One of my best friends, who I've been trying to set up a Mythbox for, has a Radeon 9600. We still can't get TV-Out working on that POS. I've got TV-Out working beautifully on my nVidia cards, so he finally broke down the other day and bought an old GeForce MX 4000. It will run better on Linux than the 9600.
I've heard that ATI's drivers used to be worse, but they're still pretty damn shitty.
He just opened up his lecture yesterday talking about the rootkit, and telling us to get fired up/complain/boycott/etc. He also kept bringing his lecture back to Sony a few times after that (e.g. something like "I don't like this, about as much as I don't like Sony putting this stuff on people's computers").
IIRC, he used to be the Associate Dean of CS at my uni (or some similar high position) until last year, so he's got quite a bit of local clout.
I continually find the OS X interface so dumbed-down (particularly with regard to what I consider a horrible windowing system) that I find a lot of my time is spent spinning wheels.
For me, that applies for almost every single GUI I've used, save one. Before I switched to Ion in March, I spent most of my time fiddling with window placement and sizing. Now, things are much less of a PITA for me. Yay for finally having a WM that works the way I want it to work. This goes double now that my desktop has dual monitors (I've noticed that the idea of dual-head is pretty similar to the idea behind Ion).
Currently, I really can't stand using any WM that doesn't have Ion-style window management, and using a single-monitor system (like the laptop I'm posting this from:P) gets very grating.
But there are few things that are never a statement of fact under US law. These include profane statements. Like: "Jack Thompson is an asshole." Completely protected right from the get go, because it's profane.
Penn & Teller use the same tactic on their show, Bullshit. They've said that if they call people liars and quacks, it leaves them open to legal threats, but if they use words like "bullshit" or call people douchebags and motherfuckers, they're completely in the clear.
And if you've not seen Bullshit, you should. It's one of the best TV shows ever.
Blackboard is also a fan of frames, ugliness, and odd behaviors.
Sounds like WebCT. WebCT features abuse of both frames and JavaScript. Especially JavaScript. Every single link on WebCT puts its destination in JS onClick events instead of putting the destination in href="" where it belongs. Therefore, it's impossible to, say, copy and paste a link into a different tab, or anything else.
It also tends to randomly break Firefox. As in completely randomly. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.
My school uses WebCT for all classes, so I have to deal with it daily (coincidentally, I'm posting this while sitting in one of my more WebCT-intensive classes). WebCT has the single worst interface of anything I have ever used in my life.
I really, really hope that this results in WebCT getting replaced globally.
xterm won't let you scroll back when something is running in the terminal.
It's rather important when I'm, say, compiling something, and I need to scroll back and look at some of the messages.
Let's not forget that xterm's scrollback support is fundamentally broken.
Konsole and Gnome-Terminal are the only terminal apps that scroll back properly. I don't use KDE as my WM/DE anymore (I use Ion now), but I still use Konsole as my only terminal app when I'm in X.
Perhaps you should sit down and have a face-to-face talk with those half-dozen or so Azureus users.
I can't run Azureus for more than a few hours without it eating all of my RAM and bringing down my entire system. I have 1GB of RAM and 1GB of swap, and Azureus eats through all of it like lightning. When it does finally eat through my RAM and swap, my machine completely freezes, forcing me to hard-reset.
If I do manage to kill Azureus before it does that, X will hold on to the majority of Azureus' resources, making my system highly sluggish until I restart X.
It's a damn shame, because Azureus is the only BT client with an interface I can tolerate, but the sheer havoc it wreaks on my system is inexcusable.
I don't know about him, but I'm on a wireless connection when I'm at school.
I'll be lax about some things security-wise when I'm on a wire, but if I'm on wireless in a room where I know damn well half the people with laptops are running Ethereal for the hell of it, I become very paranoid.
No, that's not an exaggeration--many of my friends have talked about running Ethereal in class for fun.
I'm certainly not sending my passwords over the air for every geek in the area to sniff. When I'm on a wireless network, and I want to access something I need a password for (or want to keep private), I'll either ssh into my server at home, or find a secure connection. I'm also about to set up some sort of encrypted proxy on my server, once I get around to doing it.
I have the same problem as you, and most of the symptoms of APD (except for #4 and #11) apply to me. This quote also applies to me as well: "My hearing is fine, but what I hear is often garbled initially by my brain. Shortly later, I often figure it out. In conversation, about the same time I say 'huh?', I figure out what it was that I just heard".
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Bullshit.
One of my best friends, who I've been trying to set up a Mythbox for, has a Radeon 9600. We still can't get TV-Out working on that POS. I've got TV-Out working beautifully on my nVidia cards, so he finally broke down the other day and bought an old GeForce MX 4000. It will run better on Linux than the 9600.
I've heard that ATI's drivers used to be worse, but they're still pretty damn shitty.
No more 12" PowerBook? Dammit. It was the only Apple notebook I really had any interest in.
And I was looking forward to a 12" Yonah-based PowerBook too...
Actually, he'd probably just put on some sunglasses and call himself Quattro Vezina.
We need more Gundam fans in space.
Anyone still remember all the "to hell with Dell" banners and stuff eight years ago, when Michael Dell first made those comments?
The left is just as disgustingly evil as the right.
