A Windows user boots Ubuntu on a new laptop, say, and gets a low-res 'safe mode' telling them that there's no specific support for their video hardware ("Ubuntu failed to start the windowing system because it was unable to properly configure your hardware").
Yeah, now what?
They can't download a driver package and update. They're stuck with whatever came with the version of X in that Ubuntu release. They can't use a driver off a CD that came with the machine, because there aren't any. If X was capable of a better mode it would have used it, like the plain vesa driver with a resolution matching the LCD.
So what are they supposed to do?
It's better than getting dumped to a VT, sure, but it doesn't solve the real issue. On Windows 95 I could put in the CD, install driver.exe, reboot and presto. With Ubuntu the only option for the average user is to wait 6 months.
This feature might be useful if you like to intentionally break xorg.conf, but unless there is actually a way to get real hardware support installed, rather than seeing if you can force X into a different mode (which it should do automatically), it seems pretty useless.
Judging from your laundry list of questions, you're unaware of both Soekris products and their widespread popularity. I'd suggest first visiting the link I provided for people in your position, and then do a Google search for 'Soekris' using 'inurl:slashdot'.
lol. Probably the least helpful response I've had on slashdot. Cheers.
What does 'route at line speed' mean? Can you mount the board in a regular ATX case? Can it be hooked up to a regular ATX PSU? Who is Soekris? Do you work for them? What's the warranty like? Does it run Linux? I mean really. lspci output? Is there video out? How do you 'interact'? COM port?
Seems interesting, but not enough to trawl the website!
Various choices I've recently made (like using amd64, and dumping Firefox for Konqueror) mean that I've not been using a Flash player at all. So far, I've missed out on things like:
* The BMW website * Countless links to clips on Youtube * Advertising banners * Homestar runner
Some of these things might have been mildly useful, but I can't say I really miss any of it. I'm not sure having the Flash player installed is worth the annoyance and distraction it usually ends up driving me to. If I'm honest, Flash player has seen the most use when I've been bored, depressed, procrastinating or similar.
Try catdoc. I remember using it on some Works documents I found in an old.zip of Simcity. The dates on the files were 1990/91, so might have been Works 2.0. It won't give you much of the formatting but it'll give you the text.
I think he was trying to imply that he often buys CDs, so much so that he can't always remember how many or what they were - just a stack of 'em, like 5 or so.
If you had a sleazy friend he might say to you: "I had sex with like 5 women today!". Make of it what you will.
Ditto on the new TV my parents got. About 1.5 sec delay between channels (analog or digital). Major downgrade from the old tube. Me, I don't even have a TV. Parents think it's weird.
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4) Prototype 10) Start implementation. Get portions of it working
the first ones. I know what the SE textbooks say, but you have to get started, especially if it's your own personal project and you're looking to get people involved.
You must start, it's critical. Do not create a Sourceforge account. Do not create a Google Code account. Do not create or commission a website. Do not apply for an SVN account from the admins. Do not create icons. Do not gather a mountain of docs and resources. Do not attempt to specify your specifications. Do not test different IDEs, frameworks, GUIs or databases. Do not read blogs - no 'planet' blogs, no developer blogs. Do not, under any circumstance, create or commission your own blog. Do not pass Go and do not collect $200 until you have got the bloody thing going.
Yours is a single core CPU. I'm surprised you haven't seen the guest clock rate go very fast/slow, but you only get the really wacky behaviour with dual-core.:-)
Anyway, KVM/QEMU handles host clock changes fine and I'm already finding it a good replacement for VMware Workstation. In some ways it's even better (much easier to install, ALSA sound output). Just need a current CPU for it.
I only started using dm-crypt with 2.6.18 in Debian etch. But kcryptd and kjournald are -5 by default, so maybe renicing those is all there is to it. Weird thing is I've not seen many people mentioning the problem. I can only assume most don't experience it.
I use it on my swap and/home partitions on my laptop, but when doing heavy writing to the disk, the whole machine locks up for 1 or 2 seconds at a time - no mouse movement, no sound, no cursor - then it resumes. These freezes occur every 10 seconds or so as data gets flushed out to the disk.
