do it, XandrOS can do it, Linspire can do it, Mandriva can do it, etc...
But the Gentoo graphical installer can't.
Of course, it makes perfect sense the moment you realise that Gentoos big weakness is it's lack of developer talent. Err... I mean... obviously it doesn't make *any* sense.
Did I fail geometry? Were you ever exposed to it at all?
- a line, or straight line, is, roughly speaking, an (infinitely) thin, (infinitely) long, straight geometrical object
- a boundary is something that encloses an area
A line has no area. Something is either a line, or a geometrical object with boundaries. It cannot be both.
Are you working with a different definition of line? I ask genuinely.
Gentoo's "default filesystem" (the one that's recommended for the root partition in the installation manual) is not supported. No ReiserFS with the graphical installer.
For a large portion of Gentoo users this makes the graphical installer USELESS.
Based on past experience, I suspect behind this decision a juvenile programmer with personal dislike for Hans Reiser due to some flamewars.
Urgh... what a pity. I hope eventually work will be taken over by people with some sense. In the meantime I'll continue being very happy with my manual gentoo installation and recommend any GUI-installation-dependent users to head on to SuSE.
No. It can be infinite and expanding. Infinity plus anything still equals infinity. Infinity minus anything still equals infinity. It can have boundaries and be infinite. For instance, a line can be infintely long but it still has boundaries. Infinity is a weird thing.
Is that so? How many boundaries exactly does an infinite line have? I don't think you could have come up with a more meaningless comparison if you had tried.
Arguably, a universe with infinite SPACE (a.k.a: nothingness) that had the distances between its component pieces of matter grow continuously could be seen as expanding. But that would not really be the universe expanding... just matter flying apart from other matter.
I don't think something can be infinite and expand. Unless you use either "infinite" or "expand" in incorrectly.
Autopackage is an InstallShield style installer that lets users optionally install without knowing the root password. (it installs under their home directory, naturally in such a case)
This is so frustrating. Windows is becoming more and more of a lockdown, but I just don't see other viable options. Mod me troll, but Linux just isn't ready for the desktop, even for me (applications don't "just work", and nobody's heard of "usability"), and Macs are far too expensive. Windows really, really, really sucks, but there are no better options for most people.
I've experienced several desktops that windows does not appear to be ready for.
Just yesterday I suffered 6 hours, reconfiguring hardware several times, reinstalling windows a couple of times. It turned out that a 256 MB RAM stick was not working properly. The funny thing is that linux word without any problem whatsoever... despite the fact that it was an a hard-drive transplanted from another computer.
On my home computer, Windows XP installation CDs do not boot. That's right. The experience ceases before it ever begins. No further steps there.
Of course, I had no trouble installing linux or using a large array of Linux LiveCDs.
As for applications not being right and usability being terrible...
But here I go:
OpenOffice ~= Microsoft Office
Firefox ~= Internet Explorer
K3B is easier to use than any windows burner I've used (EasyCD, Roxio, Nero)
KDE ~= Windows Interface
MPlayer plays more formats (including DVDs) than Windows Media Player and Real Player combined
and the list goes on and on and on...
So if linux is not ready for the desktop "even for you", then perhaps part of the issue is that you aren't as knowledgable with computers as you think you are.
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My beef with Java? Unpleasant to use.
I love Azureus... in fact, I cannot stand to use any other linux bittorrent client... but I really dislike using it. Conflicted? Why, yes I am!
It is slow to start, slow to react while already running, takes up far more processing power than reasonable, takes up far far more memory than reasonable, and the memory usage/processing power requirements grow over time. My computer can keep going for weeks at a time, but I have to restart Azureus every couple of days or else it becomes GUI-unresponsive. (I don't know if it actually stops working... can't tell; the gui is just no longer refreshed.)
And these annoyances are pretty typical of my other Java (admittedly client-side) experiences.
I'll take your word of its strengths on the server side (and liking Python, I cannot disagree with your argument). But I really must say client-side Java is probably as much a curse as it is a blessing to more serious and useful Java technologies.
Do you *know by experience* any difference between running vanilla and gentoo-sources?
I've done both, and tried some other ones too in the past... but I must admit that unless the computer stop working in some specific way, it worked just as well under one as under another.
Curious if you have a different experience.
Anyone else gets nauseated at even the sight of any J* or *Java* technologies? Kind of bizarre how Java is seen as godsend by some and satan-spawn by others. (myself tending toward the latter group)
Even as an end user, I only grudgingly relent to using Java alternatives, and only when all other solutions are technically inferior... in my current computing universe (gentoo linux & windows xp), this happy-but-disdained group includes only Azureus.
To touch on the topic at hand: is JBoss / are J2EE App Servers any good? Do any people think so who don't think everyone should program in Java?
What exactly would possess someone to run Java on the server as oppposed to PHP, ASP, Python, C, or Lisp?
I was going for a healthy mixture of +1 Funny and -1 Redundant.
/usr/src/linux.
My complaint is wholly faux and not meant to be taken seriously. =)
But, good Sir, you are absolutely right of course... assuming one already downloaded and unpacked the 2.6.13 kernel and symlinked it up to
Damnit! I just finished compiling Kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 yesterday!!!! No. REALLY!
That innovative Microsoft... really... *rolls eyes*
But come on now! Were you *really* thinking?
I thought the irony of the news was that years after TV shows have become massively available to computer users (and there are near-luddites that use bittorrent, and many people that watch shows on their monitor) there's big hoopla about a legal service that will start offering THREE SHOWS FROM "THE INDEPENDENT FILM CHANNEL".
