Thing is, if I'm watching a VHS tape, I can stop the tape and start it again at the exact second I stopped it at. With a DVD, I have to search through some stupid menu, wildly guess where I'm closest to (multiple times, most likely), and then seek to a spot that I hope is somewhere close to where I left off. In other words, resuming is a royal pain in the ass that makes it very hard to not watch the movie in one sitting.
Granted, I don't really watch either nowadays--I've not seen a movie in quite a while, and I just download the TV shows I'm interested in, as none of the shows I'm interested in air where I live, and much of what I like are older shows that don't air anywhere anymore.
Network admin: Do we really want to hire the creator of a protocol capable of swamping our network with overhead and STILL not achieving speeds any faster than traditional data transfer methods?
Except for one thing: BitTorrent is incredibly scalable. It's one of the few systems in which the data transfer capacity actually increases proportionally to the amount of users. A high-traffic torrent will never run out of bandwidth as long as traffic remains high. Compare that to a high-traffic FTP site, which may very will run out of bandwidth if the server doesn't have a powerful enough connection and the traffic doesn't go down.
If you don't get what a USE flag means, you can always do a "less/usr/portage/profiles/use.desc" to get a description of most of them.
If you emerge gentoolkit, you can also run "equery uses packagename", which brings up a list of USE flags for that package and their descriptions. For some reason, one or two USE flags for that package might not be listed tho...
Also, there's another file, that has the descriptions of the less-common USE flags:/usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc -- if it's not in use.desc, it's in this one.
And I wholeheartedly agree about not setting USE flags globally. I've been setting the USE flags on the command line for each emerge for months now.
You know what beats the hell out of GMail?
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My own mail servers (Postfix & Courier), running on my own server box. That server box also has Apache running, among other things, Squirrelmail.
I can access my email by either using a normal MUA and connecting via IMAPS (POP3 and insecure IMAP servers aren't running, only IMAPS) or by using any web browser and pointing it to my Squirrelmail installation. Squirrelmail also works beautifully with Links--I don't even have a CLI MUA installed on my machine, as if I've ever FUBARed X, Links+Squirrelmail makes a great mail client.
As for space, you think GMail is great for offering 1GB of space? My server has 73GB left on its hard drive, and I can always buy a second one if I wanted to.
And that's not even the best part. The best part is the unlimited aliases. The only people I give my real email address to are my friends (and my PGP key, as the address on that needs to stay the same). Every mailing list I'm on gets its own alias. Sites that require free registration get a junk@ or stuff@ alias--if I start to get spam through them, I can delete those aliases and create a new one. My contact information on my website gives another alias--if crawlers get that one and start spamming it, I'll just delete the alias, make a new one, and change it on the site.
I'm sorry, but GMail is way overrated. With my setup, I have the server under my control (not Google's), I have more space than I'll ever need, I have the choice of accessing it through either IMAPS or a really good webmail interface, and I have a damn good spam-control system. Is there any reason, besides looking ``k3wL'', to use GMail?
Right now, the Acer is looking like my best bet. The Compaq/HP is out because I really can't stand how horribly ugly HP's case designs are--I'd rather not have a laptop that makes me ill to look at. The Asus is out because of the insane price--both the Acer and the Compaq/HP come out to around $1200 or so, but the Asus is around $3000. Only problem is that I have no idea how well the Acer works with Linux--there's literally no information on it and Linux out there. It's also primarily sold in the UK--I've only found one American company selling it.
Oh, well--maybe in a few months there'll be more AMD64+nVidia laptops out there...
I meant to reply to the article, not northcat's comment. Didn't catch myself until after I hit submit. Well, I guess I did manage to unintentionally make my post funnier...
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
How is Ubuntu different from other newbie-friendly Debian derivatives such as MEPIS, Xandros, etc.? Is Ubuntu just MEPIS with GNOME instead of KDE, or is it something more than that?
Ubuntu clearly aims to be newbie-friendly. Gentoo is clearly not.
Since when has Debian been newbie-friendly, either? That's not stopped people from making Ubuntu, MEPIS, Libranet, Xandros, Linspire, etc. It's also not stopped people from making newbie-friendly Gentoo derivatives such as Vidalinux.
You can't have a world without copyright, so what's the point of your comment?
Before the American Revolution, it was said that you can't have a democratic nation. We proved them wrong in spades.
And, FYI, copyfiat (no way in hell am I calling it a right) is a relatively recent construct. The world survived without it before, it'll survive without it again.
Qt -- Very good. Commercial license. Can open GL windows. Included graphical UI layout tools. XML-based UI files, but compiled into code rather than loaded at runtime.
One correction: Qt is a tri-license, GPL/QPL/commercial. It hasn't been purely commercial in years (since around 1998 or so, IIRC).
I remember the old Netscape. Really bulky and yet I still ran it over IE.
Same here. I ran Netscape 3.01 for such a long time...it was really the best browser out there for quite a while after newer versions came out. I hated both Netscape 4.x and IE so much. Well, 4.0x had one redeeming value: I loved the mail/news client. It's a damn shame that 4.5 destroyed it. Or maybe it was the other away around, with 4.5+ having the better one...honestly, it's been so long I barely remember. It was probably 4.0x that was better tho...