Normal reading/writing load is ok, but doing something like an rsync backup kills responsiveness.
It seems to get a bit better if I renice kcryptd and kjournald. Any experience with this yourself?
I thought the X40 had a 1.8" HDD, and with a different connector to regular 1.8's so you were very limited with disk choices. How are you using a 2.5" converter with it?
Richard Stallman agrees with you. He doesn't restrict your right to use the software. It is copyright law that restricts your right to distribute other people's software, to modify it, etc. Richard would rather that there were no copyright law. Since there is, he uses the GPL to turn copyright law upon its head as well as he can.
Are you intentionally trying to make Stallman out to be Jesus? Your style is exactly like that of religious people who try to indoctrinate kids. "Jesus loves you. He would rather that there was no pain and suffering. Since there is, he wants you to believe in him and go to heaven..."
I don't want a stabilised branch myself. The whole idea of fixed releases coming out every X months is antiquated to me. I like the 'rolling upgrade' of running testing and I imagine that's how most people use Debian (on their desktops at least). The problem is that the upgrades stop rolling for months at a time once Debian decides to do a release.
I know what the purpose of testing is, but that's just not how most people see it or use it. testing is the ideal happy balance for most Debian users and releases mess that right up.
For me there is nothing exciting about the stable release itself. The real significance is that all the new stuff backed up in experimental can start moving into sid, then into testing again. Debian should have a way of branching testing and making a release out of that branch, rather than bringing the whole thing to a halt while a release gestates.
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A Windows user boots Ubuntu on a new laptop, say, and gets a low-res 'safe mode' telling them that there's no specific support for their video hardware ("Ubuntu failed to start the windowing system because it was unable to properly configure your hardware").
Yeah, now what?
They can't download a driver package and update. They're stuck with whatever came with the version of X in that Ubuntu release. They can't use a driver off a CD that came with the machine, because there aren't any. If X was capable of a better mode it would have used it, like the plain vesa driver with a resolution matching the LCD.
So what are they supposed to do?
It's better than getting dumped to a VT, sure, but it doesn't solve the real issue. On Windows 95 I could put in the CD, install driver.exe, reboot and presto. With Ubuntu the only option for the average user is to wait 6 months.
This feature might be useful if you like to intentionally break xorg.conf, but unless there is actually a way to get real hardware support installed, rather than seeing if you can force X into a different mode (which it should do automatically), it seems pretty useless.
Judging from your laundry list of questions, you're unaware of both Soekris products and their widespread popularity. I'd suggest first visiting the link I provided for people in your position, and then do a Google search for 'Soekris' using 'inurl:slashdot'.
lol. Probably the least helpful response I've had on slashdot. Cheers.
What does 'route at line speed' mean?
Can you mount the board in a regular ATX case?
Can it be hooked up to a regular ATX PSU?
Who is Soekris? Do you work for them? What's the warranty like?
Does it run Linux? I mean really. lspci output?
Is there video out? How do you 'interact'? COM port?
Seems interesting, but not enough to trawl the website!
Various choices I've recently made (like using amd64, and dumping Firefox for Konqueror) mean that I've not been using a Flash player at all. So far, I've missed out on things like:
* The BMW website
* Countless links to clips on Youtube
* Advertising banners
* Homestar runner
Some of these things might have been mildly useful, but I can't say I really miss any of it. I'm not sure having the Flash player installed is worth the annoyance and distraction it usually ends up driving me to. If I'm honest, Flash player has seen the most use when I've been bored, depressed, procrastinating or similar.
I'm quite enjoying being Flash-free.
Try catdoc. I remember using it on some Works documents I found in an old .zip of Simcity. The dates on the files were 1990/91, so might have been Works 2.0. It won't give you much of the formatting but it'll give you the text.
Now I work for a place I have no real feeling of accomplishment, nor is it a place I yearned to work for.
:-/
And now at the age of 26, I finally have a job that I yearned for, but didn't know I wanted.
Huh?
In any case, your post sounded kinda depressing to me...
I think he was trying to imply that he often buys CDs, so much so that he can't always remember how many or what they were - just a stack of 'em, like 5 or so.
If you had a sleazy friend he might say to you: "I had sex with like 5 women today!". Make of it what you will.
