Just update via apt or rpm, or whatever update manager you use. Then go download the windows version via the link/. gives you in this article and toss it into/home/~user/.local/share/Trash. Then you'll have a clean ff3 install and +1 to the record attempt. I like Firefox, but I'd rather not inflate the Windows user statistics vs. Linux. Free Software advocates unite!! I think that Ubuntu should join in counting downloads for the record attempt, since they probably account for the most Linux downloads.
Yes but that won't count towards the record attempt, if that's what you're going for. The only thing that will count is going to mozilla's sites and downloading the installer like a normal person.
It's "normal" to not use a modern package management system?!
I think that on the contrary, only developers and hackers should be downloading and installing files manually to system-wide locations. If you just install stuff to/usr/lib,/usr/bin, etc., your system will gradually fill with unidentifiable cruft until it breaks.
Now, the Windows program install/uninstall system is better than no package management at all... slightly better.
This reminded me of the part in National Treasure: Book of Secrets where our favorite treasure hunter needs a photograph of an artifact but no one has a camera, so he speeds through a red light while holding an artifact up to the windshield in order to get a photo of it. Of course he then has his geek sidekick crack into the police computers and retrieve the picture.
I wonder how hard it real it really would be to intercept red light camera images? Where I live, the cameras at an intersection all seem to be connected to a single box with an antenna that I assume transmits the images to a central server for storage. I wonder how secure the wireless network is...
It turns out that for real time applications, USB-to-serial converters are a poor solution. For CNC machine control (http://axis.unpythonic.net/, http://www.linuxcnc.org/) the added latency is problematic... see EMC2 Supported Hardware under "Hardware that doesn't work".
Also, the article did not mention the other GRUB 2 project in the Summer of Code. There is another GSoC student, Macro Gerards, working on adding USB support to GRUB 2 so you can use USB storage devices and HID devices. This will be great to have.
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/gnu/appinfo.html?csaid=E0D9A2E69F7D3637
Title: GRUB2: USB Support
Student: Marco Gerards
Mentor: Robert Millan
Abstract:
During Summer of Code 2008 I will (when I am accepted) implement USB support for GRUB 2. After finishing this project, GRUB 2 will support (at least) one host controller, mass storage devices and USB keyboards.
The tasks I will work on are:
- Generic USB interfaces
- Implement interface using libusb in grub-emu
- HID support for USB keyboards
- Host controller driver (UHCI)
- USB Mass-storage support
A nice UI may be more important for a Live CD install/rescue disk, for instance, where there are many choices, and you want it to simple to use and self-explanatory for any user booting the disk.
Also, GRUB 2 uses dynamically loadable modules for virtually everything, so you can just not load the future 'gfxmenu' module if you like. Then it will consume no memory and will not be a possible source of problems.
Many GRUB developers are working diligently toward a production ready version of GRUB 2. I am a new contributor to the GRUB project and the reason I chose this feature to implement is because it meshes with my areas of expertise and interest. Also, I feel that making GRUB 2 usable by everyone (let's face it, right now that means it has to be supported by Ubuntu) is a very important goal. In order for Ubuntu to adopt GRUB 2, it will have to not only be functionally complete, but they will want it to look nice too, as the rest of the OS will.
No argument that it will be great to have GRUB 2 production ready. I am looking forward to it, and I hope I can contribute to other features after I complete the graphical menu system.
The "Legacy" version of GRUB (latest release is 0.97), currently used by most Linux distributions, has been patched by various distros to support background images in a graphical console mode. However, there is no support in GRUB 2, where all GRUB development is currently taking place.
I am going to add a basic GUI to GRUB that will surpass the patches for GRUB 0.9x in portability and flexibility. Once the graphical menu support is added (my GSoC'08 project), adding mouse support will be relatively straightforward...;-)
From http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-soc.html under "Fancy menu interface":
This feature is really important for GRUB 2, because GRUB Legacy has been patched by third parties frequently, as the official version never support a graphical interface, but such an interface attracts more casual users. Support for a fancy menu - even better than an unofficial patch for GRUB Legacy - would attract more people to GRUB 2, thus this is critical in a long term to accelerate the development.
I plan to make the code portable to non-x86 architectures (though at first VESA VBE 2.0 on PC architecture will be the only supported video driver).
More details at: http://gibibit.com/grub-gsoc/proposal.html
Do I want to know Ruby? Sure. But it's not going to make me better at my job. My employer has me jumping from JBoss to Weblogic to Websphere to Jetty to Glassfish to... whatever's under the sun for application container and all the while I'm trying to be an expert at Maven (which seems limitless) and Ant so I can do a decent job building. Not to mention the UI aspects: JSF, Tiles, Javascript, AJAX, DHTML, JSPs, JSeamless, Flex, GWT... they just go on and on. ...
Honestly, a lot of the older coders I know just don't have the time. The company will both pay for and tell them what they need to learn next or they ain't learning anything at all. This sounds like a case of picking a tool and then trying to apply it to your problem--and switching to another tool one whenever something "new" and "cool" comes out--which is totally bass-ackwards.