Eventually, technology eventually grew enough that I could no longer really use Netscape 3 for anything, and I was forced to switch to IE 5, which I dumped as soon as Opera 6 came out. Actually, before Opera 6 came out, I had been alternating between IE 5 and Opera 5.12, as the latter didn't render a lot of pages well, but Opera 6 was good enough that I no longer had to use IE except for Windows Update.
Of course, nothing lasts forever...Opera 7 sucked, but I switched to Linux not long before it came out. Things came full circle, as I returned to a Netscape descendant, Galeon 1.2.x (never 1.3.x), which I used for a while, then I switched to Firefox, and I'm now alternating between Firefox and Konqueror.
IE Mac is no longer supported. Camino uses the rendering engine of Firefox. Safari uses the rendering engine of Konqueror (has it been ported to cygwin yet?).
First, while IE/Mac isn't supported anymore, there are some people who still use it. As long as it has a userbase, there's a reason to test it.
Second, Apple has made quite a few improvements to the KHTML engine for Safari. Thanks to the GPL, they eventually get backported into Konqueror, but not right away, and there are still Safari improvements that aren't in Konqueror.
And, yes, Konqueror does run on Cygwin. Last time I tried it tho, KDE-Cygwin was slow and buggy as hell (far more Cygwin's fault than KDE's, tho). Granted, last time I tried it was almost a year ago...maybe I'll boot back into Windows one of these days and grab the latest version, and see if it's improved any.
This ``morality campaign'' to eliminate pornography has just as much to do with morality as...well, as much as the People's Republic of China has to do with the people.
Well, the fileselector is much better than the old gnome-file-selector.
The old file selector may have been fugly, but at least it was usable. The new one is just plain unusable. Thank Zod I don't regularly use any apps that use it.
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Yup, it'd be like a Silo we could launch different operating systems from.
Thing is, if I'm watching a VHS tape, I can stop the tape and start it again at the exact second I stopped it at. With a DVD, I have to search through some stupid menu, wildly guess where I'm closest to (multiple times, most likely), and then seek to a spot that I hope is somewhere close to where I left off. In other words, resuming is a royal pain in the ass that makes it very hard to not watch the movie in one sitting.
Granted, I don't really watch either nowadays--I've not seen a movie in quite a while, and I just download the TV shows I'm interested in, as none of the shows I'm interested in air where I live, and much of what I like are older shows that don't air anywhere anymore.
Solaris on a laptop? No.
Actually, the correct answer is yes. Tadpole makes quite a few of them.
Network admin: Do we really want to hire the creator of a protocol capable of swamping our network with overhead and STILL not achieving speeds any faster than traditional data transfer methods?
Except for one thing: BitTorrent is incredibly scalable. It's one of the few systems in which the data transfer capacity actually increases proportionally to the amount of users. A high-traffic torrent will never run out of bandwidth as long as traffic remains high. Compare that to a high-traffic FTP site, which may very will run out of bandwidth if the server doesn't have a powerful enough connection and the traffic doesn't go down.
If you don't get what a USE flag means, you can always do a "less /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc" to get a description of most of them.
/usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc -- if it's not in use.desc, it's in this one.
If you emerge gentoolkit, you can also run "equery uses packagename", which brings up a list of USE flags for that package and their descriptions. For some reason, one or two USE flags for that package might not be listed tho...
Also, there's another file, that has the descriptions of the less-common USE flags:
And I wholeheartedly agree about not setting USE flags globally. I've been setting the USE flags on the command line for each emerge for months now.
My own mail servers (Postfix & Courier), running on my own server box. That server box also has Apache running, among other things, Squirrelmail.
I can access my email by either using a normal MUA and connecting via IMAPS (POP3 and insecure IMAP servers aren't running, only IMAPS) or by using any web browser and pointing it to my Squirrelmail installation. Squirrelmail also works beautifully with Links--I don't even have a CLI MUA installed on my machine, as if I've ever FUBARed X, Links+Squirrelmail makes a great mail client.
As for space, you think GMail is great for offering 1GB of space? My server has 73GB left on its hard drive, and I can always buy a second one if I wanted to.
And that's not even the best part. The best part is the unlimited aliases. The only people I give my real email address to are my friends (and my PGP key, as the address on that needs to stay the same). Every mailing list I'm on gets its own alias. Sites that require free registration get a junk@ or stuff@ alias--if I start to get spam through them, I can delete those aliases and create a new one. My contact information on my website gives another alias--if crawlers get that one and start spamming it, I'll just delete the alias, make a new one, and change it on the site.
I'm sorry, but GMail is way overrated. With my setup, I have the server under my control (not Google's), I have more space than I'll ever need, I have the choice of accessing it through either IMAPS or a really good webmail interface, and I have a damn good spam-control system. Is there any reason, besides looking ``k3wL'', to use GMail?
