Since when do "independent news sites" need "business" at all? Last time I checked indymedia was doing quite fine. Kuro5hin and others seem to do okay, too (some banner ads here and there, but that's just normal when you get some traffic).
Well, probably ion has improved a lot since last time I used it. I switched back to a more "traditional" wm two months ago because too many apps were causing trouble (basically everything except browser and [resize-patched] xterm) and real annoyances like un-movable galeon "find-dialogs" overlapping the page I'm searching through and such..
I found it a pain to run the gimp in anything other than a floatws because resizing frames often left artefacts on the image and generally I found no way to line up all these popup windows in a sane way...
Admittedly a seasoned gimper might actually find a way to get something out of ion - with a lot of kludges and work involved, tho.
I didn't mean to bash ion as a whole, anyone looking for a "different wm" should definately give it a try. Was just a bit irritated to see it mentioned in context with the gimp (one of the apps that really challenge ion)...
Dude, you're not seriously suggesting Ion as an appropiate window manager for fiddling with the gimp?
I have used ion over the last couple months and it's a nice step towards an interesting direction. But it will definately not improve your gimp expirience. Don't just take my word for it, give it a shot - if you dare.
If you install via "MS Windows CD-ROM" you're pretty much stuck with "unstable" as well.
In my expirience Debian "unstable" tends to be a lot more stable than Microsoft "final release".
And (this is the major difference): An average linux install will remain stable until hardware fails or the owner does something extremely stupid/uneducated.
The average windows install will usually become unstable over time (rule of thumb: three months) under normal use. And there's not much you can do about it (except: don't connect it to the net, don't install any software, don't use it).
The old phones from 4 years ago do what you want. Why design a new one.
Because nowadays they could probably make a small, light phone with excellent BASIC functions and incredbile standby-time. But instead of working towards that goal they add useless cameras that don't even work in the dark, expensive (by all means) color displays (yea, gimme two please!) and all that other useless bloat.
Firefox is definitely faster than the Mozilla Suite, aka Seamonkey. You haven't really used it have you?
Well, to me Firefox is just as slow as Mozilla. The renderer is fine speed- and otherwise (it's gecko after all) but the UI on both is based on XUL. XUL is slow.
IF you want to know what a fast browser really feels like then get yourself a copy of galeon. Opinion: It's also using gecko and doing most of the bookmarks, tabs and popup-blocking stuff better (faster!) than moz. So you may consider it a drop-in replacement for bloatzilla.
I'm tempted to buy such a device and wonder what software options I may have (other than the default). Does Opie on Zaurus support all features of the default software (as in network connection, ext. hardware support, sync'ing etc.)? Is it fit for daily work or should it be considered "experimental"?
I expect the PIM functionality of Opie to be a bit more mature than the "translated from japanese" apps that come pre-installed with the zaurus.
Some comments from a Zaurus owner who has tried both (anybody out there?) would be nice. Google didn't find me a review covering this subject so I'm giving it a blind shot here...
Funny, I noticed that, too. The drives actually were pretty! Today I generally look for Seagate or WD when buying 3.5" IDE drives. And if I ever see a "pretty" harddrive again I'll most likely not buy it.
I think a very simple wrapper around apt-get/dpkg could do the trick.
With 'dpkg -L package' you can get a list of all files that belong to a package and where they are stored. It shouldn't be too hard to get this list for all packages that are to be installed and move any pre-existing files to a repository (for rollback). I think it could be solved with a bash-script/base utils and it wouldn't even need to be long.
Anyone wanna try?
I'm sure I'll forget before I get to it...
below comes the output of dpkg -L wmfire (just so that you get the idea):
Mod parent up. I couldn't put it better. I've been working with: SuSE, Slackware, RedHat, Debian, Knoppix, LFS, Mandrake, Solaris, Windows, BSD...
Yes. It's a wild mix and let me tell you: The least predictably machines (as in "how can I get software installed quickly") were always the RPM based ones.
Even the Windows install mechanism (setup.exe) usually works better for me (unless registry gets screwed or hardware is involved ofcourse) than the RPM install.