By having a breadth of knowledge and skills, you can make informed, smart choices about what language, framework, technology, etc. is best suited to solving your problem. Should your current problem be solved with a "Web 2.0" interface, a rich client application, etc. In your case, you should know what the benefits and downsides of the various J2EE containers are, and in fact, you need to know what using J2EE in the first place is buying you. Make informed decisions that help you solve your problem.
JSP, Servlet, PHP, and Rails programmers should have experience with Java Swing, Java Web Start, and other technologies in order to decide what the optimal solution is -- or at least, the lead developer or senior software engineer needs to have an exceptionally wide range of skills in order to make these kinds of decisions.
My team was stuck for years on a project that was forced into a web application mold (using Java servlets, JSP, Apache Struts, etc.) which caused us relentless headaches for most of the time. It should have been a regular application! A rich client. For many reasons. Unfortunately, at the inception of the project, the project lead had firmly decided that it had to be a web application.
At my employer, I'm constantly learning new technologies to find new and better ways to solve problems. You need to be proactive and take the lead, and solve problems! I had previously been focused mostly on graphics programming, Java application and web programming, but when my project needed it, I learned about embedded programming, embedded operating systems, electronic design, microcontroller programming, etc., on my own. I learned how to do things that no one at the company has done yet, and I have found ways to make our product orders of magnitude better (10x smaller, 10x more battery life, 10x better performance). Since many of my colleagues are focused on their more specialized areas of expertise (e.g., Java application programming, or Java web programming, or functional testing, or database programming, or electronic circuit design), I actually am often frustrated because I have no one to consult with when I have a problem to solve.
You express concern about learning technologies you will never use, but the fact is, that unless you acquire some other areas of expertise, you will never know what is the best tool for the job!
I thought the recommended steps for setting up a router were: ...
D. Turn off UPNP I guess that is the wise choice. But UPnP is very handy for me because my home machines always get different IPs from my router, so if I want to port-forward BitTorrent ports to me laptop, desktop, etc., I have to go in and change the port-forwarding config on the router every time I get assigned a new IP. Big PITA. But then I discovered how Azureus can use UPnP to automagically forward the ports for me on the fly. It seems to work fine. Too bad it's a security risk.
An often overlooked benefit of the way that modern IA32 processors achieve high performance through translating the CISC x86 instructions into microcode instructions is that the chip designers are free to change the internal microcode architecture for every CPU in order to implement new optimizations or to tune the microcode language for the particular chip's strengths.
If we were all coding (or if our compilers were coding for us) in this RISCy microcode, then we, or the compiler, would have to do the optimizations that the CPU can do in its translation to microcode.
I agree that the Power architecture is pretty cool, but I'm tired of hearing people bash the Intel x86 architecture for its "obsolete" nature. As long as it is the fastest and best thing I can buy for a reasonable amount of money, it's my top choice.
It looks like the times for Christopher and for Tallilee are just coming from different sources (their client machines, perhaps?) and are off by a few seconds to a minute. Notice how each of her responses has a timestamp earlier than his previous message. I think it's probably legit.
If you wanted cheap music, at least an ablbum at a time, borrowing or buying used CDs, ripping them yourself then returning ( or re-selling ) them is an option.
That's an option. Also, I'd suggest looking at AllOfMP3, a Russia-based company where you can buy tracks, pay a VERY reasonable fee per megabyte, and have them custom encoded on-the-fly. You can choose Ogg Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, or WAV (why anyone would use WAV when FLAC is in the list is beyond me...). It's really awesome.
Which loads fine for me, but the Flash animations just show "-21474..." or something in the middle of a black empty rectangle. I wonder if the.swf file is trying to request another resource on the funnyfox.org server? Instead of using a relative URL?
Some friends and I were actually going to make a footboard once, not that long ago, to move all the modifier keys to the floor. We figure that, if a church organist can play scales with her feet, we could speed up our typing significantly by never having to use two finger simultaneously by way of our feet doing that part of the job.
Slashdot Mirror
And make sure it's an IPv6 address!
You are right. I meant WebKit, not NetKit.
Try Midori (NetKit rendering engine) -- super fast and lean, but the latest builds render most web sites very well.
It's "normal" to not use a modern package management system?!
I think that on the contrary, only developers and hackers should be downloading and installing files manually to system-wide locations. If you just install stuff to /usr/lib, /usr/bin, etc., your system will gradually fill with unidentifiable cruft until it breaks.
Now, the Windows program install/uninstall system is better than no package management at all... slightly better.
This reminded me of the part in National Treasure: Book of Secrets where our favorite treasure hunter needs a photograph of an artifact but no one has a camera, so he speeds through a red light while holding an artifact up to the windshield in order to get a photo of it. Of course he then has his geek sidekick crack into the police computers and retrieve the picture.
I wonder how hard it real it really would be to intercept red light camera images? Where I live, the cameras at an intersection all seem to be connected to a single box with an antenna that I assume transmits the images to a central server for storage. I wonder how secure the wireless network is...