Ditto on the new TV my parents got. About 1.5 sec delay between channels (analog or digital). Major downgrade from the old tube. Me, I don't even have a TV. Parents think it's weird.
you'll never know...
Perhaps I'll...
Or perhaps I want...
Perhaps I'll want that...
reasons that I can think of...
reasons I can't think of...
Can't you see a problem here?
It costs me nothing to keep my email permanently.
I'm not so sure.
I would make these steps:
4) Prototype
10) Start implementation. Get portions of it working
the first ones. I know what the SE textbooks say, but you have to get started, especially if it's your own personal project and you're looking to get people involved.
You must start, it's critical. Do not create a Sourceforge account. Do not create a Google Code account. Do not create or commission a website. Do not apply for an SVN account from the admins. Do not create icons. Do not gather a mountain of docs and resources. Do not attempt to specify your specifications. Do not test different IDEs, frameworks, GUIs or databases. Do not read blogs - no 'planet' blogs, no developer blogs. Do not, under any circumstance, create or commission your own blog. Do not pass Go and do not collect $200 until you have got the bloody thing going.
Yours is a single core CPU. I'm surprised you haven't seen the guest clock rate go very fast/slow, but you only get the really wacky behaviour with dual-core. :-)
Anyway, KVM/QEMU handles host clock changes fine and I'm already finding it a good replacement for VMware Workstation. In some ways it's even better (much easier to install, ALSA sound output). Just need a current CPU for it.
But then, after playing with a 1001 configuration preferences in KDE I wanted to revert back some settings, it took me a very long time to find them.
Name them. Go on, I dare you.
Refer to one of my earlier posts if you need some help.
I only started using dm-crypt with 2.6.18 in Debian etch. But kcryptd and kjournald are -5 by default, so maybe renicing those is all there is to it. Weird thing is I've not seen many people mentioning the problem. I can only assume most don't experience it.
How's the performance of dm-crypt for you?
/home partitions on my laptop, but when doing heavy writing to the disk, the whole machine locks up for 1 or 2 seconds at a time - no mouse movement, no sound, no cursor - then it resumes. These freezes occur every 10 seconds or so as data gets flushed out to the disk.
I use it on my swap and
Normal reading/writing load is ok, but doing something like an rsync backup kills responsiveness.
It seems to get a bit better if I renice kcryptd and kjournald. Any experience with this yourself?
Have you tried the CF in another computer? It might be the router itself which is dying.
I thought the X40 had a 1.8" HDD, and with a different connector to regular 1.8's so you were very limited with disk choices. How are you using a 2.5" converter with it?
This new scheduler may have 'Ingo Molnar' written all over it but I'll be giving the credit to ck!
tried to figure out why I just wasn't scared
Okay okay, here's your opportunity sunshine... why weren't you scared?
So, how many hours of television do you get in each week?
Richard Stallman agrees with you. He doesn't restrict your right to use the software. It is copyright law that restricts your right to distribute other people's software, to modify it, etc. Richard would rather that there were no copyright law. Since there is, he uses the GPL to turn copyright law upon its head as well as he can.
Are you intentionally trying to make Stallman out to be Jesus? Your style is exactly like that of religious people who try to indoctrinate kids. "Jesus loves you. He would rather that there was no pain and suffering. Since there is, he wants you to believe in him and go to heaven..."
It sounds absurd!
I don't want a stabilised branch myself. The whole idea of fixed releases coming out every X months is antiquated to me. I like the 'rolling upgrade' of running testing and I imagine that's how most people use Debian (on their desktops at least). The problem is that the upgrades stop rolling for months at a time once Debian decides to do a release.
I know what the purpose of testing is, but that's just not how most people see it or use it. testing is the ideal happy balance for most Debian users and releases mess that right up.
Possibly this activity:
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2007/04/
For me there is nothing exciting about the stable release itself. The real significance is that all the new stuff backed up in experimental can start moving into sid, then into testing again. Debian should have a way of branching testing and making a release out of that branch, rather than bringing the whole thing to a halt while a release gestates.
So you're better than what, parts of Africa and the Middle East?
Have a gold star.