"We force everyone to work insane hours whether they like it or not" becomes "employees work long hours because they love the company".
Wow, that sounds so much like the propaganda of a communist country, it's scary. EA really reminds me of the USSR and North Korea here...
Frankly, I'm looking for the opposite: an Athlon 64 laptop with nVidia video, and they're incredibly bloody rare.
There are only three such laptops I know of: the Acer Aspire 1520 series, the Asus L5000D series, and the Compaq R3000Z (identical to the HP zv5000z).
Right now, the Acer is looking like my best bet. The Compaq/HP is out because I really can't stand how horribly ugly HP's case designs are--I'd rather not have a laptop that makes me ill to look at. The Asus is out because of the insane price--both the Acer and the Compaq/HP come out to around $1200 or so, but the Asus is around $3000. Only problem is that I have no idea how well the Acer works with Linux--there's literally no information on it and Linux out there. It's also primarily sold in the UK--I've only found one American company selling it.
Oh, well--maybe in a few months there'll be more AMD64+nVidia laptops out there...
For a spelling mistake? That's a little harsh.
I meant to reply to the article, not northcat's comment. Didn't catch myself until after I hit submit. Well, I guess I did manage to unintentionally make my post funnier...
Shit...accidently replied to the wrong post...I meant to reply to the article itself. Dammit.
*kicks self*
Preferably, time in federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
It should be ``Java bytecode decompiles YOU!''.
I can't but help noticing you made a typo. Your entire message should be spelled ``FUD''.
You forgot one.
Here's a question--
How is Ubuntu different from other newbie-friendly Debian derivatives such as MEPIS, Xandros, etc.? Is Ubuntu just MEPIS with GNOME instead of KDE, or is it something more than that?
Ubuntu clearly aims to be newbie-friendly. Gentoo is clearly not.
Since when has Debian been newbie-friendly, either? That's not stopped people from making Ubuntu, MEPIS, Libranet, Xandros, Linspire, etc. It's also not stopped people from making newbie-friendly Gentoo derivatives such as Vidalinux.
You can't have a world without copyright, so what's the point of your comment?
Before the American Revolution, it was said that you can't have a democratic nation. We proved them wrong in spades.
And, FYI, copyfiat (no way in hell am I calling it a right) is a relatively recent construct. The world survived without it before, it'll survive without it again.
It's a way of saying "libertarian" without angering the far-left, who tend to key on that particular word for some reason...
Dude, this is Slashdot, where it's no fun if you don't piss someone off.
Qt -- Very good. Commercial license. Can open GL windows. Included graphical UI layout tools. XML-based UI files, but compiled into code rather than loaded at runtime.
One correction: Qt is a tri-license, GPL/QPL/commercial. It hasn't been purely commercial in years (since around 1998 or so, IIRC).
I remember the old Netscape. Really bulky and yet I still ran it over IE.
Same here. I ran Netscape 3.01 for such a long time...it was really the best browser out there for quite a while after newer versions came out. I hated both Netscape 4.x and IE so much. Well, 4.0x had one redeeming value: I loved the mail/news client. It's a damn shame that 4.5 destroyed it. Or maybe it was the other away around, with 4.5+ having the better one...honestly, it's been so long I barely remember. It was probably 4.0x that was better tho...
Eventually, technology eventually grew enough that I could no longer really use Netscape 3 for anything, and I was forced to switch to IE 5, which I dumped as soon as Opera 6 came out. Actually, before Opera 6 came out, I had been alternating between IE 5 and Opera 5.12, as the latter didn't render a lot of pages well, but Opera 6 was good enough that I no longer had to use IE except for Windows Update.
Of course, nothing lasts forever...Opera 7 sucked, but I switched to Linux not long before it came out. Things came full circle, as I returned to a Netscape descendant, Galeon 1.2.x (never 1.3.x), which I used for a while, then I switched to Firefox, and I'm now alternating between Firefox and Konqueror.
IE Mac is no longer supported. Camino uses the rendering engine of Firefox. Safari uses the rendering engine of Konqueror (has it been ported to cygwin yet?).
First, while IE/Mac isn't supported anymore, there are some people who still use it. As long as it has a userbase, there's a reason to test it.
Second, Apple has made quite a few improvements to the KHTML engine for Safari. Thanks to the GPL, they eventually get backported into Konqueror, but not right away, and there are still Safari improvements that aren't in Konqueror.
And, yes, Konqueror does run on Cygwin. Last time I tried it tho, KDE-Cygwin was slow and buggy as hell (far more Cygwin's fault than KDE's, tho). Granted, last time I tried it was almost a year ago...maybe I'll boot back into Windows one of these days and grab the latest version, and see if it's improved any.
This ``morality campaign'' to eliminate pornography has just as much to do with morality as...well, as much as the People's Republic of China has to do with the people.
In other words, zilch.
not Volderking.
:)
And most certainly not Voldemort, either.
Well, the fileselector is much better than the old gnome-file-selector.
The old file selector may have been fugly, but at least it was usable. The new one is just plain unusable. Thank Zod I don't regularly use any apps that use it.