It turns out that for real time applications, USB-to-serial converters are a poor solution. For CNC machine control (http://axis.unpythonic.net/, http://www.linuxcnc.org/) the added latency is problematic... see EMC2 Supported Hardware under "Hardware that doesn't work".
Whoa, there, cowboy. The plain Jane text mode GRUB interface is not going away. Just don't "insmod gfxmenu" and you'll be fine.
A nice UI may be more important for a Live CD install/rescue disk, for instance, where there are many choices, and you want it to simple to use and self-explanatory for any user booting the disk. Also, GRUB 2 uses dynamically loadable modules for virtually everything, so you can just not load the future 'gfxmenu' module if you like. Then it will consume no memory and will not be a possible source of problems.
Many GRUB developers are working diligently toward a production ready version of GRUB 2. I am a new contributor to the GRUB project and the reason I chose this feature to implement is because it meshes with my areas of expertise and interest. Also, I feel that making GRUB 2 usable by everyone (let's face it, right now that means it has to be supported by Ubuntu) is a very important goal. In order for Ubuntu to adopt GRUB 2, it will have to not only be functionally complete, but they will want it to look nice too, as the rest of the OS will.
No argument that it will be great to have GRUB 2 production ready. I am looking forward to it, and I hope I can contribute to other features after I complete the graphical menu system.
Colin
BTW, in case you didn't pick it up, I'm the student developing the GRUB GUI for GSoC'08... :-)
Honestly, a lot of the older coders I know just don't have the time. The company will both pay for and tell them what they need to learn next or they ain't learning anything at all. This sounds like a case of picking a tool and then trying to apply it to your problem--and switching to another tool one whenever something "new" and "cool" comes out--which is totally bass-ackwards.
By having a breadth of knowledge and skills, you can make informed, smart choices about what language, framework, technology, etc. is best suited to solving your problem. Should your current problem be solved with a "Web 2.0" interface, a rich client application, etc. In your case, you should know what the benefits and downsides of the various J2EE containers are, and in fact, you need to know what using J2EE in the first place is buying you. Make informed decisions that help you solve your problem.
JSP, Servlet, PHP, and Rails programmers should have experience with Java Swing, Java Web Start, and other technologies in order to decide what the optimal solution is -- or at least, the lead developer or senior software engineer needs to have an exceptionally wide range of skills in order to make these kinds of decisions.
My team was stuck for years on a project that was forced into a web application mold (using Java servlets, JSP, Apache Struts, etc.) which caused us relentless headaches for most of the time. It should have been a regular application! A rich client. For many reasons. Unfortunately, at the inception of the project, the project lead had firmly decided that it had to be a web application.
At my employer, I'm constantly learning new technologies to find new and better ways to solve problems. You need to be proactive and take the lead, and solve problems! I had previously been focused mostly on graphics programming, Java application and web programming, but when my project needed it, I learned about embedded programming, embedded operating systems, electronic design, microcontroller programming, etc., on my own. I learned how to do things that no one at the company has done yet, and I have found ways to make our product orders of magnitude better (10x smaller, 10x more battery life, 10x better performance). Since many of my colleagues are focused on their more specialized areas of expertise (e.g., Java application programming, or Java web programming, or functional testing, or database programming, or electronic circuit design), I actually am often frustrated because I have no one to consult with when I have a problem to solve.
You express concern about learning technologies you will never use, but the fact is, that unless you acquire some other areas of expertise, you will never know what is the best tool for the job!
I agree that the x86-64 architecture is the new desktop and server standard (ignoring embedded systems etc.).
However, x86-64 is a superset of IA32 and suggests similar design considerations regarding instruction decoding and so on.
That block comment appears in virtually every source file. It appears to have been added just for this release.
An often overlooked benefit of the way that modern IA32 processors achieve high performance through translating the CISC x86 instructions into microcode instructions is that the chip designers are free to change the internal microcode architecture for every CPU in order to implement new optimizations or to tune the microcode language for the particular chip's strengths. If we were all coding (or if our compilers were coding for us) in this RISCy microcode, then we, or the compiler, would have to do the optimizations that the CPU can do in its translation to microcode. I agree that the Power architecture is pretty cool, but I'm tired of hearing people bash the Intel x86 architecture for its "obsolete" nature. As long as it is the fastest and best thing I can buy for a reasonable amount of money, it's my top choice.
It looks like the times for Christopher and for Tallilee are just coming from different sources (their client machines, perhaps?) and are off by a few seconds to a minute. Notice how each of her responses has a timestamp earlier than his previous message. I think it's probably legit.
And I wish the world were so nice that we could all use metric things and other 10-based units to match our number system.
Okay, it's working now! It must have just taken some time to load.
http://funnyfox.org.nyud.net:8090/
Which loads fine for me, but the Flash animations just show "-21474..." or something in the middle of a black empty rectangle. I wonder if the .swf file is trying to request another resource on the funnyfox.org server? Instead of using a relative URL?