I tried to install a recent Mozilla (yes, the browser) to a freshly installed SuSE 8.something just some days ago. Hey, I went the newbie-route, tried YaST and the graphical package manager and, guess what, I couldn't find a mozilla package (no, the search didnt help)! AND: The update-thingy couldn't connect to the SuSE servers - not giving a hint what the problem could be.
So I was stuck there, with no idea how to fix the connection problem (hey, gimme at least a filename where to look, mmkay?) and no mozilla package on the magazine-cover SuSE cd. Guess they expect me to use konqueror?
Fine, I went to suse.com and do you think I found a way to search or *gasp* download a package from there? NOPE! Nothing! I searched for 10 minutes or so (maybe it's there, where is it hidden??) and then just went and got the binary-installer from mozilla.org. Yes, I could have looked at ftp.suse.com. No, I didn't feel like learning their directory hierarchy and how they deal with the depends.
So, who is wrong here? Me, for considering to install mozilla from a distro package? SuSE for not implementing RPM properly? RPM for reasons that could be extracted from my little "success story"?
ONE thing I know for sure is that I can sit down to any debian-based box with a net connection, type apt-get install mozilla and it will be there...
Maybe that last paragraph made me sound like a zealot but well, so be it.
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Mod parent +1 funny.
Since when do "independent news sites" need "business" at all?
Last time I checked indymedia was doing quite fine. Kuro5hin and others seem to do okay, too (some banner ads here and there, but that's just normal when you get some traffic).
I'll take great musicians through crappy equipment over the inverse any day.
Wish I had modpoints.
+1 In*
I'm not sure whether it runs on win32 but be sure to check out rawdog, the one news aggregator.
The server would return a "not modified" state if nothing was changed, and a diff (content-type=text/diff-script?)
This works for static content but it would be a difficult task to implement for anything served up dynamically.
Thanks for the verbose reply.
;-)
I'm still interested in how things go on with ion even though I'm not using it anymore.
I don't think I'll try it again before they have added some kind of "learning"-mode that enables me to use it without editing lua-scripts daily.
Well, probably ion has improved a lot since last time I used it.
I switched back to a more "traditional" wm two months ago because too many apps were causing trouble (basically everything except browser and [resize-patched] xterm) and real annoyances like un-movable galeon "find-dialogs" overlapping the page I'm searching through and such..
I found it a pain to run the gimp in anything other than a floatws because resizing frames often left artefacts on the image and generally I found no way to line up all these popup windows in a sane way...
Admittedly a seasoned gimper might actually find a way to get something out of ion - with a lot of kludges and work involved, tho.
I didn't mean to bash ion as a whole, anyone looking for a "different wm" should definately give it a try. Was just a bit irritated to see it mentioned in context with the gimp (one of the apps that really challenge ion)...
Dude, you're not seriously suggesting Ion as an appropiate window manager for fiddling with the gimp?
I have used ion over the last couple months and it's a nice step towards an interesting direction. But it will definately not improve your gimp expirience. Don't just take my word for it, give it a shot - if you dare.
So, *cough*, where is the eminem-apple-ad.torrent?
That's also why almost any OSS software nowadays includes a screenshots section in their website.
... :-)
Which is good.
Give me screenshots over lengthy descriptions anytime!
And if it's a console-based app then give me example transcripts over verbose descriptions anytime, too!
Just my 0.02
If you install via "MS Windows CD-ROM" you're pretty much stuck with "unstable" as well.
In my expirience Debian "unstable" tends to be a lot more stable than
Microsoft "final release".
And (this is the major difference): An average linux install will remain stable until hardware fails or the owner does something extremely stupid/uneducated.
The average windows install will usually become unstable over time (rule of thumb: three months) under normal use. And there's not much you can do about it (except: don't connect it to the net, don't install any software, don't use it).
The old phones from 4 years ago do what you want. Why design a new one.