Way to compete! Perhaps you should give them a call. With a plan like that, they sorely need more marketing guys with your unique abilities.
TV shows--yes OMG even complete series!!!!--have been available over the net for years:
http://www.thepiratebay.com/
With the smallest bit of explanation, suddenly I worry less about spontaneously combusting ice-cubes in my martinis! ;-)
Thanks. Makes sense, naturally.
A statement in a SEC filing does not speak of grave and presumably imminent danger--it speaks of ANY danger conceivable by a legion of paranoid lawyers and their monkey overlords!
I think both BluRay and HD-DVD *have been made with enough layers* to achieve such capacity. Of course, "have been made" does not mean it will actually get produced as a reasonably priced and genuinely useful consumer product... but there is always hope. And sooner or later we'll get there, I'm sure.
I have a 320 GB drive now which, formatted with ReiserFS, gives 300 GB usable space. It is nice and roomy... but ultimately already too small for me.
How long before 1 TB capacity storage will become affordable for home desktop computers? Not having money to throw around (and having a DVD writer) I couldn't bring myself to spend more than $400 CAD (after taxes) on a hard drive... even if it is a 1 TB one.
Maybe in 2 years? I sure hope! Of course... by that time, 1 TB will be once again not quite enough. But perhaps by then, I will be able to backup onto 200+ MB next generation DVD discs. That would help too.
I understand what you are *trying* to say. But what you *are* saying isn't the same thing.
The lack of something being a boundary is a very imprecise use of the word. And the moment you use it so imprecisely, it becomes a boundary that is ineligible for mathematical arguments. (The right word, IMHO, would be "limitation"--nothing mathematical about it though.)
You need to think of a line as being a complete universe of its own. You can move forwards, and backwards on the line (presuming you are an unhappy inhabitant of said universe). And though you cannot move sideways; it isn't because of some boundary--after all the line being infinitely thin means that *everything that exists* is the same "width"... which in effect means that no such concept as "width" or "sideways" exists or is applicable to our little line universe. Am I making sense?
I now get your point, but still do not think it is valid.
We were discussing the miserable failure by the way... judging by the title of the slashdot article.
Getting people to take advantage of services available to them is a big part of social work.
I quite agree with you, that there aren't likely to be any starving people who have no recourse. But starving people who don't know better or for whatever reason are choosing to forego assistance represent a failure of sorts nonetheless.
I'm not qualified to tell you what all the various root causes are, or what the solutions may be (other than ongoing outreach work--which is done). But I can tell you without any doubt that the problem exists.
Not sure what the proper mathematical/geometric name would be, but you are describing an infinitely long strip/stripe.
But whatever it should rightly be called, does have the properties you claim it to have.
Don't tell me... are you the 12 year old FAQ writer?
But the Gentoo graphical installer can't.
Of course, it makes perfect sense the moment you realise that Gentoos big weakness is it's lack of developer talent. Err... I mean... obviously it doesn't make *any* sense.
Did I fail geometry? Were you ever exposed to it at all? - a line, or straight line, is, roughly speaking, an (infinitely) thin, (infinitely) long, straight geometrical object - a boundary is something that encloses an area A line has no area. Something is either a line, or a geometrical object with boundaries. It cannot be both. Are you working with a different definition of line? I ask genuinely.
Gentoo's "default filesystem" (the one that's recommended for the root partition in the installation manual) is not supported. No ReiserFS with the graphical installer.
q .xml#reiser
For a large portion of Gentoo users this makes the graphical installer USELESS.
And why is there no ReiserFS support?
According to the, presumably 12 year old, FAQ writer for the project:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/installer/fa
"Because reiserfs == teh suck...and libparted doesn't support it very well."
Based on past experience, I suspect behind this decision a juvenile programmer with personal dislike for Hans Reiser due to some flamewars.
Urgh... what a pity. I hope eventually work will be taken over by people with some sense. In the meantime I'll continue being very happy with my manual gentoo installation and recommend any GUI-installation-dependent users to head on to SuSE.
Arguably, a universe with infinite SPACE (a.k.a: nothingness) that had the distances between its component pieces of matter grow continuously could be seen as expanding. But that would not really be the universe expanding... just matter flying apart from other matter.
I don't think something can be infinite and expand. Unless you use either "infinite" or "expand" in incorrectly.
Autopackage is an InstallShield style installer that lets users optionally install without knowing the root password. (it installs under their home directory, naturally in such a case)
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Take a look:
http://www.autopackage.org/flash-demo-install.htm
If I were to want to distribute commercial apps under linux, this is what I'd use.
Just yesterday I suffered 6 hours, reconfiguring hardware several times, reinstalling windows a couple of times. It turned out that a 256 MB RAM stick was not working properly. The funny thing is that linux word without any problem whatsoever... despite the fact that it was an a hard-drive transplanted from another computer.
On my home computer, Windows XP installation CDs do not boot. That's right. The experience ceases before it ever begins. No further steps there.
Of course, I had no trouble installing linux or using a large array of Linux LiveCDs.
As for applications not being right and usability being terrible...
But here I go:
OpenOffice ~= Microsoft Office
Firefox ~= Internet Explorer
K3B is easier to use than any windows burner I've used (EasyCD, Roxio, Nero)
KDE ~= Windows Interface
MPlayer plays more formats (including DVDs) than Windows Media Player and Real Player combined
and the list goes on and on and on...
So if linux is not ready for the desktop "even for you", then perhaps part of the issue is that you aren't as knowledgable with computers as you think you are.