He just opened up his lecture yesterday talking about the rootkit, and telling us to get fired up/complain/boycott/etc. He also kept bringing his lecture back to Sony a few times after that (e.g. something like "I don't like this, about as much as I don't like Sony putting this stuff on people's computers").
IIRC, he used to be the Associate Dean of CS at my uni (or some similar high position) until last year, so he's got quite a bit of local clout.
And what's wrong with emoticons? ^_~
Maybe because it's a commonly held opinion?
I, for one, agree with the GP.
"We're not the ones who drop the pianos."
Ah, such an awesome show. Damn shame it got cancelled.
I continually find the OS X interface so dumbed-down (particularly with regard to what I consider a horrible windowing system) that I find a lot of my time is spent spinning wheels.
:P) gets very grating.
For me, that applies for almost every single GUI I've used, save one. Before I switched to Ion in March, I spent most of my time fiddling with window placement and sizing. Now, things are much less of a PITA for me. Yay for finally having a WM that works the way I want it to work. This goes double now that my desktop has dual monitors (I've noticed that the idea of dual-head is pretty similar to the idea behind Ion).
Currently, I really can't stand using any WM that doesn't have Ion-style window management, and using a single-monitor system (like the laptop I'm posting this from
But there are few things that are never a statement of fact under US law. These include profane statements. Like: "Jack Thompson is an asshole." Completely protected right from the get go, because it's profane.
Penn & Teller use the same tactic on their show, Bullshit. They've said that if they call people liars and quacks, it leaves them open to legal threats, but if they use words like "bullshit" or call people douchebags and motherfuckers, they're completely in the clear.
And if you've not seen Bullshit, you should. It's one of the best TV shows ever.
having multiple senses report one sense's information (like seeing colors for sounds)
Wait a minute here...what does synaesthesia have to do with autism? They're two completely different things.
"This will crack the Internet in half!!!111!!1"
I remember the last time I heard that, and how nothing happened whatsoever...
Blackboard is also a fan of frames, ugliness, and odd behaviors.
Sounds like WebCT. WebCT features abuse of both frames and JavaScript. Especially JavaScript. Every single link on WebCT puts its destination in JS onClick events instead of putting the destination in href="" where it belongs. Therefore, it's impossible to, say, copy and paste a link into a different tab, or anything else.
It also tends to randomly break Firefox. As in completely randomly. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.
WebCT is an utterly horrible piece of crap.
My school uses WebCT for all classes, so I have to deal with it daily (coincidentally, I'm posting this while sitting in one of my more WebCT-intensive classes). WebCT has the single worst interface of anything I have ever used in my life.
I really, really hope that this results in WebCT getting replaced globally.
Am I the only person who can't stand the whole phpBB/YaBB/UBB forum style?
Give me a good WWWBoard-based script over that crap any day. Hell, I'll even prefer a 2ch-style script over a crappy UBB-style script.
Use Firefox 1.5 Alpha or Beta. You can specify site-specific CSS in your userContent.css file with it.
xterm won't let you scroll back when something is running in the terminal. It's rather important when I'm, say, compiling something, and I need to scroll back and look at some of the messages.
Let's not forget that xterm's scrollback support is fundamentally broken.
Konsole and Gnome-Terminal are the only terminal apps that scroll back properly. I don't use KDE as my WM/DE anymore (I use Ion now), but I still use Konsole as my only terminal app when I'm in X.
It's funny how _no other BitTorrent client_ eats my RAM like Azureus does.
Perhaps you should sit down and have a face-to-face talk with those half-dozen or so Azureus users.
I can't run Azureus for more than a few hours without it eating all of my RAM and bringing down my entire system. I have 1GB of RAM and 1GB of swap, and Azureus eats through all of it like lightning. When it does finally eat through my RAM and swap, my machine completely freezes, forcing me to hard-reset.
If I do manage to kill Azureus before it does that, X will hold on to the majority of Azureus' resources, making my system highly sluggish until I restart X.
It's a damn shame, because Azureus is the only BT client with an interface I can tolerate, but the sheer havoc it wreaks on my system is inexcusable.
Tonari no Totoro is the first Miyazaki film I saw, and it's still my favourite.
I also highly recommend Laputa: Castle in the Sky and Porco Rosso.
Actually, they're all damn good, but these three are my favourites.
I don't know about him, but I'm on a wireless connection when I'm at school.
I'll be lax about some things security-wise when I'm on a wire, but if I'm on wireless in a room where I know damn well half the people with laptops are running Ethereal for the hell of it, I become very paranoid.
No, that's not an exaggeration--many of my friends have talked about running Ethereal in class for fun.
I'm certainly not sending my passwords over the air for every geek in the area to sniff. When I'm on a wireless network, and I want to access something I need a password for (or want to keep private), I'll either ssh into my server at home, or find a secure connection. I'm also about to set up some sort of encrypted proxy on my server, once I get around to doing it.
Sounds like Auditory Processing disorder to me.
I have the same problem as you, and most of the symptoms of APD (except for #4 and #11) apply to me. This quote also applies to me as well: "My hearing is fine, but what I hear is often garbled initially by my brain. Shortly later, I often figure it out. In conversation, about the same time I say 'huh?', I figure out what it was that I just heard".