Because nowadays they could probably make a small, light phone with excellent BASIC functions and incredbile standby-time. But instead of working towards that goal they add useless cameras that don't even work in the dark, expensive (by all means) color displays (yea, gimme two please!) and all that other useless bloat.
Firefox is definitely faster than the Mozilla Suite, aka Seamonkey. You haven't really used it have you?
Well, to me Firefox is just as slow as Mozilla. The renderer is fine speed- and otherwise (it's gecko after all) but the UI on both is based on XUL. XUL is slow.
IF you want to know what a fast browser really feels like then get yourself a copy of galeon.
Opinion: It's also using gecko and doing most of the bookmarks, tabs and popup-blocking stuff better (faster!) than moz. So you may consider it a drop-in replacement for bloatzilla.
Holy batman, 80GB on mysql?
Brave guy.
Insightful, interesting, funny and informative.
Pleased to meet you!
Is anyone using Opie on the Sharp Zaurus SL-C7x0?
I'm tempted to buy such a device and wonder what software options I may have (other than the default). Does Opie on Zaurus support all features of the default software (as in network connection, ext. hardware support, sync'ing etc.)?
Is it fit for daily work or should it be considered "experimental"?
I expect the PIM functionality of Opie to be a bit more mature than the "translated from japanese" apps that come pre-installed with the zaurus.
Some comments from a Zaurus owner who has tried both (anybody out there?) would be nice. Google didn't find me a review covering this subject so I'm giving it a blind shot here...
14000 bucks???
You'd better not forget to to mention the massive golden cordless wheel mouse that you get handed out with your cert...
Funny, I noticed that, too. The drives actually were pretty!
Today I generally look for Seagate or WD when buying 3.5" IDE drives.
And if I ever see a "pretty" harddrive again I'll most likely not buy it.
And your source of that information is?
But I bet there still is a file somewhere out there that you have never seen before... ;-)
Not necessarily easy, but it would sure help in cases like this.
modprobe telepathy.o
There's several layers of protection and warnings.
Excuse me but if deleting that folder actually breaks the system in such a bad way shouldn't it be impossible to do that, at least from the GUI?
How does MacOS X handle attempts to delete system files/folders?
below comes the output of dpkg -L wmfire (just so that you get the idea):
Until the transition is done just give me a little flag telling whether the package I just installed is "trusted" or not (yet).
:-)
It will make us feel a little better just every time we see it.
Mod parent up. I couldn't put it better.
I've been working with: SuSE, Slackware, RedHat, Debian, Knoppix, LFS, Mandrake, Solaris, Windows, BSD...
Yes. It's a wild mix and let me tell you: The least predictably machines (as in "how can I get software installed quickly") were always the RPM based ones.
Even the Windows install mechanism (setup.exe) usually works better for me (unless registry gets screwed or hardware is involved ofcourse) than the RPM install.
I tried to install a recent Mozilla (yes, the browser) to a freshly installed SuSE 8.something just some days ago. Hey, I went the newbie-route, tried YaST and the graphical package manager and, guess what, I couldn't find a mozilla package (no, the search didnt help)! AND: The update-thingy couldn't connect to the SuSE servers - not giving a hint what the problem could be.
So I was stuck there, with no idea how to fix the connection problem (hey, gimme at least a filename where to look, mmkay?) and no mozilla package on the magazine-cover SuSE cd. Guess they expect me to use konqueror?
Fine, I went to suse.com and do you think I found a way to search or *gasp* download a package from there? NOPE! Nothing!
I searched for 10 minutes or so (maybe it's there, where is it hidden??) and then just went and got the binary-installer from mozilla.org.
Yes, I could have looked at ftp.suse.com. No, I didn't feel like learning their directory hierarchy and how they deal with the depends.
So, who is wrong here?
Me, for considering to install mozilla from a distro package?
SuSE for not implementing RPM properly?
RPM for reasons that could be extracted from my little "success story"?
ONE thing I know for sure is that I can sit down to any debian-based box with a net connection, type apt-get install mozilla and it will be there...
Maybe that last paragraph made me sound like a zealot but well, so be it.
And most of the work is already done. What are they waiting for?